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FCC To Probe Whether Carriers Gave Inaccurate Broadband Coverage Data (zdnet.com)
The FCC is launching an investigation into whether one or more major carriers gave the agency inaccurate maps of their broadband coverage, violating the rules of an initiative that provides subsidies for rural coverage. ZDNet reports: The initiative, called the Mobility Fund Phase II program "can play a key role in extending high-speed Internet access to rural areas across America," he continued. "In order to reach those areas, it's critical that we know where access is and where it is not."
The initiative is reallocating $4.5 billion in previously-approved funding to bring high-speed mobile broadband service to rural Americans over the course of 10 years. The agency is using a competitive reverse auction to distribute the funds to private providers. To determine eligibility, mobile providers were required to submit current, standardized coverage data.
The initiative is reallocating $4.5 billion in previously-approved funding to bring high-speed mobile broadband service to rural Americans over the course of 10 years. The agency is using a competitive reverse auction to distribute the funds to private providers. To determine eligibility, mobile providers were required to submit current, standardized coverage data.
1) Get a Magic 8-ball.
2) Remove the inside octagonal die.
3) Paint on every surface "All signs point to YES".
4) Re-insert, and shake for answer.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
There are the three laws of telcoms:
They will:
1. Overpromise
2. Underdeliver
3. Overcharge
Corporatism != Free Market
Oh it's easy - anyplace that votes Trump en-masse ,doesn't need the net as they lower the average iq of merica.
I don't even have to look at the broadband maps to tell you they are hopelessly optimistic.
I don't even have to look at the broadband maps to tell you they are hopelessly optimistic.
If you zoom out far enough in coverage maps, everything is fine. There is a limit on how far you can zoom in though.
As to why the FCC accepted and didn't verify the accuracy of the "providers" data, that is a question some congressional investigatory body should dig into.
Is there any way I can get a chunk of the 4.5 billion available for rural broadband? I promise to do just as well as any existing corporate provider has done thus-far.
Yes, they did. Everyone knows this.
Next, they'll tell me I don't really have 4G LTE everywhere in my state.
The last map I saw showed most of Seattle had broadband coverage. We all know that is a lie since the city doesn't force Comcast to provide service to their entire monopoly area. Too many people here are still stuck with dial-up or ISDN with per minute charges.
Yes, but the Internet flourished despite Clinton's and Obama's attempts to kill it. Both pushed for higher universal service taxes, but reduced the requirements to spend that money on upgrades.
I doubt you saw that since so little of the Seattle city limits has broadband.
But most cities aren't nearly as anti-Internet as Seattle that has the wife of a Microsoft executive on the city council.
I bet for the later.
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Of _course_ not. Inaccurate you say? They're completely accurate. Oh sorry, but they're some old ones I grabbed by mistake. Here's one that's a month newer, that should be good enough to get by, right? (Hmph, I didn't realize we had a broadband customer back in the 1900s.)
If not, please let us know and we'll keep feeding you an ever-so-slightly-updated map Every Single Time until you finally accept one. Oh, and if your request gets lost in the email -- well that just happens occasionally, doesn't it?
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
My companies had a very simple rule about lying:
We do not lie, cheat or steal or tolerate those who do.
(Borrowed from Texas A&M)
One time a new employee didn't know better and told the customer there was "a hard drive problem" when actually we screwed up. I let him know that if he lied again, he'd be be immediately fired. Then I called the customer and explained that we had in fact messed up.
So no, not "all companies" are the same, because all people are not the same. Companies do what the leaders establish as the company way.
If the leaders of an organization use funds from the organization's charity arm primarily to fund their own travel and pay themselves a large salary for running the charity, that type of thing establishes a culture and the organization will be crooked from top to bottom. If the leaders make a habit of lying to the press, everyone in the organization will lie to each other - especially to the leaders. On the other hand, if the leader writes a personal check to buy an old computer that the company is throwing away (buying it at the appropriate garage sale price), then makes sure that $25 is properly reported for tax purposes, that sets a tone of honesty and absolute integrity for the company.
