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Speed Counts, Doesn't It? At a time when providers are investing billions into infrastructure to support higher broadband speeds, few current broadband subscribers know how quickly they access the Internet from home. While the realities of residential users' knowledge have little if anything to do with whether a network can support the wealth of activities and devices used today and predicted for tomorrow, the results of a Pew Research survey, released this week, could shed light on how providers should market their capabilities. After all, when asked about the download speeds for their own service, 47% of respondents had no answer. The remaining 49% (4% had no broadband) offered a range of estimates from 10 Mbps -- at 5% -- to 100Mbps or more for 12%, Pew found.
If users don't know speeds, perhaps capabilities -- such as the ability to simultaneously use multiple devices, to watch videos and surf the Internet or shop online while other family members upload content -- are more relatable than apparently esoteric megabits and gigabits. In reality, 95% of Americans have access to download speeds of 4Mbps and 94% can access speeds of 10Mbps down, according to the Federal Communications Commission "2016 Broadband Progress Report." And 85% of subscribers have access to networks capable of 100Mbps, NCTA, the Internet and Television Association said. Related posts:
— Alison Diana, Editor, UBB2020. Follow us on Twitter @UBB2020 or @alisoncdiana. |
In a flurry of activity throughout the week, Donald (DJ) LaVoy, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development at the US Department of Agriculture, and his team spent about $145.8 million in the non-urban or suburban areas of seven states.
Calix reported revenue of $120.19 million – up 4% – in Q4 2019, putting a bounce in the step of company president and CEO Carl Russo and a shine to Calix's ongoing transition from hardware vendor to a provider of platforms enabled by cloud, APIs and subscriber experience.
Looking to curtail e-waste and improve the bottom line, BT will require customers to return routers and set-top boxes, although subscribers will not have to pay a fee when they receive regular broadband equipment.
The industry standards organization is looking to ease operator pain from residential WiFi, while it also sees initiatives in connected home and other projects bear fruit.
Deploying DOCSIS 3.1 across its entire footprint gave Rogers Communications the ability to offer speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s,
contributing to a broadband segement that generated about 60% of the Canadian operator's $3.05 billion (US) in Q4 cable earnings.
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