thanks government we love slow and expensive.
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
#22So odd that the FCC would suddenly revert all these rules which were designed to advocate for consumers. Wonder what changed recently?
Republicans are always pro-business first consumers whatever!
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#23I 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 t…
If you're laying a communications cable, you should just do fiber. It can carry any type of traffic at high data rates, and you can upgrade the speed over time by just replacing the optics at the ends rather than having to replace the whole cable. Fiber plans are only expensive if your service level is expensive, or if you have to pay to get the line run to your building
Re: FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices
#24I 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 t…
> 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
640K was "perfectly fine" for most people, too.
100/20 is barely enough for a household of 3-5 "light" users. The US already has abysmal broadband speed/bandwidth/latency metrics compared to the rest of the developed world and settling for 2010's version of "fast" in 2025 is ... not how we're going to get better.
> I would rather see the expansion of traditional cable or even satellite to rural areas
Why spend money and time to expand copper into rural areas when fiber is the same cost. it's the people/permits/labor that are $$$$. It makes no meaningful difference weather your expensive hbm crew is pulling fiber or copper and we know that copper doesn't go as fast ...
Re: FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices
#25FYI 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.
Are there any similar requirements for the Supreme Court?
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#27Earlier 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.
Yeah agreed, Tesla showed the world it was possible, but they seem to be failing to maintain their leadership position.
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#28So odd that the FCC would suddenly revert all these rules which were designed to advocate for consumers. Wonder what changed recently?
Well there was that one court ruling that said agencies have to stick to what Congress actually authorized them to do rather than having free reign to reinterpret their own authorizations however they want.
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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.
It depends where you live what you get. I was able to get $80/mo Residential Lite service which should top out at 150 but I routinely see 400+ mbit down. Latency is around 20-25ms on average for me.
My lake home is in Central MN.
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