From rl at 1st-mile.com Tue Jan 8 10:54:45 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:54:45 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Satellite Broadband Services + FCC Healthcare Connect Fund: links Message-ID: Here?s a news update on current satellite broadband services and capabilities, which are a key option for some in the otherwise un-served/under-served rural and tribal areas of NM and elsewhere. http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01/satellite-internet-15mbps-no-matter-where-you-live-in-the-us/ ------ Also, the FCC has announced that up to $400 million in annual funding will be made available to healthcare providers as part of the FCC?s new Healthcare Connect Fund. Beginning in 2013, the FCC?s new Healthcare Connect Fund will spur the development of broadband networks to support modern telemedicine, which will link urban medical centers to rural clinics or provide instant access to health records. The Fund, which expands the Commission's health care broadband initiative from pilot to program, will allow thousands of new providers across the country to share in the benefits of connectivity and dramatically cut costs for both hospitals and the Universal Service Fund. These transformational changes build on major FCC reforms across the universal service system. The FCC will begin accepting applications for the Healthcare Connect Fund beginning in late summer of 2013. http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2013/db0107/DOC-318275A1.pdf ----------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Sun Jan 13 14:15:58 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:15:58 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Baller Herbst List: RIP Aaron Schwartz Message-ID: <8330ae811762d09378b93a059b6e1345@dcn.org> From Jim Baller: As you may have heard, Aaron Schwartz, 26, committed suicide on January 11, exactly two years from the date on which he was arrested for allegedly downloading, with intent to distribute without charge, PDF copies of thousands of academic papers from the digital library JSTOR. Tributes to Aaron are appearing across the world, and many prominent thought leaders are condemning the overzealous prosecution of Aaron?s actions as a crime, particularly one carrying a potential prison term of up to 35 years. See, e.g., Larry Lessig, Cory Doctorow, Doc Searls, Alex Stamos (expert witness), etc. I did nott know Aaron well, but I?d like to share an experience with him that had a profound impact on me. Several years ago, I had the honor of participating in a 3?day retreat with some of the most accomplished leaders in the communications field around the world. Aaron was one of the participants. Just 19 at the time, he had already made tremendous contributions to the Internet. Among other things, when he was 14 years old, he had co?written the specification for RSS. During the first two days of retreat, we discussed the strengths and weaknesses of communications systems in the US and elsewhere, and we mused about what we might have done better if we had started the previous decade with the knowledge that we had now come to have. On the last morning, each of us had 30 seconds to summarize our main impressions. Aaron had not said much during the first two days, so the rest of us were particularly eager to hear what he would say. When Aaron?s turn arrived, he said that his main takeaway was surprise to have learned that the United States might not necessarily develop the advanced communications infrastructure necessary to support the applications that he and his colleagues were busily writing. He and they had simply assumed, apparently incorrectly, that they and users of their applications would always have open and affordable access to all the bandwidth that they might need. As Dr. Benjamin Spock once said, ?Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.? As Aaron?s words vividly reinforced for me, we Americans have a duty to do all that we can to provide our young people the tools they need to be innovative, productive, and successful in the increasingly competitive global economy. Since that day, in my work products, speeches, and other presentations, I have often shared Aaron?s insights, and his words have always resonated with my audiences. Let?s honor Aaron?s passing by doing whatever it takes to ensure that all Americans have ready access to as many world-class communications networks as possible as rapidly as possible. Rest in peace, Adam. Jim Baller Baller Herbst Law Group, PC 2014 P Street, NW Suite 200 Washington, DC 20036 (202) 833-1144 www.Baller.com --------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com --------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Sat Jan 19 14:37:54 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:37:54 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] USTelecom Blog: New FCC Data Support USTelecom Non-Dominance Petition Message-ID: <45b42045560700bfcd791c89dd5f8fe1@dcn.org> From another list: The Federal Communications Commission?s newly released report on local phone competition lends credence to USTelecom?s recent petition asking the FCC to declare incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) non-dominant in providing switched access services. The petition argues that a relatively small, and rapidly declining, portion of customers use ILEC voice services over the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Driving the shift away from the PSTN are customers going wireless-only or switching to interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, mostly from cable operators but also, to a small degree, from over-the-top providers (e.g., Vonage) and ILECs? own VoIP offerings. In the petition, we estimated that less than 40 percent of U.S. households used switched PSTN voice service at the end of 2011 and we projected that figure would fall to less than one-third of households by the end of 2012. Link to complete blog-- http://www.ustelecom.org/blog/new-fcc-data-support-ustelecom-non-dominance-petition USTelecom is largely representative if ILECs, including a number serving New Mexico. -------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com -------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Mon Jan 21 16:13:07 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:13:07 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FCC unveils plan for nationwide access to gigabit Internet Message-ID: FCC unveils plan for nationwide access to gigabit Internet http://www.cio.com/article/727054/FCC_Chief_Calls_for_Gigabit_Internet_in_All_50_States_By_2015 The head of the Federal Communications Commission told a gathering of the nation's mayors on Friday that the agency would help expand "ultra-high-speed" Internet access to all 50 states over the next two years. Chairman Julius Genachowski said the FCC's Gigabit City Challenge will rely on an online clearinghouse to solicit input from providers, and at least one municipality in each state should have access to gigabit Internet speeds by 2015. ---------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com ---------------------------------- From david at breeckerassociates.com Mon Jan 21 17:22:22 2013 From: david at breeckerassociates.com (David Breecker (dba)) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:22:22 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Comcast Internet Essentials Brings Access to Low-Income Homes - NYTimes.com Message-ID: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/business/media/comcast-internet-essentials-brings-access-to-low-income-homes.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130121&_r=0 dba | David Breecker Associates, Inc. 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A more sobering analysis is here from Karl Bode: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-1-Gbps-Challenge-Just-Another-Hollow-FCC-Promise-122820 And my take: http://muninetworks.org/content/taking-advantage-chairman-genachowskis-gigabit-challenge The good news: the FCC is increasingly on record as recognizing DSL, and to some extent even cable, is not meeting the needs of communities. Christopher Mitchell Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative Institute for Local Self-Reliance http://www.muninetworks.org @communitynets 612-276-3456 x209 On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > FCC unveils plan for nationwide access to gigabit Internet > > > http://www.cio.com/article/727054/FCC_Chief_Calls_for_Gigabit_Internet_in_All_50_States_By_2015 > > The head of the Federal Communications Commission told a gathering of > the nation's mayors on Friday that the agency would help expand > "ultra-high-speed" Internet access to all 50 states over the next two > years. 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URL: From granoff at zianet.com Thu Jan 24 07:51:48 2013 From: granoff at zianet.com (Marianne Granoff) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:51:48 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete" Message-ID: <20130124155203.84D472112171@bikepath.dcn.davis.ca.us> AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete" Two months ago, AT&T petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to plan for the retirement of traditional phone networks. The petition is available at http://www.att.com/Common/about_us/files/pdf/fcc_filing.pdf. "This telephone network we've grown up with is now an obsolete platform, or at least a rapidly obsolescing platform," Hank Hultquist, VP of AT&T's federal regulatory division, said. "It will not be sustainable for the indefinite future. Nobody's making this network technology anymore. It's become more and more difficult to find spare parts for it. And it's becoming more and more difficult to find trained technicians and engineers to work on it." "Voice is the most efficient way to communicate," he said. "We have had the same voice service for 80 years. The voice quality you get when you make a call on the iPhone today is the same voice quality Bell Laboratories thought you should have in 1933. Shift forward 80 years, we're still using the same frequency response, 300 to 3300Hz." You can read more in the ars technica web site at http://goo.gl/Mlnqm. Marianne Granoff Albuquerque, NM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbadal at sacred-wind.com Thu Jan 24 08:22:11 2013 From: jbadal at sacred-wind.com (John Badal) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:22:11 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete" In-Reply-To: <20130124155203.84D472112171@bikepath.dcn.davis.ca.us> References: <20130124155203.84D472112171@bikepath.dcn.davis.ca.us> Message-ID: With broadband now driving the train, I agree to a point. By the way, do you know that the only telcos in the state of NM that are totally IP ready are Sacred Wind Communications and the Mescalero Telecom Company? We both use hybrid TDM/IP switches and broadband loop carrier cabinets that are in fact fully IP ready. A few of our techs are IT guys, no longer the tip and ring knuckle draggers. John From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Marianne Granoff Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:52 AM To: nmisp at nmisp.net; 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete" AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete" Two months ago, AT&T petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to plan for the retirement of traditional phone networks. The petition is available at http://www.att.com/Common/about_us/files/pdf/fcc_filing.pdf. "This telephone network we've grown up with is now an obsolete platform, or at least a rapidly obsolescing platform," Hank Hultquist, VP of AT&T's federal regulatory division, said. "It will not be sustainable for the indefinite future. Nobody's making this network technology anymore. It's become more and more difficult to find spare parts for it. And it's becoming more and more difficult to find trained technicians and engineers to work on it." "Voice is the most efficient way to communicate," he said. "We have had the same voice service for 80 years. The voice quality you get when you make a call on the iPhone today is the same voice quality Bell Laboratories thought you should have in 1933. Shift forward 80 years, we're still using the same frequency response, 300 to 3300Hz." You can read more in the ars technica web site at http://goo.gl/Mlnqm. Marianne Granoff Albuquerque, NM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john at citylinkfiber.com Thu Jan 24 08:51:08 2013 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:51:08 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete" In-Reply-To: References: <20130124155203.84D472112171@bikepath.dcn.davis.ca.us> Message-ID: Hi John, Here in ABQ, CityLink Telecom is not only a pure IP voice provider but also a pure fiber provider. I believe the only in the state. And we have IPv6 in production with end user clients. > -----Original Message----- > From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm- > bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of John Badal > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:22 AM > To: Marianne Granoff; nmisp at nmisp.net; 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete" > > With broadband now driving the train, I agree to a point. By the way, do you > know that the only telcos in the state of NM that are totally IP ready are > Sacred Wind Communications and the Mescalero Telecom Company? We > both use hybrid TDM/IP switches and broadband loop carrier cabinets that > are in fact fully IP ready. A few of our techs are IT guys, no longer the tip and > ring knuckle draggers. > > > > John > > > > From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm- > bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Marianne Granoff > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:52 AM > To: nmisp at nmisp.net; 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete" > > > > > > AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete" > > > Two months ago, AT&T petitioned the Federal Communications Commission > to plan for the retirement of traditional phone networks. The petition is > available at http://www.att.com/Common/about_us/files/pdf/fcc_filing.pdf. > > "This telephone network we've grown up with is now an obsolete platform, > or at least a rapidly obsolescing platform," Hank Hultquist, VP of AT&T's > federal regulatory division, said. "It will not be sustainable for the indefinite > future. Nobody's making this network technology anymore. It's become > more and more difficult to find spare parts for it. And it's becoming more and > more difficult to find trained technicians and engineers to work on it." > > "Voice is the most efficient way to communicate," he said. "We have had the > same voice service for 80 years. The voice quality you get when you make a > call on the iPhone today is the same voice quality Bell Laboratories thought > you should have in 1933. Shift forward 80 years, we're still using the same > frequency response, 300 to 3300Hz." > > You can read more in the ars technica web site at http://goo.gl/Mlnqm. > > Marianne Granoff > Albuquerque, NM From jmonday at fasttrackcomm.net Thu Jan 24 10:00:11 2013 From: jmonday at fasttrackcomm.net (John Monday) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:00:11 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete" In-Reply-To: References: <20130124155203.84D472112171@bikepath.dcn.davis.ca.us> Message-ID: <9FFA8B2148100D40969011DAEEB56FD0017BE3C96948@server.fasttrackcomm.local> To add to the list of providers - FastTrack Communications is a registered ClEC in New Mexico with our own fiber backbone to include a local fiber presence in Farmington. Our fiber backbone reaches into in Albuquerque and Aztec, while also extending into Colorado. We provide a full array of voice, internet and transport services to our business, service provider, government and school customers. Our only limitation is we do not provide residential services and have no plans to. We have been IPV6 ready for over 2 years. John John Monday Director of Network Engineering and Operations FastTrack Communications jmonday at fasttrackcomm.net Office: 970.828.1006 Cell: 970.799.4713 Fax: 970.247.2426 -----Original Message----- From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of John Brown Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:51 AM To: John Badal; Marianne Granoff; nmisp at nmisp.net; 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete" Hi John, Here in ABQ, CityLink Telecom is not only a pure IP voice provider but also a pure fiber provider. I believe the only in the state. And we have IPv6 in production with end user clients. > -----Original Message----- > From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm- > bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of John Badal > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:22 AM > To: Marianne Granoff; nmisp at nmisp.net; 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete" > > With broadband now driving the train, I agree to a point. By the way, > do you know that the only telcos in the state of NM that are totally > IP ready are Sacred Wind Communications and the Mescalero Telecom > Company? We both use hybrid TDM/IP switches and broadband loop > carrier cabinets that are in fact fully IP ready. A few of our techs > are IT guys, no longer the tip and ring knuckle draggers. > > > > John > > > > From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm- > bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Marianne Granoff > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:52 AM > To: nmisp at nmisp.net; 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete" > > > > > > AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete" > > > Two months ago, AT&T petitioned the Federal Communications Commission > to plan for the retirement of traditional phone networks. The petition > is available at http://www.att.com/Common/about_us/files/pdf/fcc_filing.pdf. > > "This telephone network we've grown up with is now an obsolete > platform, or at least a rapidly obsolescing platform," Hank Hultquist, > VP of AT&T's federal regulatory division, said. "It will not be > sustainable for the indefinite future. Nobody's making this network > technology anymore. It's become more and more difficult to find spare > parts for it. And it's becoming more and more difficult to find trained technicians and engineers to work on it." > > "Voice is the most efficient way to communicate," he said. "We have > had the same voice service for 80 years. The voice quality you get > when you make a call on the iPhone today is the same voice quality > Bell Laboratories thought you should have in 1933. Shift forward 80 > years, we're still using the same frequency response, 300 to 3300Hz." > > You can read more in the ars technica web site at http://goo.gl/Mlnqm. > > Marianne Granoff > Albuquerque, NM _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm From owen at backspaces.net Thu Jan 24 10:12:05 2013 From: owen at backspaces.net (Owen Densmore) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:12:05 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete" In-Reply-To: <20130124155203.84D472112171@bikepath.dcn.davis.ca.us> References: <20130124155203.84D472112171@bikepath.dcn.davis.ca.us> Message-ID: That's certainly good news. Maybe we might revert to an incremental mode where whenever upgrades to the phone system, we consider more creative approaches than simply fixing the wire. I'm reading Gleick's Information and its more than just Shannon's theory. Its a cultural history starting with talking drums, to development of alphabets, to telegraphy .. each of which created the same buzz in their times as bits do to ours. A key is understanding "replacement" .. rather than "revolution". -- Owen On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Marianne Granoff wrote: > * > AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete"*Two months ago, AT&T > petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to plan for the retirement > of traditional phone networks. The petition is available at > http://www.att.com/Common/about_us/files/pdf/fcc_filing.pdf. > > "This telephone network we've grown up with is now an obsolete platform, > or at least a rapidly obsolescing platform," Hank Hultquist, VP of AT&T's > federal regulatory division, said. "It will not be sustainable for the > indefinite future. Nobody's making this network technology anymore. It's > become more and more difficult to find spare parts for it. And it's > becoming more and more difficult to find trained technicians and engineers > to work on it." > > "Voice is the most efficient way to communicate," he said. "We have had > the same voice service for 80 years. The voice quality you get when you > make a call on the iPhone today is the same voice quality Bell Laboratories > thought you should have in 1933. Shift forward 80 years, we're still using > the same frequency response, 300 to 3300Hz." > > You can read more in the *ars technica* web site at http://goo.gl/Mlnqm. > > Marianne Granoff > Albuquerque, NM > > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We currently have no arrangements with a public entity except for some co-locations within our easements. Thank You, Martin Callahan Computer Specialist Village of Los Lunas, NM Information Technology Office (505) 352-7677 Desk (505) 363-8357 Cell From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Mitchell Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 7:17 PM To: 1st-Mile-NM Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Munis Offering Dark Fiber? Does anyone know of Munis that are offering dark fiber leases or arrangements to non public entities in the area? Thanks Christopher Mitchell Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative Institute for Local Self-Reliance http://www.muninetworks.org @communitynets 612-276-3456 x209 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl at 1st-mile.com Mon Jan 28 12:50:27 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:50:27 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FTTH Community Toolkit Message-ID: <501bf27acea0cf746ba8b8eac6bb5578@dcn.org> FTTH Community Toolkit ?The Fiber to the Home Council Americas has launched its Online Community Toolkit, which is aimed at community and business leaders looking to secure their economic future through ultra high-speed Internet connectivity by upgrading local networks to all-fiber.? http://ftthcouncil.org/communitytoolkit ---------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com ---------------------------------- From john at citylinkfiber.com Tue Jan 29 18:52:01 2013 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:52:01 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] ABQ Affordable Housing Apartments get Gigabit Internet Message-ID: Sneak peek, Tonight we turned up Gig services at a 120+ affordable housing apartment complex in downtown ABQ. http://www.speedtest.net/result/2472277506.png Here is a typical "other guy" speed in the complex http://www.speedtest.net/result/2472282052.png Pricing will generally be: All ports are symmetrical (same upload as download) Everyone gets a public IP address. 