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

Mon May 23 19:29:37 UTC 2022

What is changing in the next 5 years that could possibly require a
household to need a gig?  That is just ridiculous.

On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 3:15 PM Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com> wrote:

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> On 5/23/22 12:04 PM, Thomas Nadeau wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On May 23, 2022, at 3:00 PM, Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >> Really? What is the average household doing to use up a gig worth of
> bandwidth?
> >>
> >> 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
>
>
> >
> > —Tom
> >
> >
> >>>
> >>> 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
> >>>>
> >>>> 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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