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 <mary...@backuptelecom.com> 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 > > <col...@averysmallbird.com> 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 > >> <caalva...@gmail.com> 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 <voice...@ics-il.net> > >> 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" <beck...@angryox.com> > >> To: "VoiceOps" <voiceops@voiceops.org> > >> 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/ > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> _______________________________________________ > >> VoiceOps mailing list > >> VoiceOps@voiceops.org > >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> VoiceOps mailing list > >> VoiceOps@voiceops.org > >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > >> _______________________________________________ > >> VoiceOps mailing list > >> VoiceOps@voiceops.org > >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > > > > -- > > Collin David Anderson > > averysmallbird.com [1] | @cda | Washington, D.C. > > > > Links: > > ------ > > [1] http://averysmallbird.com > > _______________________________________________ > > VoiceOps mailing list > > VoiceOps@voiceops.org > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops >
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