For around ten years, FCC has been depending upon reports from ISP to get a right picture of broadband speeds and availability in the US and the results have been awful.

Android, iPhone, and the Web were given an opportunity to test FCC’s broadband speed last week. During the week, 150,000 users have used the Web testing service.

There was no unsystematic sampling and the two test stages functioned in different ways. But the results do show some common trends in US broadband.

As per Ookla test stage, average US speeds are 11.5Mbps and according to the M-Lab platform, they are 7.04Mbps.

Upload averages are much slower, at 2.09 Mbps and 2.74Mbps. After reading the data, it seems like the west coast has better and higher speeds.

As the broadband speed tool approaches out of beta, it should supply better information to the FCC, and it provides a way to report broadband dead zones, where no service is obtainable.

Once broadband data is available, the real deal begins. A massive number of new rulemakings on everything, from special access to wholesale to copper retirement to ISP transparency and disclosure will be done.