From rl at 1st-mile.com  Tue Jan 12 16:29:18 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:29:18 -0800
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NEW MEXICO AWARDED NTIA GRANT FOR BROADBAND MAPPING &
	PLANNING
Message-ID: <20100112162918.375ebofdj4w8ooc8@www2.dcn.org>

NEW MEXICO AWARDED NTIA GRANT FOR BROADBAND MAPPING & PLANNING

NTIA has awarded the New Mexico Department of Information Technology
approximately $1.4 million for broadband data collection and mapping activities
over a two-year period and $500,000 for broadband planning activities over a
five-year period in New Mexico, bringing the total grant award to approximately
$1.9 million. The Department of Information Technology is the designated entity
for the State of New Mexico.

New Mexico is one of ten states to have awards announced today.   The State
Broadband Data and Development Grant Program is a matching grant program that
implements the joint purposes of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and
the Broadband Data Improvement Act (BDIA). The program is providing grants to
assist states or their designees in gathering and verifying state-specific data
on the availability, speed, location, and technology type of broadband services.
 The data they collect and compile will also be used to develop publicly
available state-wide broadband maps and to inform the comprehensive,
interactive, and searchable national broadband map that NTIA is required by the
Recovery Act to create and make publicly available by February 17, 2011.

http://www.ntia.doc.gov


-- 
Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
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From bharris at nmag.gov  Wed Jan 13 09:13:01 2010
From: bharris at nmag.gov (Harris, Brian)
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:13:01 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NEW MEXICO AWARDED NTIA GRANT FOR BROADBAND
	MAPPING & PLANNING
In-Reply-To: <20100112162918.375ebofdj4w8ooc8@www2.dcn.org>
References: <20100112162918.375ebofdj4w8ooc8@www2.dcn.org>
Message-ID: <c76f70601001130913s43fffe3an868a2af28d015627@mail.gmail.com>

Excellent news!  Congratulations on all your hard work.

Brian Harris

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.com> wrote:

> NEW MEXICO AWARDED NTIA GRANT FOR BROADBAND MAPPING & PLANNING
>
> NTIA has awarded the New Mexico Department of Information Technology
> approximately $1.4 million for broadband data collection and mapping
> activities
> over a two-year period and $500,000 for broadband planning activities over
> a
> five-year period in New Mexico, bringing the total grant award to
> approximately
> $1.9 million. The Department of Information Technology is the designated
> entity
> for the State of New Mexico.
>
> New Mexico is one of ten states to have awards announced today.   The State
> Broadband Data and Development Grant Program is a matching grant program
> that
> implements the joint purposes of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
> and
> the Broadband Data Improvement Act (BDIA). The program is providing grants
> to
> assist states or their designees in gathering and verifying state-specific
> data
> on the availability, speed, location, and technology type of broadband
> services.
>  The data they collect and compile will also be used to develop publicly
> available state-wide broadband maps and to inform the comprehensive,
> interactive, and searchable national broadband map that NTIA is required by
> the
> Recovery Act to create and make publicly available by February 17, 2011.
>
> http://www.ntia.doc.gov
>
>
> --
> Richard Lowenberg
> 1st-Mile Institute
> P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
> 505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
> rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com
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From granoff at zianet.com  Wed Jan 13 15:25:44 2010
From: granoff at zianet.com (Marianne Granoff)
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:25:44 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] No New Criminal Trial for Nacchio
Message-ID: <20100113232548.EF7831301B47@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>


FYI.


New Mexico Business Weekly - January 13, 2010

http://albuquerque.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2010/01/11/daily23.html?ed=2010-01-13&ana=e_du_pub

<http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/bzj.albuquerque/article_page;beh=;pos=print_728x90;vs=legal;sz=3x3;kw=albuquerque;ord=1263424856.52248.19467?>
[]

Business News - Local News

Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 9:35am MST

Judge: No new criminal trial for Nacchio


New Mexico Business Weekly

A federal judge on Tuesday denied ex-Qwest CEO 
Joseph Nacchio?s request for a new criminal trial on insider-trading charges.

The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Marcia 
Krieger shot down Nacchio?s attorneys? claim in 
March 2009 that a deposition from an ongoing 
Securities & Exchange Commission lawsuit amounted 
to new evidence that could have acquitted the imprisoned executive.

The motion sought to reverse Nacchio?s 19-count 
criminal conviction from 2007 that sent him to prison for six years.

Nacchio has been in federal prison in 
Pennsylvania since spring and has been ordered to 
pay $19 million in fines and pay back $52 
million. He appealed all the way to the U.S. 
Supreme Court, which last year declined to hear his case.

Nacchio?s failed motion in federal court in 
Denver claimed that, in an SEC deposition last 
year, former Qwest Communications International 
CFO Robin Szeliga contradicted her trial 
testimony about a warning she gave to Nacchio in 
2001 about the magnitude of looming revenue shortfalls at the company.

Judge Krieger ruled that Szeliga?s SEC deposition 
didn?t amount to new evidence, and the 
information in it wasn?t likely to have produced 
an acquittal had jurors heard it.

Separately, Krieger is overseeing the civil 
lawsuit filed against Nacchio and four other 
former Qwest executives that seeks to recover 
about $300 million in pay and stock earnings they received.

She?s also holding hearings to resentence Nacchio 
after the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals 
found that the trial judge, Edward Nottingham, 
incorrectly calculated Nacchio?s sentence.

Qwest is a major telecommunications provider in New Mexico.

Greg Avery of the Denver Business Journal, an 
affiliated publication, compiled this report.

All contents of this site ? American City 
Business Journals Inc. All rights reserved.
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From granoff at zianet.com  Fri Jan 15 09:13:18 2010
From: granoff at zianet.com (Marianne Granoff)
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:13:18 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Kodak Says iPhone, BlackBerry Cameras Infringe
Message-ID: <20100115171322.EBFBC108C47B@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>


 From another list. FYI.

>Kodak Says iPhone, BlackBerry Cameras Infringe
>      Kodak has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade 
> Commission charging Apple and Research In Motion with infringing 
> patents in products with cameras. The suit claims that the iPhone 
> and BlackBerry devices with cameras infringe a Kodak patent that 
> allows image previews.
>      Read more: 
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/186909/kodak_sues_apple_rim_over_camera_patents.html 
>
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From rl at 1st-mile.com  Fri Jan 15 15:32:25 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:32:25 -0800
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Round Two RUS & NTIA NOFAs Released
Message-ID: <20100115153225.7o2oece4e2owkkog@www2.dcn.org>

The NTIA and RUS have today announced separate second round NOFAs:
NTIA information is online:   http://www.ntia.doc.gov/
RUS is expected to post info. shortly.
Deadline for submission is March 15th.
RUS will also have a specifically targeted third round.

Press Release: NTIA and USDA?s RUS Announce Availability of $4.8 Billion in
Recovery Act Funding to Bring Broadband to More Americans. (PDF Print Version
108Kb)   www.ntia.doc.gov/press/2010/BTOP_BIP_NOFAII_100115.html

? Fact Sheet: (Acrobat PDF 122Kb)

? Federal Register Notice: Notice of Funds Availability and solicitation of
applications for the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program. (Acrobat PDF
529 Kb)

Lots to do now.   I think that statewide and regional coordination will be
critically important.
There will be many questions that come up immediately, especially as first round
awards and rejections have not yet been made.
DoIT and other State Offices are closed today and on Monday.
Your responses, suggestions and questions are welcome here.
Look forward to more postings to this list, on next steps, soon.
Richard


-- 
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1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
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From granoff at zianet.com  Tue Jan 19 08:39:47 2010
From: granoff at zianet.com (Marianne Granoff)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:39:47 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: FCC Considers Alternative Plans for Net Traffic
	Rules
Message-ID: <20100119163957.882FF1317FA6@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>


FYI.  From another list.

>FCC Considers Alternative Plans for Net Traffic Rules
>      Federal Communications Commission officials have begun 
> discussing alternative plans for regulating Internet-traffic 
> management if a federal appeals court rules this spring that the 
> agency doesn't have authority to control the way phone and cable 
> companies handle traffic on their broadband networks. The 
> discussions began less than a week after a U.S. Court of Appeals 
> for the D.C. Circuit panel sharply questioned the FCC's 
> jurisdiction in reprimanding Comcast Corp. two years ago when the 
> cable company deliberately slowed some subscribers' web traffic.
>      Read 
> more: 
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703657604575005323285076144.html
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From granoff at zianet.com  Tue Jan 19 17:13:55 2010
From: granoff at zianet.com (Marianne Granoff)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:13:55 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Want Fast Broadband? Move to Utah
Message-ID: <20100120011358.B33D0131D8B5@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>


FYI


>Report: Utah Has the Best Broadband in the U.S., Internet News
>That's not the only surprise in a report by content delivery 
>provider Akamai on the state of American bandwidth.
>
>More Info: 
>http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/netsys/article.php/3859001/Want-Fast-Broadband-Move-to-Utah.htm



From john at citylinkfiber.com  Tue Jan 19 18:04:49 2010
From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:04:49 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Want Fast Broadband? Move to Utah
Message-ID: <F70BCC55F4F2F14888D450E441159C2408A6BE@deathstar2.citylinkfiber.intra>

Cool.  Reading the report, New Mexico can be proud.

WE are one of seven states that saw an INCREASE of MORE THAN 25% in YoY
bandwidth.

(page 27 of the report).

I suspect much of that is because of the rural deployment of fiber by
our rural carriers, and the deployment of fiber to homes and businesses
in Albuquerque.

John Brown, President
CityLink Fiber Holdings, Inc.
Albuquerque's only TRUE Fiber to the Home provider
Nationally Certified

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-
> bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Marianne Granoff
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 6:14 PM
> To: nmisp at zianet.com; uswisp at velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us; open-net-
> working-group at lists.bway.net; 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org; aww-
> discuss at egroups.com
> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Want Fast Broadband? Move to Utah
> 
> 
> FYI
> 
> 
> >Report: Utah Has the Best Broadband in the U.S., Internet News
> >That's not the only surprise in a report by content delivery
> >provider Akamai on the state of American bandwidth.
> >
> >More Info:
>
>http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/netsys/article.php/3859001/Want-Fast-
> Broadband-Move-to-Utah.htm
> 
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> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
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From rl at 1st-mile.com  Sat Jan 23 15:36:13 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:36:13 -0800
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband Stimulus Programs Update
Message-ID: <20100123153613.0lvwefmvc0gsgg04@www2.dcn.org>

Kevin Cummins, at Senator Udall's Office in DC, asked me to forward the
following.  I have not attached the NOFAs, which were sent to this list
previously.   RL


Begin forwarded message:

From: "Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall)" <Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov>
Date: January 22, 2010 4:42:00 PM MST
To: "Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall)" <Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov>
Subject: Broadband Stimulus Programs Update

To All:

I am writing to provide an update on the broadband stimulus programs (BTOP/BIP).
  As you know, the second round is now underway? even as more award
announcements will be made through February for first round grant recipients.

This morning I spoke with RUS and NTIA officials, including NTIA Administrator
Larry Strickling, about changes for the second (and final) round of broadband
stimulus grants.  Here?s some information that I would like to share with
you.

First Round Awards:
If you have not already been contacted by NTIA or RUS about your first round
broadband applications, it is unlikely that your application will be selected
for an award.  Although most awards have not been announced yet, those with
applications still under consideration should have already been contacted by
NTIA or RUS as part of their due diligence research.  An NTIA official informed
me that response letters for unsuccessful applications should be mailed today or
tomorrow.

Changes for Second Round Applications:
However, the second round has just begun.  The official Notices of Funds
Availability (NOFAs) are available through the Federal Register (and attached).
 These documents highlight several important changes to selection criteria and
should help you better prepare competitive applications.  Some of these changes
are a direct result of feedback you and other applicants provided directly to
the agencies or through your Congressional representatives.

Please read these new NOFAs carefully to decide which agency to apply to--and
help craft the most competitive proposals possible.

NTIA/RUS Comments about Selection Criteria:
NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling noted his strong preference for selecting
sustainable projects?i.e. those that will still exist years after federal
assistance ends.  He also noted that the level of local matching funds for
projects is one important indicator of potential success/sustainability.  Both
NTIA and RUS officials stressed that applicants should pay careful attention to
selection criteria and guidelines in the second round NOFAs, which differ in
several aspects from the first round.

Help with Your Grant Applications:
There will be several workshops around the country to help answer questions
about the application process.  Although none is planned for New Mexico this
time, two workshops will be broadcast via the Web.  There is also a new
?Broadband Match? online service to help applicants find potential partners
with whom to apply for broadband stimulus grants.  You can access more
information online through the Broadband USA website,
http://www.broadbandusa.gov/.

Support from Senator Udall for Your Applications:
Senator Udall appreciates your efforts to help bridge the digital divide in New
Mexico.  Applicants requesting federal funding for projects that benefit New
Mexico may request letters of support from Senator Udall, or from the whole New
Mexico congressional delegation, by e mailing Laura Davidson,
Laura_Davidson at tomudall.senate.gov.

Even if you did not win a first round award, I would encourage you to
participate in the second round of the broadband stimulus program.  If I can
also be of any assistance, please let me know.

Kind regards,

Kevin

Kevin Cummins
Legislative Assistant
Office of Sen. Tom Udall
(202) 224-6621
kevin_cummins at tomudall.senate.gov

Connect with Tom at tomudall.senate.gov


-- 
Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com

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From rl at 1st-mile.com  Sat Jan 23 15:39:29 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:39:29 -0800
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband Stimulus - Round 2
Message-ID: <20100123153929.u1wzf8tkqoww8c40@www2.dcn.org>

I wanted to follow up on the previous email, and to possibly activate this list
a bit, to help coordinate and facilitate second round broadband stimulus
proposals, now being developed for submission to the RUS or NTIA by March 15th.

For most potential applicants, the current submission deadline feels rushed.
Especially as we do not yet know which first round projects are to be rejected
or funded.  The latest word from the NTIA is that they are going to be sending
out 1,400 rejection letters, starting immediately, through the end of the week
(Jan. 30).   Not sure about the RUS.  The NTIA also intends to announce all
first round awards by the end of Feb.

I cannot speak for the State, currently, but assume that NM DoIT is busy on many
fronts, including determining next steps on their recently awarded NTIA SBDD
grant, plus legislative matters.   Unlike last March through August, there is
currently no statewide coordinating process.  I expect that it is needed, and
would be very helpful for sharing accurate information, finding and building
partnerships, understanding potential overlaps or gaps, and
otherwise assuring more successful proposals and outcomes in New Mexico.

I'd like to hear back from you on your thoughts about this, with possible
questions, or suggestions.  I will share your comments with the list, if you
allow/want (or not).

To get the ball rolling, I'd like to ask and get responses to the following
round two questions:

	Who is preparing to apply; for which program(s)?

	Who is interested in applying or partnering?

	Who's not sure, and needs to know more?

	Who's staying out of this round?

Thanks in advance.
Lots of dedicated work ahead.
Richard


-- 
Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com

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From granoff at zianet.com  Thu Jan 28 10:46:01 2010
From: granoff at zianet.com (Marianne Granoff)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:46:01 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: 1.28
Message-ID: <20100128184604.4EFFB1272E07@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>


 From another list.  FYI.

>WISPA Files Final National Broadband Comments, WISPA
>Yesterday, WISPA filed Reply Comments with the FCC in response to 
>the final public notice regarding the National Broadband 
>Plan.  WISPA identified significant obstacles preventing many 
>Americans from gaining affordable broadband service.  WISPA 
>recommended several policy changes that would enable affordable 
>spectrum to be deployed, financed and sustained, thereby 
>facilitating more ubiquitous broadband service to rural, unserved 
>and underserved areas of the [...]
>  http://www.wispa.org/?p=1800
>
>
>Comcast Prepares For IPv6 Customer Trials - Users can sign up via 
>new Comcast IPv6 website, dslreports
>Comcast representatives have stopped by our Comcast forum to note 
>that the company is ramping up their adoption of IPv6, and will be 
>moving foward with customer trials of IPv6 technology this year. 
>According to the company, customers interested in signing up for the 
>trials can sign up for them via the new Comcast IPv6 Information 
>Center website. The trials should begin sometime during the second 
>quarter of this
> 
>http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Prepares-For-IPv6-Customer-Trials-106621
>
>
>
>AT&T profits up 25 percent on wireless growth, CNET
>Customers are still in love with the iPhone, despite complaints 
>about AT&T's network: the company added 2.7 million new wireless 
>customers in the fourth quarter.
> 
>http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-10443306-266.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
>
>
>Haiti digs out from communications disaster, CW
>Carriers and aid workers are scrambling to rebuild communications in 
>Haiti following the catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake near the capital 
>city of Port-au-Prince, which left many residents with no means of 
>communicating inside or outside the country.
> 
>http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9149258/Haiti_digs_out_from_communications_disaster?source=rss_news



From rl at 1st-mile.com  Thu Jan 28 16:30:38 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:30:38 -0800
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Round 2 Broadband Stimulus Update
Message-ID: <20100128163038.nehk0j114wgsksw8@www2.dcn.org>

Please excuse possible multiple postings.   RL

------
From: Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall)
Subject: BTOP workshop webcast & links from NTIA

To All,

Here?s some more information from NTIA that will hopefully help you prepare
your second round broadband stimulus grant applications.

See below for webcast link to tomorrow?s BTOP workshop as well as other
resources already available online.

Even if you were not successful in first round, there?s still plenty of
funding available.  Here?s what RUS Administrator Jonathan Adelstein recently
said:

"This second round is the big one, folks. This is the Super Bowl of broadband
stimulus funding."

As always, good luck!

Kevin

Kevin Cummins
Office of Sen. Tom Udall


BTOP UPDATE

Just want to make sure you?re aware that the BTOP-related sessions of
tomorrow?s NTIA-RUS grant workshop (in Denver) will be available by LIVE
WEBCAST at www.broadbandusa.gov/workshop.htm .

The workshop will begin at 11am EST tomorrow ? January 29, 2010.   If you
can?t watch it live, it will also be available as an archive at that same
site.  Workshop materials will be available at
www.broadbandusa.gov/workshops.htm.

In addition to attending or viewing a workshop, to help applicants prepare for
Round 2, NTIA urges prospective applicants to:

(1)    study the projects we have already awarded, to see which really hit the
?sweet spot? in terms of what we?re looking for, for infrastructure, PCC
and SBA (http://www.ntia.doc.gov/broadbandgrants/projects.html)

(2)    especially for infrastructure projects, to study the Round 2 NOFA, which
provides much more detail ? and specific prioritization of elements --
regarding our narrowed focus on Comprehensive Community Infrastructure projects
? i.e., Middle Mile projects that connect anchor institutions, disadvantaged
areas, etc.  (http://www.broadbandusa.gov/files/FedRegNOFA_R2_NTIA.pdf)

(3)    Study grant guidance documents and other materials we?re making
available soon (www.broadbandusa.gov)

A complete list of workshop locations and dates is available at
www.broadbandusa.gov/workshop.htm.



-- 
Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com

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From tom at jtjohnson.com  Tue Feb  2 09:33:59 2010
From: tom at jtjohnson.com (Tom Johnson)
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:33:59 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] YouTube - Obama: "I'm a big believer in Net
	Neutrality."
Message-ID: <e04090491002020933y5b5b28ax15ffebc23a3d7069@mail.gmail.com>

fyi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP01t0Z4Hr8

-tom johnson
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From rl at 1st-mile.com  Sat Feb  6 14:57:34 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:57:34 -0800
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM Tech Council Event: Thurs., Feb 11, in Alb.
Message-ID: <20100206145734.bqb6ox5j4w0okwk8@www2.dcn.org>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <Eric at nmtechcouncil.org>
Date: Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:35 AM
Subject: Broadband Stimulus Session Next Tech Thursday (2/11)


Please Join NMTC for our next Tech Thursday Event:
Broadband Update with Richard Lowenberg (2/11)

As part of our mission to build, connect and promote technology business, the
New Mexico Tech Council supports efforts to increase broadband access
throughout our state. With the second round of Recovery Act Broadband funding
imminent, we're pleased to announce a special Tech Thursday (NEXT THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 11TH) with the 1st-Mile Institute's Richard Lowenberg.

If you'd like to attend or would like more information, please visit:
http://www.nmtechcouncil.org/event/broadband

>From the Broadband USA website:

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) appropriated $7.2 billion and
directed the Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and The
Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications Information Administration
(NTIA) to expand broadband access to unserved and underserved communities across
the U.S., increase jobs, spur investments in technology and infrastructure, and
provide long-term economic benefits.

The result is the RUS Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) and the NTIA Broadband
Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP).

BIP will make loans and grants for broadband infrastructure projects in rural
areas. BTOP will provide grants to fund broadband infrastructure, public
computer centers and sustainable broadband adoption projects.


Richard Lowenberg has been a leader in efforts to expand broadband access in New
Mexico and a key figure in identifying our state's capabilities and needs. He is
the founder of the 1st-Mile Institute (New Mexico ?Broadband for All?
Intitiative) and a recipient (with the New Mexico State Library and partners)
of the first NM Broadband Stimulus Grant.  He is the Senior Broadband Planner
for Design Nine, Inc., the contracted planner for statewide ?broadband
stimulus? proposals.  His 1st-Mile organization (http://www.1st-mile.com/)
and its mailing list are perhaps the best single source for information and
discussion of issues related to improving broadband access in our state.

This session will discuss broadband mapping results, lessons learned from the
first round of funding proposals ways we can move New Mexico forward.

Cost:

NMTC Members: $15 each

Non-Members: $25 each (remember, individual memberships are FREE!)

To register, visit: http://www.nmtechcouncil.org/event/broadband

Note: Member companies and organizations are given one free ticket to each
monthly membership event (and sponsors may have more). Please check with your
company's representative for more information. (but individual memberships are
still FREE)

Come join colleagues from New Mexico's tech community for a wide range of topics
in a casual setting.

NMTC Tech Thursdays are the council's monthly membership event, running the
second Thursday of each month from 3:30 - 5:00 PM at O'Niells Pub Meeting
Room4310 Central SE, just east of Nob Hill by the corner of Central and
Washington.


-- 
Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
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From rl at 1st-mile.com  Sat Feb  6 15:17:15 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:17:15 -0800
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe City Council Agenda - Feb. 10: Telecom
	Ordinances
Message-ID: <20100206151715.8y7o3ukw0wg4g4gg@www2.dcn.org>

For those of you interested in, or based in Santa Fe, some important telecom.
decisions are to be made this Wed. evening.
RL


Santa Fe City Council Agenda

February 10, 2010, 7:00 pm Session, CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS

www.santafenm.gov/Archive.aspx?ADID=3644


6) CONSIDERATION OF BILL NO. 2010-2: ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NO. 2010-: An
Ordinance Repealing Chapter 27 SFCC 1987 and Creating a New Chapter 27 SFCC
1987 Regarding Telecommunication and Cable Services.

    a) 	CONSIDERATION OF BILL NO. 2010-3: ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NO. 2010-: An
Ordinance Granting a Non Exclusive Franchise to Newpath Networks, LLC to Rent,
Use and Occupy the City's Public Rights-ofWay in the City of Santa Fe, New
Mexico, and Fixing the Terms and Conditions Thereof.

    b) 	CONSIDERATION OF BILL NO. 2010-4: ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NO. 2010-: An
Ordinance Granting a Non-Exclusive Franchise to Citylink Fiber Holdings of
Santa Fe, New Mexico, LLC to Rent, Use and Occupy the City's Public
Rights-of-Way in the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Fixing the Terms and
Conditions Thereof.

7) CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION NO. 2010-(Councilor Romero, Councilor Bushee,
Councilor Calvert and Councilor Trujillo) A Resolution Urging the U.S.
Congress, the President and Executive Branch Members to Require the Federal
Communications Commission to Reassess the Health Impacts of Radio Frequency
Emissions; and to Actively Seek and Support Federal Legislation that Would Give
Local Governments Greater Flexibility With Regard to the Placement of Wireless
Communications Facilities.


-- 
Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com

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From pete at ideapete.com  Sun Feb  7 09:39:44 2010
From: pete at ideapete.com (pete baston)
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:39:44 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Qwest being seen as likely takeover target - and it
 will dissolve in the breakup
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From editorsteve at gmail.com  Sun Feb  7 10:20:30 2010
From: editorsteve at gmail.com (Steve Ross)
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 13:20:30 -0500
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Qwest being seen as likely takeover target - and
	it will dissolve in the breakup
In-Reply-To: <4B6EFAE0.5080203@ideapete.com>
References: <4B6EFAE0.5080203@ideapete.com>
Message-ID: <203e4cf71002071020i3648d47en63efa6b4f3e7127@mail.gmail.com>

The market valuation is $8 billion, which would suggest a price of $12
billion, but the Denver Post says it's worth $20 billion at $1500 a line
plus some other businesses.

In other words, the stock is undervalued due to poor management, which would
suggest that it can be had. But the long-term debt is a bit frightening in
this day and age. Smaller buyers would be unable to retire the debt and
improve service, even at a buyout that gave shareholders a 50% premium over
the current stock price.

Qwest had been selling off very rural areas (and creating about 1,000 small
ILECs in the process) until three years ago. That could resume if potential
buyers could fine financing. The very rural areas can get going-forward
capital loans from RUS and operating funds from USF. But it is a bit too
late for Stimulus money -- the final NOFA is already on the table -- and ESF
is due for an overhaul. So that is dicey as well.

-- 
Steve Ross
201-456-5933 mobile
781-284-8810 landline
707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice
editorsteve (Facebook)
editorsteve1 (Twitter)
editorsteve at gmail.com

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:39 PM, pete baston <pete at ideapete.com> wrote:

>  http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14346718
>
>
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>
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From pete at ideapete.com  Sun Feb  7 10:41:51 2010
From: pete at ideapete.com (pete baston)
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:41:51 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Qwest being seen as likely takeover target - and
 it will dissolve in the breakup
In-Reply-To: <203e4cf71002071020i3648d47en63efa6b4f3e7127@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4B6EFAE0.5080203@ideapete.com>
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From pete at ideapete.com  Sun Feb  7 12:50:22 2010
From: pete at ideapete.com (pete baston)
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:50:22 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] The real value of a land line
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From john at citylinkfiber.com  Sun Feb  7 13:15:09 2010
From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown)
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 14:15:09 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] The real value of a land line
Message-ID: <F70BCC55F4F2F14888D450E441159C240840FA@deathstar2.citylinkfiber.intra>

Nope. Not salivating.  There is no reason why I would want to own that Neanderthal aged copper infra-structure.  ;) 

Circuit switched is dead.  Packet switched removes lots of problems including number plan exhaustion.  Don't need a DID for every channel in a hunt group. 

I'm happy digging the ground and putting fiber in it. 

 
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Sent: Sun Feb 07 13:50:22 2010
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] The real value of a land line

Its interesting when you dig into some of the valuation figures that Qwest is putting forward.

Steve just point out that the share price at less than $5 gives them a  valuation of less than $10 Billion. 

Qwest has some nice data that mentions all sorts of gobbledegook with Land Lines Lifetime value introduced. ( + ridiculous good will )   Now if you look at data all across the US land Line Values have been decimated and only telcos pretend that LLV still exists.  No way is an MA going for that . The arbitrary figuer of $1500 buck is therefore speculation.

 Rural land lines are classed in many parts of the US at a NEGATIVE valuation and with LLs even in busy cities use plummeting who knows.

A good MA due diligence will bring this house of cards crashing down and who knows maybe our favorite telco better start looking at 11 s and 7s. but that would kill any negotiated MA because then the stock price will be in pennies not dollars

lets have some input from fisters as to what they thing the REAL land line values are in NM / CO  etc rural and city.

Great opportunity's for entrepreneurs locally though ( I can see John Brown salivating already  ( : ( :  ) 

( : ( : pete

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From rl at 1st-mile.com  Sun Feb  7 15:07:35 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:07:35 -0800
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] ?Broadband for America: The Third Way?
Message-ID: <20100207150735.gkiw4ve348wsssgs@www2.dcn.org>

Design Nine?s Andrew Michael Cohill, Ph.D., has published a new white paper
titled: ?Broadband for America: The Third Way?.

The paper describes how open access networks can solve many of the nations
broadband access problems, while stimulating innovation and our economy.
The Third Way also maintains a public-private ?level playing field? while
directly solving most network neutrality issues.

A .pdf of the 13 page paper is available at:
www.designnine.com/broadband-the-third-way.html




-- 
Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com

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From pete at ideapete.com  Mon Feb  8 11:25:14 2010
From: pete at ideapete.com (pete baston)
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:25:14 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Google analyst: U.S. Internet needs to get faster -
	CNN.com
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From bharris at nmag.gov  Tue Feb  9 14:39:15 2010
From: bharris at nmag.gov (Harris, Brian)
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:39:15 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] ?Broadband for America: The Third Way?
In-Reply-To: <20100207150735.gkiw4ve348wsssgs@www2.dcn.org>
References: <20100207150735.gkiw4ve348wsssgs@www2.dcn.org>
Message-ID: <c76f70601002091439h3c178ee6l547ecb67fdfafc97@mail.gmail.com>

This joint project may be of interest.

Brian Harris

_____________________________________________________________




Press release ? Eindhoven ? 26th January 2010

*Genexis teams up with Case Western Reserve University to realize a Gigabit
Fiber-to-the-Home network aimed to improve lives in American cities*

Eindhoven, January 26, 2010 ? Genexis, a Netherlands-based company
developing and manufacturing equipment for broadband fiber networks, is
partnering with Case Western Reserve University to build the first of its
kind Gigabit Fiber-to-the-Home network. Called the Case Connection Zone, the
pilot program will bring true broadband to communities that - up to now -
have been left on the wrong side of the digital divide. Instead of providing
people with just basic Internet, telephony and television, the Case
Connection Zone will provide a high speed network that enables a real jump
into the information age.

Fiber-to-the-Home is seen by many as a new technology that can provide more
megabits per second to end-users. While true, the real potential of fiber
networks lies in their power to influence the way people communicate and
interact.

?Access to broadband communication is a necessity for fully engaged economic
and social development,? says Lev Gonick, Case?s Vice President for
Information Technology Services. ?With a Gigabit fiber network, communities
can access services such as healthcare and e-learning and at the same time
provide people with open access to the economic opportunities that the
Internet enables. This combination of strengthening the community structure
and providing people with a superhighway to the digital world is vital to
improving lives in American cities.?

Genexis will provide its Gigabit per second Optical Communication Gateway to
the Cleveland-based initiative. Installed in the home, the gateway converts
ultra-high speed signals on optical fiber to well-known broadband services
including voice, television and Internet.

?The Genexis unit provides each home with the standard set of communication
services plus it enables a whole host of new services in the area of
healthcare, security, education and more,? says Gerlas van den Hoven, CEO of
Genexis. ?The Genexis gateway combines the ultimate in communication speed
with the ability to provide multiple services from a variety of providers at
the same time.?

With the first trial scheduled to launch later this quarter, the program
aims to connect 25,000 residents in Cleveland. The initiative is joined by
many leading Cleveland-based organizations including University Hospitals,
The Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth Hospital System, OneCommunity, the Great
Lakes Science Center, public safety forces and the City of Cleveland itself.

?In the end, communications and Internet is not about just technology, it is
about people,? Gonick continues. ?Genexis has understood this very well, and
has developed products for in the home that enable people to use the full
potential of broadband in a simple and user-friendly way. In addition, the
gateway is power-efficient and installer-friendly, a key factor when
installing fiber in urban areas.?

*About Genexis BV*

Genexis is a trendsetting European company dedicated to the development,
manufacturing and marketing of home gateways for fiber-to-the-home networks.
Genexis? design philosophy takes into account the full product lifetime:
from investment and installation through to operation, our FiberXport?
product line proves to deliver the lowest cost of ownership. At the same
time, we focus on developing new concepts and products aimed to take full
advantage of the benefits of optical fiber. Our customers are network
operators throughout the world. The Genexis solid technical knowledge and
skills in fiber technology, Ethernet/IP and CATV networks, results in
superior product performance. To meet and exceed our customers? future
expectations, Genexis participates in several innovative research programs.
Genexis is based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands ? the centre of one of
Europe?s key high-tech regions. www.genexis.eu

*About Case Western Reserve University*

Case is among the nation?s leading research institutions. Founded in 1826
and shaped by the unique merger of the Case Institute of Technology and
Western Reserve University, Case is distinguished by its strengths in
education, research, service, and experiential learning. Located in
Cleveland, Case offers nationally recognized programs in the Arts and
Sciences, Dental Medicine, Engineering, Law, Management, Medicine, Nursing,
and Social Work. www.case.edu
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From bharris at nmag.gov  Tue Feb  9 15:38:23 2010
From: bharris at nmag.gov (Harris, Brian)
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:38:23 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe City Council Agenda - Feb. 10: Telecom
	Ordinances
In-Reply-To: <20100206151715.8y7o3ukw0wg4g4gg@www2.dcn.org>
References: <20100206151715.8y7o3ukw0wg4g4gg@www2.dcn.org>
Message-ID: <c76f70601002091538u5355c6c2j14375ba9894c209@mail.gmail.com>

That first bill may very well be pre-empted by state law.  Should be
interesting.

Brian H

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.com> wrote:

> For those of you interested in, or based in Santa Fe, some important
> telecom.
> decisions are to be made this Wed. evening.
> RL
>
>
> Santa Fe City Council Agenda
>
> February 10, 2010, 7:00 pm Session, CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS
>
> www.santafenm.gov/Archive.aspx?ADID=3644
>
>
> 6) CONSIDERATION OF BILL NO. 2010-2: ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NO. 2010-: An
> Ordinance Repealing Chapter 27 SFCC 1987 and Creating a New Chapter 27 SFCC
> 1987 Regarding Telecommunication and Cable Services.
>
>    a)  CONSIDERATION OF BILL NO. 2010-3: ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NO. 2010-:
> An
> Ordinance Granting a Non Exclusive Franchise to Newpath Networks, LLC to
> Rent,
> Use and Occupy the City's Public Rights-ofWay in the City of Santa Fe, New
> Mexico, and Fixing the Terms and Conditions Thereof.
>
>    b)  CONSIDERATION OF BILL NO. 2010-4: ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NO. 2010-:
> An
> Ordinance Granting a Non-Exclusive Franchise to Citylink Fiber Holdings of
> Santa Fe, New Mexico, LLC to Rent, Use and Occupy the City's Public
> Rights-of-Way in the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Fixing the Terms and
> Conditions Thereof.
>
> 7) CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION NO. 2010-(Councilor Romero, Councilor
> Bushee,
> Councilor Calvert and Councilor Trujillo) A Resolution Urging the U.S.
> Congress, the President and Executive Branch Members to Require the Federal
> Communications Commission to Reassess the Health Impacts of Radio Frequency
> Emissions; and to Actively Seek and Support Federal Legislation that Would
> Give
> Local Governments Greater Flexibility With Regard to the Placement of
> Wireless
> Communications Facilities.
>
>
> --
> Richard Lowenberg
> 1st-Mile Institute
> P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
> 505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
> rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com
>
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From john at citylinkfiber.com  Tue Feb  9 18:45:02 2010
From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown)
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:45:02 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe City Council Agenda - Feb. 10:
 TelecomOrdinances
In-Reply-To: <20100206151715.8y7o3ukw0wg4g4gg@www2.dcn.org>
Message-ID: <C7976BBE.10AA7%john@citylinkfiber.com>

As the party seeking the Franchise, let me add a few things for this list.

CityLink intends to:

* Build Fiber to the Home in Santa Fe.  100Mb/s symmetrical connections

* Build Fiber to the Business in Santa Fe (Especially Small Business)

* Allow third-parties to use our dark fiber, thus Open Access / Neutral

* Leverage the bandwidth potential to allow others to create exciting new
uses of IP data.  Be that Video, Audio, Data, or something completely new.

* Connect Schools, Libraries, and Community Centers at no cost, at time of
construction in their area.

* Connect Muni buildings at no cost, at time of construction.

The last two items fall into our Social Good / Sustainability Efforts.  We
believe that if you don't have the resources and infra-structure in place
for education, then you fail to have a sustainable community.

Our initial network will be an approximate 4 mile ring built around Paseo de
Peralta, with a number of sub rings built into and thru that circle.

As business develops we plan to build other rings and link them together.

We are NOT wireless.  There is nothing in our backbone that is based on
wireless technologies.

All of our fiber will be UNDERGROUND and not on poles.

If you believe the time is right for Santa Fe to have an Open Access /
Neutral fiber optic network, then we welcome your support on Wednesday
evening.

This isn't pie in the sky. We are doing this NOW in Albuquerque with
fantastic results for our users.

As always, I stand available to answer any questions people might have.

Respectfully,

John Brown, President
CityLink Fiber Holdings, Inc


On 2/6/10 4:17 PM, "Richard Lowenberg" <rl at 1st-mile.com> wrote:

> For those of you interested in, or based in Santa Fe, some important telecom.
> decisions are to be made this Wed. evening.
> RL 
> 
> 
> Santa Fe City Council Agenda
> 
> February 10, 2010, 7:00 pm Session, CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS
> 
> www.santafenm.gov/Archive.aspx?ADID=3644
> 
> 
> 6) CONSIDERATION OF BILL NO. 2010-2: ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NO. 2010-: An
> Ordinance Repealing Chapter 27 SFCC 1987 and Creating a New Chapter 27 SFCC
> 1987 Regarding Telecommunication and Cable Services.
> 
>     a)  CONSIDERATION OF BILL NO. 2010-3: ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NO. 2010-: An
> Ordinance Granting a Non Exclusive Franchise to Newpath Networks, LLC to Rent,
> Use and Occupy the City's Public Rights-ofWay in the City of Santa Fe, New
> Mexico, and Fixing the Terms and Conditions Thereof.
> 
>     b)  CONSIDERATION OF BILL NO. 2010-4: ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NO. 2010-: An
> Ordinance Granting a Non-Exclusive Franchise to Citylink Fiber Holdings of
> Santa Fe, New Mexico, LLC to Rent, Use and Occupy the City's Public
> Rights-of-Way in the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Fixing the Terms and
> Conditions Thereof.
> 
> 7) CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION NO. 2010-(Councilor Romero, Councilor Bushee,
> Councilor Calvert and Councilor Trujillo) A Resolution Urging the U.S.
> Congress, the President and Executive Branch Members to Require the Federal
> Communications Commission to Reassess the Health Impacts of Radio Frequency
> Emissions; and to Actively Seek and Support Federal Legislation that Would
> Give 
> Local Governments Greater Flexibility With Regard to the Placement of Wireless
> Communications Facilities.
> 



From david at breeckerassociates.com  Tue Feb  9 19:51:55 2010
From: david at breeckerassociates.com (David Breecker)
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 20:51:55 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe City Council Agenda - Feb. 10:
	TelecomOrdinances
In-Reply-To: <C7976BBE.10AA7%john@citylinkfiber.com>
References: <C7976BBE.10AA7%john@citylinkfiber.com>
Message-ID: <A478D3DC-20F8-48AA-8AF8-4DBB5D4AE081@breeckerassociates.com>

As the original organizer and facilitator of the Santa Fe Regional  
Telecom Coalition, seeking advanced fiber-based open-access  
infrastructure for the region offering 100Mb/s symmetrical residential  
(1 Gb/s enterprise, 10Gb/s research), I'd like to endorse City Link's  
proposal.

And the Social Good/Sustainability aspects are not trivial either, IMHO.

Best,
David

David Breecker,
President
Santa Fe Innovation Park
http://SantaFeInnovate.org
Abiquiu Office: 505-685-4891
Santa Fe Office: 505-690-2335





On Feb 9, 2010, at 7:45 PM, John Brown wrote:

> As the party seeking the Franchise, let me add a few things for this  
> list.
>
> CityLink intends to:
>
> * Build Fiber to the Home in Santa Fe.  100Mb/s symmetrical  
> connections
>
> * Build Fiber to the Business in Santa Fe (Especially Small Business)
>
> * Allow third-parties to use our dark fiber, thus Open Access /  
> Neutral
>
> * Leverage the bandwidth potential to allow others to create  
> exciting new
> uses of IP data.  Be that Video, Audio, Data, or something  
> completely new.
>
> * Connect Schools, Libraries, and Community Centers at no cost, at  
> time of
> construction in their area.
>
> * Connect Muni buildings at no cost, at time of construction.
>
> The last two items fall into our Social Good / Sustainability  
> Efforts.  We
> believe that if you don't have the resources and infra-structure in  
> place
> for education, then you fail to have a sustainable community.
>
> Our initial network will be an approximate 4 mile ring built around  
> Paseo de
> Peralta, with a number of sub rings built into and thru that circle.
>
> As business develops we plan to build other rings and link them  
> together.
>
> We are NOT wireless.  There is nothing in our backbone that is based  
> on
> wireless technologies.
>
> All of our fiber will be UNDERGROUND and not on poles.
>
> If you believe the time is right for Santa Fe to have an Open Access /
> Neutral fiber optic network, then we welcome your support on Wednesday
> evening.
>
> This isn't pie in the sky. We are doing this NOW in Albuquerque with
> fantastic results for our users.
>
> As always, I stand available to answer any questions people might  
> have.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> John Brown, President
> CityLink Fiber Holdings, Inc
>
>
> On 2/6/10 4:17 PM, "Richard Lowenberg" <rl at 1st-mile.com> wrote:
>
>> For those of you interested in, or based in Santa Fe, some  
>> important telecom.
>> decisions are to be made this Wed. evening.
>> RL
>>
>>
>> Santa Fe City Council Agenda
>>
>> February 10, 2010, 7:00 pm Session, CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS
>>
>> www.santafenm.gov/Archive.aspx?ADID=3644
>>
>>
>> 6) CONSIDERATION OF BILL NO. 2010-2: ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NO.  
>> 2010-: An
>> Ordinance Repealing Chapter 27 SFCC 1987 and Creating a New Chapter  
>> 27 SFCC
>> 1987 Regarding Telecommunication and Cable Services.
>>
>>    a)  CONSIDERATION OF BILL NO. 2010-3: ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NO.  
>> 2010-: An
>> Ordinance Granting a Non Exclusive Franchise to Newpath Networks,  
>> LLC to Rent,
>> Use and Occupy the City's Public Rights-ofWay in the City of Santa  
>> Fe, New
>> Mexico, and Fixing the Terms and Conditions Thereof.
>>
>>    b)  CONSIDERATION OF BILL NO. 2010-4: ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NO.  
>> 2010-: An
>> Ordinance Granting a Non-Exclusive Franchise to Citylink Fiber  
>> Holdings of
>> Santa Fe, New Mexico, LLC to Rent, Use and Occupy the City's Public
>> Rights-of-Way in the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Fixing the Terms  
>> and
>> Conditions Thereof.
>>
>> 7) CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION NO. 2010-(Councilor Romero,  
>> Councilor Bushee,
>> Councilor Calvert and Councilor Trujillo) A Resolution Urging the  
>> U.S.
>> Congress, the President and Executive Branch Members to Require the  
>> Federal
>> Communications Commission to Reassess the Health Impacts of Radio  
>> Frequency
>> Emissions; and to Actively Seek and Support Federal Legislation  
>> that Would
>> Give
>> Local Governments Greater Flexibility With Regard to the Placement  
>> of Wireless
>> Communications Facilities.
>>
>
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From pete at ideapete.com  Wed Feb 10 07:40:57 2010
From: pete at ideapete.com (pete baston)
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:40:57 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] [Fwd: Endorsement of CityLink Franchise]
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From rl at 1st-mile.com  Wed Feb 10 08:21:44 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:21:44 -0800
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Google Announces FTTH Initiative RFI
Message-ID: <20100210082144.ce3o3lhlww800ksw@www2.dcn.org>

Google launches ?Google Fiber for Communities?

Google

www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/


This should launch quite a feeding frenzy.
RL


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From: pete at ideapete.com (pete baston)
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:31:18 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Google to test ultra high-speed broadband network -
	Feb. 10, 2010
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From: pete at ideapete.com (pete baston)
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:40:13 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Video - News Hub: Google's Super-Duper Fast Internet
	Plan - WSJ.com
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From tom at jtjohnson.com  Thu Feb 11 15:36:19 2010
From: tom at jtjohnson.com (Tom Johnson)
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:36:19 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Form to nominate Google fiber for community
Message-ID: <e04090491002111536g4c925b1at3a5bb876e263988a@mail.gmail.com>

Hey, it can't hurt, can it?

Here's the site to nominate Santa Fe for Google largess:
http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/

-tj

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From sas at lava3d.com  Thu Feb 11 16:23:09 2010
From: sas at lava3d.com (Steve Smith)
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:23:09 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] [sfx: Discuss] Form to nominate Google fiber for
	community
In-Reply-To: <e04090491002111536g4c925b1at3a5bb876e263988a@mail.gmail.com>
References: <e04090491002111536g4c925b1at3a5bb876e263988a@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4B749F6D.5090405@lava3d.com>

Tom Johnson wrote:
> Hey, it can't hurt, can it?
>
> Here's the site to nominate Santa Fe for Google largess:  
> http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/
Without volunteering to lead such an effort, I think it would be (even) 
better if those interested in bringing really good bandwidth to the SFe 
area were to get together and develop a good story about how/why this 
would matter to SFe and/or why/how SFe is either "unique" in it's 
need/value or how it is somehow "representative" such that a Google 
success here would lead to a template or model for lots of other regions 
similar to our own.

What makes SFe unique?  The sfX city ED contract suggests that SFe has a 
lot of underemployed creative talent that would be best served by our 
becoming a magnet for lots of distributed contract/project work.   
Entertainment and High Tech alike seem to thrive on high-bandwidth.    
High Bandwidth with Low Latency and High Reliability is a constraint, 
not a driver.   If we have it, things will be possible that would not 
have been otherwise, but it is not as clear that having it will lead us 
to do any of these things spontaneously.   sfX is one of the places that 
might help to demonstrate or explain some of this (if/as we become more 
successful).   There is a bit of a chicken-egg problem.   It is hard to 
demonstrate the things that come with high-bandwidth, low-latency, 
high-reliability networks if you don't have one.

The First Mile initiative and others in the area are probably better 
equipped to establish the case than sfX is... but I think we can help to 
make their story more compelling. 

Maybe someone can do some demographic analysis?   How many semi-isolated 
cities are there of Santa Fe's size?  Are they all bursting with 
disaffected creatives just looking for a chance to exercise their work 
from afar?   It seems like there is an argument in them thar numbers 
somewhere.   Spokane WA, Eureka CA, Flagstaff AZ,  St George UT,   
Fayetteville AR, Knoxville TN, East Bumfuddle NW, etc.

Is our uniquely ancient city-plan/infrastructure and multi-cultural 
nature relevant?   Does that make us someone worth helping because we 
"deserve" or "need" it, or does it make us a "good example" for other 
places with similar but different circumstances?

Google uses numbers like 50K-500K people served by one of their 
installations.   That suggests that regions of that scale (on the low 
end in my interest) are what SFe could become a template for?

Google doesn't play pork-barrel games.  If they choose us, it will be 
for a reason.   Rather than try to guess their motivations and game 
them, maybe we should just try to do our own (self) analysis and try to 
see why we *would* be a good candidate for their largess, put it out 
there and see what comes of it.

I think we might consider asking 1st-Mile to focus us on what we can 
contribute to an argument they may already have in their back pocket...  

- Steve

-- 
Los Alamos Visualization Associates
LAVA-Synergy
4200 W. Jemez rd
Los Alamos, NM 87544
www.lava3d.com
sas at lava3d.com
505-920-0252



From ewhitmore at gmail.com  Fri Feb 12 09:18:23 2010
From: ewhitmore at gmail.com (Eric Renz-Whitmore)
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:18:23 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] [sfx: Discuss] Form to nominate Google fiber for
	community
In-Reply-To: <4B749F6D.5090405@lava3d.com>
References: <e04090491002111536g4c925b1at3a5bb876e263988a@mail.gmail.com> 
	<4B749F6D.5090405@lava3d.com>
Message-ID: <1686e71002120918m1e3c34cai4865d982d9fc2433@mail.gmail.com>

I think this is a good approach (whichever the location).

Hundreds of communities (at least) will apply, so those that seem to have
their act together -- and offer a truly unique value proposition to Google
-- probably stand a better chance.

Best wishes,

Eric

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Steve Smith <sas at lava3d.com> wrote:

> Tom Johnson wrote:
> > Hey, it can't hurt, can it?
> >
> > Here's the site to nominate Santa Fe for Google largess:
> > http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/
> Without volunteering to lead such an effort, I think it would be (even)
> better if those interested in bringing really good bandwidth to the SFe
> area were to get together and develop a good story about how/why this
> would matter to SFe and/or why/how SFe is either "unique" in it's
> need/value or how it is somehow "representative" such that a Google
> success here would lead to a template or model for lots of other regions
> similar to our own.
>
> What makes SFe unique?  The sfX city ED contract suggests that SFe has a
> lot of underemployed creative talent that would be best served by our
> becoming a magnet for lots of distributed contract/project work.
> Entertainment and High Tech alike seem to thrive on high-bandwidth.
> High Bandwidth with Low Latency and High Reliability is a constraint,
> not a driver.   If we have it, things will be possible that would not
> have been otherwise, but it is not as clear that having it will lead us
> to do any of these things spontaneously.   sfX is one of the places that
> might help to demonstrate or explain some of this (if/as we become more
> successful).   There is a bit of a chicken-egg problem.   It is hard to
> demonstrate the things that come with high-bandwidth, low-latency,
> high-reliability networks if you don't have one.
>
> The First Mile initiative and others in the area are probably better
> equipped to establish the case than sfX is... but I think we can help to
> make their story more compelling.
>
> Maybe someone can do some demographic analysis?   How many semi-isolated
> cities are there of Santa Fe's size?  Are they all bursting with
> disaffected creatives just looking for a chance to exercise their work
> from afar?   It seems like there is an argument in them thar numbers
> somewhere.   Spokane WA, Eureka CA, Flagstaff AZ,  St George UT,
> Fayetteville AR, Knoxville TN, East Bumfuddle NW, etc.
>
> Is our uniquely ancient city-plan/infrastructure and multi-cultural
> nature relevant?   Does that make us someone worth helping because we
> "deserve" or "need" it, or does it make us a "good example" for other
> places with similar but different circumstances?
>
> Google uses numbers like 50K-500K people served by one of their
> installations.   That suggests that regions of that scale (on the low
> end in my interest) are what SFe could become a template for?
>
> Google doesn't play pork-barrel games.  If they choose us, it will be
> for a reason.   Rather than try to guess their motivations and game
> them, maybe we should just try to do our own (self) analysis and try to
> see why we *would* be a good candidate for their largess, put it out
> there and see what comes of it.
>
> I think we might consider asking 1st-Mile to focus us on what we can
> contribute to an argument they may already have in their back pocket...
>
> - Steve
>
> --
> Los Alamos Visualization Associates
> LAVA-Synergy
> 4200 W. Jemez rd
> Los Alamos, NM 87544
> www.lava3d.com
> sas at lava3d.com
> 505-920-0252
>
> _______________________________________________
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> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm
>



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From bharris at nmag.gov  Fri Feb 12 09:33:43 2010
From: bharris at nmag.gov (Harris, Brian)
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:33:43 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] [sfx: Discuss] Form to nominate Google fiber for
	community
In-Reply-To: <1686e71002120918m1e3c34cai4865d982d9fc2433@mail.gmail.com>
References: <e04090491002111536g4c925b1at3a5bb876e263988a@mail.gmail.com>
	<4B749F6D.5090405@lava3d.com>
	<1686e71002120918m1e3c34cai4865d982d9fc2433@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <c76f70601002120933m2b8aabafu8aa86ba7207fd6aa@mail.gmail.com>

Numerous entities from the area applied to the NTIA's BTOP, it seems
that might be a good place to start.  They've already identified
problems that could be solved with such a network and have compelling
stories to tell.

