[151543] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Mar 23 23:27:36 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F6D295B.3050208@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:22:38 -0700
To: Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 23, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Paul Graydon wrote:
> On 03/23/2012 02:18 PM, Michael Painter wrote:
>> Randy Bush wrote:
>>> what a silly question. lining the telcos' pockets. american so =
called
>>> 'broadband' is a joke and a scam.
>>>=20
>>> randy
>>=20
>> Really. This is from the Governor's "Hawaii Broadband Initiative" =
speedtest website:
>>=20
>> "The indication of above average or below average is based on a =
comparison of the actual test result to the current NTIA definition of =
broadband which is 768 kbps download and 200 kbps upload. Any test =
result above the NTIA definition is considered above average, and any =
result below is considered below average."
>>=20
> To be fair to the initiative at least its goal is for universal access =
to 1Gbps by 2018, something they term 'ultra-high-speed' (not sure where =
that definition comes from): =
http://hawaii.gov/gov/broadband-policy-outline/
>=20
> Paul
Yep... That's I think the problem...
Back when the initiative documents were written, 1Gbps was =
ulra-high-speed and 768/200k was average broadband. There is no =
provision for the terms to shift over time, so, the document gets more =
and more out of date as time goes by.
I suspect that by 2018, 1Gbps will probably be above average, but, not =
by as much as the document probably thinks.
Owen
