Most households have no practical use for more than 25 megs. More is better, but let's not just throw money into a fire because of a marketing machine. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Wendel" <aaron@wholesaleinternet.net> To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Monday, May 23, 2022 1:49:13 PM Subject: Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers The Fiber Broadband Association estimates that the average US household will need more than a gig within 5 years. Why not just jump it to a gig or more? On 5/23/2022 1:40 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-higher-speed-goals-small-rural-bro...
The Federal Communications Commission voted [May 19, 2022] to seek comment on a proposal to provide additional universal service support to certain rural carriers in exchange for increasing deployment to more locations at higher speeds. The proposal would make changes to the Alternative Connect America Cost Model (A-CAM) program, with the goal of achieving widespread deployment of faster 100/20 Mbps broadband service throughout the rural areas served by rural carriers currently receiving A-CAM support.