Brian Harris

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Eric Renz-Whitmore
<ewhitmore at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think this is a good approach (whichever the location).
> Hundreds of communities?(at least)?will apply, so those that seem to have
> their act together -- and offer a truly unique value proposition to Google
> -- probably stand a better chance.
> Best wishes,
> Eric
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Steve Smith <sas at lava3d.com> wrote:
>>
>> Tom Johnson wrote:
>> > Hey, it can't hurt, can it?
>> >
>> > Here's the site to nominate Santa Fe for Google largess:
>> > http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/
>> Without volunteering to lead such an effort, I think it would be (even)
>> better if those interested in bringing really good bandwidth to the SFe
>> area were to get together and develop a good story about how/why this
>> would matter to SFe and/or why/how SFe is either "unique" in it's
>> need/value or how it is somehow "representative" such that a Google
>> success here would lead to a template or model for lots of other regions
>> similar to our own.
>>
>> What makes SFe unique? ?The sfX city ED contract suggests that SFe has a
>> lot of underemployed creative talent that would be best served by our
>> becoming a magnet for lots of distributed contract/project work.
>> Entertainment and High Tech alike seem to thrive on high-bandwidth.
>> High Bandwidth with Low Latency and High Reliability is a constraint,
>> not a driver. ? If we have it, things will be possible that would not
>> have been otherwise, but it is not as clear that having it will lead us
>> to do any of these things spontaneously. ? sfX is one of the places that
>> might help to demonstrate or explain some of this (if/as we become more
>> successful). ? There is a bit of a chicken-egg problem. ? It is hard to
>> demonstrate the things that come with high-bandwidth, low-latency,
>> high-reliability networks if you don't have one.
>>
>> The First Mile initiative and others in the area are probably better
>> equipped to establish the case than sfX is... but I think we can help to
>> make their story more compelling.
>>
>> Maybe someone can do some demographic analysis? ? How many semi-isolated
>> cities are there of Santa Fe's size? ?Are they all bursting with
>> disaffected creatives just looking for a chance to exercise their work
>> from afar? ? It seems like there is an argument in them thar numbers
>> somewhere. ? Spokane WA, Eureka CA, Flagstaff AZ, ?St George UT,
>> Fayetteville AR, Knoxville TN, East Bumfuddle NW, etc.
>>
>> Is our uniquely ancient city-plan/infrastructure and multi-cultural
>> nature relevant? ? Does that make us someone worth helping because we
>> "deserve" or "need" it, or does it make us a "good example" for other
>> places with similar but different circumstances?
>>
>> Google uses numbers like 50K-500K people served by one of their
>> installations. ? That suggests that regions of that scale (on the low
>> end in my interest) are what SFe could become a template for?
>>
>> Google doesn't play pork-barrel games. ?If they choose us, it will be
>> for a reason. ? Rather than try to guess their motivations and game
>> them, maybe we should just try to do our own (self) analysis and try to
>> see why we *would* be a good candidate for their largess, put it out
>> there and see what comes of it.
>>
>> I think we might consider asking 1st-Mile to focus us on what we can
>> contribute to an argument they may already have in their back pocket...
>>
>> - Steve
>>
>> --
>> Los Alamos Visualization Associates
>> LAVA-Synergy
>> 4200 W. Jemez rd
>> Los Alamos, NM 87544
>> www.lava3d.com
>> sas at lava3d.com
>> 505-920-0252
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> 1st-mile-nm mailing list
>> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
>> http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm
>
>
>
> --
>
> Eric Renz-Whitmore, Program Coordinator
> ARTS Lab
> GC: ? ? 505-993-6884
> office: ?505-277-2253
> cell: ? ? 505-227-1086
> http://artslab.unm.edu
>
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From rl at 1st-mile.com  Sat Feb 13 14:32:00 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:32:00 -0800
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband Stimulus Update
Message-ID: <20100213143200.s5lujap9c08k8occ@www2.dcn.org>

Greetings.
Here's some hopefully helpful updated information on the broadband stimulus
process.

The BTOP Guides for Comprehensive Community Infrastructure (CCI), Public
Computing Centers (PCC) and Sustainable Broadband Adoption (SBA) are now online
as .pdfs on the www.broadbandusa.gov web site.    You should check this site for
updates frequently.   The Applications database can now be searched for NTIA
(not RUS yet) projects which have been rejected.   A cursory search I did came
up with at least a dozen NM first-round applications which have been rejected. 
 Other applications may be in due-diligence process, but no awards have been
announced for NM yet, other than the State Library and partners' NTIA SBA
project.   Clearly, this flawed and delayed process makes second-round
application difficult.

One of my Design Nine colleagues attended the round 2 broadband stimulus
workshop held in Fayetteville, NC, on Thursday.
Here are some of his notes (edited) with some good pointers:

The workshop slides are available online and I strongly suggest you download
them and review them.  The workshops are also supposed to be available via
either streaming or download (http://broadbandusa.gov/workshop.htm).   In
particular make sure you check out the Elements of a Successful Application
presentation from BTOP as it is very well done and applies to both BIP and BTOP
but has some scoring and other cheat sheets for Round 2.

I asked specifically about the Round 1 applications and if they had any updates
or if we would receive anything in addition to the Dear John letters in regards
to why applications were denied.  I was told that there would be no other
information regarding specific applications.  They suggested that we should
look at the winning applications to see what they did right, but then said that
the winning applications would not be posted due to confidentiality
requirements, but we could contact award recipients and request them.

However a couple of key points that I did learn:

BTOP Application Guides are much more thorough than Round 1 and are now posted
on the www.broadbandusa.gov web site.

BTOP will have the same Environmental Questionnaire as BIP.  ALL Infrastructure
projects NEED to complete the Environmental Questionnaire.  99% of Round 1
applications didn't even make it to the "Merit Assessment" as they were did not
complete the Environmental Questionnaire.  If it breaks ground it has an
Environmental Impact.  There are Categorical Exclusions to the NEPA questions
but they NEED to be stated.  N/A is not a valid answer; need at least a
sentence on why a particular project has no Environmental Impact (like "100% of
buried fiber will be in exiting right-of-way and therefore is excluded from the
Environmental Impact Review requirement").

Information on Environmental and Historic Preservation can be found in the
Compliance and Reporting Requirements slides.

No more individual Census Blocks, but need to list Census Block Groups or Tracks
- if last mile is included; and need to provide service in 100% of Block Group
or Track, or state why not.

I suggest you download the slides from the Internet, for most helpful
information.

The slides are pretty self-explanatory.  Some key points were that applications
need to identify the problem (e.g. lack of service) -> need (e.g. service) ->
how your application solves the problem (e.g. provides service).  For the SBA,
need to identify what metrics will be used to show results.

For Infrastructure, unlike round 1 - operational leases (IRUs etc.) can be
eligible costs if they are > than 1 year.
	Capitalized leases can only be capitalized up to 3 years
	Federal Taxes are NOT eligible costs
	It is not known if BTOP grants are taxable - suggestion was to consult a tax
expert who knows your grantee type

NTIA WILL make comments from state and tribes publicly available - not sure if
that was the case in Round 1.

Review of the Elements of a Successful Application slides:

They emphasized "partners, partners, partners" over and over in this
presentation.  Strong request to create profiles on match.broadbandusa.gov for
projects (and for consultants, etc.). Strong request to use
match.broadbandusa.gov to identify other projects applying in your area.

Review of Compliance and Reporting Requirements Slides:

Most of this stuff is post-award, but there was some indications that winning
grantees addressed items in here during the application.  Suggested that
applicable OMB circulars are read ahead of time.

----------

Please feel free to contact me if you have gotten a rejection or award notice
from the RUS or NTIA, or if you are applying for round 2 funding by the March
15th submission deadline.   I am tracking this process for the State, and may
have information that could help you with partnerships or other ways to
strengthen your proposal/application.   It will benefit us all to have as many
successful projects as possible in New Mexico, despite the time constraints and
frustrations with the process.
All best.
Richard


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From: pete at ideapete.com (pete baston)
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:22:26 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] The JOY of innovation !!!!
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From granoff at zianet.com  Mon Feb 15 19:24:06 2010
From: granoff at zianet.com (Marianne Granoff)
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:24:06 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: About that line-sharing proposal at the FCC
Message-ID: <20100216032408.A0EC41297C7F@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>

 From another list.  FYI.


>"Regulators may drop broadband line-sharing bombshell
>By Matthew Lasar | Last updated February 14, 2010 8:15 PM
>
>In a potentially significant reversal of policy, the Federal 
>Communications Commission could be poised to make the big telecoms 
>share their high-speed Internet fiber networks with smaller 
>companies. They would, in turn, offer more broadband services to the 
>public. That's according to a Bloomberg story published on Friday, 
>which adds that the proposal being considered comes from the Cbeyond 
>broadband/telecom services firm. We contacted the FCC about this and 
>got no response. But we also called AT&T, and they're taking it 
>seriously enough.
>
>"We support the Commission's efforts to promote investment to 
>achieve universal broadband and create jobs in this difficult 
>economy," an AT&T spokesperson told us, "however, the rule changes 
>pushed by Cbeyond will undermine these efforts.""
>
>
>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/02/regulators-may-drop-broadband-line-sharing-bombshell.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
>
>  http://tinyurl.com/yfgy38p
>



From john at citylinkfiber.com  Wed Feb 17 09:36:55 2010
From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown)
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:36:55 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe,
	now entering 3rd year of trying to get Fiber Franchise
Message-ID: <F70BCC55F4F2F14888D450E441159C2408AA04@deathstar2.citylinkfiber.intra>

The City Different wants to continue to be the City Un-Connected.

700+ days and counting

Folks on this list have talked about the recent Google Fiber initiatives
and how it would be great for Santa Fe to have Gig-a-bit services.
Google will still need legal access to the Rights of Way.  Those are
acquired via a NON-EXCLUSIVE Franchise with the municipality.

CityLink (a New Mexico Company) is already doing Gigabit services in
Albuquerque, and made application 700+ days ago to do the same in Santa
Fe.  Here is a brief overview of the journey taken so far.

CityLink (my company) applied for a Franchise on March 4, 2008.  We met
at 1:30 pm with Mayor David Coss. It was a fast paced 30 minute meeting.
We presented to the Mayor what we would do with our fiber, how it would
help the City, its Citizens, its Schools, its Libraries, its Public
Buildings, Reduce costs for the City, Create another revenue source,
significantly improve Santa Fe's economic development abilities, and
most importantly give Santa Fe Open Access CHOICE.

The Mayor was positive.  Immediately following the meeting the Mayor
introduced us to Mr. Fabian Trujillo of the City's Economic Development
Department.

On March 20th, 2008 at 1pm we met with Mr. Trujillo, Ms. Kathy McCormick
and Mr. Thomas Williams.
We presented the same power-point data we had presented to the Mayor and
answered questions.  The "take away" was that Mr. Trujillo would seek to
determine the specific process and people within the City that we needed
to meet with to move the request forward.

In the passing YEARS, we met with Mr. Trujillo and other members of the
City's Economic Development group. Dozens of meetings, emails, and phone
calls over the years took place.  Each of those meetings resulted in the
same thing.  City representatives saying they will go and figure out the
process, or they will go to City Legal and figure out the process.

Each time, NOTHING WOULD HAPPEN and we would basically start over.

I've seen bureaucratic red-tape before, and in the spirit of the Olympic
Games, this takes the Gold Medal.

Finally in late July of 2009, we informed Mr. Trujillo that unless
significant positive process was made within a very short period of
time, our intent was to litigate in Federal Court.  The basis of our
litigation would be Federal Policy that states a Municipality may not
take longer than 90 days to grant a telecommunications Franchise, and if
they do, then the applicant can apply to the FCC and the FCC can
basically force the issue.

Shortly afterwards a meeting was setup between ourselves, Mr. Trujillo,
the City Manager, and the City Attorney.  The meeting was positive.  The
City Attorney (Frank Katz) assured us that his department would move
rapidly on the matter.

To Mr. Katz's credit and the credit of his department, they did move
rapidly.  Hats off to the City Attorney's staff.

By November a new Telecommunications Ordinance was presented to City
Council along with several franchise requests (ours included).

Throughout November and December I attended a number of City Council
committee meetings.  At each meeting the committee had brief
conversations about the new ordinance and in the end they voted to PASS
the ordinance forward to full Council.  Everything was moving forward
smoothly.

In January 2010, the full City Council voted to approve publication of
the Ordinance.

Then on February 10, 2010 the City Council had a long and mostly
repetitive debate about the ordinance.  My take was that it was probably
the first time that several of the City Council members had actually
read the documents.  Many of the concerns and questions raised should
have been raised AND RESOLVED in committee.  Issues raised at this
meeting all focused on wireless issues.

The City Council voted to delay the ordinance vote until February 24th,
2010.

I have now learned that the City Administration wishes to DELAY the vote
until some point in the future.

The news media has reported mostly on the "juicy" stuff, people in
conflict, people yelling and cussing,  the "Wi-Fi" opponents and the
issues they raise.  As is typical the news media has gotten it very
WRONG.

This isn't WiFi.   WiFi is a specific technology that uses specific
frequencies and protocols.

The franchise applicant that wishes to do wireless, wishes to deploy a
"DAS" or Distributed Antenna System network.  This DAS will use small,
low power antennas to fill in "dead-spots" for CELLUAR PHONE SERVICE.

There are several IMPORTANT differences between WiFi and Cellular Phone
Service.

1. WiFi is NOT licensed by the FCC. It uses UN-LICENSED spectrum.
2. Cellular Phone Service DOES use LICENSED spectrum.  That spectrum is
controlled by the FCC.

3. Cellular Phone Companies MUST also be licensed by the State as a
carrier.
4. WiFi providers DO NOT need to be licensed by the State.

5. As a FCC license holder, the FCC regulates the output power,
frequency, direction, antenna design, etc.  If a FCC license holder is
out of compliance there are enforcement methods the FCC can employ. 


I am not an expert and will not pretend to be an expert on the
biological hazards, if any, that wireless signals have or may have on
the population or a segment of the population.  As such I don't have an
opinion at this time.


The opponents to Wireless have hurt the City by trying to kill the
entire ordinance, instead of focusing on the wireless issues.  To me
this clearly shows they do not get the technology, the process, the
legal issues, or the benefit that fiber brings to the City of Santa Fe. 


The City Council has three actions that it needs to decide on.

1. Replacement of the existing and already ruled "illegal"
telecommunications ordinance.

This replacement helps get the City into compliance with the 10th
Circuit Courts rulings from 2004.

The replacement is will help create a level playing field for the future
of Santa Fe.

The replacement allows Santa Fe to entice and attract competitive
providers, which in turn helps Santa Fe.

The replacement creates a better process by-which franchises can be
created.


2. Approve, Deny, or Further Discuss/revise a franchise application by
New-Path to deploy a DAS wireless (NOT WiFi) system.



3. Approve, Deny, or Further Discuss/revise a franchise application by
CityLink to deploy GigaBit based Fiber to homes, schools, businesses,
libraries, and community centers.


By approving the ordinance replacement, The City Council sets the way to
a bright future for Santa Fe.

By delaying, the City exposes itself to significant legal risk and
costs.  All at the expense of the Citizens of Santa Fe (read voters and
tax payers).

If the people of Santa Fe want to have fiber optic based communications
and services to their homes, businesses, schools, libraries, and
community centers, then they should let their City Council members know
that this matter SHOULD NOT BE DELAYED and should be voted on February
24th, 2010.

City Council should APPROVE the new ordinance and then also approve the
uncontested CityLink franchise.

Elections are just around the corner.  Santa Fe's elected officials
should MOVE Santa Fe forward into the 21st century.


Respectfully,

John Brown, President
CityLink Fiber Holdings, Inc.
505 938 6309






From tom at jtjohnson.com  Wed Feb 17 14:59:02 2010
From: tom at jtjohnson.com (Tom Johnson)
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:59:02 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Qwest says users don't want more speed
Message-ID: <e04090491002171459x74374af2rd7eafb7a1cab214a@mail.gmail.com>

Guess that explains why Quest "minimal-band" is just that.

http://ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCATRE61F3GY20100216

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From: pete at ideapete.com (pete baston)
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:50:32 -0700
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From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:33:32 -0800
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] RUS BIP Awards
Message-ID: <20100217193332.k0cciw1q4gsckocc@www2.dcn.org>

New Mexico

?             Western New Mexico Telephone Company, Broadband Infrastructure
Project: $11,516,679 grant.  The funding will provide last mile broadband
services to remote and unserved locations and critical community facilities
throughout Western New Mexico.

?             Baca Valley Telephone Company, Inc.: $1,651,000 loan and
$1,586,000 grant.  The funding will expand fiber optics to Digital Subscriber
Line (DSL) nodes in rural Northeastern New Mexico, replacing outdated
deteriorating copper wire and low bandwidth microwave transport systems in some
areas, while providing new connectivity in others, and enabling advanced,
high-speed DSL service throughout the area.

 ----------

Contact:
USDA Office of Communications
(202) 720-0698

AGRICULTURE SECRETARY VILSACK ANNOUNCES RURAL BROADBAND PROJECTS TO BRING
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY TO COMMUNITIES IN NINE STATES
Filing Period For Round Two of Broadband Applications Opens This Week


                WASHINGTON, February 17, 2010 ? Agriculture Secretary Tom
Vilsack today announced the selection of eleven Broadband Infrastructure
projects to enable rural residents in nine states to have access to improved
economic and educational opportunities. Funding for the projects is being
provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which was signed
into law by President Obama a year ago today.  Additionally, USDA and The
Department of Commerce?s National Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA) have announced that a second filing window for broadband
applications opened this week.

                ?The broadband projects we?re announcing today will create
construction jobs now to build high speed Internet networks in unserved and
under-served communities. Deployment of broadband will support job creation and
rural economic development,? Vilsack said. ?The Obama Administration and
USDA are bringing broadband to rural America so that Americans can compete in a
global 21st Century economy.  We are opening new opportunities not only for
homes and businesses, but for community institutions such as health facilities,
libraries, public buildings and community centers.?

                In rural Kentucky, for example, the Mountain Rural Telephone
Cooperative Corporation (MRTCC) has been selected to receive a $39.8 million
loan and a $38.3 million grant to deploy a fiber cable-based broadband network
in the counties of Morgan, Menifee, Wolfe, and Elliott.  All four counties are
considered ?distressed? by the Appalachian Regional Commission, and are
challenged by mountainous terrain and limited highway and rail infrastructure. 
MRTCC will bring broadband access to these counties to enhance economic and
educational opportunities for residents and employers.

In rural Minnesota, the Southwest Minnesota Broadband Group (SWMBG) has been
selected to receive an almost $6.4 million loan and a $6.4 million grant to
extend fiber to the Jackson, Lakefield, Windom, Round Lake, Bingham Lake,
Brewster, Wilder, Heron Lake, and Okabena communities.  This funding, along
with an $88,000 private investment, will provide high-speed Internet, voice,
and cable television to the participating communities.  This will improve the
quality of life by increasing the availability of health, education, and public
safety services across the region.

In all, over $277 million will be invested in the 11 projects through funding
made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.  An additional
$1.6 million in private investment will be provided in matching funds. 
Congress provided USDA $2.5 billion in Recovery Act funding to help bring
broadband services to rural un-served and underserved communities.

Funding of individual recipients is contingent upon their meeting the terms of
the loan,   grant or loan/grant agreement. Below is a complete list of recent
Recovery Act Broadband award recipients by state:

Indiana
Smithville Telephone Company, Inc.: $37,729,143 loan.  The funding will provide
3,815 households, 209 businesses, and 12 community anchor institutions with
access to broadband service.

Iowa
Southeast Iowa Rural Wireless Broadband: $3,836,926 loan.  The funding will
provide Internet services to 80 rural communities using proven wireless
technology.

Kentucky
Mountain Rural Telephone Cooperative Corporation (MRTCC) ILEC Broadband:
$39,843,535 loan and $38,281,044 grant.  The funding will provide fiber to
Morgan, Menifee, Wolfe, and Elliott counties that will result in 20 Mbps
bandwidth to end users.

Louisiana
Allen's Cable ? Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) Broadband Network Extension:
$3,584,680 loan and $3,513,697 grant.  The funding will extend fiber into rural
areas of three South Louisiana Parishes.

LBH, LLC, - Rural Broadband Powered by Fiber: $16,693,439 loan and $16,691,939
grant.  The funding will expand existing broadband into rural areas around Moss
Bluff, Oakdale, and Vinton.

Minnesota
Southwest Minnesota Broadband Group (SWMBG): $6,350,000 loan and $6,350,250
grant.  The funding will provide service to eight rural communities throughout
Southwest Minnesota.

Missouri
Unionville, Missouri FTTP Project: $5,140,458 loan and $5,140,458 grant.  The
funding will provide broadband services to households, businesses, and key
community organizations that are currently underserved in the Unionville area.

New Mexico
Western New Mexico Telephone Company, Broadband Infrastructure Project:
$11,516,679 grant.  The funding will provide last mile broadband services to
remote and unserved locations and critical community facilities throughout
Western New Mexico.

Baca Valley Telephone Company, Inc.: $1,651,000 loan and $1,586,000 grant.  The
funding will expand fiber optics to Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) nodes in
rural Northeastern New Mexico, replacing outdated deteriorating copper wire and
low bandwidth microwave transport systems in some areas, while providing new
connectivity in others, and enabling advanced, high-speed DSL service
throughout the area.

Oregon
Sandy Broadband Infrastructure Project: $374,548 loan and $374,537 grant.  The
funding will provide broadband service to the underserved rural area of Sandy
by improving and expanding wireless Internet service.

Texas
Southern Texas Broadband Infrastructure Development and Adoption Project:
$40,093,153 loan and $38,520,868 grant.  The funding will develop a broadband
infrastructure in eleven unserved and underserved rural communities of the
South Texas Plains.

USDA is continuing to review broadband applications currently on file and
expects to make additional announcements concerning awards throughout the
current fiscal year.  Additionally, The Department of Commerce?s National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Department of
Agriculture?s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) on Tuesday began accepting
applications for a second round of broadband grants.  Applications will be
accepted until March 15, 2010 at 5 p.m. ET.

The application packages for electronic submissions is available at
http://www.broadbandusa.gov.  Electronic submissions of applications will allow
for the expeditious review of an Applicant?s proposal, consistent with the
goals of the Recovery Act. The government electronic application system will
provide a date and time stamped confirmation number that will serve as proof of
submission. The Recovery Act provided a total of $7.2 billion to the Department
of Commerce and to USDA to accelerate broadband deployment in areas of the
country that have been without the high-speed infrastructure.

You may obtain additional information regarding applications via the Internet at
http://www.broadbandusa.gov.

President Obama signed The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 into
law on Feb. 17, 2009.  It is designed to jumpstart the nation's economy, create
or save millions of jobs, and put a down payment on addressing long-neglected
challenges so our country can thrive in the 21st century.  The Act includes
measures to modernize our nation's infrastructure, enhance energy independence,
expand educational opportunities, preserve and improve affordable health care,
provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need.

More information about USDA's Recovery Act efforts is available at
www.usda.gov/recovery . More information about the Federal government's efforts
on the Recovery Act is available at www.recovery.gov .

#

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer and lender. To file a complaint
of discrimination, write: USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400
Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (800) 795-3272
(voice), or (202) 720-6382 (TDD).

______________________________
Erin Hannigan
Office of Congressional Relations
United States Department of Agriculture
202.720.7095


-- 
Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com

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From granoff at zianet.com  Mon Feb 22 15:39:39 2010
From: granoff at zianet.com (Marianne Granoff)
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:39:39 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: 2.22
Message-ID: <20100222233942.89333B73AFD@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>


 From another list.  FYI

>Chuck Norris botnet karate-chops routers hard, CW
>If you haven't changed the default password on your home router, you
>may be in for an unwanted visit from Chuck Norris -- the Chuck Norris
>botnet, that is.
> 
>http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9159758/Chuck_Norris_botnet_karate_chops_routers_hard?source=rss_news
>
>
>Facebook now bigger than Yahoo, Lost Remote
>Facebook is now the second most-popular site on the web. In January,
>Facebook pulled in 133.6 million users to Yahoo's 132 million,
>according to Compete. That puts Facebook in second, behind only
>Google. If you want to see something really interesting, check out the
>chart below that shows engagement. In this category, Facebook blows
>them all away:
>http://www.lostremote.com/2010/02/21/facebook-now-bigger-than-yahoo/
>
>
>Pew Research Center Releases New Report on Future of the Internet, EPIC
>The Pew Research Center has released its fourth annual "The Future of
>the Internet" report. The report, part of the Center's Internet and
>American Life Project, surveyed the views of technology experts,
>stakeholders, and critics regarding their expectations about the
>changes and the future of the internet. When asked to share his view
>"about the future of anonymous activity online,"
>  http://epic.org/2010/02/pew-research-center-releases-n.html
>
>Actual report:
>  http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Future-of-the-Internet-IV.aspx?r=1
>
>
>FCC GIVES SCHOOL E-RATE PROGRAMS MORE FLEXIBILITY TO ALLOW COMMUNITY
>USE OF BROADBAND SERVICES., FCC
>The FCC adopted an order that enables
>schools that receive funding from the E-rate program to allow members of
>the general public to use the schools' Internet access during
>non-operating hours.  News Release. Adopted:  02/18/2010.
>  http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-296371A1.doc
>



From granoff at zianet.com  Wed Feb 24 09:58:14 2010
From: granoff at zianet.com (Marianne Granoff)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:58:14 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Qwest refusing ARRA funds
Message-ID: <20100224175818.3E677122C9D6@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>


 From another list.  FYI.

>You folks will love this one.  This showed up in an otherwise 
>innocent amendment today to our Interconnection Agreement:
>
>The Payment Section 5.4 of the Agreement is also hereby amended by 
>adding the following:
>
>5.4.10        CLEC must not remit payment for the Services with 
>funds obtained through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 
>(or ARRA) or other similar stimulus grants or loans that would 
>obligate Qwest to provide certain information or perform certain 
>functions unless those functions and obligations are specifically 
>agreed to by the parties in this Agreement or in an amendment to 
>this Agreement.
>
>--
>Steve Mossbrook
>Steve at WYOMING.COM



From pete at ideapete.com  Wed Feb 24 10:27:02 2010
From: pete at ideapete.com (pete baston)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:27:02 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Qwest refusing ARRA funds
In-Reply-To: <20100224175818.3E677122C9D6@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>
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From rl at 1st-mile.com  Wed Feb 24 16:46:26 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:46:26 -0800
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NTIA Award to ENMR
Message-ID: <20100224164626.89nj5ytl0kc0w8sg@www2.dcn.org>


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

News Media Contact:
Jessica Schafer, 202-482-5670, press at ntia.doc.gov

SECRETARY LOCKE ANNOUNCES RECOVERY ACT INVESTMENT IN NEW MEXICO AND TEXAS
TO EXPAND BROADBAND INTERNET ACCESS AND SPUR ECONOMIC GROWTH

WASHINGTON ? U.S. Commerce Secretary Locke today, joined by Senator Jeff
Bingaman, Senator Tom Udall and former New Mexico Governor Toney Anaya on a
press conference call, announced a $11.2 million Recovery Act investment to
help bridge the technological divide, boost economic growth, create jobs, and
improve education and healthcare in eastern New Mexico and west Texas. The
grant will bring high-speed Internet access to more than 200 community anchor
institutions ? including schools, public safety organizations, healthcare
facilities, and government agencies ? and lay the groundwork for bringing
affordable broadband service to thousands of homes and businesses in the
region.

The investment will allow the ENMR Telephone Cooperative, Inc., which does
business as ENMR-Plateau, to enhance broadband Internet capabilities in eastern
New Mexico and west Texas by providing a more than 1,600-mile ring of fiber.
Among other benefits, the project plans to expand distance learning
opportunities for students at schools and libraries in rural areas and enable
connectivity to a telehealth network being constructed across New Mexico,
Arizona, Utah and Colorado.

?This critical investment will expand high-speed Internet service access to
New Mexico schools and hospitals, and eventually homes and businesses, helping
to make them full participants in today?s 21stcentury information economy,?
Locke said. ?Having access to the Internet?s economic, health and
educational benefits will help to improve the quality of life in these
communities.?

The Department of Commerce?s National Telecommunications and Information
Administration?s (NTIA) Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP),
funded by the Recovery Act, provides grants to support the deployment of
broadband infrastructure, enhance and expand public computer centers, and
encourage sustainable adoption of broadband service.
?This $11.2 million grant to ENMR Telephone Cooperative will make it possible
to build miles of new fiber-optic lines, which will benefit businesses,
schools, libraries, public safety entities, and help advance the telehealth
network being developed across New Mexico,? said Bingaman. ?This grant is
good news for eastern New Mexico, as well as for our entire state.?

?Over the last 10 years, America has gone from being a world leader in
Internet penetration to now lagging in that effort, and as a state, New Mexico
sadly falls towards the bottom of that list,? said Udall, a member of the
Senate Commerce Committee. ?I am proud this Recovery award will help develop
the needed broadband infrastructure in New Mexico that will help enable
teleheath services, distance learning programs and attract future businesses
and jobs to our state.?

"This is great news for eastern New Mexico,? said Anaya, executive director of
the New Mexico Office of Recovery and Reinvestment. ?The Recovery Act
continues to invest in New Mexico's communities, employing thousands,
rebuilding our infrastructure, and supporting the state budget.?

New Mexico Representatives Martin Heinrich, Ben Ray Luj?n and Harry Teague also
praised today?s award.
?The world of information technology is vast, and vital to education and job
opportunities in New Mexico,? said Heinrich. ?By connecting New Mexicans
with improved access to the Internet, we open the door to endless possibilities
for learning and inspiring entrepreneurship and economic growth, which are key
components of the Recovery Act.?

"As we become increasingly dependent on Internet technology for our everyday
activities, we must ensure that all communities have access. Extending
broadband throughout New Mexico will help our businesses grow, our children
learn, and our communities stay informed," said Luj?n. "It is encouraging that
the Recovery Act is making this important investment in broadband technology.?

?For many communities in my district, access to broadband is a luxury ? and
often times that means they have to miss out on critical educational and
economic opportunities,? said Teague. ?These Recovery funds will help give
rural communities in New Mexico the same opportunities that their more urban
counterparts currently enjoy by providing the resources needed to build local
economies and job opportunities across the region.?

NTIA received more than 1,800 applications proposing projects totaling nearly
$19 billion during the first BTOP funding round and is currently awarding
grants on a rolling basis.  NTIA is currently accepting BTOP applications
through March 15, 2010 for a second round of funding.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided a total of $7.2 billion to
NTIA and the Department of Agriculture?s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) to
fund projects that will expand access to and adoption of broadband services. Of
that funding, NTIA will utilize $4.7 billion for grants to deploy broadband
infrastructure in the United States, expand public computer center capacity,
and encourage sustainable adoption of broadband service. NTIA will announce all
grant awards by September 30, 2010.


-- 
Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com

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From pete at ideapete.com  Fri Feb 26 15:20:20 2010
From: pete at ideapete.com (pete baston)
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:20:20 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Little old ladies and farmers put in their own
	broadband fiber cable
Message-ID: <4B885734.2070201@ideapete.com>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8538963.stm

while we moan

( : ( : pete




From john at citylinkfiber.com  Mon Mar  1 13:33:53 2010
From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 14:33:53 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] CityLink's Proposed Santa Fe R100 fiber network
Message-ID: <F70BCC55F4F2F14888D450E441159C2408AB38@deathstar2.citylinkfiber.intra>

 <<SAF.NM.R100.kmz>> Proposed initial Fiber Ring for Santa Fe

This will enable us to deliver Gigabit services.

It is now all in the hands of the City Council for March 10th

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From rl at 1st-mile.com  Tue Mar  2 09:53:04 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:53:04 -0800
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] RUS & NTIA Infrastructure Proposals: Extended Deadline
Message-ID: <20100302095304.8kqy41j48wcs8sw8@www2.dcn.org>

The notice of the extension of the application window on the 2nd round of the
broadband program is now available on www.broadbandusa.gov.

NTIA and RUS will grant a limited extension of time to file infrastructure
applications in the second funding round. Specifically, applicants for BTOP
Comprehensive Community Infrastructure projects will have until March 26th to
file their applications to NTIA.

Applicants for BIP infrastructure projects will have until March 29th to file
their applications to RUS.

Applications in NTIA's two other project categories - Public Computer Centers
and Sustainable Broadband Adoption - remain due on March 15th.




-- 
Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com

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From rl at 1st-mile.com  Thu Mar  4 08:48:27 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:48:27 -0800
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Two More NM Awards
Message-ID: <20100304084827.3uwwjyuq884444kw@www2.dcn.org>

Congratulations to the Pueblo of San Ildefonso and to Penasco Valley Telephone
Coop.
RL


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 4, 2010
CONTACT: Mark Nicastre, (202) 503-8988

Rep. Luj?n Applauds Broadband Investments in Rural New Mexico

Washington, DC ? Today, Rep. Ben Ray Luj?n applauded investments in rural
broadband in New Mexico made through the American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act. The investments were announced today by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. Pueblo de San Ildefonso will receive a $632,225 loan and a
$632,225 grant to serve 2,405 households, while the Penasco Valley Telephone
Cooperative will receive a $4,818,607 loan and a $4,770,660 grant to expand
fiber and wireless technology.

"Broadband technology connects communities, helps businesses grow, and provides
students with the opportunity to learn new skills. As we expand broadband
technology, we must ensure that our rural communities have access," said
Luj?n. "It is encouraging that the Recovery Act is making this important
investment in broadband technology, especially in our rural and tribal
communities.?

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more than $254.6 million will
be invested in 22 projects across the country. An additional $13.1 million in
private investment will be provided in matching funds. Congress provided USDA
$2.5 billion in Recovery Act funding to assist applicants to bring broadband
services to rural unserved and underserved communities. To date, $895.6 million
has been provided to support 55 broadband projects in 29 states or territories.

Two New Mexico broadband projects will receive funding:
?         Pueblo de San Ildefonso: TewaCom Broadband Initiative (TBI), Phase
1-Upper Rio Grande Valley Project; $632,225 loan and $632,225 grant. The
funding will enable the Pueblo to expand service to 2,405 households.

?         Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative Inc.: The Penasco Valley
Telephone (PVT) Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC) Project; $4,818,607
loan and $4,770,660 grant. The funding will provide high-speed broadband to
unserved areas in the ILEC territory through fiber and wireless technology.



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1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
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From rl at 1st-mile.com  Thu Mar  4 08:50:04 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:50:04 -0800
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] And One More
Message-ID: <20100304085004.16lvkpa6g40ssk4w@www2.dcn.org>

Congratulations to Santa Fe Civic Housing Authority on their NTIA Public
Computing Centers project award.
More below.   RL


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

News Media Contact:
Shannon Gilson, (202) 482-4883, sgilson at doc.gov

SECRETARY LOCKE ANNOUNCES RECOVERY ACT INVESTMENTS TO
EXPAND BROADBAND INTERNET ACCESS AND SPUR ECONOMIC GROWTH

WASHINGTON ? U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today announced 23 American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act investments to help bridge the technological
divide, boost economic growth, create jobs and improve education and healthcare
cross the country. The grants will increase broadband access and adoption in
California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana,
Massachusetts, Maryland, North Carolina, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Puerto Rico,
Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin and West Virginia. The grants, totaling more than
$160 million, will lay the groundwork to bring high-speed Internet access to
millions of households and businesses, and link up thousands of schools,
hospitals, libraries, and public safety offices to the information
superhighway.

?In a globalized 21st century economy, when you don?t have regular access to
the Internet, you don't have access to all the educational and employment
opportunities it provides. Fast, reliable Internet can help keep communities
safer, open doors for small businesses and provide job training and skills to
more Americans,? Locke said. ?Over the long-term, enabling our people to
create new products and new ways of doing business will help communities
throughout the country get onto a sustainable growth path, and that?s what
the Recovery Act is all about.?

The Department of Commerce?s National Telecommunications and Information
Administration?s (NTIA) Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP),
funded by the Recovery Act, provides grants to support the deployment of
broadband infrastructure, enhance and expand public computer centers, and
encourage sustainable adoption of broadband service.

?The level of interest in this program has been extraordinary, and is yet
another indicator of the critical role broadband plays in achieving durable,
sustainable economic growth,? Assistant Secretary for Communications and
Information and NTIA Administrator Lawrence E. Strickling said. ?Like the
grants announced today, the strongest proposals are the ones that have taken a
truly comprehensive view of the communities to be served and have engaged as
many key members of the communities as possible in developing the projects.?

The following grants were announced today:

California:  Level 3 EON, LLC:  $3.3 million broadband infrastructure grant with
an additional $1.1 million applicant-provided match to build 11 new access
points on Level 3?s existing broadband network. These additional points of
interconnection ? essentially on-ramps to the Internet ? will offer
broadband speeds between 50 Mbps and 10 Gbps on an open and nondiscriminatory
basis to local Internet service providers, enabling them to provide enhanced
broadband capabilities to as many as 240,000 households, 9,900 businesses, and
240 anchor institutions, including schools, government agencies, and healthcare
providers.

Florida:  Level 3 EON, LLC: $2.1 million broadband infrastructure grant with an
additional $689,000 applicant-provided match to build seven new access points
on Level 3?s existing broadband network. These additional points of
interconnection will offer broadband speeds between 50 Mbps and 10 Gbps on an
open and nondiscriminatory basis to local Internet service providers, enabling
them to provide enhanced broadband capabilities to as many as 180,000
households, 12,300 businesses, and 100 community anchor institutions, including
schools, government agencies, and healthcare providers.

Florida:  School Board of Miami-Dade County: $3.5 million sustainable broadband
adoption grant with an additional $996,000 applicant-provided match to increase
broadband adoption among low-income middle school students and their families by
an estimated 15,000 households. The project plans to offer 60,000 hours of
computer training to 30,000 students and their parents, provide low-cost
refurbished laptops to 6,000 students and their families, and offer discounted
Internet service to 10,000 families.

Georgia:  Columbia County Information Technology Department: $13.5 million
broadband infrastructure grant with an additional $4.5 million
applicant-provided match to build a 220-mile, county-wide fiber network to
connect nearly 150 community anchor institutions and enhance healthcare, public
safety, and government services throughout the region. The project plans to
facilitate the creation of a high-capacity data center at the Medical College
of Georgia, support a sophisticated county-wide traffic and water control
system, enable 60 free Wi-Fi hotspots in public locations, and construct five
wireless towers to enhance public safety communications as well as improve
wireless communications capabilities throughout the region.

Georgia: Level 3 EON, LLC:  $1.4 million broadband infrastructure grant with an
additional $476,000 applicant-provided match to build four new access points on
Level 3?s existing broadband network. These additional points of
interconnection ? essentially on-ramps to the Internet ? will offer
broadband speeds between 50 Mbps and 10 Gbps on an open and nondiscriminatory
basis to local Internet service providers, enabling them to provide enhanced
broadband capabilities to as many as 198,000 households, 13,000 businesses, and
190 anchor institutions, including schools, government agencies, and healthcare
providers.

Illinois:  Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois: $22.5 million
broadband infrastructure grant with an additional $6.8 million
applicant-provided match to construct 187 miles of fiber-optic broadband
network in Urbana, Champaign and Savoy to provide high-speed connectivity to
community anchor institutions, and support fiber-to-the-home services in four
low-income neighborhoods. The project expects to provide speeds of at least 100
Mbps to directly connect 143 anchor institutions, including schools, social
service agencies, healthcare facilities, youth centers, public library systems
and higher education institutions.

Indiana:  Educational Networks of America, Inc.:  $14.3 million broadband
infrastructure grant with an additional $4 million applicant-provided match to
improve educational opportunities for an estimated 290,000 students and library
patrons by deploying 560 miles of fiber that will deliver 100 Mbps connections
to 145 public schools and libraries. In addition, the project expects to spur
affordable broadband Internet service for as many as 200,000 households, 30,000
businesses and 630 community anchor institutions by enabling local Internet
providers to connect to the project?s open network.

Kansas:  Level 3 EON, LLC: $998,000 broadband infrastructure grant with an
additional $333,000 applicant-provided match to build four new access points on
Level 3?s existing broadband network. These additional points of
interconnection will offer broadband speeds between 50 Mbps and 10 Gbps on an
open and nondiscriminatory basis to local Internet service providers, enabling
them to provide enhanced broadband capabilities to as many as 50,000
households, 3,600 businesses and 150 community anchor institutions, including
schools, government agencies, and healthcare providers.

Louisiana:  Deaf Action Center of Louisiana:  $1.4 million public computer
center grant with an additional $436,000 applicant-provided match to install 81
new videoconferencing stations, and enhance the user experience at 19 existing
stations that serve people who are deaf and hard of hearing in Northwest
Louisiana, and individual sites in Alabama, California, and Texas. The project
intends to use broadband and videoconference technology to provide on-demand,
cost-effective sign language interpretation at community anchor institutions
such as hospitals, courts, public safety agencies, shelters, schools and
libraries.

Massachusetts:  OpenCape Corporation:  $32 million broadband infrastructure
grant with an additional $8.3 million applicant-provided match to deploy 350
miles of fiber and over 100 miles of microwave broadband network links in the
Cape Cod region, directly connecting more than 70 anchor institutions,
including emergency shelters, libraries, colleges, academic research facilities
and town or public safety facilities. These anchors would receive 100 Mbs
service, allowing them to support a wide range of economic, educational, public
safety and healthcare-related applications.

Massachusetts:  Cambridge Housing Authority:  $699,000 public computer center
grant with an additional $541,000 applicant-provided match to reopen and expand
three public computer centers that serve approximately 10,000 public housing
residents, including low-income households, immigrants, seniors and minorities.
The Cambridge Housing Authority intends to replace 24 workstations and add 16
new ones at the centers to serve an expected 420 new users per week with access
to broadband technology, computer courses, job training and literacy programs.

Maryland:  Coppin State University:  $932,000 public computer center grant with
an additional $275,000 applicant-provided match to provide broadband access and
computer education to the Coppin Heights-Rosemont community, a low-income
neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland with a high minority population. Consistent
with the community?s existing revitalization plan, Coppin State University
will establish a 60-workstation computer center for use by the local community,
and anticipates offering 15 training and educational courses on a regular basis,
serving more than an estimated 500 users per week and more than 12,000 unique
users within two years.

North Carolina:  Mitchell County Historic Courthouse Foundation:  $239,000
public computer center grant with an additional $60,000 applicant-provided
match to more than double the number of public computer workstations available
to residents of Mitchell County, provide job training and educational courses
through the local community college and extension service, and expand broadband
Internet access by creating a Wi-Fi hotspot in the newly-renovated historic
courthouse that will reach the adjacent library and parts of downtown
Bakersville, North Carolina.

New Mexico:  Santa Fe Civic Housing Authority:  $176,000 public computer center
grant with an additional $52,000 applicant-provided match to expand the
capacity of one public computer center and create an additional public computer
center at two public housing sites, offering broadband access and computer
training to low-income families, minorities, disadvantaged youth, disabled, and
elderly Santa Fe residents. The project expects to add 13 new broadband
workstations and replace seven workstations, enabling the centers to increase
the number of users served per week from 27 to 135.

Ohio:  OneCommunity:  $18.7 million sustainable broadband adoption grant with an
additional $4.8 million applicant-provided match to employ a collaborative
strategy to expand broadband adoption by almost 20,000 households in targeted
communities in five states. OneCommunity plans to work with non-profit and
community organizations to implement neighbor-to-neighbor broadband adoption
and awareness campaigns reaching an estimated 334,000 low-income individuals,
and provide training and services to an estimated 33,000 people in Akron,
Cleveland, and Zanesville, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Gulfport/Biloxi,
Mississippi; Lexington, Kentucky and Bradenton, Florida. (This project benefits
Florida, Kentucky, Michigan, and Mississippi as well.)

Oregon:  Lane Council of Governments:  $8.3 million broadband infrastructure
grant with an additional $2.1 million applicant-provided match to enhance an
existing fiber-optic backbone and deploy 124 miles of fiber-optic network that
will deliver broadband capabilities across three large, mostly rural counties
and the Klamath Tribal region in Western Oregon. The project plans to enhance
education, healthcare delivery, job training, and government services by
providing 100 Mbs connections for more than 100 community anchor institutions,
including medical centers, public safety entities, schools, community colleges
and libraries.

Puerto Rico:  Iniciativa Tecnol?gica Centro Oriental, Inc. (INTECO, Inc.): 
$12.9 millionbroadband infrastructure grant with an additional $3.4 million
applicant-provided match to deploy a multifaceted 515 mile network that will
include both wireless and fiber connections in some of the neediest areas of
Puerto Rico. The project plans to directly connect nearly 250 anchor
institutions including  schools, hospitals, municipal facilities, police
stations and libraries. It will also facilitate new or improved broadband
Internet access for local consumers, including up to 300 anchor institutions,
136,000 households, and 600 businesses and industrial centers, by enabling
local service providers to connect to the project?s open network.

Tennessee:  Level 3 EON:  $1.3 million broadband infrastructure grant with an
additional $432,000 applicant-provided match to build four new access points on
Level 3?s existing broadband network. These additional points of
interconnection will offer broadband speeds between 50 Mbps and 10 Gbps on an
open and nondiscriminatory basis to local Internet service providers, enabling
them to provide enhanced broadband capabilities to as many as 188,000
households, 9,600 businesses, and 150 community anchor institutions, including
schools, government agencies and healthcare providers.

Tennessee:  DeltaCom, Inc.:  $9.4 million broadband infrastructure grant with an
additional $2.3 million applicant-provided match to provide a 544-mile
high-capacity fiber-optic broadband network that will provide high-speed
connections for more than 50 community anchor institutions in five Eastern
Tennessee communities, from Chattanooga through Knoxville to Johnson City and
Bristol. The project expects to spur more affordable broadband Internet access
for over 34,000 households, 5,000 businesses, and 270 anchor institutions by
allowing local Internet providers to connect to the project?s open network.

Texas:  Level 3 EON:  $4.7 million broadband infrastructure grant with an
additional $1.6 million applicant-provided match to build 17 new access points
on Level 3?s existing broadband network. These additional points of
interconnection will offer broadband speeds between 50 Mbps and 10 Gbps on an
open and nondiscriminatory basis to local Internet service providers, enabling
them to provide enhanced broadband capabilities to as many as 400,000
households, 21,000 businesses, and 214 community anchor institutions, including
schools, government agencies and healthcare providers.

Wisconsin:  The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System:  $5.1
millionbroadband infrastructure grant with an additional $3.7 million
applicant-provided match to deploy more than 100 miles of fiber-optic
infrastructure to provide high-capacity broadband Internet connections for
community anchor institutions, and enable last-mile broadband services
throughout the Madison, Middleton, and Monona, Wisconsin region. The project
expects to directly connect nearly 100 community anchor institutions, including
schools, public safety organizations, and a community college, at speeds of up
to 10 Gbps.

West Virginia:  Hardy Telecommunications, Inc.:  $3.2 million broadband
infrastructure grant with an additional $814,000 applicant-provided match to
build a 177-mile high-capacity fiber-optic network to Hardy County, West
Virginia, a sparsely populated region of the state with difficult terrain. The
project intends to connect an estimated 35 anchor institutions, such as
emergency agencies, government offices, libraries, and colleges, as well as
spur more affordable high-speed Internet service for up to 1,900 households and
190 businesses by enabling local Internet service providers to connect to the
project?s open network.

West Virginia:  WorkForce West Virginia:  $1.9 million public computer center
grant with an additional $568,000 applicant-provided match to improve access to
job information, career counseling, and skills training by upgrading and
expanding 20 WorkForce West Virginia One-Stop career centers throughout the
state. This project intends to replace all of the existing 165 computer
workstations at the centers, add 80 new workstations, and serve almost 2,300
additional users per week, nearly double their current traffic.

Fact sheets with further information about all BTOP grants are available on the
NTIA web site here:http://www.ntia.doc.gov/broadbandgrants/projects.html.

Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, NTIA?s Broadband
Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) provides grants to support the
deployment of broadband infrastructure in unserved and underserved areas,
enhance and expand public computer centers, and encourage sustainable adoption
of broadband service.



-- 
Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
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From john at citylinkfiber.com  Fri Mar  5 15:25:26 2010
From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:25:26 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Latest round on Santa Fe telecom ord and new fiber
	for Santa Fe.
Message-ID: <F70BCC55F4F2F14888D450E441159C2408AC1F@deathstar2.citylinkfiber.intra>

Having just received the latest draft of the Santa Fe Telecom Ordinance,
http://www.santafenm.gov/DocumentView.aspx?DID=5572 I have to say I am
quite concerned with the overly burdensome and expensive process that
the City wants folks to go through.

Section 16 of the document speaks to "Land Use Review...." and contains
seriously flawed language.

16(F)

We have to make application to the Land Use Dept.  The application
requires that we document what RF frequency we will be using.  Fiber
doesn't have any RF emissions.  That section should clearly separate
those that do RF with those that do not.

16(G)  

Requires that we pay a fee of $2,500 for each application to the Land
Use Dept.  

CITIZENS ALERT:  That is a fee that will be passed on to the customer.

There are typically two to three phases for a network deployment.

1. Backbone installation.  This is the CORE network being installed in
the ROW.

2. Lateral Connections.  This is when we connect fiber from the core
ring to a specific building.
Lateral connections encompass both public and private land use /
agreements.
Lateral's are typically done ONCE A CONTRACT FOR SERVICE has been
executed.

**  NOTICE **  
So 16(G) is very unclear on what happens 3 years from now when we want
to connect a building.
Do we have to go and make another $2500 application to the City??
Think, if that is a HOME we are connecting, then the cost of connecting
that home just went from $1500 (labor / equipment / construction) to
$4000 by adding this $2500 fee.  That pushes the ROI out to an
unacceptable period of time.


3. Ongoing maintenance / Ring Extensions

16(g) doesn't speak to what happens down the road.  Do we have to make
application to do a repair?
Will that cost $2500 and take the prescribed notice time?  Section 16 is
COMPLETELY silent on this matter.
What happens if we wish to extend the original ring in a direction???


Does 16(I) require that for each construction we have to go through this
15 day period.  What about emergency damage, damage because "things just
happen(tm)", etc.

Does 16(J et al) require that for each building connection (read home or
small business) a 15 day notice, the fee's ($2500 and counting) have to
be paid, the mailings to all residences and businesses, etc.

If so that would significantly impact the ability of a vendor to deliver
affordable services.

The costs for "display advertisement" is NOT CHEAP.  TO print such an ad
with a route map will cost THOUSANDS of dollars per ad per time printed.


I've taken these projected costs and placed them in our financial model.
As it stands, Santa Fe residences will pay approximately $120 MORE PER
MONTH for Fiber to the Home, than those in Albuquerque.

Albuquerque folks pay around 79 a month.   	Installation is 149.95

Santa FE will pay 199 for the same service.	Installation will be
$399


I doubt Qwest or Comcast will agree with these fees. Nor will they pay
them.


As it stands CityLink CAN NOT accept this and unless changed will NOT be
servicing Santa Fe anytime soon.

Google will have to deal with these fees and overly burdensome
requirements as well.





From rl at 1st-mile.com  Tue Mar  9 06:11:05 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:11:05 -0800
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe Telecom Ordinance + CityLink Fiber
Message-ID: <20100309061105.zbiij7c76sww80sg@www2.dcn.org>

Telecommunications ordinance: Fiber-optic firm may bury plan for Santa Fe
network

Tom Sharpe | The New Mexican    Posted: Monday, March 08, 2010

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Telecommunications-ordinance-Fiber-optic-firm-may-bury-plan-for


The president of a firm seeking to build a fiber-optic cable system says he
might have to drop his plans for Santa Fe because of the city's proposed
telecommunications ordinance.

John M. Brown, president and cofounder of CityLink Fiber Holdings in
Albuquerque, said he began seeking a franchise for a fiber-optic cable system
in Santa Fe two years ago. Mayor David Coss was "positive" about the idea, he
said. But meetings with other city officials led nowhere.

"I've seen bureaucratic red-tape before, and in the spirit of the Olympic Games,
this takes the Gold Medal," Brown wrote in an e-mail.

CityLink's fiber-optic system in downtown Albuquerque provides speeds more than
a hundred times faster than that of the copper coaxial cable connections
offered by Comcast and Qwest ? without wireless technology, radio frequencies
or electromagnetic fields, Brown said. He said the same service could be
provided to residences and businesses around Paseo de Peralta, where he plans
to lay the cable.

Brown said he buries his lines underground using microtrenching between the
asphalt road surface and the concrete gutter or stringing cable through sewer
and storm-drainage lines.

"If the citizens of Santa Fe really want to have world-class high-speed
connectivity, then there needs to be a process that encourages private
businesses such as CityLink who want to come and build this," he said. "We're
not looking for a handout. We're not looking for anything for free."

But late last week, after seeing the latest rewrite of the Santa Fe
telecommunications ordinance, Brown called it "overly burdensome." He
especially objected to its requirements for mailing notices to neighbors,
buying display ads in newspapers and paying $2,500 for each application to the
city Land Use Department. He said building a cable system might take numerous
applications.

The $2,500 will be passed on to customers, according to Brown. Although
Albuquerque customers pay about $79 a month plus $150 for installation, Brown
said, the additional expense proposed could mean Santa Fe customers would have
to pay $199 a month plus $399 for installation for the same service.

