The times they are a changin..
From: Ken Hohhof
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 12:09 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 25Mbps
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Govt should buy people in high cost areas TV towers from the USF fund. Right
off the bat that cuts how fast they need their Internet to be, because let’s
face it, if you have free OTA TV and a DVR, something is seriously wrong with
you if you still NEED 25 Mbps of Internet video streaming on top of live and
recorded HDTV from the networks and local stations. Plus now they stand a
better chance of getting Internet from a WISP.
I really wonder what is the future of satellite TV, if most people actually get
FTTH. If they lose 90% of their customers, will they raise prices on the
remaining 10% who can’t stream TV over the Internet? Or maybe even go out of
business? Now the people who never even got 4/1 Internet are doubly screwed,
the govt succeeds in pushing both voice and TV onto the Internet, POTS goes
away, sat TV goes away, everything’s on the Internet, and it really does become
a utility and an entitlement. Oh, and I think the FCC actually wants broadcast
TV to go away also, auction the spectrum, everything goes IP, broadcast TV goes
in the dust bin of history even though now that it’s digital it’s probably the
best quality HDTV you can get.
From: cstann...@gmail.com
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 12:51 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 25Mbps
A number of our customers in trees are willing to spend a few hundred to put up
a 30-40ft tower to get above the trees, but those who need a 68ft tower are
rarely interested in paying a few $K for new.
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From: Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com>
Sender: "Af" <af-boun...@afmug.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 18:46:59 +0000
To: <af@afmug.com>
ReplyTo: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 25Mbps
Ah.
So TV is important enough to put up a tower, but internet is not. Is that the
story?
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 1/31/2015 10:43 AM, CBB - Jay Fuller wrote:
yes, you are indeed spot on sir. And you know, in this area, lots of houses
actually put up towers 30-40 years ago for TV.
----- Original Message -----
From: cstann...@gmail.com
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 25Mbps
You can offer it right now in 2.4, 3.65 or 5.8, the customers just need to
pay the money for it and to cut trees and/or buy a big tower. A few people are,
the hard part is finding them...
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From: "CBB - Jay Fuller" <par...@cyberbroadband.net>
Sender: "Af" <af-boun...@afmug.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 18:17:46 +0000
To: mailto:af@afmug.com
ReplyTo: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 25Mbps
me thinks if the FCC gave me 100 mhz from, oh, i don't know, 600 to 700
mhz, i could offer 25/3. Easily.
Give me what I want FCC!
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From: Jeremy
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 25Mbps
How many WISPs out there offer 25x3? What do you charge for it? Are
there bandwidth limits or is it unlimited? I'm trying to understand how we
could reliably provide this service without putting 5-10 customers per AP.
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Travis Johnson <t...@ida.net> wrote:
Minimum definition of "broadband" is now 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up. My
question is, if you say "up to", does that qualify? ;)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/29/fcc_sextuples_broadband_speed/
Travis
