FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

Mon May 23 19:56:40 UTC 2022

That is all obvious to me at least. I was just pointing out the folly in saying “what would one do with that much X” resource. We always have found a way
going back to the beginning. My story about back at BT was prior to video streaming. At that point in time it didn’t exist and was made a reality in 
part, because of the simple increase in bandwidth available to subscribers (and everywhere else).

—Tom

> On May 23, 2022, at 3:53 PM, Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com> wrote:
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> On 5/23/22 12:29 PM, David Bass wrote:
>> What is changing in the next 5 years that could possibly require a household to need a gig?  That is just ridiculous. 
> I think the key thing is just to get fiber laid. Once that happens ISP's can turn up the dial relatively easy as needed. Also: even if they gave you a nominal rate of 1G it doesn't mean that they won't oversubcribe the headend and beyond. 
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> Mike
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>> On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 3:15 PM Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com <mailto:mike at mtcc.com>> wrote:
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>> On 5/23/22 12:04 PM, Thomas Nadeau wrote:
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>> >> On May 23, 2022, at 3:00 PM, Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com <mailto:mike at mtcc.com>> wrote:
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>> >> On 5/23/22 11:49 AM, Aaron Wendel wrote:
>> >>> The Fiber Broadband Association estimates that the average US household will need more than a gig within 5 years.  Why not just jump it to a gig or more?
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>> >> Really? What is the average household doing to use up a gig worth of bandwidth?
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>> >> Mike
>> > Thats almost the same question we were asked at BT a dozen years ago when moving from DSL -> FTTC when someone said, “but surely DSL is sufficient because its so much faster than dial.”
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>> The two of us survive just fine with 25Mbs even when we have a house 
>> full of friends. I mean it would be nice to have 100Mbs so that it's 
>> never a problem but the reality is that it just hasn't been a problem in 
>> practice. I mean how many 4k streams are running at the same time in the 
>> average household? What else besides game downloads are sucking up that 
>> much bandwidth all of the time?
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>> Mike
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>> > —Tom
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>> >>> On 5/23/2022 1:40 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
>> >>>> https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-higher-speed-goals-small-rural-broadband-providers-0 <https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-higher-speed-goals-small-rural-broadband-providers-0>
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>> >>>> The Federal Communications Commission voted [May 19, 2022] to seek comment on a proposal to provide additional universal service support to certain rural carriers in exchange for increasing deployment to more locations at higher speeds. The proposal would make changes to the Alternative Connect America Cost Model (A-CAM) program, with the goal of achieving widespread deployment of faster 100/20 Mbps broadband service throughout the rural areas served by rural carriers currently receiving A-CAM support.
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