[1st-mile-nm] Good letter to the journal by TJ

[peter]

/Sunday, February 3, 2008

Letters to the Editor Albuquerque Journal , Santa Fe / North

/ / State Still Lacks In Connectivity
    Re: the Journal's Jan. 28 story, "New Mexico's New Supercomputer 
Unveiled":
    This is, indeed, a positive step for the state, and we are grateful 
to the team and legislators who took the initiative to make this public 
investment for New Mexico.
    That said, simply having the supercomputer is only half a loaf.
    New Mexico woefully lacks a fully articulated and financed policy to 
bring digital connectivity to every New Mexican. Until a rancher in Jal, 
a boutique-food farmer in Dixon or a weaver on Navajo lands is on the 
same digital highway as Los Alamos National Laboratory, we will continue 
to fall behind nations such as Korea in terms of innovation, creativity 
and economic growth.
    That connectivity should permit the up-and-down exchange of digital 
data at 1 gigabyte per second over open-access fiber optics, not the 
phony definition of "broadband" as set by the FCC or commercial interests.
    We should seek The Three 100s: 100 percent of the people have access 
to it; 100 percent have the digital data, tools and communications they 
need; and 100 percent of the time.
    Tom Johnson
    Santa Fe/

Tom the only thing I will add to your three 100s is one more 100 
megabytes up and down. Several years ago I asked Bill Richardson where 
is the states blueprint for bandwidth and connectivity for the next 5 / 
20 years and how the lack of one would cripple our economy and he 
referred me to one of his team who immediately wanted to know how we 
would get broadband connectivity directly to homeless people and he 
stuck there, go figure and when I mentioned libraries / schools he 
called me elitist. No short term or long term plan, nada and I bet its 
not improved to date. Guess they all have pensions, bonuses and payola 
from Qwest and Comcast.

( : ( : pete
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Peter Baston

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