On 5/24/2022 10:48 AM, Mitchell Tanenbaum via NANOG wrote:
I have two fixed wireless Internet connections here. One is 25/5, the
other is 35/5. There is no cable, no fiber, no cellular, not even DSL
from the phone company. That is reality in metro Denver, CO
(actually, the foothills, 25 miles from the state Capitol building).
Regarding Starlink, no, you can’t get it. I paid my deposit a year
and a half ago and I am still on the waiting list. Every time that I
get close to the date they promise, they change the promise. Maybe I
will get Starlink service some time in the future, but, not any time soon.
Oh, yeah, and 25 meg down costs $75 a month. If you want VoIP, that
is another $20+.
So not only is it slow, it is expensive too.
So yes, there still is a problem, right here in America. And not just
in the boonies.
Mitch
This brings up another issues no one is really talking about and that's
affordability. We're about to lower our price on 10G to the home to
$50/mo because that was the number the FCC would pay people who
qualified. Now they've lowered that subsidy to $30. The pandemic
exposed the fact that there are a lot of people out there that just
can't afford the current pricing structure. We give a gig away for free
with a one time install fee and we had people calling us who's kids were
at home for school and they couldn't afford the $25/mo we'd break their
$300 install into. We ended up just waiving a ton of fees during those
early COVID days.
Aaron
