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

[Greg Shepherd <gjshep () gmail com>]

So you haven't yet installed your home Holodeck?

On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:31 PM David Bass <davidbass570 () gmail com> wrote:

> What is changing in the next 5 years that could possibly require a
> household to need a gig?  That is just ridiculous.
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 3:15 PM Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> wrote:
>
> > On 5/23/22 12:04 PM, Thomas Nadeau wrote:
> > > > On May 23, 2022, at 3:00 PM, Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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?
> > > > Really? What is the average household doing to use up a gig worth of
> > bandwidth?
> > > > 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.”
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > > —Tom
> > >
> > >
> > > > > 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
> > > > > > 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.
> > > > > >