Millions of people around the world work from home during the coronavirus crisis
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Cities across the US have been evacuated amid the outbreak of coronavirus. Millions of people work from home, children come to school from a distance, and nobody goes to the ballpark, nightclub or movie theater. Everybody leaned towards broadband connections in their homes to connect.
New York City and other states and cities will do the same when the state of California is a "refuge-place", a total blockade, and broadband networks across the country will be too stressful as we move into schools and offices nationwide with the closure of other weeks.
So far, network usage continues in the USA and the world. But does this continue?
European authorities last week urged the Netflix streaming service to repeat its resolution to help conserve bandwidth. Broadband companies in the United States say their networks can handle the traffic that they receive. But some broadband policy experts are skeptical.
"To tell you the truth, I think we don't know the answer," said John Sallet, a senior fellow of the Benton Foundation and former general manager of the Federal Communications Commission. "But the FCC should ask the country's broadband providers and answer to the American people."
FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenversel agreed. In a tweet on Friday, the agency said that after the natural disasters such as hurricanes and power outages, "the status of the communication network in this country needs to be reported daily." "You have to do it here. Now these are the networks we all have for modern life."
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