last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al)

Sat Mar 24 04:08:11 UTC 2012

This article from arstechnica is right on topic.  Its about how the
city of Amsterdam built an open-access fibre network.  It seems to me
this is the right way to do it, or at least very close to the right
way..

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/how-amsterdam-was-wired-for-open-access-fiber.ars

-Marcel

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:35 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:18:26 -1000, Michael Painter said:
>
>> "The indication of above average or below average is based on a comparison of the actual test result to the current NTIA
>> definition of broadband which is 768 kbps download and 200 kbps upload. Any test result above the NTIA definition is
>> considered above average, and any result below is considered below average."
>
> That's the national definition of "broadband" that we're stuck with.  To show
> how totally cooked the books are, consider that when they compute "percent of
> people with access to residential broadband", they do it on a per-county basis
> - and if even *one* subscriber in one corner of the county has broadband, the
> entire county counts.
>