Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-31 Thread Tyson Burris @ Internet Comm. Inc
/watch?v=JNqLSch84aQ Not sure if he is a Comcast customer though. J From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 11:12 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions Jack Shit? Is he another Comcast customer? http

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2015-01-31 Thread Chuck McCown
: mailto:t...@franklinisp.net Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 8:19 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions No one on this List or the FCC will convince me that the telco needed this to get federal funds to help them with network builds. THEY have PISSED AWAY all USF funds

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-31 Thread Tyson Burris @ Internet Comm. Inc
, January 30, 2015 2:27 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions I don't know if we can answer that question until we see how the rule is worded if and when it actually becomes a rule. bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On 1/30/2015 12:21 PM, Sterling Jacobson wrote: Even if you don�t

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-31 Thread Mike Hammett
: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions Just the cost of BLM compliance to extend fiber to a few homes in Nevada exceed $20K per home. When you do it the government way, it costs 10 times more than in reasonable. So they compensate with providing a way to serve the debt. From: Mike Hammett Sent

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-31 Thread Chuck McCown
To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions Just as WISPs have been, I think RLECs have been painted with a large brush. Many good, fewer (but too many) bad apples. Those stories of $20k+/year in subsidies per line. The reception of subsidies (of any amount) to bring

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-31 Thread Bill Prince
...@wbmfg.com *To: *af@afmug.com *Sent: *Saturday, January 31, 2015 10:12:38 AM *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions Just the cost of BLM compliance to extend fiber to a few homes in Nevada exceed $20K per home. When you do it the government way, it costs 10 times more than in reasonable

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2015-01-31 Thread Mike Hammett
10:21:19 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions People have been complaining about that for decades. Think we will make a difference here? bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On 1/31/2015 8:14 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: Seems more logical to fix the high cost process than to enable

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2015-01-31 Thread Rex-List Account
questions Jack Shit? Is he another Comcast customer? http://elliott.org/blog/hello-dummy-comcast-calls-customers-shocking-names/ From: Mike Hammett mailto:af...@ics-il.net Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 10:29 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

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2015-01-31 Thread Mike Hammett
@afmug.com Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 9:45:52 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions I don’t think the USF pool happened prior to NECA. It started with the 1996 act I believe. Before NECA ATT was in charge of sharing the bounty with the rural telcos. There was a doctrine

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-31 Thread Ken Hohhof
: Friday, January 30, 2015 11:15 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions I did not realize that. I thought that both the cable and telcos were subsidized. That makes sense why they would be opposing it then. On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Mark Radabaugh m...@amplex.net

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2015-01-31 Thread Ken Hohhof
is a different story, as Chuck notes. From: Mike Hammett Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 9:54 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions Just as WISPs have been, I think RLECs have been painted with a large brush. Many good, fewer (but too many) bad apples. Those stories

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-31 Thread Ken Hohhof
. From: Chuck McCown Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 11:01 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions I honestly believe the following: The FCC and the powerful lobbies don’t give a rat’s ass about WISPS and they wish they would die. Hell will reach a temperature 100

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-31 Thread Chuck McCown
In reality, with the subsidies that exist, rural telcos could bury fiber for telco only. From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 10:15 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions Are rural telcos willing to bury fiber and only get Internet revenue, while

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-31 Thread Chuck McCown
to bury fiber and try to attain peer status with the ILECS. Then maybe a piece of the pie could be shared. From: Mike Hammett Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 9:22 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions I didn't expect Chuck to fix it, but because something is hard

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-31 Thread Tyler Treat
...@wbmfg.commailto:ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: In reality, with the subsidies that exist, rural telcos could bury fiber for telco only. From: Ken Hohhofmailto:af...@kwisp.com Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 10:15 AM To: af@afmug.commailto:af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions Are rural telcos

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2015-01-31 Thread Chuck McCown
They are, slowly. From: Tyler Treat Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 10:34 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions Why aren't they? ___ Mangled by my iPhone. ___ Tyler Treat Corn Belt Technologies, Inc. tyler.tr

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2015-01-31 Thread Rex-List Account
questions You didn't just use the word logical in reference to anything involving our government, did you? - Original Message - From: Mike Hammett mailto:af...@ics-il.net To: af@afmug.com Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-31 Thread Glen Waldrop
You didn't just use the word logical in reference to anything involving our government, did you? - Original Message - From: Mike Hammett To: af@afmug.com Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions Seems more logical to fix

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2015-01-30 Thread Jeremy
, 2015 3:22 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions +1. They have the added complication that they are way oversubscribed compared to almost everything else. Let's not even mention latency. If broadband included something about latency (like just 200 ms

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-30 Thread Jeremy
sugar low sodium food, just a couple years after handing out pork rinds, moon pies and Jolt cola in the school lunch program. *From:* Bill Prince part15...@gmail.com *Sent:* Friday, January 30, 2015 3:22 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions +1. They have

