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| AT&T U-verse on BroadbandMap.Gov. We've all heard that the fcc.gov et al has spent 350 million USD on the National Broadband Map. Has anyone actually bothered to visit it recently?
»www.broadbandmap.gov/about-provi···ionwide/ — T
»www.broadbandmap.gov/about-provi···ionwide/ — VZ
»www.broadbandmap.gov/about-provi···ionwide/ — SureWest in Sacramento, CA
»www.broadbandmap.gov/about-provi···ionwide/ — Cincinnati Bell in Ohio
I've looked at it repeatedly just now, and I have no idea what those numbers are, or how they could be useful to anyone who is interested in broadband. Keep in mind, I'm an engineer, fascinated with math and numbers. I have no idea what a regular person would be doing with any of those numbers. Numbers by each provider simply make no sense. SureWest has all zero-dot-something percentages, so does Cincinnati Bell. I found no option on the site to get the numbers to make any kind of sense. Was BroadbandMap.Gov simply designed to be the map of AT&T and Verizon coverage?
Yet, apparently, according to the map, even AT&T doesn't offer FTTP to anyone! If you've heard people discussing their FTTP, they must simply be confused by the marketing, AT&T doesn't actually offer, as BroadbandMap.gov unambiguously puts it, "Optical Carrier - Fiber to the End User". Also, »Sonic.net and »Paxio.net are myths, they don't exist, and don't offer anything to anyone, let alone any Gigabit speeds for mere pennies on the Mbps! So is »Webpass.net, they don't offer 200/200 speeds for 45$/month in San Francisco Bay Area, either.
Also, apparently, AT&T doesn't even use VDSL2. Note that VDSL2 is not "Asymmetric xDSL" technology; VDSL2 is symmetric and capable of 100/100 speeds at 0.5km loop lengths. Surprise, surprise!
Another note is that AT&T does offer 6Mbps upload speeds... Hmm... Note that there's a single page for wired and wireless divisions... Yeap, you've guessed it — 6Mbps uploads is the artefact of the wireless networks.  No 6Mbps upload luck for any U-verse users! |
