<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'>Sometimes, yes. Sometimes the maintenance of the infrastructure required to deliver those speeds exceeds what you'd get, IE: no return.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>What's wrong with right-sizing the infrastructure?<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>"james cutler" <james.cutler@consultant.com><br><b>To: </b>"Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net><br><b>Cc: </b>"Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>, "nanog list" <nanog@nanog.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, June 1, 2021 1:13:36 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections<br><br>On Jun 1, 2021, at 1:33 PM, Mike Hammett <<a href="mailto:nanog@ics-il.net" class="" target="_blank">nanog@ics-il.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;" class="">"Why is 100/100 seen as problematic to the industry players?"</span></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;" class="">In rural settings, it's low density, so you're spending a bunch of money with a low probability of getting any return. Also, a low probability that the customer cares.</span></font></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Of course, this is because the “industry” is driven short term profits and can not vision the eventual dispersion of remote workers begun in earnest about a year and which could result in longer term return on investment.</div><br class=""></div><br></div></div></body></html>