FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

Fri Aug 28 13:34:32 UTC 2009

JC Dill wrote:
> IMHO the biggest obstacle to defining broadband is figuring out how to 
> describe how it is used in a way that prevents an ILEC from installing 
> it so that only the ILEC can use it.  If the customer doesn't have at 

Oh, that's easy. If the government pays for 90% of the plant cost, I'm 
sure ILECs would love to share it with everyone else. Until then, put 
your own plant in. As an added bonus, when you put your own plant in as 
a CLEC, you can just serve the profitable areas and leave the poor ILEC 
having to serve the barn 15 miles from the nearest neighbor.

Jack