It is really quite odd that arguably the heart of high tech in the world has such poor coverage. I remember going on a visit there 10+ years ago and being shocked that the head of the development team at the company I was visiting had the best available which was a 2meg cable plan with a data cap while here in New Zealand we had adsl/vdsl to the curb unlimited for about $60USD. Then about 2 years ago we moved to 1G/500 GPON unlimited for a retail price of about $60USD. For the last year at home I’ve had unlimited 4Gb/s symmetric XGSPON for a retail price of around $105USD/month. This Fibre coverage covers something like 70% of the country and is rapidly rising. I would have thought Silicon Valley would be years ahead of a small country in the south pacific (we have to pay for all that sub sea connectivity to the USA and Australia as well, I have routers in San Jose and LA connected to Auckland). Something has gone horribly wrong to produce this outcome I would suggest.

From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+tony=wicks.co.nz@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Michael Thomas
Sent: Thursday, 17 February 2022 10:47 am
To: Josh Luthman <josh@imaginenetworksllc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

On 2/16/22 1:36 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:

What is the embarrassment?

That in the tech center of the world that we're so embarrassingly behind the times with broadband. I'm going to get fiber in the rural Sierra Nevada before Silicon Valley. In fact, I already have it, they just haven't installed the NID.

Mike