{"id":7662,"date":"2014-07-03T07:45:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T11:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=7662"},"modified":"2025-06-28T16:23:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T20:23:39","slug":"practicum-team-influences-fcc-broadband-metrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=7662","title":{"rendered":"Students Influence Broadband Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The results of work performed by a student practicum team in the <a title=\"Master of Science in Analytics\" href=\"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?page_id=1799\">Master of Science in Analytics<\/a> (MSA) Class of 2013 has made its way into the latest report on consumer broadband wireline services published by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), <a title=\"A Report on Consumer Wireline Broadband Performance in the U.S.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/reports\/measuring-broadband-america-2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Measuring Broadband in America 2014<\/a>. The team\u2014led by Neha Rawal and including Suman Basu, Robert Moreira and Attila Veres\u2014developed a novel method <!--more-->for measuring broadband performance (Internet data upload and download speeds) called the &#8220;consistent speed metric,&#8221; which provides a more accurate way to assess the quality of service actually experienced by households across the country. The consistent speed metric has been a catalyst in elevating the dialogue on broadband performance at a critical time in the governance of the Internet\u2014with the heavy demands placed on Internet Service Providers by the rapid proliferation of web video\u2014and the ensuing debate on Net Neutrality.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the <a title=\"FCC press release\" href=\"https:\/\/transition.fcc.gov\/Daily_Releases\/Daily_Business\/2014\/db0618\/DOC-327722A1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release of the report<\/a>, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said, \u201cConsumers deserve to get what they pay for. While it\u2019s encouraging to see that in the past these reports have encouraged providers to improve their services, I\u2019m concerned that some providers are failing to deliver consistent speeds to consumers that are commensurate to their advertised speeds. As a result, I\u2019ve directed FCC staff to write to the underperforming companies to ask why this happened and what they will do to solve this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results of work performed by a student practicum team in the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) Class of 2013 has made its way into the latest report on consumer broadband wireline services published by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Measuring Broadband in America 2014. The team\u2014led by Neha Rawal and including Suman Basu, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7662"}],"version-history":[{"count":55,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25977,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7662\/revisions\/25977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}