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I have a small apartment in Manhattan and I have a choice! So does Crawford, I suspect. But the biggest problem is with the content providers, not the broadband providers. Thanks to predatory practices among the content providers there is almost no profit in video -- but they have to provide it. SOMEONE has to pay for building the network, and that someone is the consumer of pure Internet broadband. The providers need to get $20-30 profit per month per subscriber to pay for the network, and they only get $5-10 from video, zero from voice. BTW, data we're publishing this month shows that fiber customers pay the highest monthly fee for pure broadband access but they pay the least per Mbps. My magazine (www.bbcmag.com) calls for anyone to be able to build networks and we have editorialized for public broadband. But between higher content costs and less population density, and oddities in pricing (Europeans pay low phone bills but pay $500+ for the phone!) most of what Crawford is complaining about is not caused by the companies she faults. In this interview, she comes across as either an idiot or a liar. She's better than that. On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: > http://vimeo.com/59236702 > > Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair > > -tj > > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > > -- Steve Ross Corporate Editor, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com) 201-456-5933 mobile, 781-284-8810 landline 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) editorsteve1 (Twitter) editorsteve at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ggomes at soundviewnet.com Tue Feb 12 05:08:25 2013 From: ggomes at soundviewnet.com (Gary Gomes) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 06:08:25 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair on Vimeo In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <008401ce0922$0bb36f90$231a4eb0$@com> Steve, I read your magazine and appreciate your efforts in promoting broadband and recognize that video content providers are a huge problem, but I hope that you do not mean to suggest that two suppliers equals effective competition. There are countless studies that document the fact that oligopolists act just like monopolists - even absent overt collusion. It is just the nature of the beast. The problem in the US is that we have virtually unregulated monopoly/duopoly for-profit companies running a public utility service (cable and fiber plant), another oligopoly running the content creation (networks origin) as well as over-the-air waves, and a third duopoly running cellular. Is it any wonder they do not compete on price? Do you really believe that cost of the subsidized phones is the reason for the high US cellular rates? The numbers suggest otherwise. The fact is that unfettered market competition does not work for the consumer (in the long term) in the absence of a large number of potential providers. Gary From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Steve Ross Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 10:20 PM To: Tom Johnson Cc: Friam at redfish. com; 1st-Mile-NM Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair on Vimeo I'm a reluctant fan of Crawford and Moyers, but her book and this interview miss the mark. There are major inaccuracies in the interview itself. For instance, Crawford says Manhattan suffers from a Time Warner Cable monopoly, although Verizon is bringing FiOS to every household in NYC. I have a small apartment in Manhattan and I have a choice! So does Crawford, I suspect. But the biggest problem is with the content providers, not the broadband providers. Thanks to predatory practices among the content providers there is almost no profit in video -- but they have to provide it. SOMEONE has to pay for building the network, and that someone is the consumer of pure Internet broadband. The providers need to get $20-30 profit per month per subscriber to pay for the network, and they only get $5-10 from video, zero from voice. BTW, data we're publishing this month shows that fiber customers pay the highest monthly fee for pure broadband access but they pay the least per Mbps. My magazine (www.bbcmag.com) calls for anyone to be able to build networks and we have editorialized for public broadband. But between higher content costs and less population density, and oddities in pricing (Europeans pay low phone bills but pay $500+ for the phone!) most of what Crawford is complaining about is not caused by the companies she faults. In this interview, she comes across as either an idiot or a liar. She's better than that. On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: http://vimeo.com/59236702 Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair -tj _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm -- Steve Ross Corporate Editor, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com) 201-456-5933 mobile, 781-284-8810 landline 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) editorsteve1 (Twitter) editorsteve at gmail.com _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2897 / Virus Database: 2639/6098 - Release Date: 02/11/13 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From editorsteve at gmail.com Tue Feb 12 05:42:40 2013 From: editorsteve at gmail.com (Steve Ross) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:42:40 -0500 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair on Vimeo In-Reply-To: <008401ce0922$0bb36f90$231a4eb0$@com> References: <008401ce0922$0bb36f90$231a4eb0$@com> Message-ID: High prices come about for two reasons: The real costs of providing service and of course monopolistic rents. As much as I have railed against USA pricing practices, most of the price really has to be due to costs, not monopolistic practices, as far as landlines are concerned. Mobile is more complicated -- Wall Street has provided a lot of money for mobile expansion but has extracted a high rent of its own. Just look at how telecom/cable stocks have trended -- middle-of-pack for past decade. 1. Two suppliers are not effective competition, but Crawford says there is only one in Manhattan. That is a lie. She says TWC monthly bill is $200. That would mean for someone getting the most expensive video tiers. 2. Sorry, cost of good cell phone to carriers has been $500-600 and when they charge $100 the balance must be built into the price over the next two years. I have a "no contract" unlimited-everything 2-line family plan with T-Mobile for $99. I just bought my wife a Galaxy SIII unlocked for $550. That's the way it works. Crawford claims cell costs in Europe are $30 a month. They are not that low and there are a lot of hidden fees and roaming charges as well. They are lower than in the US, but totally explained by phone subsidies, really. Apple is the monopolist. 3. Content providers (there are seven major networks, not the four Crawford claims) are also the monopolists.That's where your fees mainly go. I have argued that the duopoly's pricing power allows the pass-through of content costs, but that pricing power has clearly been declining. The content providers "bundle" their services. You want ESPN 1 and 2? Sorry, you have to carry the other 9 ESPN channels as well! But as with audio, the bundling will eventually collapse. The American Cable association (seemingly a monopolist tool) wants FCC to allow a la carte content over the top (on internet broadband). Doesn't sound monopolistic to me. 4. On phones, there is not a duopoly -- plenty of low-cost carriers in the business but not in rural areas. Ugh. Mobile providers also want to cut their costs by pushing you onto your own wifi and not compensating the landline provider -- unless of course they ARE the landline provider. 5. I carefully model fiber network building and operating costs, and the models are downloadable, free, at www.bbcmag.com or the quick link, www.FTTHAnalyzer.com. Basically, if a network provider can make a gross profit (before overhead) of $50 per customer per month, it can get by with 8 customers a mile. That typically means 12-16 homes per mile. Any change in this picture requires government subsidy (which I and Crawford support, but which is a pipe dream these days) or much lower interest rates (tier 3 LECs these days are paying 10%... ugh). 6. Because of lack of access to reasonably priced capital, hardly any new networks are being built right now. Our advertising base has been cut in half as vendors collapse into one another. I always teach my journalism students to "follow the money." The money goes to handset suppliers and content providers, not to network providers. 7. Qwest/CenturyLink is indeed screwing folks out west, but they are also low on cash. A better business model for them would be to partner with munis, to tap assets that munis can mortgage for cheap capital. That's where I would fault them. Steve On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Gary Gomes wrote: > Steve,**** > > ** ** > > I read your magazine and appreciate your efforts in promoting broadband > and recognize that video content providers are a huge problem, but I hope > that you do not mean to suggest that two suppliers equals effective > competition.**** > > ** ** > > There are countless studies that document the fact that oligopolists act > just like monopolists ? even absent overt collusion. It is just the > nature of the beast.**** > > ** ** > > The problem in the US is that we have virtually unregulated > monopoly/duopoly for-profit companies running a public utility service > (cable and fiber plant), another oligopoly running the content creation > (networks origin) as well as over-the-air waves, and a third duopoly > running cellular. Is it any wonder they do not compete on price?**** > > ** ** > > Do you really believe that cost of the subsidized phones is the reason for > the high US cellular rates? The numbers suggest otherwise.**** > > ** ** > > The fact is that unfettered market competition does not work for the > consumer (in the long term) in the absence of a large number of potential > providers.**** > > ** ** > > Gary**** > > ** ** > > *From:* 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto: > 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] *On Behalf Of *Steve Ross > *Sent:* Monday, February 11, 2013 10:20 PM > *To:* Tom Johnson > *Cc:* Friam at redfish. com; 1st-Mile-NM > *Subject:* Re: [1st-mile-nm] Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access > is Slow, Costly, and Unfair on Vimeo**** > > ** ** > > I'm a reluctant fan of Crawford and Moyers, but her book and this > interview miss the mark. There are major inaccuracies in the interview > itself. For instance, Crawford says Manhattan suffers from a Time Warner > Cable monopoly, although Verizon is bringing FiOS to every household in > NYC. I have a small apartment in Manhattan and I have a choice! So does > Crawford, I suspect.**** > > ** ** > > But the biggest problem is with the content providers, not the broadband > providers. Thanks to predatory practices among the content providers there > is almost no profit in video -- but they have to provide it. SOMEONE has to > pay for building the network, and that someone is the consumer of pure > Internet broadband. The providers need to get $20-30 profit per month per > subscriber to pay for the network, and they only get $5-10 from video, zero > from voice.**** > > ** ** > > BTW, data we're publishing this month shows that fiber customers pay the > highest monthly fee for pure broadband access but they pay the least per > Mbps.**** > > ** ** > > My magazine (www.bbcmag.com) calls for anyone to be able to build > networks and we have editorialized for public broadband. But between higher > content costs and less population density, and oddities in pricing > (Europeans pay low phone bills but pay $500+ for the phone!) most of what > Crawford is complaining about is not caused by the companies she faults. In > this interview, she comes across as either an idiot or a liar. She's better > than that.**** > > ** ** > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:** > ** > > http://vimeo.com/59236702 > > Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair > > -tj > > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm**** > > > > **** > > ** ** > > -- > Steve Ross**** > > Corporate Editor, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com) > 201-456-5933 mobile, 781-284-8810 landline > 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice > editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) > editorsteve1 (Twitter) > editorsteve at gmail.com**** > ------------------------------ > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.2897 / Virus Database: 2639/6098 - Release Date: 02/11/13* > *** > -- Steve Ross Corporate Editor, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com) 201-456-5933 mobile, 781-284-8810 landline 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) editorsteve1 (Twitter) editorsteve at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From christopher at newrules.org Tue Feb 12 06:08:11 2013 From: christopher at newrules.org (Christopher Mitchell) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:08:11 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair on Vimeo In-Reply-To: References: <008401ce0922$0bb36f90$231a4eb0$@com> Message-ID: It saddens me to see Steve fall into the trap that so many seem to be falling into these days - suggesting that the cable companies and the content providers are separate entities. It is a very gray area. We all know that Comcast owns many channels now through NBCU and many other cable operators have ownersship stakes in the channels they carry (that are supposedly gouging them). I guess ABC/ESPN/Disney is the exception, but to suggest that the cable companies are getting raked by the content companies ignores a complicity that benefits them and restricts competition. Susan has a good focus on this in her book, particularly the role of sports networks in protecting monopoly. I don't live in Manhattan, but from what I have seen, FiOS is far from widely available yet. It will be eventually, but I think there are some years yet left in the expansion there. Susan likes to learn from mistakes, so I hope Steve will point this out to her - I doubt we'll hear her say it again if she is presented with evidence that she is wrong. As for the mobile market, I again think Steve is too charitable to the phone companies -- I can buy my own handset but I don't get a break on the bill from Verizon... I pay the same damn cost on my phone that is 3 years old as I would a new one - that is Verizon's choice and they have made a sound one when it comes to extracting the most cash from me. Sure, I could go to a small competitor that has crap coverage (I travel frequently enough to rural enough spots that it is impractical) but like the vast majority of Americans, I find my only real options are Verizon and AT&T for wireless. As for following the money - who wants to loan capital to anyone that is going to compete on a playing field so dominated by Comcast/Verizon/et al? One has to be somewhat crazy, because private sector competition has no future in these United States. Christopher Mitchell Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative Institute for Local Self-Reliance http://www.muninetworks.org @communitynets 612-276-3456 x209 On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Steve Ross wrote: > High prices come about for two reasons: The real costs of providing > service and of course monopolistic rents. As much as I have railed against > USA pricing practices, most of the price really has to be due to costs, not > monopolistic practices, as far as landlines are concerned. Mobile is more > complicated -- Wall Street has provided a lot of money for mobile expansion > but has extracted a high rent of its own. Just look at how telecom/cable > stocks have trended -- middle-of-pack for past decade. > > 1. Two suppliers are not effective competition, but Crawford says there is > only one in Manhattan. That is a lie. She says TWC monthly bill is $200. > That would mean for someone getting the most expensive video tiers. > > 2. Sorry, cost of good cell phone to carriers has been $500-600 and when > they charge $100 the balance must be built into the price over the next two > years. I have a "no contract" unlimited-everything 2-line family plan with > T-Mobile for $99. I just bought my wife a Galaxy SIII unlocked for $550. > That's the way it works. Crawford claims cell costs in Europe are $30 a > month. They are not that low and there are a lot of hidden fees and roaming > charges as well. They are lower than in the US, but totally explained by > phone subsidies, really. Apple is the monopolist. > > 3. Content providers (there are seven major networks, not the four > Crawford claims) are also the monopolists.That's where your fees mainly go. > I have argued that the duopoly's pricing power allows the pass-through of > content costs, but that pricing power has clearly been declining. The > content providers "bundle" their services. You want ESPN 1 and 2? Sorry, > you have to carry the other 9 ESPN channels as well! But as with audio, the > bundling will eventually collapse. The American Cable association > (seemingly a monopolist tool) wants FCC to allow a la carte content over > the top (on internet broadband). Doesn't sound monopolistic to me. > > 4. On phones, there is not a duopoly -- plenty of low-cost carriers in the > business but not in rural areas. Ugh. Mobile providers also want to cut > their costs by pushing you onto your own wifi and not compensating the > landline provider -- unless of course they ARE the landline provider. > > 5. I carefully model fiber network building and operating costs, and the > models are downloadable, free, at www.bbcmag.com or the quick link, > www.FTTHAnalyzer.com. Basically, if a network provider can make a gross > profit (before overhead) of $50 per customer per month, it can get by with > 8 customers a mile. That typically means 12-16 homes per mile. Any change > in this picture requires government subsidy (which I and Crawford support, > but which is a pipe dream these days) or much lower interest rates (tier 3 > LECs these days are paying 10%... ugh). > > 6. Because of lack of access to reasonably priced capital, hardly any new > networks are being built right now. Our advertising base has been cut in > half as vendors collapse into one another. I always teach my journalism > students to "follow the money." The money goes to handset suppliers and > content providers, not to network providers. > > 7. Qwest/CenturyLink is indeed screwing folks out west, but they are also > low on cash. A better business model for them would be to partner with > munis, to tap assets that munis can mortgage for cheap capital. That's > where I would fault them. > > Steve > > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Gary Gomes wrote: > >> Steve,**** >> >> ** ** >> >> I read your magazine and appreciate your efforts in promoting broadband >> and recognize that video content providers are a huge problem, but I hope >> that you do not mean to suggest that two suppliers equals effective >> competition.