On Mar 23, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Paul Graydon wrote: > On 03/23/2012 02:18 PM, Michael Painter wrote: >> Randy Bush wrote: >>> what a silly question. lining the telcos' pockets. american so called >>> 'broadband' is a joke and a scam. >>> >>> randy >> >> Really. This is from the Governor's "Hawaii Broadband Initiative" speedtest >> website: >> >> "The indication of above average or below average is based on a comparison >> of the actual test result to the current NTIA definition of broadband which >> is 768 kbps download and 200 kbps upload. Any test result above the NTIA >> definition is considered above average, and any result below is considered >> below average." >> > To be fair to the initiative at least its goal is for universal access to > 1Gbps by 2018, something they term 'ultra-high-speed' (not sure where that > definition comes from): http://hawaii.gov/gov/broadband-policy-outline/ > > Paul
Yep... That's I think the problem... Back when the initiative documents were written, 1Gbps was ulra-high-speed and 768/200k was average broadband. There is no provision for the terms to shift over time, so, the document gets more and more out of date as time goes by. I suspect that by 2018, 1Gbps will probably be above average, but, not by as much as the document probably thinks. Owen
