they are trying to make it so WISP and especially Starlink don't qualify as 
'broadband'

David Lang

On Tue, 19 Mar 2024, Dave Taht via Nnagain wrote:

> from brett glass:
>
> https://www.broadband.io/c/get-broadband-grant-alerts-news/it-s-on-fcc-officially-increases-its-broadband-speed-requirement-to-100-20-mbps#comment_wrapper_32464006
>
> This decision is the equivalent of saying, “If you don’t have a
> Cadillac, you don’t have a car.”
>
> It also confuses “speed” (an ill-defined term) with capacity, latency,
> jitter, and other factors which do matter, and ridiculously overstates
> the amount of bandwidth needed for common Internet activities. Unless,
> of course, the service is very bad, in which case you can compensate
> somewhat - not completely - by throwing more bandwidth at the problem.
>
> In short, it’s a bad decision, made by politicians who have most
> likely been deceived by corporate lobbyists, rather than the sort of
> rational decision that would be made if the FCC were an apolitical
> expert agency. Or if the Commissioners had even consulted a
> knowledgeable practicing network engineer. (Are there any engineers
> left at the FCC? Or have most of them, like Julie Knapp, retired after
> being frustratingly ignored?)
>
> For my company, a WISP, it means deploying more expensive equipment
> than I need to, when folks don’t need the capacity. (Our quality is so
> good that most of our customers peak at 5-10 Mbps of capacity - the
> data rate is still typically 200-500 Mbps - and don’t need to pay for
> more, though some do.) This depletes capital, needlessly increases the
> cost of broadband service and discourages uptake of service (we still
> see a lot of folks who rely entirely on cell phones and tethering).
> Yet another example of destructive overregulation and government
> bureaucracy. Government should stay out of the broadband business and
> quit meddling with it. It’s not competent and is doing a LOT more harm
> than good.
>
>
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