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> There are countless studies that document the fact that oligopolists act >> just like monopolists ? even absent overt collusion. It is just the >> nature of the beast.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> The problem in the US is that we have virtually unregulated >> monopoly/duopoly for-profit companies running a public utility service >> (cable and fiber plant), another oligopoly running the content creation >> (networks origin) as well as over-the-air waves, and a third duopoly >> running cellular. Is it any wonder they do not compete on price?**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Do you really believe that cost of the subsidized phones is the reason >> for the high US cellular rates? The numbers suggest otherwise.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> The fact is that unfettered market competition does not work for the >> consumer (in the long term) in the absence of a large number of potential >> providers.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Gary**** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto: >> 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] *On Behalf Of *Steve Ross >> *Sent:* Monday, February 11, 2013 10:20 PM >> *To:* Tom Johnson >> *Cc:* Friam at redfish. com; 1st-Mile-NM >> *Subject:* Re: [1st-mile-nm] Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access >> is Slow, Costly, and Unfair on Vimeo**** >> >> ** ** >> >> I'm a reluctant fan of Crawford and Moyers, but her book and this >> interview miss the mark. There are major inaccuracies in the interview >> itself. For instance, Crawford says Manhattan suffers from a Time Warner >> Cable monopoly, although Verizon is bringing FiOS to every household in >> NYC. I have a small apartment in Manhattan and I have a choice! So does >> Crawford, I suspect.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> But the biggest problem is with the content providers, not the broadband >> providers. Thanks to predatory practices among the content providers there >> is almost no profit in video -- but they have to provide it. SOMEONE has to >> pay for building the network, and that someone is the consumer of pure >> Internet broadband. The providers need to get $20-30 profit per month per >> subscriber to pay for the network, and they only get $5-10 from video, zero >> from voice.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> BTW, data we're publishing this month shows that fiber customers pay the >> highest monthly fee for pure broadband access but they pay the least per >> Mbps.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> My magazine (www.bbcmag.com) calls for anyone to be able to build >> networks and we have editorialized for public broadband. But between higher >> content costs and less population density, and oddities in pricing >> (Europeans pay low phone bills but pay $500+ for the phone!) most of what >> Crawford is complaining about is not caused by the companies she faults. In >> this interview, she comes across as either an idiot or a liar. She's better >> than that.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:* >> *** >> >> http://vimeo.com/59236702 >> >> Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair >> >> -tj >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 1st-mile-nm mailing list >> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org >> http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm**** >> >> >> >> **** >> >> ** ** >> >> -- >> Steve Ross**** >> >> Corporate Editor, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com) >> 201-456-5933 mobile, 781-284-8810 landline >> 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice >> editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) >> editorsteve1 (Twitter) >> editorsteve at gmail.com**** >> ------------------------------ >> >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2013.0.2897 / Virus Database: 2639/6098 - Release Date: 02/11/13 >> **** >> > > > > -- > Steve Ross > Corporate Editor, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com) > 201-456-5933 mobile, 781-284-8810 landline > 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice > editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) > editorsteve1 (Twitter) > editorsteve at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From editorsteve at gmail.com Tue Feb 12 06:44:06 2013 From: editorsteve at gmail.com (Steve Ross) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:44:06 -0500 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair on Vimeo In-Reply-To: References: <008401ce0922$0bb36f90$231a4eb0$@com> Message-ID: Chris and all, Verizon DSL at good speeds is available all over Manhattan. FiOS is coming fast -- seems to be available in more than half of all living units. Of the seven major content providers, only Comcast and NBC/Universal are linked as one combined company. Yes, TWC is loosely tied to HBO (TWC split off from Time, Inc, in 2009 but there are debt guarantees and some long-term contracts) and Murdoch has satellite distribution. But in both cases the ties have loosened because the super-profitable content side is being dragged down by the network provider side. At cable industry shows, the high cost of content and the tyranny of bundling (especially since many DOCSIS providers want to offer fewer fixed channels so they can get data bandwidth up) is a common discussion. Crawford says competitors to large MSOs pay "up to four times" what the MSOs pay for content. As you know, that is a ridiculous statement. It does happen for isolated channels on isolated systems. But the implication is that the big broadband providers can "bargain down" the price 3- or 4-fold. It just is not true. Even 10%-20% is a stretch. Aside from all of that, just look at the big cable providers and telcos. Their profit margins are not those of monopolists. Their stock prices are not those of monopolists. I am surprised that Verizon does not offer a no-contract plan, but my argument is the same: You pay the price in either the phone or the monthly fee. There's no free lunch and no real difference in what Europeans pay versus what Americans pay (overall) for mobile service. The FCC wisely would not allow AT&T and T-Mobile to merge, after all. I might add that I used to pay $80 a month for cellular service in the early 1990s when there were zillions of separate carriers (mine was Omnipoint, which eventually merged with VoiceStream, which was bought by Deutsche Telecom to become T-Mobile). Inflation-adjusted, I pay half that now, for much more bits moved. My complaint is much less about pricing than it is about access, for both mobile and landline. Eighteen states restrict muni broadband at the behest of big cablecos and telcos that have no intention whatsoever of supplying services themselves! The stimulus has been spent. RUS was hoping for a few crumbs of extra funding in the farm bill. The Tea Party's big donors stopped that. On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Christopher Mitchell < christopher at newrules.org> wrote: > It saddens me to see Steve fall into the trap that so many seem to be > falling into these days - suggesting that the cable companies and the > content providers are separate entities. > > It is a very gray area. > > We all know that Comcast owns many channels now through NBCU and many > other cable operators have ownersship stakes in the channels they carry > (that are supposedly gouging them). I guess ABC/ESPN/Disney is the > exception, but to suggest that the cable companies are getting raked by the > content companies ignores a complicity that benefits them and restricts > competition. > > Susan has a good focus on this in her book, particularly the role of > sports networks in protecting monopoly. > > I don't live in Manhattan, but from what I have seen, FiOS is far from > widely available yet. It will be eventually, but I think there are some > years yet left in the expansion there. Susan likes to learn from mistakes, > so I hope Steve will point this out to her - I doubt we'll hear her say it > again if she is presented with evidence that she is wrong. > > As for the mobile market, I again think Steve is too charitable to the > phone companies -- I can buy my own handset but I don't get a break on the > bill from Verizon... I pay the same damn cost on my phone that is 3 years > old as I would a new one - that is Verizon's choice and they have made a > sound one when it comes to extracting the most cash from me. Sure, I could > go to a small competitor that has crap coverage (I travel frequently enough > to rural enough spots that it is impractical) but like the vast majority of > Americans, I find my only real options are Verizon and AT&T for wireless. > > As for following the money - who wants to loan capital to anyone that is > going to compete on a playing field so dominated by Comcast/Verizon/et al? > One has to be somewhat crazy, because private sector competition has no > future in these United States. > > Christopher Mitchell > Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative > Institute for Local Self-Reliance > > http://www.muninetworks.org > @communitynets > 612-276-3456 x209 > > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Steve Ross wrote: > >> High prices come about for two reasons: The real costs of providing >> service and of course monopolistic rents. As much as I have railed against >> USA pricing practices, most of the price really has to be due to costs, not >> monopolistic practices, as far as landlines are concerned. Mobile is more >> complicated -- Wall Street has provided a lot of money for mobile expansion >> but has extracted a high rent of its own. Just look at how telecom/cable >> stocks have trended -- middle-of-pack for past decade. >> >> 1. Two suppliers are not effective competition, but Crawford says there >> is only one in Manhattan. That is a lie. She says TWC monthly bill is $200. >> That would mean for someone getting the most expensive video tiers. >> >> 2. Sorry, cost of good cell phone to carriers has been $500-600 and when >> they charge $100 the balance must be built into the price over the next two >> years. I have a "no contract" unlimited-everything 2-line family plan with >> T-Mobile for $99. I just bought my wife a Galaxy SIII unlocked for $550. >> That's the way it works. Crawford claims cell costs in Europe are $30 a >> month. They are not that low and there are a lot of hidden fees and roaming >> charges as well. They are lower than in the US, but totally explained by >> phone subsidies, really. Apple is the monopolist. >> >> 3. Content providers (there are seven major networks, not the four >> Crawford claims) are also the monopolists.That's where your fees mainly go. >> I have argued that the duopoly's pricing power allows the pass-through of >> content costs, but that pricing power has clearly been declining. The >> content providers "bundle" their services. You want ESPN 1 and 2? Sorry, >> you have to carry the other 9 ESPN channels as well! But as with audio, the >> bundling will eventually collapse. The American Cable association >> (seemingly a monopolist tool) wants FCC to allow a la carte content over >> the top (on internet broadband). Doesn't sound monopolistic to me. >> >> 4. On phones, there is not a duopoly -- plenty of low-cost carriers in >> the business but not in rural areas. Ugh. Mobile providers also want to cut >> their costs by pushing you onto your own wifi and not compensating the >> landline provider -- unless of course they ARE the landline provider. >> >> 5. I carefully model fiber network building and operating costs, and the >> models are downloadable, free, at www.bbcmag.com or the quick link, >> www.FTTHAnalyzer.com. Basically, if a network provider can make a gross >> profit (before overhead) of $50 per customer per month, it can get by with >> 8 customers a mile. That typically means 12-16 homes per mile. Any change >> in this picture requires government subsidy (which I and Crawford support, >> but which is a pipe dream these days) or much lower interest rates (tier 3 >> LECs these days are paying 10%... ugh). >> >> 6. Because of lack of access to reasonably priced capital, hardly any new >> networks are being built right now. Our advertising base has been cut in >> half as vendors collapse into one another. I always teach my journalism >> students to "follow the money." The money goes to handset suppliers and >> content providers, not to network providers. >> >> 7. Qwest/CenturyLink is indeed screwing folks out west, but they are also >> low on cash. A better business model for them would be to partner with >> munis, to tap assets that munis can mortgage for cheap capital. That's >> where I would fault them. >> >> Steve >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Gary Gomes wrote: >> >>> Steve,**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> I read your magazine and appreciate your efforts in promoting broadband >>> and recognize that video content providers are a huge problem, but I hope >>> that you do not mean to suggest that two suppliers equals effective >>> competition.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> There are countless studies that document the fact that oligopolists act >>> just like monopolists ? even absent overt collusion. It is just the >>> nature of the beast.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> The problem in the US is that we have virtually unregulated >>> monopoly/duopoly for-profit companies running a public utility service >>> (cable and fiber plant), another oligopoly running the content creation >>> (networks origin) as well as over-the-air waves, and a third duopoly >>> running cellular. Is it any wonder they do not compete on price?**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> Do you really believe that cost of the subsidized phones is the reason >>> for the high US cellular rates? The numbers suggest otherwise.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> The fact is that unfettered market competition does not work for the >>> consumer (in the long term) in the absence of a large number of potential >>> providers.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> Gary**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *From:* 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto: >>> 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] *On Behalf Of *Steve Ross >>> *Sent:* Monday, February 11, 2013 10:20 PM >>> *To:* Tom Johnson >>> *Cc:* Friam at redfish. com; 1st-Mile-NM >>> *Subject:* Re: [1st-mile-nm] Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access >>> is Slow, Costly, and Unfair on Vimeo**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> I'm a reluctant fan of Crawford and Moyers, but her book and this >>> interview miss the mark. There are major inaccuracies in the interview >>> itself. For instance, Crawford says Manhattan suffers from a Time Warner >>> Cable monopoly, although Verizon is bringing FiOS to every household in >>> NYC. I have a small apartment in Manhattan and I have a choice! So does >>> Crawford, I suspect.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> But the biggest problem is with the content providers, not the broadband >>> providers. Thanks to predatory practices among the content providers there >>> is almost no profit in video -- but they have to provide it. SOMEONE has to >>> pay for building the network, and that someone is the consumer of pure >>> Internet broadband. The providers need to get $20-30 profit per month per >>> subscriber to pay for the network, and they only get $5-10 from video, zero >>> from voice.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> BTW, data we're publishing this month shows that fiber customers pay the >>> highest monthly fee for pure broadband access but they pay the least per >>> Mbps.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> My magazine (www.bbcmag.com) calls for anyone to be able to build >>> networks and we have editorialized for public broadband. But between higher >>> content costs and less population density, and oddities in pricing >>> (Europeans pay low phone bills but pay $500+ for the phone!) most of what >>> Crawford is complaining about is not caused by the companies she faults. In >>> this interview, she comes across as either an idiot or a liar. She's better >>> than that.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: >>> **** >>> >>> http://vimeo.com/59236702 >>> >>> Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair >>> >>> -tj >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 1st-mile-nm mailing list >>> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org >>> http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm**** >>> >>> >>> >>> **** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> -- >>> Steve Ross**** >>> >>> Corporate Editor, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com) >>> 201-456-5933 mobile, 781-284-8810 landline >>> 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice >>> editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) >>> editorsteve1 (Twitter) >>> editorsteve at gmail.com**** >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> No virus found in this message. >>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>> Version: 2013.0.2897 / Virus Database: 2639/6098 - Release Date: 02/11/13 >>> **** >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Steve Ross >> Corporate Editor, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com) >> 201-456-5933 mobile, 781-284-8810 landline >> 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice >> editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) >> editorsteve1 (Twitter) >> editorsteve at gmail.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 1st-mile-nm mailing list >> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org >> http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm >> >> > -- Steve Ross Corporate Editor, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com) 201-456-5933 mobile, 781-284-8810 landline 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) editorsteve1 (Twitter) editorsteve at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From owen at backspaces.net Tue Feb 12 07:04:39 2013 From: owen at backspaces.net (Owen Densmore) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:04:39 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair on Vimeo In-Reply-To: References: <008401ce0922$0bb36f90$231a4eb0$@com> Message-ID: On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Steve Ross wrote: > > I am surprised that Verizon does not offer a no-contract plan, but my > argument is the same: You pay the price in either the phone or the monthly > fee. There's no free lunch and no real difference in what Europeans pay > versus what Americans pay (overall) for mobile service. > During the era that the iPhone was not available from TMo, many people "did the math" and found that buying a phone and using it with TMo's non-contract plans was a considerable win. They did this even tho TMo could not provide the same "broadband" and many settled for Edge. They wanted the sexy iPhone and they loved TMo .. a European (Deutsche Telecom) based outfit with an extraordinary broad set of tariffs. The sticker shock of the new iPhone was generally payed for within 14 months with a better no-contract fee. I do like the devil in the details approach here. I switched to Vzn due to iPhone lust (and far better coverage in rural NM) and was amazed at the control Apple had over the distribution of the iPhone. It seems to me to be a small island of consumer protection that Apple is very clear up front on the relationship between Apple handsets and iOS, and Vzn, the carrier. With android this is not the case. I will return to TMo when possible but I do get a huge savings for a being over 65 -- they offer a very nice menu of choices which nearly halved the bill I would pay as a vanilla Vzn customer. One last example of buying an unlocked phone being a win was a recent hi-tech friend who bought a Nexus with a data-only service from TMo (good tariffs again) and is using a VoIP/Google Voice stunt. Saved a bundle. -- Owen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl at 1st-mile.com Mon Feb 18 08:55:18 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:55:18 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] IT at NM Legislature Message-ID: <65a87e5f55f3e5ae4bd9ba3edd393fdc@dcn.org> 2013 Legislature: Capitol IT team tackles technical glitches Staci Matlock | The New Mexican Posted: Sunday, February 17, 2013 http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/021813xgrwebsite#.USJPt-jwPmw Hackers, webcam crashes and network glitches are all in a day?s work for the Legislature?s Web and IT team during the session. The five-person IT team is housed in the Legislative Council Service offices. Ralph Vincent, an IT contractor, said he started helping automate budgets and other work for the Legislature after 1990. The first Legislative website he helped launch in the mid-1990s had just the basics: Legislators? names, committee information and a basic bill tracker. Every year, there are more links and information available through the site. ?I don?t know that we?ve changed the website as much as added to it,? Vincent said, adding that