[1st-mile-nm] Internet Center Opens in Cerrillos

[Steven Grabiel]

Yeah Agave used the Communinty Connect dollar to provide an area that already had Internet in Manzano, by my company...Higherspeed Internet.  The Community Connect money is for places with NO broadband Internet.  They are utilizing these funds to expand there coverage to areas in the East Mountains where there are now 6 providers of broadband. Funny thing is they announce that their community center will be open 40 hours per week.  Well the Manzano Facility has been operational for a few months now and they are not running it 40 hours per week, due to budgetary issues they claim.


I thought that Cerrillos had Broadband from the La Canada Wireless Cooperative  

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From: "Bob Knight" <bob at bobknight.net>

Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 8:57 PM

To: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org

Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Internet Center Opens in Cerrillos


Me, too. LCWA did Cerrillos in 2003-4 for well under $1K. Still does,
AAMOF. $30 per month per household.
Bob
On 09/25/2011 12:55 PM, Michael Odza wrote:
> I like the arithmetic: half a million per village. Anyone know what the
> populations of Cerrillos and Manzano are?
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> Michael
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> On 9/25/2011 11:05 AM, Richard Lowenberg wrote:
>>    Internet Center Opens in Cerrillos
>>
>>    www.santafenewmexican.com/Local
>>    News/Local-news-in-brief--Sept--25--2011
>>
>>    Federal officials on Friday helped dedicate a community space in the
>>    village of Cerrillos intended to make broadband Internet access
>>    available to residents.   The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural
>>    Development Agency said $550,950 was given to Agave Broadband to provide
>>    the (wireless) service to the community south of Santa Fe.    The
>>    department's Community Connect Program funded renovation of an old home
>>    that Agave converted into the Cerrillos Internet Community Center.  The
>>    center is equipped with 10 computer work stations and printers and will
>>    be staffed 40 hours a week, an announcement said.   Free computer
>>    training and broadband Internet access will be available to residents
>>    for the next two years, the agency said.
>>
>>    USDA Rural Development State Director Terry Brunner said in a news
>>    release that the project "opens the door to new opportunities and
>>    economic growth to students, senior citizens, small business owners and
>>    others that will use these services to access all that the Internet has
>>    to offer."
>>
>>    ------
>>
>>    Agavue was also awarded an equal amount ($550,950) in '09 Rural
>>    Utilities Service funds to provide wireless broadband services to the
>>    community of Manzano, New Mexico. A new community center is to be built,
>>    where free broadband Internet access will be offered to local residents
>>    for two years. The center will also serve as the town hall and emergency
>>    services facility.
>>
>>
>>
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