[141738] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Jun 10 20:08:12 2011
To: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:43:39 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:07:34 -0400
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:43:39 PDT, Jeroen van Aart said:
> Jay Ashworth wrote:
> > Even Cracked realizes this:
> >
> > http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-internet-access-in-america-disaster
> >
> > That can't be good.
>
> <ignorant?>
>
> "up to 10 percent of the country can't even get basic broadband"
>
> I think I saw much larger numbers a few years ago when I read some hype
> stories about how broadband access in the USA sucks. I am positively
> surprised the gap has narrowed that much.
The FCC numbers say "10% can't get it", computed on a per-county basis. However,
if *one* person in one corner of the county closest to a major city can get broadband,
then *everybody in the county* is counted as "can get broadband" by the FCC, even if
99.8% of them are 15 or 20 cable miles away from actually getting anything usable.
So the *actual* numbers are much worse than the FCC numbers.
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