Re: FCC Announces All Of Puerto Rico To Have Access To High-Speed Broadband Service

[Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com>]

The press release doesn't reference at all, but Aeronet (the largest WISP
in Puerto Rico, and an operator of gigabit class service in MDUs) has been
testing Facebook/Terragraph 802.11ay 60 GHz based, point to multipoint last
mile stuff for a while now. Very short range, high speed, high capacity.

They use it in addition to a number of licensed band and 71-86 GHz PTP
links.

https://www.peeringdb.com/net/20459

Various 802.11ay based PtMP solutions are about to hit the market from 4 or
5 different competing vendors.





On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 8:22 AM Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:

> FCC Announces All Of Puerto Rico To Have Access To High-Speed Broadband
> Service As A Result Of Uniendo A Puerto Rico Fund
>
> Nearly a Third of Locations Will Get Speeds of At Least 1 Gbps with All
> Other Locations Getting Speeds of At Least 100 Mbps
>
>
> https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-announces-usf-support-high-speed-broadband-puerto-rico
>
> WASHINGTON, November 2, 2020—The Federal Communications Commission’s
> Wireline Competition Bureau today announced that funding through Stage 2
> of the Uniendo a Puerto Rico Fund will result in all locations in Puerto
> Rico having access to fixed broadband service
> with speeds of at least 100 Mbps. And nearly one-third of those locations
> will have access to fixed broadband service with speeds of at least 1
> Gbps.
>
> Two winning applicants in the Uniendo a Puerto Rico Stage 2 Competitive
> Process submitted bids for $127.1 million in funding over 10 years
> covering more than 1.2 million locations through a competitive process
> that awarded support for fixed voice and broadband services based on the
> weighting of price and network performance, including speed, latency,
> usage allowance, and resiliency. Liberty Communications has committed to
> offering service to over 914,000 locations, and Puerto Rico Telephone
> Company will offer service to over 308,000 locations.