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China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds (www.techradar.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Wait, there are regulations about advertising true speed? Does ComCast know? Does AT&T?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

It may be only loosely enforced with fines but there are FTC rules that all online marketing must follow https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/advertising-marketing-internet-rules-road

It does and up helping a little bit. I'm addition to government fines, they also risk class action lawsuits from their customers. I'm willing to bet this is more of a hurdle than China has for state owned companies.