the ongoing goal for the website is to keep it simple and accessible, if not flashy. They made sure documents on the website were available in HTML and PDF format, to accommodate people who only had access to slow processing and low bandwidth for their computers. The Legislative Council Service drafts bills, memorials and resolutions as requested by lawmakers. Once entered in the Legislature?s database and given a control number, the thousands of pages of documents generated each session are easier to track. ?The links you see on the site, almost every page is dynamic. So it is generated based on databases,? Vincent said. ?Pretty much everything is automated now [via software], except for getting documents from here to there,? Vincent said. The ?here to there? is the daily updates to legislation as it moves through the lawmaking process. Those updates are handled by bill historians and other staff from the Legislative Council Service, who record committee and floor votes and amendments. The computer tracks changes to the bills via the control number and sends the documents out automatically to several places at once, including the website?s bill locator. It creates links on the website between various documents. The Web team also added committee calendar schedules to the website and a custom ?Bill Tracker.? One of the biggest changes in the last few years was the addition of audio and video streaming. Three years ago, the House approved audio streaming for the floor sessions and the Senate approved audio and video streaming for its floor sessions. Multiple webcams were added in 2011. This year, both the House and Senate approved webcams in committee hearings. The streaming has proven so popular that the sites continue to crash periodically under the traffic. ?The number of people watching sessions through the webcams has gone up significantly,? Vincent said. Each time the team increased the bandwidth thinking it would handle viewer traffic, the traffic caught up. ?It is better, but still not as good as we would like,? Vincent said. ?We?re always trying to keep up.? At any given time during the session now, they?ll have eight streams of audio and video to manage simultaneously. The BYOD, or Bring Your Own Device, open policy at the Legislature challenges the IT team to get all legislators and their staffs networked on new equipment each session. The Legislature does have a Twitter feed and boasts more than 1,700 followers so far. The tweets are handled by John Yaeger, the LCS assistant director for legislative affairs and a few other staff. ?We have to be careful what we tweet because the LCS is nonpartisan,? Yaeger said. But there?s no Facebook page ? yet. Security is always an ongoing challenge for the IT team, said Mark Guillen, IT manager. So far, they?ve been able to prevent any major hacking. ?We?re hit with a lot of intrusions from China and Russia,? Guillen said. -------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com -------------------------------- From michaelprice at connectedwest.org Mon Feb 18 09:03:00 2013 From: michaelprice at connectedwest.org (Michael Price) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:03:00 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Feb. 28th - Think Ahead Colorado Message-ID: <0EB6684BFA418E40BED4968927E943F702E4570C@mbx030-w1-co-5.exch030.domain.local> I'd like to invite you to a panel discussion hosted by Coalition for a Connected West in partnership with Built In Denver at the Colorado State Capitol on February 28th to talk about the future of technology in Colorado. We'll be covering broadband policy and how we can make Colorado a great place for tech businesses to grow and thrive. We have an excellent panel consisting of national and local policy experts. Click to RSVP (http://www.connectewest.org/rsvp) Event Details Title: Think Ahead Colorado - Our Connected Future Location: Colorado State Capitol, Rm 356 Date/Time: Thursday, Feb. 28th, 7:30-9:00am Breakfast will be served Panel of Experts Larry Irving, President & CEO, Irving Group Larry Irving was one of the principal architects and advocates of President Clinton?s Telecommunications and Internet policies, which resulted in passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Irving also served as the Vice President for Global Government Affairs for the Hewlett-Packard Company. Erik Mitisek, Chairman, Built In Denver Erik Mitisek is an entrepreneur and strong believer in the power of innovation. With a passion for building companies he is actively involved in the Denver startup community. He is also the Co-Founder of Next Great Place. State Representative Angela Williams (D-7) Rep. Williams has been serving Northeast Denver in the legislature since 2010. She is also the principal of the Angela Williams Insurance Agency and chairwoman of the Business, Labor, Economic and Workforce Committee. State Senator Mark Scheffel (R-4) Senator Scheffel, first elected in 2008, is the Assistant Senate Minority Leader, and is a practicing business and tax attorney for his firm, Reid and Scheffel. He serves on the Senate Education Committee and the Legislative Council. I hope you can attend. Please feel free to share this with your friends and colleagues. Click to RSVP - Mike Michael Price Executive Director Coalition for a Connected West Phone: 720-515-7581 Follow @ConnectedWest Like us on Facebook -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"Flashy" for me signifies the triumph of style over substance. Great (web) design (as opposed to most web design) is the fine art of balancing well those opposing forces. Cheers, -TLT From david at breeckerassociates.com Wed Feb 20 12:55:44 2013 From: david at breeckerassociates.com (David Breecker (dba)) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:55:44 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: May 29-30: From Gigabit Envy to Gigabit Deployed: A Community Toolkit for Building Ultra High-Speed Networks References: Message-ID: FYI; Google Fiber is a partner: Begin forwarded message: > From: Jake DiGregorio > Subject: May 29-30: From Gigabit Envy to Gigabit Deployed: A Community Toolkit for Building Ultra High-Speed Networks > Date: February 20, 2013 11:02:54 AM MST > To: Jake DiGregorio > Bcc: info at santafeinnovate.org > > > > From Gigabit Envy to Gigabit Deployed: > A Community Toolkit for Building Ultra > High-Speed Networks > May 29-30, 2013 > The Westin Kansas City at Crown Center > Kansas City, Missouri > > > > Register online to hear from those on the front lines of the fiber to the home revolution, May 29-30, at the Westin Kansas City at Crown Center. > > The two-day conference will be an opportunity for civic and business leaders from across the country to connect with public and private sector leaders who have brought (or are working to bring) ultra high-speed broadband to their communities. Through general sessions and interactive workshops, we will showcase the tools you need to get gigabit deployed, arming you with an action plan that you can take home and begin implementing. > > Speakers to include: > > Milo Medin, Vice President of Access Services, Google > Lev Gonick, Vice President for Information Technology Services and Chief Information Officer, Case Western Reserve University > Blair Levin, Executive Director, Gig.U > And Leading CEOs, including Ritchie Sorrells (GVTC) and Mark Ansboury > (Gigabit Squared) > Book Your Hotel Room > > To make your hotel reservation, book online or call the Westin Kansas City at Crown Center at 800-937-8461 and let the reservation agent know you are with the FTTH Community Toolkit Conference. Discounted rates are $134 for a single/double room, excluding taxes. > > If you are interested in receiving a government rate for this meeting, you will have to call the hotel directly to make your reservation. > > Westin Kansas City at Crown Center > 1E Pershing Road > Kansas City, Missouri 64108 > 800-937-8461 > > Questions? > > If you have questions regarding registration, visit the conference website or contact the Registration Team at 202-367-1173 or registration at ftth.org. > > > > > > > > dba | David Breecker Associates, Inc. Santa Fe: 505-690-2335 Abiquiu: 505-685-4891 www.BreeckerAssociates.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl at 1st-mile.com Sun Feb 24 09:40:41 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:40:41 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] =?utf-8?q?N=2EM=2E=E2=80=99S_Daunting_Digital_Divid?= =?utf-8?q?e?= Message-ID: <38b720a436b53f2cb198544fc7ed75cf@dcn.org> Here's today's article from the ABQ Journal. Log on to the link below for the entire story and images. RL ----- N.M.?S Daunting Digital Divide By Kevin Robinson-Avila / Journal Staff Writer on Sun, Feb 24, 2013 http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2013/02/24/biz/highspeed-broadband-extension-moves-at-a-dialup-pace-in-states-vast-rural-areas.html A wireless broadband tower in Bernalillo. The expense of running fiber optic cables in remote areas may mean more reliance on wireless technology to provide high-speed Internet access in many rural zones. A wireless broadband tower in Bernalillo. The expense of running fiber optic cables in remote areas may mean more reliance on wireless technology to provide high-speed Internet access in many rural zones. Rural New Mexico has benefited from roughly $400 million in broadband development in recent years, but the state still faces a huge digital divide. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, New Mexico received more than $200 million in federal stimulus funding to extend high-speed Internet in rural areas. If matching dollars from telephone companies that won stimulus grants are included, plus development loans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture?s Rural Utilities Service, broadband investments in the past five years surpass $400 million, according to the state Department of Information Technology. But many of New Mexico?s rural zones still have no Internet coverage, and many that do are still using dial-up modems, or aging digital subscriber line (DSL) technology, said USDA Rural Development State Director Terry Brunner. ?We have a long way to go nationally in developing broadband, but New Mexico is further behind than other states,? Brunner said. ?New Mexico has some of the slowest speeds in the nation, and in the West for sure.? For consumers, that creates a huge dichotomy in quality of life between urban and rural residents. While city dwellers have access to the latest in communications capability ? from streaming video on smartphones and laptops to remote control of home thermostats and electric appliances ? many families in New Mexico?s vast expanses remain strapped to 20th century technology. That?s a critical impediment to economic stability. ?If local businesses, large or small, are going to compete nationally and internationally, they need Internet access with acceptable speeds,? Brunner said. ?Whatever industry they?re in, whether it?s tourism, manufacturing or auto repair, companies need to be able to transact business electronically. It?s key to economic development in New Mexico.? It?s also key to individual progress, because online access can provide rural New Mexicans with educational opportunities, health care and other services that may be difficult to get otherwise. ?If we don?t provide communications in rural areas that are as good as in the cities, we?ll continue to see the rural-to-urban migration we?ve experienced for years,? said Charlie Ferrell, executive director of the New Mexico Exchange Carriers Group, which represents 11 rural telephone cooperatives. New Mexico faces more hurdles than many other states in building remote connectivity because of its vast rural nature. The Exchange Carriers Group, for example, provides telecommunications service to 77,000 square miles of territory, with an average of 2.2 customers per mile. Such broad distances and low population densities make digital infrastructure very expensive to install, preventing many commercial providers from laying fiber optics or other broadband technology without government assistance. ?New Mexico still has a digital divide because in some areas it?s just so hard to go through mountains or rock formations, and then you get to the end of the route and find there just aren?t enough homes and businesses to pay for the construction,? said Valerie Dodd, CenturyLink Inc.?s vice president and general manager for New Mexico. In addition, poverty and a lack of understanding about the benefits of Internet access often discourage many rural residents from paying for services even when broadband is available. As a result, New Mexico ranked 46th in the nation for broadband use in the 2010 U.S. census. Only 53 percent of residents here said they access broadband at home, compared with 80 percent nationally. Stimulus funds did make a dent in the digital divide. Thanks to federal assistance, members of the Exchange Carriers Group doubled the amount of fiber optics in the ground from 3,000 to 6,000 miles. ?In most cases, about 95 percent of customers can now get coverage if they want it, so they (the companies) have moved the bar up somewhat,? Ferrell said. Some providers got funding for very large projects. Kit Carson Electric Cooperative received a $44 million grant and a $19 million loan to create a 2,400-mile broadband network to connect about 20,500 households, 3,600 businesses and 183 ?anchor? institutions, such as schools and health clinics. But a lot of needs remain unfulfilled. ENMR-Plateau Telecommunications in Clovis, for example, received $39 million in grants and loans for more infrastructure in its service area, allowing up to 100 percent coverage in some towns and villages. But services are still limited in many outlying areas, said Chief Technology and Network Officer Buddy Vaughan. ?We have 25,000 square miles to cover,? Vaughan said. ?About seven years ago, we estimated it would take more than $300 million to get broadband to all our members. It?s less now, because technology has advanced more and become cheaper, but construction costs don?t come down, and that?s the biggest expense in getting fiber in the ground.? Pe?asco Valley Telephone Cooperative and Leaco Rural Telephone Cooperative received a combined $56 million in loans and assistance for broadband infrastructure. But both companies still have many territorial pockets without coverage that might only be served in the future through wireless technologies, which are slower and less reliable than fiber. ?We?re working to get (fourth generation) wireless solutions for many remaining customers, because it?s impossible to build fiber to every rural area,? said Leaco CEO Laura Angell. Pe?asco added about 200 miles of fiber with federal assistance, but with an average of less than one customer per mile in its 4,700-square-mile territory, it could cost up to $150 million to lay fiber for everybody, said CEO Glenn Lovelace. In addition, the company faces much red tape. ?We have to deal with many government regulations that make the job difficult, such of right-of-way issues,? Lovelace said. ?On one project, it took us 12 years to get the highway permit to lay fiber from Hondo to Lincoln.? Even endangered species protection can adds costs to laying fiber. ?We have to put ?lizard ladders? in every open trench,? Lovelace said. ?The dune sagebrush lizard has a limited number of scales under its armpits, and if we?re in protected zones, we have to put two-by-fours in the ditches so if any of those little fellows fall into the ditch, they can climb out.? Federal money continues to flow to New Mexico. The Federal Communications Commission awarded $2.3 million last summer to CenturyLink and Windstream Communications to extend broadband access in rural areas. And, in December, it approved $15.4 million for the University of New Mexico?s Center for Telehealth, San Juan Regional Medical Center and Presbyterian Healthcare Systems to jointly build a rural telehealth broadband network. Still, experts say high-speed Internet access is moving at a dial-up pace in New Mexico. ?I don?t think we?re anywhere near where we need to be,? said Richard Lowenberg, executive director of the First Mile Institute in Santa Fe. ?We still have gaping holes with many underserved areas.? Gar Clarke, broadband program director at the Department of Information Technology, said an online mapping program financed with $4.7 million in stimulus funds has allowed the government to build the state?s first public, interactive website that details technology availability geographically. That will help plan more broadband extension projects in critical zones. ?It will help focus our energy,? Clarke said. ?We?ll look at existing conditions to determine future needs to then get funding and move forward.? The USDA?s Brunner said that?s an important step. ?There needs to be leadership from folks at the state level to determine needs and create targeted areas for investment,? he said. ?The USDA would be happy to meet some of those funding needs.? ---------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com ---------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Sun Feb 24 10:52:15 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:52:15 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM's Digital Divide and Dividend Message-ID: This morning's posting on this list, of today's article in the ABQ Journal provokes me to comment here. As the article makes clear, the broadband divide concerns in NM and throughout the country are economic, not a technical problem. While much good work and support are in process here, we are nowhere near where we all need to be, with regard to broadband access, affordability and lives and livelihoods improving applications and uses. Once 'stimulus' funded and other investments are completed later this year, we will still be years behind where we ought to be, without a coordinated plan on leveraging those investments for next-phase deployments and developments. I and the 1st-Mile Institute have for many years been recommending a coordinated statewide series of joint public-private working meetings to address the economics of NM broadband ways forward, with likely win-win outcomes. The current Governor's Office has responded, "leave it to the private sector", and organizers of last year's 'stimulus' funded NM Broadband Conference refused to address this issue. Much like our 'new energy' requirements, broadband development is a long-term issue, but there is plenty of money to be made for companies' shareholders, coop members, and right-of way owning municipalities, while rates for subscribers can be reduced. However, this will not be possible community by community, or company by company. Creating a viable economic strategy, is a geographic (urban-rural) market-scaled approach, requiring statewide (or even multi-state) aggregation and adoption efforts. Little has been moved forward or realized in this regard. Contentiousness and us-them responses, blaming bad economic times will not get us to where we need or want to be. Is there the will to move forward; to bring together our best financial and economic thinkers and doers, to address this matter. If not, we will continue to see articles about the digital divide for the next many years, as we have since the rolling out of the Internet twenty years ago. RL -------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com -------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Mon Feb 25 13:21:24 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:21:24 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] House Energy and Commerce Committee Review of BTOP and BIP Message-ID: <799a4647295e93be8a48a342f6b8ee36@dcn.org> I am reposting a message sent today by list subscriber, John Brown, in which he stated: Just slightly more than 10% of ARRA funded broadband projects are in finishing stages. Yet they are all supposed to be done by Sept 30, 2013 $600+ million REVOKED, SUSPENDED or RELINQUISHED. WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY. ------- Attached is the announcement for this Wednesday's hearing in DC, to review the NTIA-BTOP and USDA-RUS-BIP stimulus program awards, status and failings. While this meeting will be highly politicized, given the current contentiuos climate in DC, the issues and methods surrounding broadband stimulus are worthy of critical but productive consideration, if we are to move forward more constructively. RL --------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com --------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: HHRG-113-IF16-20130227-SD002.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 127894 bytes Desc: not available URL: From rl at 1st-mile.com Thu Feb 28 08:14:36 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:14:36 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] =?utf-8?q?RECAP=3A_IS_THE_BROADBAND_STIMULUS_WORKIN?= =?utf-8?q?G=3F?