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[ NNSquad ] FCC "High-Speed" Internet Report Released
------- Forwarded Message Subject: [IP] The FCC has released their High-Speed Internet Status report Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:23:13 -0400 From: David Farber <dave@farber.net> To: "ip" <ip@v2.listbox.com> Begin forwarded message: From: dewayne@warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks) Date: March 20, 2008 7:10:55 AM EDT To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy@warpspeed.com> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] The FCC has released their High-Speed Internet Status report [Note: This item comes from friend Ken DiPietro. DLH] From: ken <ken@new-isp.net> Date: March 20, 2008 3:49:54 AM PDT To: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com> Subject: The FCC has released their High-Speed Internet Status report. Included in this report is some pretty interesting facts, for those of us that follow this kind of stuff. There are now over 100,000,000 high speed connections (as defined by exceeding 200Kbps in one direction) in service in the United States. A little over 60,000,000 are connected to residential dwellings. Of those connections only 5.6% have a greater throughput than 25Mbps. The total number of connections that have speeds in excess of 100Mbps (in one direction) is a staggering 21,708 as opposed to Japan which has already achieved close to 100% deployment of 100Mbps. Over 95% of all lines are serviced by the duopoly. This would be the same duopoly that does not exist, according to AT&T's management. And with a level of hubris that is beyond all concept of reality, we find the FCC stating that 99% of all US ZIP Codes now have, at least, one broadband provider, a statement that Commissioner Copps called the ZIP code methodology "stunningly meaningless." Even better, roughly 85% of all ZIP Codes (estimated) to have four or more providers. And in a move that I can only term, better late than never, the FCC has decided that 200Kbps (in only on direction) is no longer a true definition of broadband) and has voted to increase that rate to 768Kbps, which coincidentally is the speed that many of the ILECs provide as entry level DSL. The FCC's report. titled, "High-Speed Services for Internet Access: Status as of June 30, 2007" can be downloaded here: <http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-280906A1.pdf> A reasonably good review of this report can be found here: <http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9898118-7.html> - ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------- End of Forwarded Message