<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Nobody is waiting for anything, other than when COD drops.<br><br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br>Midwest-IX<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE" <lb@6by7.net><br><b>To: </b>"Mike Lyon" <mike.lyon@gmail.com><br><b>Cc: </b>"NANOG Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, May 28, 2021 5:38:18 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections<br><br><br><br>Sent from my iPhone via RFC1149.<br><br>> On May 28, 2021, at 3:29 PM, Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> <br>> <br>> Curious, when you look at the usage on those 100/100 plans. What are they actually using? If they aren't actually using it, then why up the minimum?<br><br>Simple, our time isn’t free. The less time humanity itself spends waiting on downloads, the more we spend loving, celebrating, embracing, playing and exploring.<br><br>Really, fiber is fiber, it’s just about optics from there, and those are cheap.<br><br>Relatively speaking.<br><br>(And ignoring WISPSs and rural economies of scale but I digress.)<br><br>8 billion fiber drops for 8 billion people.<br><br>That’s what it will take to wire the future. 32k res AR environments; 1TB video games, distance learning via implant, full self driving cars - Qualcomm itself says bandwidth is to grow 1000-fold in the next 9 years alone.<br><br>Are you ready?<br><br><br><br>Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE<br>6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC <br>CEO <br>lb@6by7.net<br>"The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.”<br><br>FCC License KJ6FJJ</div><br></div></body></html>