[NNagain] On "Throttling" behaviors

[Dick Roy]

Has anyone done an analysis of the capacity of FWA systems (in
bits/sec/Hz/km^3)????  I am suspicious that the capacity falls way short of
that which cable guys have at their disposal, and that as the FWA networks
get loaded, performance is going to degrade dramatically ultimately
resulting in churn back to the cable guys.  It's very expensive to compete
with already sunk FTTH or even FTTC.  

 

RR

 

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From: Nnagain [mailto:nnagain-bounces at lists.bufferbloat.net] On Behalf Of
Livingood, Jason via Nnagain
Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2023 1:25 PM
To: Network Neutrality is back! Let´s make the technical aspects heard this
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Subject: Re: [NNagain] On "Throttling" behaviors

 

> On 10/4/23, 13:45, "Nnagain on behalf of David Lang via Nnagain"
<nnagain-bounces at lists.bufferbloat.net
<mailto:nnagain-bounces at lists.bufferbloat.net> on behalf of
nnagain at lists.bufferbloat.net <mailto:nnagain at lists.bufferbloat.net>> wrote:

 

> It's an unfortunate fact of reality that the enviornment in the US is one
where 

there is very little competition in the ISP space 

 

The SEC 10-K filings of ISPs no longer support that. Most wireline ISPs are
losing subscribers (at material levels) to one of the three new national 5G
FWA ISPs (Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T). In addition, we will in a few years see
the effects of $45B+ of grant money dedicated to underwrite new broadband
access network construction - that is also pretty material. 

 

Per https://telecoms.com/523519/growth-in-5g-fwa-kit-matches-operator-hype/

- " 5G FWA customer premises equipment shipments more than doubled to 7.4
million last year and should reach 13.8 million – that’s 86% growth – this
year "

- " The GSA survey shows overall FWA CPE shipments of 25.5 million units
last year, "

- " Statistics shared by Leichtman Research Group recently showed that
T-Mobile and Verizon together recorded the best part of 900,000 5G FWA net
adds in the second quarter of this year, significantly more than the
virtually flat cable segment and ahead of the wireline broadband market,
which lost almost 62,000 customers in the three months. "

 

JL

 

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