[1st-mile-nm] Call it what is

[peter]

Corrected post / thanks for the compliments and feedback

peter wrote:
> One of the major hurdles, that will have to be overcome, to achieve 
> REAL first mile connectivity, and hence long term high speed broadband 
> goals is to for once and forever align storage calculations with 
> transmission calculations.
>
> We store digital data in megabytes and gigabytes and now terrabytes 
> and soon petabytes but when this same data is transfered to anything 
> the speed is measured in bits or 1/ 10 of the storage calculations, 
> which are now transmitted measured in megabits = 1/10 megabyte / 
> gigabit etc.
>
> This enables the larger telcos to constantly  baffle washington 
> claiming that current and future targets are just fine thank you, 
> whats all the fuss about because they are purposely clouding the issue 
> with stupid math
>
> The IT industry is the only one in the world that measures is storage 
> capacity in one calculation and then measures the movement of the same 
> by dividing the factor by 10.
>
> This is like saying my car gets 250 milobits to the gallon or I walked 
> 150 milobits today or my car cruises at 800 milobits per hour and is 
> utterly insane
>
> As a result we have idiotic companies claiming Broadband service 
> supplying Kilobyte ( Calling them megabit ) sluggish connections and 
> charging people for through the wazzo.
>
> Having just completed a presentation to senior government officials 
> who staunchly defended the point that a megabyte is the same as a 
> megabit ( ably assisted by Qwest / ATT consultants ) I am constantly 
> stunned at the amount of government officials and beuro planners 
> regulating this industry and hence a huge amount of the public at 
> large who flat out do not understand this. Hence the long term policy 
> based on these decisions is totally doomed to fail.
>
> Don't believe me, call up any two senior government bureaucrats you 
> know and check it out.
>
> We will never make the world understand what a phenomenal problem we 
> have in connectivity unless this issue is once and for all tackled.
>
> One common measurement for the storage and transmission of data period 
> " the BYTE "
>
> ( : ( : pete
>
> -- 
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> Peter Baston
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Peter Baston

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