New minimum speed for US broadband connections
Josh Luthman
josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
Wed Jun 2 19:25:01 UTC 2021
CAF/RDOF *requires phone service*. The internet was a happy byproduct.
Josh Luthman
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On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 3:18 PM heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
> Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 01:02:00PM -0400, Josh Luthman:
> > Phone is telecom. Internet is not telecom. Generally speaking.
> >
> > If you think both of those services are US funded, why do you think we
> have
> > this current situation where not everyone has fiber?
> >
> > To answer your question, there is some assistance to those big companies
> > (AT&T, Frontier, CenturyLink). Did you notice that two of them have
> filed
> > bankruptcy recently? They also wrote letters apologizing they didn't
> > deploy the services they were paid to do.
> >
> > USF is for phone. Not internet.
>
> I believe that is incorrect. afaik, 4 Internet connectivity programs have
> been created within the USF. iirc, that occured 7 - 10 years ago. I think
> CAF granted ~1.5T in its last phase.
>
> All support/subsidy for traditional dial-tone from the USF should be
> redirected to voip and internet.
>
> A significant problem with USF grants is that grantees are not required
> to serve an entire FCC census tract (an area much smaller than a USPS
> zip code) when they accept a grant to service it. Meaning that if just a
> portion, the most convenient portion, of a census tract is serviced, the
> FCC is satisfied and then considers the entire tract served. Which is
> exactly what happened to my area, thanks FCC & Comcast - who also will not
> discuss extending it the ~.5 mile to reach me and neighbors.
>
> I'd be delighted to have 25M symmetrical. What I can buy at consumer
> prices (~$55 MRC) is .8M/.8M DSL (MTR > 30 days for a few neighbors after
> the last storm). If I were located about 1.5 in any direction, I could
> buy 100M/100M or 1G/100M. No viable 4G or 5G options. There is Sprint
> fiber about 300 feet away, but I'm told it is voice only. There is
> Zayo fiber about .5 miles away, 100M for ~$1k MRC lit or ~$4k dark to
> the telco hotel, but it also has other challanges.
>
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