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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/23/22 12:29 PM, David Bass wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">What is changing in the next 5 years that could
possibly require a household to need a gig? That is just
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<p>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. <br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 3:15
PM Michael Thomas <<a href="mailto:mike@mtcc.com"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">mike@mtcc.com</a>>
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On 5/23/22 12:04 PM, Thomas Nadeau wrote:<br>
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>> On May 23, 2022, at 3:00 PM, Michael Thomas <<a
href="mailto:mike@mtcc.com" target="_blank"
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>> On 5/23/22 11:49 AM, Aaron Wendel wrote:<br>
>>> 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?<br>
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>> Really? What is the average household doing to use
up a gig worth of bandwidth?<br>
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>> Mike<br>
> 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.”<br>
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The two of us survive just fine with 25Mbs even when we have
a house <br>
full of friends. I mean it would be nice to have 100Mbs so
that it's <br>
never a problem but the reality is that it just hasn't been
a problem in <br>
practice. I mean how many 4k streams are running at the same
time in the <br>
average household? What else besides game downloads are
sucking up that <br>
much bandwidth all of the time?<br>
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Mike<br>
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> —Tom<br>
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>>> On 5/23/2022 1:40 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:<br>
>>>> <a
href="https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-higher-speed-goals-small-rural-broadband-providers-0"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-higher-speed-goals-small-rural-broadband-providers-0</a><br>
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>>>> 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.<br>
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