[151554] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph Snyder)
Sat Mar 24 07:48:05 2012
In-Reply-To: <CACfXSnD+xOVCDv16ZZsUMv1c=cd70NDO3MCtTGE3UAXLYaeoBw@mail.gmail.com>
From: Joseph Snyder <joseph.snyder@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:47:11 -0400
To: Marcel Plug <marcelplug@gmail.com>,nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Any details on how much this cost, maybe I just missed it in the article. 40k. It sounds interesting but in the US this would only make sense in cities and most people don't live in MDUs. Where I live a lot of peoples driveways are a mile or two long.
Marcel Plug <marcelplug@gmail.com> wrote:
This article from arstechnica is right on topic. Its about how the
city of Amsterdam built an open-access fibre network. It seems to me
this is the right way to do it, or at least very close to the right
way..
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/how-amsterdam-was-wired-for-open-access-fiber.ars
-Marcel
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:35 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:18:26 -1000, Michael Painter said:
>
>> "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."
>
> That's the national definition of "broadband" that we're stuck with. To show
> how totally cooked the books are, consider that when they compute "percent of
> people with access to residential broadband", they do it on a per-county basis
> - and if even *one* subscriber in one corner of the county has broadband, the
> entire county counts.
>
