Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al)

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

We've been funding it for years without getting it because of the stupid way in which it has been funded.

I suggest you look into USF in more detail.

Owen

On Mar 24, 2012, at 6:06 AM, Joseph Snyder wrote:

> Lol too early in the morning, that much for so few, but if you are going to govt fund copper replacement, it's 
> probably the way to go. Not sure how costly that would be in the US since even in the cities there are a lot of 
> duplexes.
> -- 
> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>
> Joseph Snyder <joseph.snyder () gmail com> wrote:
>
> Any details on how much this cost, maybe I just missed it in the article. 40k. It sounds interesting but in the US 
> this would only make sense in cities and most people don't live in MDUs. Where I live a lot of peoples driveways are 
> a mile or two long.
>
> Marcel Plug <marcelplug () gmail com> wrote:
>
> This article from arstechnica is right on topic. Its about how the
> city of Amsterdam built an open-access fibre network. It seems to me
> this is the right way to do it, or at least very close to the right
> way..
>
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/how-amsterdam-was-wired-for-open-access-fiber.ars
>
> -Marcel
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:35 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:18:26 -1000, Michael Painter said:
> >
> > > "The indication of above average or below average is based on a comparison of the actual test result to the current 
> > > NTIA
> > > definition of broadband which is 768 kbps download and 200 kbps upload. Any test result above the NTIA definition is
> > > considered above average, and any result below is considered below average."
> >
> > That's the national definition of "broadband" that we're stuck with.  To show
> > how totally cooked the books are, consider that when they compute "percent of
> > people with access to residential broadband", they do it on a per-county basis
> > - and if even *one* subscriber in one corner of the county has broadband, the
> > entire county counts.