[116944] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed Aug 26 22:53:43 2009
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:52:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <3A89064E-4F43-4FFC-B535-B4D971CFDEF0@cisco.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Fred Baker wrote:
> If it's about stimulus money, I'm in favor of saying that broadband implies
> fiber to the home. That would provide all sorts of stimuli to the economy -
> infrastructure, equipment sales, jobs digging ditches, and so on. I could
> pretty quickly argue myself into suggesting special favors for deployment of
> DNSSEC, multicast, and IPv6. As in, use the stimulus money to propel a leap
> forward, not just waste it.
Broadband stimulus money = $7,200,000,000
Housing units in USA (2000) = 115,904,641
Stimulus money per housing unit = $62.12 one-time
What definition of "broadband" can you achieve for that amount of money?
Or for rural housing units (2000) = 25,938,698
Stimulus money per rural housing unit = $277.58 one-time
What definition of "broadband" can you achieve for that amount of money
in a rural build-out?
How much will fiber to the home cost in a rural area?
