New minimum speed for US broadband connections

Fri May 28 22:41:56 UTC 2021

Fiber is cool and all, but there is a HUUUUUGE amount of areas that aren't
lucky enough to have fiber and wireless is the only way to go.

So, we up the minimum to 100 Mbps just because some areas are lucky enough
to have fiber?

-Mike

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 3:38 PM Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE <
lb at 6by7.net> wrote:

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> Sent from my iPhone via RFC1149.
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> > On May 28, 2021, at 3:29 PM, Mike Lyon <mike.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Curious, when you look at the usage on those 100/100 plans. What are
> they actually using? If they aren't actually using it, then why up the
> minimum?
>
> Simple, our time isn’t free.  The less time humanity itself spends waiting
> on downloads, the more we spend loving, celebrating, embracing, playing and
> exploring.
>
> Really, fiber is fiber, it’s just about optics from there, and those are
> cheap.
>
> Relatively speaking.
>
> (And ignoring WISPSs and rural economies of scale but I digress.)
>
> 8 billion fiber drops for 8 billion people.
>
> That’s what it will take to wire the future.  32k res AR environments; 1TB
> video games, distance learning via implant, full self driving cars -
> Qualcomm itself says bandwidth is to grow 1000-fold in the next 9 years
> alone.
>
> Are you ready?
>
>
>
> Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE
> 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC
> CEO
> lb at 6by7.net
> "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in
> the world.”
>
> FCC License KJ6FJJ

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Mike Lyon
mike.lyon at gmail.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlyon
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