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00000 | broadband definition should also include cap info Any broadband definition should define what broadband is and it's expected capabilities that the end user should expect to see.
For example, if 2000kbps down and 384kbps up is the minimum, end users should expect to see 90% of those speeds AND should be able to use the line at those 90% speeds at full capacity for 2/3 of the month at minimum. This is only an example and not many people would reach itmount, but would tie any future cap implementation to speed.
In summary: a broadband definition must not only include minimum upload and download speed but must also include minimums on end user ability to fully utilize their line capacity. |
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| I was going to say the same thing as well as, define what unlimited is. Unlimited with caps is ridiculous.
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cacoPremium
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1 edit | Your looking for trouble asking for a bunch of government lawyers to give you a definition to a word. By the time they are done, unlimited would be defined in a 200 page brief.
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The 90% test is a tough one to use. You could enforce this with mandatory QoS agreements, but I think that a better rule would involve specifying the maximum load-out a circuit can have which would be the capacity of the location your wired to divided by the number of connections going from it. Then you could also specify average speed based on a statistical model of usage. ISPs could easily include throttling in this to increase your numbers here, but again it would help them be honest.
Carriers could still specify their own limits, but they would be forced to be more transparent about it. So something like up to 3Mbps down, 20Kbps under maximum load and 1.2Mbps under normal load. Which could just be written as (3000 / 20 / 1200) down and (786 / 4 / 200) up. Since most large ISPs have some kind of a build out policy implementing this should be too hard, and just to be nice you could use a 95% rule where you only count your average for 95% of the centers in an area to help avoid the effects of outliers that have fallen in disrepair, need maintenance or are still under construction. |
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Your looking for trouble asking for a bunch of government lawyers to give you a definition to a word. By the time they are done, unlimited would be defined in a 200 page brief. It's business. They don't really have a choice. If they didn't go into nauseating detail on definitions, the rules would have no meaning as business lawyers would dance around them. Lame, but the nature of the beast at this point. Look at the FCC's fight against Comcast over the definition of the phrase "reasonable network management." |
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