[1st-mile-nm] Mea Culpa and Comment

[peter]

Good points both and Marianne very well said, especially the last point 
regarding " Mega bucks to out of state consultants "

I asked several of the governors staff in my usual diplomatic vernacular 
" Why do Government Departments, and their affiliates, at all levels in 
NM contract with out of state and sometimes out of country companies and 
as a result get abysmal results when this state has some of the top IT 
talents in the world "
The response was enlightening " Local sources and talents are too 
pragmatic whereas out of state and country companies come without local 
perspectives and as a result a better vision plan "

So thats all right then us poor locals do not want to mess up our 
neighborhood and KNOW we have to live with what we build whereas the OOS 
genius don't.

Last point in the set again to Marianne,  The primary telco she talks 
about gets its directives from Colorado " isn't that a shrewed form of 
economic warfare ? "

Last last point: At last weeks Friam meeting, when I explained to the 
group the issues and challenges raised in the mea culpa post,  regarding 
project clarity and visualization relating to economic development  with 
I2 / LMDR  / SBB and more. Most agreed that the chances of any of the 
major entities involved responding to such a logical request was 
unlikely and so a group of us are going to wait the 30 days and then 
respond in kind and SHOW how it can be done.

( : ( : pete

Peter Baston

*IDEAS*

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Marianne Granoff wrote:
> I agree with almost everything that you have said about NLR and I2,
> but I have to take exception to this last paragraph.  A great many
> of the rural areas of our state have more than adequate fiber
> deployment because the rural phone providers in this state have
> invested in fiber deployment for over 20 years.  For the most part,
> these rural LECs put their customers first.  On the other hand, some
> phone companies with dense population centers in NM put their money
> in 1) other states, 2) paying attorneys to fight regulation, 3)
> paying SEC fines for past bad behavior, 4) paying their high-priced
> executives' defense attorneys in criminal lawsuits, 5) paying for
> expensive media advertising saying how much better they are, 6) paying
> lobbyists to overturn consumer-oriented regulation at the State and
> Federal level, and 7) paying attorneys to fight with their customers.
>
> The challenge is not to "push" network services to the edge.  The
> challenge is to understand that the same services can be had in rural
> areas of NM today, but that such services will cost much more because
> the cost per person is more in rural areas.  I would offer that the
> solutions can be found by inviting the rural LECs to partner in some
> innovative ways instead of paying out-of-state consultants mega-bucks
> to find out what exists.
>
> I have never had a rural LEC in NM tell me I could not order a T1/DS1
> or a T3/DS3 (usually provisioned on fiber).  Our urban phone company
> has responded that they cannot provide even a DS1 on more than one
> occasion, unless I want to pay "construction costs".
>
> My two cents.
>
> Marianne Granoff
> NM Internet Professionals Association
>
>  
>
> At 08:34 AM 2/12/2008 -0700, Arthur Maccabe wrote:
>
>> In the end, it's critical that New Mexico move forward in building 
>> adequate communication infrastructure.  This is far more important in 
>> New Mexico than in our neighboring states like Arizona or Utah where 
>> population is much more centralized and they tend to ignore the rural 
>> parts of the state.  I like to think  of our challenge as the need to 
>> push (network) services to the edge.  As we go through this process, 
>> there will be false starts.  We can spend our time complaining about 
>> the problems that we have run into, or we can try to learn from 
>> failures and move on -- there's clearly a lot more to do.
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