[opendtv] Re: NTIA: National Broadband Map has Helped Chart Broadband Evol
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 07:59:59 -0400
On Aug 11, 2015, at 12:07 PM, Daniel Grimes <dan.grimes@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I find this map highly suspect. ....
I guess I am a bit of a skeptic when I anecdotally cannot verify such
statistics. But I've never been known to be the norm in any subject.
Dan
You have good reason to be skeptical. Government data is usually spun for some
objective. I just posted similar numbers from the FCC. The objective is to get
broadband into those rural areas; it was backed up with government cheese to
get companies to serve these areas, but it has not worked as planned, so as
usual, the Feds are looking at how to throw more money at the problem.
The most striking numbers in these reports are the relatively low percentages
of home that are actually paying for what the FCC now considers to be broadband
(i.e. 25/3). The FCC say 28% in rural markets and 30% in urban markets. So
about 2/3s of us with access to these speeds are not paying for them...yet.
Bert is a good example.
One must question what would happen to those 25/3 speeds, if everyone signed up
tomorrow and started watching Netflix.
Regards
Craig
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