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

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

On 6/6/22 3:36 PM, Tony Wicks wrote:
> >This whole thread is about hypothetical futures, so it's not hard to 
> imagine downloads filling to available capacity.
>
> >Mike
>
> 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.
Do you have any stats on what the average usage was before and after the 
build out? I'd expect it to go up just because but was it dramatic?

Mike