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

[Thomas Nadeau <tnadeau () lucidvision com>]

That is all obvious to me at least. I was just pointing out the folly in saying “what would one do with that much X” 
resource. We always have found a way
going back to the beginning. My story about back at BT was prior to video streaming. At that point in time it didn’t 
exist and was made a reality in 
part, because of the simple increase in bandwidth available to subscribers (and everywhere else).

—Tom


> On May 23, 2022, at 3:53 PM, Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> wrote:
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> On 5/23/22 12:29 PM, David Bass wrote:
> > What is changing in the next 5 years that could possibly require a household to need a gig?  That is just 
> > ridiculous. 
> I think the key thing is just to get fiber laid. Once that happens ISP's can turn up the dial relatively easy as 
> needed. Also: even if they gave you a nominal rate of 1G it doesn't mean that they won't oversubcribe the headend and 
> beyond. 
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> Mike
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> > On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 3:15 PM Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com <mailto:mike () mtcc com>> wrote:
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> > On 5/23/22 12:04 PM, Thomas Nadeau wrote:
> > > > On May 23, 2022, at 3:00 PM, Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com <mailto:mike () mtcc com>> wrote:
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> > > > On 5/23/22 11:49 AM, Aaron Wendel wrote:
> > > > > The Fiber Broadband Association estimates that the average US household will need more than a gig within 5 
> > > > > years.  Why not just jump it to a gig or more?
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> > > > Really? What is the average household doing to use up a gig worth of bandwidth?
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> > > > Mike
> > > Thats almost the same question we were asked at BT a dozen years ago when moving from DSL -> FTTC when someone 
> > > said, “but surely DSL is sufficient because its so much faster than dial.”
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> > The two of us survive just fine with 25Mbs even when we have a house 
> > full of friends. I mean it would be nice to have 100Mbs so that it's 
> > never a problem but the reality is that it just hasn't been a problem in 
> > practice. I mean how many 4k streams are running at the same time in the 
> > average household? What else besides game downloads are sucking up that 
> > much bandwidth all of the time?
> >
> > Mike
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> > > —Tom
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> > > > > On 5/23/2022 1:40 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
> > > > > > https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-higher-speed-goals-small-rural-broadband-providers-0 
> > > > > > <https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-higher-speed-goals-small-rural-broadband-providers-0>
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> > > > > > The Federal Communications Commission voted [May 19, 2022] to seek comment on a proposal to provide additional 
> > > > > > universal service support to certain rural carriers in exchange for increasing deployment to more locations at 
> > > > > > higher speeds. The proposal would make changes to the Alternative Connect America Cost Model (A-CAM) program, 
> > > > > > with the goal of achieving widespread deployment of faster 100/20 Mbps broadband service throughout the rural 
> > > > > > areas served by rural carriers currently receiving A-CAM support.