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Re: Now tell me again why we need to collect info we already ...
I remember plenty of stories here decrying the fact that the FCC doesn't know who has broadband, what speeds they have, what percentage of users have broadband, etc. and that they need to require the ISP's to provide them that info. They don't collect accurate data, but they pretend to.Well it certainly appears that they could get all the broadband penetration and speed stats elsewhere. Akamai's data is hardly comprehensive and doesn't appear to actually map rural broadband coverage by zip code or any other "boots on the ground" metric, it simply bases all conclusions on traffic that hits their network. Were I a government agency tasked with making huge decisions that impact the telecom infrastructure of the nation, I'd probably want my own, objective, and far more detailed data, not data provided by the industry I'm supposed to be regulating. But that's just me. I'm not an industry investor who financially benefits from garbage data supporting the case for less infrastructure investment. |
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1 edit | said by Karl Bode  : Were I a government agency tasked with making huge decisions that impact the telecom infrastructure of the nation, I'd probably want my own, objective, and far more detailed data, not data provided by the industry I'm supposed to be regulating. And how would data provided by the ISPs to the FCC not be data provided by the regulated industry? I would think data provide by Akamai and others would be MORE reliable.
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1 edit | Akamai is also in the industry. And, Yeah. The FCC (gasp) might actually want to go out into the field to see who has broadband before making massive decisions. |
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1 edit | In addition, Akamai can only 'map' so to speak based on ip addresses, ip blocks, ISP regions, etc.. which becomes real broad at best and is no better than the FCC's own 'one broadband user per zip code equates to being fully wired' method. This thread interestingly comes to mind: »Why is my IP so far away?
Search around this very site and you'll find many people where their city has been wired for some sort of broadband but for one reason or another they are JUST enough distance to get squat without paying a few grand at the least to extend lines. Should they be pushed to the wayside in these studies just because ~60% of the ISP's footprint is covered and they didn't want to spend the relatively small capital to finish the job?
Akamai and the FCC's current test method are only going to see that x region has y amount of users on broadband connections and will count that as fully wired. But go investigate in person and find many broadband 'dead zones' scattered and all of a sudden the area's not as 'fully wired' as originally claimed.
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