Brown said he didn't think either Qwest or Comcast would agree to pay the $2,500
fees. But "as it stands CityLink CAN NOT accept this and unless changed will NOT
be servicing Santa Fe anytime soon," he wrote in another e-mail.

Brown also maintains that he's been unfairly linked to the dispute over the
safety of wireless systems because the media doesn't understand the differences
between cell-phone transmissions, Wi-Fi, distributed antenna systems and
fiber-optic cable systems.

The press mostly writes about "the 'juicy' stuff, people in conflict, people
yelling and cussing, the 'Wi-Fi' opponents and the issues they raise," he
wrote. "As is typical, the news media has gotten it very WRONG."

But in an interview, Brown acknowledged fiber-optic cable systems have a role to
play in delivering wireless because the technology can be used to link together
antennas in a DAS. However, he said, NewPath Networks, which seeks a local
franchise for a DAS, plans to install its own fiber-optic cable rather than use
the one CityLink is proposing.

Brown said he doesn't know if wireless signals pose a biological hazard, but he
believes opponents of this technology have unfairly drawn fiber-optics into the
fray. "They are lobbing it all together as one big blob," he said. "And so, they
want to kill the blob wherever they can kill the blob."

The telecommunications ordinance is on the agenda for Wednesday's council
meeting.

You can read the proposed ordinance, with new changes in red, here
http://www.santafenm.gov/DocumentView.aspx?DID=...



-- 
Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
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From pete at ideapete.com  Tue Mar  9 12:28:16 2010
From: pete at ideapete.com (peter baston)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 13:28:16 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe Telecom Ordinance + CityLink Fiber
In-Reply-To: <20100309061105.zbiij7c76sww80sg@www2.dcn.org>
References: <20100309061105.zbiij7c76sww80sg@www2.dcn.org>
Message-ID: <ba972d8a1003091228s5253783buf1b6e60df7c9aba6@mail.gmail.com>

Unfortunately the issue is a little more complex and several of the
councilors asked for our help to bring some clarity to expedite broadband in
Santa Fe . John Bs biggest point and ours as well is that most of the
ordinances lump everything into one big blog with little understanding of
the real world issues current and future. I intentionally did not get into
the yays and nays of wireless as those should be addressed totally
separately to other technology delivery methodologies. The city attorneys
office is supposed to address this smorgasbord and although they are doing
stellar work they are toitally illequiped to even understand the primary
issues

In the voice of calm reason this is what we sent to them to help

To Office of the City Attorney
City of Santa Fe
Santa Fe, NM

Dear Maureen and Jeanne:

Many thanks for the courtesy shown me in our recent meeting, and the time
given to our discussions. As
promised, I have reviewed the proposed telecommunications ordinances posted
on the city?s website.

As you know, our company is involved in Technology Integration across a
broad spectrum of the
industry, which is why Councilor Miguel Chavez asked us for input after the
last debates on this subject
at recent council meetings. I have performed a cursory review, just looking
at the ordinance itself in the
light of my professional experience and expertise and minimal research.
Based on this review, it would
appear that the ordinance has multiple problems. Let me try to bring some
clarity to the situation with a
brief outline of why I say this.

The very first thing that we do when we are engaged to advise any city or
county that is introducing this
type of ordinance is to lay out a set of best practice questions to gauge
how thoroughly the city or
county understands the full ramifications of the ordinance. Keeping in mind
that telecommunications in
today?s world is vital infrastructure, and many other functions of the city,
the community, the local
economy will be impacted by decisions made in this regard, management
planning of the city?s
technology future network should at a minimum fully address three sectors,
in this order:
1. The technology to be used
2. Oversight of the business operations
3. Legal oversight and control

What I have seen so far is a smorgasbord, with the city trying to combine
selected components of each
sector into a document (not a plan) driven by item 3. This is an approach
that has been amply
demonstrated will fail ? and create tons of work for future attorneys.

Here are the questions that I normally ask following best practices for a
city or statewide technology
communications roll?out plan:
1. Do you have a detailed technology integration plan for your
city/county/state?

2. Does it combine short and long term goals?

3. What are the real economic/social benefits of the plan (and liabilities
if it goes wrong), based on
solid and verifiable research? How will you track that they are being
achieved and what
mechanisms are in place to adjust the plan if they are not being achieved?

4. Do you understand the business oversight and management operations
needed?

5. Does your legal team understand the issues with transferring old Right of
Way (ROW)
agreements into the new plan? 6. Do you have a good understanding of your
current ROWs: where and how extensive they are,
how they are being used, and the economic value of that usage?

7. Do you understand how the value of your ROWs will change in the future?

8. Does your technology , operations and legal team understand the benefits
and liabilities of
different technologies (coax cable/fiber/ISDN/1, 2, 3, or 4G
Wireless/Wi?fi/WiMax) Laser?

9. Has your technology, operations and legal team prepared a business plan
based on a SWOT
(strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis of the volume and
value of application
services that will ride on the network as well as best practices for the
installation and
maintenance of the actual hardware and software infrastructure?

10. Who is/are the point person(s) in your organization for technology
integration/business
operations/legal oversight and what experience do they have with technology
integration
planning and execution?

11. Has your city/county/state used outside consultants who stand to gain in
any way to advise you
with regard to the technology/business/legal choices you are undertaking?

>From our inspection of your posted ordinance, so far it would appear that
the business and technology
piece is being driven by the legal mandate, and very few if any of the above
questions have been asked,
much less addressed. The experience of many jurisdictions has shown that if
answers to the above
questions are not crystal clear, well documented, understood and bought into
by all parties before the
ordinance is drafted, if the ordinance is not drafted in response to those
answers, then bigger legal
issues will inevitably evolve from whatever ordinance is adopted.

During our conversation, you told me the ordinance was originally drafted
from copies of the Albuquerque ordina by your office with no involvement
from other departments ? in other words, from a purely legal perspective.
Yet 90% of the
public discussion that has gone on so far have been about technology issues,
about the preference for
one type of network carrier technology versus another. Although that focus
might make great press, it
concerns only one portion of one question in our list ? a question that has
not, as I understand it, really
been addressed at all in the planning stages.

It?s our considered opinion that any action taken without prior development
of a business plan that
addresses all 11 questions outlined above will yield no net benefit for the
city, will likely create
situations that open the city to further legal challenge, and will have the
result of locking the city into a
situation where it is significantly under?exploiting the value of its ROWs.
Therefore, I would highly
recommend a moratorium on this issue by the city council until a sound
business plan can be drawn up.

As always, should you wish to engage our professional services to assist in
this regard, we will be very
happy to submit a proposal. In the meantime, please feel free to call me
with any questions about what I
have laid out so far.

Sincerely,

Peter Baston
CEO
-- 
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IDEAS business technology integration
www.ideapete.com
Cell: 505-690-3627
Mailto:pete at ideapete.com


Cc: Geno Zamora, City of Santa Fe
 Miguel Chavez, City of Santa Fe
Chris Calvert , City of Santa Fe


On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.com> wrote:

> Telecommunications ordinance: Fiber-optic firm may bury plan for Santa Fe
> network
>
> Tom Sharpe | The New Mexican    Posted: Monday, March 08, 2010
>
>
> http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Telecommunications-ordinance-Fiber-optic-firm-may-bury-plan-for
>
>
> The president of a firm seeking to build a fiber-optic cable system says he
> might have to drop his plans for Santa Fe because of the city's proposed
> telecommunications ordinance.
>
> John M. Brown, president and cofounder of CityLink Fiber Holdings in
> Albuquerque, said he began seeking a franchise for a fiber-optic cable
> system
> in Santa Fe two years ago. Mayor David Coss was "positive" about the idea,
> he
> said. But meetings with other city officials led nowhere.
>
> "I've seen bureaucratic red-tape before, and in the spirit of the Olympic
> Games,
> this takes the Gold Medal," Brown wrote in an e-mail.
>
> CityLink's fiber-optic system in downtown Albuquerque provides speeds more
> than
> a hundred times faster than that of the copper coaxial cable connections
> offered by Comcast and Qwest ? without wireless technology, radio
> frequencies
> or electromagnetic fields, Brown said. He said the same service could be
> provided to residences and businesses around Paseo de Peralta, where he
> plans
> to lay the cable.
>
> Brown said he buries his lines underground using microtrenching between the
> asphalt road surface and the concrete gutter or stringing cable through
> sewer
> and storm-drainage lines.
>
> "If the citizens of Santa Fe really want to have world-class high-speed
> connectivity, then there needs to be a process that encourages private
> businesses such as CityLink who want to come and build this," he said.
> "We're
> not looking for a handout. We're not looking for anything for free."
>
> But late last week, after seeing the latest rewrite of the Santa Fe
> telecommunications ordinance, Brown called it "overly burdensome." He
> especially objected to its requirements for mailing notices to neighbors,
> buying display ads in newspapers and paying $2,500 for each application to
> the
> city Land Use Department. He said building a cable system might take
> numerous
> applications.
>
> The $2,500 will be passed on to customers, according to Brown. Although
> Albuquerque customers pay about $79 a month plus $150 for installation,
> Brown
> said, the additional expense proposed could mean Santa Fe customers would
> have
> to pay $199 a month plus $399 for installation for the same service.
>
> Brown said he didn't think either Qwest or Comcast would agree to pay the
> $2,500
> fees. But "as it stands CityLink CAN NOT accept this and unless changed
> will NOT
> be servicing Santa Fe anytime soon," he wrote in another e-mail.
>
> Brown also maintains that he's been unfairly linked to the dispute over the
> safety of wireless systems because the media doesn't understand the
> differences
> between cell-phone transmissions, Wi-Fi, distributed antenna systems and
> fiber-optic cable systems.
>
> The press mostly writes about "the 'juicy' stuff, people in conflict,
> people
> yelling and cussing, the 'Wi-Fi' opponents and the issues they raise," he
> wrote. "As is typical, the news media has gotten it very WRONG."
>
> But in an interview, Brown acknowledged fiber-optic cable systems have a
> role to
> play in delivering wireless because the technology can be used to link
> together
> antennas in a DAS. However, he said, NewPath Networks, which seeks a local
> franchise for a DAS, plans to install its own fiber-optic cable rather than
> use
> the one CityLink is proposing.
>
> Brown said he doesn't know if wireless signals pose a biological hazard,
> but he
> believes opponents of this technology have unfairly drawn fiber-optics into
> the
> fray. "They are lobbing it all together as one big blob," he said. "And so,
> they
> want to kill the blob wherever they can kill the blob."
>
> The telecommunications ordinance is on the agenda for Wednesday's council
> meeting.
>
> You can read the proposed ordinance, with new changes in red, here
> http://www.santafenm.gov/DocumentView.aspx?DID=...
>
>
>
> --
> Richard Lowenberg
> 1st-Mile Institute
> P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
> 505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
> rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com
>
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From pete at ideapete.com  Tue Mar  9 13:29:31 2010
From: pete at ideapete.com (peter baston)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 14:29:31 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe Telecom Ordinance + CityLink Fiber
In-Reply-To: <20100309210029.AB1F738D600@lampinc.com>
References: <ba972d8a1003091228s5253783buf1b6e60df7c9aba6@mail.gmail.com>
	<20100309210029.AB1F738D600@lampinc.com>
Message-ID: <ba972d8a1003091329i46ffcb97j69f13e36d624c1b7@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Dale

Perhaps i should have made one thing clear

We have been working with insurance companies for some time now, due to the
ever increasing lawsuits that are resulting across the country with regard
to telecommunications integration project failures and what we are trying to
do is come up with a set of quality assurance best practices that WORK.

Its not rocket science but what we have seen in the majority of project
disasters is a big rush to DO something and huge technology hype confusion
without s set of common sense guidelines.

Its been nearly 10 years since we had the leapfrog conference in Santa Fe
http://www.ideapete.com/leapfrog.html and we are further behind today than
we were then.

We all know the disastrous projects that consumed millions in Sandoval and
Rio Rancho and Albuqerque but sadly it looks like we have not learn anything
from them except chuck money out the window and hope for success.

What our clients, the insurance companies, are hoping to do is get some best
practice knowledge out there, so that these projects will for once work
without multiple entities suing one another ( as they are already
threatening to do before the project has even started )

( : ( : pete

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Dale Carstensen <dlc at lampinc.com> wrote:

> >Date:   Tue, 9 Mar 2010 13:28:16 -0700
> >To:     1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> >From:   peter baston <pete at ideapete.com>
> >Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe Telecom Ordinance + CityLink Fiber
>
> Pete,
>
> Thanks for posting a message that at least has a text/plain alternative.
> I was getting a little peeved at your text/html-only postings.
>
> Oh.  Do you suppose your SWOT could benefit by adding one more letter,
> C for cost or P for price?  I'd go for risk, reward and cost as a three-
> legged stool myself, and any of the three can be either side of zero.
> That is, not every idea has risk -- sometimes they reduce risk.  And
> the key is to try to be comprehensive, but I suppose we always forget
> to include something that turns out later to be important, probably more
> important than anything we did remember to include in a plan.  So we
> should know when to stop the intellectual and political exercises and
> just do something.
>
> And I think in general governments are getting too far off to the side
> away from normal or wise by trying to make everything perfect.  Making
> things safer can go too far, making projects cost-prohibitive or no
> longer worth pursuing.  There's an element of power-grabbing, or
> control-freak-ism, in that, too.  I think we should reverse the trend,
> go toward more freedom and creativity, and less credential-ism.  More
> accomplishment and less study after study, hiring of consultants, wasting
> money and time on paper that has words on it worth less than the paper.
> Maybe even disk space that has words on it worth less than the disk
> space, which is hard to do, but common with government these days.
>
> In 2008, I came up with a catch phrase, "In your making everything perfect,
> there will be lessons."  I see no reason to adopt a new one yet.  I
> should have adopted that one several years, perhaps a couple of decades,
> sooner.
>
>  Dale
>  662-3691
>
>
>


-- 
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IDEAS business technology integration
www.ideapete.com
Cell: 505-690-3627
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From rl at 1st-mile.com  Mon Mar 15 17:30:36 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:30:36 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FCC National Broadband Plan: Executive Summary
Message-ID: <20100315173036.dl6vzjytgks4wswo@www2.dcn.org>

The FCC is to present its National Broadband Plan tomorrow.
There has already been a lot of discussion about what will be addressed and how.
The Plan will be very contentious and compromised.   It will likely get caught
up for some time to come, in political machinations and public meetings.
There is a lot it won't do.
More in the coming days.
For now, attached is the Executive Summary.
RL



-- 
Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com

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From ewhitmore at gmail.com  Wed Mar 17 03:48:49 2010
From: ewhitmore at gmail.com (Eric Renz-Whitmore)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:48:49 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Google Fiber for Communities Initiatives
In-Reply-To: <1686e71003170342s22dad82ct12a7782dfeb2f8d@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1686e71003170342s22dad82ct12a7782dfeb2f8d@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1686e71003170348j38fdc867sa97501e2bb03abf1@mail.gmail.com>

Hi everyone.

I mostly lurk on this list, and I think most folks here are aware of
Google's Fiber for Communities project.

But just in case, here's the info I sent to our state's "media industries"
discussion list, including sites for the communities I understand are
submitting proposals.  If you know of others -- and sites or other ways
people can get involved with them, please pass that information along.

While I'm working on one of the projects, I'm encouraging anyone who
believes broadband is importation to nominate and otherwise support all the
communities you can.  Whether we get this or not (I understand the chances
are somewhat astronomical), this is also an opportunity to show our leaders
that these issues matter, and that we get involved.

Best wishes,

Eric

---------- Forwarded message ----------

Hi everyone...

You may have heard news about Google's Fiber for Communities Initiative, and
perhaps the new national broadband plan the FCC is releasing. I think we've
also shared some information on the several New Mexico broadband projects
being funded under the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act.

All this confirms something that's been discussed here, and that we should
discuss further: the recognition that we're moving toward having the
internet as our primary means of communication and information sharing, and
that those places that have better connectivity will be better equipped to
compete -- and that means our businesses, students, cities and state as a
whole.

Google's initiative is one effort to help move the US ahead by testing the
deployment and related innovation of a one gigabit open access network to a
couple of communities between 50,000 and 500,000 people.  This is quite a
boost.  New Mexico's average download speed runs about 4-5Mbps (slightly
below the national average) and the FCC's goal is for 100 Mbps connections.
In other words, the Google Fiber project could build out an area with
100-200 times our existing connectivity.

For the lucky communities that get this, it will be a huge, game-changing
difference, not only helping us download HD movies in seconds and play
better video games, but unlocking the possibility of real-time sharing of
huge quantities of date, whether that's biomedical content, energy research,
digital media -- or something we haven't yet thought of.

Why am I writing this?  In addition to building some general awareness, we
have an opportunity to help bring this project to New Mexico.  Several
communities have submitted or plan to submit proposals to Google (more info
below), and both individuals and community groups are encouraged to get
involved and nominate their community (deadline is next Friday, March
26th).  Whichever community you're in (and please share if you know of
efforts elsewhere), they can use your help through signing up, nominating
that city and sharing ideas about how we can make the best use of the tools
and access we'll have.

Google has had a few small projects going here in New Mexico already. By
showing that people throughout the state are interested and supportive,
maybe we can build a bigger, more long term relationship.

For more information about the Google Fiber for Communities project, each of
our sites has additional information and ways you can get involved.

Best wishes,

Eric

Albuquerque: http://www.googlequerque.org /
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=379762423707

Farmington:  http://newmexicoindependent.com/49440/great-goo...<http://newmexicoindependent.com/49440/great-google-y-moogly-come-to-farmington-udall-says>

Los Alamos: http://losalamoschamber.snappages.com/Fiber%20U...<http://losalamoschamber.snappages.com/Fiber%2520Up%2520Los%2520Alamos%2520County%21.htm>

Santa Fe: http://fiberforsantafe.net/ /
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=209018754...<http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=209018754981&ref=ts>



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From rl at 1st-mile.com  Thu Mar 25 09:58:39 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:58:39 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Qwest Applies for RUS Broadband Stimulus Funding
Message-ID: <20100325095839.9gz17ds7wg0ksgw8@www2.dcn.org>

http://news.qwest.com/BroadbandApplication

Qwest Seeks Federal Grant to Deploy Broadband to Rural Communities

Would Extend Broadband at Connection Speeds of 12 to 40 Mbps

DENVER, March 25, 2010 ? Qwest Communications (NYSE: Q) has filed an
application for a federal stimulus grant to extend broadband at speeds of 12 to
40 Mbps to rural communities throughout its local service region.
?Much like the water and electric programs the government established to
encourage rural development, federal grants are needed to enable the deployment
of broadband to high-cost, unserved areas,? said Steve Davis, senior vice
president of Qwest Public Policy and Government Relations.

In its application, Qwest proposes to build facilities to serve more than half a
million homes, schools, businesses and hospitals that lack access to today?s
high-speed Internet capabilities. It plans to introduce the service at download
speeds of 12 to 40 Mbps. Customers will be able to choose from a full array of
broadband services and features.

The total cost of the proposed deployment would be $467 million. Qwest is
requesting a grant for $350 million from the Broadband Initiatives Program
(BIP), which is administered by the Rural Utilities Service, an agency of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). When Congress enacted the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act last year, it directed the USDA to establish a
program that would stimulate broadband deployment to hard-to-serve rural areas.
The BIP provides 75 percent of the build-out costs. The remaining 25 percent, or
$117 million, would be funded by Qwest.

The rural communities included in Qwest?s broadband application are located
throughout its local service region, which is comprised of 14 Midwestern and
Western states. The area features expansive terrain where the construction of
broadband facilities is expensive and difficult, making the one-time federal
funding necessary.

?Our plan to deploy service to customers in unserved rural areas supports the
national initiative recently undertaken by the Federal Communications
Commission to ensure that all Americans have access to broadband. As the FCC
has found, access to the Internet is increasingly essential for competing and
succeeding in the world?s expanding knowledge-based economy,? Davis said.



-- 
Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com

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From Susan.Oberlander at state.nm.us  Thu Mar 25 11:54:28 2010
From: Susan.Oberlander at state.nm.us (Oberlander, Susan, DCA)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:54:28 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Qwest Applies for RUS Broadband Stimulus Funding
In-Reply-To: <20100325095839.9gz17ds7wg0ksgw8@www2.dcn.org>
References: <20100325095839.9gz17ds7wg0ksgw8@www2.dcn.org>
Message-ID: <1ACBC54813C0A34195711085D2DE3CF00A4A2ACD@CEXMB2.nmes.lcl>

Has anyone seen what is planned for NM?

Susan Oberlander, Ph.D.
N.M.State Librarian
505 476 9762

-----Original Message-----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Richard
Lowenberg
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:59 AM
To: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Qwest Applies for RUS Broadband Stimulus Funding

http://news.qwest.com/BroadbandApplication

Qwest Seeks Federal Grant to Deploy Broadband to Rural Communities

Would Extend Broadband at Connection Speeds of 12 to 40 Mbps

DENVER, March 25, 2010 ? Qwest Communications (NYSE: Q) has filed an
application for a federal stimulus grant to extend broadband at speeds
of 12 to
40 Mbps to rural communities throughout its local service region.
?Much like the water and electric programs the government established to
encourage rural development, federal grants are needed to enable the
deployment
of broadband to high-cost, unserved areas,? said Steve Davis, senior
vice
president of Qwest Public Policy and Government Relations.

In its application, Qwest proposes to build facilities to serve more
than half a
million homes, schools, businesses and hospitals that lack access to
today?s
high-speed Internet capabilities. It plans to introduce the service at
download
speeds of 12 to 40 Mbps. Customers will be able to choose from a full
array of
broadband services and features.

The total cost of the proposed deployment would be $467 million. Qwest
is
requesting a grant for $350 million from the Broadband Initiatives
Program
(BIP), which is administered by the Rural Utilities Service, an agency
of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). When Congress enacted the
American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act last year, it directed the USDA to
establish a
program that would stimulate broadband deployment to hard-to-serve rural
areas.
The BIP provides 75 percent of the build-out costs. The remaining 25
percent, or
$117 million, would be funded by Qwest.

The rural communities included in Qwest?s broadband application are
located
throughout its local service region, which is comprised of 14 Midwestern
and
Western states. The area features expansive terrain where the
construction of
broadband facilities is expensive and difficult, making the one-time
federal
funding necessary.

?Our plan to deploy service to customers in unserved rural areas
supports the
national initiative recently undertaken by the Federal Communications
Commission to ensure that all Americans have access to broadband. As the
FCC
has found, access to the Internet is increasingly essential for
competing and
succeeding in the world?s expanding knowledge-based economy,? Davis
said.



-- 
Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com

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From granoff at zianet.com  Thu Mar 25 14:32:06 2010
From: granoff at zianet.com (Marianne Granoff)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:32:06 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Navajos get $33M stimulus for broadband
Message-ID: <20100325213210.15F0F140B872@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>


FYI.

> 
>http://albuquerque.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2010/03/22/daily36.html?ed=2010-03-25&ana=e_du_pub
>
>Thursday, March 25, 2010, 1:20pm MDT
>
>Navajos get $33M stimulus for broadband
>
>New Mexico Business Weekly - by Kevin Robinson-Avila NMBW Staff
>
>The Navajo Nation will receive a $33 million stimulus grant for 
>broadband development on reservation land in New Mexico, Arizona and Utah.
>
>The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, which applied for the funding 
>under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will kick in $14 
>million in matching funds, said U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke 
>in a telephone conference with reporters on March 25.
>
>"This grant will create new economic and educational opportunities 
>for the Navajo tribe throughout the West," Locke said. "The Navajo 
>Nation has been stuck on the wrong side of the digital divide. The 
>grant will provide broadband infrastructure in a place where the 
>private sector has been unwilling or unable to invest."
>
>At least 60 percent of tribal members on the reservation lack 
>telephone service, Locke said.
>
>The grant and matching funds will finance 550 miles of fiber optic 
>cable. It also will pay for 59 new microwave towers, extending 
>wireless broadband service to a 15,000-square-mile area in all three states.
>
>The project will connect 30,000 households, 1,000 businesses and 
>1,100 community anchor institutions, such as Navajo chapter houses, Locke said.
>
>"Broadband is essential for the health and wealth of the Navajo 
>Nation," he said. "The grant will enable educational and 
>telemedicine services. It will pay dividends for decades to come by 
>connecting business owners with wider access to national, and even 
>international, markets."
>
>Although the secretary offered no estimates on job creation or 
>retention, which are basic goals of stimulus funding, he said the 
>grant would create many jobs for people who work to lay fiber and 
>construct the microwave towers. That's particularly important on the 
>Navajo Nation, where unemployment rates have chronically hovered in 
>the 40 to 50 percent range in many communities, Locke said.
>
>U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-NM, said the grant announcement is great 
>news for New Mexico and the other two states.
>
>"It meets a real need," Bingaman said. "Many Navajo residents lack 
>basic telephone service, and some even electricity. This will 
>dramatically improve the situation for many people."
>
>U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-NM, said the project can help address a 
>chronic lack of economic development opportunities on the reservation.
>
>"Many people there are living in third-world conditions," Udall 
>said. "The grant can help change those circumstances by bringing 
>cutting-edge technology to provide more economic and business 
>development, and to improve educational opportunities and telehealth services."
>
>krobinson-avila at bizjournals.com | 505.348.8302
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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Fri Mar 26 16:02:21 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:02:21 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: YouTube - Udall/Lujan respond to Al Franken &
	promote Farmington for Google Fiber
References: <C6FD725BA83FB843AC8C482BA19D7445010A2BD770@SENATE-EX16.senate.ussenate.us>
Message-ID: <302E4A1E-5F4B-4D81-80BD-716A546E2609@designnine.com>

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall)" <Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov>
> Date: March 26, 2010 11:29:46 AM MDT
> To: "Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall)" <Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov>
> Subject: YouTube - Udall/Lujan respond to Al Franken & promote  
> Farmington for Google Fiber
>
>
> Here?s a fun video from Sen. Tom Udall and Rep. Ben Ray Lujan to  
> rally online support for Think BIG Farmington?s proposal to become a  
> Google test site for ultra-high speed broadband Internet:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrfy27EO378
>
> I?ve also pasted a news release below.
>
> --Kevin
>
> Kevin Cummins
> Office of Sen. Tom Udall
>
>
>
>
> For Immediate Release
> March 26, 2010
>
> VIDEO: Udall & Luj?n Plug Think BIG Farmingtonin YouTube Spoof!
> Duo Appeal to Google to End Video Chat Miscommunications
>
>
> WASHINGTON ? New Mexico?s U.S. Senator Tom Udall and U.S.  
> Representative Ben Ray Luj?n released a lighthearted YouTube video  
> appeal today to rally online support for Think BIG Farmington?s  
> proposal to become a Google test site for ultra-high speed broadband  
> Internet.
>
> The video spoof features Udall and Luj?n catching up via video chat  
> and encountering technical difficulties and miscommunication due to  
> slow Internet connections in Farmington.
>
> The video, which can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrfy27EO378 
> , responds to a recent clip by Senator Al Franken, who is promoting  
> Duluth, MN, for the same project.
>
> Both Udall and Luj?n have appealed to Google CEO Eric Schmidt in  
> support of Think BIG Farmington?s collaborative effort to win  
> participation in the company?s experiment.
>
> The Google Fiber for Communities is an experiment to test new ways  
> to make broadband Internet connections faster and more accessible in  
> municipalities around America.
>
> Today marks the company?s deadline to apply for the competition.
>

------------------------------------------------------------
Richard Lowenberg
P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
505-989-9110 off.; 505-603-5200 cell
------------------------------------------------------------
Senior Broadband Planner
Design Nine, Inc.
lowenberg at designnine.com
www.designnine.com
Design Nine provides visionary broadband
architecture and engineering services,
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and broadband project management.
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From pete at ideapete.com  Fri Mar 26 16:50:36 2010
From: pete at ideapete.com (peter baston)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:50:36 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: YouTube - Udall/Lujan respond to Al Franken
	& promote Farmington for Google Fiber
In-Reply-To: <302E4A1E-5F4B-4D81-80BD-716A546E2609@designnine.com>
References: <C6FD725BA83FB843AC8C482BA19D7445010A2BD770@SENATE-EX16.senate.ussenate.us>
	<302E4A1E-5F4B-4D81-80BD-716A546E2609@designnine.com>
Message-ID: <ba972d8a1003261650v10ff8f55j4d483ed1fecb3c4f@mail.gmail.com>

Dave Coss was going to do something similar in Santa Fe but he lost his
connection and they still have a team wandering round the plaza with
Budweiser's on cleft sticks shouting something about having faith

( : ( ; pete

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Richard Lowenberg <lowenberg at designnine.com
> wrote:

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *"Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall)" <Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov>
> *Date: *March 26, 2010 11:29:46 AM MDT
> *To: *"Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall)" <Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov>
> *Subject: **YouTube - Udall/Lujan respond to Al Franken & promote
> Farmington for Google Fiber  *
>
>
> Here?s a fun video from Sen. Tom Udall and Rep. Ben Ray Lujan to rally
> online support for Think BIG Farmington?s proposal to become a Google test
> site for ultra-high speed broadband Internet:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrfy27EO378
>
> I?ve also pasted a news release below.
>
> --Kevin
>
> Kevin Cummins
> Office of Sen. Tom Udall
>
>
>
> [image: Udall-Lujan-Header.jpg]
> *For Immediate Release*
> *March 26, 2010*
>
> *VIDEO: Udall & Luj?n Plug Think BIG Farmingtonin YouTube Spoof! *
> *Duo Appeal to Google to End Video Chat Miscommunications*
> * *
>
> *WASHINGTON ?* *New Mexico?s* *U.S. Senator Tom Udall *and *U.S.
> Representative Ben Ray Luj?n* released a lighthearted YouTube video appeal
> today to rally online support for *Think BIG Farmington*?s proposal to
> become a Google test site for ultra-high speed broadband Internet.
>
> The video spoof features Udall and Luj?n catching up via video chat and
> encountering technical difficulties and miscommunication due to slow
> Internet connections in Farmington.
>
> The video, which can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrfy27EO378,
> responds to a recent clip by Senator Al Franken, who is promoting Duluth,
> MN, for the same project.
>
> Both Udall <http://tomudall.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=441> and Luj?n<http://lujan.house.gov/index.php/media-center/press-releases/571?task=view>
>  have appealed to Google CEO Eric Schmidt in support of Think BIG
> Farmington?s collaborative effort to win participation in the company?s
> experiment.
>
> The Google Fiber for Communities <http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi>
>  is an experiment to test new ways to make broadband Internet connections
> faster and more accessible in municipalities around America.
>
> Today marks the company?s deadline to apply for the competition.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Richard Lowenberg
> P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
> 505-989-9110 off.; 505-603-5200 cell
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Senior Broadband Planner
> Design Nine, Inc.
> lowenberg at designnine.com
> www.designnine.com
> Design Nine provides visionary broadband
> architecture and engineering services,
> telecommunications master planning,
> and broadband project management.
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Thu Apr  1 08:14:47 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 09:14:47 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe Telecom Ordinance: Town Hall Meetings 4/8 &
	4/22
References: <E09A3E3F-73F3-4EA1-926F-67025CBA1C89@cybermesa.com>
Message-ID: <EFECF738-301E-40E4-A749-5EE636B90A3C@designnine.com>

I've held off posting the following announcement, to get clarification  
on whether the meetings
would address the entire Telecom Ordinance, or just wireless issues in  
a pending City Ordinance.
I've had no response from the organizers, yet.     RL
--------

>
> CONTACT:     John McPhee            505-577-8351
>                         Azlan White              505-983-7071
>
> WHAT:           Santa Fe Public Town Hall Meeting
>                        on City Telecommunications Code Revision
>
> WHEN:           Thursday April 8th, 7pm
>
> WHERE:         Mary Esther Gonzalez Senior Center
>                        1121 Alto Street
>

> CITY TO HOLD TOWN HALL MEETINGS ON WIRELESS ORDINANCE
>
> On April 8th, 2010, from 7-9 pm, the first of two Town Hall Meetings  
> will be held on the revision of Santa Fe?s telecommunications  
> ordinance.  It will take place in the Mary Esther Gonzalez Senior  
> Center at 1121 Alto Street.
>
> The second Town Hall Meeting will take place on April 22, 2010 in  
> the Genoveva Chavez Center, also from 7-9 pm. The public is urged to  
> come and participate at both meetings.
>
> Further revisions to the proposed ordinance will be presented, and  
> the possibility of a temporary moratorium on antennas and towers in  
> Santa Fe will be discussed. Critical issues that have led to the  
> calling of these Town Hall Meetings include: property values;  
> homeowner rights; aesthetics; public notification of and public  
> input into the locations of proposed antennas; and preservation of  
> the cultural and historic values of Santa Fe. The purpose of these  
> meetings is to gather public input into the ordinance revision  
> before the city council next considers it on May 12, 2010.
>
> Santa Fe's current telecommunications ordinance, which regulates  
> antennas in the public rights-of-way, was partially struck down in  
> 2004 by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, and it was never  
> revised. Santa Fe has a separate land use ordinance that regulates  
> antennas on private property. The lack of a valid public rights-of- 
> way ordinance did not pose a problem for several years because no  
> applications for antennas on public streets were submitted. However,  
> the advent of iPhones, iPads, and similar technologies has greatly  
> intensified the demand for bandwidth for mobile devices, and in  
> 2009, several antenna-building companies approached the city with  
> proposals to place as many as two to three hundred small towers on  
> the streets and sidewalks of the city. These would be a combination  
> of new antennas placed on existing PNM and Qwest poles, as well as  
> new 25-foot towers in areas of the city with no overhead utilities.
>
> To accommodate these applications, city staff has revised the  
> telecommunications ordinance and presented it to the city council  
> for approval. However, the revised ordinance, according to members  
> of the Santa Fe Alliance for Public Health and Safety, lacks  
> necessary protections. It eliminates effective public participation  
> in the approval process; allows antennas as a permitted use in all  
> residential areas for the first time; and gives blanket franchises  
> which allow these companies carte blanche to not only to install  
> cable underneath the streets, but to install antennas wherever they  
> please along the cable routes with no further notification or  
> approval process. The Alliance is proposing that the cable and  
> antennas regulations do not belong in the same ordinance, and is  
> presently working to draft two separate ordinances for presentation  
> to the public at the Town Hall Meetings, and to the City Council at  
> an early date.
>
> Other cities, such as San Diego, Pasadena, and Glendale, have dealt  
> with similar situations by first passing temporary moratoria on  
> antennas in order to craft careful ordinances. Glendale, for  
> example, has a 17-month moratorium which is still in effect and will  
> expire in June, while it solicits public comment on its newly  
> drafted ordinance.
>
> Councilor Miguel Chavez and the Santa Fe Alliance for Public Health  
> and Safety are co-sponsoring the upcoming Town Hall Meetings.
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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Thu Apr  1 10:00:46 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 11:00:46 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] An example from Utah
Message-ID: <AF4172A1-1181-4EA6-AD6C-69F627BA1099@designnine.com>

 From today's Salt Lake Tribune:
www.sltrib.com/technology/ci_14764350

Utah's rural telephone companies, which serve more than 96,000  
customers over 80 percent of the geographical area of the state, are  
in the broadband race, having armed themselves with the some of the  
latest technology.

"We're years ahead of the game," said Chuck McCown, president and CEO  
of Beehive Telephone. He estimated that about 5 percent of Beehive's  
7,000 customers have a fiber-optic connection, but more are added on a  
regular basis.

Beehive has a standing offer to its customers, McCown said. "If they  
can get six of their neighbors within a quarter mile of one another to  
commit to fiber-optic service, then we'll build a line to the area."

Although Beehive charges around $750 as a connection fee, McCown said  
the company will reduce that amount by half if the customer digs his  
or her own trench for the fiber-optic line that runs from the street  
to their home. "We also give them a $50 credit for each year that they  
have been a customer of our high-speed wireless network."

McCown said all of the rural phone companies in Utah are making  
similar efforts.

"We compete in the Tooele Valley right along with Qwest and Comcast,  
and between us the people living in that area can get about any kind  
of service they want. But unlike Qwest and Comcast, we invest almost  
every penny we make back into our company."







From tom at jtjohnson.com  Thu Apr  1 11:02:33 2010
From: tom at jtjohnson.com (Tom Johnson)
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:02:33 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe Telecom Ordinance: Town Hall Meetings
	4/8 & 4/22
In-Reply-To: <EFECF738-301E-40E4-A749-5EE636B90A3C@designnine.com>
References: <E09A3E3F-73F3-4EA1-926F-67025CBA1C89@cybermesa.com>
	<EFECF738-301E-40E4-A749-5EE636B90A3C@designnine.com>
Message-ID: <y2ye04090491004011102uebf63cc4l6b9d6a6fe2b50849@mail.gmail.com>

Talk about fuzzy wording:  "...two to three hundred small towers on the
streets and sidewalks of the city."  Makes it sound as though we could
become a city designed by Gaudi -- http://gaudi.notlong.com

But yet again this perspective of the issue fails to recognize that fiber
optics are an alternative that works best for everyone.  UNLESS the city
legal staff has split out WiFi from fiber.  Could that be possible?

Any idea when and where the "further revisions of the ordinance" will be
available?

-tj

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Richard Lowenberg
<lowenberg at designnine.com>wrote:

> I've held off posting the following announcement, to get clarification on
> whether the meetings
> would address the entire Telecom Ordinance, or just wireless issues in a
> pending City Ordinance.
> I've had no response from the organizers, yet.     RL
> --------
>
>
> *CONTACT:     John McPhee            505-577-8351       *
> *                        Azlan White              505-983-7071
>
> WHAT:           Santa Fe Public Town Hall Meeting
>                        on City Telecommunications Code Revision
>
> WHEN:           Thursday April 8th, 7pm
>
> WHERE:         Mary Esther Gonzalez Senior Center
>                        1121 Alto Street *
>
>
> *CITY TO HOLD TOWN HALL MEETINGS ON WIRELESS ORDINANCE*
> On April 8th, 2010, from 7-9 pm, the first of two Town Hall Meetings will
> be held on the revision of Santa Fe?s telecommunications ordinance.  It will
> take place in the Mary Esther Gonzalez Senior Center at 1121 Alto Street.
>
> The second Town Hall Meeting will take place on April 22, 2010 in the
> Genoveva Chavez Center, also from 7-9 pm. The public is urged to come and
> participate at both meetings.
>
> Further revisions to the proposed ordinance will be presented, and
> the possibility of a temporary moratorium on antennas and towers in Santa Fe
> will be discussed. Critical issues that have led to the calling of these
> Town Hall Meetings include: property values; homeowner rights; aesthetics;
> public notification of and public input into the locations of proposed
> antennas; and preservation of the cultural and historic values of Santa Fe.
> The purpose of these meetings is to gather public input into the ordinance
> revision before the city council next considers it on May 12, 2010.
>
> Santa Fe's current telecommunications ordinance, which regulates antennas
> in the public rights-of-way, was partially struck down in 2004 by the Eighth
> Circuit Court of Appeals, and it was never revised. Santa Fe has a separate
> land use ordinance that regulates antennas on private property. The lack of
> a valid public rights-of-way ordinance did not pose a problem for several
> years because no applications for antennas on public streets were submitted.
> However, the advent of iPhones, iPads, and similar technologies has greatly
> intensified the demand for bandwidth for mobile devices, and in 2009,
> several antenna-building companies approached the city with proposals
> to place as many as two to three hundred small towers on the streets and
> sidewalks of the city. These would be a combination of new antennas placed
> on existing PNM and Qwest poles, as well as new 25-foot towers in areas of
> the city with no overhead utilities.
>
> To accommodate these applications, city staff has revised the
> telecommunications ordinance and presented it to the city council for
> approval. However, the revised ordinance, according to members of the Santa
> Fe Alliance for Public Health and Safety, lacks necessary protections. It
> eliminates effective public participation in the approval process; allows
> antennas as a permitted use in all residential areas for the first time; and
> gives blanket franchises which allow these companies carte blanche to not
> only to install cable underneath the streets, but to install antennas
> wherever they please along the cable routes with no further notification or
> approval process. The Alliance is proposing that the cable and antennas
> regulations do not belong in the same ordinance, and is presently working to
> draft two separate ordinances for presentation to the public at the Town
> Hall Meetings, and to the City Council at an early date.
>
> Other cities, such as San Diego, Pasadena, and Glendale, have dealt with
> similar situations by first passing temporary moratoria on antennas in order
> to craft careful ordinances. Glendale, for example, has a 17-month
> moratorium which is still in effect and will expire in June, while it
> solicits public comment on its newly drafted ordinance.
>
> Councilor Miguel Chavez and the Santa Fe Alliance for Public Health and
> Safety are co-sponsoring the upcoming Town Hall Meetings.
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> 1st-mile-nm mailing list
> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm
>
>


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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Thu Apr  1 11:10:39 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:10:39 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe Telecom Ordinance: Town Hall Meetings
	4/8 & 4/22
In-Reply-To: <y2ye04090491004011102uebf63cc4l6b9d6a6fe2b50849@mail.gmail.com>
References: <E09A3E3F-73F3-4EA1-926F-67025CBA1C89@cybermesa.com>
	<EFECF738-301E-40E4-A749-5EE636B90A3C@designnine.com>
	<y2ye04090491004011102uebf63cc4l6b9d6a6fe2b50849@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <D52530E3-731C-4D14-A347-C5AAB49C05D1@designnine.com>

I called and emailed the contacts listed on the announcement,
as well as Councilor Chavez, without any reply, yet.   I also called  
the City Attorney's Office,
but they knew nothing of the upcoming meetings, or when a new draft  
Ordinance would be available for review.
RL


On Apr 1, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:

> Talk about fuzzy wording:  "...two to three hundred small towers on  
> the streets and sidewalks of the city."  Makes it sound as though we  
> could become a city designed by Gaudi -- http://gaudi.notlong.com
>
> But yet again this perspective of the issue fails to recognize that  
> fiber optics are an alternative that works best for everyone.   
> UNLESS the city legal staff has split out WiFi from fiber.  Could  
> that be possible?
>
> Any idea when and where the "further revisions of the ordinance"  
> will be available?
>
> -tj
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Richard Lowenberg <lowenberg at designnine.com 
> > wrote:
> I've held off posting the following announcement, to get  
> clarification on whether the meetings
> would address the entire Telecom Ordinance, or just wireless issues  
> in a pending City Ordinance.
> I've had no response from the organizers, yet.     RL
> --------
>
>>
>> CONTACT:     John McPhee            505-577-8351
>>                         Azlan White              505-983-7071
>>
>> WHAT:           Santa Fe Public Town Hall Meeting
>>                        on City Telecommunications Code Revision
>>
>> WHEN:           Thursday April 8th, 7pm
>>
>> WHERE:         Mary Esther Gonzalez Senior Center
>>                        1121 Alto Street
>>
>
>> CITY TO HOLD TOWN HALL MEETINGS ON WIRELESS ORDINANCE
>>
>> On April 8th, 2010, from 7-9 pm, the first of two Town Hall  
>> Meetings will be held on the revision of Santa Fe?s  
>> telecommunications ordinance.  It will take place in the Mary  
>> Esther Gonzalez Senior Center at 1121 Alto Street.
>>
>> The second Town Hall Meeting will take place on April 22, 2010 in  
>> the Genoveva Chavez Center, also from 7-9 pm. The public is urged  
>> to come and participate at both meetings.
>>
>> Further revisions to the proposed ordinance will be presented, and  
>> the possibility of a temporary moratorium on antennas and towers in  
>> Santa Fe will be discussed. Critical issues that have led to the  
>> calling of these Town Hall Meetings include: property values;  
>> homeowner rights; aesthetics; public notification of and public  
>> input into the locations of proposed antennas; and preservation of  
>> the cultural and historic values of Santa Fe. The purpose of these  
>> meetings is to gather public input into the ordinance revision  
>> before the city council next considers it on May 12, 2010.
>>
>> Santa Fe's current telecommunications ordinance, which regulates  
>> antennas in the public rights-of-way, was partially struck down in  
>> 2004 by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, and it was never  
>> revised. Santa Fe has a separate land use ordinance that regulates  
>> antennas on private property. The lack of a valid public rights-of- 
>> way ordinance did not pose a problem for several years because no  
>> applications for antennas on public streets were submitted.  
>> However, the advent of iPhones, iPads, and similar technologies has  
>> greatly intensified the demand for bandwidth for mobile devices,  
>> and in 2009, several antenna-building companies approached the city  
>> with proposals to place as many as two to three hundred small  
>> towers on the streets and sidewalks of the city. These would be a  
>> combination of new antennas placed on existing PNM and Qwest poles,  
>> as well as new 25-foot towers in areas of the city with no overhead  
>> utilities.
>>
>> To accommodate these applications, city staff has revised the  
>> telecommunications ordinance and presented it to the city council  
>> for approval. However, the revised ordinance, according to members  
>> of the Santa Fe Alliance for Public Health and Safety, lacks  
>> necessary protections. It eliminates effective public participation  
>> in the approval process; allows antennas as a permitted use in all  
>> residential areas for the first time; and gives blanket franchises  
>> which allow these companies carte blanche to not only to install  
>> cable underneath the streets, but to install antennas wherever they  
>> please along the cable routes with no further notification or  
>> approval process. The Alliance is proposing that the cable and  
>> antennas regulations do not belong in the same ordinance, and is  
>> presently working to draft two separate ordinances for presentation  
>> to the public at the Town Hall Meetings, and to the City Council at  
>> an early date.
>>
>> Other cities, such as San Diego, Pasadena, and Glendale, have dealt  
>> with similar situations by first passing temporary moratoria on  
>> antennas in order to craft careful ordinances. Glendale, for  
>> example, has a 17-month moratorium which is still in effect and  
>> will expire in June, while it solicits public comment on its newly  
>> drafted ordinance.
>>
>> Councilor Miguel Chavez and the Santa Fe Alliance for Public Health  
>> and Safety are co-sponsoring the upcoming Town Hall Meetings.
>>
>
>
>
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>
>
>
>
> -- 
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> J. T. Johnson
> Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
> www.analyticjournalism.com
> 505.577.6482(c)                                    505.473.9646(h)
> http://www.jtjohnson.com                 tom at jtjohnson.com
>
> "Be Your Own Publisher"
> http://indiepubwest.com
> ==========================================

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Richard Lowenberg
P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
505-989-9110 off.; 505-603-5200 cell
------------------------------------------------------------
Senior Broadband Planner
Design Nine, Inc.
lowenberg at designnine.com
www.designnine.com
Design Nine provides visionary broadband
architecture and engineering services,
telecommunications master planning,
and broadband project management.
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From carroll at cagleandassociates.com  Thu Apr  1 18:59:30 2010
From: carroll at cagleandassociates.com (Carroll Cagle)
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 19:59:30 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] CNBC.com Article: Coal Fuels Much of Internet 'Cloud,
	' Greenpeace Says
Message-ID: <C2AE416B786C472FAE3106BCC540930E@yourfsyly0jtwn>




Coal Fuels Much of Internet 'Cloud,' Greenpeace Says
The 'cloud' of data that is becoming the heart of the Internet is creating
an all-too-real cloud of pollution as Facebook, Apple and others build data
centers powered by coal, Greenpeace said in a new report to be released on
Tuesday.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/36096850/=




From granoff at zianet.com  Tue Apr  6 18:21:28 2010
From: granoff at zianet.com (Marianne Granoff)
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:21:28 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Oram: Comcast Ruling Leaves FCC Job to Do
Message-ID: <20100407012136.A4EDA13CE93C@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>


A better understanding than the talking heads on TV. . .

>Andy Oram's take.
>
>  http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/04/dc-circuit-court-rules-in-comc.html
>
>
>DC Circuit Court Rules in Comcast Case, Leaves the FCC a Job to Do
>
>
>by Andy Oram
>
>April 6, 2010
>
>
>Today's ruling in Comcast v. FCC will certainly change the terms of
>debate over network neutrality, but the win for Comcast is not as
>far-reaching as headlines make it appear. The DC Circuit court didn't
>say, "You folks at the Federal Communications Commission have no right
>to tell any Internet provider what to do without Congressional
>approval." It said, rather, "You folks at the FCC didn't make good
>arguments to prove that your rights extend to stopping Comcast's
>particular behavior."
>
>I am not a lawyer, but to say what happens next will take less of a
>lawyer than a fortune-teller. I wouldn't presume to say whether the
>FCC can fight Comcast again over the BitTorrent issue. But the court
>left it open for the FCC to try other actions to enforce rules on
>Internet operators. Ultimately, I think the FCC should take a hint
>from the court and stop trying to regulate the actions of telephone
>and cable companies at the IP layer. The hint is to regulate them at
>the level where the FCC has more authority -- on the physical level,
>where telephone companies are regulated as common carriers and cable
>companies have requirements to the public as well.
>
>The court noted (on pages 30 through 34 of its order) that the FCC
>missed out on the chance to make certain arguments that the court
>might have looked on more favorably. Personally and amateurly, I think
>those arguments would be weak anyway. For instance, the FCC has the
>right to regulate activities that affect rates. VoIP can affect phone
>rates and video downloads over the Internet can affect cable charges
>for movies. So the FCC could try to find an excuse to regulate the
>Internet. But I wouldn't be the one to make that excuse.
>
>The really significant message to the FCC comes on pages 30 and 32.
>The court claims that any previous court rulings that give power to
>the FCC to regulate the Internet (notably the famous Brand X decision)
>are based on its historical right to regulate common carriers (e.g.,
>telephone companies) and broadcasters. Practically speaking, this
>gives the FCC a mandate to keep regulating the things that matter --
>with an eye to creating a space for a better Internet and high-speed
>digital networking (broadband).
>
>Finding the right layer
>
>Comcast v. FCC combines all the elements of a regulatory thriller.
>First, the stakes are high: we're talking about who controls the
>information that comes into our homes. Second, Comcast wasn't being
>subtle in handling BitTorrent; its manipulations were done with a
>conscious bias, carried out apparently arbitrarily (rather than being
>based on corporate policy, it seems that a network administrator made
>and implemented a personal decision), and were kept secret until
>customers uncovered the behavior. If you had asked for a case where an
>Internet provider said, "We can do anything the hell we want
>regardless of any political, social, technical, moral, or financial
>consequences," you'd choose something like Comcast's impedance of
>BitTorrent.
>
>And the court did not endorse that point of view. Contrary to many
>headlines, the court affirmed that the FCC has the right to regulate
>the Internet. Furthermore, the court acknowledged that Congress gave
>the FCC the right to promote networking. But the FCC must also observe
>limits.
>
>The court went (cursorily in some cases) over the FCC's options for
>regulating Comcast's behavior, and determined either that there was no
>precedent for it or (I'm glossing over lots of technicalities here)
>that the FCC had not properly entered those options into the case.
>
>The FCC should still take steps to promote the spread of high-speed
>networking, and to ensure that it is affordable by growing numbers of
>people. But it must do so by regulating the lines, not what travels
>over those lines.
>
>As advocates for greater competition have been pointing out for
>several years, the FCC fell down on that public obligation. Many trace
>the lapse to the chairmanship of Bush appointee Michael Powell. And
>it's true that he chose to try to get the big telephone and cable
>companies to compete with each other (a duopoly situation) instead of
>opening more of a space for small Internet providers. I cover this
>choice in a 2004 article. But it's not fair to say Powell had no
>interest in competition, nor is it historically accurate to say this
>was a major change in direction for the FCC.
>
> >From the beginning, when the 1996 telecom act told the FCC to promote
>competition, implementation was flawed. The FCC chose 14 points in the
>telephone network where companies had to allow interconnection (so
>competitors could come on the network). But it missed at least one
>crucial point. The independent Internet providers were already losing
>the battle before Powell took over the reins at the FCC.
>
>And the notion of letting two or three big companies duke it out
>(mistrusting start-ups to make a difference) is embedded in the 1996
>act itself.
>
>Is it too late to make a change? We must hope not. Today's court
>ruling should be a wake-up call; it's time to get back to regulating
>things that the FCC actually can influence.
>
>Comcast's traffic shaping did not change the networking industry. Nor
>did it affect the availability of high-speed networks. It was a clumsy
>reaction by a beleaguered company to a phenomenon it didn't really
>understand. Historically, it will prove an oddity, and so will the
>spat that network advocates started, catching the FCC in its snares.
>
>The difficulty software layers add
>
>The term "Internet" is used far too loosely. If you apply it to all
>seven layers of the ISO networking model, it covers common carrier
>lines regulated by the FCC (as well as cable lines, which are subject
>to less regulation--but still some). But the FCC has historically
>called the Internet a "service" that is separate from those lines.
>
>Software blurs and perhaps even erases such neat distinctions. Comcast
>does not have to rewire its network or shut down switches to control
>it. All they have to do is configure a firewall. That's why stunts
>like holding back BitTorrent traffic become networking issues and draw
>interest from the FCC. But it also cautions against trying to regulate
>what Comcast does, because it's hard to know when to stop. That's what
>opponents of network neutrality say, and you can hear it in the court
>ruling.
>
>The fuzzy boundaries between software regulation and real-world
>activities bedevils other areas of policy as well. Because
>sophisticated real-world processing moves from mechanical devices into
>software, it encourages inventors to patent software innovations, a
>dilemma I explore in another article. And in the 1990s, courts argued
>over whether encryption was a process or a form of expression--and
>decided it was a form of expression.
>
>Should the FCC wait for Congress to tell it what to do? I don't think
>so. The DC Circuit court blocked one path, but it didn't tell the FCC
>to turn back. It has a job to do, and it just has to find the right
>tool for the job.



