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

Mon Jun 6 23:13:25 UTC 2022

On 6/6/22 4:08 PM, Tony Wicks wrote:
>
>   * Do you have any stats on what the average usage was before and
>     after the build out? I'd expect it to go up just because but was
>     it dramatic?
>
> Well, Back in the FTTC days of ADSL/VDSL (very little cable) as an ISP 
> I seem to remember the average home connection was about 1.2Mb/s. Now 
> its about 3Mb/s so no, the usage itself does not jump dramatically 
> when the bottlenecks went away. A great example of this is the lowest 
> speed on the GPON network recently jumped from 100/20 to 300/100 
> across the board and as an ISP we barely noticed anything.  Before 
> this the two most popular speeds were the 100/20 and 1000/500 plans, 
> 50% of users would order the 1000/500 plan, most without really 
> knowing why but it was only about $20 different so why not. As an ISP 
> the 1G users only used about 10%-20% more overall capacity than the 
> 100/20 users.
>
Excellent, so you're printing money catering to people's vanity :)

Mike
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