Broadband Cable Association of Pennsylvania

During a public hearing in August to discuss the lack of high-speed internet service in Greene County, state Rep. Pam Snyder said it was time for state lawmakers to demand internet providers "beef up their service" in rural areas. Snyder, D-Jefferson, moved forward with that promise Tuesday by introducing legislation in the state House to upgrade the standard for broadband service in Pennsylvania to increase download and upload speeds for rural customers. She said House Bill 2394 would update Title 66 governing public utilities and bring state standards in line with federal requirements. The bill would require customer broadband to offer at least 10 megabits per second for downloads and 1 Mbps for uploads. That would vastly improve the current standards set in place in 2004 when the state Legislature updated Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission's regulations on broadband development. That act required every resident in the state to have access to some form of high-speed internet service with at least 1.544 Mbps download speeds.

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