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

Mon May 23 19:15:56 UTC 2022

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> 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.”

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?

Mike

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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
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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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