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Rural Broadband Catches Urban
Rural Broadband Catches Urban
Rural suppliers have improved Time of Day performance considerably over the last 12 months to now match ADSL and VDSL in Urban areas.
Time of Day variances on Fixed Wireless are worse than ADSL, but the actual speeds overall are faster. TrueNet has reported Time of Day as a critical performance criteria, and ISPs serving the Rural sector have responded by matching standard connections with Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI) funded connections as shown in Chart 1 - TrueNet promotes better than 95% as excellent.
The RBI is not only resulting in significant improvements to the availability of better line speeds, but continued monitoring is ensuring capacity is consistently available to match those line speeds.
Fixed Wireless is now a viable, and successful technology in the rural space, placed between ADSL and VDSL in performance.
See the latest Rural Report
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