FCC brings its free speed-test app to iTunes App Store<article>
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Apple fans can now join Android users in testing their mobile data speeds and reporting them to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to support the agency’s decision-making about broadband.</p><p>
The regulator now offers a free app in the iTunes App Store for measuring mobile performance, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced on Monday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Software for
Android appeared on the Google Play store in November.</p><p>
The mobile speed-test apps are an expansion of the FCC’s Measuring Broadband America program, in which the agency has asked consumers to measure and report their wired Internet speeds for the past few years. Both programs gather information, not including any personal or uniquely identifiable data, for informing the public about Internet performance in the nation as a whole, the FCC said in a press release. The information also helps to inform the FCC’s decision-making on broadband policy.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2102020/fcc-brings-its-free-speedtest-app-to-itunes-app-store.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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FCC brings its free speed-test app to iTunes App Store
