[NNagain] The non-death of DSL
rjmcmahon
rjmcmahon at rjmcmahon.com
Sat Oct 7 20:44:45 EDT 2023
The history of TV is also informative. The NYC "nationals" like NBC won
by controlling the expensive part, quality content production supported
by ads. It seemed obvious that a local could win by inserting their own
ads and ignoring those from NBC as an example. Broadcast rights stopped
that and local broadcasters all over the country were fated to be
affiliates.
The FCC should be concerned about content rights payments and that
fairness more than ISP bit fairness and priorities. All the content is
end to end encrypted so the last mile OSPs aren't the right place to
manage an essential function like access to information, news &
knowledge. They're basically barking up the wrong tree, similar to the
whole 1996 Telco Act which was backwards looking legislation.
Bob
> I'm ok with letting the local loop go along with the dial up MODEMs.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dial_up_modem_noises.ogg Technology
> marches on. Today, WiFi does that 30 second training tone in 4 usecs
> per every transmit and a WiFi is rated at 2.5Gb/s per spatial stream,
> with two radios per FEM being common. Three FEMs per device which
> enables MLO and lower latency, first TXOP win goes. CMOS radio density
> is also improving too. I'm not really interested in going backwards
> per DSL/CLEC nostalgia.
>
> I'm not ok with the FCC allowing Rupert Murdoch, not even a native
> born U.S. citizen, using our "FCC regulated" broadcast media against
> our own Republic. The FCC complained when Janet Jackson had a breast
> mishap during a Superbowl but nada since a full blown insurrection
> where people were killed and maimed, denying an election.
>
> Maybe some priorities are in order for the FCC five?
>
> Title II is basically common carriage. I think it was Bruce Kuschnick
> https://kushnickbruce.medium.com/ who would write about how regulators
> required the RBOCs to invest in fiber for the local loop per their
> rate regulations but it never happened. Even after decades of trying.
>
> We also had the 2000 dot com bubble where money was cheap and much
> fiber was deployed, but still not in the local loops except for FiOS.
> I think it is the planar light wave circuit that's enabled more PON
> today. That combined with FDX & DAAC allows the contract carriage
> wired cos to keep improving their OSPs. Adding title II burden's to
> them seems a mistake. I shudder if we burden our wired access and in
> turn favor the RBOC's FWA. That seems a big mistake despite all the
> lobbyists arguing otherwise. The unlicensed spectrum engineers can win
> by a lot but the system needs OSP wires too and these companies need
> to be able to compete fairly despite so much misinformation.
>
> Disclaimer: All these are my opinions and don't represent those of my
> employer.
>
> Bob
>
>
>> Sorry they abandoned your local loop.
>>
>> Timing is everything when discussing the RBOCs, CLECS, DSL ISPs and
>> the abandonment of the copper plant.
>>
>> The CLEC DSL ISPs started disappearing after the CLEC equal access
>> rules where changed in 2004/2005. The RBOCs started abandoning their
>> copper plant in earnest in the mid 2010s.
>>
>> I would argue that the RBOCs decided to abandon their copper plant
>> because of the high cost to upgrade it, especially given the under
>> investment in maintenance, and not because of Title II regulations.
>> Investment spending on CapEx, especially for maintenance, hurts the
>> stock price. Not spending CapEx and taking a asset tax write-off
>> raises the stock price. Eating your seed cord might be good for the
>> quarterly stock price, but is bad in the long term. But the exec and
>> Wall Street operate based on IBGYBG (I'll be gone. You'll be gone.)
>>
>>
>>
>> ---- On Sat, 07 Oct 2023 18:13:07 -0400 rjmcmahon wrote ---
>> > Everybody abandoned my local loop. Twisted pair from multiple
>> decades
>> > ago into antiquated, windowless COs with punch blocks, with no
>> space nor
>> > latency advantage for colocated content & compute, seems to have
>> killed
>> > it off. I suspect in some towns one can buy out the local loop
>> copper
>> > with just a promise of maintenance. The whole CLEC open the loop to
>> > competitive access seems to have failed per costs, antiquated
>> > technology, limited colocation, an outdated waveguide (otherwise
>> things
>> > like CDDI would have won over Cat 5), and market reasons. The early
>> ISPs
>> > didn't collocate, they bought T1s and E1s and connected the TDM to
>> > statistical multiplexing - no major investment there either.
