[Bloat] Feb 12th: FCC virtual roundtable to gather public input on how to structure the new Emergency Broadband Benefit Program

[Dave Taht]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 1:39 PM Michael Richardson <mcr at sandelman.ca> wrote:
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> Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>     > It might be useful for some of us to crash this. I've always kind of
>     > thought that having a "router reclamation center" where users could
>     > drop off old, but reflashable routers, and get theirs reflashed with
>     > openwrt, might be a useful government program.
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> YES.  Like a needle exchange.
> It makes huge sense because of the pandemic (need for fq_codel), and because
> of the national security risk of these old devices.

Well, the request for comment lasts a while longer, it was the
roundtable that I'd like to at least get a question
in on. I would not mind trying to flesh out this idea with a couple
co-authors, (hint hint) for submittal to the program.

3.8b for better bandwidth for the underserved ain't scratch, and even
a tiny slice of that would go a long way 'round here.

But merely raising awareness that there is an internet problem that
can be solved within this program with huge benefits, for next to
nothing, would make me happy enough.


> Ideally, it would take any router at all, and would properly dispose of those
> devices which are deemed way too old.  (If there were 1000s of some
> unsupported model, then maybe someone would start hacking...)

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