FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers
Michael Thomas
mike at mtcc.com
Mon May 23 19:53:47 UTC 2022
On 5/23/22 12:29 PM, David Bass wrote:
> What is changing in the next 5 years that could possibly require a
> household to need a gig? That is just ridiculous.
I think the key thing is just to get fiber laid. Once that happens ISP's
can turn up the dial relatively easy as needed. Also: even if they gave
you a nominal rate of 1G it doesn't mean that they won't oversubcribe
the headend and beyond.
Mike
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 3:15 PM Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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