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

[Dave Taht <dave.taht () gmail com>]

On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 3:38 PM Tony Wicks <tony () wicks co nz> wrote:
> > This whole thread is about hypothetical futures, so it's not hard to imagine downloads filling to available capacity.
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> So, a good example of how this capacity is used, In New Zealand we have a pretty broad fibre network covering most of 
> the population. My niece asked me to share my backup copy of her wedding photo’s/video’s the other day. I have a 
> 4Gb/s / 4Gb/s XGSPON connection and she’s got a 1Gb/s / 500Mb/s GPON connection. I simply dropped a copy of the 5.1G 
> directory into a one drive folder and shared it, 10 minutes later (one drive is still limited in how fast you can 
> upload) she had it all and she was very happy. With these speeds its not even a consideration to think about 
> capacity, everything just works.

"New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while United States is
approximately 9,833,517 sq km, making United States 3,558% larger than
New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~4.9 million
people (327.7 million more people live in United States)."

To finish up the math here, how much did NZ's fiber buildout cost?
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