wilbilt
Pronto Resurrected
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join:2004-01-11
Oroville, CA
1 edit | Re: No credit Karl? "ISPs will be required to report numbers of subscribers, and at the census-block level. Under the current methodology, ISPs report only the number of zip codes in which they have at least one subscriber, and they report numbers of lines nationwide. Now they'll have to report the number of subscribers in each census tract they serve, broken down by speed tier. The FCC decided to use census tracts because researchers may be able to use other demographic statistics collected by the U.S. Census, such as age and income level, to gain insight about what drives broadband penetration rates."
Great...so now an ISP will report that it has zero subscribers in an area (because they don't offer service there), and the FCC will announce that nobody subscribes in that area because they can't afford it.
The FCC should send out a simple questionnaire to every address in the country if they really want to find out the extent of broadband deployment.
Of course, they really don't want to know, so it will never happen.
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