FCC Takes Steps to Enforce Quality Standards for Rural Broadband

Thu Oct 31 18:07:06 UTC 2019

As someone working for one of those Rural Broadband providers, this
has been of more than passing interest. What will show up when the
testing commences will be interesting.
What has most people (from anecdotal observation) concerned is that we
are usually more than one or two carriers out from an IXP where the
speed test server will be, and don't have a lot of influence on paths
and carriers that we aren't directly connected with.

The basic premise makes sense - "We're paying you federal tax monies
to provide a certain level of service or better to these areas - you
ought to be able to demonstrate that you are providing service to that
level."

It's the mechanics that tend to get people tied up in knots.

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 10:44 AM Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
>
>
> There is just so much I want to make sarcastic comments about, but I worry
> about offending future potential employers (all of them).
>
>
> https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-takes-steps-enforce-quality-standards-rural-broadband-0
>
> Description:
> FCC Takes Steps To Enforce Quality Standards For Rural Broadband Networks
> and Also Provides Additional Flexibility to Reduce Burden on Companies
>
>
> [...]
>
> In response to Petitions for Reconsideration and Applications for Review
> of an earlier bureau- level Performance Measure Order, the FCC today
> maintained the existing requirement that carriers conduct quarterly speed
> and latency tests between specified numbers of active subscribers’ homes
> and the Internet, and made targeted modifications to the testing
> procedures, including:
>
> - Modifying the schedule for commencing testing by basing it on the
> deployment obligations specific to each Connect America Fund support
> mechanism;
>
> - Implementing a new pre-testing period that will allow carriers to
> become familiar with testing procedures without facing a loss of support
> for failure to meet the requirements;
>
> - Allowing greater flexibility to carriers in identifying which customer
> locations should be tested and selecting the endpoints for testing
> broadband connections.

-- 
Jeff Shultz

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