I know what the report says and I'll stand by my statement. The consumers have voted for that with their wallets. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Conrad" <drc@virtualized.org> To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2017 9:58:19 AM Subject: Re: Free access to measurement network Mike, On Dec 16, 2017, 4:23 PM +0100, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>, wrote:
It's a consumer thing. If consumers wanted more options, they would be supporting those options with their wallets. They don’t.
The report Valdis quoted said "More than 129 million people are limited to a single provider for broadband Internet access using the FCC definition of 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload.” This suggests that consumers don’t have the option of supporting alternatives with their wallets. Regards, -drc