Wow.....so it sounds like maybe they are offering services but the
donations from the government to fund it certainly don't make it all the
way to the customer! My car loan costs less than your Gigabit ethernet!
MARY LOU CAREY
BackUP Telecom Consulting
Office: 615-791-9969
Cell: 615-796-1111
On 2020-08-24 10:43 AM, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote:
Eh. I'm out in the brush. ~5 houses in my 1.5 mile road. Gigabit
internet.
Of course it's ~$300/mo after taxes, fees, surcharges, etc...
...and they can only deliver around 350 Mbit during 'peak'
times--which is pretty much any time not between 1:30 AM and 4 AM.
A more 'reasonable' speed like 50 Mbit is still $200/mo...
Why don't I lease some of the fiber that's running about 75 feet from
my house and start providing better internet service in the area?
Regulations and start-up costs due to those regulations.
-A
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 8:24 AM Mary Lou Carey
<[email protected]> wrote:
I live 15 minutes outside my local city limits and I'm only 45
minutes
from downtown Nashville. My only internet option is satellite. I pay
$160 a month for a service that isn't as good as the $30 DSL service
I
used to have when I lived inside the city limits. That may be
because
I'm served by an AT&T remote office rather than the ILEC that
services
the areas at both ends of my street. You'd think cell service and
wireless service would be better because I'm only a mile from the
closest cell tower. That's not the case however. Interestingly
enough no
on seems to claim that tower - they all tell me I'm not in a good
service area because the tower is so far away. Go figure.....so if
you
ask me, the people with 20-80 acres probably aren't getting much of
anything because the people with an average of 5 or less acres
aren't
even getting decent service!
My guess is it's probably going into someone's slush fund because
its
NOT going into providing decent service!
MARY LOU CAREY
BackUP Telecom Consulting
Office: 615-791-9969
Cell: 615-796-1111
On 2020-08-23 01:18 PM, Carlos Alvarez wrote:
I'd never really looked at the trend, but wow, it's gone up 5x in
20
years. I suppose this correlates with bringing out morre rural
internet services? In the last few years, in nearby Prescott,
I've
been seeing signs and ads for 100M+ service to the middle of
nowhere.
Places where each house has 20-80 acres. Must be paid by this, I
assume.
https://files.taxfoundation.org/20181210115844/FF626_3.png
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 12:57 PM Collin Anderson
<[email protected]> wrote:
USAC sets the contribution factor based on the needs of the USF
programs. There's a few articles out there about how market
changes
-- e.g. decrease revenues -- have increased the rate. But these
changes and their justifications are public records:
https://www.usac.org/service-providers/making-payments/contribution-factors/
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 10:24 AM Carlos Alvarez
<[email protected]> wrote:
I'm curious how this gets decided and changed. Is it the FCC
acting
on its own? Pushed by legislators or the white house? Does
anyone
have a say in it?
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 7:20 AM Mike Hammett
<[email protected]>
wrote:
Slushfund out of the taxpayer's eyes.
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Intelligent Computing Solutions
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Midwest Internet Exchange
http://www.midwest-ix.com
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From: "Peter Beckman" <[email protected]>
To: "VoiceOps" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2020 10:15:54 PM
Subject: [VoiceOps] FUSF is 26.5% for Q3 2020: Discuss
Holy Crap. Reviewing my bills for July -- FUSF jumped from 19.6%
to
26.5% !!!
For Q3 2020.
1Q 2009 was 9.5%.
How much is being collected and what actually is this money going
toward?
And WHY do they need such a high percentage?!?
Discuss. (Or yell at me that this isn't the place, I couldn't
find a
voiceops-discuss@)
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