At 11/30/2012 03:26 PM, Brian Webster wrote: >The rule as it stands now is 3 meg down and 768 up. The 4 meg down and 1 meg >up was something put in the National Broadband Plan by the white house team. >Problem with that is the National Broadband Map (of which was already spec'd >out when they wrote that plan) uses download speed tier breakouts of 3 and 6 >meg and 768 and 1.5 meg. There will be no way to actually compute the 4 meg >1 meg rule unless they change the national broadband map AND they get all >carriers to revise their reporting. The rule is not really 4 meg and 1 meg >either, it's an aggregate to 5 meg, you could be doing 3 meg down and 2 up >and meet the standard. Remember that is currently just your advertised >maximum download and upload speed. Not all of your customers have to >subscribe to that. A WISP even using 900 MHz could limit those plans to say >only 1 to 5% of the customers on an AP and technically still be within the >rules.
Yes, the FCC and the mapping folks are out of sync. So the FCC proposal says that 4/1 would officially be the new speed *but* really it's just being on the map at 3/.768, since that's the closest map speed. They call the map a lower speed "surrogate" for 4/1. If you think that's a disconnect, just try to get the FCC's Wireline [prevention of] Competition Bureau to play nice with the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. Even Abe Lincoln would have trouble getting that team of rivals to work together. -- Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ +1 617 795 2701 _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
