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

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

On 5/23/22 12:29 PM, David Bass wrote:
> What is changing in the next 5 years that could possibly require a 
> household to need a gig?  That is just ridiculous.

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.

Mike


> On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 3:15 PM Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> wrote:
>
>
>     On 5/23/22 12:04 PM, Thomas Nadeau wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >> On May 23, 2022, at 3:00 PM, Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> wrote:
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> 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.
>     >>>>