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Karl Bode
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4 edits | Re: FCC has access to dozens of independent studies quote:
they also have access to dozens of other studies
Other than the OECD rankings, which I'd assume you'd lament as wildly inaccurate because they show us ranked twelfth in penetration, which independent rural broadband studies would those be? Dozens? Can you actually list "dozens" of studies that specifically study rural coverage gaps? Many independent studies rely in turn on the FCC data. Many others are based on inflated and unconfirmed incumbent data, intentionally buoyed to support deregulatory positions.
Groups like Leichtman? quote:
Leichtman Research Group, Inc. (LRG) bases its findings off of nationwide consumer research studies conducted via telephone (to represent a representative cross-section of all US households). This data is also analyzed in conjunction with our database of provider-side research, as well as other sources - including the FCC.
Nobody is actually going into rural America and confirming anything. | |
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kamm
join:2001-02-14
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1 edit | said by TKJunkMail  :For whatever legal reasons the FCC is using the 1 person in a zip code as broadband standard, they also have access to dozens of other studies showing real broadband penetration. To say they have bad data to make decisions is wrong. They have all the data they need. They choose to follow the 1/zip info because it is probably backed by some regulations and protects their ass in court challenges. List, please.
Without backing up your claims we have to think once again it's your well-known ties to the cable industry that makes you post these unproven claims. | |
| PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
| said by TKJunkMail :They choose to follow the 1/zip info because it is probably backed by some regulations and protects their ass in court challenges. They choose to use this one because it is the most optimistic.
Under the 1996 Telecomm Act, if the FCC were to find that broadband deployment is not progressing well, that finding would trigger requirements for all sorts of action, regulatory actions that the present FCC is loathe to undertake. So they are damn careful to use a metric to make things look as rosy as possible.
It is highly inaccurate, though. In the zip code I live in, only the town center, near the telco CO and the Cable trunk from the next town over, are supplied with broadband. But the vast majority of the Zip code is unserved. By the FCC metric, however, the whole zipcode is counted as served. | |
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garagerock
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join:2002-06-14
Louisville, KY
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They choose to follow the 1/zip info because it is probably backed by some regulations and protects their ass in court challenges
Once again, can you cite one fact?
So, in your fairytale universe, where the free market has solved every world calamity, everyone probably has 100/100 MBPS connections, and everyone probably pays less than $30 per month, and probably has no long term commitment, or probably no fee to cancel, and they probably have no caps and an SLA.
And in other news, this obvious shill probably gets paid by the keystroke to invent this fairytale universe. | |
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FCC has access to dozens of independent studies