Re: [VoiceOps] FUSF is 26.5% for Q3 2020: Discuss

2020-08-24 Thread Mike Johnston
If you were to install new facilities to a subscriber in a green field 
deployment, what technology would you use?  Fiber, right? Once that 
fiber is installed, what speed packages are available? All the way to at 
least gigabit, right?


Yes, that means that some very rural areas are able to get gigabit while 
many urban areas can not.  But that is more-so a fault of the facilities 
in the urban areas.  They are often copper based (coax and twisted pair) 
that was installed decades ago. Copper facilities struggle to achieve 
gigabit speeds, at least past a very short distance.  More commonly the 
speeds are in just the double digits.


When ISPs are deciding where to install new fiber, un-served areas, such 
as the rural areas being discussed, are usually prioritized above those 
that are already served by cable and DSL. If you have enough resources 
to install fiber to only so many new subscribers in a given year, would 
you upgrade existing urban customers to fiber, most of which can already 
achieve 50Mbps+, or would you add new rural subscribers, most of which 
currently use satellite or dialup?  The later is a popular choice.  
However, I realize the optics are bad from the perspective of urban 
subscribers.


On 2020-08-24 16:45, Mary Lou Carey wrote:

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! 


That is not a fair comparison.  Very few people currently require 
gigabit Internet.  I bet the cost for 50/50 is less than your car loan.  
Maybe a better comparison would be the cost of gigabit to the monthly 
cost of a loan for a Rolls-Royce?


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Re: [VoiceOps] FUSF is 26.5% for Q3 2020: Discuss

2020-08-24 Thread Mary Lou Carey
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-

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
 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 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-

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
 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
 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



wrote:

Slushfund out of the taxpayer's eyes.

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From: "Peter Beckman" 
To: "VoiceOps" 
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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Re: [VoiceOps] FUSF is 26.5% for Q3 2020: Discuss

2020-08-24 Thread Carlos Alvarez
That's what surprised me.  There I was in my Jeep, traipsing across terrain
that mostly required a Jeep, seeing a house every five minutes.  But there
were signs on this "road" saying "100 MBPS+ internet now available, call
us!"  And sure enough, talking to a rancher, he gets well over 100 x 20.

I think AZ is an outlier, and Zona Communications seems super aggressive
about leveraging E-rate and USF.

Oh...now this is funny...  I live too close to the city to get their
gigabit symmetrical service.  I am just far enough outside the city that I
can't get the city's gig service.  But I do get 900x35 cable service for
$120.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 8:23 AM Mary Lou Carey 
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 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-
>
> 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
> >  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
> >>  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 
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Slushfund out of the taxpayer's eyes.
> >>
> >> -----
> >> Mike Hammett
> >> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> >> http://www.ics-il.com
> >>
> >> Midwest Internet Exchange
> >> http://www.midwest-ix.com
> >>
> >> -
> >>
> >> From: "Peter Beckman" 
> >> To: "VoiceOps" 
> >> 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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> >> Internet Guy
> >> beck...@angryox.com
> >> http://www.angryox.com/
> >>
> >
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Re: [VoiceOps] FUSF is 26.5% for Q3 2020: Discuss

2020-08-24 Thread Aaron C. de Bruyn via VoiceOps
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 
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 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-
>
> 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
> >  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
> >>  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 
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Slushfund out of the taxpayer's eyes.
> >>
> >> -
> >> Mike Hammett
> >> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> >> http://www.ics-il.com
> >>
> >> Midwest Internet Exchange
> >> http://www.midwest-ix.com
> >>
> >> -
> >>
> >> From: "Peter Beckman" 
> >> To: "VoiceOps" 
> >> 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@)
> >>
> >>
> >
> ---
> >> Peter Beckman
> >> Internet Guy
> >> beck...@angryox.com
> >> http://www.angryox.com/
> >>
> >
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Re: [VoiceOps] FUSF is 26.5% for Q3 2020: Discuss

2020-08-24 Thread Mary Lou Carey
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 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-

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
 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
 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 
wrote:

Slushfund out of the taxpayer's eyes.

-
Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com

Midwest Internet Exchange
http://www.midwest-ix.com

-

From: "Peter Beckman" 
To: "VoiceOps" 
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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Re: [VoiceOps] FUSF is 26.5% for Q3 2020: Discuss

2020-08-23 Thread Carlos Alvarez
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 
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 
> 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  wrote:
>>
>>> Slushfund out of the taxpayer's eyes.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -
>>> Mike Hammett
>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>>> http://www.ics-il.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Midwest Internet Exchange
>>> http://www.midwest-ix.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> *From: *"Peter Beckman" 
>>> *To: *"VoiceOps" 
>>> *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@)
>>>
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Peter Beckman  Internet
>>> Guy
>>> beck...@angryox.com
>>> http://www.angryox.com/
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Re: [VoiceOps] FUSF is 26.5% for Q3 2020: Discuss

2020-08-22 Thread Collin Anderson
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  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  wrote:
>
>> Slushfund out of the taxpayer's eyes.
>>
>>
>>
>> -
>> Mike Hammett
>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>> http://www.ics-il.com
>>
>>
>>
>> Midwest Internet Exchange
>> http://www.midwest-ix.com
>>
>>
>>
>> ------
>> *From: *"Peter Beckman" 
>> *To: *"VoiceOps" 
>> *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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>> Guy
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>> http://www.angryox.com/
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Re: [VoiceOps] FUSF is 26.5% for Q3 2020: Discuss

2020-08-22 Thread Carlos Alvarez
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  wrote:

> Slushfund out of the taxpayer's eyes.
>
>
>
> -
> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> http://www.ics-il.com
>
>
>
> Midwest Internet Exchange
> http://www.midwest-ix.com
>
>
>
> --
> *From: *"Peter Beckman" 
> *To: *"VoiceOps" 
> *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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> beck...@angryox.com
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Re: [VoiceOps] FUSF is 26.5% for Q3 2020: Discuss

2020-08-22 Thread Mike Hammett
Slushfund out of the taxpayer's eyes. 




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From: "Peter Beckman"  
To: "VoiceOps"  
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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[VoiceOps] FUSF is 26.5% for Q3 2020: Discuss

2020-08-21 Thread Peter Beckman

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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