Some people may not like to work in my companies, or work with me, because I'm strict about telling the truth, even when the truth is ugly. That's okay, they can go work for a car dealer or politician. We don't want them working in my companies.
I know of exact street corners where there's 3 bars of LTE with no data, or texting or phone service. Verizon lies not just on their maps but on what they tell the damn phones to display.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Probably for the same reason our ancestors make exactly the same choice with mail delivery, universal electrification and universal phone service.
shut up apk
Literally everyone I have ever dealt with, from individuals to large corporations has done the opposite. You appear to be one of the dying breed of people of integrity.
This. You want perspectives to change in these areas? Give them exposure to the outside world. In a lot of cases, it's a cure for xenophobia if treatment it's started early.
It's obvious when you look at the maps. If you're at the fringes of reception on a 4G tower, you're marked as 4G. Even if your signal strength and SNR are barely good enough for dial up speeds, it's happening with 4G tech. And just past that fringe, there's a hard cut off.
Gfy has lots of posts saying "great product, sometimes support is slow". Some of those posts are from *me*. You'll never find me saying "fast support", because they wouldn't have been true.
Phatservers had fast support, and knew our products, so that's why we discussed teaming up with them to have them do the support for those products. Because yeah, sometimes we weren't quick with support. The first step to fixing that would be honestly acknowledging the problem. I also asked them about about flying out to watch how they do support, see their process first hand. In the end, we arranged to give four different companies the tools and training to do the support - two companies supported their own customers who uses our products along with products and services from that company, tier 1 support went to a dedicated support company lead by a former employee of mine, and we were tier 2 support.
With our hosting, we explicitly told people that if you need a lot of support, you don't want to host with us; there were other companies we'd suggest. Customers who would want to host with us would be those who valued expertise and security more than they valued quick support.
I never said we were perfect in every way. We were *honest* about our strengths and weaknesses.
That worked pretty well for us and for customers. Unhappy customers take up too mich time and can ruin your day, so I didn't *want* "more customers" if they were going to be unhappy customers. 99.9% of our customers were happy because they chose us knowing our weaknesses. We had already told them, if immediate 24/7 support is the most important thing to you, go pay 10 times as much for Phantom Frog. Phantom Frog has better support, and probably needs more support, we'd tell them. If you don't want to call us all the time, and you don't want to NEED to call, because the product "just works", then you might like us.
If they include such places in the coverage map then it's misleading as charged. (it's not simply my phone it's everyone in the building, android, iphone, blackberry...)
Additionally, within milliseconds of the first handshake both ends should have enough to know what the connection is really going to support. Not a single person feels those bars mean antenna voltages, they think they mean reception quality.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
I thought that, given previous headlines, when the FCC is doing something, Ajit Pai is personally responsible. Is that not the case here?
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
...is a commission. Commissions are designed to destroy anything it probes. That's how commissions work.
See subject: I wouldn't give raymorris guff unless he did me 1st & I respect him since he's done a kernel patch @ least for Linux. Unlike most here the guy does good things so I can respect anyone who does that.
* Your PITIFUL trying to "frame me" FAILS when I show up to put a pusscake WEEZIL like YOU in your place - the shithole where YOUR KIND belongs, you little no good shithead fucker.
APK
P.S.=> ... & I certainly don't respect a NO BALLS do-NOTHING "ne'er-do-well" OBVIOUS LOSER like you, that's for sure (nobody does or can, as anyone can "hide" behind UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts like a PUNK, like you, does)... apk
See subject: You project YOU are worthless & a troll that lives under a bridge (lol). I bought my home & not from my mother, you lying moron.
APK
P.S.=> Nobody "takes care of me" BUT me & I do a very good job of it - even "TAKING CARE" of scumbag punks like YOU that STALK me like cowards lying about me by PUTTING YOU & "your kind" where YOU belong - in the sewer... apk