<div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>I think AZ is an outlier, and Zona Communications seems super aggressive about leveraging E-rate and USF.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 8:23 AM Mary Lou Carey <<a href="mailto:marylou@backuptelecom.com">marylou@backuptelecom.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I live 15 minutes outside my local city limits and I'm only 45 minutes <br>
from downtown Nashville. My only internet option is satellite. I pay <br>
$160 a month for a service that isn't as good as the $30 DSL service I <br>
used to have when I lived inside the city limits. That may be because <br>
I'm served by an AT&T remote office rather than the ILEC that services <br>
the areas at both ends of my street. You'd think cell service and <br>
wireless service would be better because I'm only a mile from the <br>
closest cell tower. That's not the case however. Interestingly enough no <br>
on seems to claim that tower - they all tell me I'm not in a good <br>
service area because the tower is so far away. Go figure.....so if you <br>
ask me, the people with 20-80 acres probably aren't getting much of <br>
anything because the people with an average of 5 or less acres aren't <br>
even getting decent service!<br>
<br>
My guess is it's probably going into someone's slush fund because its <br>
NOT going into providing decent service!<br>
<br>
MARY LOU CAREY<br>
BackUP Telecom Consulting<br>
Office: 615-791-9969<br>
Cell: 615-796-1111<br>
<br>
On 2020-08-23 01:18 PM, Carlos Alvarez wrote:<br>
> I'd never really looked at the trend, but wow, it's gone up 5x in 20<br>
> years. I suppose this correlates with bringing out morre rural<br>
> internet services? In the last few years, in nearby Prescott, I've<br>
> been seeing signs and ads for 100M+ service to the middle of nowhere.<br>
> Places where each house has 20-80 acres. Must be paid by this, I<br>
> assume.<br>
> <br>
> <a href="https://files.taxfoundation.org/20181210115844/FF626_3.png" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://files.taxfoundation.org/20181210115844/FF626_3.png</a><br>
> <br>
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 12:57 PM Collin Anderson<br>
> <<a href="mailto:collin@averysmallbird.com" target="_blank">collin@averysmallbird.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
>> USAC sets the contribution factor based on the needs of the USF<br>
>> programs. There's a few articles out there about how market changes<br>
>> -- e.g. decrease revenues -- have increased the rate. But these<br>
>> changes and their justifications are public records:<br>
>> <br>
> <a href="https://www.usac.org/service-providers/making-payments/contribution-factors/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.usac.org/service-providers/making-payments/contribution-factors/</a><br>
>> <br>
>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 10:24 AM Carlos Alvarez<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:caalvarez@gmail.com" target="_blank">caalvarez@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> <br>
>> I'm curious how this gets decided and changed. Is it the FCC acting<br>
>> on its own? Pushed by legislators or the white house? Does anyone<br>
>> have a say in it?<br>
>> <br>
>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 7:20 AM Mike Hammett <<a href="mailto:voiceops@ics-il.net" target="_blank">voiceops@ics-il.net</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> <br>
>> Slushfund out of the taxpayer's eyes.<br>
>> <br>
>> -----<br>
>> Mike Hammett<br>
>> Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>
>> <a href="http://www.ics-il.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.ics-il.com</a><br>
>> <br>
>> Midwest Internet Exchange<br>
>> <a href="http://www.midwest-ix.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.midwest-ix.com</a><br>
>> <br>
>> -------------------------<br>
>> <br>
>> From: "Peter Beckman" <<a href="mailto:beckman@angryox.com" target="_blank">beckman@angryox.com</a>><br>
>> To: "VoiceOps" <<a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org" target="_blank">voiceops@voiceops.org</a>><br>
>> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2020 10:15:54 PM<br>
>> Subject: [VoiceOps] FUSF is 26.5% for Q3 2020: Discuss<br>
>> <br>
>> Holy Crap. Reviewing my bills for July -- FUSF jumped from 19.6% to<br>
>> 26.5% !!!<br>
>> For Q3 2020.<br>
>> <br>
>> 1Q 2009 was 9.5%.<br>
>> <br>
>> How much is being collected and what actually is this money going<br>
>> toward?<br>
>> And WHY do they need such a high percentage?!?<br>
>> <br>
>> Discuss. (Or yell at me that this isn't the place, I couldn't find a<br>
>> voiceops-discuss@)<br>
>> <br>
>> <br>
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