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FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices

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Re: FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices

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Post by aaomidi »

giantg2 wrote: post #10
vjvjvjvjghv wrote: post #2

Seems they really want to revert everything that made the US a world leader. - Reduce science - Reduce collected data - Reduce immigration - Reduce infrastructure - Reduce adoption of EVs

What did EVs make us a leader in? If I remember right, other countries have much higher adoption.

Technically Tesla was the first major company globally starting a trend. Aka leading.

Re: FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices

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Post by giantg2 »

I think this isn't as bad as people make of out to be. The 100/20 goal is perfectly fine for the vast majority of users. The only thing really supporting the old goal of gigabit connections was fiber. I would rather see the expansion of traditional cable or even satellite to rural areas. Fiber plans tend to be expensive and mostly available in the areas that already have usable high speed options. If we really want to target overall coverage and affordability, then this does make sense.

Edit: why disagree?

Re: FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices

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Post by Cornbilly »

_--__--__ wrote: post #11

FYI to all commenters: the current FCC chair was nominated by Trump>Biden>Trump and unanimously confirmed by the Senate all 3 times.

Also, FYI to all commenters: The FCC board is required to have no more than 3 members from a single political party on the board of 5.

Re: FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices

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Post by giantg2 »

aaomidi wrote: post #13
giantg2 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What did EVs make us a leader in? If I remember right, other countries have much higher adoption.

Technically Tesla was the first major company globally starting a trend. Aka leading.

By that definition, we haven't been leading for years since the Chinese are cranking them out much faster than Tesla.

What if we want to be a world leader in satellite internet coverage? Is that a goal you support? Because that's part of what these changes are about.

Re: FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices

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Post by RedShift1 »

_--__--__ wrote: post #11

FYI to all commenters: the current FCC chair was nominated by Trump>Biden>Trump and unanimously confirmed by the Senate all 3 times.

From what I can tell senate confirmation means nothing. They ask a bunch of questions to grill them but the answers do not matter, they get confirmed anyway so it's all show to me.

Re: FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices

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Post by kemotep »

garciasn wrote: post #6
CesareBorgia wrote: post #3

This seems to be good for Starlink at the expense of the fiber providers?

Rural fiber at my lake home went from $35/mo for 100/100 to $89.95 this year. On a 12mo contract. Starlink got my business after VZW forced their 5G boxes to use 5G and not allow forced LTE usage. 5G is unusable there with 60-100/0.03. I force my phone to use LTE and all is well but 5G just does not work. I hate giving Elon money but it’s the only affordable month-to-month option now.

Where do you live? Because Starlink is double my current internet plan for half the bandwidth and at least 10x in latency.

I am not seeing a plan on Starlink’s website that is lower than $120 a month for unlimited data.

I live in rural Ohio.

Re: FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices

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Post by anonym29 »

toofy wrote: post #9

i absolutely dread the day of the enshitified internet connection.

I take it you've never lived in an area where Spectrum DOCSIS over copper coax and geostationary satellite internet were the only options available at all?
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