[1st-mile-nm] Sandoval County Broadband Project

[peter]

This is turning into a wonderful project

Lets see, the target audience in Cuba and along 528  ( who's total 
population is around 600 but only about 150 will get the signal which 
will be wifi strength and less ) the county threw in $1.5m they will 
throw in anther $1m more just for the signal ( Ill bet this figure will 
go up ) , no one talks about the $1m the state put into the pot making 
$3.5m that equates to spending $22,000 per user for a signal with no 
applications attached, no email, no security, nada, no network design , 
no application design, no usability exercise, no service cost 
comparison, no voip. It certainly is cheap high speed snail speed 
connectivity and really gives a new definition to the word cheap 
government wise that is.  Netlogix should make a killing on this one

 



Richard Lowenberg wrote:
> Forwarded message from subscriber Carroll Cagle:
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>
> Sandoval Revives Broadband Project
>
> Albuquerque Journal – West Side edition
> Friday, February 8, 2008
> By Rosalie Rayburn
> Journal Staff Writer
>
>     Sandoval County Commission has breathed new life into its
> problem-plagued countywide broadband project.
>     Commissioners on Thursday unanimously approved a six-month contract
> with San Diego, Calif.-based Netlogix to provide project management
> services to establish a backbone Internet link from the Sandoval County
> Judicial Complex at Idalia and N.M. 528 to Cuba.
>     The county will pay Netlogix $24,000 per month but reserves the right
> to suspend payments up to two times in the event of an unforeseeable
> delay, such as a delay in obtaining rights of way or other permits.
>     The total project is estimated to cost $144,000. The money will come
> from part of the $85 million incentive the county received for backing a
> $16 billion Intel revenue bond.
>     Netlogix will oversee management of the project. CH2MHill, an
> international technology company, will be responsible for equipment
> installation, under a separate contract, said Mike Good, Sandoval County's
> IT director.
>     County Manager Debbie Hays told the Journal she expects the CH2MHill
> contract to be approved in about two weeks.
>     Once the backbone project is completed, the next phase will be to
> build a network to distribute services to customers, Good told the Journal
> in an interview before the meeting.
>     County staff have spent about two months scrutinizing the terms of the
> contract with the help of an oversight committee composed of technology
> experts.
>     Committee member Moira Gerety, director of Computing Services at the
> University of New Mexico, told the commissioners the time spent on
> scrutiny will ensure there will be a complete record of the work and
> invoices associated with the project.
>     "We want to do it right," Gerety said.
>     The Sandoval Broadband project originally began more than three years
> ago.
>     It was supposed to provide cheap high-speed wireless Internet service
> to benefit schools, health care services and service providers throughout
> the county.
>     The county spent about $1.2 million but found the system didn't work.
>     A year ago, the state auditor launched an investigation into the
> project.
>     The county is suing the company and individuals it initially hired for
> the project.
>     In May, the county approved a $20,000 contract with Netlogix to
> conduct a survey to see what would be needed to create a working broadband
> system.
>     Netlogix, a national wireless consulting firm, has previously
> estimated it would take about $950,000 to buy and install wireless
> equipment to complete the network.
>
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