= Message-ID: <0b53ff575b8c3cae8939aafabf88d09d@dcn.org> Here's a copy of the email posting from Benton.org on yesterday's House Committee hearing on broadband stimulus, with links to video, agency testimonies and news reports, below. RL RECAP: IS THE BROADBAND STIMULUS WORKING? [SOURCE: House of Representatives Commerce Committee] The House Commerce Committee?s Communications and Technology Subcommittee held a hearing examining whether taxpayers are getting their money?s worth four years after the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) allocated $7 billion for broadband grants and loans. A background memo for the Subcommittee?s majority staff highlighted that approximately $611 million of the funding covering 42 projects has been revoked, relinquished, or suspended. Republican members of the Subcommittee claimed throughout the hearing that the program is rife with wasteful spending. "Promoting broadband is a laudable goal. But there are many laudable goals," said Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR). "From what we know now, the government has spent millions on equipment it did not need and on stringing fiber to areas that already had it." Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) questioned the necessity of the broadband stimulus and suggested that the $2.5 billion in unused funds should be given back to the Treasury. Subcommittee Democrats, however, defended the spending, which is made up of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) and the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP). They argued that while there will always be problems with large government programs, the broadband stimulus has been worthwhile. "The investments made in broadband infrastructure are having a profound impact in local communities around the country," said Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), the ranking member of the subcommittee. "I don't really understand how any of my colleagues can argue that providing better, faster Internet and more digital literacy training to underserved and unserved areas of this country is something we should criticize," Rep. Mike Doyle (R-PA) said. Larry Strickling, the head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which oversees BTOP, pushed back against the Republican criticism in several testy exchanges with lawmakers. benton.org/node/146570 : http://benton.org/node/146570?utm_campaign=Newsletters&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email -------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com -------------------------------- From george.clarke at state.nm.us Thu Feb 28 13:54:04 2013 From: george.clarke at state.nm.us (Clarke, George, DoIT) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:54:04 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM's Digital Divide and Dividend and Future Solutions In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3D84DEBDC51FFF449BF8E8BF3FEEF7B9766D08F7@CEXMB002.nmes.lcl> Hello Richard and Readers: Richard, given your remarks below, I am also "provoked" to comment. I believe an update on the antics of the New Mexico Broadband Program (NMBBP) may provide some clarity and substantive support to your narrative below. This is with special regards to a "coordinated plan. I was waiting to have all the puzzle pieces in place before providing a "report" to you all. However, I believe the momentum has begun. Once the instruments are in place we are going to implement the following activities: Working Group: The NMBBP will create a Broadband Working Group comprised with interested experts that represent diverse areas within the state and an understanding of NM Broadband Issues surrounding Health, Education, Economic Development, Governance, Industry, Digital Literacy, and Tribal. These folks will meet a number of times together and in focus groups under a facilitated environment to cleanly identify issues and solutions (funding, administrative, legislative, etc.). The initial framing of the issues will bounce from the August 2012 Broadband Summit hosted by the State Library. Of special note from the "Broadband Summit" was the call within most of the Business Sectors for a coordinated plan that includes a public/private foundation not a refusal. For a copy of the "Background Report" and the "Final Report" please access the State Library site at: - Final Report: http://www.nmstatelibrary.org/docs/2012BroadbandSummitFinalReport.pdf - Background Report: http://nmfirst.org/_literature_143278/Broadband_Summit_Background_Report Mini-Strategic Plans: The NMBBP will create three Mini-Strategic Broadband Plans focusing on Health, Education, and Economic Development respectively. Each one of the plans will incorporate elements of Tribal, Digital Literacy, and Governance. They are referred to as "Mini" as there will be a final New Mexico Broadband Strategic Plan (see below) that will ingest these three plans and include other information. Be assured that these plans will not be "shelf" paper, yet will provide actionable tasks to pursue funding, legislation, and changes in administrative framework. These plans will incorporate the Working Group (see above) findings as a directive. In addition, a series of Executive Briefings and Factsheets will be prepared and be available to the Working Group and other interested groups within the state.. Each plan will address broadband uses (existing and potential), conduct a "gap analysis" that will be facility based where appropriate, summarize emerging services, identify barriers/opportunites to service adoption, develop business cases for key applications, survey/document funding sources, assess existing initiatives, articulate actionable recommendations, and contain appendices with data acquired from the gap analyses, list of providers, table of services, and a table of funding sources along with other information. RBIP: In addition to the above activities the NMBBP will be conducting two "Regional Broadband Implementation Plan" (RBIP) Pilots". We'll be using a "Framework" document and a report titled "Community Broadband Master Plan Guidebook" both developed during previous contracts that will soon be provided on the NMBBP Portal. See: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/news.shtml These '"Pilots" will be objectively selected using data from the Broadband Map and a survey the NMBBP conducted to identify socio-economic and demographic indicators where service is inadequate. The regional programs are intended to develop and pilot a model for regional planning and implementation, with state guidance and help, to serve as a guide for future programs beyond the pilot period and to serve as a means for regions to maximize the benefits of federal funding for rural broadband programs, applications, and infrastructure development. Strategic Plan: The larger NM Broadband Strategic Plan as mentioned above will house all of the work completed by the NM Broadband Initiative and will explore a range of issues and opportunities related to residential/commercial service, key anchor institutions (health, education, and economic development), governance, survey other state strategic plans for best practices, and encapsulate funding opportunities as a recipe book to ease the hunt for funds. Ongoing efforts - the following are ongoing efforts that may be of interest to you all. Train the Trainer: The NMBBP has launched our Train the Trainer Program that currently includes two parts: Digital Literacy Basic and Business. Through the initial success of the State Library's end user Digital Literacy courses provided statewide, the NMBBP took that content, packaged into instructional digital booklets, and are now conducting nine sessions. The first three (Espanola, Moriarty, and Espanola) have been scheduled, the classes are full, and the reviews have been excellent. Note these are open to "communities" (librarians, teachers, small business incubators, etc.) who are willing to take these materials and knowledge back to train their communities. The materials (PDF, PowerPoint, and Video) are excellent and can be obtain at no cost from our website at: - Digital Literacy: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/training/t3toolkit.shtml - Business Success: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/training/smallbiz.shtml Adoption Survey: The NMBBP has just completed a Statewide Broadband Survey that touched 1000 respondents and has provided "buckets" of data. These data are currently being analysed, normalized, and cross tabafied. A report will be forthcoming in April. These data will be used in selecting and supporting the two RBIP Pilots. Again, I'll be putting these information within our "News and Reports" section of the Broadband Portal. Tribal Survey: The NMBBP is completing a Tribal Broadband Survey. The resulting report will not reveal any specific Tribal Data, yet will be used to conduct a Broadband Mapping and Training Pilot to three tribal entities. In addition, the survey results will assist in the RBIP Pilots as well. Mapping: The NMBB Mapping Program is in the midst of Round Seven (7). We have great participation from the providers, are sensitive to their time, yet getting full participation as not been achieved to date. Anyhow, as a result of the last Round the NMBBP has made some significant changes to the Broadband Map that now include a Speed Test that is run locally, provider footprint by technology tool, radio frequency propagation modeling with specifications from the providers, and some simple statistics. In addition, there are downloadable statewide availability maps by technology type and community anchor institutions by type that are downloadable "layered" PDF. Also, downloadable are County Availability Maps with Statistics and other information. All these are available at: - NM Broadband Map: http://nmbbmapping.org/mapping/ - Statewide Maps: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/map_statewide.shtml - County Maps: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/map_county_availability.shtml - Speed Test: http://nmbbmapping.org/speedtest/ The Speed Test is highly recommended for NM Residences and Business. The NMBBP is harvesting these data, aggregating into larger areas to determine "Adequacy of Service". In turn these data will also assist in selecting areas for our RBIP Pilots. The NMBBP has other activities, yet above are some of the major affairs. Please if anyone has some questions or "assumptions" that require clarification; I'd appreciate the contact. In addition, any comments, advise, and/or requests; get them my way. I do believe we are conducting some good business here in New Mexico that has the potential for important stuff to happen. We are bringing together our best "thinkers" and "doers" to solve a complex problem. So, let's have a group hug, let go of contentious behavior, and get it done. Thank You, Gar Clarke Gar Clarke Broadband Program Manager Department of Information Technology Simms Building 715 Alta Vista Street Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 Email:? george.clarke at state.nm.us Desk:? 505.827-1663 Cell: 505.690-1661 Fax:? 505.827-2325 BB Web:? http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/ -----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: Sunday, February 24, 2013 11:52 AM To: 1st mile nm Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM's Digital Divide and Dividend This morning's posting on this list, of today's article in the ABQ Journal provokes me to comment here. As the article makes clear, the broadband divide concerns in NM and throughout the country are economic, not a technical problem. While much good work and support are in process here, we are nowhere near where we all need to be, with regard to broadband access, affordability and lives and livelihoods improving applications and uses. Once 'stimulus' funded and other investments are completed later this year, we will still be years behind where we ought to be, without a coordinated plan on leveraging those investments for next-phase deployments and developments. I and the 1st-Mile Institute have for many years been recommending a coordinated statewide series of joint public-private working meetings to address the economics of NM broadband ways forward, with likely win-win outcomes. The current Governor's Office has responded, "leave it to the private sector", and organizers of last year's 'stimulus' funded NM Broadband Conference refused to address this issue. Much like our 'new energy' requirements, broadband development is a long-term issue, but there is plenty of money to be made for companies' shareholders, coop members, and right-of way owning municipalities, while rates for subscribers can be reduced. However, this will not be possible community by community, or company by company. Creating a viable economic strategy, is a geographic (urban-rural) market-scaled approach, requiring statewide (or even multi-state) aggregation and adoption efforts. Little has been moved forward or realized in this regard. Contentiousness and us-them responses, blaming bad economic times will not get us to where we need or want to be. Is there the will to move forward; to bring together our best financial and economic thinkers and doers, to address this matter. If not, we will continue to see articles about the digital divide for the next many years, as we have since the rolling out of the Internet twenty years ago. RL -------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com -------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm -----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: Sunday, February 24, 2013 10:41 AM To: 1st mile nm Subject: [1st-mile-nm] N.M.'S Daunting Digital Divide Here's today's article from the ABQ Journal. Log on to the link below for the entire story and images. RL ----- N.M.'S Daunting Digital Divide By Kevin Robinson-Avila / Journal Staff Writer on Sun, Feb 24, 2013 http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2013/02/24/biz/highspeed-broadband-extension-moves-at-a-dialup-pace-in-states-vast-rural-areas.html A wireless broadband tower in Bernalillo. The expense of running fiber optic cables in remote areas may mean more reliance on wireless technology to provide high-speed Internet access in many rural zones. A wireless broadband tower in Bernalillo. The expense of running fiber optic cables in remote areas may mean more reliance on wireless technology to provide high-speed Internet access in many rural zones. Rural New Mexico has benefited from roughly $400 million in broadband development in recent years, but the state still faces a huge digital divide. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, New Mexico received more than $200 million in federal stimulus funding to extend high-speed Internet in rural areas. If matching dollars from telephone companies that won stimulus grants are included, plus development loans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service, broadband investments in the past five years surpass $400 million, according to the state Department of Information Technology. But many of New Mexico's rural zones still have no Internet coverage, and many that do are still using dial-up modems, or aging digital subscriber line (DSL) technology, said USDA Rural Development State Director Terry Brunner. "We have a long way to go nationally in developing broadband, but New Mexico is further behind than other states," Brunner said. "New Mexico has some of the slowest speeds in the nation, and in the West for sure." For consumers, that creates a huge dichotomy in quality of life between urban and rural residents. While city dwellers have access to the latest in communications capability - from streaming video on smartphones and laptops to remote control of home thermostats and electric appliances - many families in New Mexico's vast expanses remain strapped to 20th century technology. That's a critical impediment to economic stability. "If local businesses, large or small, are going to compete nationally and internationally, they need Internet access with acceptable speeds," Brunner said. "Whatever industry they're in, whether it's tourism, manufacturing or auto repair, companies need to be able to transact business electronically. It's key to economic development in New Mexico." It's also key to individual progress, because online access can provide rural New Mexicans with educational opportunities, health care and other services that may be difficult to get otherwise. "If we don't provide communications in rural areas that are as good as in the cities, we'll continue to see the rural-to-urban migration we've experienced for years," said Charlie Ferrell, executive director of the New Mexico Exchange Carriers Group, which represents 11 rural telephone cooperatives. New Mexico faces more hurdles than many other states in building remote connectivity because of its vast rural nature. The Exchange Carriers Group, for example, provides telecommunications service to 77,000 square miles of territory, with an average of 2.2 customers per mile. Such broad distances and low population densities make digital infrastructure very expensive to install, preventing many commercial providers from laying fiber optics or other broadband technology without government assistance. "New Mexico still has a digital divide because in some areas it's just so hard to go through mountains or rock formations, and then you get to the end of the route and find there just aren't enough homes and businesses to pay for the construction," said Valerie Dodd, CenturyLink Inc.'s vice president and general manager for New Mexico. In addition, poverty and a lack of understanding about the benefits of Internet access often discourage many rural residents from paying for services even when broadband is available. As a result, New Mexico ranked 46th in the nation for broadband use in the 2010 U.S. census. Only 53 percent of residents here said they access broadband at home, compared with 80 percent nationally. Stimulus funds did make a dent in the digital divide. Thanks to federal assistance, members of the Exchange Carriers Group doubled the amount of fiber optics in the ground from 3,000 to 6,000 miles. "In most cases, about 95 percent of customers can now get coverage if they want it, so they (the companies) have moved the bar up somewhat," Ferrell said. Some providers got funding for very large projects. Kit Carson Electric Cooperative received a $44 million grant and a $19 million loan to create a 2,400-mile broadband network to connect about 20,500 households, 3,600 businesses and 183 "anchor" institutions, such as schools and health clinics. But a lot of needs remain unfulfilled. ENMR-Plateau Telecommunications in Clovis, for example, received $39 million in grants and loans for more infrastructure in its service area, allowing up to 100 percent coverage in some towns and villages. But services are still limited in many outlying areas, said Chief Technology and Network Officer Buddy Vaughan. "We have 25,000 square miles to cover," Vaughan said. "About seven years ago, we estimated it would take more than $300 million to get broadband to all our members. It's less now, because technology has advanced more and become cheaper, but construction costs don't come down, and that's the biggest expense in getting fiber in the ground." Pe?asco Valley Telephone Cooperative and Leaco Rural Telephone Cooperative received a combined $56 million in loans and assistance for broadband infrastructure. But both companies still have many territorial pockets without coverage that might only be served in the future through wireless technologies, which are slower and less reliable than fiber. "We're working to get (fourth generation) wireless solutions for many remaining customers, because it's impossible to build fiber to every rural area," said Leaco CEO Laura Angell. Pe?asco added about 200 miles of fiber with federal assistance, but with an average of less than one customer per mile in its 4,700-square-mile territory, it could cost up to $150 million to lay fiber for everybody, said CEO Glenn Lovelace. In addition, the company faces much red tape. "We have to deal with many government regulations that make the job difficult, such of right-of-way issues," Lovelace said. "On one project, it took us 12 years to get the highway permit to lay fiber from Hondo to Lincoln." Even endangered species protection can adds costs to laying fiber. "We have to put 'lizard ladders' in every open trench," Lovelace said. "The dune sagebrush lizard has a limited number of scales under its armpits, and if we're in protected zones, we have to put two-by-fours in the ditches so if any of those little fellows fall into the ditch, they can climb out." Federal money continues to flow to New Mexico. The Federal Communications Commission awarded $2.3 million last summer to CenturyLink and Windstream Communications to extend broadband access in rural areas. And, in December, it approved $15.4 million for the University of New Mexico's Center for Telehealth, San Juan Regional Medical Center and Presbyterian Healthcare Systems to jointly build a rural telehealth broadband network. Still, experts say high-speed Internet access is moving at a dial-up pace in New Mexico. "I don't think we're anywhere near where we need to be," said Richard Lowenberg, executive director of the First Mile Institute in Santa Fe. "We still have gaping holes with many underserved areas." Gar Clarke, broadband program director at the Department of Information Technology, said an online mapping program financed with $4.7 million in stimulus funds has allowed the government to build the state's first public, interactive website that details technology availability geographically. That will help plan more broadband extension projects in critical zones. "It will help focus our energy," Clarke said. "We'll look at existing conditions to determine future needs to then get funding and move forward." The USDA's Brunner said that's an important step. "There needs to be leadership from folks at the state level to determine needs and create targeted areas for investment," he said. "The USDA would be happy to meet some of those funding needs." ---------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com ---------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm From brianvida at nm.net Thu Feb 28 21:25:24 2013 From: brianvida at nm.net (Brian Skeele) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 00:25:24 -0500 (EST) Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Site Integrated Energy, Water, Food Design Workshop Message-ID: <1112615483000.1101581190640.1124.6.240025C6@scheduler.constantcontact.com> Having trouble viewing this email? 