80% of Americans can't tell you how fast their internets are coming into their homes, but the majority of them are OK with what they get.

But don't worry, the FCC is here to help us.

Joel Gurin, chief of the Commission's Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau says "We believe we need a marketplace where broadband speed is transparent, advertised accurately and understood. If operators are going to compete on speed, people need to know what speeds they need for, say, gaming or streaming video or VoIP, what speeds they are being offered, and what speeds they are actually getting."

Stimulating rhetoric, to be sure. But is this the time to be rolling out the surveys necessary to establish the varieties of broadband services available to a public that doesn't know and, possibly, doesn't care? Or should this all be left up to the market?

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