From Lowenberg at designnine.com  Thu Apr  8 13:17:15 2010
From: Lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 14:17:15 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Copper Wire Findings
Message-ID: <6CD64811-5BF1-4AFE-9A44-289E5FFA2693@designnine.com>

This posting has recently been circulating.    RL



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From tom at jtjohnson.com  Sun Apr 18 19:00:17 2010
From: tom at jtjohnson.com (Tom Johnson)
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:00:17 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Vision and strategy | Race Online 2012
Message-ID: <w2ze04090491004181900g67dec52cp54edfdf64acc4935@mail.gmail.com>

Plan in the UK to bring everyone online.

http://raceonline2012.org/about-us

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From tom at jtjohnson.com  Wed Apr 21 12:06:56 2010
From: tom at jtjohnson.com (Tom Johnson)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:06:56 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] A calmer voice undisturbed by microwaves
Message-ID: <x2pe04090491004211206j29bd751dr266503db5ef47f7d@mail.gmail.com>

Santa Fe pal George Johnson serves up reasoned analysis of microwave
molehill on Slate.com   "On Top of Microwave Mountain" http://bit.ly/982xmh

-tj

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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Thu Apr 22 06:50:24 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:50:24 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Qwest - CenturyLink Merger Announced
Message-ID: <8C7EDFFB-01A0-4B52-96B7-049ABA9324F0@designnine.com>

Abbreviated from Qwest's web site.   We'll be seeing lots more news  
about this.   RL
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http://news.qwest.com/centurylinkqwestmerger
CenturyLink and Qwest Agree to Merge

CenturyLink to Become National, Industry-Leading Communications  
Company with Pro Forma 2009 Revenues of $19.8 Billion

Combined Company to Have Extensive Broadband Capabilities with 173,000- 
mile Fiber Network

Compelling Choice for Consumer, Business and Wholesale Customers  
Offering Full Array of Communications Services

Transaction Expected to be Accretive to Free Cash Flow per Share,  
Excluding Integration Costs, Immediately Following Close of the  
Transaction

MONROE, La. and DENVER, Co. ? April 22, 2010 ? CenturyLink and Qwest  
Communications announced today that their boards of directors have  
approved a definitive agreement under which CenturyLink will acquire  
Qwest in a tax-free, stock-for-stock transaction.  Under the terms of  
the agreement, Qwest shareholders will receive 0.1664 CenturyLink  
shares for each share of Qwest common stock they own at closing.  Upon  
closing of the transaction, CenturyLink shareholders are expected to  
own approximately 50.5 percent and Qwest shareholders are expected to  
own approximately 49.5 percent of the combined company.

Based on the closing stock price of CenturyLink on April 21, 2010, the  
per share consideration to be received by Qwest shareholders would be  
equivalent to $6.02 of CenturyLink stock, which represents a premium  
to Qwest shareholders of approximately 15 percent over Qwest?s closing  
stock price on April 21, 2010.  Based on the closing stock price of  
CenturyLink on April 21, 2010, the transaction reflects an enterprise  
value of Qwest of approximately $22.4 billion, including the  
assumption of $11.8 billion of Qwest net debt outstanding as of  
December 31, 2009.

The parties expect the transaction to be accretive to CenturyLink?s  
free cash flow per share, excluding integration costs, immediately  
following the close of the transaction.  Leveraging CenturyLink?s  
proven integration experience, the transaction is expected to generate  
annual operating and capital synergies of approximately $625 million  
when fully recognized over a three- to five-year period following the  
close of the transaction.

This combination will result in a company whose enterprise business  
will be a significant contributor to its growth which, along with the  
consumer business, will allow it to offer innovative broadband  
products and services over its advanced networks.  As of December 31,  
2009, CenturyLink and Qwest served local markets in 37 states with  
approximately 5 million broadband customers, 17 million access lines,  
1,415,000 video subscribers and 850,000 wireless consumers.

Glen F. Post III, CenturyLink?s chief executive officer and president,  
said, ?We believe the combination of CenturyLink?s and Qwest?s  
employees, assets and service areas will provide us greater scale,  
scope and expertise and will provide significant benefits for  
shareholders, customers and our communities.  This combination will  
enhance our ability to deploy innovative IP products and high- 
bandwidth services to business customers, expand broadband  
availability and speed to consumers, and offer superior,  
differentiated video products.

?The combined company?s highly recognized national network will  
significantly expand our ability to deliver strategic and customized  
product and service solutions to our business, wholesale and  
government customers throughout the country.  In addition, we will  
still maintain the focus on our local markets through our effective  
regional operating model and targeted marketing strategies.  We  
believe shareholders will benefit through their investment in a  
company that has greater financial resources and flexibility,  
including a more diversified revenue base and an enhanced competitive  
position.?
Edward A. Mueller, Qwest?s chairman and chief executive officer, said,  
?Over the last several years, Qwest has been focused on generating  
sustainable free cash flow and strengthening the balance sheet, as  
well as creating innovative approaches to drive efficiency and perfect  
the customer experience.  We are pleased with the progress we have  
made and believe that the combined company will be well positioned to  
win in an increasingly competitive marketplace.

?This transaction is compelling for our shareholders, who will benefit  
from an immediate premium for their shares, an increase of  
approximately 50 percent in the annual dividend, and the opportunity  
to participate in the upside potential of the combined company through  
their ownership of CenturyLink stock.  We look forward to becoming  
part of a larger company with a strong financial profile, an industry- 
leading local and national network, and a shared commitment to  
customers, employees, communities and shareholders.  We also look  
forward to maintaining a key presence in Denver.?

Key Benefits of the Transaction

Increased Capabilities: The combination creates a robust, national  
173,000-mile fiber network.  With a more diverse mix of offerings,  
increased scale and stronger product portfolio, the company will be  
able to reach more customers with a broad range of solutions.
Expanded and Enhanced Competitive Offerings: The company will have the  
national breadth and local depth to provide a compelling array of  
broadband products and services including high speed Internet, video  
entertainment, data hosting and managed services, as well as fiber to  
cell tower connectivity and other high bandwidth services.  In  
addition, Qwest Business serves 95 percent of Fortune 500 companies  
and is one of the three universal service providers for Networx, the  
largest communications services contract in the world.
Financial Strength and Flexibility: For the 12 months ended December  
31, 2009, the combined company would have had pro forma revenues of  
$19.8 billion, pro forma EBITDA of approximately $8.2 billion, and pro  
forma free cash flow of approximately $3.4 billion, excluding  
synergies.  The combined company?s pro forma net leverage would have  
been 2.2 times EBITDA for the 12 months ended December 31, 2009,  
including synergies on a full run-rate basis and excluding integration  
costs.  No new financing or refinancing is required as a result of  
this transaction.  The combined company?s sound capital structure and  
significant free cash flow generation are expected to support its  
ability to take advantage of opportunities that may arise, while  
continuing to invest in its business, reduce indebtedness and return  
substantial capital to shareholders.
Significant Synergy Opportunities: The transaction is expected to  
generate annual operating cost synergies of      approximately $575  
million, which are expected to be fully realized three to five years  
following closing.  Key drivers of these synergies include reduction  
of corporate overhead, elimination of duplicate functions and systems,  
and increased operational efficiencies.  The transaction also is  
expected to generate annual capital expenditure synergies of  
approximately $50 million within the first two years after close.   
Based on current expectations, CenturyLink estimates that it will  
incur approximately $650 to $800 million of operating costs and  
approximately $150 to $200 million of one-time capital costs to  
achieve these operational synergies.
Management, Board of Directors and Headquarters

The combined company?s senior leadership team is expected to be  
comprised of executives from both CenturyLink and Qwest, of which the  
following are being announced today.

William A. Owens will be chairman of the board
Glen F. Post, III will be chief executive officer and president
R. Stewart Ewing, Jr. will be chief financial officer
Karen A. Puckett will be chief operating officer
Christopher K. Ancell will be president of business markets group
Following the close of the transaction, the board of directors of  
CenturyLink will add four members from the current Qwest board,  
including Edward A. Mueller, Qwest?s chairman and chief executive  
officer.

The corporate headquarters of the company will remain in Monroe, La.   
The company also will maintain a key operational presence in Denver,  
including a regional headquarters, the Qwest Business Markets Group,  
as well as other functions to be determined.

Approvals and Timing

The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals, including  
expiration or termination of the applicable waiting period under the  
Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act as well as approvals from  
the Federal Communications Commission and certain state public service  
commissions, along with other customary closing conditions.  The  
transaction also is subject to the approval of CenturyLink and Qwest  
shareholders.  The companies anticipate closing this transaction in  
the first half of 2011.


Teleconference and Webcast

CenturyLink and Qwest will host a conference call with the financial  
community today, April 22, 2010, at 9:30 a.m. EDT / 8:30 a.m. CDT /  
7:30 a.m. MDT to discuss this morning?s announcement.  The conference  
call will be webcast live over CenturyLink?s website at www.CenturyLink.com 
  and over Qwest?s website at investor.qwest.com.  Interested parties  
also can join the call by dialing (866) 610-1072 (international: (973)  
935-2840), and referencing code 69793352, 10 minutes prior to the  
start of the call.

More information about the transaction is available on  
centurylinkqwestmerger.com.
About CenturyLink

CenturyLink is a leading provider of high-quality voice, broadband and  
video services over its advanced communications networks to consumers  
and businesses in 33 states.  CenturyLink, headquartered in Monroe,  
La., is an S&P 500 Company and is listed in the Fortune 500 list of  
America?s largest corporations.  For more information on CenturyLink,  
visit www.CenturyLink.com.

About Qwest

Customers coast-to-coast turn to Qwest's industry-leading national  
fiber-optic network and world-class customer service to meet their  
communications and entertainment needs.  For residential customers,  
Qwest offers a new generation of fiber-optic-fast Internet service,  
high-speed Internet solutions, as well as digital home phone, wireless  
service available through Verizon Wireless and DIRECTV services.    
Qwest is also the choice of 95 percent of Fortune 500 companies,  
offering a full suite of network, data and voice services for small  
businesses, large businesses, government agencies and wholesale  
customers.  Additionally, Qwest participates in Networx, the largest  
communications services contract in the world, and is recognized as a  
leader in the network services market by leading technology industry  
analyst firms.




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From gnarlodious at gmail.com  Thu Apr 22 07:18:25 2010
From: gnarlodious at gmail.com (Gnarlodious)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:18:25 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Qwest - CenturyLink Merger Announced
In-Reply-To: <8C7EDFFB-01A0-4B52-96B7-049ABA9324F0@designnine.com>
References: <8C7EDFFB-01A0-4B52-96B7-049ABA9324F0@designnine.com>
Message-ID: <p2s2e24105e1004220718y301ada39s34d7a91e8390676e@mail.gmail.com>

Keeping the monopoly going, I see.

-- Gnarlie
http://Gnarlodious.com


From lowenberg at designnine.com  Sat May  1 07:45:05 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 08:45:05 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] TewaCom Expansion Announced
Message-ID: <34900156-2321-4153-9F25-1F4A4CC5A68A@designnine.com>

Pueblo buys Internet rival, eyes expansion

www.santafenewmexican.com/Local News/Pueblo-buys-Internet-rival--eyes- 
expansion-

Staci Matlock | The New Mexican
Posted: Friday, April 30, 2010 ? 5/1/10

The San Ildefonso Pueblo Enterprise Corporation announced its  
acquisition Friday of wireless Internet competitor Chimay? Red in the  
Espa?ola Valley.

The acquisition will expand SIPEC's wireless broadband Internet  
service TewaCom to more than 6,500 homes and businesses around the  
rural valley.

Combined with plans to expand TewaCom's existing wireless service  
through $1.26 million in federal stimulus loans and grants, the  
company said it will be able to provide improved Internet access to  
Mendenales, Alcalde, Velarde, El Rancho, Jacona, Jaconita, Espa?ola,  
and the pueblos of San Ildefonso, Ohkay Owingeh and Santa Clara.

"The Corporation is committed to provide an alternative solution for  
broadband Internet services in the Valley with the acquisition of  
Chimay? Red," said Laurence Pe?a, SIPEC's chief executive officer, in  
a statement. "We continue to grow with our original concept of  
'Connecting the Unconnected.'"

Pe?a said the increased bandwidth will allow TewaCom to expand  
options, offering Voice over Internet Protocol and security monitoring.

Charles Frans, Chimay? Red's president and general manager, will  
become general manager of both companies. TewaCom Wireless' network  
operations manager, Heath Hill, will continue in his current position  
as well as serve in the same capacity for Chimay? Red.

TewaCom Wireless began offering broadband network service to San  
Ildefonso Pueblo in 2007 with the help of a Rural Utility Service  
Community Connect grant.

TewaCom's remaining competitors in the valley are Windstream and Qwest  
Communications.

Unlike neighboring pueblos, San Ildefonso has no casino.  
"Traditionally, a casino doesn't fit with us," Pe?a, a tribal  
councilman, said.

Instead, the pueblo is looking to build on its proximity to Los Alamos  
National Laboratory to increase economic opportunities through  
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From tom at jtjohnson.com  Mon May  3 23:47:27 2010
From: tom at jtjohnson.com (Tom Johnson)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 23:47:27 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Pew Internet report finds public likes government
	playing big role in information delivery online
Message-ID: <i2le04090491005032347oac080e98jb3c6b314fa49628c@mail.gmail.com>

FYI folks.

-tom johnson


Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:18:48 -0500
From: Aaron Smith <asmith at pewinternet.org>
Subject: Pew Internet report on Government Online

Dear Bill,

I'm just writing to let you know that we here at the Pew Internet Project
released a new report today on the state of Government Online. We thought
you might be interested and wanted to bring it to your attention; you can
view/download a copy at:

http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Government-Online.aspx.

This report documents how government efforts to make their data available
are resonating with the public. Surprisingly large numbers of Americans are
going online for data about government spending and activities. Our national
survey finds that many online adults are engaging with government using
tools such as blogs and social networking sites, and are participating in
the online debate around government policies and issues. It also finds that
the use of social media tools by government is especially appreciated by
groups such as African-Americans and Hispanics. Please contact me directly
if you have any questions or comments. Thank you,

Aaron W. Smith Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project 1615 L
St NW Suite 700, Washington DC 20036 phone:  202 419-4516 email:
asmith at pewinternet.org twitter: @aaron_w_smith



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From john at citylinkfiber.com  Wed May  5 17:51:00 2010
From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 18:51:00 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe Bill would HALT all residential / business
	WIFI installs
Message-ID: <F70BCC55F4F2F14888D450E441159C240F3FF0@deathstar2.citylinkfiber.intra>

Business owners in Santa Fe that are looking to get better internet
bandwidth via unlicensed WIFI BEWARE.

New bill will HALT ALL installations until 2011.


To quote:

This ordinance shall apply to all applications for the installation,
modification or relocation of wireless telecommunication facilities
within all private properties, public properties and public
rights-of-way of the City.



According to the City's rules, placing a WiFi antenna requires a permit,
even if on private property. 

http://www.santafenm.gov/DocumentView.aspx?DID=5539



From editorsteve at gmail.com  Wed May  5 18:23:27 2010
From: editorsteve at gmail.com (Steve Ross)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 21:23:27 -0400
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe Bill would HALT all residential /
	business WIFI installs
In-Reply-To: <F70BCC55F4F2F14888D450E441159C240F3FF0@deathstar2.citylinkfiber.intra>
References: <F70BCC55F4F2F14888D450E441159C240F3FF0@deathstar2.citylinkfiber.intra>
Message-ID: <u2g203e4cf71005051823o28ddfb17x43e1984e662f647f@mail.gmail.com>

Ah, yes... from the city where someone has sued his neighbor over
wifi/smartphone/whatever use. Is there a correlation between insanity and
living inside fake-adobe concrete homes? Or does the insanity perhaps come
from poor Qwest service?

>From where I sit (a few feet from the Atlantic Ocean, actually) the
spectacle of Santa Fe -- a city full of physicists -- getting bogged down by
this sort of nonsense is sobering. If it can happen in Santa Fe it can
happen anywhere, I guess.

Banning wifi is like trying to desalinate the ocean or to ban swimming
because our diets contain too much salt. Not only does one have nothing to
do with the other. It's physically impossible.

But watching a few nuts -- and they are nuts -- from a safe distance is
entertaining. I just don't want them to get too close. Dangerous to health
and all that.

Steve

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:51 PM, John Brown <john at citylinkfiber.com> wrote:

> Business owners in Santa Fe that are looking to get better internet
> bandwidth via unlicensed WIFI BEWARE.
>
> New bill will HALT ALL installations until 2011.
>
>
> To quote:
>
> This ordinance shall apply to all applications for the installation,
> modification or relocation of wireless telecommunication facilities
> within all private properties, public properties and public
> rights-of-way of the City.
>
>
>
> According to the City's rules, placing a WiFi antenna requires a permit,
> even if on private property.
>
> http://www.santafenm.gov/DocumentView.aspx?DID=5539
>
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From gnarlodious at gmail.com  Wed May  5 19:07:18 2010
From: gnarlodious at gmail.com (Gnarlodious)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 20:07:18 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe Bill would HALT all residential /
	business WIFI installs
In-Reply-To: <F70BCC55F4F2F14888D450E441159C240F3FF0@deathstar2.citylinkfiber.intra>
References: <F70BCC55F4F2F14888D450E441159C240F3FF0@deathstar2.citylinkfiber.intra>
Message-ID: <q2w2e24105e1005051907qb88eae67ya7372b60fe92396@mail.gmail.com>

The terminology "WiFi" is not so much as mentioned in the bill.

The city does not have the authority to prevent ACTUAL WiFi access
points on private property, which fall under the jurisdiction of FCC
public access channels. If it were true what you say, the city would
be forced to also regulate microwave ovens, cordless telephones, baby
monitors, alarm systems, audio/video systems and security cameras.

I admit that from the radio perspective, the bill is ambiguously
worded since evidently there is no person in Santa Fe who knows a
darned thing about radio waves. Don't forget that the city lost about
$750,000 recently when they installed a WiFi network to monitor and
control Water Department facilities. The citizenry was so outraged at
the ugliness of the boxes and transmitters that they made the city
tear down the system which was then auctioned off and replaced with
wired communication.

-- Gnarlie, K5ZN


From john at citylinkfiber.com  Wed May  5 19:49:46 2010
From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 20:49:46 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe Bill would HALT all residential /
	business WIFI installs
Message-ID: <F70BCC55F4F2F14888D450E441159C240F3FFA@deathstar2.citylinkfiber.intra>

True, the letters W I F I are not in the bill.

But

There is a current and immediate threat to public health, safety and
welfare because, without this urgency ordinance, towers and antennas
could be installed, constructed or modified ......

Notice that the word ANTENNAS is listed.  I believe that a WiFi device
would need such ANTENNA so as to provide telecommunications services.

The term WIRELESS is used, which WiFi is a subset of.

The bill seems to have the authority to prevent you from putting up say
a 23dBI Grid dish on your roof, pointed towards another antenna
someplace else within the city.

A microwave oven is NOT a telecommunications facility, nor does it
provide telecommunications services.

The bill DOES say ".... wireless telecommunication facilities within all
private properties..."   Note the words WITHIN ALL PRIVATE PROPERTIES.

This would appear to include the cordless telephone, baby monitor, alarm
systems, Audio/Video systems, security cameras, and CELL PHONES.


Please reference Chapter 14-6.2(E) of the existing code.

To quote:
14-6.2(E)2 Applicability

All towers or antennas located within the City limits whether upon
private or public lands shall be subject to this section....


Certain exclusions exist, but those do NOT exclude WIFI 

I would think that this means you can't go to Wal-Mart and buy a Linksys
wireless router anymore....


The point here is that, non-technical, non-understanding people are
writing words down and are not thinking the implications of such words.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so
effective as their stringent execution.  Ulysses S. Grant

Federally licensed amateur radio operators are excluded.


73's

John Brown

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gnarlodious [mailto:gnarlodious at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 8:07 PM
> To: John Brown
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe Bill would HALT all residential /
> business WIFI installs
> 
> The terminology "WiFi" is not so much as mentioned in the bill.
> 
> The city does not have the authority to prevent ACTUAL WiFi access
> points on private property, which fall under the jurisdiction of FCC
> public access channels. If it were true what you say, the city would
> be forced to also regulate microwave ovens, cordless telephones, baby
> monitors, alarm systems, audio/video systems and security cameras.
> 
> I admit that from the radio perspective, the bill is ambiguously
> worded since evidently there is no person in Santa Fe who knows a
> darned thing about radio waves. Don't forget that the city lost about
> $750,000 recently when they installed a WiFi network to monitor and
> control Water Department facilities. The citizenry was so outraged at
> the ugliness of the boxes and transmitters that they made the city
> tear down the system which was then auctioned off and replaced with
> wired communication.
> 
> -- Gnarlie, K5ZN



From lowenberg at designnine.com  Wed May  5 21:40:29 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 22:40:29 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Genachowski to reclassify portions of broadband
	to assert FCC authority over Internet access
References: <18241E42-A4C6-4346-AF20-520E87C6E7CF@warpspeed.com>
Message-ID: <31AF6C14-6F03-42F6-8C17-74035B34D969@designnine.com>


> Genachowski to reclassify portions of broadband to assert FCC  
> authority over Internet access
> By Cecilia Kang
>
> <http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/05/fcc_chair_to_classify_portions.html 
> >
>
> The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has decided to  
> reclassify portions of broadband as a telecommunications service,  
> allowing the FCC to carry out a net neutrality rule by putting the  
> companies that provide Internet access more concretely under its  
> control.
>
> FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will announce his decision on  
> Thursday, the agency said. Any proposal would be open to public  
> comments and then up for a vote from the five-member commission. The  
> decision comes after pressure Wednesday by key lawmakers and public  
> interest groups to reclassify broadband services, which were  
> deregulated as a service the agency had "ancillary" authority over.
>
> Sources said Genachowski appeared to have shifted his thinking from  
> late last week, when it looked like he was not inclined to make such  
> a move. Broadband service providers and the two Republican  
> commissioners have warned against reclassifying broadband. They said  
> doing so would create more regulatory burden from broadband  
> providers. One source with knowledge of the discussions in the FCC  
> this week said a letter from Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Rep.  
> Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) supporting reclassification provided  
> political support for the FCC to shift Internet lines to a more  
> regulatory framework but with lighter regulations. The lawmakers  
> said if the FCC defined broadband as a telecommunications service,  
> it would have to strip Internet access providers of rules that apply  
> to phone companies. The move will be unpopular among broadband  
> service providers and Republicans ahead of elections this fall.
>
> An FCC official said in a statement that the agency's move will be  
> somewhere between deregulation, the state of broadband services  
> today, and a more regulatory approach.
>
> [snip]


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From granoff at zianet.com  Wed May  5 22:22:26 2010
From: granoff at zianet.com (Marianne Granoff)
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 23:22:26 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Genachowski to reclassify portions of broadband
 to assert FCC authority over Internet access
Message-ID: <20100506052231.B2779147F580@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>


Sounds like a way to guarantee full employment for attorneys to me  :-)

Marianne Granoff
Albuquerque, NM


>Genachowski to reclassify portions of broadband to assert FCC 
>authority over Internet access
>By Cecilia Kang
>
> 
><http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/05/fcc_chair_to_classify_portions.html>http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/05/fcc_chair_to_classify_portions.html
>
>The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has decided to 
>reclassify portions of broadband as a telecommunications service, 
>allowing the FCC to carry out a net neutrality rule by putting the 
>companies that provide Internet access more concretely under its control.
>
>FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will announce his decision on 
>Thursday, the agency said. Any proposal would be open to public 
>comments and then up for a vote from the five-member commission. The 
>decision comes after pressure Wednesday by key lawmakers and public 
>interest groups to reclassify broadband services, which were 
>deregulated as a service the agency had "ancillary" authority over.
>
>Sources said Genachowski appeared to have shifted his thinking from 
>late last week, when it looked like he was not inclined to make such 
>a move. Broadband service providers and the two Republican 
>commissioners have warned against reclassifying broadband. They said 
>doing so would create more regulatory burden from broadband 
>providers. One source with knowledge of the discussions in the FCC 
>this week said a letter from Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Rep. 
>Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) supporting reclassification provided 
>political support for the FCC to shift Internet lines to a more 
>regulatory framework but with lighter regulations. The lawmakers 
>said if the FCC defined broadband as a telecommunications service, 
>it would have to strip Internet access providers of rules that apply 
>to phone companies. The move will be unpopular among broadband 
>service providers and Republicans ahead of elections this fall.
>
>An FCC official said in a statement that the agency's move will be 
>somewhere between deregulation, the state of broadband services 
>today, and a more regulatory approach.
>
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From jimp at brandx.net  Wed May  5 21:39:19 2010
From: jimp at brandx.net (Jim Pickrell)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 21:39:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] [Open-net-working-group] Fwd: Genachowski to
 reclassify portions of broadband to assert FCC authority over Internet
 access
In-Reply-To: <20100506052228.427DB6178@lists.bway.net>
References: <20100506052228.427DB6178@lists.bway.net>
Message-ID: <53232.68.183.106.126.1273120759.squirrel@webmail.brandx.net>

Hi,

I think this is the best news I have heard in a long time.

If internet is reclassified as a telecoms service, then the telcos become
common carriers (imagine that) and all the competitive rules created under
the telecom act apply to internet.

We're back in business.

This is what our supreme court case was about (Brand X V. FCC)

This is really big news, if they really do it.  It's the right plan, and
something I've been promoting for a long time.

For the record I'm against net neutrality because it's a bandaid to cure a
deeper problem of lack of competition.  Regulation cannot solve the net
neutrality problem but competition can, and reclassifying internet as
telecoms is a big step in the right direction.

Jim Pickrell
Brand X Internet


>
> Sounds like a way to guarantee full employment for attorneys to me  :-)
>
> Marianne Granoff
> Albuquerque, NM
>
>
>>Genachowski to reclassify portions of broadband to assert FCC
>>authority over Internet access
>>By Cecilia Kang
>>
>>
>><http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/05/fcc_chair_to_classify_portions.html>http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/05/fcc_chair_to_classify_portions.html
>>
>>The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has decided to
>>reclassify portions of broadband as a telecommunications service,
>>allowing the FCC to carry out a net neutrality rule by putting the
>>companies that provide Internet access more concretely under its control.
>>
>>FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will announce his decision on
>>Thursday, the agency said. Any proposal would be open to public
>>comments and then up for a vote from the five-member commission. The
>>decision comes after pressure Wednesday by key lawmakers and public
>>interest groups to reclassify broadband services, which were
>>deregulated as a service the agency had "ancillary" authority over.
>>
>>Sources said Genachowski appeared to have shifted his thinking from
>>late last week, when it looked like he was not inclined to make such
>>a move. Broadband service providers and the two Republican
>>commissioners have warned against reclassifying broadband. They said
>>doing so would create more regulatory burden from broadband
>>providers. One source with knowledge of the discussions in the FCC
>>this week said a letter from Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Rep.
>>Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) supporting reclassification provided
>>political support for the FCC to shift Internet lines to a more
>>regulatory framework but with lighter regulations. The lawmakers
>>said if the FCC defined broadband as a telecommunications service,
>>it would have to strip Internet access providers of rules that apply
>>to phone companies. The move will be unpopular among broadband
>>service providers and Republicans ahead of elections this fall.
>>
>>An FCC official said in a statement that the agency's move will be
>>somewhere between deregulation, the state of broadband services
>>today, and a more regulatory approach.
>>
>>[snip]
> _______________________________________________
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> Open-net-working-group at lists.bway.net
> http://lists.bway.net/listinfo/open-net-working-group
>



From gnarlodious at gmail.com  Thu May  6 07:17:24 2010
From: gnarlodious at gmail.com (Gnarlodious)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 08:17:24 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Genachowski to reclassify portions of
	broadband to assert FCC authority over Internet access
In-Reply-To: <31AF6C14-6F03-42F6-8C17-74035B34D969@designnine.com>
References: <18241E42-A4C6-4346-AF20-520E87C6E7CF@warpspeed.com>
	<31AF6C14-6F03-42F6-8C17-74035B34D969@designnine.com>
Message-ID: <v2y2e24105e1005060717rba0daf03uc54f66c913d4918b@mail.gmail.com>

I support this regulatory move. Without it we are likely to see a
despotic system where only a few giant corporate ISPs control what we
see and do on the internet.

Our water and sewer systems are "public utilities" because they are
essential to the function of civilized people. It was realized long
ago that privately owned corporations would abuse a single pipeline to
gain total control of a resource. This is the "Hydraulic Empire" model
of resource allocation that ancient warlords invented to control the
entire population. We do not have 6 different water pipes coming into
our houses so we can choose from the lowest bidder, what a ridiculous
idea. The compromise between these two extremes of supply-and-demand
is that these utilities are supplied and controlled by the
municipality.

Likewise our electric supply is under tight regulation from the PRC,
because the "natural monopoly" of a one-wire delivery system is
universally recognized. It is not feasable to have multiple providers
for electricity, the "Free Market" principle of competition does not
apply to one-pipeline distribution systems. Therefore we claim these
systems to be part of "The Commons". Publicly owned or controlled
distribution of a vital resource.

We elect our policymakers and live to enjoy or regret our decision. We
do, however, have some control over policy. Under the corporate
despotism model of distribution, we have zero control over policy. As
an example, consider the horrendous state of Cable TV. People don't
really want 200 channels of crap, but it's cheap content and a great
wrapper for advertising, which is where Cable TV makes all its money.
This situation despite the fact that Cable TV companies could not
exist without being allowed to run their wires over PUBLICLY OWNED
right-of-way.

There is even some question over whether or not Cable TV is a
"Utility" deserving of right-of-way access. certainly Cable TV is not
an essential commodity like water, sewer and electricity. It could be
argued that Cable TV is essential to Democracy by keeping the
electorate well-informed, but whenever I watch Cable TV news all I see
is corporate propaganda. Except for when I am watching Democracy Now,
in which case I see anarchist propaganda.

Internet access is a more vital part of Democracy than any Cable TV,
and now giant corporations are staking their claim. We must, to
preserve Free Speech, exert our citizen's authority over internet
access.

-- Rachel Cogent
http://Gnarlodious.com/


From granoff at zianet.com  Thu May  6 08:33:52 2010
From: granoff at zianet.com (Marianne Granoff)
Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 09:33:52 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Statement by Chairman Genachowski,
 "The Third Way: A  Narrowly Tailored Broadband Framework".
Message-ID: <20100506153357.E0D1B130E1AF@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>


 From another list.


>5/6/10
>Statement by Chairman Genachowski, "The Third Way: A Narrowly Tailored
>Broadband Framework".
>Word | Acrobat
>  http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-297944A1.pdf



From gnarlodious at gmail.com  Thu May  6 09:55:36 2010
From: gnarlodious at gmail.com (Gnarlodious)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 10:55:36 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Statement by Chairman Genachowski,
	"The Third 	Way: A Narrowly Tailored Broadband Framework".
In-Reply-To: <20100506153357.E0D1B130E1AF@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>
References: <20100506153357.E0D1B130E1AF@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>
Message-ID: <o2k2e24105e1005060955i1612b42fvfea98cb723666365@mail.gmail.com>

On 5/6/10, Marianne Granoff wrote:

>>  http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-297944A1.pdf

To summarize the problem:

"The legal theory that the Comcast opinion found inadequate has its
roots in a series of controversial decisions beginning in 2002 in
which the Commission decided to classify broadband Internet access
service not as a ?telecommunications service? for purposes of the
Communications Act, but as something different?an ?information
service.?

Personal commentary:

Its not hard to understand this description. Comcast has always been a
Republican corporation with a lot of political influence. As such, its
primary intent is to deliver content to consumers, a strictly one-way
pipeline. Internet was considered from its inception as being an
accessory to Cable TV, which is why even today your standard Comcast
internet lets you download at 8 megabits while upload is about 10
times slower. Comcast never WANTED the internet to be democratic and
two-way, and so they put obstacles in the way of interaction. You will
especially notice this problem if you have websites and attempt to
upload to a server. Comcast doesn't WANT you to send anything, if they
had their 'druthers it would be to force you to be a passive consumer
and never talk back.

So the "information service" classification makes sense for Comcast
2002. Nowadays, Comcast can barely handle a Skype connection or a
video chat. To do that, they would have to balance their upstream and
downstream speed. But Skype and Video Chat are "Telecommunications",
not "information service". And that is the crux of the matter. It's
technically possible to offer equal duplex speed, but it would cut
into the "media delivery" role they have built into the system. So
that is why Comcast is so virulently against the Telecommunications
classification.

And I might add, this also applies to RCN, RoadRunner, COX, Charter
and other cable internet providers. Coincidentally, they are all
"entertainment companies" who also provide "media content". DSL is
provided by actual "Telecommunications" companies and do not suffer
the same technical limitation of cable. If the FCC were to mandate
Telecommunications capable internet, cable companies would have to
totally re-engineer their systems.

-- Gnarlie
http://Gnarlodious.com/


From jleach at previsio.us  Thu May  6 10:22:20 2010
From: jleach at previsio.us (J A Leach)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 12:22:20 -0500
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Statement by Chairman Genachowski,
	"The Third 	Way: A Narrowly Tailored Broadband Framework".
In-Reply-To: <o2k2e24105e1005060955i1612b42fvfea98cb723666365@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20100506153357.E0D1B130E1AF@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>
	<o2k2e24105e1005060955i1612b42fvfea98cb723666365@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAE25ZeJXsvtPh6cL2EZ7VwrCgAAAEAAAAN+QYDYbg/1ItO1DK7Rw49MBAAAAAA==@previsio.us>

To say that Comcast is the only party in this and disqualify them on the
basis of their alleged political affiliation is sophistry. Google has been
lobbying extremely hard with the Obama administration to get net-neutrality
set as a policy. I don't any mention of Google's Democrat campaign
contributions in your statements. 

Additionally, all data services were classified outside of the
telecommunications sphere since the inception of the FCC. It is merely
another talking point of proponents of net-neutrality to claim that the Bush
43 administration was responsible for this classification. Just because a
specific case was ruled on during one administration doesn't mean the
administration was behind the original policy.


J. A. 'Jack' Leach
+1 (302) 476 2765 (vox)
+1 (302) 397 2765 (fax)

Malum consilium quod mutari non potest.


-----Original Message-----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Gnarlodious
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:56 AM
To: Marianne Granoff
Cc: uswisp at lists.nm.org; open-net-working-group at lists.bway.net;
nmisp at nmisp.net; 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org; aww-discuss at egroups.com
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Statement by Chairman Genachowski, "The
Third Way: A Narrowly Tailored Broadband Framework".

On 5/6/10, Marianne Granoff wrote:

>>  http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-297944A1.pdf

To summarize the problem:

"The legal theory that the Comcast opinion found inadequate has its
roots in a series of controversial decisions beginning in 2002 in
which the Commission decided to classify broadband Internet access
service not as a "telecommunications service" for purposes of the
Communications Act, but as something different-an "information
service."

Personal commentary:

Its not hard to understand this description. Comcast has always been a
Republican corporation with a lot of political influence. As such, its
primary intent is to deliver content to consumers, a strictly one-way
pipeline. Internet was considered from its inception as being an
accessory to Cable TV, which is why even today your standard Comcast
internet lets you download at 8 megabits while upload is about 10
times slower. Comcast never WANTED the internet to be democratic and
two-way, and so they put obstacles in the way of interaction. You will
especially notice this problem if you have websites and attempt to
upload to a server. Comcast doesn't WANT you to send anything, if they
had their 'druthers it would be to force you to be a passive consumer
and never talk back.

So the "information service" classification makes sense for Comcast
2002. Nowadays, Comcast can barely handle a Skype connection or a
video chat. To do that, they would have to balance their upstream and
downstream speed. But Skype and Video Chat are "Telecommunications",
not "information service". And that is the crux of the matter. It's
technically possible to offer equal duplex speed, but it would cut
into the "media delivery" role they have built into the system. So
that is why Comcast is so virulently against the Telecommunications
classification.

And I might add, this also applies to RCN, RoadRunner, COX, Charter
and other cable internet providers. Coincidentally, they are all
"entertainment companies" who also provide "media content". DSL is
provided by actual "Telecommunications" companies and do not suffer
the same technical limitation of cable. If the FCC were to mandate
Telecommunications capable internet, cable companies would have to
totally re-engineer their systems.

-- Gnarlie
http://Gnarlodious.com/
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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Fri May  7 07:39:32 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 08:39:32 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Community Broadband Networks Report
References: <j2m832d0ce11005070656o7d841955l9d94b16452156624@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <3904CF52-236C-4AC4-997A-2B9EB3070E85@designnine.com>

Here's another excellent report from Chris Mitchell,
with the Institute for Local Self Reliance, in MN.
He also maintains the  www.muninetworks.org  web site.
As you look at comments (especially the first) you will see that some  
people
refuse to understand the basic principles of 'open networks',
in which the local public sector does not unfairly compete with  
private sector providers.
Thanks Chris.
Richard


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Christopher Mitchell <christopher at newrules.org>
> Date: May 7, 2010 7:56:09 AM MDT
> To: Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.com>
> Subject: Community Broadband Networks Report
> Reply-To: christopher at newrules.org
>
> Richard,
> I wanted to make sure you saw this report I just released.  I think
> the discussion of open access is something that needs to happen more
> in the open.  I try to address some of the issues existing networks
> have struggled with while noting that open access offers the best
> approach for solving key problems in telecom.
>
> http://www.muninetworks.org/reports/breaking-broadband-monopoly
>
> I'm always open to responses and criticism.  Thanks
>
> Christopher Mitchell
> Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative
> Institute for Local Self-Reliance
> http://www.newrules.org/information/
> http://www.muninetworks.org
> 612-379-3815 x209

------------------------------------------------------------
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P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
505-989-9110 off.; 505-603-5200 cell
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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Fri May  7 10:43:27 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 11:43:27 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] The Australian Broadband Plan
Message-ID: <F2163697-4EC6-4916-916E-6AA9D1F2EAA2@designnine.com>

Uh-oh, telcos: 93% of Australia getting gov't-run fiber

By Nate Anderson | Last updated about 4 hours ago

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/05/uh-oh-telcos-93-of-australia-getting-govt-run-fiber.ars

When the FCC issued its National Broadband Plan earlier this year, it  
set some modest goals for the nation: 100Mbps to 100 million homes by  
2020, universal service of 4Mbps everywhere.

Australia plans to do things... a bit differently. Within the next  
eight years, the Australian government will spend AUS$43 billion (US 
$38 billion) to build its own "world-class broadband infrastructure"  
that will deploy fiber to 93 percent of all Australian homes and bring  
12Mbps broadband to everyone else. The network will be wholesale only  
and will be open access, enabling every ISP to use the fiber to offer  
services.

What about the presence of a "highly profitable vertically-integrated  
and horizontally-integrated incumbent with a monopoly position in most  
fixed-line access in many backhaul routes"? (This is a reference to  
Telstra, which controls most of the copper telephone line in the  
country.) Well, Telstra can partner with the government and make a bit  
of money off the rollout, or it can choose not to cooperate and the  
government will do what it wants anyway.

The message is clear: Australia refuses to be held back by the  
business decisions of a single company. As a new report on the  
Australian plan makes clear, there's not much attempt to make this  
easier on Telstra.

"Existing participants will need to adapt to succeed," says the  
government report.

Aim high

The new report (PDF), out today from consultants at McKinsey and KPMG,  
is an "implementation study" to make sure the government's plan is  
feasible?and the report is remarkably positive.

The government initially planned to spend AUS$43 billion (about US 
$38.9 billion) and build a fiber network that would reach 90 percent  
of Australian homes. The rest would get wireless broadband, while the  
truly rural would have access to a new class of satellite service that  
can deliver a least 12Mbps to the entire country.

Too modest! says the report. Instead, Australia should bump its fiber  
build up to 93 percent, provide fixed wireless service for four  
percent, and Ka-band satellite service for the remaining three percent? 
and it can all be done in eight years and on budget. (Australia will  
apparently launch two of its own Ka-band satellites to provide a  
redundant national connection serving up to 350,000 homes.)


Cost breakdown (source: implementation report)
"The new fiber infrastructure covering 90+ percent of premises will be  
long-lived and will redefine the current industry structure,  
superseding the copper network that has been in place for over 50  
years in many places," says the report "the fiber laid over the next  
decade will be in place for possibly as long again."

As for Telstra, there's not much consolation here. The new fiber  
buildout will produce a "fundamentally different industry structure...  
This change will accelerate the evolution of the industry. At times  
this may be smooth; at other times it will be uneven. New business  
models and companies will emerge."

The incumbent can make money by doing a comprehensive deal with the  
government to "share infrastructure such as ducts, pits, exchanges,  
and unused backhaul fibers." Telstra has over 100,000km of conduit in  
the ground already, and it's estimated that 50-80 percent of these  
ducts still have unused space to run fiber. This could save the  
government significant money in trenching costs if Telstra will sell  
access. Likewise, the incumbent has plenty of dark fiber installed  
around the country to serve as backhaul links between exchanges; the  
government could also save the expense of laying its own fiber over  
these routes if it partners with Telstra.

But it's clear that the new network won't be held hostage to Telstra's  
demands. The consultants conclude that, in the absence of an  
agreement, [the fiber network] should proceed to build both its access  
network and its backhaul unilaterally."

"Fiber": Australian for "broadband"

Because of its harsh interior geography, nearly all Australians live  
on the perimeter of the country. The report notes that only 9 percent  
of the country's land mass is inhabited, and 90 percent of the people  
live in just 0.2 percent of the space. It's relatively easy and  
inexpensive to run fiber to these locations, but it's still a big job  
that will take years to complete.

Just think about what's involved: fiber will run alongside almost  
every road in the country. The report notes that 250,000km of fiber  
optic cabling will be needed and that the new network will have to  
make "5,000 customer visits per workday" for eight years to hook  
everyone up.

The obvious downside of this approach is that no other wireline  
competitors will likely emerge to challenge the government-controlled  
fiber network. On the other hand, there's not that much competition  
right now; only 20 percent of Australian homes can get cable service,  
and most others are left with lines from Telstra (which does resell to  
numerous ISPs, but it retains control of the access network).

To encourage competition, the government will not enter the ISP  
business itself. Instead, the plan is to wholesale fiber connections  
out to ISPs, and the network will be open to every ISP that wishes to  
participate. This is similar to what Google plans to do with its 1Gbps  
testbed fiber network somewhere in the US?but over an entire country.

The report expects that wholesale prices should start at AUS$30-35 (US 
$27-32) per month for 20Mbps broadband with voice service.

Australia's plan may never have worked for the US: we have much  
stronger duopoly competition than Australia, and a company like  
Verizon has already invested $18 billion-20 billion in fiber. Also,  
population density is different between the US and Australia. Still,  
it's an exciting project to watch, and it certainly makes us wonder  
what the US would look like with fiber to 90+ percent of homes and a  
healthy ISP competition over that fiber. (Google's project seems  
designed to make US residents think about the possibility.)

But for now, we watch. We wait. And we hope our own rural residents  
are happy enough with their 2Mbps connections?when they can get  
broadband at all.



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From john at citylinkfiber.com  Fri May  7 16:12:07 2010
From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 17:12:07 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Press Release: CityLink Halts Gigabit Fiber Project
	for Santa Fe NM
Message-ID: <F70BCC55F4F2F14888D450E441159C240F4032@deathstar2.citylinkfiber.intra>

CONTACT:
John Brown
CityLink Fiber Holdings of Santa Fe, LLC
505 938 6309
john at citylinkfiber.com

CITYLINK HALTS GIGABIT FIBER PROJECT FOR SANTA FE NEW MEXICO 


SANTA FE, NM --  CityLink today announces that it has decided to abandon
its project to build an open access, neutral fiber optic network in the
City of Santa Fe, New Mexico.  

The company has reviewed the latest draft of the proposed Master
Ordinance and continues to find significant ambiguity with the language.
The company has repeatedly asked the City Attorney to clarify the
language and has not received any response from the City Attorney on the
requested clarifications. Upcoming City Council meetings are closed to
public comment. Except for the final meeting when City Council will vote
on the ordinance.  At that time it is too late to make changes to the
documents.

The company is also concerned that the City maybe setting itself up for
more litigation given that certain sections of the ordinance appear to
create different classes of providers.  Some providers may not have the
newer, additional expenses that CityLink would face.  Yet, other
sections imply that existing providers would be forced in to the new
terms and also have higher costs.  This ambiguity creates significant
legal risk for the City and for potential franchisees.

Certain sections of the Master Ordinance would make it financially
impossible to deploy economical Fiber to the Home (FTTH) or to Small
Businesses.  According to the current Master Ordinance, the company
would have to pay a PER CUSTOMER land use application fee of up to
$2500, plus the cost of posting notices, mailing letters, holding
meetings and other requirements as may be set by the City. 

"These City mandated additional costs more than TRIPLE the estimated
cost to connect a HOME to High Speed Gigabit fiber optic services", said
company President John Brown. "When you look at the typical residential
gross revenue potential of $140 a month (internet, voice, video),
subtract the direct costs of goods, and use the remaining to pay off the
construction cost, we go from an average return on investment of 3.3
years out to 10.62 years.  This is unacceptable."

CityLink had proposed to deploy, at its own cost and not using any
public money, a Open Access, Neutral Fiber Optic network.  As part of
its proposal the company generally offered the following, AT NOT COST TO
THE CITY and its Citizens:

* All City / Muni buildings would be connected.
* City would receive 12 strands of dark fiber on all routes.
* All K-12 schools, regardless of public or private, would be connected
to dark fiber.
* All Senior Centers and Community Centers would be connected.
* All Libraries would be connected.
* Up to 20 higher education (college, vocational schools, universities)
facilities.

"This is a sad day for the citizens, business, our children and
students, and senior citizens of Santa Fe, said Brown. In today's market
where small businesses need to maximize every penny they have, it is
disappointing to see the City create so many high costs for new advanced
technologies.  Our fiber optic technologies would have brought several
new national carriers to the market, opened up faster and more reliable
services for business and residential users alike.  Instead The City
Different continues to be the City Disconnected."

The company will always be willing to meet with the City Administration
to work on a Master Ordinance that makes sense for all parties.  We look
forward to that potential meeting.


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From pete at ideapete.com  Fri May  7 17:39:17 2010
From: pete at ideapete.com (peter baston)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 18:39:17 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Press Release: CityLink Halts Gigabit Fiber
	Project for Santa Fe NM
In-Reply-To: <F70BCC55F4F2F14888D450E441159C240F4032@deathstar2.citylinkfiber.intra>
References: <F70BCC55F4F2F14888D450E441159C240F4032@deathstar2.citylinkfiber.intra>
Message-ID: <w2vba972d8a1005071739i250391c8j5f483848dfab7321@mail.gmail.com>

Hi John

Sad to hear it -----   but not unexpected

We are moving our entire business to Boulder CO, were they really understand
the pursuit of excellence

If you ever want to do business up there let me know

Good luck in La La Manana Land

( : ( : pete

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:12 PM, John Brown <john at citylinkfiber.com> wrote:

> CONTACT:
> John Brown
> CityLink Fiber Holdings of Santa Fe, LLC
> 505 938 6309
> john at citylinkfiber.com
>
> CITYLINK HALTS GIGABIT FIBER PROJECT FOR SANTA FE NEW MEXICO
>
>
> SANTA FE, NM --  CityLink today announces that it has decided to abandon
> its project to build an open access, neutral fiber optic network in the
> City of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
>
> The company has reviewed the latest draft of the proposed Master
> Ordinance and continues to find significant ambiguity with the language.
> The company has repeatedly asked the City Attorney to clarify the
> language and has not received any response from the City Attorney on the
> requested clarifications. Upcoming City Council meetings are closed to
> public comment. Except for the final meeting when City Council will vote
> on the ordinance.  At that time it is too late to make changes to the
> documents.
>
> The company is also concerned that the City maybe setting itself up for
> more litigation given that certain sections of the ordinance appear to
> create different classes of providers.  Some providers may not have the
> newer, additional expenses that CityLink would face.  Yet, other
> sections imply that existing providers would be forced in to the new
> terms and also have higher costs.  This ambiguity creates significant
> legal risk for the City and for potential franchisees.
>
> Certain sections of the Master Ordinance would make it financially
> impossible to deploy economical Fiber to the Home (FTTH) or to Small
> Businesses.  According to the current Master Ordinance, the company
> would have to pay a PER CUSTOMER land use application fee of up to
> $2500, plus the cost of posting notices, mailing letters, holding
> meetings and other requirements as may be set by the City.
>
> "These City mandated additional costs more than TRIPLE the estimated
> cost to connect a HOME to High Speed Gigabit fiber optic services", said
> company President John Brown. "When you look at the typical residential
> gross revenue potential of $140 a month (internet, voice, video),
> subtract the direct costs of goods, and use the remaining to pay off the
> construction cost, we go from an average return on investment of 3.3
> years out to 10.62 years.  This is unacceptable."
>
> CityLink had proposed to deploy, at its own cost and not using any
> public money, a Open Access, Neutral Fiber Optic network.  As part of
> its proposal the company generally offered the following, AT NOT COST TO
> THE CITY and its Citizens:
>
> * All City / Muni buildings would be connected.
> * City would receive 12 strands of dark fiber on all routes.
> * All K-12 schools, regardless of public or private, would be connected
> to dark fiber.
> * All Senior Centers and Community Centers would be connected.
> * All Libraries would be connected.
> * Up to 20 higher education (college, vocational schools, universities)
> facilities.
>
> "This is a sad day for the citizens, business, our children and
> students, and senior citizens of Santa Fe, said Brown. In today's market
> where small businesses need to maximize every penny they have, it is
> disappointing to see the City create so many high costs for new advanced
> technologies.  Our fiber optic technologies would have brought several
> new national carriers to the market, opened up faster and more reliable
> services for business and residential users alike.  Instead The City
> Different continues to be the City Disconnected."
>
> The company will always be willing to meet with the City Administration
> to work on a Master Ordinance that makes sense for all parties.  We look
> forward to that potential meeting.
>
>
>                                              ###
>
>
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From gnarlodious at gmail.com  Fri May  7 19:37:11 2010
From: gnarlodious at gmail.com (Gnarlodious)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 20:37:11 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Press Release: CityLink Halts Gigabit Fiber
	Project for Santa Fe NM
In-Reply-To: <w2vba972d8a1005071739i250391c8j5f483848dfab7321@mail.gmail.com>
References: <F70BCC55F4F2F14888D450E441159C240F4032@deathstar2.citylinkfiber.intra>
	<w2vba972d8a1005071739i250391c8j5f483848dfab7321@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <z2g2e24105e1005071937qd3b85106u7110bce152418278@mail.gmail.com>

On 5/7/10, peter baston wrote:

> We are moving our entire business to Boulder CO, were they really understand
> the pursuit of excellence

I am in Boulder right now and I don't see a whole lot of excellence,
just a lot of very smart ambitious people. The scenery is great
here... but people are very busy. Running around getting business done
no doubt.

I am sure the internet is faster here than in Santa Fe too, after all
Boulder is on a trunk line from coast to coast. Not to spoil your
thesis, but I hope Santa Fe never turns into this place.

-- Gnarlie


From lowenberg at designnine.com  Mon May 10 13:22:49 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 14:22:49 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] RUS BIP NOFAs
Message-ID: <8134D433-1593-4FBA-8E38-FB3AF71DFE4B@designnine.com>

RUS BIP NOFAs

Last Friday, May 7th, the USDA-RUS BIP announced posting of NOFAs for  
support of three additional broadband funding programs.

