Last year, President Biden signed the bipartisan IIJA, investing $550 billion toward improving the country’s roads, bridges, water infrastructure, resilience and high-speed Internet capacity.

The FCC first floated the idea of nutrition labels for ISPs back in 2016, but it wasn't until 2022 that it formally introduced rules requiring them to be displayed at the companies' points of sale.

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The new broadband label was mandated by last year’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which also allocated $65 billion in funding to increase broadband access and affordability.

"The broadband labels are required to appear at the point of sale," Alejandro Roark, bureau chief of the FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, told CNET. "And it can't be buried.

While most broadband providers have until April 10 to implement the labels, ISPs with fewer than 100,000 lines have until October 10th of this year to do so.

Internet providers with less than 100,000 subscribers have until Oct. 10, 2024 to comply with the FCC rules to display these broadband labels to their customers.

The labels stem from the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), a $1.2 trillion package that contained provisions for multiple sectors, including broadband infrastructure.

The proposed Broadband Facts label as announced by the FCC in 2016. FCC “Broadband Facts” resembles Nutrition Facts, emulating a disclosure method the American public is already familiar with.