Re: Rich man poor man
The problem has been that the private companies won't provide services and then pay bribes to stop municipal broadband.
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When they made the change to 25/3 I knew they had made far too large of a change from the previous minimum. Going to 10/1 would have been a moderate change that ISPs would have seen as attainable and affordable. By going too far the FCC ended up with the very predictable result of ISPs going into full noncompliance and uncooperative mode. The ISPs are determined to punish the FCC for that bad decision.
The interesting thing is that once the ISPs have punished the FCC they will still be planning on deployment of new technologies that will eventually allow them to meet both the data transfer rates of 25/3 and the 100ms latency minimums. It just won't be on the FCC's planned schedules.
I do not think it is cable companies that want this so much.
It is OTA broadcasters that want to compete with cable companies.
The USofA was one of the first nations to finalize digital broadcast television standards, so they used some fairly ancient technology specifications to do so. Those nations that converted much later got to use much more efficient and advanced standards.
180 million households in the USofA sometime after 2021. $100 coupon per box. 5 boxes per household. Add in an equal amount of administrative overhead. $1000 per household. $180 billion dollars. Where are we going to get that? Reduction to two boxes per household? Still $72 billion dollars.