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Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections


From: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 15:41:56 -0700

Fiber is cool and all, but there is a HUUUUUGE amount of areas that aren't
lucky enough to have fiber and wireless is the only way to go.

So, we up the minimum to 100 Mbps just because some areas are lucky enough
to have fiber?

-Mike




On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 3:38 PM Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE <
lb () 6by7 net> wrote:



Sent from my iPhone via RFC1149.

On May 28, 2021, at 3:29 PM, Mike Lyon <mike.lyon () gmail com> wrote:


Curious, when you look at the usage on those 100/100 plans. What are
they actually using? If they aren't actually using it, then why up the
minimum?

Simple, our time isn’t free.  The less time humanity itself spends waiting
on downloads, the more we spend loving, celebrating, embracing, playing and
exploring.

Really, fiber is fiber, it’s just about optics from there, and those are
cheap.

Relatively speaking.

(And ignoring WISPSs and rural economies of scale but I digress.)

8 billion fiber drops for 8 billion people.

That’s what it will take to wire the future.  32k res AR environments; 1TB
video games, distance learning via implant, full self driving cars -
Qualcomm itself says bandwidth is to grow 1000-fold in the next 9 years
alone.

Are you ready?



Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE
6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC
CEO
lb () 6by7 net
"The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in
the world.”

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-- 
Mike Lyon
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http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlyon

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