Federal Register Notice: Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Request for  
Proposals: RUS announces the opening of a window for requests to its  
new Satellite, Rural Library Broadband, and Technical Assistance Grant  
Programs. Click the Apply button on the left side of this page to view  
application guides, materials, and attachments for all three programs.

www.broadbandusa.gov/BIPportal/index.htm

www.broadbandusa.gov/BIPportal/apply.htm



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P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
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From rl at 1st-mile.com  Tue May 11 17:22:07 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 17:22:07 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband Properties magazine offer
Message-ID: <20100511172207.0xngffk1wgsg04c4@www2.dcn.org>

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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Fri May 21 08:59:05 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 09:59:05 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FCC UNLEASHES 25 MHz OF SPECTRUM FOR MOBILE BROADBAND
	USE
Message-ID: <1EB2ED75-C646-451E-A4C2-BE289F7D934C@designnine.com>


FCC UNLEASHES 25 MHz OF SPECTRUM FOR MOBILE BROADBAND USE

Provides Greater Certainty for Satellite Radio and Mobile Broadband  
Licensees

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-298308A1.doc

Washington, D.C. -- The Federal Communications Commission today  
adopted rules that will make available 25 megahertz of spectrum for  
mobile broadband service in much of the United States, while  
protecting adjacent satellite radio and aeronautical mobile telemetry  
operations. Mobile broadband promises to be a significant contributing  
factor for economic growth and job creation in the 21st century. To  
promote mobile innovation and investment, the National Broadband Plan  
recommends that the Commission make 500 megahertz of spectrum  
available for broadband use in the next 10 years, including 300  
megahertz for broadband use in the next five years.



The Report and Order adopted today amends the Wireless Communications  
Service (WCS) rules to immediately make 25 megahertz of spectrum  
available for mobile broadband services.  The existing WCS rules  
constrain operations to fixed services, but the Commission found today  
that those rules can be revised to allow mobile broadband services  
without risking harmful interference to neighboring operations.

To provide certainty for licensees while maintaining high-quality  
satellite radio services to the American public, the Commission  
adopted rules permitting the use of terrestrial repeaters by Satellite  
Digital Audio Radio Service (SDARS) licensees at the same time

The Commission also adopted enhanced build-out requirements for WCS  
licensees, to ensure that the promise of mobile broadband is realized.  
These requirements are designed to spur investment that will promote  
the deployment of innovative mobile broadband services across the  
country.


Together, the Orders establish a regulatory framework for the co- 
existence of WCS and SDARS licensees in the 2.3 GHz frequency band in  
the following manner:


?       Mobile and portable broadband devices: Mobile and portable  
station power levels are permitted up to 250 mW average equivalent  
isotropically radiated power (EIRP) per 5 megahertz in WCS Blocks A  
and B and in the portions of WCS Blocks C and D that are separated by  
2.5 megahertz from the SDARS band edges; duty cycle limitations and  
automatic transmit power control (ATPC) will apply; out of-band  
emissions (OOBE) requirements on WCS mobile and portable devices are  
also relaxed.

?       WCS base and fixed stations: Base and fixed stations in WCS  
Blocks A and B are permitted to operate with up to 2 kW average EIRP  
per 5 megahertz but stations in the C and D blocks remain limited to  
the 2 kW peak EIRP level currently specified in the Rules; WCS base  
and fixed stations? OOBE are also relaxed; a notification process with  
SDARS and coordination process with aeronautical mobile telemetry  
(AMT) users are also established.

?       Performance requirements for WCS licensees: For mobile and  
point-to-multipoint services, WCS licensees must serve 40 percent of a  
license area?s population within 42 months, and 75 percent within 72  
months.  For fixed point-to-point services, WCS licensees must  
construct and operate 15 point-to-point links per million persons in a  
license area within 42 months, and 30 links within 72 months, together  
with a minimum payload capacity to ensure that the spectrum is used  
intensively.  Licensees will not be required to satisfy submarket  
construction requirements.

?       WCS Coordination with Flight Testing Service.  In those  
license areas where WCS licensees must coordinate with aeronautical  
mobile telemetry receive sites to serve a significant percentage of a  
market?s total population, alternative requirements apply for mobile  
and point-to-multipoint services.  Specifically, affected licensees  
must serve 25 (rather than 40) percent of the population within 42  
months, and 50 (rather than 75) percent within 72 months.

?       SDARS terrestrial repeaters: Permanent rules are established  
for the operation of SDARS terrestrial repeaters.  Repeaters operating  
up to 12 kW average EIRP will be authorized under a blanket licensing  
regime.   The Commission also denies petitions for reconsideration of  
the 1997 SDARS Order filed by the Consumer Electronics Manufacturing  
Association (CEMA) and the Cellular Phone Taskforce.

Action by the Commission May 20, 2010, by Report and Order and Second  
Report and Order (FCC 10-82).  By the Commission:  Chairman  
Genachowski, Commissioners Copps, McDowell, Clyburn, and Baker.  
Separate statements issued by Chairman Genachowski, Commissioners  
Copps, McDowell, Clyburn, and Baker.



WT Docket No. 07-293, IB Docket No. 95-91 and GEN Docket No. 90-537.


For further information, contact Patrick Forster (202-418-7061; Patrick.Forster at fcc.gov 
), or Ronald Repasi (202-418-2470; Ronald.Repasi at fcc.gov).


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From gnarlodious at gmail.com  Fri May 21 09:15:23 2010
From: gnarlodious at gmail.com (Gnarlodious)
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 10:15:23 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FCC UNLEASHES 25 MHz OF SPECTRUM FOR MOBILE
	BROADBAND USE
In-Reply-To: <1EB2ED75-C646-451E-A4C2-BE289F7D934C@designnine.com>
References: <1EB2ED75-C646-451E-A4C2-BE289F7D934C@designnine.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTin9NZ6aX4EJDgOnGantvEj8rkgZlGnrRQVvPLzK@mail.gmail.com>

Great! Except 250 milliwatts for mobile radios? That is just barely
better than WiFi. Which pretty much cuts out city-wide portable
internet.

-- Gnarlie, K5ZN


From lowenberg at designnine.com  Fri May 21 09:29:02 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 10:29:02 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FCC UNLEASHES 25 MHz OF SPECTRUM
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin9NZ6aX4EJDgOnGantvEj8rkgZlGnrRQVvPLzK@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1EB2ED75-C646-451E-A4C2-BE289F7D934C@designnine.com>
	<AANLkTin9NZ6aX4EJDgOnGantvEj8rkgZlGnrRQVvPLzK@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <0388DED2-11A0-4F24-933F-10109A17B365@designnine.com>

This FCC announcement is an early piece of the complex,
contentious and 'does-not-go-far-enough' National Broadband Plan  
rollout.
The 25 Megahertz release is a small portion of the 300 and 500 Megaherz
of spectrum which the FCC intends to open up over the next 5 and 10  
years.
There are many competing positions and interests in how that spectrum  
will
be best allocated, controlled and used.
RL


On May 21, 2010, at 10:15 AM, Gnarlodious wrote:

> Great! Except 250 milliwatts for mobile radios? That is just barely
> better than WiFi. Which pretty much cuts out city-wide portable
> internet.
>
> -- Gnarlie, K5ZN


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P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
505-989-9110 off.; 505-603-5200 cell
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From dlc at lampinc.com  Sat May 29 14:54:56 2010
From: dlc at lampinc.com (Dale Carstensen)
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 15:54:56 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] slashdot points to an announcement of Allied Fiber's
 neutral longhaul network
Message-ID: <20100529215456.89FBE38D600@lampinc.com>

Unfortunately for we New Mexicans and other Westerners, this seems to
be only New York City <-> Chicago <-> Ashburn, VA initially.

The cynical slashdot comments speculate that the ILEC phone monopolists
will buy all the capacity anyway.  Still, interesting project.

  Dale
 <http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/05/29/1821242/A-New-Neutral-Long-Haul-Fiber
-Network>

Technology: A New Neutral, Long-Haul Fiber Network on
Saturday May 29, @05:03PM
   
   Posted by kdawson on Saturday May 29, @05:03PM
   from the shaking-up-the-neighborhood dept.
   internet
   techclicker sends word on the ambitious plans of Allied Fiber to
   disrupt the long-haul business in the US. The company is embarking on
   the first phase of a planned 6-phase build-out of dark fiber, towers,
   and co-lo facilities ringing the US. The first three phases are
   budgeted at $670M; the last three are not yet laid out in detail
   (announcement, PDF). Phase 1 is scheduled for completion in 2010.
   Allied's business model of selling wholesale bandwidth to all comers is
   in sharp contrast to that of incumbents such as AT&T, who won't sell
   backhaul to potential competitors. "Allied is deploying a 432-count,
   long haul cable coupled with the 216-count, short-haul cable that will
   be a composite of Single-Mode and Non-Zero Dispersion Shifted fibers.
   Allied Fiber has implemented a new, multi-duct design for intermediate
   access to the long-haul fiber duct through a parallel short-haul fiber
   duct all along the route. This enables all points between the major
   cities, including wireless towers and rural networks, to gain access to
   the dark fiber. In addition, the Allied Fiber neutral colocation
   facilities, located approximately every 60 miles along the route,
   accommodate and encourage a multi-tenant interconnection environment
   integrated with fiber that does not yet exist in the United States on
   this scale."
   Read More... 10 comments
   apply tags slashdot internet technology communications fiber isp story




From dlc at lampinc.com  Sat May 29 15:06:37 2010
From: dlc at lampinc.com (Dale Carstensen)
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 16:06:37 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] slashdot points to an announcement of Allied
 Fiber's neutral longhaul network
In-Reply-To: <20100529215456.89FBE38D600@lampinc.com> 
References: <20100529215456.89FBE38D600@lampinc.com>
Message-ID: <20100529220637.AE90438D600@lampinc.com>

I probably should have read the gigaom article and comments before posting.
I would have added that Allied plans for a second phase to Atlanta, and
a third to Seattle, at least crossing the Mississippi.  Only the phase 1
NYC/Chicago/Ashburn for this year, 2010, though.

And I would have added that the cynical gigaom comments say that Level 3
and such would just start to sell their unused dark fiber on the same
routes at a price that will put Allied out of business.  Maybe Level 3
and such can't do the shorthaul parallel routes Allied plans without
putting themselves into bankruptcy, though (or staying there longer).

  Dale



From Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov  Tue Jun  1 09:42:02 2010
From: Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov (Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall))
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 12:42:02 -0400
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FCC NEWS: Broadband Speeds Survey Results,
 Inhome Study, & Public Notice Released Today
Message-ID: <C6FD725BA83FB843AC8C482BA19D7445013960DDCA@SENATE-EX16.senate.ussenate.us>


FYI only.

See below for information about the FCC's new in-home study to measure broadband speeds.

The agency seeks 10,000 volunteers to participate in this nationwide study.  Visit www.TestMyISP.com<http://www.TestMyISP.com> if you are interested in participatnig.

Regards,

Kevin Cummins
Office of Senator Tom Udall

________________________________

For Immediate Release                                          News Media Contact:

June 1, 2010                                                           Rosemary Kimball at (202) 418-0511

                                                                                e-mail: rosemary.kimball at fcc.gov<mailto:rosemary.kimball at fcc.gov>



FCC SURVEY FINDS 4 OUT OF 5 AMERICANS DON'T KNOW
THEIR BROADBAND SPEEDS
Agency Announces Plans for National Speed Testing, Starts Recruitment for 10,000 volunteers

            Washington, DC -- Today the Federal Communications Commission released the results of a survey on the consumer broadband experience. The survey found that 80 percent of broadband users in the United States do not know the speed of their broadband connection.

            The survey is part of the agency's overall broadband speed initiative, which involves several bureaus and offices and is being coordinated by the Commission's Consumer Task Force. Through the initiative, the agency will also measure the actual speeds that consumers receive and compare them to the speeds that broadband providers advertise.

            FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said, "Speed matters. The more broadband subscribers know about what speeds they need and what speeds they get, the more they can make the market work and push faster speeds over broadband networks."

            Today, the Consumer Task Force announced two initiatives that will help the FCC determine the broadband speeds consumers are getting in their homes and on their mobile devices, a key recommendation in the National Broadband Plan.

In the first of these initiatives, the FCC is asking today for 10,000 volunteers to participate in a scientific study to measure home broadband speed in the U.S. Specialized hardware will be installed in the homes of volunteers to measure the performance of all the country's major Internet service providers across geographic regions and service tiers.  The FCC is partnering with SamKnows Limited in this effort, the same firm that successfully conducted a similar test in the United Kingdom.  A Public Notice asking for comment on the test plan was released in April 2010 and can be found at http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-10-670A1.pdf.

This study will culminate in a "State of Broadband" report to be released later this year. The tests are also a key part of the Broadband Action Agenda<http://www.broadband.gov/plan/broadband-action-agenda.html> (described at http://www.broadband.gov/plan/broadband-action-agenda.html<http://http/www.broadband.gov/plan/broadband-action-agenda.html>).  The Action Agenda details a number of initiatives designed to foster competition and maximize consumer benefits across the broadband marketplace.

Anyone can register<http://www.testmyisp.com/> as a volunteer for this national test at www.TestMyISP.com<http://www.testmyisp.com/>. Volunteers will be able to track the performance of their own broadband service, as well as providing valuable data for the FCC, Internet service providers, and the public at large.

Next, the FCC's Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau is issuing a Public Notice today to look at ways to measure mobile broadband speed. More and more consumers are using mobile wireless devices to access the Web, sometimes as a primary Internet connection. The Public Notice asks for input on the best ways to measure mobile broadband speeds, the ways that speed measurements can be used to help improve service, and the information consumers should have about the speed of mobile broadband coverage.

The FCC welcomes comments from all interested parties and the general public on this Public Notice. Comments can be filed through the agency's Electronic Comment Filing System at http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/, or in other ways described in the Public Notice itself.  The Public Notice can be found at www.fcc.gov<http://www.fcc.gov/>..

            Ultimately, the FCC hopes to develop tests that help each individual consumer in the U.S. determine his or her own broadband speed.  The agency took a first step in March by providing two speed tests that consumers can use at home or on their wireless phones. These consumer tests can be found at http://www.broadband.gov/qualitytest/about/. The national initiatives announced today are intended to develop more scientific and consistent broadband speed measures.

"Better information can help all consumers choose the broadband services that best meet their needs," said Joel Gurin, Chief of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau of the FCC. "Today, most people just know that their home broadband speed is supposed to be 'blazing fast.' They need more meaningful information to know exactly what speed they need for the applications they want to run, and what provider and plan is their best choice. The difference between an inexpensive low-speed plan and an expensive, high-speed plan can be hundreds of dollars a year. Consumers need to be able to choose wisely."

Details on Today's Survey Results

            The survey found that no demographic group had good awareness of their home broadband speed (the survey asked specifically about download speed). But there were some demographic differences. For example, 71 percent of men do not know what speed they're getting, while the figure is 90 percent for women. With respect to age, 73 percent of those between the ages of 18 and 29 do not know their home broadband speed, while the number goes up to 88 percent of people age 65 and over.

Most Americans are satisfied with the broadband speed they are getting. Fully 91 percent of broadband users say they are "very" or "somewhat" satisfied with the speed they get at home. The comparable number for mobile broadband, which is not yet technologically capable of the same speeds as home broadband, is 71 percent satisfaction. As a point of comparison, 92 percent of cell phone users are very or somewhat satisfied with their cell phone service overall.

             The FCC's survey of consumers, conducted by Abt/SRBI and Princeton Survey Research Associates, International from April 19 to May 2, 2010, interviewed 3,005 American adults. The national random digit dial survey was conducted in English and Spanish and the sample included both landline and cell phones. For responses based on those with personal cell phones (2,463 respondents) the margin of error is plus or minus two percentage points. For responses based on home broadband users (1,742 respondents), the margin of error is plus or minus 2.6 percentage points.

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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Fri Jun  4 12:21:52 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 13:21:52 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Cisco Internet Traffic Forecast
References: <4C08F8F2.8080301@new-isp.net>
Message-ID: <A1AE35D7-6B08-4926-8974-25AFDF6ED4BD@designnine.com>

Cisco has released their Visual Networking Index Forecast,
stating in part that "Global IP Traffic to Increase More Than Fourfold  
by 2014."

Also, "Global mobile data traffic will increase 39 times from 2009 to  
2014."

Courtesy of Dean Bubley,
"2014 = 63.9 Exabytes / month total IP traffic
... of which 3.5 Exabytes / month is mobile data (ie 5.5%)

The press release for the full report is at:
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2010/prod_060210.html

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From cstevenlucero at latingroupllc.com  Sat Jun  5 09:30:39 2010
From: cstevenlucero at latingroupllc.com (C Steven Lucero)
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 09:30:39 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Cisco Internet Traffic Forecast
In-Reply-To: <A1AE35D7-6B08-4926-8974-25AFDF6ED4BD@designnine.com>
References: <4C08F8F2.8080301@new-isp.net>
	<A1AE35D7-6B08-4926-8974-25AFDF6ED4BD@designnine.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTimrnNsgedCgcOeJ4IMgSYn8adhDjtyYh0NsKIvf@mail.gmail.com>

Richard,

while I am currently in Los Altos, I would like to coordinate a meeting with
you for sometime next week. There is much news to discuss as I attended ITW
a couple of weeks ago and am not in negotiations with several customers,
potential fiber partners and in fact new dark fiber sources.

I'll give you a shout towards the end of the week to coordinate a meet the
following week.

Saludos,

C. Steven Lucero
President
LatinGroup LLC
(505) 217-9212        US Office
(52) 55 5351 4922 Mexico Office

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information contained herein is considered as
trade secret, and therefore is privileged and confidential. It is intended
exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed.  If you
are not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for
delivering it to the intended recipient, please reply this e-mail to sender
or call (505) 217-9212, and delete or destroy all copies of this message
including its attachments. The reader is hereby notified that any use,
dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this message is strictly
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On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Richard Lowenberg <lowenberg at designnine.com
> wrote:

> Cisco has released their Visual Networking Index Forecast,
> stating in part that "Global IP Traffic to Increase More Than Fourfold by
> 2014."
>
> Also, "Global mobile data traffic will increase 39 times from 2009 to
> 2014."
>
> Courtesy of Dean Bubley,
> "2014 = 63.9 Exabytes / month total IP traffic
> ... of which 3.5 Exabytes / month is mobile data (ie 5.5%)
>
> The press release for the full report is at:
> http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2010/prod_060210.html
>
> RL
>
> _______________________________________________
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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Fri Jul  2 08:32:59 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 09:32:59 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband Stimulus + Qwest v. Santa Fe
Message-ID: <96267E34-5E7F-4967-98B7-30E5E053D597@designnine.com>

A couple of news items to report this morning.
I understand that the first of the round-two RUS and NTIA
broadband stimulus awards are to be announced this morning.
Of the 66 awards that I have seen a preliminary list of,
there are none so far, in New Mexico.    More as official word is  
released.

Also, Qwest Communications has filed suit against the City of Santa Fe,
over the City's new Telecom. Ordinance.
www.santafenewmexican.com/Local News/Qwest--city-head--to-court-again

RL


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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Fri Jul  2 08:47:57 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 09:47:57 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband Stimulus Awards
Message-ID: <5824ED91-59F7-40EF-8A2F-3C86F7B8E520@designnine.com>

The Press has news releases on the Upcoming announcement by the  
President.
Official releases will likely be posted on the RUS and NTIA web sites,  
soon.
Here's the story in the Washington Post, with a .pdf roster of all 66  
awardees.
voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/07/ 
obama_to_announce_795_million.html

About 20 round-two applications were submitted by NM entities this  
past March 15th,
some of which will be awarded between now and the end of Sept.
RL



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P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
505-989-9110 off.; 505-603-5200 cell
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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Fri Jul  2 09:19:04 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:19:04 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broken Link
Message-ID: <42A9A0D4-3014-485B-992E-AF44D9D7B634@designnine.com>

The Washington Post link in my last email was broken.
I'll try again.   If the link is broken again, just cut and paste it  
into your browser.
RL

voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/07/ 
obama_to_announce_795_million.html





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Richard Lowenberg
P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
505-989-9110 off.; 505-603-5200 cell
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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Fri Jul  2 09:31:11 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:31:11 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Awards .pdf
Message-ID: <A7170A59-FA2F-49DB-8AB2-051567169A01@designnine.com>

Some of you have not been able to access the Washington Post article.

So, attached is a .pdf of the awards roster.
RL

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From carroll at cagleandassociates.com  Wed Jul  7 10:07:47 2010
From: carroll at cagleandassociates.com (Carroll Cagle)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 11:07:47 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Wars or broadband?  -- You choose....
Message-ID: <48D1BB0F1661481C82440CDD458ACE67@yourfsyly0jtwn>

 

  

 

 
<http://broadbandbreakfast.com/2010/07/broadband-stimulus-to-lose-602-millio
n/> 


Broadband
<http://broadbandbreakfast.com/2010/07/broadband-stimulus-to-lose-602-millio
n/>  Stimulus to Lose $602 Million


Broadband Stimulus
<http://broadbandbreakfast.com/category/broadband-stimulus/>  July 2nd, 2010



BroadbandBreakfast.com


WASHINGTON July 2, 2010- The House Appropriations Committee to rescind $602
million from Commerce and Agriculture Department broadband stimulus
programs. The two departments had to share $7.2 billion for the Broadband
Technologies Opportunities Program, Broadband Investment Program and the
Broadband Data Improvement Act.

Every Department will have some of its funding cut in order to pay for the
additional $75 billion being spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Overall the House Appropriations committee plans to cut $11.7 billion.

 

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From dlc at lampinc.com  Sun Jul 11 09:52:22 2010
From: dlc at lampinc.com (Dale Carstensen)
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:52:22 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] effects of legislative bribery by the duopoly -
 slashdot / Ars Technica
Message-ID: <20100711165222.4753B38D600@lampinc.com>

 <http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/07/10/1921214/FCC-Dodges-Pointed-Questions-O
n-US-Broadband-Plan>

Your Rights Online: FCC Dodges Pointed Questions On US
Broadband Plan on Saturday July 10, @03:55PM
   
   Posted by kdawson on Saturday July 10, @03:55PM
   from the but-thank-you-for-asking dept.
   government
   Ars covers a series of questions that US senators put to the FCC
   chairman following up on his appearance before the Commerce, Science
   and Transportation Committee in April. The headline question was a
   blunt one asked by octogenarian Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI): "The
   National Broadband Plan (NBP) proposes a goal of having 100 million
   homes subscribed at 100Mbps by 2020, while the leading nations already
   have 100Mbps fiber-based services at costs of $30 to $40 per month and
   beginning rollout of 1Gbps residential services, which the FCC suggests
   is required only for a single anchor institution in each community by
   2020. This appears to suggest that the US should accept a 10- to
   12-year lag behind the leading nations. What is the FCC's rationale for
   a vision that appears to be firmly rooted in the second tier of
   countries?" In the FCC's formal response (PDF), Chairman Genachowski
   doesn't rise to the "second tier" bait, and in fact talks about
   "ensuring that America remains a broadband world leader," as if he
   believes we currently are. A blogger over at Balloon Juice is a little 
   more forthright on the "What is the FCC's rationale" question: "The
   rationale is that this is the best they can do with a legislative
   branch in the pocket of telecom providers."
   Read More... 242 comments
   apply tags slashdot fcc internet usa government networking story  




From lowenberg at designnine.com  Mon Jul 12 15:36:06 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:36:06 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Save the Date flyer - Aug. 16th - New Mexico
	Broadband & Smart Grid Summit
References: <C6FD725BA83FB843AC8C482BA19D7445017B14EE13@SENATE-EX16.senate.ussenate.us>
Message-ID: <ADD70AF3-E200-4FCB-9666-1E32C1CA6843@designnine.com>

> Please save the date?
>
> Senator Jeff Bingaman, Senator Tom Udall, and USDA Rural Development  
> are pleased to announce the New Mexico Broadband and Smart Grid  
> Summit will be held in Moriarty, NM on August 16th.
>
> The summit will draw together state, local and national broadband  
> and smart grid experts to talk about the potential for New Mexico in  
> both of these areas.
>
> Please mark your calendars, we?ll be sending more information as we  
> get closer to the event.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Kevin
>
> Kevin Cummins
> Legislative Assistant
> Office of Sen. Tom Udall
> (202) 224-6621
> kevin_cummins at tomudall.senate.gov
>
> Connect with Tom at tomudall.senate.gov
>
>




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From rl at 1st-mile.com  Wed Jul 14 09:41:33 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:41:33 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe E-Waste Recycling
Message-ID: <20100714094133.bibca59pus00wkc8@www2.dcn.org>

So-called E_Waste Recycling is a major local-global issue.
A growing number of communities, companies and NGOs are attempting to mitigate
some of the complex ecological impacts, with local recycling programs.
Here's news of upcoming Santa Fe E-Waste recycling.
If you hear of similar programs in other NM cities, please let us know here.
Information on ways to improve such programs in NM would also be appreciated.
RL
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E-waste recycling day scheduled
The New Mexican
Posted: Monday, July 12, 2010 - 7/13/10

Old computer equipment taking up room in your home?

Computers and most computer equipment, telephones, hand-held electronic devices
and audio equipment can be discarded for free at the city's annual
electronic-waste recycling drop-off from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 21 at 1142 Siler
Road.

Televisions will be accepted for $10 and old-style "cathode ray tube" computer
monitors will be accepted for $5, according to a news release from the city of
Santa Fe, Keep Santa Fe Beautiful and Albuquerque Recycling Inc., which takes
some of the recycling materials collected in Santa Fe.

Items accepted without charge include computers, servers, laptops and components
such as keyboards, mice, wires, cables, flat-screen monitors, printers and
scanners, fax machines, all types of phones including cellular phones, Palm
Pilots and other personal digital assistants, television satellite equipment,
video-cassette recorders and compact-disc players, stereo equipment, computer
and TV game assemblies, cameras and video cameras.

Lead acid batteries, computer backup batteries and UPS (uninterruptible power
supply) batteries will be accepted, but not alkaline batteries of any size.
Also not accepted during the drop-off will be coffee makers, hair dryers, bread
machines, light bulbs of any kind, cardboard or paper, appliances such as
microwave ovens and household hazardous waste.

According to the news release, information on hard drives will be wiped out by
an "overwrite process," and if the hard drive is nonworking and cannot be
wiped, it will be crushed.

For more information, call 955-2215 or e-mail Sfbeautiful at santafenm.gov.


-- 
Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com

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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Wed Jul 14 13:26:45 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:26:45 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Google Fiber for Communities update
Message-ID: <418654DD-D084-4229-A48B-B9FF4336456E@designnine.com>

Google today published a new Web site devoted to its community fiber  
"experiment",
which lists the communities that responded to its initial invitation:

Google Fiber for Communities:

http://www.fiberforcommunities.com/

A listing of communities that have thus far responded: http://bit.ly/aSxJu2

New Mexico applicants:
Alamogordo, Albuquerque, Carlsbad, County of Los Alamos, Farmington,  
Hagerman, Las Cruces, Santa Fe, Socorro, Village of Corrales




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From ewhitmore at gmail.com  Wed Jul 14 13:54:00 2010
From: ewhitmore at gmail.com (Eric Renz-Whitmore)
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:54:00 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Google Fiber for Communities update
In-Reply-To: <418654DD-D084-4229-A48B-B9FF4336456E@designnine.com>
References: <418654DD-D084-4229-A48B-B9FF4336456E@designnine.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTinfxrz20HGNu0l9XMS_aPM-EQkLnhsWa0LtyILb@mail.gmail.com>

On the Take Action page (
http://www.fiberforcommunities.com/community_action.html) there is some info
on how we can encourage our legislators to support including conduit in
new/significant road construction work. Since putting that in the ground is
a significant cost and paperwork/regulatory hurdle, bundling that with work
that's going to be done anyway will save... a hell of a lot of $$$.

Please consider contacting your legislators to support the proposed
legislation!

Eric



On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Richard Lowenberg <lowenberg at designnine.com
> wrote:

> Google today published a new Web site devoted to its community fiber
> "experiment",
> which lists the communities that responded to its initial invitation:
>
> *Google Fiber for Communities: *
>
> http://www.fiberforcommunities.com/
>
> A listing of communities that have thus far responded:
> http://bit.ly/aSxJu2
>
> New Mexico applicants:
>
> Alamogordo, Albuquerque, Carlsbad, County of Los
> Alamos, Farmington, Hagerman, Las Cruces, Santa Fe, Socorro, Village of
> Corrales
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------------------------------------
> Richard Lowenberg
> P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
> 505-989-9110 off.; 505-603-5200 cell
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
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>


-- 

-- 
Eric Renz-Whitmore
twitter: @ewhitmore
cell:     505-227-1086

Program Coordinator, ARTS Lab
http://artslab.unm.edu
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From Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov  Thu Jul 15 12:27:38 2010
From: Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov (Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall))
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:27:38 -0400
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
Message-ID: <C6FD725BA83FB843AC8C482BA19D7445017B14EF13@SENATE-EX16.senate.ussenate.us>


FYI only.


Broadband Is Critical

By Terry Brunner
USDA Rural Development State Director for New Mexico


    It goes without saying that broadband-high speed Internet is changing the way Americans live their lives. It's almost hard to remember how many of us got by without it.

    With access to broadband, we can easily sell a car, rent an apartment, look for a job, read the news or manage a business. The advantage of the broadband network is that it can connect you to the rest of the world on your schedule, at your convenience and almost anywhere - that is unless you live in rural America.

    Today, too few rural Americans take advantage of the opportunities broadband provides. Only half of rural residents subscribe to broadband - compared to 65 percent nationwide - because too many communities in rural America don't have adequate access to broadband infrastructure.

    Simply put, building a broadband infrastructure is critical to creating jobs and economic opportunity in rural America.

    With investments in broadband we are fostering innovation and bringing America's rural communities into the digital age. A young person doesn't have to move to the nearest city to make a living. He or she can create, develop and run a business at home, in rural America, and be successful. A young parent can work and raise a family and still connect with business partners across the country or around the world.

    With new or enhanced broadband access, the door to economic growth is open.

    When broadband access reaches into rural communities:

    * Farmers and ranchers will have up-to-the-minute commodity and weather information to make the best decisions for their operations;

    * Schools can expand limited course offerings through distance learning - both advancing education and better preparing students to compete in the 21st century economy;

    * First responders will have information they need to keep their communities safer;

    * Rural health care will improve, as medical specialists will be able to use telemedicine to provide advanced diagnosis for patients or to consult with colleagues at other hospitals.

    At the Department of Agriculture, we are focused every day on creating thriving rural communities where people want to live and raise families. We want every parent and grandparent in rural America to be able to look their child or grandchild in the eye and tell them their hometown has the economic opportunities to offer them a bright future.

    The Obama administration recently announced investment in 66 new Recovery Act broadband projects nationwide, the second round of funding for broadband infrastructure from President Obama's Recovery Act. Thirty-seven of these new projects will help expand broadband access in rural America. These projects will not only directly create more than 5,000 jobs up front, but spur economic development in some of the nation's hardest-hit communities, creating jobs for years to come.

    These funds will put people to work constructing new facilities, erecting towers to transmit signals and high speed broadband services installed in homes, businesses and community education, safety and public health centers.

    But the investments also will foster long-term economic growth. The more than $7 billion provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to help expand broadband will benefit tens of millions of Americans and over 685,000 businesses, 900 health care facilities and 2,400 schools in all 50 states.

    We will see the impact of broadband in rural New Mexico with several broadband projects being funded.

    For example, the Baca Valley Telephone Co. in Des Moines received a $1.6 million loan and $1.5 million grant. The funding will expand fiber optics to Digital Subscriber Line in rural northeastern New Mexico communities. The money will be used to replace outdated deteriorating copper wire and low bandwidth microwave transport systems in some areas, while providing new connectivity in others, and enabling advanced, high-speed DSL service throughout the area.


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From tom at jtjohnson.com  Thu Jul 15 13:25:58 2010
From: tom at jtjohnson.com (Tom Johnson)
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:25:58 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
In-Reply-To: <C6FD725BA83FB843AC8C482BA19D7445017B14EF13@SENATE-EX16.senate.ussenate.us>
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The problem with essays/editorials like this is that they rarely define
"broadband."  For too long now, the FCC said it was 250kbytes (NB make sure
one specifies BITES or BYTES) up and down.  In fact, we need to join much of
the so-called developing world like Japan and South Korea and set our
initial target a 1gigabytes up and down .

-Tom Johnson
Santa Fe

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall) <
Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov> wrote:

>
>
> FYI only.
>
>
>
>
>
> *Broadband Is Critical*
>
>
>
> By Terry Brunner
>
> USDA Rural Development State Director for New Mexico
>
>
>
>
>
>     It goes without saying that broadband-high speed Internet is changing
> the way Americans live their lives. It's almost hard to remember how many of
> us got by without it.
>
>
>
>     With access to broadband, we can easily sell a car, rent an apartment,
> look for a job, read the news or manage a business. The advantage of the
> broadband network is that it can connect you to the rest of the world on
> your schedule, at your convenience and almost anywhere ? that is unless you
> live in rural America.
>
>
>
>     Today, too few rural Americans take advantage of the opportunities
> broadband provides. Only half of rural residents subscribe to broadband ?
> compared to 65 percent nationwide ? because too many communities in rural
> America don't have adequate access to broadband infrastructure.
>
>
>
>     Simply put, building a broadband infrastructure is critical to creating
> jobs and economic opportunity in rural America.
>
>
>
>     With investments in broadband we are fostering innovation and bringing
> America's rural communities into the digital age. A young person doesn't
> have to move to the nearest city to make a living. He or she can create,
> develop and run a business at home, in rural America, and be successful. A
> young parent can work and raise a family and still connect with business
> partners across the country or around the world.
>
>
>
>     With new or enhanced broadband access, the door to economic growth is
> open.
>
>
>
>     When broadband access reaches into rural communities:
>
>
>
>     ? Farmers and ranchers will have up-to-the-minute commodity and weather
> information to make the best decisions for their operations;
>
>
>
>     ? Schools can expand limited course offerings through distance learning
> ? both advancing education and better preparing students to compete in the
> 21st century economy;
>
>
>
>     ? First responders will have information they need to keep their
> communities safer;
>
>
>
>     ? Rural health care will improve, as medical specialists will be able
> to use telemedicine to provide advanced diagnosis for patients or to consult
> with colleagues at other hospitals.
>
>
>
>     At the Department of Agriculture, we are focused every day on creating
> thriving rural communities where people want to live and raise families. We
> want every parent and grandparent in rural America to be able to look their
> child or grandchild in the eye and tell them their hometown has the economic
> opportunities to offer them a bright future.
>
>
>
>     The Obama administration recently announced investment in 66 new
> Recovery Act broadband projects nationwide, the second round of funding for
> broadband infrastructure from President Obama's Recovery Act. Thirty-seven
> of these new projects will help expand broadband access in rural America.
> These projects will not only directly create more than 5,000 jobs up front,
> but spur economic development in some of the nation's hardest-hit
> communities, creating jobs for years to come.
>
>
>
>     These funds will put people to work constructing new facilities,
> erecting towers to transmit signals and high speed broadband services
> installed in homes, businesses and community education, safety and public
> health centers.
>
>
>
>     But the investments also will foster long-term economic growth. The
> more than $7 billion provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
> to help expand broadband will benefit tens of millions of Americans and over
> 685,000 businesses, 900 health care facilities and 2,400 schools in all 50
> states.
>
>
>
>     We will see the impact of broadband in rural New Mexico with several
> broadband projects being funded.
>
>
>
>     For example, the Baca Valley Telephone Co. in Des Moines received a
> $1.6 million loan and $1.5 million grant. The funding will expand fiber
> optics to Digital Subscriber Line in rural northeastern New Mexico
> communities. The money will be used to replace outdated deteriorating copper
> wire and low bandwidth microwave transport systems in some areas, while
> providing new connectivity in others, and enabling advanced, high-speed DSL
> service throughout the area.
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> 1st-mile-nm mailing list
> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm
>
>


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From bharris at nmag.gov  Thu Jul 15 14:30:26 2010
From: bharris at nmag.gov (Harris, Brian)
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:30:26 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikDPhYq5KG0njphaVnQ4h4BByWevzE9HKv1pYlO@mail.gmail.com>
References: <C6FD725BA83FB843AC8C482BA19D7445017B14EF13@SENATE-EX16.senate.ussenate.us>
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Indeed "broadband" is a slippery term.  That's why, when we were litigating
Qwest's 3rd "alternative form of regulation" (AFOR 3) I concentrated on
"infrastructure to support high speed internet."  We got the PRC to impose
some additional investment requirements on Qwest.

I think it is time for an "infrastructure" discussion.  Just like the water
pipes and sewage lines, roads and pipeline safety, telecommunications
infrastructure is an essential component of what we have come to call the
"good life" in America.  We need to start thinking of how we build and
maintain such infrastructure, whether we can count 100% on the private
sector to serve those least able to pay and if the market will achieve the
goal of ubiquity such as we have we had with "plain old telephone service."

Under the old universal service policy approach to ubiquity this country
fostered the growth of a voice telephony infrastructure that was second to
none in the world.  Starting with the '96 Telecom Act, when we relied 100%
on "competition" to serve our needs the other countries started surpassing
us both in terms of houses passed and sheer speed.  However, given the state
of the world  I am not confident that there exists the political will to
re-examine the '96 Act and fix it.

Brian Harris
The views expressed herein are entirely his own!

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Tom Johnson <tom at jtjohnson.com> wrote:

> The problem with essays/editorials like this is that they rarely define
> "broadband."  For too long now, the FCC said it was 250kbytes (NB make sure
> one specifies BITES or BYTES) up and down.  In fact, we need to join much of
> the so-called developing world like Japan and South Korea and set our
> initial target a 1gigabytes up and down .
>
> -Tom Johnson
> Santa Fe
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall) <
> Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> FYI only.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *Broadband Is Critical*
>>
>>
>>
>> By Terry Brunner
>>
>> USDA Rural Development State Director for New Mexico
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     It goes without saying that broadband-high speed Internet is changing
>> the way Americans live their lives. It's almost hard to remember how many of
>> us got by without it.
>>
>>
>>
>>     With access to broadband, we can easily sell a car, rent an apartment,
>> look for a job, read the news or manage a business. The advantage of the
>> broadband network is that it can connect you to the rest of the world on
>> your schedule, at your convenience and almost anywhere ? that is unless you
>> live in rural America.
>>
>>
>>
>>     Today, too few rural Americans take advantage of the opportunities
>> broadband provides. Only half of rural residents subscribe to broadband ?
>> compared to 65 percent nationwide ? because too many communities in rural
>> America don't have adequate access to broadband infrastructure.
>>
>>
>>
>>     Simply put, building a broadband infrastructure is critical to
>> creating jobs and economic opportunity in rural America.
>>
>>
>>
>>     With investments in broadband we are fostering innovation and bringing
>> America's rural communities into the digital age. A young person doesn't
>> have to move to the nearest city to make a living. He or she can create,
>> develop and run a business at home, in rural America, and be successful. A
>> young parent can work and raise a family and still connect with business
>> partners across the country or around the world.
>>
>>
>>
>>     With new or enhanced broadband access, the door to economic growth is
>> open.
>>
>>
>>
>>     When broadband access reaches into rural communities:
>>
>>
>>
>>     ? Farmers and ranchers will have up-to-the-minute commodity and
>> weather information to make the best decisions for their operations;
>>
>>
>>
>>     ? Schools can expand limited course offerings through distance
>> learning ? both advancing education and better preparing students to compete
>> in the 21st century economy;
>>
>>
>>
>>     ? First responders will have information they need to keep their
>> communities safer;
>>
>>
>>
>>     ? Rural health care will improve, as medical specialists will be able
>> to use telemedicine to provide advanced diagnosis for patients or to consult
>> with colleagues at other hospitals.
>>
>>
>>
>>     At the Department of Agriculture, we are focused every day on creating
>> thriving rural communities where people want to live and raise families. We
>> want every parent and grandparent in rural America to be able to look their
>> child or grandchild in the eye and tell them their hometown has the economic
>> opportunities to offer them a bright future.
>>
>>
>>
>>     The Obama administration recently announced investment in 66 new
>> Recovery Act broadband projects nationwide, the second round of funding for
>> broadband infrastructure from President Obama's Recovery Act. Thirty-seven
>> of these new projects will help expand broadband access in rural America.
>> These projects will not only directly create more than 5,000 jobs up front,
>> but spur economic development in some of the nation's hardest-hit
>> communities, creating jobs for years to come.
>>
>>
>>
>>     These funds will put people to work constructing new facilities,
>> erecting towers to transmit signals and high speed broadband services
>> installed in homes, businesses and community education, safety and public
>> health centers.
>>
>>
>>
>>     But the investments also will foster long-term economic growth. The
>> more than $7 billion provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
>> to help expand broadband will benefit tens of millions of Americans and over
>> 685,000 businesses, 900 health care facilities and 2,400 schools in all 50
>> states.
>>
>>
>>
>>     We will see the impact of broadband in rural New Mexico with several
>> broadband projects being funded.
>>
>>
>>
>>     For example, the Baca Valley Telephone Co. in Des Moines received a
>> $1.6 million loan and $1.5 million grant. The funding will expand fiber
>> optics to Digital Subscriber Line in rural northeastern New Mexico
>> communities. The money will be used to replace outdated deteriorating copper
>> wire and low bandwidth microwave transport systems in some areas, while
>> providing new connectivity in others, and enabling advanced, high-speed DSL
>> service throughout the area.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> 1st-mile-nm mailing list
>> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
>> http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> ==========================================
> J. T. Johnson
> Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
> www.analyticjournalism.com
> 505.577.6482(c)                                    505.473.9646(h)
> http://www.jtjohnson.com                 tom at jtjohnson.com
>
> "Be Your Own Publisher"
> http://indiepubwest.com
> ==========================================
>
> _______________________________________________
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From cohill at designnine.com  Fri Jul 23 12:36:13 2010
From: cohill at designnine.com (Andrew cohill)
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:36:13 -0400
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
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We've begun to talk about "little" broadband and "big" broadband to address this very issue.  We use the term "little broadband" to talk about DSL, cable modem, WiFi, and satellite, and "big broadband" to talk about fiber networks delivering 100 megabit or Gigabit connections.  

We have found this to be very effective, as ordinary people immediately understand that they don't want to be stuck with "little" broadband.

One of the other language issues we run into is that "broadband" and "Internet" are used synonymously, and this causes great confusion.

Broadband, properly used, refers to the basic transport network, which can carry many services.  Internet access is just one of dozens or even hundreds of services that can be delivered over a high performance broadband network.  People and businesses want more than "high speed Internet."  They want phone and TV services, they want business class services like videoconferencing, data backup services, medical and telehealth services, security services, movies on demand, and much more.

Broadband is the highway.  Internet access is just one of the trucks using the highway. 

Andrew


On Jul 15, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:

> The problem with essays/editorials like this is that they rarely define "broadband."  For too long now, the FCC said it was 250kbytes (NB make sure one specifies BITES or BYTES) up and down.  In fact, we need to join much of the so-called developing world like Japan and South Korea and set our initial target a 1gigabytes up and down .

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President
Design Nine, Inc.

Visit the Technology Futures blog for frequently updated news and  
commentary on technology issues.
 http://www.designnine.com/news/

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From nnez at nndcd.org  Mon Jul 26 08:59:14 2010
From: nnez at nndcd.org (Norbert Nez)
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:59:14 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
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The new FCC broadband report raises the minimum speed threshold for  
broadband from 200 Kbps in both directions to 4 Mbps downstream and 1  
Mbps upstream
http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2010/db0720/FCC-10-129A1.pdf

On Jul 23, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Andrew cohill wrote:

> We've begun to talk about "little" broadband and "big" broadband to  
> address this very issue.  We use the term "little broadband" to talk  
> about DSL, cable modem, WiFi, and satellite, and "big broadband" to  
> talk about fiber networks delivering 100 megabit or Gigabit  
> connections.
>
> We have found this to be very effective, as ordinary people  
> immediately understand that they don't want to be stuck with  
> "little" broadband.
>
> One of the other language issues we run into is that "broadband" and  
> "Internet" are used synonymously, and this causes great confusion.
>
> Broadband, properly used, refers to the basic transport network,  
> which can carry many services.  Internet access is just one of  
> dozens or even hundreds of services that can be delivered over a  
> high performance broadband network.  People and businesses want more  
> than "high speed Internet."  They want phone and TV services, they  
> want business class services like videoconferencing, data backup  
> services, medical and telehealth services, security services, movies  
> on demand, and much more.
>
> Broadband is the highway.  Internet access is just one of the trucks  
> using the highway.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On Jul 15, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
>
>> The problem with essays/editorials like this is that they rarely  
>> define "broadband."  For too long now, the FCC said it was  
>> 250kbytes (NB make sure one specifies BITES or BYTES) up and down.   
>> In fact, we need to join much of the so-called developing world  
>> like Japan and South Korea and set our initial target a 1gigabytes  
>> up and down .
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Andrew Michael Cohill, Ph.D.
> President
> Design Nine, Inc.
>
> Visit the Technology Futures blog for frequently updated news and
> commentary on technology issues.
>  http://www.designnine.com/news/
>
> http://www.designnine.com/
> Blacksburg, Virginia
> 540.951.4400
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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From bharris at nmag.gov  Tue Jul 27 09:37:56 2010
From: bharris at nmag.gov (Harris, Brian)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:37:56 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
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?take immediate action to accelerate deployment of [advanced
telecommunications] capability by removing barriers to infrastructure
investment and by promoting competition in the telecommunications market.?9
The Commission will fulfill that requirement in part by addressing the
proposals for Commission action set forth in the National Broadband Plan.10"
Para. 3 of the FCC Notice.

As long as the FCC hews to this mutually contradictory notion we will
continue to be stuck in the dark ages.  There is ample evidence that firms
won't invest in their infrastructure absent robust competition, and recently
the NM PRC found that competition in this state is  nowhere near effective.
This state will remain in the dark ages.  Regulatory fiat will not change
that.

Brian

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Norbert Nez <nnez at nndcd.org> wrote:

> The new FCC broadband report raises the minimum speed threshold for
> broadband from 200 Kbps in both directions to 4 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps
> upstream
>
> http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2010/db0720/FCC-10-129A1.pdf
>
> On Jul 23, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Andrew cohill wrote:
>
> We've begun to talk about "little" broadband and "big" broadband to address
> this very issue.  We use the term "little broadband" to talk about DSL,
> cable modem, WiFi, and satellite, and "big broadband" to talk about fiber
> networks delivering 100 megabit or Gigabit connections.
>
> We have found this to be very effective, as ordinary people immediately
> understand that they don't want to be stuck with "little" broadband.
>
> One of the other language issues we run into is that "broadband" and
> "Internet" are used synonymously, and this causes great confusion.
>
> Broadband, properly used, refers to the basic transport network, which can
> carry many services.  Internet access is just one of dozens or even hundreds
> of services that can be delivered over a high performance broadband network.
>  People and businesses want more than "high speed Internet."  They want
> phone and TV services, they want business class services like
> videoconferencing, data backup services, medical and telehealth services,
> security services, movies on demand, and much more.
>
> Broadband is the highway.  Internet access is just one of the trucks using
> the highway.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On Jul 15, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
>
> The problem with essays/editorials like this is that they rarely define
> "broadband."  For too long now, the FCC said it was 250kbytes (NB make sure
> one specifies BITES or BYTES) up and down.  In fact, we need to join much of
> the so-called developing world like Japan and South Korea and set our
> initial target a 1gigabytes up and down .
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Andrew Michael Cohill, Ph.D.
> President
> Design Nine, Inc.
>
> Visit the Technology Futures blog for frequently updated news and
> commentary on technology issues.
>  http://www.designnine.com/news/
>
> http://www.designnine.com/
> Blacksburg, Virginia
> 540.951.4400
>
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From gnarlodious at gmail.com  Tue Jul 27 10:28:40 2010
From: gnarlodious at gmail.com (Gnarlodious)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:28:40 -0400
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
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On 7/27/10, Harris, Brian wrote:

> As long as the FCC hews to this mutually contradictory notion we will
> continue to be stuck in the dark ages.  There is ample evidence that firms
> won't invest in their infrastructure

The entire concept of "infrastructure investment" amounts to corporate
welfare. The real solution is encouraging "Public Utility" approach to
internet access, and to declare the wires (or fiber) to be "The
Commons" which are owned by the public.

The water and sewage pipes going into our homes are not owned by any
for-profit corporation for a good reason. Imagine a despotic business
putting a meter on your sewage pipe, how much would it eventually cost
you to flush your toilet? That is the situation under the current
monopoly where either Comcast or Qwest OWNS the wire running into your
house.

For a preview if where broadband is going, look at the trend with
Cable TV in the decades since it was invented. Private investors "own"
that cable through the charter of a corporation. Yet every year the
cables have become more pervasive and uglier, content has gotten ever
more offensive and service has reached the expense level where it is a
target for thieves. And who can blame them? Why pay through the nose
for crap when you can steal it?

At very least, ISPs should be tightly regulated, like the gas company.
But ideally, "The Commons" should include information infrastructure
just like it includes water pipes and public roads. The system works
and let's kick the greedy corporations out!

-- Rachel Cogent, Santa Fe
http://Gnarlodious.com


From jleach at previsio.us  Tue Jul 27 10:35:57 2010
From: jleach at previsio.us (J A Leach)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:35:57 -0500
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
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Yes, in other words, "Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll just
quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and smoothly as
the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."

J. A. 'Jack' Leach

Malum consilium quod mutari non potest.


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On 7/27/10, Harris, Brian wrote:

> As long as the FCC hews to this mutually contradictory notion we will
> continue to be stuck in the dark ages.  There is ample evidence that firms
> won't invest in their infrastructure

The entire concept of "infrastructure investment" amounts to corporate
welfare. The real solution is encouraging "Public Utility" approach to
internet access, and to declare the wires (or fiber) to be "The
Commons" which are owned by the public.

The water and sewage pipes going into our homes are not owned by any
for-profit corporation for a good reason. Imagine a despotic business
putting a meter on your sewage pipe, how much would it eventually cost
you to flush your toilet? That is the situation under the current
monopoly where either Comcast or Qwest OWNS the wire running into your
house.

For a preview if where broadband is going, look at the trend with
Cable TV in the decades since it was invented. Private investors "own"
that cable through the charter of a corporation. Yet every year the
cables have become more pervasive and uglier, content has gotten ever
more offensive and service has reached the expense level where it is a
target for thieves. And who can blame them? Why pay through the nose
for crap when you can steal it?

At very least, ISPs should be tightly regulated, like the gas company.
But ideally, "The Commons" should include information infrastructure
just like it includes water pipes and public roads. The system works
and let's kick the greedy corporations out!

-- Rachel Cogent, Santa Fe
http://Gnarlodious.com
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From christopher at newrules.org  Tue Jul 27 10:44:08 2010
From: christopher at newrules.org (Christopher Mitchell)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:44:08 -0500
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
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Fascinating response:
"Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll just
quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and smoothly as
the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."

Of course, social security continues to make the payments it is
supposed to whereas millions of people are delaying retirement
(thereby throwing the whole workforce out of whack) because the
government allowed the banks to lend "other peoples' money" in
extremely risky ways and the resulting economic crash killed
retirement savings.

An oversimplification, yes, but broadly true.

Clearly there is merit to both government and private companies - the
question is how to balance them.  When it comes to Telecom, I would
like to see the infrastructure owned by the public and run on a common
carrier basis.  With robust competition on such a setup, fewer
government regulations (like network neutrality) are required.  There
are benefits to everyone but it will lower the profits of extremely
powerful telecom companies, so we see very strong resistance to an
approach that would benefit probably 99% of society more than the
current system.

Oh, and for the record - I can go to the DMV, wait in line, and return
home faster than I can solve a problem with Comcast using any of their
methods.

Christopher Mitchell
Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
http://www.newrules.org/information/
http://www.muninetworks.org
612-379-3815 x209
@communitynets



On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:35 PM, J A Leach <jleach at previsio.us> wrote:
> Yes, in other words, "Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
> government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll just
> quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and smoothly as
> the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."
>
> J. A. 'Jack' Leach
>
> Malum consilium quod mutari non potest.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
> [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Gnarlodious
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:29 PM
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
>
> On 7/27/10, Harris, Brian wrote:
>
>> As long as the FCC hews to this mutually contradictory notion we will
>> continue to be stuck in the dark ages. ?There is ample evidence that firms
>> won't invest in their infrastructure
>
> The entire concept of "infrastructure investment" amounts to corporate
> welfare. The real solution is encouraging "Public Utility" approach to
> internet access, and to declare the wires (or fiber) to be "The
> Commons" which are owned by the public.
>
> The water and sewage pipes going into our homes are not owned by any
> for-profit corporation for a good reason. Imagine a despotic business
> putting a meter on your sewage pipe, how much would it eventually cost
> you to flush your toilet? That is the situation under the current
> monopoly where either Comcast or Qwest OWNS the wire running into your
> house.
>
> For a preview if where broadband is going, look at the trend with
> Cable TV in the decades since it was invented. Private investors "own"
> that cable through the charter of a corporation. Yet every year the
> cables have become more pervasive and uglier, content has gotten ever
> more offensive and service has reached the expense level where it is a
> target for thieves. And who can blame them? Why pay through the nose
> for crap when you can steal it?
>
> At very least, ISPs should be tightly regulated, like the gas company.
> But ideally, "The Commons" should include information infrastructure
> just like it includes water pipes and public roads. The system works
> and let's kick the greedy corporations out!
>
> -- Rachel Cogent, Santa Fe
> http://Gnarlodious.com
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From Dennis.Pappas at qwest.com  Tue Jul 27 11:01:39 2010
From: Dennis.Pappas at qwest.com (Pappas, Dennis)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:01:39 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
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Who ever is sending this needs to take me off the email list. I have little time to hear about what the government is and is not doing (let alone everyone's thoughts about it). Thank you for helping me alleviate unneeded congestion on my email.

