Video: Wilson NC – a muni-broadband success story #broadband #muni #fiber
Guy Daniels, of TelecomTV, reports from Wilson NC, a city that decided to build its own fiber network to stimulate the economy and create jobs in the ICT sector.
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cbemerine 5:26 pm on 11/27/2010 Permalink |
Thank you Guy for covering this fantastic and far sighted story. My guess is that businesses will respond and seriously consider relocating to cities and communities that follow Wilson’s lead and put in Fiber To The Home (FTTH). Thus communities with FTTH will recover faster than other communities over the next 3 to 5 years in America.
And we are talking all the way to and INTO the home, any other solution is a waste of time and money.
When Google announces their five cities in 2011 there will be just over 30 communities in the USA offering bi-directional synchronous Fiber broadband to the home. EPB has been working since the 1990s to give birth to their FTTH offerings.
This map shows you those communities: http://sn.im/1axal4 (In case other Americans are considering where to move to in order to find opportunity for themselves and their families.)
Most consumers simply do not know that their supposed broadband is restricted by their provider to below the FCC definition of broadband, 768Kbps. (Admittedly 100Mbps/100Mbps should have been the standard in 2000 and 768Kbps is very out of date with reality) Speed Tests lie and deceive, they just show you that you have the “chance” to get that speed. Those of us running DD-WRT, OpenWRT and Tomato firmware on a supported firewall/router see our actual bandwidth in real time. We see the lie for what it is. It is not uncommon (though it should be) to see a marketing promise of 16Mbps/2Mbps throttled to less than 40Kbps/10Kbps.
It should be against the law for those providers to call their service broadband if they do not meet their marketing bandwidth promises/targets at least 99.9% of the time. There is a solution, its called synchronous or bi-directional broadband…simply put the same speed upstream as downstream. That map shows you the communities that offer synchronous service. At best its false advertising, at worse it probably violates RICO statutes and should be criminal.
Thus is the state of broadband in America as of November 27, 2010! Sad, very sad!