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<table align="center" style="empty-cells: show;" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div style="padding: 5px; overflow-x: auto;"><!-- wmLetter_head_end --><html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000; font-size:10pt;"><div>Drew,</div><div><br></div><div>The big question is: What is the difference between "advertised" speeds (what is displayed on the maps you reference) and "actual" speeds (what a consumer actually gets)?</div><div><br></div><div>I am attaching 2 graphics to demonstrate the point. </div><div><br></div><div>SAMKNOWS: I have a router provided by the FCC's SamKnows program which <span style="font-size: 10pt;">documents my ACTUAL internet speeds (what really happens when I send this email, binge watch Breaking Bad on Netflix, etc). I live in Denver and subscribe to Comcast cable modem service. Judging from the horizontal boring machine making its way around our neighborhood, I see that CenturyLink will soon knock on my door offering their gigabit per second service (that's 1,000 Mbps). In the meanwhile, this urban location gets 10X what a rural subscriber to the same provider gets.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lake County ACTUAL: This is an excerpt from Lake County, CO (Leadville, the highest town in America :) ) where volunteers collected actual speeds via a survey process. We then plotted in Google Maps. Red dots are those tests that did not meet the then-FCC definition of broadband at 4 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up. Green dots are those that ACTUALLY hit the 4 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up mark. FCC now defines broadband as 25 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up, ergo, nobody gets broadband in Lake County.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">See also <a href="http://www.mobilepulse.com">www.mobilepulse.com</a> a service that collects and maps actual speeds via smartphone app (Wi-Fi and mobile). Licenses for county governments are about $800.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Gar: What happens to all the actual speed test data collected on the DOIT web site? Do you have a separate map that displays actual speed test data collected? Layman activists could take speed test data mapped to lat/longs in Excel format and map in Google Maps. That way rural communities can determine what they ACTUALLY get.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sen Udall/other federal elected officials: Can you ask NTIA and FCC to display ACTUAL speeds gathered vs. carrier provided ADVERTISED speeds? Until that happens, I fear much of the broadband mapping effort becomes a marketing exercise for carriers.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Frank </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div>
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Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] National Broadband Statistics (We're doing OK<br>
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From: drew einhorn <<a href="mailto:drew.einhorn@gmail.com">drew.einhorn@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Wed, March 25, 2015 10:35 am<br>
To: Richard Lowenberg <<a href="mailto:rl@1st-mile.org">rl@1st-mile.org</a>><br>
Cc: 1st-Mile-NM <<a href="mailto:1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org">1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org</a>><br>
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<div dir="ltr">I started thinking about the data NM DOIT has been collecting, and started looking around. And found this: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/map_statewide.shtml">BROADBAND MAP GALLERY STATEWIDE MAPS</a>. Looks very interesting. Haven't had time to take more than a very quick look. <div><br></div><div>How well do these maps jive with your sense of the 'ground truth'?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Richard Lowenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rl@1st-mile.org" target="_blank">rl@1st-mile.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">According to yesterday's PR from the White House,<br> "98 percent of Americans nationwide are now connected to high-speed wireless Internet".<br> I wonder if the word should be "have access to" rather than are now connected to".<br> <br> And from Broadband Reports, "US connection speed has jumped 10 Mbps in the last year to 33.9 Mbps.<br> That said, the US improvements were only enough to push it to 27th among the 199 countries ranked by average downstream speed."<br> <br> <a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/US-Now-27th-Globally-With-Average-Speed-of-339-Mbps-133097" target="_blank">http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/US-Now-27th-Globally-With-Average-Speed-of-339-Mbps-133097</a><br> <br> Data sets are available at:<br> <a href="http://www.netindex.com/download/2,1/United-States/" target="_blank">http://www.netindex.com/download/2,1/United-States/</a><br> <br> While NM is still ranked near the bottom of the list of States,<br> I have deep concern about these recent statistics, which do not seem to jive with 'ground truth'.<br> While Comcast service has raised the bandwidth bar in NM and across the country,<br> they do not serve most of the State and where they do offer some significant bandwidth,<br> that bandwidth drops rapidly as service moves out to the periphery of their connected areas.<br> That is the case for all the providers, though technical details vary.<br> <br> It would be very useful to have a state conduct a more accurate broadband survey,<br> though access to the real needed data is a problem.<br> <br> RL<br> <br> <br> ---------------------------------------------------------<br> Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director<br> 1st-Mile Institute <a href="http://www.1st-mile.org" target="_blank">www.1st-mile.org</a><br> P. O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504<br> <a target="_blank" href="tel:505-603-5200" value="+15056035200">505-603-5200</a> <a target="_blank" href="mailto:rl@1st-mile.org">rl@1st-mile.org</a><br> ---------------------------------------------------------<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> 1st-mile-nm mailing list<br> <a target="_blank" href="mailto:1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org">1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org</a><br> <a href="http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm" target="_blank">http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm</a><br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Drew Einhorn<br><br>"You can see a lot by just looking." <br> -- Yogi Berra</div> </div> <hr>_______________________________________________<br>
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