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URL: From rl at 1st-mile.com Fri Mar 1 15:42:02 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:42:02 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] =?utf-8?q?Sandia=E2=80=99s_new_fiber_optic_network_?= =?utf-8?q?is_world=E2=80=99s_largest?= Message-ID: <4d775ef25fb754114d69139915a73b13@dcn.org> February 28, 2013 https://share.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/fiber_optic/ Fiber optic network saves energy, money ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. ? Sandia National Laboratories has become a pioneer in large-scale passive optical networks, building the largest fiber optical local area network in the world. The network pulls together 265 buildings and 13,000 computer network ports and brings high-speed communication to some of the labs? most remote technical areas for the first time. And it will save an estimated $20 million over five years through energy and other savings and not having to buy replacement equipment. Sandia expects to reduce energy costs by 65 percent once the network is fully operational. Fiber offers far more capacity, is more secure and reliable and is less expensive to maintain and operate than the traditional network using copper cables. An optical local area network (LAN) gives people phone, data and video services using half-inch fiber optic cables made of 288 individual fibers, instead of the conventional 4-inch copper cables. Copper cables used to fill up underground conduits and required steel overhead racks of connecting cable, along with distribution rooms filled with separate frames for copper voice and data cables. The fiber distribution system uses only part of the conduit and needs only a 2- by 3-foot cable box. ?The frames go away, and the walls are bare and the tray empties,? said senior engineer Steve Gossage, who has spent his 36-year career at Sandia in advanced information and network systems engineering. The national laboratory has always pushed for speed beyond the fastest transmission rate available, Gossage said. ?When people were working in much slower data rates, kilobit-type rates at short distances, we were trying to get 10 times the distance and 10 times the speed,? he said. Adopting fiber optics Sandia began looking at fiber optics early in the technology?s development because of its promise of higher bandwidth ? greater communication speed ? at longer distances. The labs started converting from copper in the 1980s, first installing then-emerging fiber optics in a single building and bumping that facility to megabit speeds. ?Today we?re way past that. We?re at 10 gigabit-type rates and looking hard at 100,? Gossage said. After years of planning, Sandia completed a formal network plan in late 2008 and sought competitive bids the following year. Sandia selected Tellabs of Naperville, Ill., as the equipment vendor for the network, and Gossage and his colleagues simultaneously began to jumpstart the deployment of the fiber infrastructure and set up a test lab to validate the performance of configurations for the equipment and various network functions. The technology began moving to desktops in 2011, and by the end of 2012, Sandia had converted more than 90 percent of bulky copper cable to a fiber optics LAN. Sandia, which will spend about $15 million on the project, needs superb computing capability for the problems it tackles as part of its support for the mission for the National Nuclear Security Administration. ?Whether it?s a materials science problem or modeling an event, we need a lot of data and a lot of processing capability,? Gossage said. ?We need to be able to see it, we need to be able to view it, we need to be able to put teams together. This is a large laboratory, deeply stocked with scientists and engineers and test labs. For the analyses we get, the problems are not small and they?re not easy.? Since its first experience with fiber optics, Sandia envisioned being able to use multiple wavelengths in a very high bandwidth single strand reaching the farthest tech areas. But decades ago, when Sandia began putting in single-mode fiber to desks and adding underground fiber capabilities, the technology wasn?t quite mature enough to take advantage of fiber optics? inherent multiple wavelengths and speeds. So Sandia continued to install the fiber optics cable foundation and waited as the technology developed, and moved quickly when commercial optical networks began deploying voice, data and video to large collections of homes and offices. ?There weren?t that many unknowns for us because we had been thinking about ways to do this on a large scale for quite a while,? Gossage said. ?We had already thought through what this might mean to us, what it might mean to our lifecycle costs and where the investments would be, and we were already pretty comfortable with fiber and the technologies that go with it.? Copper versus fiber optics Buildings with conventional copper LANs have separate networks for phones, computers, wireless, security and so on. Fiber optics puts everything in a single network cable. That eliminates a large number of power-consuming switches and routers and makes the network simpler to operate and cheaper to install. Since it requires less space, energy and maintenance costs go down. ?As we research and deploy new technologies, our main objectives are to enable the labs? mission, decrease life-cycle costs and if possible reduce our footprint on the environment. With the deployment of passive optical networks we have been able to meet and exceed all of these objectives,? said Sandia manager Jeremy Banks. Where a conventional LAN serving 900 customers requires a space the size of three double ovens, an optical network serving 8,000 requires a microwave oven-sized space. Where copper cable required Sandia to maintain and manage 600 separate switches in the field, optical LAN allows it to operate a data center in one building and simple, standard ports to offices. Because fiber optics reaches beyond the 100-meter radius that once was the standard from a wiring closet to a desktop, remote areas such as the National Solar Thermal Test Facility have high-speed communications for the first time. The only copper wire for most of Sandia today is a short connection from the wall to the desktop. Everything behind the wall is fiber. Moving away from copper wasn?t easy. It required new technology for the core communication system and made Sandia its own network provider, Gossage said. He credited a central team of about 10 people across Sandia who worked together every day throughout 2011, plus sub-teams totaling about 40 people. The effort included engineering design, information technology, network systems, computing, facilities, security and people in the field pulling cable and connecting ports. Still to come Sandia is recycling copper as it?s replaced, which keeps tons of valuable material out of a landfill. The estimated $80,000 for the copper will offset some of the fiber optics cost. The labs also must turn off hundreds of switches before it can fully realize the energy savings. That will take longer because it depends on such things as staffing, Gossage said. More change could be coming. A small trial is under way for voice-over-fiber ? putting data and voice in one system rather than the two Sandia uses today. Testing shows Sandia can protect voice running through a congested circuit ? what Gossage calls ?a Mother?s Day test,? when everyone calls at the same time. The Gigabit Passive Optical Network standard Sandia works with can dedicate part of the bandwidth and give priority to selected traffic such as voice. So calls would go through even with heavy competition from data. Sandia also is working with a small number of researchers who need more bandwidth than they?re getting. The labs? needs are ahead of the market but it?s pushing for next-generation increases in speed, Gossage said. Communication speed improves every five to eight years. With copper, each improvement required replacing large, heavy bundles of jacketed cable to re-engineer them to perform at the new speed, he said. Fiber optical cable offers a bandwidth good for 25 years or more. ?We change the wavelength, we change the modulation rate, we don?t get back in the ceiling, we don?t get back in the customer?s office,? Gossage said. ?So our return on investment, our capital investment, our operational investment, the impact on our customers ? everything gets better.? Sandia National Laboratories is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy?s National Nuclear Security Administration. With main facilities in Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif., Sandia has major R&D responsibilities in national security, energy and environmental technologies, and economic competitiveness. Sandia news media contact: Sue Holmes, sholmes at sandia.gov , (505) 844-6362 -------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com -------------------------------- From christopher at newrules.org Sat Mar 2 04:15:35 2013 From: christopher at newrules.org (Christopher Mitchell) Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 06:15:35 -0600 Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?Re=3A_=5B1st=2Dmile=2Dnm=5D_Sandia=92s_new_fiber_optic_network?= =?windows-1252?Q?_is_world=92s_largest?= In-Reply-To: <4d775ef25fb754114d69139915a73b13@dcn.org> References: <4d775ef25fb754114d69139915a73b13@dcn.org> Message-ID: It is an interesting story, but by what measure is it the largest in the world? Two coops in the Dakotas worked together to build a FTTH network over 10,000 sq miles. If I had to guess, Chattanooga's FTTH network has over 50,000 ports between triple play customers and electric grid devices over 600 sq miles. Christopher Mitchell Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative Institute for Local Self-Reliance http://www.muninetworks.org @communitynets 612-276-3456 x209 On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > February 28, 2013 > https://share.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/fiber_optic/ > > Fiber optic network saves energy, money > > ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. ? Sandia National Laboratories has become a pioneer > in large-scale passive optical networks, building the largest fiber > optical local area network in the world. > > The network pulls together 265 buildings and 13,000 computer network > ports and brings high-speed communication to some of the labs? most > remote technical areas for the first time. And it will save an estimated > $20 million over five years through energy and other savings and not > having to buy replacement equipment. Sandia expects to reduce energy > costs by 65 percent once the network is fully operational. > > Fiber offers far more capacity, is more secure and reliable and is less > expensive to maintain and operate than the traditional network using > copper cables. > > An optical local area network (LAN) gives people phone, data and video > services using half-inch fiber optic cables made of 288 individual > fibers, instead of the conventional 4-inch copper cables. Copper cables > used to fill up underground conduits and required steel overhead racks > of connecting cable, along with distribution rooms filled with separate > frames for copper voice and data cables. The fiber distribution system > uses only part of the conduit and needs only a 2- by 3-foot cable box. > > ?The frames go away, and the walls are bare and the tray empties,? said > senior engineer Steve Gossage, who has spent his 36-year career at > Sandia in advanced information and network systems engineering. > > The national laboratory has always pushed for speed beyond the fastest > transmission rate available, Gossage said. ?When people were working in > much slower data rates, kilobit-type rates at short distances, we were > trying to get 10 times the distance and 10 times the speed,? he said. > > Adopting fiber optics > > Sandia began looking at fiber optics early in the technology?s > development because of its promise of higher bandwidth ? greater > communication speed ? at longer distances. The labs started converting > from copper in the 1980s, first installing then-emerging fiber optics in > a single building and bumping that facility to megabit speeds. ?Today > we?re way past that. We?re at 10 gigabit-type rates and looking hard at > 100,? Gossage said. > > After years of planning, Sandia completed a formal network plan in late > 2008 and sought competitive bids the following year. Sandia selected > Tellabs of Naperville, Ill., as the equipment vendor for the network, > and Gossage and his colleagues simultaneously began to jumpstart the > deployment of the fiber infrastructure and set up a test lab to validate > the performance of configurations for the equipment and various network > functions. The technology began moving to desktops in 2011, and by the > end of 2012, Sandia had converted more than 90 percent of bulky copper > cable to a fiber optics LAN. > > Sandia, which will spend about $15 million on the project, needs superb > computing capability for the problems it tackles as part of its support > for the mission for the National Nuclear Security Administration. > > ?Whether it?s a materials science problem or modeling an event, we need > a lot of data and a lot of processing capability,? Gossage said. ?We > need to be able to see it, we need to be able to view it, we need to be > able to put teams together. This is a large laboratory, deeply stocked > with scientists and engineers and test labs. For the analyses we get, > the problems are not small and they?re not easy.? > > Since its first experience with fiber optics, Sandia envisioned being > able to use multiple wavelengths in a very high bandwidth single strand > reaching the farthest tech areas. But decades ago, when Sandia began > putting in single-mode fiber to desks and adding underground fiber > capabilities, the technology wasn?t quite mature enough to take > advantage of fiber optics? inherent multiple wavelengths and speeds. > > So Sandia continued to install the fiber optics cable foundation and > waited as the technology developed, and moved quickly when commercial > optical networks began deploying voice, data and video to large > collections of homes and offices. > > ?There weren?t that many unknowns for us because we had been thinking > about ways to do this on a large scale for quite a while,? Gossage said. > ?We had already thought through what this might mean to us, what it > might mean to our lifecycle costs and where the investments would be, > and we were already pretty comfortable with fiber and the technologies > that go with it.? > > Copper versus fiber optics > > Buildings with conventional copper LANs have separate networks for > phones, computers, wireless, security and so on. Fiber optics puts > everything in a single network cable. That eliminates a large number of > power-consuming switches and routers and makes the network simpler to > operate and cheaper to install. Since it requires less space, energy and > maintenance costs go down. > > ?As we research and deploy new technologies, our main objectives are to > enable the labs? mission, decrease life-cycle costs and if possible > reduce our footprint on the environment. With the deployment of passive > optical networks we have been able to meet and exceed all of these > objectives,? said Sandia manager Jeremy Banks. > > Where a conventional LAN serving 900 customers requires a space the > size of three double ovens, an optical network serving 8,000 requires a > microwave oven-sized space. Where copper cable required Sandia to > maintain and manage 600 separate switches in the field, optical LAN > allows it to operate a data center in one building and simple, standard > ports to offices. Because fiber optics reaches beyond the 100-meter > radius that once was the standard from a wiring closet to a desktop, > remote areas such as the National Solar Thermal Test Facility have > high-speed communications for the first time. > > The only copper wire for most of Sandia today is a short connection > from the wall to the desktop. Everything behind the wall is fiber. > > Moving away from copper wasn?t easy. It required new technology for the > core communication system and made Sandia its own network provider, > Gossage said. He credited a central team of about 10 people across > Sandia who worked together every day throughout 2011, plus sub-teams > totaling about 40 people. The effort included engineering design, > information technology, network systems, computing, facilities, security > and people in the field pulling cable and connecting ports. > > Still to come > > Sandia is recycling copper as it?s replaced, which keeps tons of > valuable material out of a landfill. The estimated $80,000 for the > copper will offset some of the fiber optics cost. > > The labs also must turn off hundreds of switches before it can fully > realize the energy savings. That will take longer because it depends on > such things as staffing, Gossage said. > > More change could be coming. A small trial is under way for > voice-over-fiber ? putting data and voice in one system rather than the > two Sandia uses today. Testing shows Sandia can protect voice running > through a congested circuit ? what Gossage calls ?a Mother?s Day test,? > when everyone calls at the same time. The Gigabit Passive Optical > Network standard Sandia works with can dedicate part of the bandwidth > and give priority to selected traffic such as voice. So calls would go > through even with heavy competition from data. > > Sandia also is working with a small number of researchers who need more > bandwidth than they?re getting. The labs? needs are ahead of the market > but it?s pushing for next-generation increases in speed, Gossage said. > > Communication speed improves every five to eight years. With copper, > each improvement required replacing large, heavy bundles of jacketed > cable to re-engineer them to perform at the new speed, he said. Fiber > optical cable offers a bandwidth good for 25 years or more. > > ?We change the wavelength, we change the modulation rate, we don?t get > back in the ceiling, we don?t get back in the customer?s office,? > Gossage said. ?So our return on investment, our capital investment, our > operational investment, the impact on our customers ? everything gets > better.? > > Sandia National Laboratories is a multiprogram laboratory operated by > Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin > Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy?s National Nuclear > Security Administration. With main facilities in Albuquerque, N.M., and > Livermore, Calif., Sandia has major R&D responsibilities in national > security, energy and environmental technologies, and economic > competitiveness. > > Sandia news media contact: Sue Holmes, sholmes at sandia.gov , (505) > 844-6362 > > > > -------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. > 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 > www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com > -------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ggomes at soundviewnet.com Sat Mar 2 05:39:53 2013 From: ggomes at soundviewnet.com (Gary Gomes) Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 06:39:53 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Sandia's new fiber optic network is world's largest In-Reply-To: References: <4d775ef25fb754114d69139915a73b13@dcn.org> Message-ID: <005c01ce174b$6bb01150$431033f0$@com> I had a similar initial reaction, but would guess the claim is based on one of two distinction: 1) it being "passive optics", based on the claim of energy efficiency savings or 2) it is a LAN, not a Metro or Wide area network. Gary From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Mitchell Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 5:16 AM To: Richard Lowenberg Cc: 1st mile nm Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Sandia's new fiber optic network is world's largest It is an interesting story, but by what measure is it the largest in the world? Two coops in the Dakotas worked together to build a FTTH network over 10,000 sq miles. If I had to guess, Chattanooga's FTTH network has over 50,000 ports between triple play customers and electric grid devices over 600 sq miles. Christopher Mitchell Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative Institute for Local Self-Reliance http://www.muninetworks.org @communitynets 612-276-3456 x209 On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: February 28, 2013 https://share.