>> >
>> > The RBOCs, SBC (now AT&T) & and VZ went to contract carriage and
>> > wireless largely because of the burdens of title II per regulators
>> not
>> > being able to create an investment into the OSPs. The 2000 blow up
>> was
>> > kinda real.
>> >
>> > She starts out by complaining about trying to place her WiFi in the
>> > right place. That's like trying to share a flashlight. She has
>> access to
>> > the FCC technology group full of capable engineers. They should
>> have
>> > told her to install some structured wire, place more APs, set the
>> > carrier and turn down the power. My wife works in the garden now
>> using
>> > the garden AP SSID with no issues. My daughter got her own carrier
>> too
>> > per here Dad dedicating a front end module for her distance
>> learning
>> > needs. I think her story to justify title II regulation is a bit
>> made
>> > up.
>> >
>> > Also, communications have been essential back before the rural free
>> > delivery of mail in 1896. Nothing new here other than hyperbole to
>> > justify a 5 member commission acting as the single federal
>> regulator
>> > over 140M households and 33M businesses, almost none of which have
>> any
>> > idea about the complexities of the internet. I'm not buying it and
>> don't
>> > want to hand the keys to the FCC who couldn't protect journalism
>> nor
>> > privacy. Maybe start there, looking at what they didn't do versus
>> > blaming contract carriage for a distraction?
>> >
>> >
>> https://about.usps.com/who/profile/history/rural-free-delivery.htm#:~:text=On%20October%201%2C%201896%2C%20rural,were%20operating%20in%2029%20states.
>> >
>> > Bob
>> > > My understanding, though I am not 100% certain, is that the baby
>> bells
>> > > lobbied to have the CLEC equal access provisions revoked/gutted.
>> > > Before this, the telephone companies were required to provide
>> access
>> > > to the "last mile" of the copper lines and the switches at
>> wholesale
>> > > costs. Once the equal access provisions were removed, the
>> telephone
>> > > companies started charging the small phone and DSL providers
>> close to
>> > > the retail price for access. The CLEC DSL providers could not
>> stay in
>> > > business when they charged a customer $35 / month for Internet
>> service
>> > > while the telephone company charged the DSL ISP $35 / month for
>> > > access.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > ---- On Sat, 07 Oct 2023 17:22:10 -0400 Dave Taht via Nnagain
>> wrote
>> > > ---
>> > > > I have a lot to unpack from this:
>> > > >
>> > > > https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-397257A1.pdf
>> > > >
>> > > > the first two on my mind from 2005 are: "FCC adopted its first
>> open
>> > > > internet policy" and "Competitiveness" As best as I recall,
>> (and
>> > > > please correct me), this led essentially to the departure of
>> all the
>> > > > 3rd party DSL providers from the field. I had found something
>> > > > referencing this interpretation that I cannot find right now,
>> but I
>> > > do
>> > > > clearly remember all the DSL services you could buy from in
>> the
>> > > early
>> > > > 00s, and how few you can buy from now. Obviously there are
>> many
>> > > other
>> > > > possible root causes.
>> > > >
>> > > > DSL continued to get better and evolve, but it definately
>> suffers
>> > > from
>> > > > many reports of degraded copper quality, but does an estimate
>> exist
>> > > > for how much working DSL is left?
>> > > >
>> > > > Q0) How much DSL is in the EU?
>> > > > Q1) How much DSL is left in the USA?
>> > > > Q2) What form is it? (VDSL, etc?)
>> > > >
>> > > > Did competition in DSL vanish because of or not of an FCC
>> related
>> > > order?
>> > > >
>> > > > --
>> > > > Oct 30:
>> > >
>> https://netdevconf.info/0x17/news/the-maestro-and-the-music-bof.html
>> > > > Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos
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