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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Here in Italy there have been a lot of investments to get better broadband.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Such as government sponsored bundles for areas with no return on investments, for schools etc with a lot of focus on reaching gigabit speeds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The results have been mainly positive even though there are delays.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">On the end user side in 2020 one of the largest ISPs started offering 2.5Gbps service<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Adds all over and users started asking for it, even though they don’t have a 2.5 nic or router, so now all of the major providers are rolling it out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Illiad one uped them a couple of months ago pushing a 5Gbps service and now I get people asking me if we offer 5Gbps fiber lines.. pure marketing…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I have a 1Gbps/100Mbps line and it is plenty enough for the family rarely do we even get near the limits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">It’s kind of like when I ask for an Italian espresso in the states and get a cup full of coffee, no I just want a very small italian style espresso..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The response is Why? you are paying for it take it all
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Bigger is better, even if you don’t need it, reigns supreme.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The real problem most users experience isn’t that they have a gig, or even 100Mb of available download bandwidth…it’s that they infrequently are able to use that full bandwidth due to massive over subscription . <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The other issue is the minimal upload speed. It’s fairly easy to consume the 10Mb that you’re typically getting as a residential customer. Even “business class” broadband service has a pretty poor upload bandwidth limit. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are a pretty high usage family, and 100/10 has been adequate, but there’s been times when we are pegged at the 10 Mb upload limit, and we start to see issues. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’d say 25/5 is a minimum for a single person. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Would 1 gig be nice…yeah as long as the upload speed is dramatically increased as part of that. We would rarely use it, but that would likely be sufficient for a long time. I wouldn’t pay for the extra at this point though. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 8:20 PM Sean Donelan <<a href="mailto:sean@donelan.com">sean@donelan.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Remember, this rulemaking is for 1.1 million locations with the "worst" <br>
return on investment. The end of the tail of the long tail. Rural and <br>
tribal locations which aren't profitable to provide higher speed <br>
broadband.<br>
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These locations have very low customer density, and difficult to serve.<br>
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After the Sandwich Isles Communications scandal, gold-plated proposals <br>
will be viewed with skepticism. While a proposal may have a lower total <br>
cost of ownership over decades, the business case is the cheapest for <br>
the first 10 years of subsidies. [massive over-simplification]<br>
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Historically, these projects have lack of timely completion (abandoned, <br>
incomplete), and bad (overly optimistic?) budgeting.<o:p></o:p></p>
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