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Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections
From: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 17:02:58 +0200
On 5/31/21 16:17, Andy Ringsmuth wrote:
Where there is a will, there is a way. The big boys don’t have the will to do it. Case after case after case after case after case demonstrates that fiber to the home can be done and can be done for a very reasonable cost. We read about smaller companies or municipalities every day doing it. And then the Big Boys come along and do EVERYTHING they can to stifle competition (getting all snarky about pole access, or pouring billions into lobbying against muni broadband that could be spent on, oh, I dunno, INSTALLING FIBER instead).
This is exactly what happened (and continues to happen) in South Africa.The first FTTH roll-outs were not by the incumbent. Nearly 6 years later, the incumbent joined the party seriously and is, actually, the lowest priced fibre provider.
But on the whole, it's the small, nondescript companies, that continue to pave the way.
I got FTTH to my house back in 2015, when 99.999% of the country was still on ADSL. My installation was done by the company's CEO on a chilly Saturday morning. I was still in my gown.
It's not a thing anymore (even though fibre is, really, limited to the large cities), but the constant theme is that folk aren't hanging around picking their noses, waiting for gubbermint policy to egg them on.
Mark.
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- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections, (continued)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Baldur Norddahl (May 30)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Mike Hammett (May 30)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Baldur Norddahl (May 30)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Blake Dunlap (May 30)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Valdis Klētnieks (May 30)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Raymond Burkholder (May 30)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Owen DeLong via NANOG (May 31)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Mike Hammett (May 31)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Mike Hammett (May 31)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Andy Ringsmuth (May 31)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Mark Tinka (May 31)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Mike Hammett (May 31)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Eric Kuhnke (May 31)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Mike Hammett (May 31)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Mike Hammett (May 31)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Mike Hammett (May 30)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Laura Smith via NANOG (May 29)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe (May 30)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Mike Hammett (May 30)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Christian de Larrinaga via NANOG (May 31)
- Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections Josh Luthman (May 31)