[1st-mile-nm] First in Broadband Mapping, North Carolina?s e-NC

Sat Aug 23 11:35:01 PDT 2008

One important point to make - even where Qwest or Windstream (see 
below) is the physical DSL provider, it is not necessary to use 
qwest.net, windstream.net or msn for the ISP.  Many other New Mexico 
ISPs offer Internet services via both Qwest and Windstream DSL and 
higher bandwidth wireline connections.

More sources for broadband connection availability and mapping in NM:

1)  Windstream serves five large areas of NM:

Espanola, Cuba, Jemez Springs and all of Rio Arriba County,
Hobbs, Eunice, Jal, Lovington and surrounding area,
Carlsbad, Loving, White City and surrounding area
Ruidoso, Capitan and surrounding area
T or C, Elephant Butte and surrounding area

http://www.windstream.com/business/broadband.aspx  - on the right 
side of the screen you can enter NM for the state and the menu will 
show communities served by Windstream which may have broadband services.

2)  www.nmecg.org is the web site for the NM Exchange Carriers Group 
- the association of rural telephone companies in NM.  All but 
Centurytel and Sacred Wind (maybe not yet - but they will) offer DSL 
or some kind of broadband in almost all of their entire service areas.

Almost all of these companies' individual web pages show where the 
service is available, and their contacts will tell you where it is 
available if it is not on the web page.

These companies are serving the most rural areas of NM extremely well.

3)  There are a few CLECs and a many wireless ISPs in rural areas 
providing their own broadband service.  These are some - in no 
particular order):

www.connectchama.com has a community wireless Internet network that 
is used by ZiaNet and maybe Ravin (I don't know if they still have 
access services) to offer wireless broadband in most of the Chama Valley.

http://www.cybermesa.com/VoiceData.htm is a CLEC providing their own 
voice and broadband Internet services from Eldorado south of Santa Fe 
to Espanola, with other locations planned.

http://www.digii.net/HighSpeed.html serves San Juan County areas with 
high speed wireless Internet.

www.kitcarson.net - Kit Carson Telecom offers wireless Internet to 
the Taos Area, Questa Area, Angel Fire Area, Eagle Nest Area, and 
Penasco Area (Vadito, Llano, Chamisal, Picuris, Rio Lucio).  They are 
also a CLEC offering fiber connectivity and other services in the Taos area.

http://www.amigo.net/cms/index.php?id=25 - provides high speed 
wireless Internet in Moriarty, Edgewood, Estancia, and Mountainair.

http://www.lobo.net/access.shtml has been offering wireless broadband 
Internet in the Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Rio Rancho and East Mountain 
areas for almost a decade.

http://www.newmex.net/web_page.php?page=services&type=wireless and 
http://www.la-tierra.net/services/ both offer high speed wireless 
Internet in Las Cruces and the surrounding area.

http://www.spinn.net/ offers High speed wireless Internet in Albuquerque

http://riolink.com/html/wireless.html offers high speed wireless 
Internet in and around the T or C and Elephant Butte areas.

http://www.uphi.net/service_areas.htm serves parts of Torrence County 
and the east mountains near Mountainair with high speed wireless Internet.

http://www.desertgatewireless.com/ serves the Las Vegas, NM area with 
wireless broadband Internet.

http://www.signalpeak.net/ serves the Silver City and the surrounding 
area including Arenas Valley, Chisholm Ranch, the Little Walnut area, 
Silver Acres, Dos Griegos, parts of Wind Canyon and the surrounding 
areas with high speed wireless Internet.

http://www.cnsp.com/Wireless/tabid/57/Default.aspx serves Santa Fe, 
Espanola, La Cienega, Las Campanas, La Tierra, Eldorado, Los Alamos, 
White Rock, Tesuque, Pojoaque, La Puebla, Nambe, Chimayo, El Valle de 
Arroyo Seco, Alcalde, Velarde, Hwy 14, Cerrillos, Galisteo, and Lamy 
and the surrounding areas with wireless broadband Internet.

http://www.dfn.com/wireless_info2.htm provides wireless broadband 
Internet in Roswell, Artesia, Dexter, Hagerman, Carlsbad and 
Surrounding areas.

http://www.leaco.net/internet/internet.htm offers high speed wireless 
Internet in Tatum, Dexter, Hagerman, Antelope Ridge, Crossroads, 
Maljamar, Hobbs, Lovington, Jal, Eunice, Carlsbad and Roswell. They 
are also a LEC providing DSL services in these areas.