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On 7/27/10, Harris, Brian wrote:

> As long as the FCC hews to this mutually contradictory notion we will
> continue to be stuck in the dark ages.  There is ample evidence that
> firms won't invest in their infrastructure

The entire concept of "infrastructure investment" amounts to corporate welfare. The real solution is encouraging "Public Utility" approach to internet access, and to declare the wires (or fiber) to be "The Commons" which are owned by the public.

The water and sewage pipes going into our homes are not owned by any for-profit corporation for a good reason. Imagine a despotic business putting a meter on your sewage pipe, how much would it eventually cost you to flush your toilet? That is the situation under the current monopoly where either Comcast or Qwest OWNS the wire running into your house.

For a preview if where broadband is going, look at the trend with Cable TV in the decades since it was invented. Private investors "own"
that cable through the charter of a corporation. Yet every year the cables have become more pervasive and uglier, content has gotten ever more offensive and service has reached the expense level where it is a target for thieves. And who can blame them? Why pay through the nose for crap when you can steal it?

At very least, ISPs should be tightly regulated, like the gas company.
But ideally, "The Commons" should include information infrastructure just like it includes water pipes and public roads. The system works and let's kick the greedy corporations out!

-- Rachel Cogent, Santa Fe
http://Gnarlodious.com
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From jleach at previsio.us  Tue Jul 27 11:05:22 2010
From: jleach at previsio.us (J A Leach)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:05:22 -0500
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
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For my part, my apologies to all on the list for the chatter.

J. A. 'Jack' Leach
+1 (512) 487 7804 (vox)
+1 (512) 485 5121 (fax)

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Who ever is sending this needs to take me off the email list. I have little
time to hear about what the government is and is not doing (let alone
everyone's thoughts about it). Thank you for helping me alleviate unneeded
congestion on my email.

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Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 11:29 AM
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On 7/27/10, Harris, Brian wrote:

> As long as the FCC hews to this mutually contradictory notion we will
> continue to be stuck in the dark ages.  There is ample evidence that
> firms won't invest in their infrastructure

The entire concept of "infrastructure investment" amounts to corporate
welfare. The real solution is encouraging "Public Utility" approach to
internet access, and to declare the wires (or fiber) to be "The Commons"
which are owned by the public.

The water and sewage pipes going into our homes are not owned by any
for-profit corporation for a good reason. Imagine a despotic business
putting a meter on your sewage pipe, how much would it eventually cost you
to flush your toilet? That is the situation under the current monopoly where
either Comcast or Qwest OWNS the wire running into your house.

For a preview if where broadband is going, look at the trend with Cable TV
in the decades since it was invented. Private investors "own"
that cable through the charter of a corporation. Yet every year the cables
have become more pervasive and uglier, content has gotten ever more
offensive and service has reached the expense level where it is a target for
thieves. And who can blame them? Why pay through the nose for crap when you
can steal it?

At very least, ISPs should be tightly regulated, like the gas company.
But ideally, "The Commons" should include information infrastructure just
like it includes water pipes and public roads. The system works and let's
kick the greedy corporations out!

-- Rachel Cogent, Santa Fe
http://Gnarlodious.com
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From pete at ideapete.com  Tue Jul 27 11:41:32 2010
From: pete at ideapete.com (peter baston)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:41:32 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
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Well done Brian some sense at last but I doubt if any politician is
listening or even understands the REAL subject.

Our entire communications and economic growth future rests on how we develop
our technology infrastructure but our  industry has its nose and brain
buried in the sand and as we tell more and more lies, just like Pinocchio,
it gets deeper and deeper into ossification and immobility and our countries
future bleeds down the drain

Lie Number 1 = There is no technological term rational for the terminology
of Broadband and no standards exist to measure it - It was a term developed
by the tel com industry as a marketing mantra to stick a Ferrari label on a
tortoise and increase profit at no cost

Lie Number 2 = Internet speeds are shown as " mgb " on telcom and cable
networks but storage and data is measured in MEGABYTES ( MGB )  which is 8
times bigger and so we have the only industry in the world that measures its
product differently in how it stores and transmits it
http://www.ideapete.com/megaBS.html

Lie Number 3 = Download speeds are often 8 to 10 times faster than upload
speeds but this is totally ignored in marketing and contractual data
information which only list hoped for download speeds

Lie Number 4 = There is no shortage of mainline fiber as tel-com and cable
companies have deliberately kept 60% of the network dark and have purchased
specific choke point networks to ensure no one else can use it

Sadly with Qwest's new owners we will be in for years of yack yack no action
while our states and countries future deteriorates even further

In a tel-com conference speech nearly 10 years ago
http://www.ideapete.com/leapfrog.html I finished up with this statement
*
I will close this way. Some time ago, in the fledgling US, there was a man
by the name of Patrick Henry. He made a speech known to all Americans that
contained the words: ?Give me liberty or give me death!? With permission, if
Patrick were alive today, in this state, in our business, he would use
slightly different words: ?Give me real connectivity or we will give you
death!? (metaphorically speaking, US West / Qwest / WorldCom / ATT carrier
companies et al., of course). *

Change the names of companies that have withered and died and its perfectly
appropriate today so maybe its a self fulfilling prophecy

( : ( : pete


-- 
--------------------------------------
Peter Baston
IDEAS business technology integration
www.ideapete.com
Cell: 505-690-3627
Mailto:pete at ideapete.com

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Harris, Brian <bharris at nmag.gov> wrote:

> Indeed "broadband" is a slippery term.  That's why, when we were litigating
> Qwest's 3rd "alternative form of regulation" (AFOR 3) I concentrated on
> "infrastructure to support high speed internet."  We got the PRC to impose
> some additional investment requirements on Qwest.
>
> I think it is time for an "infrastructure" discussion.  Just like the water
> pipes and sewage lines, roads and pipeline safety, telecommunications
> infrastructure is an essential component of what we have come to call the
> "good life" in America.  We need to start thinking of how we build and
> maintain such infrastructure, whether we can count 100% on the private
> sector to serve those least able to pay and if the market will achieve the
> goal of ubiquity such as we have we had with "plain old telephone service."
>
> Under the old universal service policy approach to ubiquity this country
> fostered the growth of a voice telephony infrastructure that was second to
> none in the world.  Starting with the '96 Telecom Act, when we relied 100%
> on "competition" to serve our needs the other countries started surpassing
> us both in terms of houses passed and sheer speed.  However, given the state
> of the world  I am not confident that there exists the political will to
> re-examine the '96 Act and fix it.
>
> Brian Harris
> The views expressed herein are entirely his own!
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Tom Johnson <tom at jtjohnson.com> wrote:
>
>> The problem with essays/editorials like this is that they rarely define
>> "broadband."  For too long now, the FCC said it was 250kbytes (NB make sure
>> one specifies BITES or BYTES) up and down.  In fact, we need to join much of
>> the so-called developing world like Japan and South Korea and set our
>> initial target a 1gigabytes up and down .
>>
>> -Tom Johnson
>> Santa Fe
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall) <
>> Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> FYI only.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Broadband Is Critical*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> By Terry Brunner
>>>
>>> USDA Rural Development State Director for New Mexico
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     It goes without saying that broadband-high speed Internet is changing
>>> the way Americans live their lives. It's almost hard to remember how many of
>>> us got by without it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     With access to broadband, we can easily sell a car, rent an
>>> apartment, look for a job, read the news or manage a business. The advantage
>>> of the broadband network is that it can connect you to the rest of the world
>>> on your schedule, at your convenience and almost anywhere ? that is unless
>>> you live in rural America.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Today, too few rural Americans take advantage of the opportunities
>>> broadband provides. Only half of rural residents subscribe to broadband ?
>>> compared to 65 percent nationwide ? because too many communities in rural
>>> America don't have adequate access to broadband infrastructure.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Simply put, building a broadband infrastructure is critical to
>>> creating jobs and economic opportunity in rural America.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     With investments in broadband we are fostering innovation and
>>> bringing America's rural communities into the digital age. A young person
>>> doesn't have to move to the nearest city to make a living. He or she can
>>> create, develop and run a business at home, in rural America, and be
>>> successful. A young parent can work and raise a family and still connect
>>> with business partners across the country or around the world.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     With new or enhanced broadband access, the door to economic growth is
>>> open.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     When broadband access reaches into rural communities:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     ? Farmers and ranchers will have up-to-the-minute commodity and
>>> weather information to make the best decisions for their operations;
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     ? Schools can expand limited course offerings through distance
>>> learning ? both advancing education and better preparing students to compete
>>> in the 21st century economy;
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     ? First responders will have information they need to keep their
>>> communities safer;
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     ? Rural health care will improve, as medical specialists will be able
>>> to use telemedicine to provide advanced diagnosis for patients or to consult
>>> with colleagues at other hospitals.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     At the Department of Agriculture, we are focused every day on
>>> creating thriving rural communities where people want to live and raise
>>> families. We want every parent and grandparent in rural America to be able
>>> to look their child or grandchild in the eye and tell them their hometown
>>> has the economic opportunities to offer them a bright future.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     The Obama administration recently announced investment in 66 new
>>> Recovery Act broadband projects nationwide, the second round of funding for
>>> broadband infrastructure from President Obama's Recovery Act. Thirty-seven
>>> of these new projects will help expand broadband access in rural America.
>>> These projects will not only directly create more than 5,000 jobs up front,
>>> but spur economic development in some of the nation's hardest-hit
>>> communities, creating jobs for years to come.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     These funds will put people to work constructing new facilities,
>>> erecting towers to transmit signals and high speed broadband services
>>> installed in homes, businesses and community education, safety and public
>>> health centers.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     But the investments also will foster long-term economic growth. The
>>> more than $7 billion provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
>>> to help expand broadband will benefit tens of millions of Americans and over
>>> 685,000 businesses, 900 health care facilities and 2,400 schools in all 50
>>> states.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     We will see the impact of broadband in rural New Mexico with several
>>> broadband projects being funded.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     For example, the Baca Valley Telephone Co. in Des Moines received a
>>> $1.6 million loan and $1.5 million grant. The funding will expand fiber
>>> optics to Digital Subscriber Line in rural northeastern New Mexico
>>> communities. The money will be used to replace outdated deteriorating copper
>>> wire and low bandwidth microwave transport systems in some areas, while
>>> providing new connectivity in others, and enabling advanced, high-speed DSL
>>> service throughout the area.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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From gnarlodious at gmail.com  Tue Jul 27 11:58:20 2010
From: gnarlodious at gmail.com (Gnarlodious)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:58:20 -0400
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
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On 7/27/10, J A Leach wrote:
> Yes, in other words, "Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
> government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll just
> quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and smoothly as
> the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."

It may be true that I am unwashed (and in good health because of it)
but I disagree with your other allegations. I went down to the DMV a
month ago to renew my license and was out of there in 30 minutes. The
staff was polite, helpful and only made the mistake of misspelling my
name on my new license. Not too bad considering the place was packed
with Mexicans who barely spoke english.

Likewise with Social Security, which has never missed a payment and
has an extremely low administrative overhead. Think of it as a
non-profit corporation with no stockholder dividends or parachute
plan. Just a lot of boring social servants handling money the
old-fashioned way, instead of the gamblers we see now in the financial
fields.

So you might want to re-evaluate those analogies.

-- Rachel


From gnarlodious at gmail.com  Tue Jul 27 11:58:21 2010
From: gnarlodious at gmail.com (Gnarlodious)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:58:21 -0400
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
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On 7/27/10, J A Leach wrote:
> Yes, in other words, "Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
> government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll just
> quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and smoothly as
> the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."

It may be true that I am unwashed (and in good health because of it)
but I disagree with your other allegations. I went down to the DMV a
month ago to renew my license and was out of there in 30 minutes. The
staff was polite, helpful and only made the mistake of misspelling my
name on my new license. Not too bad considering the place was packed
with Mexicans who barely spoke english.

Likewise with Social Security, which has never missed a payment and
has an extremely low administrative overhead. Think of it as a
non-profit corporation with no stockholder dividends or parachute
plan. Just a lot of boring social servants handling money the
old-fashioned way, instead of the gamblers we see now in the financial
fields.

So you might want to re-evaluate those analogies.

-- Rachel


From Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com  Tue Jul 27 13:42:01 2010
From: Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com (Armenta, Loretta)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:42:01 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
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I find the racial overtones of this email offensive & totally inappropriate.



-----Original Message-----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Gnarlodious
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:58 PM
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

On 7/27/10, J A Leach wrote:
> Yes, in other words, "Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
> government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll
> just quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and
> smoothly as the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."

It may be true that I am unwashed (and in good health because of it) but I disagree with your other allegations. I went down to the DMV a month ago to renew my license and was out of there in 30 minutes. The staff was polite, helpful and only made the mistake of misspelling my name on my new license. Not too bad considering the place was packed with Mexicans who barely spoke english.

Likewise with Social Security, which has never missed a payment and has an extremely low administrative overhead. Think of it as a non-profit corporation with no stockholder dividends or parachute plan. Just a lot of boring social servants handling money the old-fashioned way, instead of the gamblers we see now in the financial fields.

So you might want to re-evaluate those analogies.

-- Rachel
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From chrisb at azulstar.com  Tue Jul 27 13:43:17 2010
From: chrisb at azulstar.com (Chris Borek)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:43:17 -0400
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
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Please remove me from this list.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 27, 2010, at 4:42 PM, "Armenta, Loretta" <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com 
 > wrote:

>
>
> I find the racial overtones of this email offensive & totally  
> inappropriate.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org 
> ] On Behalf Of Gnarlodious
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:58 PM
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque  
> Journal
>
> On 7/27/10, J A Leach wrote:
>> Yes, in other words, "Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
>> government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll
>> just quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and
>> smoothly as the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."
>
> It may be true that I am unwashed (and in good health because of it)  
> but I disagree with your other allegations. I went down to the DMV a  
> month ago to renew my license and was out of there in 30 minutes.  
> The staff was polite, helpful and only made the mistake of  
> misspelling my name on my new license. Not too bad considering the  
> place was packed with Mexicans who barely spoke english.
>
> Likewise with Social Security, which has never missed a payment and  
> has an extremely low administrative overhead. Think of it as a non- 
> profit corporation with no stockholder dividends or parachute plan.  
> Just a lot of boring social servants handling money the old- 
> fashioned way, instead of the gamblers we see now in the financial  
> fields.
>
> So you might want to re-evaluate those analogies.
>
> -- Rachel
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From GLovelace at pvt.com  Tue Jul 27 13:48:44 2010
From: GLovelace at pvt.com (Glenn Lovelace)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:48:44 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
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Please remove me from the list as well.
Glenn 

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From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Chris Borek
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:43 PM
To: Armenta, Loretta
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from this list.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 27, 2010, at 4:42 PM, "Armenta, Loretta" <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com 
 > wrote:

>
>
> I find the racial overtones of this email offensive & totally  
> inappropriate.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org 
> ] On Behalf Of Gnarlodious
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:58 PM
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque  
> Journal
>
> On 7/27/10, J A Leach wrote:
>> Yes, in other words, "Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
>> government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll
>> just quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and
>> smoothly as the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."
>
> It may be true that I am unwashed (and in good health because of it)  
> but I disagree with your other allegations. I went down to the DMV a  
> month ago to renew my license and was out of there in 30 minutes.  
> The staff was polite, helpful and only made the mistake of  
> misspelling my name on my new license. Not too bad considering the  
> place was packed with Mexicans who barely spoke english.
>
> Likewise with Social Security, which has never missed a payment and  
> has an extremely low administrative overhead. Think of it as a non- 
> profit corporation with no stockholder dividends or parachute plan.  
> Just a lot of boring social servants handling money the old- 
> fashioned way, instead of the gamblers we see now in the financial  
> fields.
>
> So you might want to re-evaluate those analogies.
>
> -- Rachel
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From dbritt at sandiapueblo.nsn.us  Tue Jul 27 13:51:17 2010
From: dbritt at sandiapueblo.nsn.us (Donald Britt)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:51:17 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
Message-ID: <EB16111E36A6C642AECB56047898EB0001908E53@app1.sandiapueblo.nsn.us>

Please remove me from this list.

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From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>
To: 'Chris Borek' <chrisb at azulstar.com>; Armenta, Loretta <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com>
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
Sent: Tue Jul 27 14:48:44 2010
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from the list as well.
Glenn 

-----Original Message-----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Chris Borek
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:43 PM
To: Armenta, Loretta
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from this list.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 27, 2010, at 4:42 PM, "Armenta, Loretta" <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com 
 > wrote:

>
>
> I find the racial overtones of this email offensive & totally  
> inappropriate.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org 
> ] On Behalf Of Gnarlodious
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:58 PM
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque  
> Journal
>
> On 7/27/10, J A Leach wrote:
>> Yes, in other words, "Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
>> government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll
>> just quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and
>> smoothly as the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."
>
> It may be true that I am unwashed (and in good health because of it)  
> but I disagree with your other allegations. I went down to the DMV a  
> month ago to renew my license and was out of there in 30 minutes.  
> The staff was polite, helpful and only made the mistake of  
> misspelling my name on my new license. Not too bad considering the  
> place was packed with Mexicans who barely spoke english.
>
> Likewise with Social Security, which has never missed a payment and  
> has an extremely low administrative overhead. Think of it as a non- 
> profit corporation with no stockholder dividends or parachute plan.  
> Just a lot of boring social servants handling money the old- 
> fashioned way, instead of the gamblers we see now in the financial  
> fields.
>
> So you might want to re-evaluate those analogies.
>
> -- Rachel
> _______________________________________________
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>
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From Rocky.Lira1 at state.nm.us  Tue Jul 27 13:57:46 2010
From: Rocky.Lira1 at state.nm.us (Lira, Rocky, NMHED)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:57:46 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
In-Reply-To: <EB16111E36A6C642AECB56047898EB0001908E53@app1.sandiapueblo.nsn.us>
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Please remove me from this list

 

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Donald Britt
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:51 PM
To: GLovelace at pvt.com; chrisb at azulstar.com; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

 

Please remove me from this list.

----- Original Message -----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>
To: 'Chris Borek' <chrisb at azulstar.com>; Armenta, Loretta <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com>
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
Sent: Tue Jul 27 14:48:44 2010
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from the list as well.
Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Chris Borek
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:43 PM
To: Armenta, Loretta
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from this list.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 27, 2010, at 4:42 PM, "Armenta, Loretta" <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
 > wrote:

>
>
> I find the racial overtones of this email offensive & totally 
> inappropriate.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
> ] On Behalf Of Gnarlodious
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:58 PM
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque 
> Journal
>
> On 7/27/10, J A Leach wrote:
>> Yes, in other words, "Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
>> government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll
>> just quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and
>> smoothly as the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."
>
> It may be true that I am unwashed (and in good health because of it) 
> but I disagree with your other allegations. I went down to the DMV a 
> month ago to renew my license and was out of there in 30 minutes. 
> The staff was polite, helpful and only made the mistake of 
> misspelling my name on my new license. Not too bad considering the 
> place was packed with Mexicans who barely spoke english.
>
> Likewise with Social Security, which has never missed a payment and 
> has an extremely low administrative overhead. Think of it as a non-
> profit corporation with no stockholder dividends or parachute plan. 
> Just a lot of boring social servants handling money the old-
> fashioned way, instead of the gamblers we see now in the financial 
> fields.
>
> So you might want to re-evaluate those analogies.
>
> -- Rachel
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From lxp at sipec.us  Tue Jul 27 13:57:23 2010
From: lxp at sipec.us (Laurence Pena)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:57:23 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
Message-ID: <209583BB9BAA4C47BABCFC97308BB3EC046F3D1B92@EXMBXCLUS01.citservers.local>

Please remove me as well, I'm shocked on how "Mexicans" or the DMV have anything to do with Broadband or the issue at hand. which is how we get bandwidth costs reasonable when it comes to those of us providing services.

LXP

________________________________
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>
To: GLovelace at pvt.com <GLovelace at pvt.com>; chrisb at azulstar.com <chrisb at azulstar.com>; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com>
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
Sent: Tue Jul 27 13:51:17 2010
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from this list.

----- Original Message -----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>
To: 'Chris Borek' <chrisb at azulstar.com>; Armenta, Loretta <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com>
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
Sent: Tue Jul 27 14:48:44 2010
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from the list as well.
Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Chris Borek
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:43 PM
To: Armenta, Loretta
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from this list.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 27, 2010, at 4:42 PM, "Armenta, Loretta" <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
 > wrote:

>
>
> I find the racial overtones of this email offensive & totally
> inappropriate.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
> ] On Behalf Of Gnarlodious
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:58 PM
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque
> Journal
>
> On 7/27/10, J A Leach wrote:
>> Yes, in other words, "Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
>> government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll
>> just quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and
>> smoothly as the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."
>
> It may be true that I am unwashed (and in good health because of it)
> but I disagree with your other allegations. I went down to the DMV a
> month ago to renew my license and was out of there in 30 minutes.
> The staff was polite, helpful and only made the mistake of
> misspelling my name on my new license. Not too bad considering the
> place was packed with Mexicans who barely spoke english.
>
> Likewise with Social Security, which has never missed a payment and
> has an extremely low administrative overhead. Think of it as a non-
> profit corporation with no stockholder dividends or parachute plan.
> Just a lot of boring social servants handling money the old-
> fashioned way, instead of the gamblers we see now in the financial
> fields.
>
> So you might want to re-evaluate those analogies.
>
> -- Rachel
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From steve at preferredbusinesssolutions.biz  Tue Jul 27 14:05:00 2010
From: steve at preferredbusinesssolutions.biz (Stephen Cimelli)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:05:00 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
In-Reply-To: <209583BB9BAA4C47BABCFC97308BB3EC046F3D1B92@EXMBXCLUS01.citservers.local>
References: <209583BB9BAA4C47BABCFC97308BB3EC046F3D1B92@EXMBXCLUS01.citservers.local>
Message-ID: <7BC3C7CB-C8B9-4749-BBA5-D52ADCA5F148@preferredbusinesssolutions.biz>

Please remove me from this list.


On Jul 27, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Laurence Pena wrote:

Please remove me as well, I'm shocked on how "Mexicans" or the DMV have anything to do with Broadband or the issue at hand. which is how we get bandwidth costs reasonable when it comes to those of us providing services. 

LXP


From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org> 
To: GLovelace at pvt.com <GLovelace at pvt.com>; chrisb at azulstar.com <chrisb at azulstar.com>; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com> 
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> 
Sent: Tue Jul 27 13:51:17 2010
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal 

Please remove me from this list.

----- Original Message -----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>
To: 'Chris Borek' <chrisb at azulstar.com>; Armenta, Loretta <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com>
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
Sent: Tue Jul 27 14:48:44 2010
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from the list as well.
Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Chris Borek
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:43 PM
To: Armenta, Loretta
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from this list.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 27, 2010, at 4:42 PM, "Armenta, Loretta" <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
 > wrote:

>
>
> I find the racial overtones of this email offensive & totally 
> inappropriate.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
> ] On Behalf Of Gnarlodious
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:58 PM
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque 
> Journal
>
> On 7/27/10, J A Leach wrote:
>> Yes, in other words, "Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
>> government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll
>> just quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and
>> smoothly as the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."
>
> It may be true that I am unwashed (and in good health because of it) 
> but I disagree with your other allegations. I went down to the DMV a 
> month ago to renew my license and was out of there in 30 minutes. 
> The staff was polite, helpful and only made the mistake of 
> misspelling my name on my new license. Not too bad considering the 
> place was packed with Mexicans who barely spoke english.
>
> Likewise with Social Security, which has never missed a payment and 
> has an extremely low administrative overhead. Think of it as a non-
> profit corporation with no stockholder dividends or parachute plan. 
> Just a lot of boring social servants handling money the old-
> fashioned way, instead of the gamblers we see now in the financial 
> fields.
>
> So you might want to re-evaluate those analogies.
>
> -- Rachel
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From jroy.miller at sfcc.edu  Tue Jul 27 13:57:26 2010
From: jroy.miller at sfcc.edu (J. Roy Miller)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:57:26 +0000
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
In-Reply-To: <EB16111E36A6C642AECB56047898EB0001908E53@app1.sandiapueblo.nsn.us>
References: <EB16111E36A6C642AECB56047898EB0001908E53@app1.sandiapueblo.nsn.us>
Message-ID: <04C07D1052F6354582DC76CB4D22BF46088025@Cooper.sfcc.edu>


Please remove my address from this email list.

Thank you.




From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Donald Britt
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:51 PM
To: GLovelace at pvt.com; chrisb at azulstar.com; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal


Please remove me from this list.

----- Original Message -----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>
To: 'Chris Borek' <chrisb at azulstar.com>; Armenta, Loretta <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com>
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
Sent: Tue Jul 27 14:48:44 2010
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from the list as well.
Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Chris Borek
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:43 PM
To: Armenta, Loretta
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from this list.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 27, 2010, at 4:42 PM, "Armenta, Loretta" <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
 > wrote:

>
>
> I find the racial overtones of this email offensive & totally
> inappropriate.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
> ] On Behalf Of Gnarlodious
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:58 PM
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque
> Journal
>
> On 7/27/10, J A Leach wrote:
>> Yes, in other words, "Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
>> government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll
>> just quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and
>> smoothly as the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."
>
> It may be true that I am unwashed (and in good health because of it)
> but I disagree with your other allegations. I went down to the DMV a
> month ago to renew my license and was out of there in 30 minutes.
> The staff was polite, helpful and only made the mistake of
> misspelling my name on my new license. Not too bad considering the
> place was packed with Mexicans who barely spoke english.
>
> Likewise with Social Security, which has never missed a payment and
> has an extremely low administrative overhead. Think of it as a non-
> profit corporation with no stockholder dividends or parachute plan.
> Just a lot of boring social servants handling money the old-
> fashioned way, instead of the gamblers we see now in the financial
> fields.
>
> So you might want to re-evaluate those analogies.
>
> -- Rachel
> _______________________________________________
> 1st-mile-nm mailing list
> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm
>
> This communication is the property of Qwest and may contain
> confidential or
> privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is
> strictly
> prohibited and may be unlawful.  If you have received this
> communication
> in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and
> destroy
> all copies of the communication and any attachments.
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From rmartinez at taosgov.com  Tue Jul 27 14:21:00 2010
From: rmartinez at taosgov.com (Reuben Martinez)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:21:00 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information
In-Reply-To: <04C07D1052F6354582DC76CB4D22BF46088025@Cooper.sfcc.edu>
References: <EB16111E36A6C642AECB56047898EB0001908E53@app1.sandiapueblo.nsn.us>
	<04C07D1052F6354582DC76CB4D22BF46088025@Cooper.sfcc.edu>
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Why don't we make this an out only, no response address and just feed us information.  Thank You

Reuben Martinez
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IT Department
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From bharris at nmag.gov  Tue Jul 27 14:30:02 2010
From: bharris at nmag.gov (Harris, Brian)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:30:02 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] UNSUBSCRIBE
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On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Andrew cohill <cohill at designnine.com>wrote:

> We've begun to talk about "little" broadband and "big" broadband to address
> this very issue.  We use the term "little broadband" to talk about DSL,
> cable modem, WiFi, and satellite, and "big broadband" to talk about fiber
> networks delivering 100 megabit or Gigabit connections.
>
> We have found this to be very effective, as ordinary people immediately
> understand that they don't want to be stuck with "little" broadband.
>
> One of the other language issues we run into is that "broadband" and
> "Internet" are used synonymously, and this causes great confusion.
>
> Broadband, properly used, refers to the basic transport network, which can
> carry many services.  Internet access is just one of dozens or even hundreds
> of services that can be delivered over a high performance broadband network.
>  People and businesses want more than "high speed Internet."  They want
> phone and TV services, they want business class services like
> videoconferencing, data backup services, medical and telehealth services,
> security services, movies on demand, and much more.
>
> Broadband is the highway.  Internet access is just one of the trucks using
> the highway.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On Jul 15, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
>
> The problem with essays/editorials like this is that they rarely define
> "broadband."  For too long now, the FCC said it was 250kbytes (NB make sure
> one specifies BITES or BYTES) up and down.  In fact, we need to join much of
> the so-called developing world like Japan and South Korea and set our
> initial target a 1gigabytes up and down .
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Andrew Michael Cohill, Ph.D.
> President
> Design Nine, Inc.
>
> Visit the Technology Futures blog for frequently updated news and
> commentary on technology issues.
>  http://www.designnine.com/news/
>
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>
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From Gary.Harris at state.nm.us  Tue Jul 27 14:33:20 2010
From: Gary.Harris at state.nm.us (Harris, Gary, DCA)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:33:20 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
In-Reply-To: <7BC3C7CB-C8B9-4749-BBA5-D52ADCA5F148@preferredbusinesssolutions.biz>
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Folks,
 
I find this list and its usual content and discussion very helpful as a
resource for learning about the issues we face in the broadband arena.
Might I suggest that instead of people leaving as the result of one
individual's comments that there is another way. Perhaps the individual
responsible for remarks many of us find offensive could leave.
 
Gary L. Harris

________________________________

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+gary.harris=state.nm.us at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+gary.harris=state.nm.us at mailman.dcn.org] On
Behalf Of Stephen Cimelli
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:05 PM
To: Laurence Pena
Cc: 'GLovelace at pvt.com'; 'Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com';
'1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org'
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque
Journal


Please remove me from this list. 


On Jul 27, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Laurence Pena wrote:


Please remove me as well, I'm shocked on how "Mexicans" or the DMV have
anything to do with Broadband or the issue at hand. which is how we get
bandwidth costs reasonable when it comes to those of us providing
services. 

LXP 


________________________________

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
<1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org> 
To: GLovelace at pvt.com <GLovelace at pvt.com>; chrisb at azulstar.com
<chrisb at azulstar.com>; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
<Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com> 
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> 
Sent: Tue Jul 27 13:51:17 2010
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque
Journal 



Please remove me from this list.

----- Original Message -----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
<1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>
To: 'Chris Borek' <chrisb at azulstar.com>; Armenta, Loretta
<Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com>
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
Sent: Tue Jul 27 14:48:44 2010
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque
Journal

Please remove me from the list as well.
Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf
Of Chris Borek
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:43 PM
To: Armenta, Loretta
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque
Journal

Please remove me from this list.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 27, 2010, at 4:42 PM, "Armenta, Loretta"
<Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
 > wrote:

>
>
> I find the racial overtones of this email offensive & totally 
> inappropriate.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
> ] On Behalf Of Gnarlodious
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:58 PM
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque 
> Journal
>
> On 7/27/10, J A Leach wrote:
>> Yes, in other words, "Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
>> government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll
>> just quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and
>> smoothly as the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."
>
> It may be true that I am unwashed (and in good health because of it) 
> but I disagree with your other allegations. I went down to the DMV a 
> month ago to renew my license and was out of there in 30 minutes. 
> The staff was polite, helpful and only made the mistake of 
> misspelling my name on my new license. Not too bad considering the 
> place was packed with Mexicans who barely spoke english.
>
> Likewise with Social Security, which has never missed a payment and 
> has an extremely low administrative overhead. Think of it as a non-
> profit corporation with no stockholder dividends or parachute plan. 
> Just a lot of boring social servants handling money the old-
> fashioned way, instead of the gamblers we see now in the financial 
> fields.
>
> So you might want to re-evaluate those analogies.
>
> -- Rachel
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> confidential or
> privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is 
> strictly
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From Rocky.Lira1 at state.nm.us  Tue Jul 27 14:37:56 2010
From: Rocky.Lira1 at state.nm.us (Lira, Rocky, NMHED)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:37:56 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
In-Reply-To: <C16638FFEEC03641A2389ED740D4D3D205ABEAC3@CEXMB5.nmes.lcl>
References: <209583BB9BAA4C47BABCFC97308BB3EC046F3D1B92@EXMBXCLUS01.citservers.local><7BC3C7CB-C8B9-4749-BBA5-D52ADCA5F148@preferredbusinesssolutions.biz>
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Perhaps someone could create a WIKI (PBWorks.com) where informational
updates can be better organized and posted as opposed to sending emails
for everything.  

 

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Harris, Gary,
DCA
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:33 PM
To: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque
Journal

 

Folks,

 

I find this list and its usual content and discussion very helpful as a
resource for learning about the issues we face in the broadband arena.
Might I suggest that instead of people leaving as the result of one
individual's comments that there is another way. Perhaps the individual
responsible for remarks many of us find offensive could leave.

 

Gary L. Harris

 

________________________________

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+gary.harris=state.nm.us at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+gary.harris=state.nm.us at mailman.dcn.org] On
Behalf Of Stephen Cimelli
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:05 PM
To: Laurence Pena
Cc: 'GLovelace at pvt.com'; 'Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com';
'1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org'
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque
Journal

Please remove me from this list. 

 

 

On Jul 27, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Laurence Pena wrote:

 

Please remove me as well, I'm shocked on how "Mexicans" or the DMV have
anything to do with Broadband or the issue at hand. which is how we get
bandwidth costs reasonable when it comes to those of us providing
services. 

LXP 

 

________________________________

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
<1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org> 
To: GLovelace at pvt.com <GLovelace at pvt.com>; chrisb at azulstar.com
<chrisb at azulstar.com>; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
<Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com> 
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> 
Sent: Tue Jul 27 13:51:17 2010
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque
Journal 

 

Please remove me from this list.

----- Original Message -----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
<1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>
To: 'Chris Borek' <chrisb at azulstar.com>; Armenta, Loretta
<Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com>
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
Sent: Tue Jul 27 14:48:44 2010
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque
Journal

Please remove me from the list as well.
Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf
Of Chris Borek
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:43 PM
To: Armenta, Loretta
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque
Journal

Please remove me from this list.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 27, 2010, at 4:42 PM, "Armenta, Loretta"
<Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
 > wrote:

>
>
> I find the racial overtones of this email offensive & totally 
> inappropriate.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
> ] On Behalf Of Gnarlodious
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:58 PM
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque 
> Journal
>
> On 7/27/10, J A Leach wrote:
>> Yes, in other words, "Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
>> government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll
>> just quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and
>> smoothly as the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."
>
> It may be true that I am unwashed (and in good health because of it) 
> but I disagree with your other allegations. I went down to the DMV a 
> month ago to renew my license and was out of there in 30 minutes. 
> The staff was polite, helpful and only made the mistake of 
> misspelling my name on my new license. Not too bad considering the 
> place was packed with Mexicans who barely spoke english.
>
> Likewise with Social Security, which has never missed a payment and 
> has an extremely low administrative overhead. Think of it as a non-
> profit corporation with no stockholder dividends or parachute plan. 
> Just a lot of boring social servants handling money the old-
> fashioned way, instead of the gamblers we see now in the financial 
> fields.
>
> So you might want to re-evaluate those analogies.
>
> -- Rachel
> _______________________________________________
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>
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> confidential or
> privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is 
> strictly
> prohibited and may be unlawful.  If you have received this 
> communication
> in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and 
> destroy
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From bharris at nmag.gov  Tue Jul 27 14:38:42 2010
From: bharris at nmag.gov (Harris, Brian)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:38:42 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
In-Reply-To: <C16638FFEEC03641A2389ED740D4D3D205ABEAC3@CEXMB5.nmes.lcl>
References: <209583BB9BAA4C47BABCFC97308BB3EC046F3D1B92@EXMBXCLUS01.citservers.local>
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	<C16638FFEEC03641A2389ED740D4D3D205ABEAC3@CEXMB5.nmes.lcl>
Message-ID: <AANLkTinakpxx0z48AsDLWZU=Z8qLfEYz7+6_rHX3BGX3@mail.gmail.com>

Also, I would like to publicly state that the Attorney General and myself
vehemently disagrees with the characterization of DMV employees made by
another participant in this list.  It was coarse, inaccurate and demeaning
and has no place in civilized and polite public discourse.

Some parties may try and besmirch the Attorney General in a sort of guilt by
association.  But just as none of you has any control over what others say
on this list, nor does the Attorney General.

Brian Harris

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Harris, Gary, DCA
<Gary.Harris at state.nm.us>wrote:

>  Folks,
>
> I find this list and its usual content and discussion very helpful as a
> resource for learning about the issues we face in the broadband arena. Might
> I suggest that instead of people leaving as the result of one individual's
> comments that there is another way. Perhaps the individual responsible for
> remarks many of us find offensive could leave.
>
> Gary L. Harris
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* 1st-mile-nm-bounces+gary.harris=state.nm.us at mailman.dcn.org[mailto:
> 1st-mile-nm-bounces+gary.harris <1st-mile-nm-bounces%2Bgary.harris>=
> state.nm.us at mailman.dcn.org] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Cimelli
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:05 PM
> *To:* Laurence Pena
> *Cc:* 'GLovelace at pvt.com'; 'Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com'; '
> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org'
>
> *Subject:* Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque
> Journal
>
> Please remove me from this list.
>
>
>  On Jul 27, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Laurence Pena wrote:
>
>  Please remove me as well, I'm shocked on how "Mexicans" or the DMV have
> anything to do with Broadband or the issue at hand. which is how we get
> bandwidth costs reasonable when it comes to those of us providing services.
>
> LXP
>
> ------------------------------
> *From*: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org <
> 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>
> *To*: GLovelace at pvt.com <GLovelace at pvt.com>; chrisb at azulstar.com <
> chrisb at azulstar.com>; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com>
>
> *Cc*: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
> *Sent*: Tue Jul 27 13:51:17 2010
> *Subject*: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque
> Journal
>
> Please remove me from this list.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org <
> 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>
> To: 'Chris Borek' <chrisb at azulstar.com>; Armenta, Loretta <
> Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com>
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
> Sent: Tue Jul 27 14:48:44 2010
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
>
> Please remove me from the list as well.
> Glenn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org [
> mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org<1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org>]
> On Behalf Of Chris Borek
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:43 PM
> To: Armenta, Loretta
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
>
> Please remove me from this list.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 27, 2010, at 4:42 PM, "Armenta, Loretta" <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
>  > wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > I find the racial overtones of this email offensive & totally
> > inappropriate.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [
> mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org<1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>
> > ] On Behalf Of Gnarlodious
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:58 PM
> > Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque
> > Journal
> >
> > On 7/27/10, J A Leach wrote:
> >> Yes, in other words, "Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
> >> government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll
> >> just quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and
> >> smoothly as the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."
> >
> > It may be true that I am unwashed (and in good health because of it)
> > but I disagree with your other allegations. I went down to the DMV a
> > month ago to renew my license and was out of there in 30 minutes.
> > The staff was polite, helpful and only made the mistake of
> > misspelling my name on my new license. Not too bad considering the
> > place was packed with Mexicans who barely spoke english.
> >
> > Likewise with Social Security, which has never missed a payment and
> > has an extremely low administrative overhead. Think of it as a non-
> > profit corporation with no stockholder dividends or parachute plan.
> > Just a lot of boring social servants handling money the old-
> > fashioned way, instead of the gamblers we see now in the financial
> > fields.
> >
> > So you might want to re-evaluate those analogies.
> >
> > -- Rachel
> > _______________________________________________
> > 1st-mile-nm mailing list
> > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm
> >
> > This communication is the property of Qwest and may contain
> > confidential or
> > privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is
> > strictly
> > prohibited and may be unlawful.  If you have received this
> > communication
> > in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and
> > destroy
> > all copies of the communication and any attachments.
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>   Stephen Cimelli
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>
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>
> preferredbusinesssolutions.biz
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From 1st_lt at puebloofacoma.org  Tue Jul 27 14:39:55 2010
From: 1st_lt at puebloofacoma.org (1st. Lt. Governor)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:39:55 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
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Please remove me from this email list.

 

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+1st_lt=puebloofacoma.org at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+1st_lt=puebloofacoma.org at mailman.dcn.org] On
Behalf Of Lira, Rocky, NMHED
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:38 PM
To: Harris, Gary, DCA; 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

 

Perhaps someone could create a WIKI (PBWorks.com) where informational
updates can be better organized and posted as opposed to sending emails for
everything.  

 

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Harris, Gary, DCA
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:33 PM
To: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

 

Folks,

 

I find this list and its usual content and discussion very helpful as a
resource for learning about the issues we face in the broadband arena. Might
I suggest that instead of people leaving as the result of one individual's
comments that there is another way. Perhaps the individual responsible for
remarks many of us find offensive could leave.

 

Gary L. Harris

 

  _____  

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+gary.harris=state.nm.us at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+gary.harris=state.nm.us at mailman.dcn.org] On
Behalf Of Stephen Cimelli
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:05 PM
To: Laurence Pena
Cc: 'GLovelace at pvt.com'; 'Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com';
'1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org'
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from this list. 

 

 

On Jul 27, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Laurence Pena wrote:

 

Please remove me as well, I'm shocked on how "Mexicans" or the DMV have
anything to do with Broadband or the issue at hand. which is how we get
bandwidth costs reasonable when it comes to those of us providing services. 

LXP 

 

  _____  

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
<1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org> 
To: GLovelace at pvt.com <GLovelace at pvt.com>; chrisb at azulstar.com
<chrisb at azulstar.com>; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com>

Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> 
Sent: Tue Jul 27 13:51:17 2010
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal 

 

Please remove me from this list.

----- Original Message -----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
<1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>
To: 'Chris Borek' <chrisb at azulstar.com>; Armenta, Loretta
<Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com>
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
Sent: Tue Jul 27 14:48:44 2010
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from the list as well.
Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of
Chris Borek
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:43 PM
To: Armenta, Loretta
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from this list.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 27, 2010, at 4:42 PM, "Armenta, Loretta" <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
 > wrote:

>
>
> I find the racial overtones of this email offensive & totally 
> inappropriate.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
> ] On Behalf Of Gnarlodious
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:58 PM
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque 
> Journal
>
> On 7/27/10, J A Leach wrote:
>> Yes, in other words, "Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
>> government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll
>> just quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and
>> smoothly as the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."
>
> It may be true that I am unwashed (and in good health because of it) 
> but I disagree with your other allegations. I went down to the DMV a 
> month ago to renew my license and was out of there in 30 minutes. 
> The staff was polite, helpful and only made the mistake of 
> misspelling my name on my new license. Not too bad considering the 
> place was packed with Mexicans who barely spoke english.
>
> Likewise with Social Security, which has never missed a payment and 
> has an extremely low administrative overhead. Think of it as a non-
> profit corporation with no stockholder dividends or parachute plan. 
> Just a lot of boring social servants handling money the old-
> fashioned way, instead of the gamblers we see now in the financial 
> fields.
>
> So you might want to re-evaluate those analogies.
>
> -- Rachel
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From pete at ideapete.com  Tue Jul 27 14:40:28 2010
From: pete at ideapete.com (peter baston)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:40:28 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] UNSUBSCRIBE
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=Yos1hXDnOv60to33B84Y+pZqPfJBj4FNb55x8@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTi=Yos1hXDnOv60to33B84Y+pZqPfJBj4FNb55x8@mail.gmail.com>
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Perfectly apt Andrew and Tom

1 GIGABYTE per second up and down should indeed be our target for the next
ten years anything else is useless as our economic competition overseas will
show us

Wasn't that a mantra of Lamdarail "Gigabyte or bust ) or did it ?

You build the highway for what its going to do not what you once did

Don't understand the panic re the DMV and Social Security metaphor or did I
miss something / but still

( : ( : pete

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Harris, Brian <bharris at nmag.gov> wrote:

> UNSUBSCRIBE
>
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Andrew cohill <cohill at designnine.com>wrote:
>
>> We've begun to talk about "little" broadband and "big" broadband to
>> address this very issue.  We use the term "little broadband" to talk about
>> DSL, cable modem, WiFi, and satellite, and "big broadband" to talk about
>> fiber networks delivering 100 megabit or Gigabit connections.
>>
>> We have found this to be very effective, as ordinary people immediately
>> understand that they don't want to be stuck with "little" broadband.
>>
>> One of the other language issues we run into is that "broadband" and
>> "Internet" are used synonymously, and this causes great confusion.
>>
>> Broadband, properly used, refers to the basic transport network, which can
>> carry many services.  Internet access is just one of dozens or even hundreds
>> of services that can be delivered over a high performance broadband network.
>>  People and businesses want more than "high speed Internet."  They want
>> phone and TV services, they want business class services like
>> videoconferencing, data backup services, medical and telehealth services,
>> security services, movies on demand, and much more.
>>
>> Broadband is the highway.  Internet access is just one of the trucks using
>> the highway.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>> On Jul 15, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
>>
>> The problem with essays/editorials like this is that they rarely define
>> "broadband."  For too long now, the FCC said it was 250kbytes (NB make sure
>> one specifies BITES or BYTES) up and down.  In fact, we need to join much of
>> the so-called developing world like Japan and South Korea and set our
>> initial target a 1gigabytes up and down .
>>
>>
>>  -------------------------------------------------
>> Andrew Michael Cohill, Ph.D.
>> President
>> Design Nine, Inc.
>>
>> Visit the Technology Futures blog for frequently updated news and
>> commentary on technology issues.
>>  http://www.designnine.com/news/
>>
>> http://www.designnine.com/
>> Blacksburg, Virginia
>> 540.951.4400
>>
>>
>>
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From Casey.Stone at qwest.com  Tue Jul 27 14:42:35 2010
From: Casey.Stone at qwest.com (Stone, Casey)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:42:35 -0500
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
In-Reply-To: <C16638FFEEC03641A2389ED740D4D3D205ABEAC3@CEXMB5.nmes.lcl>
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Please remove me from the list.

Thank you,

Casey Stone



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From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Harris, Gary, DCA
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:33 PM
To: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Folks,

I find this list and its usual content and discussion very helpful as a resource for learning about the issues we face in the broadband arena. Might I suggest that instead of people leaving as the result of one individual's comments that there is another way. Perhaps the individual responsible for remarks many of us find offensive could leave.

Gary L. Harris

________________________________
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+gary.harris=state.nm.us at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+gary.harris=state.nm.us at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Cimelli
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:05 PM
To: Laurence Pena
Cc: 'GLovelace at pvt.com'; 'Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com'; '1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org'
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from this list.


On Jul 27, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Laurence Pena wrote:


Please remove me as well, I'm shocked on how "Mexicans" or the DMV have anything to do with Broadband or the issue at hand. which is how we get bandwidth costs reasonable when it comes to those of us providing services.

LXP

________________________________
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org<mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org> <1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org<mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>>
To: GLovelace at pvt.com<mailto:GLovelace at pvt.com> <GLovelace at pvt.com<mailto:GLovelace at pvt.com>>; chrisb at azulstar.com<mailto:chrisb at azulstar.com> <chrisb at azulstar.com<mailto:chrisb at azulstar.com>>; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com<mailto:Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com> <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com<mailto:Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com>>
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org<mailto:1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org<mailto:1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>>
Sent: Tue Jul 27 13:51:17 2010
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal


Please remove me from this list.

----- Original Message -----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org<mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org> <1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org<mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>>
To: 'Chris Borek' <chrisb at azulstar.com<mailto:chrisb at azulstar.com>>; Armenta, Loretta <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com<mailto:Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com>>
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org<mailto:1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org<mailto:1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>>
Sent: Tue Jul 27 14:48:44 2010
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from the list as well.
Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org<mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org> [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Chris Borek
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:43 PM
To: Armenta, Loretta
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org<mailto:1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from this list.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 27, 2010, at 4:42 PM, "Armenta, Loretta" <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com<mailto:Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com>
 > wrote:

>
>
> I find the racial overtones of this email offensive & totally
> inappropriate.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org<mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org> [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
> ] On Behalf Of Gnarlodious
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:58 PM
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org<mailto:1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque
> Journal
>
> On 7/27/10, J A Leach wrote:
>> Yes, in other words, "Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
>> government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll
>> just quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and
>> smoothly as the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."
>
> It may be true that I am unwashed (and in good health because of it)
> but I disagree with your other allegations. I went down to the DMV a
> month ago to renew my license and was out of there in 30 minutes.
> The staff was polite, helpful and only made the mistake of
> misspelling my name on my new license. Not too bad considering the
> place was packed with Mexicans who barely spoke english.
>
> Likewise with Social Security, which has never missed a payment and
> has an extremely low administrative overhead. Think of it as a non-
> profit corporation with no stockholder dividends or parachute plan.
> Just a lot of boring social servants handling money the old-
> fashioned way, instead of the gamblers we see now in the financial
> fields.
>
> So you might want to re-evaluate those analogies.
>
> -- Rachel
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From Allan.Oliver at state.nm.us  Tue Jul 27 15:35:10 2010
From: Allan.Oliver at state.nm.us (Oliver, Allan, EDD)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:35:10 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Unsubscribe
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From Toney.Anaya at state.nm.us  Tue Jul 27 15:38:50 2010
From: Toney.Anaya at state.nm.us (Anaya, Toney, NMORR)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:38:50 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information
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References: <EB16111E36A6C642AECB56047898EB0001908E53@app1.sandiapueblo.nsn.us><04C07D1052F6354582DC76CB4D22BF46088025@Cooper.sfcc.edu>
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Sounds like a sensible suggestion below; and, then we don't have to put
up with any individual's intemperate or ignorant ranting while still
receiving information some folks find helpful.  If it remains a conduit
that someone can use for racist and other offensive remarks, please
remove my name from the list.  There is way too much of that type of
discourse already in this country to be subjected to it in our
workplaces, many of which workplaces are dedicated to being diligent
against such ignorance.  

 

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From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Reuben
Martinez
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:21 PM
To: J. Roy Miller; 'Donald Britt'; GLovelace at pvt.com;
chrisb at azulstar.com; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information

 

Why don't we make this an out only, no response address and just feed us
information.  Thank You

 

Reuben Martinez

Town of Taos

IT Department

575-751-2036

575-751-2026  fax

 



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From jbadal at swctel.com  Tue Jul 27 15:45:21 2010
From: jbadal at swctel.com (John Badal)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:45:21 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information
In-Reply-To: <D4C5E7ABD7E1014FB496A9A4948FC3DD0C627CF5@CEXMB4.nmes.lcl>
References: <EB16111E36A6C642AECB56047898EB0001908E53@app1.sandiapueblo.nsn.us><04C07D1052F6354582DC76CB4D22BF46088025@Cooper.sfcc.edu><D9E2D3679D22AB479BD32B375FA2206F1AAF38D19D@TOTEX01>
	<D4C5E7ABD7E1014FB496A9A4948FC3DD0C627CF5@CEXMB4.nmes.lcl>
Message-ID: <072E94920E5E5748BE22E99E99BD0CDA548ECA@NEPTUNE.sacredwind.local>

Absolutely in agreement.  If I wanted to participate in, or expose
myself to, hateful and uneducated vitriole, I'd subscribe to a chatline
or check in at You Tube. 

 

Let's keep our business email courteous and respectful. 

 

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Anaya, Toney,
NMORR
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:39 PM
To: Reuben Martinez; J. Roy Miller; Donald Britt; GLovelace at pvt.com;
chrisb at azulstar.com; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information

 

Sounds like a sensible suggestion below; and, then we don't have to put
up with any individual's intemperate or ignorant ranting while still
receiving information some folks find helpful.  If it remains a conduit
that someone can use for racist and other offensive remarks, please
remove my name from the list.  There is way too much of that type of
discourse already in this country to be subjected to it in our
workplaces, many of which workplaces are dedicated to being diligent
against such ignorance.  

