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

Fri May 27 16:10:49 UTC 2022

So you haven't yet installed your home Holodeck?

On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:31 PM David Bass <davidbass570 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
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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?
>> >>
>> >> 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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