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Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy)
Wed Aug 26 20:21:24 2009

Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:20:59 -0700
From: Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <ffcec29f0908261712k7673c78dt82fc4b0b16fa049@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

We are talking government handouts here and they never make sense....

jim deleskie wrote:
> Why should I person be disadvantage from another in the same country,
> maybe its the Canadian in me, but isn't there something in the
> founding documents of the US that define's all men as being equal.  I
> though it was Orewell that made some more equal then others. :)
>
> -jim
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Roy<r.engehausen@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I think it has become obvious that the correct definition of broadband
>> depends on the users location.  A house in the boonies is not going to get
>> fiber,  Perhaps the minimum acceptable bandwidth should vary by area.  A
>> definition of "area" could be some sort of user density measurement by
>> census tract.
>>
>>
>>     



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