 

________________________________

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Reuben
Martinez
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:21 PM
To: J. Roy Miller; 'Donald Britt'; GLovelace at pvt.com;
chrisb at azulstar.com; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information

 

Why don't we make this an out only, no response address and just feed us
information.  Thank You

 

Reuben Martinez

Town of Taos

IT Department

575-751-2036

575-751-2026  fax

 

 



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From Sarah.Schara at INXi.com  Tue Jul 27 15:49:00 2010
From: Sarah.Schara at INXi.com (Sarah Schara)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:49:00 -0500
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information
In-Reply-To: <072E94920E5E5748BE22E99E99BD0CDA548ECA@NEPTUNE.sacredwind.local>
References: <EB16111E36A6C642AECB56047898EB0001908E53@app1.sandiapueblo.nsn.us><04C07D1052F6354582DC76CB4D22BF46088025@Cooper.sfcc.edu><D9E2D3679D22AB479BD32B375FA2206F1AAF38D19D@TOTEX01>
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Message-ID: <2AB38B537379174F886DF8046970C697F1FCAAD289@LEW-SVR-EX01>

OK, please remove me from this distribution list.   Thank you,

Sarah Schara
Account Executive
Office: (505)938-4166
Fax: (866)935-1267
Mobile: (505)331-7042
www.INXI.com

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From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of John Badal
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:45 PM
To: Anaya, Toney, NMORR; Reuben Martinez; J. Roy Miller; Donald Britt; GLovelace at pvt.com; chrisb at azulstar.com; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information

Absolutely in agreement.  If I wanted to participate in, or expose myself to, hateful and uneducated vitriole, I'd subscribe to a chatline or check in at You Tube.

Let's keep our business email courteous and respectful.

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Anaya, Toney, NMORR
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:39 PM
To: Reuben Martinez; J. Roy Miller; Donald Britt; GLovelace at pvt.com; chrisb at azulstar.com; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information

Sounds like a sensible suggestion below; and, then we don't have to put up with any individual's intemperate or ignorant ranting while still receiving information some folks find helpful.  If it remains a conduit that someone can use for racist and other offensive remarks, please remove my name from the list.  There is way too much of that type of discourse already in this country to be subjected to it in our workplaces, many of which workplaces are dedicated to being diligent against such ignorance.

________________________________
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Reuben Martinez
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:21 PM
To: J. Roy Miller; 'Donald Britt'; GLovelace at pvt.com; chrisb at azulstar.com; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information

Why don't we make this an out only, no response address and just feed us information.  Thank You

Reuben Martinez
Town of Taos
IT Department
575-751-2036
575-751-2026  fax




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From ewhitmore at gmail.com  Tue Jul 27 16:09:56 2010
From: ewhitmore at gmail.com (Eric Renz-Whitmore)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:09:56 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] List Management
Message-ID: <AANLkTin4ojocNmW9YO1GEu8iSS59K4EYJq_1LNWUQovE@mail.gmail.com>

Hi folks.

It's a shame when the thoughtless or malicious comments of a person or
two damage a valuable resource - but it's tough to find ways to
encourage discussion (these days) without opening the door to really
unwelcome thoughts.

And no one wants an inbox full of mail about that and unsubscribing.

If you value this list and occasional discussion as I do, I'd
encourage you to give it a day to take some corrective action.

Best wishes and thanks to all who are promoting better internet access
for all New Mexicans!

Eric

On 7/27/10, Sarah Schara <Sarah.Schara at inxi.com> wrote:
> OK, please remove me from this distribution list.   Thank you,
>
> Sarah Schara
> Account Executive
> Office: (505)938-4166
> Fax: (866)935-1267
> Mobile: (505)331-7042
> www.INXI.com
>
> [cid:image001.png at 01CB2DAB.9CDE8F40]
>
>
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
> [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of John Badal
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:45 PM
> To: Anaya, Toney, NMORR; Reuben Martinez; J. Roy Miller; Donald Britt;
> GLovelace at pvt.com; chrisb at azulstar.com; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information
>
> Absolutely in agreement.  If I wanted to participate in, or expose myself
> to, hateful and uneducated vitriole, I'd subscribe to a chatline or check in
> at You Tube.
>
> Let's keep our business email courteous and respectful.
>
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
> [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Anaya, Toney,
> NMORR
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:39 PM
> To: Reuben Martinez; J. Roy Miller; Donald Britt; GLovelace at pvt.com;
> chrisb at azulstar.com; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information
>
> Sounds like a sensible suggestion below; and, then we don't have to put up
> with any individual's intemperate or ignorant ranting while still receiving
> information some folks find helpful.  If it remains a conduit that someone
> can use for racist and other offensive remarks, please remove my name from
> the list.  There is way too much of that type of discourse already in this
> country to be subjected to it in our workplaces, many of which workplaces
> are dedicated to being diligent against such ignorance.
>
> ________________________________
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
> [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Reuben Martinez
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:21 PM
> To: J. Roy Miller; 'Donald Britt'; GLovelace at pvt.com; chrisb at azulstar.com;
> Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information
>
> Why don't we make this an out only, no response address and just feed us
> information.  Thank You
>
> Reuben Martinez
> Town of Taos
> IT Department
> 575-751-2036
> 575-751-2026  fax
>
>
>
>
> Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including all attachments is for the
> sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and
> privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or
> distribution is prohibited unless specifically provided under the New Mexico
> Inspection of Public Records Act. If you are not the intended recipient,
> please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this message. -- This
> email has been scanned by the Sybari - Antigen Email System.
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From ggomes at soundviewnet.com  Tue Jul 27 16:05:03 2010
From: ggomes at soundviewnet.com (Gary Gomes)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:05:03 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information
In-Reply-To: <2AB38B537379174F886DF8046970C697F1FCAAD289@LEW-SVR-EX01>
References: <EB16111E36A6C642AECB56047898EB0001908E53@app1.sandiapueblo.nsn.us><04C07D1052F6354582DC76CB4D22BF46088025@Cooper.sfcc.edu><D9E2D3679D22AB479BD32B375FA2206F1AAF38D19D@TOTEX01>	<D4C5E7ABD7E1014FB496A9A4948FC3DD0C627CF5@CEXMB4.nmes.lcl>	<072E94920E5E5748BE22E99E99BD0CDA548ECA@NEPTUNE.sacredwind.local>
	<2AB38B537379174F886DF8046970C697F1FCAAD289@LEW-SVR-EX01>
Message-ID: <002c01cb2de0$26686090$733921b0$@com>

I am saddened by today's maelstrom.  It is really unfortunate if one bad
apple is able to so easily destroy a valuable tool and forum for discussion
- with a single post.

 

The problem with a moderated (pre-screened) list is that someone has to have
the time to be the filter and do it expeditiously so that information can be
current.

 

The problem with a Wiki is that many of us get so busy we don't regularly
check-in.

 

This list has operated for a number of years without a problem.
Affordable, available broadband  is an important subject for New Mexico to
address and I am hoping that if the offending poster is expelled that the
other members will choose to stay and participate -- otherwise, one loud
voice will have succeeded is silencing the majority.

 

 

Gary

 

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Schara
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:49 PM
To: John Badal; Anaya, Toney, NMORR; Reuben Martinez; J. Roy Miller; Donald
Britt; GLovelace at pvt.com; chrisb at azulstar.com; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information

 

OK, please remove me from this distribution list.   Thank you,

 

Sarah Schara

Account Executive

Office: (505)938-4166

Fax: (866)935-1267

Mobile: (505)331-7042

www.INXI.com

 

cid:image001.png at 01CAC069.85F6BF00

 

 

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of John Badal
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:45 PM
To: Anaya, Toney, NMORR; Reuben Martinez; J. Roy Miller; Donald Britt;
GLovelace at pvt.com; chrisb at azulstar.com; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information

 

Absolutely in agreement.  If I wanted to participate in, or expose myself
to, hateful and uneducated vitriole, I'd subscribe to a chatline or check in
at You Tube. 

 

Let's keep our business email courteous and respectful. 

 

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Anaya, Toney,
NMORR
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:39 PM
To: Reuben Martinez; J. Roy Miller; Donald Britt; GLovelace at pvt.com;
chrisb at azulstar.com; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information

 

Sounds like a sensible suggestion below; and, then we don't have to put up
with any individual's intemperate or ignorant ranting while still receiving
information some folks find helpful.  If it remains a conduit that someone
can use for racist and other offensive remarks, please remove my name from
the list.  There is way too much of that type of discourse already in this
country to be subjected to it in our workplaces, many of which workplaces
are dedicated to being diligent against such ignorance.  

 

  _____  

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Reuben Martinez
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:21 PM
To: J. Roy Miller; 'Donald Britt'; GLovelace at pvt.com; chrisb at azulstar.com;
Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information

 

Why don't we make this an out only, no response address and just feed us
information.  Thank You

 

Reuben Martinez

Town of Taos

IT Department

575-751-2036

575-751-2026  fax

 

 



Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including all attachments is for the
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privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or
distribution is prohibited unless specifically provided under the New Mexico
Inspection of Public Records Act. If you are not the intended recipient,
please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this message. -- This
email has been scanned by the Sybari - Antigen Email System. 

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From david at breeckerassociates.com  Tue Jul 27 16:32:09 2010
From: david at breeckerassociates.com (David Breecker)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:32:09 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information
In-Reply-To: <002c01cb2de0$26686090$733921b0$@com>
References: <EB16111E36A6C642AECB56047898EB0001908E53@app1.sandiapueblo.nsn.us><04C07D1052F6354582DC76CB4D22BF46088025@Cooper.sfcc.edu><D9E2D3679D22AB479BD32B375FA2206F1AAF38D19D@TOTEX01>	<D4C5E7ABD7E1014FB496A9A4948FC3DD0C627CF5@CEXMB4.nmes.lcl>	<072E94920E5E5748BE22E99E99BD0CDA548ECA@NEPTUNE.sacredwind.local>
	<2AB38B537379174F886DF8046970C697F1FCAAD289@LEW-SVR-EX01>
	<002c01cb2de0$26686090$733921b0$@com>
Message-ID: <65CA5F9E-D869-45AE-882A-127A6D98A52A@breeckerassociates.com>

There was one occasion on another list-serve, which I semi-moderated at the time (the Media Industries list) when we barred an offending poster.  It was effective, and the person in question ultimately realized the error of his ways and later rejoined the community.

dba | David Breecker Associates, Inc.
Santa Fe: 505-690-2335
Abiquiu:   505-685-4891
www.BreeckerAssociates.com



On Jul 27, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Gary Gomes wrote:

> I am saddened by today?s maelstrom.  It is really unfortunate if one bad apple is able to so easily destroy a valuable tool and forum for discussion ? with a single post.
>  
> The problem with a moderated (pre-screened) list is that someone has to have the time to be the filter and do it expeditiously so that information can be current.
>  
> The problem with a Wiki is that many of us get so busy we don?t regularly check-in.
>  
> This list has operated for a number of years without a problem.   Affordable, available broadband  is an important subject for New Mexico to address and I am hoping that if the offending poster is expelled that the other members will choose to stay and participate ?? otherwise, one loud voice will have succeeded is silencing the majority.
>  
>  
> Gary
>  
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Schara
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:49 PM
> To: John Badal; Anaya, Toney, NMORR; Reuben Martinez; J. Roy Miller; Donald Britt; GLovelace at pvt.com; chrisb at azulstar.com; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information
>  
> OK, please remove me from this distribution list.   Thank you,
>  
> Sarah Schara
> Account Executive
> Office: (505)938-4166
> Fax: (866)935-1267
> Mobile: (505)331-7042
> www.INXI.com
>  
> <image001.png>
>  
>  
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of John Badal
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:45 PM
> To: Anaya, Toney, NMORR; Reuben Martinez; J. Roy Miller; Donald Britt; GLovelace at pvt.com; chrisb at azulstar.com; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information
>  
> Absolutely in agreement.  If I wanted to participate in, or expose myself to, hateful and uneducated vitriole, I?d subscribe to a chatline or check in at You Tube.
>  
> Let?s keep our business email courteous and respectful.
>  
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Anaya, Toney, NMORR
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:39 PM
> To: Reuben Martinez; J. Roy Miller; Donald Britt; GLovelace at pvt.com; chrisb at azulstar.com; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information
>  
> Sounds like a sensible suggestion below; and, then we don?t have to put up with any individual?s intemperate or ignorant ranting while still receiving information some folks find helpful.  If it remains a conduit that someone can use for racist and other offensive remarks, please remove my name from the list.  There is way too much of that type of discourse already in this country to be subjected to it in our workplaces, many of which workplaces are dedicated to being diligent against such ignorance. 
>  
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Reuben Martinez
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:21 PM
> To: J. Roy Miller; 'Donald Britt'; GLovelace at pvt.com; chrisb at azulstar.com; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information
>  
> Why don't we make this an out only, no response address and just feed us information.  Thank You
>  
> Reuben Martinez
> Town of Taos
> IT Department
> 575-751-2036
> 575-751-2026  fax
>  
>  
> 
> 
> Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including all attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited unless specifically provided under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this message. -- This email has been scanned by the Sybari - Antigen Email System.
> 
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From mrutherford at leaco.org  Tue Jul 27 17:13:09 2010
From: mrutherford at leaco.org (Mark Rutherford)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:13:09 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
In-Reply-To: <008201cb2dd4$474ee2e0$d5eca8a0$@org>
References: <209583BB9BAA4C47BABCFC97308BB3EC046F3D1B92@EXMBXCLUS01.citservers.local><7BC3C7CB-C8B9-4749-BBA5-D52ADCA5F148@preferredbusinesssolutions.biz>	<C16638FFEEC03641A2389ED740D4D3D205ABEAC3@CEXMB5.nmes.lcl>	<317DDCAED86F934394D68DA38A3779E30B48A545@CEXMB2.nmes.lcl>
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Please remove me from  this list.

 

  Mark

 

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of 1st. Lt. Governor
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:40 PM
To: 'Lira, Rocky, NMHED'; 'Harris, Gary, DCA'; 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

 

Please remove me from this email list.

 

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+1st_lt=puebloofacoma.org at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+1st_lt=puebloofacoma.org at mailman.dcn.org] On
Behalf Of Lira, Rocky, NMHED
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:38 PM
To: Harris, Gary, DCA; 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

 

Perhaps someone could create a WIKI (PBWorks.com) where informational
updates can be better organized and posted as opposed to sending emails for
everything.  

 

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Harris, Gary, DCA
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:33 PM
To: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

 

Folks,

 

I find this list and its usual content and discussion very helpful as a
resource for learning about the issues we face in the broadband arena. Might
I suggest that instead of people leaving as the result of one individual's
comments that there is another way. Perhaps the individual responsible for
remarks many of us find offensive could leave.

 

Gary L. Harris

 

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From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+gary.harris=state.nm.us at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+gary.harris=state.nm.us at mailman.dcn.org] On
Behalf Of Stephen Cimelli
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:05 PM
To: Laurence Pena
Cc: 'GLovelace at pvt.com'; 'Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com';
'1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org'
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from this list. 

 

 

On Jul 27, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Laurence Pena wrote:

 

Please remove me as well, I'm shocked on how "Mexicans" or the DMV have
anything to do with Broadband or the issue at hand. which is how we get
bandwidth costs reasonable when it comes to those of us providing services. 

LXP 

 

  _____  

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
<1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org> 
To: GLovelace at pvt.com <GLovelace at pvt.com>; chrisb at azulstar.com
<chrisb at azulstar.com>; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com>

Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> 
Sent: Tue Jul 27 13:51:17 2010
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal 

 

Please remove me from this list.

----- Original Message -----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
<1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>
To: 'Chris Borek' <chrisb at azulstar.com>; Armenta, Loretta
<Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com>
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
Sent: Tue Jul 27 14:48:44 2010
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from the list as well.
Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+glovelace=pvt.com at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of
Chris Borek
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 2:43 PM
To: Armenta, Loretta
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal

Please remove me from this list.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 27, 2010, at 4:42 PM, "Armenta, Loretta" <Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
 > wrote:

>
>
> I find the racial overtones of this email offensive & totally 
> inappropriate.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
> ] On Behalf Of Gnarlodious
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:58 PM
> Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque 
> Journal
>
> On 7/27/10, J A Leach wrote:
>> Yes, in other words, "Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
>> government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll
>> just quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and
>> smoothly as the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."
>
> It may be true that I am unwashed (and in good health because of it) 
> but I disagree with your other allegations. I went down to the DMV a 
> month ago to renew my license and was out of there in 30 minutes. 
> The staff was polite, helpful and only made the mistake of 
> misspelling my name on my new license. Not too bad considering the 
> place was packed with Mexicans who barely spoke english.
>
> Likewise with Social Security, which has never missed a payment and 
> has an extremely low administrative overhead. Think of it as a non-
> profit corporation with no stockholder dividends or parachute plan. 
> Just a lot of boring social servants handling money the old-
> fashioned way, instead of the gamblers we see now in the financial 
> fields.
>
> So you might want to re-evaluate those analogies.
>
> -- Rachel
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From carroll at cagleandassociates.com  Tue Jul 27 18:08:39 2010
From: carroll at cagleandassociates.com (Carroll Cagle)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:08:39 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information
In-Reply-To: <002c01cb2de0$26686090$733921b0$@com>
References: <EB16111E36A6C642AECB56047898EB0001908E53@app1.sandiapueblo.nsn.us><04C07D1052F6354582DC76CB4D22BF46088025@Cooper.sfcc.edu><D9E2D3679D22AB479BD32B375FA2206F1AAF38D19D@TOTEX01>	<D4C5E7ABD7E1014FB496A9A4948FC3DD0C627CF5@CEXMB4.nmes.lcl>	<072E94920E5E5748BE22E99E99BD0CDA548ECA@NEPTUNE.sacredwind.local><2AB38B537379174F886DF8046970C697F1FCAAD289@LEW-SVR-EX01>
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Message-ID: <6132BBD6CDFF406ABBA035726073706E@yourfsyly0jtwn>

Gary Gomes' diagnosis, and prescription, mirror mine.  While I understand
that those who reacted have strong feelings, I agree with Gary that one
person, with a single post, should not be able to dismantle a valuable and
useful tool about a vital topic.

 

Carroll

 

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From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+carroll=cagleandassociates.com at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+carroll=cagleandassociates.com at mailman.dcn.org]
On Behalf Of Gary Gomes
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 5:05 PM
To: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information

 

I am saddened by today's maelstrom.  It is really unfortunate if one bad
apple is able to so easily destroy a valuable tool and forum for discussion
- with a single post.

 

The problem with a moderated (pre-screened) list is that someone has to have
the time to be the filter and do it expeditiously so that information can be
current.

 

The problem with a Wiki is that many of us get so busy we don't regularly
check-in.

 

This list has operated for a number of years without a problem.
Affordable, available broadband  is an important subject for New Mexico to
address and I am hoping that if the offending poster is expelled that the
other members will choose to stay and participate -- otherwise, one loud
voice will have succeeded is silencing the majority.

 

 

Gary

 

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Schara
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:49 PM
To: John Badal; Anaya, Toney, NMORR; Reuben Martinez; J. Roy Miller; Donald
Britt; GLovelace at pvt.com; chrisb at azulstar.com; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information

 

OK, please remove me from this distribution list.   Thank you,

 

Sarah Schara

Account Executive

Office: (505)938-4166

Fax: (866)935-1267

Mobile: (505)331-7042

www.INXI.com

 

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From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of John Badal
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:45 PM
To: Anaya, Toney, NMORR; Reuben Martinez; J. Roy Miller; Donald Britt;
GLovelace at pvt.com; chrisb at azulstar.com; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information

 

Absolutely in agreement.  If I wanted to participate in, or expose myself
to, hateful and uneducated vitriole, I'd subscribe to a chatline or check in
at You Tube. 

 

Let's keep our business email courteous and respectful. 

 

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Anaya, Toney,
NMORR
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:39 PM
To: Reuben Martinez; J. Roy Miller; Donald Britt; GLovelace at pvt.com;
chrisb at azulstar.com; Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information

 

Sounds like a sensible suggestion below; and, then we don't have to put up
with any individual's intemperate or ignorant ranting while still receiving
information some folks find helpful.  If it remains a conduit that someone
can use for racist and other offensive remarks, please remove my name from
the list.  There is way too much of that type of discourse already in this
country to be subjected to it in our workplaces, many of which workplaces
are dedicated to being diligent against such ignorance.  

 

  _____  

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
[mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Reuben Martinez
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:21 PM
To: J. Roy Miller; 'Donald Britt'; GLovelace at pvt.com; chrisb at azulstar.com;
Loretta.Armenta at qwest.com
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] no response just information

 

Why don't we make this an out only, no response address and just feed us
information.  Thank You

 

Reuben Martinez

Town of Taos

IT Department

575-751-2036

575-751-2026  fax

 

 



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From rl at 1st-mile.com  Tue Jul 27 20:21:53 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:21:53 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] List Admin. Apologies
Message-ID: <20100727202153.gt60ho8xk44cwgo8@www2.dcn.org>

To all that are subscribed to this list,
I extend my deepest apologies for today's mess.

The 1st-Mile list is administered very lightly,
and that has seemed to sufficient for the past 3+ years.
I was away and off-line for the past five days; just back.
I will attend to cleaning up the list subscriptions and postings by tomorrow.

I want to thank those who understand the problem,
and who have posted supportive comments today.
To those stampeding to the exits, please email me directly,
not the entire list, if you wish to unsubscribe.
I will communicate directly with the few who forgot their netiquette.

The 1st-Mile list is usually not a heavy traffic list,
and for the most part postings have to do with providing
valuable information on New Mexico related broadband matters.
I ask that you not respond to the entire list for the next day,
at least, and if you must, please email me directly.

Thanks, and once again, my apologies.
Richard


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1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
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From john at citylinkfiber.com  Wed Jul 28 00:29:33 2010
From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:29:33 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] UNSUBSCRIBE RE: Broadband op-ed in today's
	Albuquerque Journal
Message-ID: <F70BCC55F4F2F14888D450E441159C2415FFAA@deathstar2.citylinkfiber.intra>


Noise level has now exceed signal by a factor to great for me to see value.

Please remove me from this list.  If the signal level should increase in the future I may consider returning.

I've got an open access fiber network to build.....

Cheers

John Brown, CityLink Fiber Holdings, Inc


-----Original Message-----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org on behalf of Gnarlodious
Sent: Tue 7/27/2010 12:58 PM
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband op-ed in today's Albuquerque Journal
 
On 7/27/10, J A Leach wrote:
> Yes, in other words, "Let all of you ignorant unwashed masses let the
> government to tell you the best way to operate everything. If you'll just
> quit resisting, we'll have everything running as efficiently and smoothly as
> the DMV and as fiscally sound as Social Security."

It may be true that I am unwashed (and in good health because of it)
but I disagree with your other allegations. I went down to the DMV a
month ago to renew my license and was out of there in 30 minutes. The
staff was polite, helpful and only made the mistake of misspelling my
name on my new license. Not too bad considering the place was packed
with Mexicans who barely spoke english.

Likewise with Social Security, which has never missed a payment and
has an extremely low administrative overhead. Think of it as a
non-profit corporation with no stockholder dividends or parachute
plan. Just a lot of boring social servants handling money the
old-fashioned way, instead of the gamblers we see now in the financial
fields.

So you might want to re-evaluate those analogies.

-- Rachel
_______________________________________________
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1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
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From Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov  Fri Jul 30 10:09:24 2010
From: Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov (Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall))
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:09:24 -0400
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] RSVP for the New Mexico Broadband and Smart Grid
 Summit - August 16th
Message-ID: <C6FD725BA83FB843AC8C482BA19D7445017B14F1D2@SENATE-EX16.senate.ussenate.us>


New Mexico Broadband and Smart Grid Summit

August 16, 2010

Moriarty Civic Center
202 Broadway, Moriarty, NM 87035

Please join Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall at the New Mexico Broadband and Smart Grid Summit in Moriarty, NM on August 16th from 8:30am - 12:00pm.

Co-hosted by USDA Rural Development, the Summit will bring together policymakers, issue experts, and industry leaders for an important discussion on creating economic opportunity and increasing energy independence through broadband and smart grid deployment.

Confirmed speakers include:  RUS Administrator Jonathan Adelstein; NTIA Deputy Administrator Anna Gomez; U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra; and Federal Smart Grid Task Force Director Eric Lightner.

Most importantly, your participation in the New Mexico Broadband & Smart Grid Summit will help begin a dialogue to inform future policy decisions to promote job growth and energy independence.

Please RSVP for the Summit online at:  http://tomudall.senate.gov/?p=event&id=502292.

The Summit agenda is attached and available online at:  http://tomudall.senate.gov/files/documents/081610_NM_Broadband_Smart_Grid_Summit-Agenda.pdf.

We hope to see you at the Summit this August 16th.



---------------------
Kevin Cummins
Legislative Assistant
Office of Sen. Tom Udall
(202) 224-6621
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From merle at arspublica.org  Sat Jul 31 13:04:52 2010
From: merle at arspublica.org (Merle Lefkoff)
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:04:52 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] From Merle Lefkoff
Message-ID: <4C5481E4.8030806@arspublica.org>

Please unsubscribe me.  Still interested, but my e-mail is getting too 
clogged.

Thanks.


From lowenberg at designnine.com  Wed Aug  4 13:26:37 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 14:26:37 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] RUS Broadband Stimulus Awards: Dell Telephone Coop
Message-ID: <B2F05A1D-556C-457C-8DA1-9BD84B15364A@designnine.com>

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced $1.2 billion  
in awards under the federal broadband stimulus program.   Today's  
announcement comprises the largest single group of awards issued as  
part of the $7.2 billion program on a single day.

In New Mexico, congratulations to Dell Telephone Cooperative, Inc.,  
awarded $435,500 to provide fiber optic connectivity to a new cabinet  
and to deploy a last mile access system intended to provide broadband  
services to households in a PFSA located in the southeast area of New  
Mexico.   The PFSA will utilize a copper based ADSL2+ technology to  
provide broadband data and voice.   Dell Telephone's project stands to  
benefit approximately 100 people.  In addition to the jobs this  
project will create upfront, it will help drive economic development  
and create jobs for decades to come.

More info. will be available after this afternoon's USDA RUS Press  
Conference.


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Richard Lowenberg
P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
505-989-9110 off.; 505-603-5200 cell
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From pete at ideapete.com  Sat Aug  7 12:44:36 2010
From: pete at ideapete.com (peter baston)
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 13:44:36 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] The death of Telco as we know it !
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=Qeb_XXzA5VSDNcgV4p6E3JN_u-S7oNpoukdek@mail.gmail.com>

This from one of the most conservative Telco CEOs in Europe

Or should it be called " why the Iphone - Pad and Android will rule the
world " Get out of telco stocks NOW unless they really get it !!

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http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/06/lombard-microsoft-apple-google-intelligent-investing-france-telecom.html?boxes=Homepagelight

*Alexandra Zendrian, Forbes: *How do you anticipate this year will go
for *France
Telecom*<http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=FTE>(
FTE<http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=FTE>-
news
<http://search.forbes.com/search/CompanyNewsSearch?ticker=FTE> - people
<http://people.forbes.com/search?ticker=FTE>)?

*Lombard:* 2010 is a major year for the telecom sector worldwide. People
have made a lot of moves with evolution of Internet and activity of
telecoms. What is happening right now is restructuring for the sector.
Usually the way it works is the customer selected the telco and he enjoys
having the Internet, phone, etc. The ecosystem is organized around the
telco, with additional services coming form a lot of players. Now the data
traffic in mobile is exploding, which means that all customers worldwide are
using the phone as portable PC--not just with the neighbors and friends but
also a tool to be fully integrated into the network.

The big revolution which is happening now is that in the future the customer
will choose first the services they want and the device in which they will
receive the services. The secondary requirement will be the network. We've
reversed the model. The customer is fully interested by service and device
and content and the network is an accessory. They think that they can find
the network anywhere. It's a drastic change in business model. There needs
to be an investment in these different parts to be sure that the model we
have can go on. We have to be sure that each part will get necessary
financing to invest at minimum level to ensure services.

The networks, where the initial telephone network was installed a long time
ago. No one had to pay for new networks for a while. And now fiber optics
came along, which cost billions. You have to be sure that someone will pay
for the investment. You have to be sure that content provider have to find
some part of the revenue. The new model that I described which starts from
service provider guarantees that the revenues will reach these areas.

The fiber is very expensive because the solution which is very efficient is
to use this. We will wire each individual home. This works in comparison to
what happened during the last century. We will do something like that in
five years. The work wasn't done by our predecessors in *80 years.* So
there's an acceleration of the investment period and a lot of additional
expense with new technologies. The characteristics of the new digital world
is that everything is under the control of powerful software.

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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Wed Aug 11 14:42:01 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:42:01 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] US Home Broadband 2010 Report from Pew Internet and
	Amercian Life Project
Message-ID: <1A197A22-DCA5-4AD0-AF21-38FBEE2D6BDE@designnine.com>

From: Lee Rainie
Date: Wed, Aug 11, 2010
Subject: New Pew Internet Report and Stats - State of Broadband 2010

I thought you?d be interested in the new report we are just releasing  
about
the state of broadband adoption among Americans: http://pewrsr.ch/brdbnd10

We highlight a couple of things:

?        Broadband adoption has slowed dramatically in the overall
population, but growth among African-Americans was especially high last
year.

?        By a 53%-41% margin, Americans say they do not believe that the
spread of affordable broadband should be a major government priority.
Contrary to what some might suspect, non-internet users are less  
likely than
current users to say the government should place a high priority on the
spread of high-speed connections.

In addition to their skepticism towards government efforts to promote
widespread broadband adoption, the 21% of American adults who do not  
use the
Internet are not tied in any obvious way to online life and express  
little
interest in going online.

?        They do not find online content relevant to their lives. Half
(48%) of non-users cite issues relating to the relevance of online  
content
as the main reason they do not go online.

?        They are largely not interested in going online. Just one in  
ten
non-users say would like to start using the internet in the future.

?        They are not comfortable using computers or the internet on  
their
own. Six in ten non-users would need assistance getting online. Just  
one in
five know enough about computers and technology to start using the  
internet
on their own.

The new Pew Internet Project survey found that Americans have mixed  
views
about the problems non-broadband users face due to their lack of a
high-speed internet connection. There is no major issue on which a  
majority
of Americans think that lack of broadband access is a major  
disadvantage,
although African-Americans, Latinos and young adults are more keenly  
attuned
than average to the impact of a lack of broadband access.

?        Job opportunities and career skills: 43% of Americans believe  
that
lack of broadband is a ?major disadvantage? when it comes to finding out
about job opportunities or gaining new career skills. Some 23% think  
lack of
access is a ?minor disadvantage? and 28% think it is ?not a  
disadvantage.?

?        Health information: 34% of Americans believe that lack of  
broadband
is a ?major disadvantage? when it comes to getting health information.  
Some
28% think lack of access is a ?minor disadvantage? and 35% think it is  
?not
a disadvantage.?

?        Learning new things to improve and enrich life: 31% of  
Americans
believe that lack of broadband is a ?major disadvantage? when it comes  
to
learning new things that might enrich or improve their lives. Some 31%  
think
lack of access is a ?minor disadvantage? and 32% think it is ?not a
disadvantage.?

?        Government services: 29% of Americans believe that lack of
broadband is a ?major disadvantage? when it comes to using government
services. Some 27% think lack of access is a ?minor disadvantage? and  
37%
think it is ?not a disadvantage.?

?        Keeping up with news and information: 23% of Americans  
believe that
lack of broadband is a ?major disadvantage? when it comes to keeping  
up with
news and information. Some 27% think lack of access is a ?minor
disadvantage? and 47% think it is ?not a disadvantage.?

?        Keeping up with what is happening in their communities: 19% of
Americans believe that lack of broadband is a ?major disadvantage?  
when it
comes to finding out about their local community. Some 32% think lack of
access is a ?minor disadvantage? and 45% think it is ?not a  
disadvantage.?

Best,
Lee


Director
Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
1615 L Street, NW -- Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
W - 202-419-4510
email: Lrainie at pewinternet.org
Twitter: @Lrainie


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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Thu Aug 12 10:41:08 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:41:08 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NTIA Broadband Stimulus Funding Cut By $302 Million
Message-ID: <991C21C6-6BC0-4283-A1A1-4FB33C628B57@designnine.com>

NTIA Broadband Stimulus Funding Cut By $302 Million

Amount rescinded to help free up money to pay teachers

By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 8/11/2010

www.broadcastingcable.com/article/455927-NTIA_Broadband_Stimulus_Funding_Cut_By_302_Million.php?rssid=20065

The National Telecommunications & Information Administration will have  
$302 million less in broadband stimulus grant money to give out by the  
end of next month, about 10% of what it still has left to hand out in  
the next six weeks.

That comes after that amount was rescinded from the BTOP (Broadband  
Technology Opportunities Program) to help free up money to pay teachers.

NTIA is giving out $4.7 billion in grant money for broadband  
deployment and adoption. It is in the second round of funding and has  
to finish giving out the money by the end of next month. As of July 2,  
NTIA had given out 113 grants totaling approximately $1.6 billion, so  
it has more than $3 billion to give out by its Sept. 30 statutory  
deadline.

House members returned this week to pass HR 1586, which will help pay  
for potentially hundreds of thousands of education jobs that were at  
risk in cash-strapped state budgets as the new school year approached,  
according to the House Education and Labor Committee. Congress is not  
slated to return until mid-September, after most school bells would  
have rung in the new academic year.

NTIA was just one of many agencies to have to take a cut in funds to  
help pay the teachers. Others having to share the load included the  
Departments of Defense and Agriculture, the Park Service, and  
ironically, the Department of Education.

The bill was passed Tuesday and signed by the president. The White  
House says the bill prevented up to 160,000 teacher layoffs.

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The NTIA BTOP is currently expected (not certain) to make a  
substantial number of award announcements next week.
There are about 15 NM projects that applied for Round Two BTOP  
funding.    Stay tuned.      RL


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From Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov  Thu Aug 12 13:07:56 2010
From: Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov (Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall))
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:07:56 -0400
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Reminder - Aug 16th - Broadband and Smart Grid Summit
Message-ID: <C6FD725BA83FB843AC8C482BA19D7445017B467EF0@SENATE-EX16.senate.ussenate.us>

To All,

This is just a reminder that the New Mexico Broadband and Smart Grid Summit will take place Monday, Aug. 16th from 8:30am - 12:00pm at the Moriarty Civic Center in Moriarty, NM.  An updated agenda is attached.

If you haven't already done so, please RSVP at http://tomudall.senate.gov/?p=event&id=502292.

For those who cannot attend, the event will also be webcast at http://breeze.nmt.edu/webinar/.

Best,

Kevin

Kevin Cummins
Office of Senator Tom Udall


New Mexico Broadband and Smart Grid Summit

August 16, 2010

Moriarty Civic Center
202 Broadway, Moriarty, NM 87035

Please join Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall at the New Mexico Broadband and Smart Grid Summit in Moriarty, NM on August 16th from 8:30am - 12:00pm.

Co-hosted by USDA Rural Development, the Summit will bring together policymakers, issue experts, and industry leaders for an important discussion on creating economic opportunity and increasing energy independence through broadband and smart grid deployment.

Confirmed speakers include:  RUS Administrator Jonathan Adelstein; NTIA Deputy Administrator Anna Gomez; U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra; and Federal Smart Grid Task Force Director Eric Lightner.

Most importantly, your participation in the New Mexico Broadband & Smart Grid Summit will help begin a dialogue to inform future policy decisions to promote job growth and energy independence.

Please RSVP for the Summit online at:   http://tomudall.senate.gov/?p=event&id=502292.

We hope to see you at the Summit this August 16th.


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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Mon Aug 16 15:28:15 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:28:15 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] RUS and BTOP Awards in NM
Message-ID: <3BAECDD2-D8BB-42BB-80EF-1A3F80EEF38F@designnine.com>

Today's Broadband and Smart Grid Summit in Moriarty was a great  
success on many counts.
It was very well attended, and a point that was iterated repeatedly  
was that greater cooperation on broadband development, among public  
and private sector entities would be most benefitial for all.
The USDA RUS and the NTIA BTOP used the occasion to announce one award  
each in New Mexico.
Congratulations to Kit Carson Electric Coop, and to the NCNMEDD REDI  
Net, for their extensive north-central NM interconnected open fiber  
network initiatives, and successful broadband stimulus awards.
RL

New Mexico to Receive $74.4 Million in Broadband Grants

http://broadbandbreakfast.com/2010/08/new-mexico-to-receive-74-4-million-in-broadband-grants/

Rahul Gaitonde, Deputy Editor, BroadbandBreakfast.com

WASHINGTON, August 16, 2010- New Mexico entities received a $10.6  
million broadband stimulus grant from the National Telecommunications  
and Information Administration, and support for a $63.8 million  
project from the Rural Utilities Service of the Department of  
Agriculture.

The NTIA grant will be given to North Central New Mexico Economic  
Development District to deploy a middle-mile project across three  
counties and five tribal areas. The project will directly serve 123  
community anchor institutions, 19,227 homes and 1,332 businesses.  
?Middle mile? projects aim to expand the availability of broadband  
interconnections to companies and organizations that offer service to  
end-users.

?High-speed Internet access is increasingly important for communities  
to thrive in the 21st century economy,? said NTIA Deputy Administrator  
Anna M. Gomez. ?This Recovery Act investment will create jobs, support  
advances in education and healthcare, and help lay the groundwork for  
sustainable economic growth.?

The RUS project will go to the Kit Carson Electric Cooperateive Fiber  
to the home project. It will service 29 communities, 20,500  
households, 3,600 business, 183 anchor institutions and two Native  
American Pueblos.

?This project will give rural New Mexico residents access to the  
broadband they need to attract new businesses, jobs, health care and  
educational opportunities,? said RUS Administrator Jonathan Adelstein.  
?It will enable Kit Carson to deploy cutting edge smart grid  
technology that will help cut electric bills and permit sustainable  
energy development.

?The Obama Administration understands that bringing broadband to rural  
New Mexico will give families, businesses and key anchor institutions  
? such as schools, libraries and first responders ? service that is  
second to none. This project will create immediate jobs building out  
the network, and the completed system will provide a platform for  
economic growth Northern New Mexico for years to come.?



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P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Mon Aug 16 15:39:06 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:39:06 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] From Senators Bingaman and Udall
Message-ID: <300D0664-F535-4F6D-A7DB-FA4012AE201D@designnine.com>



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, August 16, 2010

Udall, Bingaman Host NM Broadband Summit
Event Features Announcement of $73 Million in Grants, Loans to Connect  
NM


WASHINGTON ? U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Jeff Bingaman today co-hosted  
a New Mexico Broadband & Smart Grid Summit in Moriarty that featured  
the announcement of more than $73 million in grants and awards to  
expand broadband services to rural, underserved areas of New Mexico.

More than 300 people attended the summit at the Moriarty Civic Center,  
which included panel sessions featuring experts on the challenges and  
opportunities facing New Mexico as it works to overcome the digital  
divide and harness broadband technologies to promote economic growth,  
energy independence and health care delivery. Udall led the first  
panel session, titled ?Wiring New Mexico for the Future;? while  
Bingaman led the second panel, titled ?Bringing Broadband to Energy ?  
Smart Grid in New Mexico.?

Jonathan Adelstein, administrator of the Rural Electricity Service of  
the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), also gave a keynote address  
in which he announced $63.8 million in American Recovery and  
Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds for a broadband infrastructure project  
that will deliver affordable broadband service to 29 communities in  
rural, underserved areas of Taos, Colfax and Rio Arriba counties. Kit  
Carson Electric Cooperative will receive a $44 million grant and a $19  
million loan ? for a total of $63.8 million ? to create the 2,400-mile  
broadband network, which will connect approximately 20,500 households,  
3,600 businesses, 183 critical community institutions and two Native  
American Pueblos.

Also at the summit, the Commerce Department?s National  
Telecommunications and Information AdministrationDeputy Administrator  
Anna M. Gomez announced a separate, $10.6 million ARRA grant to the  
North Central New Mexico Economic Development District?s REDI Net  
project, which will make high-quality broadband services more  
affordable and accessible to residents, businesses, and public  
institutions in Rio Arriba and Los Alamos counties, northern Santa Fe,  
and five Native American tribal communities.

?Today was a big day for New Mexico,? Udall said. ?Not only did we  
bring experts from across the spectrum together to discuss the  
challenges our state faces in bridging the digital divide, but we also  
took an important step forward in connecting our rural areas with the  
announcement of more than $73 million in grants and loans. Broadband  
creates jobs. Broadband connects communities. That?s what this summit  
is about today.?

"New Mexico is poised to be a leader in expanding broadband access and  
the use of ?smart grid? technology to reduce consumers' utility bills,  
and I believe the summit will help make that a reality," Bingaman  
said. "The grants announced today show that the federal government can  
be a very important partner in meeting our state's broadband and smart  
grid needs."
Congressman Ben Ray Luj?n also lauded today's recovery announcement  
for expanded broadband into the northern area of his district.
?I am proud to see Recovery funds supporting much-needed broadband in  
Northern New Mexico. I commend REDI Net for investing in our  
communities and connecting our families and small businesses to the  
world,?Luj?n said.

Panelists for Udall?s discussion of ?Wiring New Mexico for the Future?  
included: Dr. Dale Alverson, Director of the Center for Telehealth and  
Cybermedicine Research at the University of New Mexico; John Badal,  
Chief Executive Officer of Sacred Wind Communications; Sharon Gillett,  
Wireline Competition Bureau Chief for the Federal Communications  
Commission; Dr. Susan Oberlander, State Librarian, New Mexico  
Department of Cultural Affairs, and Jessica Zufolo, Deputy  
Administrator, Rural Utility Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Panelists for Bingaman?s discussion of ?Bringing Broadband to Energy ?  
Smart Grid in New Mexico? included: Dr. Tom Bowles, Science Advisor  
for Governor Bill Richardson; Suedeen Kelly, Partner at Patton Boggs  
LLP; Eric Lightner, Director of the Federal Smart Grid Task Force at  
the U.S. Department of Energy; Dr. Daniel L?pez, President of New  
Mexico Tech; Dr. Terry Michalske, Director of Energy and Security  
Systems at Sandia National Laboratories; and Luis Reyes, Chief  
Executive Officer of Kit Carson Electric Cooperative.

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Contacts:  Jude McCartin (Bingaman) 202.224.1804 / Marissa Padilla  
(Udall) 202.224.6621 / Linda Serrato (Luj?n) 202.503.8988




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From tom at jtjohnson.com  Mon Aug 16 15:51:32 2010
From: tom at jtjohnson.com (Tom Johnson)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:51:32 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] RUS and BTOP Awards in NM
In-Reply-To: <3BAECDD2-D8BB-42BB-80EF-1A3F80EEF38F@designnine.com>
References: <3BAECDD2-D8BB-42BB-80EF-1A3F80EEF38F@designnine.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTin=nBvpY1c2C=mnD9eOO-=cj4Oh-ANan+eCWo9x@mail.gmail.com>

Yes, I was pleasantly surprised by the large turn-out (300-350) and what
appeared to be the diversity of the audience.  Everyone from ranchers with
cow shit on their boots to politicos in ties.

-tj

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Richard Lowenberg <lowenberg at designnine.com
> wrote:

> Today's Broadband and Smart Grid Summit in Moriarty was a great success on
> many counts.
> It was very well attended, and a point that was iterated repeatedly was
> that greater cooperation on broadband development, among public and private
> sector entities would be most benefitial for all.
> The USDA RUS and the NTIA BTOP used the occasion to announce one award each
> in New Mexico.
> Congratulations to Kit Carson Electric Coop, and to the NCNMEDD REDI Net,
> for their extensive north-central NM interconnected open fiber network
> initiatives, and successful broadband stimulus awards.
> RL
>
> ------------------------------
>  New Mexico to Receive $74.4 Million in Broadband Grants<http://broadbandbreakfast.com/2010/08/new-mexico-to-receive-74-4-million-in-broadband-grants/>
> http://broadbandbreakfast.com/2010/08/new-mexico-to-receive-74-4-million-in-broadband-grants/
>
> Rahul Gaitonde <http://broadbandbreakfast.com/author/rahul-gaitonde/>,
> Deputy Editor, BroadbandBreakfast.com
>
> WASHINGTON, August 16, 2010- New Mexico entities received a $10.6 million
> broadband stimulus grant from the National Telecommunications and
> Information Administration, and support for a $63.8 million project from the
> Rural Utilities Service of the Department of Agriculture.
>
> The NTIA grant will be given to North Central New Mexico Economic
> Development District to deploy a middle-mile project across three counties
> and five tribal areas. The project will directly serve 123 community anchor
> institutions, 19,227 homes and 1,332 businesses. ?Middle mile? projects aim
> to expand the availability of broadband interconnections to companies and
> organizations that offer service to end-users.
>
> ?High-speed Internet access is increasingly important for communities to
> thrive in the 21st century economy,? said NTIA Deputy Administrator Anna M.
> Gomez. ?This Recovery Act investment will create jobs, support advances in
> education and healthcare, and help lay the groundwork for sustainable
> economic growth.?
>
> The RUS project will go to the Kit Carson Electric Cooperateive Fiber to
> the home project. It will service 29 communities, 20,500 households, 3,600
> business, 183 anchor institutions and two Native American Pueblos.
>
> ?This project will give rural New Mexico residents access to the broadband
> they need to attract new businesses, jobs, health care and educational
> opportunities,? said RUS Administrator Jonathan Adelstein. ?It will enable
> Kit Carson to deploy cutting edge smart grid technology that will help cut
> electric bills and permit sustainable energy development.
>
> ?The Obama Administration understands that bringing broadband to rural New
> Mexico will give families, businesses and key anchor institutions ? such as
> schools, libraries and first responders ? service that is second to none.
> This project will create immediate jobs building out the network, and the
> completed system will provide a platform for economic growth Northern New
> Mexico for years to come.?
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Richard Lowenberg
> P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
> 505-989-9110 off.; 505-603-5200 cell
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>
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From editorsteve at gmail.com  Mon Aug 16 15:57:26 2010
From: editorsteve at gmail.com (Steve Ross)
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:57:26 +0400
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] RUS and BTOP Awards in NM
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin=nBvpY1c2C=mnD9eOO-=cj4Oh-ANan+eCWo9x@mail.gmail.com>
References: <3BAECDD2-D8BB-42BB-80EF-1A3F80EEF38F@designnine.com>
	<AANLkTin=nBvpY1c2C=mnD9eOO-=cj4Oh-ANan+eCWo9x@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTikhY3SDCd-21rRRK7JD5T3KcTcjBWowJ=mdT5pV@mail.gmail.com>

Do the politico's ties go nicely with the prison-issue jump suits?

Steven S. Ross
from G1 phone
Mobile: +1 201 456 5933
Google Voice +1 707 WOW SSR3

On Aug 16, 2010 6:51 PM, "Tom Johnson" <tom at jtjohnson.com> wrote:

Yes, I was pleasantly surprised by the large turn-out (300-350) and what
appeared to be the diversity of the audience.  Everyone from ranchers with
cow shit on their boots to politicos in ties.

-tj

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Richard Lowenberg <lowenberg at designnine.com>
wrote:

> >
> > Today's Broadband and Smart Grid Summit in Moriarty was a great success
> on many counts.
> > It was...
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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Wed Aug 18 14:16:55 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:16:55 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] More Broadband Stimulus Awards Announced
Message-ID: <7FAEC41D-BD6B-4305-A6F2-9184332A65D4@designnine.com>

The RUS and BTOP today announced additional awards, nationwide.

Congratulations to ENMR (NTIA CCI: $16.5 M), and to the NM Department  
of IT (NTIA CCI: $38.7 M) on their successful applications.   More  
projects are in the que, and additional announcements are expected  
over the coming weeks.    Click on the following article links for  
details.

RL

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/08/broadband-grants-totaling-18-b.php

Broadband Grants Totaling $1.8 Billion Announced

By Mike Magner

Scores of stimulus grants to extend broadband infrastructure to  
underserved Americans were announced today by the departments of  
Commerce and Agriculture as part of an effort to bridge the digital  
divide between urban and rural areas.
Grants totaling $1.8 billion for 94 projects in 37 states are aimed at  
both job creation and technology expansion, Commerce Secretary Locke  
and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack said in a conference call announcing  
the latest round of funding from a $7.2 billion pot for broadband  
projects that was included in last year's Recovery Act.
"These projects will connect Americans who have for too long been  
without the full economic, educational and social benefits of high- 
speed Internet access - access central to success in the 21st  
century," Locke said.
Locke said 36 percent of Americans are without access to high-speed  
Internet services. "That is simply unacceptable," he said. The 66  
projects announced today by the Commerce Department's National  
Telecommunications and Information Administration will develop 25,000  
miles of new broadband networks, providing access to 19 million  
households and 1.8 million businesses, he said.
Vilsack said nearly half the people living in rural areas lack access  
to broadband services. The 28 awards provided today from USDA's Rural  
Utilities Service will extend infrastructure to 1.2 million  
households, he said.
Noteworthy among the funded projects are five new networks for public  
safety services, such as a $38.7 million project in Albuquerque and  
Santa Fe, N.M., that will enable streaming of patient data from  
paramedics to hospitals and other types of data transmission.
Satellite services are also being funded for the first time in four  
projects, including a $7.5 million award to Spacenet, Inc., to provide  
broadband service to rural customers in Alaska and Hawaii.



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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Wed Aug 25 14:19:56 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:19:56 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NSF Broadband Funding: UNM
Message-ID: <4C05B14C-B513-4CE5-AC5E-441E4B54CB55@designnine.com>

Congratulations to UNM and its partners.   RL

www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=117391&org=NSF&from=news

August 25, 2010
Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced 17 awards,  
totaling $20 million, through the Research Infrastructure Improvement  
Inter-Campus and Intra-Campus Cyber Connectivity (RII C2) program.  
This effort is part of the Experimental Program to Stimulate  
Competitive Research (EPSCoR), which supports states that have less  
extensive scientific infrastructures and have historically received  
fewer federal research dollars. Each of these awards will provide just  
over $1 million for up to two years to support the enhancement of  
cyber connectivity among educational institutions across the state.  
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 has enabled  
NSF to invest $20 million in this effort to enhance broadband access  
for academic research and the utilization of cyberinfrastructure  
consistent with each state's science and technology (S&T) plan.

The inter-campus and intra-campus connectivity targeted by these  
awards is expected to broaden individual and institutional  
participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics  
(STEM) research and education activities within and among states and  
to facilitate synergy among NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure  
Improvement activities.

"These are exciting and important investments," said Henry Blount, NSF  
EPSCoR Office Head, "Broadband connectivity will advance progress  
toward broader research and educational engagement at the frontiers of  
discovery and innovation in science and engineering. The execution of  
well-articulated plans for the development, deployment, and  
improvement of broadband connectivity is crucial to foster  
collaborative research. These awards will broaden individual and  
institutional participation, strengthen e-learning, develop the STEM  
workforce, contribute to the economic development of states, and help  
to facilitate participation in the computing-based intellectual future."

In New Mexico, UNM is one of the seventeen RII C2 awards to support  
cyber connectivity:

NEW MEXICO (University of New Mexico). This RII C2 award to New Mexico  
will enable high-speed connections to the state's regional  
universities and tribal and community colleges.  The project will  
strengthen education in wireless and high performance computing, build  
partnerships within the computational community, deploy wireless  
networks to serve the Navajo Nation's most remote communities, and  
build the Din? Grid to provide education, public safety, research, and  
communication tools to the Navajo people.


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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Wed Aug 25 16:50:25 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:50:25 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] More stimulus funding for NM and other states.
Message-ID: <111D59C3-CFB2-444D-984D-74BC28FB7AC5@designnine.com>

For those who are interested and following NM broadband stimulus  
funded projects,
in addition to the awards recently announced, there have been funds  
awarded to
national/regional entities which will provide services in multiple  
states, including NM.
The RUS recently announced awards funding big satellite providers to  
upgrade services.
SpaceNet's funding did not include NM coverage, however,
Wildblue and Hughes both got substantial support for enhanced  
broadband service,
with NM included in their awarded coverage and service areas
A California based training and capacity-building .org, Zero Divide,  
got NTIA SBA funding
for teen training and broadband uses, in 6 states, including NM.
Congratulations to Zero Divide's NM partner .org: the Boys and Girls  
Club of Santa Fe.