http://www.keycominc.com/ doing business as Southwestern Wireless 
offers high speed wireless Internet in Roswell, Dexter, Artesia, 
Hagerman, Lake Arthur, Carlsbad, Eunice, Jal, Fort Sumner, Ruidoso, 
Capitan, Alamogordo, Tularosa, Las Cruces, Clovis, Hobbs, Tatum, 
Elida, Melrose, Portales, Kenna, Floyd, Hondo, Carazozo, "Coming 
Soon" Seminole, Denver City and many others in Southeastern New Mexico.

http://www.comcastspecial.com/state/newmexico/newmexico.html - 
Comcast offers cable Internet service in Albuquerque, Angel Fire, 
Bernalillo, Bloomfield, Cedar Crest, Cimarron, Corrales, Deming, 
Eagle Nest, El Prado, Espanola, Farmington, Gallup, Grants, Hatch, 
Hurley, Jemez Springs, Las Cruces, Las Vegas, Los Alamos, Los Lunas, 
Lovington, Mesilla, Milan, Moriarty, Navajo Dam, Nogal, Pecos, 
Portales, Questa, Ranchos De Taos, Raton, Red River, Rio Rancho, 
Santa Fe, Silver City, Socorro, Springer, Taos, and Tucumcari.

There are also other cable companies serving other NM communities 
with Cable Internet.

http://www.suddenlink.com/internet/ serves Clovis and Texico with 
cable Internet.

http://www.cableone.net/digitalcable/package.asp Cable One serves Rio 
Rancho, Roswell and Chaves County with Cable Internet.

http://timewarner.usdirect.com/timewarner/new-mexico-time-warner.html 
offers cable Internet services in many NM communities.

I am sure there are other companies that I haven't listed - only 
because I do not know of them.

Marianne Granoff
Chair, Public Affairs Committee
New Mexico Internet Professionals Association
P.O. Box 22641
Santa Fe, NM 87502
http://www.nmipa.org
505 246-4634 or 505 980-7919
granoff at zianet.com

At 08:30 AM 8/23/2008 -0600, you wrote:
>CityLink has offered to 1st-Mile the use of and to host the GIS data.
>We've invested over $40K in ESRI ArcGIS (same software these folks and
>most Muni's  are using) for our own internal needs.
>
>I agree with Josmon that having visibility on the mostly static
>infrastructure would be highly useful.
>
>While some carrier data is "proprietary", it becomes available via
>public domain when you put paint on the ground.
>
>Having the knowledge of how to get reasonably priced bits to places
>helps everyone.
>
>Internally we have the DSL service areas for Qwest DSL in Santa Fe and
>Albuquerque, along with rate/wire center boundries, parts of Qwest's
>metro fiber network, lit buildings for (qwest, twtc, brooks, verizon),
>CO locations, parts of PNM Electric and PNM Gas, some wireless
>locations/direction of coverage for (SWCP, Lobo and others).
>
>The ability to export/import to Google Earth format is available.  So
>the back end could be ESRI GeoData, with export to Google Earth data
>sets that the "public" could download.
>
>Maybe there should be a NM Telcom GIS working group that meets to
>collect and enter this info....
>
>John Osmon wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 05:46:50PM -0600, peter wrote:
> >
> >> You do not map a dynamic system with a static map they are just pretty
> >> colored lines on a piece of paper
> >
> > Wow -- that kinda throws the baby out with the bath water.
> >
> > It think the map has some valuable information.  It shows wire center
> > boundaries and what form of DSL/ATM/FrameRelay/OCx is available.  That's
> > some pretty basic information that is relatively static, so this
> > map is useful in that sense.
> >
> > The dynamic portion comes in when you want to look at the servcies
> > that are being provided on top of those underlying services.  In my
> > mind, I *want* the underlying infrastructure to be static, so that I can
> > roll any dynamic service over the top -- and trust the underlying
> > layers.
> >
> > Internet consumers want a finished packet service at a reasonable
> > cost per bit -- so from one perspective the DSL data is really the only
> > relevant data to the map.  All the other services are tariffed at rates
> > that make them unavailable to consumers directly.
> >
> > It would be *great* to see a series of maps that show availability of
> > services, and an a $/Mbps contour map -- that would let you see the
> > economic impact of bringing new services to a given area...
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