So, the mantra at the FCC is that allowing ISPs to provide non-neutral telecom
service is a good thing, because that supposedly encourages broadband
deployment. And the FCC used cooked up numbers to try to make that case, last
year. They were called out, the numbers were refigured, so what's the verdict?
This one is dated today:
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-357271A1.pdf
"The revision reflects a thorough review of the initial draft triggered by the
discovery that a company submitted drastically overstated deployment data to
the FCC."
"The revised report shows that since last year's report, the number of
Americans lacking access to a fixed terrestrial broadband connection meeting
the FCC's advanced telecommunications capability benchmark speed of 25 Mbps/3
Mbps has dropped by over 18%, from 26.1 million Americans at the end of 2016 to
21.3 million at the end of 2017. Moreover, the majority of those gaining
access to such high-speed connections, approximately 4.3 million, live in rural
America, where broadband deployment has traditionally lagged."
Yes, and although his corrupt order on allowing non-neutral ISP behavior wasn't
out yet, in 2017, the current data show that in one year, end of 2016 to end of
2017, an extra 4.8M households got at least 25/3 broadband. Is there anything
at all to crow about, FCC?
This one is dated February 2, 2018, when they were wailing about the impact of
the neutrality mandate, before the correct 2017 numbers were in.
https://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2018/db0202/FCC-18-10A1.pdf
"From 2012 to 2014, the two years preceding the Title II Order, fixed
terrestrial broadband Internet access was deployed to 29.9 million people who
never had it before, including 1 million people on Tribal lands. In the
following two years, new deployments dropped 55 percent, reaching only 13.5
million people, including only 330,000 people on Tribal lands."
Wow, and yet in 2017, that deployment rate was more than cut in half again.
What's the narrative now?
The only numbers that matter are numbers they haven't published yet, after the
2018 permission to throttle and block telecom services. There is zero
justification for any crowing, as of now. After this FCC took office, broadband
deployment slowed even more than it had previously, by their numbers.
Bert
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