Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

[Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner () nic-naa net>]

In the applications I wrote earlier this month for BIP (Rural Utilities 
Services, USDA) and BTOP (NTIA, non-rural) infrastructure, for Maine's 
2nd, I was keenly aware that broadband hasn't taken off as a pervasive, 
if not universal service in rural areas of the US.

I don't think the speed metric is the metric that will make non-adoption 
in sparce clustered demographics distinguishable from adoption in denser 
demographics. I suspect that issues like symmetry of state signaling, 
latency, jitter, ... metrics that resemble what I looked for from MPI 
runs when benchmarking parallel systems, will characterize applications 
that may be distinguishable from the adoption, market penetration, 
renewal criteria from the applications that for reasons I can only 
conjecture, the standard "triple play" killer apps, which simply aren't 
driving broadband (whatever that is) adoption in rural areas. And no, I 
don't know what those better-than-triple-play-killer-apps-in-suburbia are.

Eric


Luke Marrott wrote:
> I read an article on DSL Reports the other day (
> http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Please-Define-Broadband-104056), in
> which the FCC has a document requesting feedback on the definition of
> Broadband.
>
> What are your thoughts on what the definition of Broadband should be going
> forward? I would assume this will be the standard definition for a number of
> years to come.
>
> Thanks.
>
>