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From granoff at zianet.com  Wed Sep  8 00:31:29 2010
From: granoff at zianet.com (Marianne Granoff)
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:31:29 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Australian gov't selected based partly on broadband
	issues
Message-ID: <20100908073136.F193715520CB@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us>


 From another list:

>As you are all no doubt aware, ;^) the Australian elections a couple 
>of weeks ago resulted in a hung Parliament for the first time since 
>maybe 1940. After tense negotiations, it has just become clear that 
>Labor will remain in power, with a minority government and by a 
>margin of a single vote in Parliament (76-74).
>
>And the issue that gave them the hairline victory is ... (drum roll) ...
>
>
>
>BROADBAND!      Who woulda' thunk?
>
>
>
>I am hard pressed to think of any place where broadband actually was 
>the margin of victory or defeat in a national election. (Well, sort 
>of ... The election was about a lot of things. And while broadband 
>seems to have loomed large in the decision of the two independents 
>who ultimately settled the outcome, it surely was not the only 
>factor for them, either.) Anyway, it seems to me that it is a first.
>
>The plan to invest ... Who knows, maybe $43 billion Aussie? ... into 
>a national fibre-based network for more than 90% of Australians will 
>go forward. For a country with ten million households, that is a lot 
>of dough per capita. The Coalition, who will now be in opposition, 
>would have cancelled it.
>
>"The issues that I thought were critical to this, and possibly the 
>most critical, was broadband," Windsor said at a packed media 
>conference in Canberra.
>"There's an enormous opportunity for regional Australians to engage 
>with the infrastructure of this century and to pass up that 
>opportunity and miss the opportunity for millions of country 
>Australians, I thought, was too good an opportunity to miss."
>Windsor said his advisers on broadband, of which he said he had "a 
>number of", suggested that, on broadband, "you do it once, you do it 
>right and you do it with fibre".
>"And that has been one of the major influences that I've had in 
>terms of making a decision," Windsor said."
>
>Check out:
><http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/broadband-major-influence-to-windsors-labor-backing-20100907-14z3s.html>http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/broadband-major-influence-to-windsors-labor-backing-20100907-14z3s.html 
>
>
>(Disclaimer: I have no personal interest in the outcome of the 
>elections, but Australia is a country where I have occasionally done 
>work, both for the regulator and for commercial parties.)

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From rl at 1st-mile.com  Mon Sep 13 10:13:01 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:13:01 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Chattanooga Fiber - NY Times
Message-ID: <20100913101301.7jip38vpvookcgkc@www2.dcn.org>

The following article in today?s NY Times, is of interest for a few reasons.  
It highlights the Chattanooga open fiber project, which has been getting
attention since inception, a few years ago.   The fiber broadband services
network is also part of the same network infrastructure that supports ?smart
energy grid? capabilities.   In that way, it is similar to the recent RUS
awarded Kit Carson Electric Coop?s network expansion, here in NM.   The issue
that had my attention, is the high pricing of greater bandwidth, which will
probably be reduced over time, as the numbers of subscribers increase and as
more high-bandwidth content and applications become available.

However, it seems clear and concerning to me that (for the next ten years) the
pricing for increased (sometimes bundled) access to higher bandwidth networks,
will likely result in a new economic ?digital divide?, among the already
low-income, underserved populations of this state and of the country.   Lower
cost wireless, mobile networks will fill much of that gap, but more than
meeting the needs for greater access, our real challenge is to more equitably
and sustainably address the affordability of new high-bandwidth networks and
services.

I hope that some discussion of this matter on this list is not a bother to some.
  I simply urge that any follow-up discussion be productive and on-topic.
RL

---------

Fastest Net Service in U.S. Coming to Chattanooga

www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/technology/13broadband.html?src=me&ref=technology

In the global race to see who can offer the fastest Internet service, an
unlikely challenger has emerged: Chattanooga, Tenn.

The city-owned utility, EPB, plans to announce on Monday that by the end of this
year it will offer ultra-high-speed Internet service of up to one gigabit a
second. That is 200 times faster than the average broadband speed in America.

Only Hong Kong and a few other cities in the world offer such lightning-fast
service, and analysts say Chattanooga will be the first in the United States to
do so. ?This makes Chattanooga ? a midsized city in the South ? one of the
leading cities in the world in its digital capabilities,? said Ron
Littlefield, the city?s mayor.

There is one caveat: the highest-speed service will cost $350 a month, a price
that may appeal to some businesses but few households, even though the service
will be offered to all the 170,000 homes and businesses EPB serves.

?We don?t know how to price a gig,? said Harold DePriest, chief executive
of EPB. ?We?re experimenting. We?ll learn.?

Chattanooga?s effort is the byproduct of an aggressive high-tech economic
development plan in recent years, helped along by funds from the federal
economic stimulus program. But it comes at a time of increasing debate among
communities, countries and corporations about how best to pursue the next
generation of broadband, a technology seen as the gateway to a new wave of
Internet-based products and services.

The Obama administration presented its broadband strategy earlier this year and
set the goal of bringing broadband to 100 million American homes at download
speeds of at least 100 megabits a second ? a tenth of Chattanooga?s top
speed ? by 2020. The United States, according to studies, is a laggard among
developed nations in broadband adoption and service speeds.

Eric E. Schmidt, Google?s chief executive, and other leaders in technology and
government point to the trailing broadband performance as a danger to American
competitiveness that threatens to saddle the nation with an ?innovation
deficit? compared with other countries.

To help close the gap, Google pledged this year to supply service at one gigabit
a second to up to 500,000 people in the United States. The company says that
1,100 communities have applied, and Google will make its selection ? one
community, or a few ? this year.

In announcing the program, Google offered a glimpse of the benefits of
ultra-high-speed Internet service. ?Imagine sitting in a rural health clinic,
streaming three-dimensional medical imaging over the Web and discussing a unique
condition with a specialist in New York,? its statement said. ?Or
downloading a high-definition, full-length feature film in less than five
minutes. Or collaborating with classmates around the world, while watching live
3-D video of a university lecture.?

Such visions of new high-speed services in health care, entertainment, education
and business are behind the ambitious national programs under way in countries
like Australia and South Korea. Already a leader in high-speed broadband, Korea
plans to offer one-gigabit-per-second service nationally by 2012.

Higher-speed Internet service, experts agree, is an important national goal, but
it is less clear whether moving quickly to very-high-speed service is worth the
cost. Much of the economic gain can be achieved, and consumer demand met, by
moving on a more measured path, they say.

Verizon, for example, has invested billions of dollars to upgrade much of its
network for fiber optic Internet service, at speeds of 15, 25 and 50 megabits
per second. Those speeds are three to 10 times standard broadband service; the
monthly charges are $50 for 15 megabits, $65 for 25 and $140 for 50. And the
vast majority of Verizon?s fiber optic Internet customers, analysts say,
choose the 15-megabit, $50-a-month service.

The demand for one-gigabit-per-second service could be minuscule, experts say.
?I can?t imagine a for-profit company doing what they are doing in
Chattanooga, because it?s so far ahead of where the market is,? said Robert
D. Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation,
a nonpartisan research group.

Even Mr. DePriest of EPB does not expect brisk demand for the one-gigabit
service anytime soon. So why offer it? ?The simple answer is because we
can,? he said.

And, Mr. DePriest said, it can be done at minimal additional expense, once fiber
optic cable is strung to homes and businesses, and the electronics for
ultra-high-speed Internet ? more than 100 megabits per second ? are in
place.

 ?The overriding consideration is that this is a real tool for economic
development for our community,? Mr. DePriest said. ?It is the basis for
creating the products and services of the Internet of the future. And it?s in
Chattanooga today.?

The utility started stringing fiber optics to homes about two years ago, and
began offering high-speed broadband a year ago. It supplies
30-megabits-per-second service for $58 a month, 50 megabits for $71 a month,
and 100 megabits for $140 a month (as of Monday, down from $175).

That service is now offered to 100,000 of the utility?s 170,000 customers, and
will be available to all of them by the end of the year. At present, 15,000
customers subscribe to at least one fiber optic service ? television,
Internet access or phone service. And 12,000 subscribe to the Internet service,
a strong sign-up rate in the first year, Mr. DePriest says.

The high-speed Internet service is piggybacked on top of the utility?s
smart-grid network, which was the reason for stringing the fiber optic cable to
homes in the first place. Smart grids are advanced electrical networks that can
improve energy efficiency, enable variable pricing based on the time of day,
and reduce disruptions. They require digital networks for two-way
communications, and computerized meters in homes.

EPB had already begun a smart-grid program before the Obama administration
included billions for grants for smart-grid projects in the economic stimulus
program in 2009. But the Chattanooga utility did win a $111 million grant from
the Energy Department, accelerating its smart-grid plan. The federal funds did
not go to subsidize the high-speed Internet service, Mr. DePriest said.

The customers for the fastest offering may be few, but Dr. James Busch will most
likely be one of them. He is one of 10 radiologists in a practice that reads and
interprets medical images from 14 hospitals and clinics in Tennessee and
Georgia. Those data-heavy medical images are shuttled over the Internet.

?The business model works because bandwidth is so available in Chattanooga,?
Dr. Busch said.

The bandwidth requirements for the practice will only grow, he said, and the
faster service to homes will help. ?Our docs will be able to read images from
home,? Dr. Busch said. ?That could change our practice.?


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1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com

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From christopher at newrules.org  Mon Sep 13 11:28:42 2010
From: christopher at newrules.org (Christopher Mitchell)
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:28:42 -0500
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Chattanooga Fiber - NY Times
In-Reply-To: <20100913101301.7jip38vpvookcgkc@www2.dcn.org>
References: <20100913101301.7jip38vpvookcgkc@www2.dcn.org>
Message-ID: <AANLkTikNpWuKteFtMMpNKEwJ-g6nRMH2sy9UzkRZbaDs@mail.gmail.com>

Quoting:
The issue
> that had my attention, is the high pricing of greater bandwidth,

The high pricing of greater bandwidth?  Please tell me that someone is
complaining about $350/month for 1Gbps when I am paying $72/month for
16/2Mbps or something.

$350/month for a Gbps strikes me as ludicrously low anywhere in the US

Christopher Mitchell
Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
http://www.newrules.org/information/
http://www.muninetworks.org
612-379-3815 x209
@communitynets



On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.com> wrote:
> The following article in today?s NY Times, is of interest for a few reasons.
> It highlights the Chattanooga open fiber project, which has been getting
> attention since inception, a few years ago. ? The fiber broadband services
> network is also part of the same network infrastructure that supports ?smart
> energy grid? capabilities. ? In that way, it is similar to the recent RUS
> awarded Kit Carson Electric Coop?s network expansion, here in NM. ? The issue
> that had my attention, is the high pricing of greater bandwidth, which will
> probably be reduced over time, as the numbers of subscribers increase and as
> more high-bandwidth content and applications become available.
>
> However, it seems clear and concerning to me that (for the next ten years) the
> pricing for increased (sometimes bundled) access to higher bandwidth networks,
> will likely result in a new economic ?digital divide?, among the already
> low-income, underserved populations of this state and of the country. ? Lower
> cost wireless, mobile networks will fill much of that gap, but more than
> meeting the needs for greater access, our real challenge is to more equitably
> and sustainably address the affordability of new high-bandwidth networks and
> services.
>
> I hope that some discussion of this matter on this list is not a bother to some.
> ?I simply urge that any follow-up discussion be productive and on-topic.
> RL
>
> ---------
>
> Fastest Net Service in U.S. Coming to Chattanooga
>
> www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/technology/13broadband.html?src=me&ref=technology
>
> In the global race to see who can offer the fastest Internet service, an
> unlikely challenger has emerged: Chattanooga, Tenn.
>
> The city-owned utility, EPB, plans to announce on Monday that by the end of this
> year it will offer ultra-high-speed Internet service of up to one gigabit a
> second. That is 200 times faster than the average broadband speed in America.
>
> Only Hong Kong and a few other cities in the world offer such lightning-fast
> service, and analysts say Chattanooga will be the first in the United States to
> do so. ?This makes Chattanooga ? a midsized city in the South ? one of the
> leading cities in the world in its digital capabilities,? said Ron
> Littlefield, the city?s mayor.
>
> There is one caveat: the highest-speed service will cost $350 a month, a price
> that may appeal to some businesses but few households, even though the service
> will be offered to all the 170,000 homes and businesses EPB serves.
>
> ?We don?t know how to price a gig,? said Harold DePriest, chief executive
> of EPB. ?We?re experimenting. We?ll learn.?
>
> Chattanooga?s effort is the byproduct of an aggressive high-tech economic
> development plan in recent years, helped along by funds from the federal
> economic stimulus program. But it comes at a time of increasing debate among
> communities, countries and corporations about how best to pursue the next
> generation of broadband, a technology seen as the gateway to a new wave of
> Internet-based products and services.
>
> The Obama administration presented its broadband strategy earlier this year and
> set the goal of bringing broadband to 100 million American homes at download
> speeds of at least 100 megabits a second ? a tenth of Chattanooga?s top
> speed ? by 2020. The United States, according to studies, is a laggard among
> developed nations in broadband adoption and service speeds.
>
> Eric E. Schmidt, Google?s chief executive, and other leaders in technology and
> government point to the trailing broadband performance as a danger to American
> competitiveness that threatens to saddle the nation with an ?innovation
> deficit? compared with other countries.
>
> To help close the gap, Google pledged this year to supply service at one gigabit
> a second to up to 500,000 people in the United States. The company says that
> 1,100 communities have applied, and Google will make its selection ? one
> community, or a few ? this year.
>
> In announcing the program, Google offered a glimpse of the benefits of
> ultra-high-speed Internet service. ?Imagine sitting in a rural health clinic,
> streaming three-dimensional medical imaging over the Web and discussing a unique
> condition with a specialist in New York,? its statement said. ?Or
> downloading a high-definition, full-length feature film in less than five
> minutes. Or collaborating with classmates around the world, while watching live
> 3-D video of a university lecture.?
>
> Such visions of new high-speed services in health care, entertainment, education
> and business are behind the ambitious national programs under way in countries
> like Australia and South Korea. Already a leader in high-speed broadband, Korea
> plans to offer one-gigabit-per-second service nationally by 2012.
>
> Higher-speed Internet service, experts agree, is an important national goal, but
> it is less clear whether moving quickly to very-high-speed service is worth the
> cost. Much of the economic gain can be achieved, and consumer demand met, by
> moving on a more measured path, they say.
>
> Verizon, for example, has invested billions of dollars to upgrade much of its
> network for fiber optic Internet service, at speeds of 15, 25 and 50 megabits
> per second. Those speeds are three to 10 times standard broadband service; the
> monthly charges are $50 for 15 megabits, $65 for 25 and $140 for 50. And the
> vast majority of Verizon?s fiber optic Internet customers, analysts say,
> choose the 15-megabit, $50-a-month service.
>
> The demand for one-gigabit-per-second service could be minuscule, experts say.
> ?I can?t imagine a for-profit company doing what they are doing in
> Chattanooga, because it?s so far ahead of where the market is,? said Robert
> D. Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation,
> a nonpartisan research group.
>
> Even Mr. DePriest of EPB does not expect brisk demand for the one-gigabit
> service anytime soon. So why offer it? ?The simple answer is because we
> can,? he said.
>
> And, Mr. DePriest said, it can be done at minimal additional expense, once fiber
> optic cable is strung to homes and businesses, and the electronics for
> ultra-high-speed Internet ? more than 100 megabits per second ? are in
> place.
>
> ??The overriding consideration is that this is a real tool for economic
> development for our community,? Mr. DePriest said. ?It is the basis for
> creating the products and services of the Internet of the future. And it?s in
> Chattanooga today.?
>
> The utility started stringing fiber optics to homes about two years ago, and
> began offering high-speed broadband a year ago. It supplies
> 30-megabits-per-second service for $58 a month, 50 megabits for $71 a month,
> and 100 megabits for $140 a month (as of Monday, down from $175).
>
> That service is now offered to 100,000 of the utility?s 170,000 customers, and
> will be available to all of them by the end of the year. At present, 15,000
> customers subscribe to at least one fiber optic service ? television,
> Internet access or phone service. And 12,000 subscribe to the Internet service,
> a strong sign-up rate in the first year, Mr. DePriest says.
>
> The high-speed Internet service is piggybacked on top of the utility?s
> smart-grid network, which was the reason for stringing the fiber optic cable to
> homes in the first place. Smart grids are advanced electrical networks that can
> improve energy efficiency, enable variable pricing based on the time of day,
> and reduce disruptions. They require digital networks for two-way
> communications, and computerized meters in homes.
>
> EPB had already begun a smart-grid program before the Obama administration
> included billions for grants for smart-grid projects in the economic stimulus
> program in 2009. But the Chattanooga utility did win a $111 million grant from
> the Energy Department, accelerating its smart-grid plan. The federal funds did
> not go to subsidize the high-speed Internet service, Mr. DePriest said.
>
> The customers for the fastest offering may be few, but Dr. James Busch will most
> likely be one of them. He is one of 10 radiologists in a practice that reads and
> interprets medical images from 14 hospitals and clinics in Tennessee and
> Georgia. Those data-heavy medical images are shuttled over the Internet.
>
> ?The business model works because bandwidth is so available in Chattanooga,?
> Dr. Busch said.
>
> The bandwidth requirements for the practice will only grow, he said, and the
> faster service to homes will help. ?Our docs will be able to read images from
> home,? Dr. Busch said. ?That could change our practice.?
>
>
> --
> Richard Lowenberg
> 1st-Mile Institute
> P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
> 505-989-9110; ? 505-603-5200 cell
> rl at 1st-mile.com ?www.1st-mile.com
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From Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov  Mon Sep 13 12:05:32 2010
From: Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov (Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall))
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:05:32 -0400
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FW: NM Delegation: $18.65 Million Awarded Through
 Recovery Act for Broadband Services Across State
Message-ID: <C6FD725BA83FB843AC8C482BA19D744501AAEE11D3@SENATE-EX16.senate.ussenate.us>


FYI only.  Hot off the press... Three new USDA BIP awards for New Mexico.


[cid:image001.jpg at 01CB5354.7E8F2620]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, September 13, 2010



NM Delegation: $18.65 Million Awarded Through Recovery Act for Broadband Services Across State

Funding Will Expand Access to 45,000 New Mexicans, 600+ Businesses



WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall and U.S. Representatives Harry Teague and Ben Ray Luj?n today announced that more than $18.65 million has been awarded to three New Mexico Internet providers to expand access to high-speed broadband services to underserved communities across the state.



The awards, provided by the Department of Agriculture through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will benefit approximately 45,000 people, more than 600 businesses, and 98 community institutions. The projects will also create hundreds of new jobs and provide a foundation for economic growth and job creation for decades to come.


"Broadband is increasingly essential for businesses, homes and schools.  This investment in rural communities throughout our state will provide broadband access to thousands of New Mexico residents, while bolstering businesses and expanding learning opportunities," Bingaman said.

"By connecting our rural communities through reliable, fast broadband service, we are laying a strong foundation for economic growth, job creation, and improved quality of life for all New Mexicans," Udall said. "I am pleased that the Recovery Act continues to provide for important investments in New Mexico's future."

"As we continue to invest in New Mexico, it is critical to spur jobs and opportunities not just in the big cities, but in rural communities too," Teague said. "Expanding broadband to rural communities brings essential services to communities where reliable Internet access is still a luxury and creates a platform for economic growth and future investment. This Recovery Act funding will create jobs now - through the construction process - and well in to the future by providing local businesses the tools and resources to compete on larger scales and expand their operations."

"From small business owners to local students, access to broadband improves prospects for New Mexicans and means real jobs in our rural communities. These awards will fund infrastructure that will increase the availability and speed of broadband in rural areas.  Funding will support high-tech upgrades to New Mexico's broadband network and improve Internet service for our homes, businesses, and communities. I am proud to see these funds serving New Mexicans," Luj?n said.



 *   La Jicarita Rural Telephone Cooperative NM $11,856,832. This award will allow La Jicarita Rural Telephone Cooperative to offer full fiber capabilities to rural establishments with broadband service speeds of up to 18 Mbps. This last-mile project, along with a middle-mile component, will allow the company to provide affordable higher speed last-mile services to a majority of its subscriber base that would otherwise go underserved. Approximately 3,000 people stand to benefit, as do roughly 40 businesses and 8 community institutions.
 *   US Cable of Northern New Mexico, Inc. NM $4,521,289. This award, matched by $1.9 million in private contributions, will allow US Cable of Northern New Mexico, Inc., to implement the Espa?ola Valley Broadband Initiative and Future Opportunities project to offer broadband service speeds exceeding 20 Mbps. The project design includes a fiber rich two-way hybrid fiber coaxial upgrade using DOCSIS 3.0 technology to serve customers in Espa?ola, Dixon and Pe?asco.  Approximately 32,000 people stand to benefit, as do roughly 550 businesses and 88 community institutions. The company estimates the project will create 235 jobs.
 *   Windstream Corporation NM $2,273,847. This award, matched by $757,950 in private contributions, will allow Windstream to extend its broadband network to provide service to unserved homes and businesses in the areas of Chimayo, Dixon, Pe?asco, Rio Chama, Ruidoso, South Rio Arriba, Tierra Amarilla, Truth or Consequences and Vallecitas. The project will use industry standard ADSL2+ (Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line) protocols that will offer broadband service speeds of up to 12 Mbps. Approximately 10,000 people stand to benefit, as do roughly 50 businesses and 2 community institutions. The company estimates the project will create 29 jobs.

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From pete at ideapete.com  Thu Sep 16 07:42:22 2010
From: pete at ideapete.com (peter baston)
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:42:22 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband vs Pigeon and the money is on the bird
Message-ID: <AANLkTimcg_gurYnsY-xmtDZJmifi0cgHn02qxqQRubY4@mail.gmail.com>

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11325452

-- 
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From david at breeckerassociates.com  Sun Sep 19 19:12:13 2010
From: david at breeckerassociates.com (David Breecker)
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:12:13 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] BBC News - Pigeon flies past broadband in data speed
	race
Message-ID: <9E15F41A-9EFD-4D74-9D04-31BB15180E54@breeckerassociates.com>

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11325452

a race between the two highlighted the low speeds of rural broadband in the UK; the pigeon won.

Ten USB key-laden pigeons were released from a Yorkshire farm at the same time a five-minute video upload was begun.

An hour and a quarter later, the pigeons had reached their destination in Skegness 120km away, while only 24% of a 300MB file had uploaded. 

dba | David Breecker Associates, Inc.
Santa Fe: 505-690-2335
Abiquiu:   505-685-4891
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From tom at jtjohnson.com  Wed Sep 22 11:56:43 2010
From: tom at jtjohnson.com (Tom Johnson)
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:56:43 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FYI -- New FCC rules to bring cheap broadband to
	schools faster | ZDNet
Message-ID: <AANLkTimAzUO6guiagSj0ZpMVOfHdoWpUnWss2341zYJ1@mail.gmail.com>

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/education/new-fcc-rules-to-bring-cheap-broadband-to-schools-faster/4233?tag=nl.e623

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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Tue Sep 28 08:00:21 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:00:21 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM Supplemental Broadband Mapping and Planning Award
Message-ID: <F4446403-57C9-4E95-B6F9-1343E23F94C4@designnine.com>


Congratulations to the NM Department of Information Technology (DoIT),  
which was just awarded $2,876,905 from the NTIA towards supplemental  
Broadband Mapping and Development activities.

www.ntia.doc.gov/press/2010/BTOP_SBDD_09272010.html



IMMEDIATE RELEASE

September 27, 2010

News Media Contact:
Moira Vahey, (202) 482-0147, mvahey at ntia.doc.gov


COMMERCE?S NTIA ANNOUNCES FINAL RECOVERY ACT INVESTMENTS FOR STATE- 
DRIVEN BROADBAND ACTIVITIES

WASHINGTON ? The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications  
and Information Administration (NTIA) today announced 56 investments  
totaling $190 million to support state efforts to compete in the  
digital economy. These are the final awards in the State Broadband  
Data and Development (SBDD) grant program, funded by the American  
Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

?As Congress recognized, many communities are being left behind in the  
21st Century economy and need improved broadband access and adoption  
to compete,? said Assistant Secretary for Communications and  
Information and NTIA Administrator Lawrence E. Strickling. ?Each state  
has unique broadband challenges, and these investments will support  
solutions developed by the states to harness the power of technology  
so that local businesses can thrive and residents can enjoy a better  
quality of life.?

The 50 states, five territories, and the District of Columbia will use  
this funding to support the efficient and creative use of broadband  
technology to improve their economies. These state-created efforts  
vary depending on local needs but include programs to assist small  
businesses and community institutions in using technology more  
effectively, research to investigate barriers to broadband adoption,  
innovative applications that increase access to government services  
and information, and state and local task forces to expand broadband  
access and adoption.

As examples of these diverse state-driven projects:

Massachusetts will provide technical assistance to small businesses  
and non-profit organizations to help them improve operations through  
broadband and technology use.

Pennsylvania plans to research barriers to the use of broadband by  
manufacturers and to examine the impact of broadband use on the  
competiveness of this sector.

In Florida, technology teams will provide hardware and network  
assessments to public libraries, enabling them to provide faster and  
more reliable Internet service to the public.

Arkansas plans to expand online county government services,  
particularly in rural communities, allowing residents to access these  
services from their homes.

Colorado plans to organize a state-wide broadband task force to  
promote the growth of distance learning and to implement and assess  
the impact of several pilot projects.

North Carolina will leverage years of experience to expand its  
broadband planning teams into more communities, driving broadband- and  
technology-based economic development.

Launched in 2009, NTIA?s State Broadband Data and Development grant  
program implements the joint purposes of the Recovery Act and the  
Broadband Data Improvement Act (BDIA), which envisioned a  
comprehensive program, led by state entities or non-profit  
organizations working at their direction, to facilitate the  
integration of broadband and information technology into state and  
local economies. Economic development, energy efficiency, and advances  
in education and health care rely not only on broadband  
infrastructure, but also on the knowledge and tools to leverage that  
infrastructure.

Since accurate data is critical for broadband planning, another  
purpose of the grant program is to assist states in gathering data  
twice a year on the availability, speed, and location of broadband  
services, as well as the broadband services that community  
institutions, such as schools, libraries and hospitals, use. This data  
will be used by NTIA to update a searchable, interactive national  
broadband map once it is completed by the agency by February 17, 2011.  
NTIA originally funded state data collection and validation efforts  
for a two-year period; with today?s announcement, grantees will be  
able to continue these efforts for an additional three years.

The Recovery Act provided up to $350 million for implementation of the  
BDIA and to develop and maintain the national broadband map. All 56  
states, territories, and the District of Columbia (or their designated  
entities) were eligible for funding through the SBDD grant program to  
support these goals. NTIA previously awarded funding to 54 of the  
entities for initial activities. When combined with today?s  
announcement, NTIA has awarded a total of $293 million in grants among  
all 56 eligible entities.

(See NTIA web site announcement for complete list of states and  
funding amounts.  RL  )


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Richard Lowenberg
P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
505-989-9110 off.; 505-603-5200 cell
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From haroldskow at navajo.org  Tue Sep 28 10:10:03 2010
From: haroldskow at navajo.org (Harold Skow)
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:10:03 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM Supplemental Broadband Mapping and Planning
	Award
References: <F4446403-57C9-4E95-B6F9-1343E23F94C4@designnine.com>
Message-ID: <1A99ABCD9BD05243A91F09E332A85F7CEB35EA@MAIL.navajo.org>

Yeah!!!!! 
 
Elrena please put this on the IT summit agenda for presentation.
 
Join Us for the Navajo Nation Dept. of Information Technology
IT Summit 2010
at Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino on November 15- 18
www.nnits.navajo-nsn.gov
 
Harold Skow
Director of Information Technology
Navajo Nation
Window Rock, AZ 86515
928-871-6520 x6002
928-587-3065 (cell)
 
haroldskow at navajo.org <mailto:haroldskow at navajo.org> 
www.navajo.org

________________________________

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org on behalf of Richard Lowenberg
Sent: Tue 9/28/2010 9:00 AM
To: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM Supplemental Broadband Mapping and Planning Award




Congratulations to the NM Department of Information Technology (DoIT), which was just awarded $2,876,905 from the NTIA towards supplemental Broadband Mapping and Development activities.  

www.ntia.doc.gov/press/2010/BTOP_SBDD_09272010.html




IMMEDIATE RELEASE

September 27, 2010

News Media Contact:
Moira Vahey, (202) 482-0147, mvahey at ntia.doc.gov

COMMERCE'S NTIA ANNOUNCES FINAL RECOVERY ACT INVESTMENTS FOR STATE-DRIVEN BROADBAND ACTIVITIES

WASHINGTON - The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today announced 56 investments totaling $190 million to support state efforts to compete in the digital economy. These are the final awards in the State Broadband Data and Development (SBDD) grant program, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

"As Congress recognized, many communities are being left behind in the 21st Century economy and need improved broadband access and adoption to compete," said Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator Lawrence E. Strickling. "Each state has unique broadband challenges, and these investments will support solutions developed by the states to harness the power of technology so that local businesses can thrive and residents can enjoy a better quality of life."

The 50 states, five territories, and the District of Columbia will use this funding to support the efficient and creative use of broadband technology to improve their economies. These state-created efforts vary depending on local needs but include programs to assist small businesses and community institutions in using technology more effectively, research to investigate barriers to broadband adoption, innovative applications that increase access to government services and information, and state and local task forces to expand broadband access and adoption.  

As examples of these diverse state-driven projects:

Massachusetts will provide technical assistance to small businesses and non-profit organizations to help them improve operations through broadband and technology use.

Pennsylvania plans to research barriers to the use of broadband by manufacturers and to examine the impact of broadband use on the competiveness of this sector.

In Florida, technology teams will provide hardware and network assessments to public libraries, enabling them to provide faster and more reliable Internet service to the public.

Arkansas plans to expand online county government services, particularly in rural communities, allowing residents to access these services from their homes.  

Colorado plans to organize a state-wide broadband task force to promote the growth of distance learning and to implement and assess the impact of several pilot projects.  

North Carolina will leverage years of experience to expand its broadband planning teams into more communities, driving broadband- and technology-based economic development.

Launched in 2009, NTIA's State Broadband Data and Development grant program implements the joint purposes of the Recovery Act and the Broadband Data Improvement Act (BDIA), which envisioned a comprehensive program, led by state entities or non-profit organizations working at their direction, to facilitate the integration of broadband and information technology into state and local economies. Economic development, energy efficiency, and advances in education and health care rely not only on broadband infrastructure, but also on the knowledge and tools to leverage that infrastructure.

Since accurate data is critical for broadband planning, another purpose of the grant program is to assist states in gathering data twice a year on the availability, speed, and location of broadband services, as well as the broadband services that community institutions, such as schools, libraries and hospitals, use. This data will be used by NTIA to update a searchable, interactive national broadband map once it is completed by the agency by February 17, 2011. NTIA originally funded state data collection and validation efforts for a two-year period; with today's announcement, grantees will be able to continue these efforts for an additional three years.

The Recovery Act provided up to $350 million for implementation of the BDIA and to develop and maintain the national broadband map. All 56 states, territories, and the District of Columbia (or their designated entities) were eligible for funding through the SBDD grant program to support these goals. NTIA previously awarded funding to 54 of the entities for initial activities. When combined with today's announcement, NTIA has awarded a total of $293 million in grants among all 56 eligible entities.   

(See NTIA web site announcement for complete list of states and funding amounts.  RL  )


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P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
505-989-9110 off.; 505-603-5200 cell
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From haroldskow at navajo.org  Tue Sep 28 12:36:48 2010
From: haroldskow at navajo.org (Harold Skow)
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:36:48 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM Supplemental Broadband Mapping and Planning
	Award
References: <F4446403-57C9-4E95-B6F9-1343E23F94C4@designnine.com>
Message-ID: <1A99ABCD9BD05243A91F09E332A85F7CEB35F4@MAIL.navajo.org>

I am sorry it is the wrong DIT....NM DoIT. Not NN DoIT....
 
I hope we get one also.
 
Join Us for the Navajo Nation Dept. of Information Technology
IT Summit 2010
at Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino on November 15- 18
www.nnits.navajo-nsn.gov
 
Harold Skow
Director of Information Technology
Navajo Nation
Window Rock, AZ 86515
928-871-6520 x6002
928-587-3065 (cell)
 
haroldskow at navajo.org <mailto:haroldskow at navajo.org> 
www.navajo.org

________________________________

From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org on behalf of Richard Lowenberg
Sent: Tue 9/28/2010 9:00 AM
To: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM Supplemental Broadband Mapping and Planning Award




Congratulations to the NM Department of Information Technology (DoIT), which was just awarded $2,876,905 from the NTIA towards supplemental Broadband Mapping and Development activities.  

www.ntia.doc.gov/press/2010/BTOP_SBDD_09272010.html




IMMEDIATE RELEASE

September 27, 2010

News Media Contact:
Moira Vahey, (202) 482-0147, mvahey at ntia.doc.gov

COMMERCE'S NTIA ANNOUNCES FINAL RECOVERY ACT INVESTMENTS FOR STATE-DRIVEN BROADBAND ACTIVITIES

WASHINGTON - The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today announced 56 investments totaling $190 million to support state efforts to compete in the digital economy. These are the final awards in the State Broadband Data and Development (SBDD) grant program, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

"As Congress recognized, many communities are being left behind in the 21st Century economy and need improved broadband access and adoption to compete," said Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator Lawrence E. Strickling. "Each state has unique broadband challenges, and these investments will support solutions developed by the states to harness the power of technology so that local businesses can thrive and residents can enjoy a better quality of life."

The 50 states, five territories, and the District of Columbia will use this funding to support the efficient and creative use of broadband technology to improve their economies. These state-created efforts vary depending on local needs but include programs to assist small businesses and community institutions in using technology more effectively, research to investigate barriers to broadband adoption, innovative applications that increase access to government services and information, and state and local task forces to expand broadband access and adoption.  

As examples of these diverse state-driven projects:

Massachusetts will provide technical assistance to small businesses and non-profit organizations to help them improve operations through broadband and technology use.

Pennsylvania plans to research barriers to the use of broadband by manufacturers and to examine the impact of broadband use on the competiveness of this sector.

In Florida, technology teams will provide hardware and network assessments to public libraries, enabling them to provide faster and more reliable Internet service to the public.

Arkansas plans to expand online county government services, particularly in rural communities, allowing residents to access these services from their homes.  

Colorado plans to organize a state-wide broadband task force to promote the growth of distance learning and to implement and assess the impact of several pilot projects.  

North Carolina will leverage years of experience to expand its broadband planning teams into more communities, driving broadband- and technology-based economic development.

Launched in 2009, NTIA's State Broadband Data and Development grant program implements the joint purposes of the Recovery Act and the Broadband Data Improvement Act (BDIA), which envisioned a comprehensive program, led by state entities or non-profit organizations working at their direction, to facilitate the integration of broadband and information technology into state and local economies. Economic development, energy efficiency, and advances in education and health care rely not only on broadband infrastructure, but also on the knowledge and tools to leverage that infrastructure.

Since accurate data is critical for broadband planning, another purpose of the grant program is to assist states in gathering data twice a year on the availability, speed, and location of broadband services, as well as the broadband services that community institutions, such as schools, libraries and hospitals, use. This data will be used by NTIA to update a searchable, interactive national broadband map once it is completed by the agency by February 17, 2011. NTIA originally funded state data collection and validation efforts for a two-year period; with today's announcement, grantees will be able to continue these efforts for an additional three years.

The Recovery Act provided up to $350 million for implementation of the BDIA and to develop and maintain the national broadband map. All 56 states, territories, and the District of Columbia (or their designated entities) were eligible for funding through the SBDD grant program to support these goals. NTIA previously awarded funding to 54 of the entities for initial activities. When combined with today's announcement, NTIA has awarded a total of $293 million in grants among all 56 eligible entities.   

(See NTIA web site announcement for complete list of states and funding amounts.  RL  )


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P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
505-989-9110 off.; 505-603-5200 cell
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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Wed Sep 29 15:14:31 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:14:31 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] New ABQ-Based Pilot Program Will Improve Health Care
	Communications in Rural Native Communities
Message-ID: <FBE03BE7-F2AC-453F-AA61-5047FDBE9C81@designnine.com>


For Immediate Release:
September 29, 2010



Udall, Genachowski: New ABQ-Based Pilot Program Will Improve Health  
Care Communications in Rural Native Communities

2,000 Donated Cell Phones will Connect Patients with Providers


WASHINGTON ? U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) and Federal Communications  
Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski today unveiled a new  
Albuquerque-based pilot program that will supply up to 2,000 satellite  
phones to the Indian Health Service (IHS) to improve communications  
between rural Native Americans and their health care providers.

The pilot project will initially be based in the Albuquerque area  
office of IHS, which serves tribal communities in New Mexico, Colorado  
and Texas.  The satellite phones will be donated by Reston, Va.-based  
broadband company LightSquared, which also will provide service free  
of charge through 2020.

Udall, a member of both the Senate Commerce Committee and Indian  
Affairs Committee, drew attention to the appalling lack of reliable  
telephone service on Tribal lands last year in a letter to  
Genachowski. In that letter, Udall noted that not having access to a  
landline or cell phone reception can often mean the difference between  
life and death, and recalled the heartbreaking story of a man outside  
of Gallup, New Mexico, who missed two opportunities for a life-saving  
kidney transplant because he lacked telephone service at home and  
could not be contacted in time.

As a result of that letter, the offices of Udall and Genachowski  
worked together to develop the pilot project and to secure  
LightSquared?s participation.

?Most Americans probably cannot imagine life without a telephone. Yet  
today, more than 30 percent of households in Indian Country do not  
have access to basic telephone service,? Udall said. ?I am pleased to  
join LightSquared and Chairman Genachowski for this exciting  
announcement. By providing these satellite phones to IHS, we help  
improve access to health care for Tribal communities currently without  
telephone service. The bottom line is, this pilot project will help  
save lives.?

?It?s unacceptable that Native communities are significantly less  
connected than any other segment of the population,? said Genachowski.  
?The National Broadband Plan recognized the need for the FCC,  
Congress, and other key stakeholders to work directly with Tribal  
governments to promote Tribal connectivity. This pilot program is an  
important step forward. I applaud LightSquared for the generous  
donation of devices and services that will bring 21st Century mobile  
health to hospitals, health centers, and field clinics in Native  
communities.?

At the suggestion of Udall, the FCC ? under the direction of  
Genachowski ? recently established an Office of Native Affairs and  
Policy, which will work to promote the deployment and adoption of  
communications services and technologies throughout Tribal Lands and  
Native communities. This includes, among other things, ensuring robust  
government-to-government consultation with Tribal governments and  
increased coordination with Native organizations.

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P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Fri Oct  1 15:17:00 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 16:17:00 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] RuralTeleCon - Mesa, AZ - Nov. 10-12
Message-ID: <8BB5138E-4F7B-4842-BFBD-1B35016065A7@designnine.com>

Following is an announcement for the annual Rural Telecommunications  
Conference,
which will be held in AZ next month.   It should be a productive  
program,
with opportunities to make contacts, especially for four-corners  
states projects coordination.
RL
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National Telecom Conference, Mesa Arizona
"Broadband For Rural Prosperity"
Rural TeleCon '10
November 10-12, 2010
Mesa, AZ
www.ruraltelecon.org/

In our "Networked World" broadband Internet services are critical
infrastructure for community development and the health, safety,  
welfare,
educational advancement, and economic prosperity in rural communities.  
Rural
TeleCon '10 will provide a forum for 250+ leaders and stakeholders from
around the country to hear from experts and collaborate in the  
development
of policies, strategies and best practices that will enable states and  
local
communities to expedite deployment of this critical infrastructure and
support the use of next generation Broadband for rural prosperity.

You will want to:
* Get involved in dynamic workshops to collaborate with federal, state  
and
local colleagues and experts

* Get engaged in the Technology Showcase and see the latest telecom,
Internet and other technology innovations and services

* Get connected with other leaders and stakeholders at workshops,
networking sessions and the reception

* Get informed by attending Keynotes presented by national experts in
Broadband planning and policy

WHO WILL ATTEND
Many will be representatives from urban and rural communities working on
local broadband initiatives. Others will be leaders & stakeholders from
Economic Development, Education, Healthcare, Local Government, Public
Safety, Libraries, etc. We also expect to see consultants and  
providers of
telecom, Internet and other technology innovations and services. Rural
TeleCon has always had strong participation from Federal  
telecommunications
and economic and rural development officials (USDA, FCC, NTIA, USAC).  
This
year many State telecom and broadband mapping and planning officials are
planning to attend.

CONFERENCE FLYER
Download the conference flyer at
www.ruraltelecon.org/pages/RTCConference/Program.aspx.

SPONSOR & EXHIBITOR OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE
Download the Sponsor and Exhibitor Information Sheet
http://tinyurl.com/RTCsponsors. Discover how Rural TeleCon '10 will be a
great opportunity for you to showcase your telecom, Internet, or other
technologies and services.

INFORMATION/SIGN-UP TODAY
Call us, e-mail us or see our web site

Steve Peters, Conference Coordinator
520- 321-1309 mailto:stevepeters at tucsonlink.org	

Galen Updike, Manager - Telecom Development, Arizona Government  
Information
Technology Agency
602-364-4794, mailto:gupdike at azgita.gov


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Richard Lowenberg
P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
505-989-9110 off.; 505-603-5200 cell
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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Tue Oct 12 09:24:37 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:24:37 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Smart Meters to use AT&T Wireless Network
Message-ID: <EC09799B-E432-41AA-A7F5-3C494CAAC777@designnine.com>

Utility?s smart meter uses AT&T network.

US company, Texas New Mexico Power Co. plans to cover its service  
territory with smart meters that will transfer data over AT&T Inc.?s  
wireless network, which will drive the smart-grid market to use common  
carriers.

The proposed plan would be the largest rollout by a major US utility  
to rely on a wireless network. Previously, smart meter projects have  
relied on proprietary communications networks built by utilities or  
their contractors that use radio frequency equipment mounted on power  
poles. Those systems collect and transfer meter readings competently  
but add to capital costs that are then paid by ratepayers.

Common carriers could be competitive as they reduce their wireless  
network charges. AT&T is charging about $1 a meter a month for its  
services to TNMP, versus a quoted price of several dollars as recently  
as a year ago. TNMP, a unit of PNM Resources Inc, of Albuquerque,  
N.M., intends to deploy 231,000 meters for all its business and  
residential customers in Texas over the next five years.

www.buddeblog.com.au/news-and-views/utilitys-smart-meter-uses-att-network/







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From rl at 1st-mile.com  Wed Oct 20 11:02:44 2010
From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:02:44 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM Broadband Stimulus Article and Awards List
Message-ID: <1d9f69fc28742350c1c256d8a79ef080@dcn.org>

Attached is a three page .pdf of an article I've prepared for this 
list,
with a listing (not a final authorized version) of NM broadband 
stimulus awards.
Congratulations to all award recipients.  A lot of dedicated work lies 
ahead.
Please let me know if I have mis-stated anything, or have incorrect 
facts.
I know that many of you working in this arena have been interested in 
this overview.
I look forward to working with you on needed next-steps.
Richard


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Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
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505-989-9110 / 505-603-5200
www.1st-mile.com
rl at 1st-mile.com
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From pete at ideapete.com  Wed Oct 20 11:11:19 2010
From: pete at ideapete.com (peter baston)
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:11:19 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM Broadband Stimulus Article and Awards List
In-Reply-To: <1d9f69fc28742350c1c256d8a79ef080@dcn.org>
References: <1d9f69fc28742350c1c256d8a79ef080@dcn.org>
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=zjC+DyQhbPTX8mi3fZ2TS3y-rJQYDUVSjuXjn@mail.gmail.com>

It may also be appropriate to look at the issues of the debt that these
awards are causing the beneficiaries to get into and the reverberation its
causing locally - here is an example from Taos http://www.taosfriction.com/

( : ( : pete

-- 
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Pete Baston
IDEAS  "I"  Quality Assurance - Due Diligence
www.ideapete.com
Cell: 303-579-6531
Mailto:pete at ideapete.com

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.com> wrote:

> Attached is a three page .pdf of an article I've prepared for this list,
> with a listing (not a final authorized version) of NM broadband stimulus
> awards.
> Congratulations to all award recipients.  A lot of dedicated work lies
> ahead.
> Please let me know if I have mis-stated anything, or have incorrect facts.
> I know that many of you working in this arena have been interested in this
> overview.
> I look forward to working with you on needed next-steps.
> Richard
>
>
> ----------------------------
> Richard Lowenberg
> 1st-Mile Institute
> Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
> 505-989-9110 / 505-603-5200
> www.1st-mile.com
> rl at 1st-mile.com
> ----------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> 1st-mile-nm mailing list
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From pete at ideapete.com  Fri Oct 29 09:04:34 2010
From: pete at ideapete.com (peter baston)
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:04:34 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Mount Everest gets 3G broadband before some parts of
	NM
Message-ID: <AANLkTinUbZam5XacdLXD1+iDDD3pTG3ERh_oYc=ki+43@mail.gmail.com>

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11651509

( : ( : pete

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From ben at byrneweb.com  Tue Nov  2 18:43:33 2010
From: ben at byrneweb.com (Ben Byrne)
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 19:43:33 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Hearing in ABQ on the "Future of the Internet"
Message-ID: <51F8CAE9-0BF2-4E1E-BD58-18662FB6BB8D@byrneweb.com>

On Tuesday, November 16 at 6:30 pm, a trio of media activism organizations (in loose conjunction with the FCC) are hosting a public hearing on the "Future of the Internet" at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque. FCC Commissioner Michael Copps and other FCC staff will be in attendance. 

While the hearing has been framed around letting members of the public sound off about issues like Net Neutrality, event organizers are also interested in making sure that the event is more than a consumer complaint-fest and pro-Net Neutrality rally. Perspectives of those on this list that are familiar with, and doing the work of, deploying and spreading Internet access would be particularly valuable. I encourage everyone here to consider attending.

If you're interested in reserving space to testify briefly (I think you'd get 90 seconds), please let me know and I'll see what I can do in terms of reserving you a spot.

Thanks,

Ben Byrne
ben at byrneweb.com

What's your fortune? Open your virtual fortune cookie at http://byrnecreative.com/fortune



From andrea at medialiteracyproject.org  Fri Nov  5 08:51:23 2010
From: andrea at medialiteracyproject.org (Quijada, Andrea)
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 09:51:23 -0600
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Hearing in ABQ on the "Future of the Internet"
In-Reply-To: <51F8CAE9-0BF2-4E1E-BD58-18662FB6BB8D@byrneweb.com>
References: <51F8CAE9-0BF2-4E1E-BD58-18662FB6BB8D@byrneweb.com>
Message-ID: <80576EB93C4A58489708D64DA491CC79147B5A552F@gemini>

Thank you so much for sharing the information about the hearing! It is so great to see so much support in getting the information out to New Mexicans. We absolutely want to hear from real people with real stories that are not solely about access. 

I would like to highlight that this hearing is the result of two years' worth of work including Hill visits, policy advocacy, and community research undergone by the Media Literacy Project with our partner organizations. In addition, we are specifically working with the FCC's new Office of Tribal Affairs and Policy and coordinated the hearing to take place during the National Congress of American Indians 67th annual conference.

We are very excited about this public hearing and would definitely like to see you at the National Hispanic Cultural Center on November 16th at 6:30pm. 

Thank you so much, 

Andrea Quijada
Executive Director
Media Literacy Project
6400 Wyoming Blvd. NE
Albuquerque NM 87109

andrea at medialiteracyproject.org
tel: 505-858-8850

www.medialiteracyproject.org

Cultivating critical thinking and activism in our media culture. Building a healthy world through media justice.


-----Original Message-----
From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Ben Byrne
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 7:44 PM
To: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Hearing in ABQ on the "Future of the Internet"

On Tuesday, November 16 at 6:30 pm, a trio of media activism organizations (in loose conjunction with the FCC) are hosting a public hearing on the "Future of the Internet" at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque. FCC Commissioner Michael Copps and other FCC staff will be in attendance. 

While the hearing has been framed around letting members of the public sound off about issues like Net Neutrality, event organizers are also interested in making sure that the event is more than a consumer complaint-fest and pro-Net Neutrality rally. Perspectives of those on this list that are familiar with, and doing the work of, deploying and spreading Internet access would be particularly valuable. I encourage everyone here to consider attending.

If you're interested in reserving space to testify briefly (I think you'd get 90 seconds), please let me know and I'll see what I can do in terms of reserving you a spot.

Thanks,

Ben Byrne
ben at byrneweb.com

What's your fortune? Open your virtual fortune cookie at http://byrnecreative.com/fortune

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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Fri Nov 12 11:04:48 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:04:48 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM DOIT PUBLIC SAFETY FORUM: Statewide Broadband
	Network and FCC Programs
References: <12CA6F97D8D7DF40BD26DA90D21643430D53F6A9@CEXMB3.nmes.lcl>
Message-ID: <BDA5844F-6658-405D-9DC6-A39FC0C0390D@designnine.com>

> Dear Interested Party
>
> Please see the announcement and invite (attached and below) from  
> Dept. of Information Technology (DoIT) Cabinet Secretary Marlin  
> Mackey for a Public Forum to discuss a New Mexico Public Safety  
> Communications Network.  Your attendance and participation will be  
> appreciated.
>
> MEDIA ADVISORY
>
> NEW MEXICO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SECRETARY ANNOUNCES PUBLIC FORUM  
> WITH THE FCC TO DISCUSS STATEWIDE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS
>
>             Albuquerque, NM ? Marlin Mackey, Secretary of the New  
> Mexico Department of Information Technology (DoIT), today announced  
> the Department will hold a public forum on public safety  
> communications with Rear Admiral (ret.) James Arden Barnett, Jr.,  
> Chief of the Federal Communication Commission?s (FCC) Public Safety  
> and Homeland Security Bureau at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, November 15,  
> 2010 in the Grand Central meeting room on the Second Floor of City  
> Hall, 1 Civic Plaza - 4th and Marquette NW.
>
> WHO: Marlin Mackey, Secretary, New Mexico Department of Information  
> Technology
> Rear Admiral (ret.) James Arden Barnett, Jr., Chief, Public Safety  
> and Homeland Security Bureau, FCC
>
> WHAT:           Public Forum, to highlight New Mexico?s initiative  
> to launch a statewide Public Safety Broadband Network, FCC policies  
> and programs related to the National Broadband Plan, public safety  
> voice communications, including Southwest border issues, national  
> cybersecurity efforts; and other public safety and homeland security  
> issues.
>
> WHEN:           Monday, November 15, 2010
>                         10:00 a.m. ? 11:00 a.m.
>
> WHERE:         Albuquerque City Hall
>                         Grand Central Conference Room, Second Floor
>                         1 Civic Plaza (4th and Marquette)
> Albuquerque, New Mexico
>
> NOTE:            Reporters who plan to attend should contact Deborah  
> Martinez via email:deborah.martinez at state.nm.us.  Reporters should  
> also plan on arriving 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the  
> forum with a photo ID for security purposes.
>
>
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P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
505-989-9110 off.; 505-603-5200 cell
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From tom at jtjohnson.com  Mon Nov 22 02:51:08 2010
From: tom at jtjohnson.com (Tom Johnson)
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:51:08 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] =?iso-8859-1?q?The_Rich_Get_Richer=3A_Verizon_Ups_F?=
	=?iso-8859-1?q?iOS_to_150_Mbps=3A_Tech_News_=AB?=
Message-ID: <AANLkTin+eL-8=hAnQ58SRX2b2kKX27p1y93T_Jq9ezF9@mail.gmail.com>

And New Mexico falls farther behind?

http://gigaom.com/2010/11/21/the-rich-get-richer-verizon-ups-fios-to-150-mbps/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OmMalik+%28GigaOM%3A+Tech%29

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From lowenberg at designnine.com  Mon Nov 22 08:52:47 2010
From: lowenberg at designnine.com (Richard Lowenberg)
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:52:47 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Funding Opportunity: Knight News Challenge
References: <0C4BAE332C0E4D19A4269558F6C905C8@userPC>
Message-ID: <73D9E8A6-9BCC-4FEC-9F81-658DB3251900@designnine.com>

Of possible interest to some subscribers.
Rapidly approaching application deadline.    RL


> The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is running a grant  
> competition
> called the Knight News Challenge, which awards up to $5 million for
> innovative projects that use digital technology to transform the way
> communities send, receive and make use of news and information.
>
> More info here: http://newschallenge.org. The site includes  
> application
> information, as well as details about past winners.
>
> This year's application deadline is December 1. The News Challenge is
> looking for applications in four categories: mobile, authenticity,
> sustainability and community.  All projects must make use of digital
> technology to distribute news in the public interest.
>
> To apply, submit a brief pitch to http://newschallenge.org. If the  
> reviewers
> like it, you'll be asked to submit a full proposal.
>
> If you have questions you can a) reference the FAQ:
> http://www.newschallenge.org/frequently-asked-questions


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P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
505-989-9110 off.; 505-603-5200 cell
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From john at citylinkfiber.com  Fri Dec  3 23:47:21 2010
From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown)
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 00:47:21 -0700
Subject: [1st-mile-nm] What we should have in NM
Message-ID: <F70BCC55F4F2F14888D450E441159C241F5ACA@deathstar2.citylinkfiber.intra>

 

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