Updated: Here's the official plan.

U.S. to roll out major broadband policy. Reuters reports,

U.S. regulators will announce a major Internet policy this week to revolutionize how Americans communicate and play, proposing a dramatic increase in broadband speeds that could let people download a high-definition film in minutes instead of hours.

Dramatically increasing Internet speeds to 25 times the current average is one of the myriad goals to be unveiled in the National Broadband Plan by the the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday.

...the agency's chief, Julius Genachowski, announced that the FCC would propose in the plan a goal of 100 Mbps speeds to be in place at 100 million American homes in 10 years. The current average is less than 4 Mbps.

You can preview the plan and test your current broadband speed at the new broadband.gov.

Here's how mine, from Cox, shook out a few minutes ago, in two different tests.

The site explains,

This application will test the following broadband qualities:

* Download Speed: The speed at which data is sent from the testing server to your computer.
* Upload Speed: The speed at which data is sent from your computer to the testing server.
* Latency: The time it takes for data to be sent from your computer to the testing server and back (the "round trip time").
* Jitter: The variability in the delay between your computer and the testing server.

The FCC requires the street address from where you are connecting to the internet because it may use this data to analyze broadband quality and availability on a geographic basis. For more information see our About the FCC Consumer Broadband Test page.

Reuters notes,

Since the FCC announcement, Cisco Systems Inc announced it would introduce a router that can handle Internet traffic up to 12 times faster than rival products. Google Inc has also gotten in on the hype, saying it plans to build a super-fast Internet network to show that it can be done. The FCC has praised both announcements.