[116982] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri Aug 28 10:21:24 2009
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:19:50 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
In-Reply-To: <200908281405.n7SE5dJa062396@aurora.sol.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Joe Greco wrote:
> We've *already* subsidized the telcos $200 billion for a next generation
> broadband-capable plant, that was supposed to be LEC-neutral...
Yeah, not every telco participated, though the RBOCs sure did.
> So, we've *already* paid the plant cost, and we've gotten nothing much in
> return.
Looking at just Oklahoma, I'm not sure AT&T could get even 200kb to
every household for $200b.
More interesting, I'd be curious to see how well NSP's could handle the
increase in traffic if every house support 45mb of Internet (not local
video/voice). I'd love to see some good data on how the average
throughput changes as the rates go up, especially with the continued
increase of higher bandwidth video.
Jack
