nanog mailing list archives

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections


From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 23:11:08 -0400

On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 7:14 PM Josh Luthman <josh () imaginenetworksllc com>
wrote:

Do you not see the irony here?  It's suggested the government comes in and
delivers fiber to every house in the country and yet today we're saying
they haven't gotten it right in the last ~20 years.


Isn't the request actually to better manage the process/results and not
permit folk to act outside the interests of the citizenry?



Grants and federal funds are available.  It's a massive amount of work to
get them, at which point those with money find more profitable ways of
doing things - like FTTH in a city with 100 subs/mile.


 'we have always been at work with elbonia' isn't really the greatest
answer.

How could this be done better?
If you were to re-think the process and be able to build a new process, how
would you achieve the goal outlined in the proposed FCC
direction/regulation?

Current thread: