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2 edits | Census
Figures, as soon as I post in the Morning Links thread.
They should use the 2010 Census to map it precisely.
Also, the proposed definition is 1Mb minimum up! Go Dems! Under this definition I don't have broadband available, in fact I don't think there's (residential) 1Mb upload available anywhere in this whole semi-suburban county of about 150,000. |
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1 edit |  Data collection rules need upgrading; but 2/1 for BB doesn't
A law that would mandate better data collection of broadband penetration makes sense. But changing the law to label anything below 2/1 mbps speeds as not broadband is not productive. What would that accomplish? Will it make 3g/4g wireless providers suddenly up their upload speeds to something their infrastructure can't currently support. And all the locations, especially rural, where distance make 768 kbps DSL a good deal would no longer be broadband?
Obviously the cable companies are backing this because they feel they get an advantage over the telcos and wireless companies in the advertising game, if they can say that their service is broadband and the others aren't.
Anyway, the 2/1 part of the bill will never make it in to law.
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Corona, CA | Or they would simply call their service "high speed internet" instead of broadband. |
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said by TKJunkMail  :A law that would mandate better data collection of broadband penetration makes sense. But changing the law to label anything below 2/1 mbps speeds as not broadband is not productive. What would that accomplish? Will it make 3g/4g wireless providers suddenly up their upload speeds to something their infrastructure can't currently support. And all the locations, especially rural, where distance make 768 kbps DSL a good deal would no longer be broadband? It's a reflection of he relative nature of broadband. Given that the carriage capacity of the Internet has not remained static (e.g., when I first started using it, "the backbone" - NSFNet - was operating at sub-T1 speeds), it makes little sense for the definition of broadband to remain static.
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Re: Census
"The bill would establish in law that "high-speed" access means "transmission at speeds allowing the user to download not less than 2 megabits per second and upload not less than 1 megabit per second.’’
Heh, the cable industry supporting that statement? Somehow I doubt it. 1mbps upstream would clearly cause 'total protonic reversal' along with Brian Roberts head exploding. |
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Mount Airy, MD |  Interesting
I find myself thinking this is a good idea, at least with regard to throwing out the "one house in a ZIP code" BS. There has to be a catch to this.
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morbo
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clubs: | nice strategy, cablecos
i like their thinking on this issue. screw telcos by making broadband above a set mark that is ABOVE telcos current standard and lite offerings. |
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openbox9
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Re: Data collection rules need upgrading; but 2/1 for BB doesn't
You can define the service however you'd like (you don't need a law to do this) so long as providers aren't mandated to provide said service. |
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Re: nice strategy, cablecos
Well, and increased penetration monitoring would better highlight where they choose not to install next-gen broadband and TV for all to see....
Clever boys at that thar NCTA.... |
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MrMoody
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Re: Data collection rules need upgrading; but 2/1 for BB doesn't
said by TKJunkMail :Obviously the cable companies are backing this because they feel they get an advantage over the telcos and wireless companies in the advertising game, if they can say that their service is broadband and the others aren't. I've got no problem with that. Survival of the fittest. It is possible to run 1mb up on DSL to all but the extreme fringe. I don't give a rat's behind whether a cableco, a telco or a powerco gets it here. |
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said by openbox9 :You can define the service however you'd like (you don't need a law to do this) so long as providers aren't mandated to provide said service. Providers are not mandated to provide the service. All it does is limits them on what they can legally call something that they sell.
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But now all of the whiners out there complaining about telcos manipulating and purchasing legislation to gain the upper-hand will have to change their tune towards the cablecos if a law of this nature passes. |
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Re: nice strategy, cablecos
A 1Mbps upload for ADSL requires a very short pair of wires to a remote terminal or the central office. This disqualifies anything but people with AT+T Elite 6.0/768 from being able to even possibly make the 1Mbps upload rate.
If the cable co wants to really stick it to ADSL, they should try to get this law crafted to define broadband as the best effort upload speed for a TCP connection running at 1Mbps. ADSL's max wire bit rate is 1Mbps. Add in the TCP/IP and ATM overhead and all ADSL offerings are immediately disqualified from being called broadband. AT+T would need to install a lot of remote terminals to overcome that definition.
I suspect that if this bill isn't killed, it will be rewritten to be 1Mbps/512Kbps so that at least 90% of the existing ADSL lines will count as broadband. |
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openbox9
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Re: Data collection rules need upgrading; but 2/1 for BB doesn't
Then defining "broadband" is unneeded legislation. Less government is the way we be moving towards, not more bureaucracy. |
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Re: nice strategy, cablecos
Something tells me that map would not be looked upon very nicely by AT&T and Verizon especially if it was overlapped by lets say income levels.
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Re: Data collection rules need upgrading; but 2/1 for BB doesn't
said by openbox9 :Then defining "broadband" is unneeded legislation. Less government is the way we be moving towards, not more bureaucracy. You're right. There should be no reason for the government to define standards for what a given product may be advertised as. A "beef" hotdog should be allowed to be comprised of goat rather than cow muscle.
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Re: nice strategy, cablecos
That's why I promise you we'll never see an effective broadband penetration map by this government. Phone providers fight any effort of this kind tooth and nail.
I think the best we see is broadband nudged from 200kbps to 1Mbps or something....whatever ultimately passes as an examination of penetration will be cooked and skewed nonsense. |
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| Mapping should be a cake!
Just establish a rule that ISP provider should report available speeds per addr. Is not a big deal. After all, they already have this information, otherwise they would not sell it to you. If I wanted HSI from cable or teleco they asked for my addr to verify availability. Use the same info and make a national db and use whatever mapping service to fill in the data. |
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Re: nice strategy, cablecos
Cable won't have much to brag about either. |
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MrMoody
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said by justbits :A 1Mbps upload for ADSL requires a very short pair of wires to a remote terminal or the central office. This disqualifies anything but people with AT+T Elite 6.0/768 from being able to even possibly make the 1Mbps upload rate. Embarq has 5000/768 available all over this part of the country in and around rural small towns. Why can't the same pair that can run 5000 down run 1000 up? Seems to me the most that would be needed is to change the standard slightly to reassign some down channels to up channels and maybe give the modem a little more transmit power, and voila, 4000/1000. I'd buy that for a dollar. And if the telco makes it available, they can count it whether anyone buys it or not.
The purpose of having the penetration info is to compare to other countries. If it's not the same standard, it's a useless comparison. To heck with giving the poor telcos a break, they need to be held up to the light of the world standard. Maybe it will embarrass them into the 21st century, and the cablecos as well by virtue of the competition. |
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