ryzvonusef
10 months ago
If it's congested, then that's an indication that place needs Wired Broadband internet, preferably FTTH fibre but FTTN copper at the minimum.
FCC can use this as a gauge to force internet providers to offer services in these locations as part of their license, isntead of the current method which uses census blocks, iirc.
hedora
10 months ago
They need to consider SLA’s when looking at broadband.
We just got FTTH on our block, but, in 2022, the phone company’s DSL offering only achieved 1 nine for the only people I know that used it (and they switched to starlink). The current marketing materials claim three nines (SLO, not SLA), which is pretty poor.
At this point we’re all waiting a few years to see if the offering is reliable.
By comparison, in Starlink’s worst year, we got 5 nines at our place.
So, we’re happily paying 7x more for 1/10th the bandwidth than the fiber network advertises.
grecy
10 months ago
I suspect many places where it is congested already has , and this is designed to make starlink less appealing to customers that have a wired alternative.
ryzvonusef
10 months ago
From what I understand, if one person in a Census block has Fibre, FCC considers they all have fiber. (please correct me if i am wrong, but that's what I understand from various articles on this topic)
So if a census block is a dozen houses big, there could be 1 house just on the edge of a previous run, which has fiber, but 11 houses down the street where the Comcast or whichever has no interest in digging/trenching for whatever reason and thus they are stuck in dial-up land.
(From the articles, it seemed this wasn't a fake scenario but common place)
They all buy starlink and create a congestion, but they have no real alternative.
grecy
10 months ago
11 houses doesn’t make starlink congestion.