Tom Zachman
join:2002-12-01
Dodge City, KS
| reply to ronpin
Re: Fat pipes -- not Fat Taxes
Good idea...I always read your posts /wipes brown stain off nose\ (just kidding)
Too bad the legislators don't have a clue what their connectivity is and where it comes from...
Who wants to setup a website. www.telecommunications.splained.2.congressional.dummies.gov |
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ronpin
Imagine Reality
join:2002-12-06
Nirvana
 ·AT&T Southwest
| The Universal Service Fund might actually be an impediment to getting Fiber To The Home (FTTH). How? Most Schools have T-1 or better lines now. That bandwidth is mostly wasted outside of school hours.
The schools could could actually make money reselling that bandwidth to local FTTH overbuilders and ISP's -- unless they got their bandwidth with USF funds. It's illegal to resell bandwidth purchased with USF money (in Texas at least).
Why can't we taxpayers stipulate that private broadband providers be able to buy bandwidth from city ISD's to replace any USF funds -- where demand exists? |
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