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2015-01-30 Thread That One Guy
Jacobson *Sent:* Friday, January 30, 2015 12:21 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions Even if you don’t deliver 25Mbps as defined, can’t you just put a plan rate for 25Mbps and give it some ridiculous price that no one will ever buy, then claim broadband? I

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-30 Thread Bill Prince
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions at those sustained speeds, the only tech that could realistically deliver to the rural market right now would be satellite wouldnt it On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:46 PM, SmarterBroadband li...@smarterbroadband.com mailto:li

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2015-01-30 Thread Glen Waldrop
Doubtful. They can't sustain those speeds wide spread any better than we can. - Original Message - From: That One Guy To: af@afmug.com Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 3:12 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions at those sustained speeds, the only tech

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-30 Thread SmarterBroadband
+1 From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 12:21 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions Even if you don't deliver 25Mbps as defined, can't you just put a plan rate for 25Mbps and give it some

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-30 Thread Philip Rankin
: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions at those sustained speeds, the only tech that could realistically deliver to the rural market right now would be satellite wouldnt it On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:46 PM, SmarterBroadband li...@smarterbroadband.com wrote: +1 *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun

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2015-01-30 Thread Mathew Howard
sustain those speeds wide spread any better than we can. - Original Message - *From:* That One Guy thatoneguyst...@gmail.com *To:* af@afmug.com *Sent:* Friday, January 30, 2015 3:12 PM *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions at those sustained speeds, the only tech

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-30 Thread Ken Hohhof
years after handing out pork rinds, moon pies and Jolt cola in the school lunch program. From: Bill Prince Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 3:22 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions +1. They have the added complication that they are way oversubscribed compared

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-30 Thread Glen Waldrop
- From: Bill Prince To: af@afmug.com Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 2:27 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions I don't know if we can answer that question until we see how the rule is worded if and when it actually becomes a rule. bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On 1

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2015-01-30 Thread Jason McKemie
','af@afmug.com'); *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions +1. They have the added complication that they are way oversubscribed compared to almost everything else. Let's not even mention latency. If broadband included something about latency (like just 200 ms for instance

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-30 Thread Mark Radabaugh
fresh whole grain organic locally grown low sugar low sodium food, just a couple years after handing out pork rinds, moon pies and Jolt cola in the school lunch program. From: Bill Prince Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 3:22 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-30 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/30/15 11:39, Tyson Burris @ Internet Communications Inc wrote: 1.Is the 25Mbps classification immediate? 2.What are you NOW going to call your previously determined �broadband� service? Internet access High speed internet Turbo speed internets Faster than the other guy's internet

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-30 Thread Mike Hammett
, January 30, 2015 7:06:38 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions Doesn't this just mean if you don't offer service of at least 25mbps your area won't count as served? I'm pretty sure you can call your service whatever you damn well please. On Friday, January 30, 2015, Mark

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-30 Thread Jeremy
, January 30, 2015 3:22 PM *To:* af@afmug.com *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions +1. They have the added complication that they are way oversubscribed compared to almost everything else. Let's not even mention latency. If broadband included something about latency (like just

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-30 Thread David Milholen
*From: *Jason McKemie j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com *To: *af@afmug.com *Sent: *Friday, January 30, 2015 7:06:38 PM *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions Doesn't this just mean if you don't offer service of at least 25mbps your area won't count as served? I'm

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-30 Thread Ken Hohhof
So will that take more than 2 years? What happens if Jeb beats Hillary and picks the new FCC chairman? (Rick Perry would probably eliminate the FCC. Oops.) From: Mark Radabaugh Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 7:21 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions It doesn't

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-30 Thread David Milholen
we can. - Original Message - *From:* That One Guy mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com *To:* af@afmug.com mailto:af@afmug.com *Sent:* Friday, January 30, 2015 3:12 PM *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions at those sustained speeds

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-30 Thread Mike Hammett
: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions at those sustained speeds, the only tech that could realistically deliver to the rural market right now would be satellite wouldnt it On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:46 PM, SmarterBroadband li...@smarterbroadband.com wrote: +1 From: Af [mailto: af

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-30 Thread Ken Hohhof
Jack Shit? Is he another Comcast customer? http://elliott.org/blog/hello-dummy-comcast-calls-customers-shocking-names/ From: Mike Hammett Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 10:29 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions According to Corran, it doesn't mean jack shit yet

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-30 Thread Mike Hammett
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 11:11:35 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions Jack Shit? Is he another Comcast customer? http://elliott.org/blog/hello-dummy-comcast-calls-customers-shocking-names/ From: Mike Hammett Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 10:29 PM To: af@afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-30 Thread Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: David Milholen dmilho...@wletc.com To: af@afmug.com Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 11:21:42 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions Mike, I hope you are doing what the rest of us are doing

Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions

2015-01-30 Thread Mark Radabaugh
and Jolt cola in the school lunch program. From: Bill Prince Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 3:22 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Two FCC related questions +1. They have the added complication that they are way oversubscribed compared to almost everything else. Let's