The FCC’s Technology Transitions Policy Task Force learned...
The FCC’s Technology Transitions Policy Task Force learned “many significant things” at its first workshop last month, FCC General Counsel Sean Lev wrote in a blog entry Wednesday (http://fcc.us/13vfk8d). Emerging technologies such as MegaMIMO have the potential to stitch together…
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overlapping wireless cells to increase data speeds, Lev said, and existing copper wires can provide “significantly higher speed” services using VDSL2 technology. Broadband adoption patterns vary significantly by demographics, with rural uptake lagging behind urban by 10 percent, he said. “Economic necessity alone, not regulation, will require providers to support both existing legacy technologies and new ones for a significant time,” Lev said. “Providers aren’t retiring all their legacy equipment immediately -- instead, they are generally swapping out individual pieces of equipment on independent timescales.” Wireline providers will generally keep using copper and time-division multiplex services for up to the next 10 years, which is “important to know as we consider the proper regulatory response,” Lev said.