Ajit Pai wants to raise rural broadband speeds from 10Mbps to 25Mbps
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@Dashrender said in Ajit Pai wants to raise rural broadband speeds from 10Mbps to 25Mbps:
@scottalanmiller said in Ajit Pai wants to raise rural broadband speeds from 10Mbps to 25Mbps:
@StorageNinja said in Ajit Pai wants to raise rural broadband speeds from 10Mbps to 25Mbps:
@scottalanmiller said in Ajit Pai wants to raise rural broadband speeds from 10Mbps to 25Mbps:
Or those who live in an area with AT&T, Comcast, Cox, Frontier, or any rural area and get zero of the innovation.
From Houston to rural NY, none of that stuff has existed and zero innovation or competition comes along. It's a rare, very unique market where those innovations have affected anyone for a long time.I have two providers offering me Gigabit service in Houston. As 5G comes online I'll be looking at 3-4 providers with 500Mbps+ Speeds. Waco while not truly rural is is a 5G test site for AT&T.
Modulva is LTE only in major cities. Rural coverage is HSDPA primarily, and for small villages and rural area's, it's xDSL.
The Reality is I can stream 3D 4K video on my existing 120 meg down circuit. Really the draw of the newer stuff for me is lower latency, and distributed service meshes embedded in the network slices.
In your corner of Houston. Where we go in Houston, they can't get stable Internet and the cost is insane.
When it comes to internet - Nebraska is almost entirely rural.
Even the parts that aren't, are.
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@scottalanmiller said in Ajit Pai wants to raise rural broadband speeds from 10Mbps to 25Mbps:
@Dashrender said in Ajit Pai wants to raise rural broadband speeds from 10Mbps to 25Mbps:
@scottalanmiller said in Ajit Pai wants to raise rural broadband speeds from 10Mbps to 25Mbps:
@StorageNinja said in Ajit Pai wants to raise rural broadband speeds from 10Mbps to 25Mbps:
@scottalanmiller said in Ajit Pai wants to raise rural broadband speeds from 10Mbps to 25Mbps:
Or those who live in an area with AT&T, Comcast, Cox, Frontier, or any rural area and get zero of the innovation.
From Houston to rural NY, none of that stuff has existed and zero innovation or competition comes along. It's a rare, very unique market where those innovations have affected anyone for a long time.I have two providers offering me Gigabit service in Houston. As 5G comes online I'll be looking at 3-4 providers with 500Mbps+ Speeds. Waco while not truly rural is is a 5G test site for AT&T.
Modulva is LTE only in major cities. Rural coverage is HSDPA primarily, and for small villages and rural area's, it's xDSL.
The Reality is I can stream 3D 4K video on my existing 120 meg down circuit. Really the draw of the newer stuff for me is lower latency, and distributed service meshes embedded in the network slices.
In your corner of Houston. Where we go in Houston, they can't get stable Internet and the cost is insane.
When it comes to internet - Nebraska is almost entirely rural.
Even the parts that aren't, are.
That was my point
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@jmoore said in Ajit Pai wants to raise rural broadband speeds from 10Mbps to 25Mbps:
@StorageNinja I live in Waco.
Parents live there, I went to school there. You should come down for the Texas Bowl. Baylor should destroy Vandi.
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@scottalanmiller said in Ajit Pai wants to raise rural broadband speeds from 10Mbps to 25Mbps:
In your corner of Houston. Where we go in Houston, they can't get stable Internet and the cost is insane.
Houston or Friendswood? The burbs have a few factors.
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NIMBY groups who tend to oppose ugly retransmit boxes.
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Timing is EVERYTHING Burbs have infrastructure that ties to how old they were. Older burbs were built out with older gear. They oddly may have gotten DSLAM's or DSLAM upgrades LONG before the dense, urban area's that are the proper City of Houston (When I moved here, AT&T was Somalian speeds promising 256KB only inside the loop). As a lot of infrastructure gets done on "worst first" basis this explains why beyond raw profit motive (Urban area has denser opportunities and higher median home prices justifying build-out costs for GPON network). It's worth noting the new subdivisions in Katy, new multifamily, new North West build outs are all FTTH. AT&T isn't seriously wasting money or time running copper to new area's.
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Comcast generally is offering 100Mbps plus DOCSIS 3.0 offerings. It's worth noting that TimeWarner Cable left us for dead on shitty DOCSIS 2.0 until Comcast traded them Houston for another city, and rebuilt it all from the ground up for DOCSIS 3. Comcast is a terrible company, but they saved us for an even shittier fate.
5G upgrades are going to cost 250 Billion. LTE+ upgrades are not going to be cheap (What will cover rural areas). We are looking at another 100 Billion in FIber also to backhaul this stuff. This stuff is going to up speeds in core urban area's, and hte LTE+ upgrades should make mobile broadband a realistic alternative for many rural area's.
As of year-end 2016, 92.3% of all Americans have access to fixed terrestrial broadband at speeds of 25 Mbps/3 Mbps.
While this isn't crazy fast, it's more than enough to watch Netflix (5Mbps for an HD stream). It's enough for a Video call (not HD outbound). This should be enough to do an online class (primary focus) and get some educational information. This is the federal governments minimum for subsidies.
I expect when we kill rural telephone mandatory subsidies they will spike it a bit more (and have LTE+ replace it). There's currently no serious business case to rebuild rural and low-density suburbs with FTTH. The money has to come from somewhere so we have two options...
- It comes from taxes, largely of people who live in urban area's that it will not benefit.
- It comes from cost sharing where the costs are pushed onto the services of people who live in urban areas.
Given that the US is becoming more urban, I'd say your best chance is to just... Move closer to civilization. I could have lived out in Friendswood. I could have saved a lot of money. But I bought land, that was in Houston proper and only after verifying that it had connectivity that would meet my requirements.
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League City is over 100,000 people and is the largest city in the county, even bigger than the county namesake. It's not exactly remote.
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@scottalanmiller said in Ajit Pai wants to raise rural broadband speeds from 10Mbps to 25Mbps:
League City is over 100,000 people and is the largest city in the county, even bigger than the county namesake. It's not exactly remote.
As stated, population density, not population is one of the main factors.
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@StorageNinja Hoping they win at least!
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@JaredBusch said in Ajit Pai wants to raise rural broadband speeds from 10Mbps to 25Mbps:
@scottalanmiller said in Ajit Pai wants to raise rural broadband speeds from 10Mbps to 25Mbps:
League City is over 100,000 people and is the largest city in the county, even bigger than the county namesake. It's not exactly remote.
As stated, population density, not population is one of the main factors.
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