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/fiber_optic/ Fiber optic network saves energy, money ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Sandia National Laboratories has become a pioneer in large-scale passive optical networks, building the largest fiber optical local area network in the world. The network pulls together 265 buildings and 13,000 computer network ports and brings high-speed communication to some of the labs' most remote technical areas for the first time. And it will save an estimated $20 million over five years through energy and other savings and not having to buy replacement equipment. Sandia expects to reduce energy costs by 65 percent once the network is fully operational. Fiber offers far more capacity, is more secure and reliable and is less expensive to maintain and operate than the traditional network using copper cables. An optical local area network (LAN) gives people phone, data and video services using half-inch fiber optic cables made of 288 individual fibers, instead of the conventional 4-inch copper cables. Copper cables used to fill up underground conduits and required steel overhead racks of connecting cable, along with distribution rooms filled with separate frames for copper voice and data cables. The fiber distribution system uses only part of the conduit and needs only a 2- by 3-foot cable box. "The frames go away, and the walls are bare and the tray empties," said senior engineer Steve Gossage, who has spent his 36-year career at Sandia in advanced information and network systems engineering. The national laboratory has always pushed for speed beyond the fastest transmission rate available, Gossage said. "When people were working in much slower data rates, kilobit-type rates at short distances, we were trying to get 10 times the distance and 10 times the speed," he said. Adopting fiber optics Sandia began looking at fiber optics early in the technology's development because of its promise of higher bandwidth - greater communication speed - at longer distances. The labs started converting from copper in the 1980s, first installing then-emerging fiber optics in a single building and bumping that facility to megabit speeds. "Today we're way past that. We're at 10 gigabit-type rates and looking hard at 100," Gossage said. After years of planning, Sandia completed a formal network plan in late 2008 and sought competitive bids the following year. Sandia selected Tellabs of Naperville, Ill., as the equipment vendor for the network, and Gossage and his colleagues simultaneously began to jumpstart the deployment of the fiber infrastructure and set up a test lab to validate the performance of configurations for the equipment and various network functions. The technology began moving to desktops in 2011, and by the end of 2012, Sandia had converted more than 90 percent of bulky copper cable to a fiber optics LAN. Sandia, which will spend about $15 million on the project, needs superb computing capability for the problems it tackles as part of its support for the mission for the National Nuclear Security Administration. "Whether it's a materials science problem or modeling an event, we need a lot of data and a lot of processing capability," Gossage said. "We need to be able to see it, we need to be able to view it, we need to be able to put teams together. This is a large laboratory, deeply stocked with scientists and engineers and test labs. For the analyses we get, the problems are not small and they're not easy." Since its first experience with fiber optics, Sandia envisioned being able to use multiple wavelengths in a very high bandwidth single strand reaching the farthest tech areas. But decades ago, when Sandia began putting in single-mode fiber to desks and adding underground fiber capabilities, the technology wasn't quite mature enough to take advantage of fiber optics' inherent multiple wavelengths and speeds. So Sandia continued to install the fiber optics cable foundation and waited as the technology developed, and moved quickly when commercial optical networks began deploying voice, data and video to large collections of homes and offices. "There weren't that many unknowns for us because we had been thinking about ways to do this on a large scale for quite a while," Gossage said. "We had already thought through what this might mean to us, what it might mean to our lifecycle costs and where the investments would be, and we were already pretty comfortable with fiber and the technologies that go with it." Copper versus fiber optics Buildings with conventional copper LANs have separate networks for phones, computers, wireless, security and so on. Fiber optics puts everything in a single network cable. That eliminates a large number of power-consuming switches and routers and makes the network simpler to operate and cheaper to install. Since it requires less space, energy and maintenance costs go down. "As we research and deploy new technologies, our main objectives are to enable the labs' mission, decrease life-cycle costs and if possible reduce our footprint on the environment. With the deployment of passive optical networks we have been able to meet and exceed all of these objectives," said Sandia manager Jeremy Banks. Where a conventional LAN serving 900 customers requires a space the size of three double ovens, an optical network serving 8,000 requires a microwave oven-sized space. Where copper cable required Sandia to maintain and manage 600 separate switches in the field, optical LAN allows it to operate a data center in one building and simple, standard ports to offices. Because fiber optics reaches beyond the 100-meter radius that once was the standard from a wiring closet to a desktop, remote areas such as the National Solar Thermal Test Facility have high-speed communications for the first time. The only copper wire for most of Sandia today is a short connection from the wall to the desktop. Everything behind the wall is fiber. Moving away from copper wasn't easy. It required new technology for the core communication system and made Sandia its own network provider, Gossage said. He credited a central team of about 10 people across Sandia who worked together every day throughout 2011, plus sub-teams totaling about 40 people. The effort included engineering design, information technology, network systems, computing, facilities, security and people in the field pulling cable and connecting ports. Still to come Sandia is recycling copper as it's replaced, which keeps tons of valuable material out of a landfill. The estimated $80,000 for the copper will offset some of the fiber optics cost. The labs also must turn off hundreds of switches before it can fully realize the energy savings. That will take longer because it depends on such things as staffing, Gossage said. More change could be coming. A small trial is under way for voice-over-fiber - putting data and voice in one system rather than the two Sandia uses today. Testing shows Sandia can protect voice running through a congested circuit - what Gossage calls "a Mother's Day test," when everyone calls at the same time. The Gigabit Passive Optical Network standard Sandia works with can dedicate part of the bandwidth and give priority to selected traffic such as voice. So calls would go through even with heavy competition from data. Sandia also is working with a small number of researchers who need more bandwidth than they're getting. The labs' needs are ahead of the market but it's pushing for next-generation increases in speed, Gossage said. Communication speed improves every five to eight years. With copper, each improvement required replacing large, heavy bundles of jacketed cable to re-engineer them to perform at the new speed, he said. Fiber optical cable offers a bandwidth good for 25 years or more. "We change the wavelength, we change the modulation rate, we don't get back in the ceiling, we don't get back in the customer's office," Gossage said. "So our return on investment, our capital investment, our operational investment, the impact on our customers - everything gets better." Sandia National Laboratories is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. With main facilities in Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif., Sandia has major R&D responsibilities in national security, energy and environmental technologies, and economic competitiveness. Sandia news media contact: Sue Holmes, sholmes at sandia.gov , (505) 844-6362 -------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com -------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2899 / Virus Database: 2641/6141 - Release Date: 03/01/13 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl at 1st-mile.com Sat Mar 2 07:37:17 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 08:37:17 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Sandia's new fiber optic network is world's largest In-Reply-To: <005c01ce174b$6bb01150$431033f0$@com> References: <4d775ef25fb754114d69139915a73b13@dcn.org> <005c01ce174b$6bb01150$431033f0$@com> Message-ID: <9329a0ebdcbbb13da81fc403fc6158f9@dcn.org> I will try to get some follow-on details and response from Sandia Labs after the weekend, as I have similar and other questions also. RL On 02.03.2013 06:39, Gary Gomes wrote: > I had a similar initial reaction, but would guess the claim is based > on one of two distinction: 1) it being "passive optics", based on the > claim of energy efficiency savings or 2) it is a LAN, not a Metro or > Wide area network. > > Gary > > FROM: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org > [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org] > ON BEHALF OF Christopher Mitchell > SENT: Saturday, March 02, 2013 5:16 AM > TO: Richard Lowenberg > CC: 1st mile nm > SUBJECT: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Sandia's new fiber optic network is > world's > largest > > It is an interesting story, but by what measure is it the largest in > the world? > > Two coops in the Dakotas worked together to build a FTTH network over > 10,000 sq miles. If I had to guess, Chattanooga's FTTH network has > over 50,000 ports between triple play customers and electric grid > devices over 600 sq miles. > > Christopher Mitchell > Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative > Institute for Local Self-Reliance > > http://www.muninetworks.org [1] > > @communitynets > > 612-276-3456 x209 > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Richard Lowenberg [2]> wrote: > > February 28, 2013 > https://share.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/fiber_optic/ > [3] > > Fiber optic network saves energy, money > > ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories has become a > pioneer > in large-scale passive optical networks, building the largest fiber > optical local area network in the world. > > (snip) > > -------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. > 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 [5] > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 > www.1st-mile.com [6] rl at 1st-mile.com [7] > -------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org [8] > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm [9] > > ------------------------- > > From frank at wmxsystems.com Sun Mar 3 07:31:37 2013 From: frank at wmxsystems.com (frank at wmxsystems.com) Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 08:31:37 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Sunday Denver Post on suspended $100.6 million EagleNet BTOP project Message-ID: <20130303083137.e4c653d4171ef05b5042f410c9d8e5d1.d3e85fc554.wbe@email04.secureserver.net> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl at 1st-mile.com Mon Mar 4 09:24:44 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:24:44 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Sandia Labs Fiber Network Message-ID: <012f19cf5ad57e1a678ebc086ec7d3a5@dcn.org> I called Tellabs this morning to get clarification on the questions raised here last week. Gary Gomes is quite right, that the distinction is that it is a 'passive' GPON LAN. Thanks Gary. You get this week's 1st-Mile "No-Bill Award". RL On 02.03.2013 06:39, Gary Gomes wrote: I had a similar initial reaction, but would guess the claim is based on one of two distinction: 1) it being "passive optics", based on the claim of energy efficiency savings or 2) it is a LAN, not a Metro or Wide area network. Gary FROM: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org] ON BEHALF OF Christopher Mitchell SENT: Saturday, March 02, 2013 5:16 AM TO: Richard Lowenberg CC: 1st mile nm SUBJECT: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Sandia's new fiber optic network is world's largest It is an interesting story, but by what measure is it the largest in the world? Two coops in the Dakotas worked together to build a FTTH network over 10,000 sq miles. If I had to guess, Chattanooga's FTTH network has over 50,000 ports between triple play customers and electric grid devices over 600 sq miles. Christopher Mitchell Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative Institute for Local Self-Reliance http://www.muninetworks.org [1] @communitynets 612-276-3456 x209 On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: February 28, 2013 https://share.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/fiber_optic/ [3] Fiber optic network saves energy, money ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories has become a pioneer in large-scale passive optical networks, building the largest fiber optical local area network in the world. (snip) -------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com -------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Mon Mar 4 09:53:45 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:53:45 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Freedom to Connect Conference: Today and Tomorrow Message-ID: <707ef36a65b8c1afdb09ae6e2208d02d@dcn.org> F2C: Freedom to Connect is going on today and tomorrow, March 4 & 5, 2013 at AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring MD. Remote Participation is available via back-channel chat and livestream Webcast. If you have time and interest, for program details, log on to: http://freedom-to-connect.net/ -------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com -------------------------------- From russ at brainstorminternet.net Mon Mar 4 09:51:29 2013 From: russ at brainstorminternet.net (Russ Elliott) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:51:29 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] DORA Notice to Crestone Message-ID: <000c01ce1900$e9510ae0$bbf320a0$@brainstorminternet.net> Hello all, this article outlines some of the interesting funding independent telco?s are attempting to do here in Colorado. Just in case you are looking into this type of fund raising, be aware of the ramifications and that it is under scrutiny by the Feds. http://www.centerpostdispatch.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0 &page=72&story_id=1996 Russ Elliott President Brainstorm Internet (970) 247-1442 x108 Office -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: DORA Order Crestone Telecom.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 72670 bytes Desc: not available URL: From rl at 1st-mile.com Tue Mar 5 16:06:46 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:06:46 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] USDA: Grant Funding Available for Rural Business Development Message-ID: <45f27d32138102633164c7a7c6ede827@dcn.org> According to NM USDA Director Terry Brunner, the current call for proposals may be applicable to particular NM Broadband initiatives, if related to economic development, small business development or Coops. Terry subscribes to this list, and may want to add more information. There is a NM webinar scheduled for 1:30 pm tomorrow, March 6. To RSVP, contact Clinton A. Kaasa, State Loan Specialist by telephone at 505-761-4957 or by e-mail at Clinton.Kaasa at nm.usda.gov. RL Grant Funding Available for Rural Business Development April 12, 2013 Deadline set for applications (February 12, 2013 - Albuquerque, NM) USDA Rural Development State Director Terry Brunner announced today his agency is now accepting applications for the Rural Business Enterprise Grant (RBEG) program. In making the announcement Brunner said, ?The RBEG program is one of the most flexible economic development opportunities offered by USDA Rural Development to create jobs, something the Obama administration has worked hard to do.? He added, ?In the past the RBEG has been used to fund business incubators, feasibility studies, business plans, and it has financed technical assistance programs for business development.? The RBEG funding is made available to public bodies, nonprofit organizations, public and private nonprofit institutions of higher education, and Indian tribes to facilitate and finance the development of small and emerging private business enterprises in rural communities and cities up to 50,000 in population. The grant funds can be used to finance and facilitate the development of small, private, business enterprises which is any private business that employs 50 or fewer new employees and has less than $1 million in projected gross revenues. The RBEG funds can also be used to pay for technical assistance for such things as feasibility studies, business plans, business development training, or workshops. However, by regulation this financial assistance cannot be granted directly to a private business. The RBEG financing is granted to a non-profit or a governmental agency that sets up a revolving loan fund and then makes a loan to a private business. Applications are selected for funding based on an established competitive scoring process. Priority will be given to application requests of $50,000 or less. Additionally, applications will receive discretionary points for projects that support the agency and department goals in the following categories: ? Renewable energy ? Local food systems and value-added agriculture ? Support of cooperatives ? Business programs in persistent poverty counties (Catron, Cibola, Dona Ana, Guadalupe, Luna, McKinley, Mora, Rio Arriba, Roosevelt, San Juan, San Miguel, Socorro, or Taos) ? Underserved populations: minority and women-owned businesses Last fiscal year, USDA Rural Development provided $283,000 to assist six New Mexico recipients which included the Southwest Regional Housing and Community Development Corporation to establish a revolving loan fund to assist micro businesses in four rural New Mexico counties. RBEG funding was also provided to the Ramah Navajo School Board, Inc. to complete a feasibility study for the proposed Cedar Bluff Travel Center and Business Complex. USDA Rural Development is currently accepting applications for the Rural Business Enterprise Grants (RBEG) program until close of business, Friday, April 12, 2013. Information on the RBEG program can be obtained from the Rural Development State Office in Albuquerque at 505-761-4953 or at: http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/BCP_rbeg.html USDA Rural Development?s mission is to increase economic opportunity and improve the quality of life for rural residents. Rural Development fosters growth in homeownership, finances business development, and supports the creation of critical community and technology infrastructure. Further information on rural programs is available at any local USDA Rural Development office or by visiting USDA Rural Development?s web site at http://www.rurdev.usda.gov The USDA has other funding programs and deadlines during the year, including the Community Connect program. Stay tuned. -------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com -------------------------------- From Terry.Brunner at nm.usda.gov Tue Mar 5 18:01:24 2013 From: Terry.Brunner at nm.usda.gov (Brunner, Terry - RD, Albuquerque, NM) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 02:01:24 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] USDA: Grant Funding Available for Rural Business Development In-Reply-To: <45f27d32138102633164c7a7c6ede827@dcn.org> References: <45f27d32138102633164c7a7c6ede827@dcn.org> Message-ID: Yes, the grants are for $50,000 or less to non-profits and public bodies. Grants may be used for economic development & job creating infrastructure (including telecom), planning, worker training, equipment, etc.... Call our business programs office at 505-761-4950 if you need more information. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 5, 2013, at 5:09 PM, "Richard Lowenberg" wrote: > According to NM USDA Director Terry Brunner, the current call for > proposals > may be applicable to particular NM Broadband initiatives, if related to > economic > development, small business development or Coops. Terry subscribes to > this list, > and may want to add more information. > > There is a NM webinar scheduled for 1:30 pm tomorrow, March 6. > To RSVP, contact Clinton A. Kaasa, State Loan Specialist by telephone > at > 505-761-4957 or by e-mail at Clinton.Kaasa at nm.usda.gov. > > RL > > > Grant Funding Available for Rural Business Development > April 12, 2013 Deadline set for applications > > (February 12, 2013 - Albuquerque, NM) USDA Rural Development State > Director Terry > Brunner announced today his agency is now accepting applications for > the Rural Business > Enterprise Grant (RBEG) program. > > In making the announcement Brunner said, ?The RBEG program is one of > the most flexible > economic development opportunities offered by USDA Rural Development to > create jobs, > something the Obama administration has worked hard to do.? He added, > ?In the past the RBEG > has been used to fund business incubators, feasibility studies, > business plans, and it has financed > technical assistance programs for business development.? > > The RBEG funding is made available to public bodies, nonprofit > organizations, public and > private nonprofit institutions of higher education, and Indian tribes > to facilitate and finance the > development of small and emerging private business enterprises in rural > communities and cities > up to 50,000 in population. > > The grant funds can be used to finance and facilitate the development > of small, private, > business enterprises which is any private business that employs 50 or > fewer new employees and > has less than $1 million in projected gross revenues. The RBEG funds > can also be used to pay > for technical assistance for such things as feasibility studies, > business plans, business > development training, or workshops. However, by regulation this > financial assistance cannot be > granted directly to a private business. The RBEG financing is granted > to a non-profit or a > governmental agency that sets up a revolving loan fund and then makes a > loan to a private > business. > > Applications are selected for funding based on an established > competitive scoring process. > Priority will be given to application requests of $50,000 or less. > Additionally, applications will > receive discretionary points for projects that support the agency and > department goals in the > following categories: > ? Renewable energy > ? Local food systems and value-added agriculture > ? Support of cooperatives > ? Business programs in persistent poverty counties (Catron, Cibola, > Dona Ana, Guadalupe, > Luna, McKinley, Mora, Rio Arriba, Roosevelt, San Juan, San Miguel, > Socorro, or Taos) > ? Underserved populations: minority and women-owned businesses > > Last fiscal year, USDA Rural Development provided $283,000 to assist > six New Mexico > recipients which included the Southwest Regional Housing and Community > Development > Corporation to establish a revolving loan fund to assist micro > businesses in four rural New > Mexico counties. RBEG funding was also provided to the Ramah Navajo > School Board, Inc. to > complete a feasibility study for the proposed Cedar Bluff Travel Center > and Business Complex. > > USDA Rural Development is currently accepting applications for the > Rural Business > Enterprise Grants (RBEG) program until close of business, Friday, April > 12, 2013. > > Information on the RBEG program can be obtained from the Rural > Development State > Office in Albuquerque at 505-761-4953 or at: > http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/BCP_rbeg.html > USDA Rural Development?s mission is to increase economic opportunity > and improve the > quality of life for rural residents. Rural Development fosters growth > in homeownership, finances > business development, and supports the creation of critical community > and technology > infrastructure. Further information on rural programs is available at > any local USDA Rural > Development office or by visiting USDA Rural Development?s web site at > http://www.rurdev.usda.gov > > The USDA has other funding programs and deadlines during the year, > including > the Community Connect program. Stay tuned. > > > -------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. > 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 > www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com > -------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely for the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message or the use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law and subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. If you believe you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. From rl at 1st-mile.com Thu Mar 7 11:22:06 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:22:06 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] CenturyLink and Innovate+Educate Present: 2013 Teachers and Technology Grants Message-ID: CenturyLink and Innovate+Educate Present: 2013 Teachers and Technology Grants http://www.innovate-educate.org/centurylinkgrant Deadline to Apply: April 30, 2013 Innovate+Educate and the CenturyLink Clarke M. Williams Foundation are pleased to announce the launch of our "Teachers and Technology" competitive grant program for teachers who demonstrate an innovative use of technology with students. Details, Official Rules and the Application can be downloaded at the program web link above. CenturyLink and Innovate+Educate are working to identify the most innovative learning practices in New Mexico and supporting educators' efforts to scale those practices. The purpose of this grant is to: ? Recognize New Mexico teachers who are using technology in innovative ways with students; ? Increase an awareness of how teachers are using technology in the classroom; ? Model best practices with technology integration improving student achievement. ELIGIBILITY All PreK-12 public and private schools within CenturyLink ILEC service areas will be eligible for the program. Grants are to be utilized by teachers to benefit the students in their classrooms. CenturyLink service is neither required nor considered in review of applications. APPLICATION MATERIALS All applications must be received via email by the close of business day 5:00PM MST, on April 30, 2013. Faxed applications not accepted. You can download the application at the program web link above.. Please direct all inquiries and submit all applications to Innovate+Educate at centurylinkgrants at innovate-educate.org . Innovate+Educate was formed in 2009 with a primary focus on data-driven solutions for addressing education and workforce challenges that put our global competitiveness at risk. Innovate+Educate, based in Santa Fe, NM, inspires action as a "think & do" organization and drives systemic change across the entire education to workforce pipeline illuminating invisible talent markets through research and innovation. www.innovate-educate.org . ---------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com ---------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Fri Mar 8 08:30:30 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:30:30 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Commotion Wireless Project Message-ID: <526865dc77f8c0d0d2bf4d84495e42ab@dcn.org> Commotion Wireless Project For those interested in open wireless mesh networking, the New America Foundation?s Open Technology Institute has just announced the Commotion Wireless Project. There are lots of opportunities to get involved. Links to the project home page and Wiki: https://commotionwireless.net/ https://code.commotionwireless.net/projects RL -------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com -------------------------------- From david at breeckerassociates.com Fri Mar 8 09:37:54 2013 From: david at breeckerassociates.com (David Breecker) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 10:37:54 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] satellite providers Message-ID: Hi List: My current wireless provider, Tewa Broadband, has decided to unilaterally terminate my service because it is no longer willing to support third-party hosted repeaters (which I need in order to see their tower). So it's back to the dish for me. Does anyone know the pro's and con's of the various satellite broadband services available in NM? I'm seeing these options: Skycasters Exede (formerly Wild Blue) HughesNet (via several retailers) Thanks! db dba | David Breecker Associates, Inc. Santa Fe: 505-690-2335 Abiquiu: 505-685-4891 www.BreeckerAssociates.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ggomes at soundviewnet.com Fri Mar 8 10:32:34 2013 From: ggomes at soundviewnet.com (Gary Gomes) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 11:32:34 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] satellite providers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <004201ce1c2b$4d537690$e7fa63b0$@com> One Positive for ViaSat's "Exede" service is that apparently they provide even faster service than the 12Mbps/3Mbps that they advertise. The negative of all satellite services is that they charge all change by usage - i.e. per GB and it is very expensive if you consume a lot. Steve Blum had a post on this today which includes a link to the FCC report http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle= &articleID=5715643655558029365&gid=4585794&type=member&item=220788810&articl eURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etellusventure%2Ecom%2Fblog%2Fstingy-data-caps-thrott le-viasat-subscribers%2F&urlhash=tVMa&goback=%2Egde_4585794_member_220788810 It apparently is a big success so far, because when I checked about my 88007 zip code, I find that, due to demand, they are not processing new orders. Since ViaSat and other new Ka Band satellite utilize spot beams, availability in other parts of New Mexico may be different. Gary From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of David Breecker Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 10:38 AM To: 1st-Mile-NM Subject: [1st-mile-nm] satellite providers Hi List: My current wireless provider, Tewa Broadband, has decided to unilaterally terminate my service because it is no longer willing to support third-party hosted repeaters (which I need in order to see their tower). So it's back to the dish for me. Does anyone know the pro's and con's of the various satellite broadband services available in NM? I'm seeing these options: * Skycasters * Exede (formerly Wild Blue) * HughesNet (via several retailers) Thanks! db dba | David Breecker Associates, Inc. Santa Fe: 505-690-2335 Abiquiu: 505-685-4891 www.BreeckerAssociates.com _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2904 / Virus Database: 2641/6156 - Release Date: 03/08/13 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl at 1st-mile.com Wed Mar 13 07:16:03 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:16:03 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Social Media: Thurs. Evening Presentation in Santa Fe Message-ID: Social media experts to speak on technology?s benefits during disasters http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/article_770496f6-4a0e-539c-8d2d-200e87bcce80.html Posted: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 7:00 am | Updated: 12:15 am, Wed Mar 13, 2013. By Staci Matlock The New Mexican Harrumph all you want, technophobes and social media scoffers. Those 140 character tweets, YouTube videos and mobile map apps could help you survive the next disaster, says an expert who studies the way people utilize evolving social media technology during a crisis. Leysia Palen, associate professor of computer science at the University of Colorado, is intrigued by the way crowds and emergency managers are using social media to organize, communicate and help each other during disasters. Palen will talk about her research at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Greer Garson Theatre Center in Santa Fe, the first lecture of the free 2013 Santa Fe Institute public lecture series. Palen is the director of Project EPIC (Empowering the Public with Information in Crisis) and the Connectivity Lab, which tracks technology and communications in disasters. Palen and colleagues have analyzed the use of online communications in more than a dozen disasters, including Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings and the 2010 Gulf Coast oil spill. Palen co-wrote, with her colleague Kate Starbird at the Alliance for Technology, Learning & Society, a paper on how people in Cairo used retweets through the popular Twitter program to spread information and build support during the 2011 Egyptian uprising. The public began using social media a few years ago, more quickly than government agencies and most media outlets, to spread information during disasters. Citizens posted videos and used Twitter to communicate on-the-ground crisis events from fires to revolutions as they unfolded. In the last couple of years, governments and emergency managers have caught on to the advantages ? and drawbacks ? of using social media to get information out quickly. Los Alamos National Laboratory jumped heavily into using social media during the 2011 Las Conchas Fire, as did national forest managers in New Mexico. In 2011, the magazine Emergency Management said incident commanders at wildfires, floods and other natural disaster events needed to pay attention to what was happening on the social media front. Palen holds a doctorate in information and computer science from the University of California, Irvine. You can follow Palen?s tweets on all things related to crisis social media @palen. Contact reporter Staci Matlock at 505-986-3055 or smatlock at sfnewmexican.com or @StaciMatlock. ----------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ----------------------------------- From white at grappawireless.com Wed Mar 13 13:40:58 2013 From: white at grappawireless.com (white at grappawireless.com) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:40:58 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] change email address Message-ID: <6465f9c06f960dd99e707185fc240066@grappawireless.com> My new address: paulwhitesf at gmail.com From owen at backspaces.net Fri Mar 15 20:00:42 2013 From: owen at backspaces.net (Owen Densmore) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:00:42 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity Message-ID: I recently called comcast/xfinity (what's the diff?) to try their broadband. I got an unusually tech-sophisticated customer support person. After working out the installation details, I mentioned interest in Verizon FiOS. He said there was no FiOS in NM but Vzn and Comcast have a bundling agreement so that if you have both comcast and vzn services, you can get discounts. Is this true? I haven't seen much mention of this other than vague marketing announcements over the past year. Details? Thanks, -- Owen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ggomes at soundviewnet.com Sat Mar 16 05:12:25 2013 From: ggomes at soundviewnet.com (Gary Gomes) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 06:12:25 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <004801ce223f$859ff5e0$90dfe1a0$@com> Owen, Unfortunately it is true. In one of the most egregious regulatory sell-outs of the Obama administration, in August of last year the Justice Department and the FCC approved a $3.6 Billion deal between Verizon and Comcast, Time Warner and Bright house cable companies that you and I will be paying for a very long time. The headline "deal" was for the three cable companies to sell their cellular radio frequencies (they had planned to enter the cellular business as competitors of Verizon, AT&T , etc. So for $3.6 Million , Verizon got access to additional 700 MHz frequencies that they may or may not need but more importantly, got rid of three potential competitors. That wasn't enough for the Cable companies though (if Verizon was to get rid of potential major competitors, so should they(m so they included an agreement for the companies to "cross-sell" each other's service. To no one's surprise (except for the FCC and the DOJ, perhaps), as soon as the deal was approved, AT&T announced that they were not going to extend FiOS beyond current markets. So now Comcast is offering its customers Verizon wireless service at a "savings" of $5.00 per month off Verizon's published rates for 24 months if bundled with Comcast cable service. Comcast has not announced when they are raising the Cable and/or Internet rates to make up for this $5.00 "discount". Welcome to America Gary From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 9:01 PM To: 1st-Mile-NM Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity I recently called comcast/xfinity (what's the diff?) to try their broadband. I got an unusually tech-sophisticated customer support person. After working out the installation details, I mentioned interest in Verizon FiOS. He said there was no FiOS in NM but Vzn and Comcast have a bundling agreement so that if you have both comcast and vzn services, you can get discounts. Is this true? I haven't seen much mention of this other than vague marketing announcements over the past year. Details? Thanks, -- Owen _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2904 / Virus Database: 2641/6178 - Release Date: 03/15/13 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gil.densmore at gmail.com Sat Mar 16 08:28:59 2013 From: gil.densmore at gmail.com (Gillian Densmore) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:28:59 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity In-Reply-To: <004801ce223f$859ff5e0$90dfe1a0$@com> References: <004801ce223f$859ff5e0$90dfe1a0$@com> Message-ID: Hmm com-cast/cox is already in the wired phone business- It seems like it has a monoply in many markets at cable speeds. What I don't get is why some smart company hasn't come along to provide at least 20mbs each way. When you look at the com-cast speeds they put heavy emphasis on download speeds of 20mbs down (give or take) but a snails pace up. Do people not want to have good upload speeds as well? Some of us want to have the option to have at least that 20mbs each direction. What i'm also unclear on is this: it'd seem easier to get people good internet acess if the darn copper wasn't a factor some sort of wireless stunt that'd get at least cable speeds in large areas without having to put down miles and miles of copper. Cell towers maybe? On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Gary Gomes wrote: > Owen,**** > > ** ** > > Unfortunately it is true. In one of the most egregious regulatory > sell-outs of the Obama administration, in August of last year the Justice > Department and the FCC approved a $3.6 Billion deal between Verizon and > Comcast, Time Warner and Bright house cable companies that you and I will > be paying for a very long time.**** > > ** ** > > The headline ?deal? was for the three cable companies to sell their > cellular radio frequencies (they had planned to enter the cellular business > as competitors of Verizon, AT&T , etc. So for $3.6 Million , Verizon got > access to additional 700 MHz frequencies that they may or may not need but > more importantly, got rid of three potential competitors. That wasn?t > enough for the Cable companies though (if Verizon was to get rid of > potential major competitors, so should they(m so they included an > agreement for the companies to ?cross-sell? each other?s service.**** > > ** ** > > To no one?s surprise (except for the FCC and the DOJ, perhaps), as soon as > the deal was approved, AT&T announced that they were not going to extend > FiOS beyond current markets. **** > > ** ** > > So now Comcast is offering its customers Verizon wireless service at a > ?savings? of $5.00 per month off Verizon?s published rates for 24 months if > bundled with Comcast cable service. Comcast has not announced when they > are raising the Cable and/or Internet rates to make up for this $5.00 > ?discount?.**** > > ** ** > > Welcome to America**** > > ** ** > > Gary**** > > ** ** > > *From:* 1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org[mailto: > 1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org] *On Behalf > Of *Owen Densmore > *Sent:* Friday, March 15, 2013 9:01 PM > *To:* 1st-Mile-NM > *Subject:* [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity**** > > ** ** > > I recently called comcast/xfinity (what's the diff?) to try their > broadband.**** > > ** ** > > I got an unusually tech-sophisticated customer support person. After > working out the installation details, I mentioned interest in Verizon FiOS. > He said there was no FiOS in NM but Vzn and Comcast have a bundling > agreement so that if you have both comcast and vzn services, you can get > discounts.**** > > ** ** > > Is this true? I haven't seen much mention of this other than vague > marketing announcements over the past year.**** > > ** ** > > Details? Thanks,**** > > ** ** > > -- Owen**** > ------------------------------ > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.2904 / Virus Database: 2641/6178 - Release Date: 03/15/13* > *** > > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbadal at sacred-wind.com Sat Mar 16 08:39:02 2013 From: jbadal at sacred-wind.com (John Badal) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 08:39:02 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Must be VZ mobile service - I'm unfamiliar with any residential home based services by VZ in NM. John ' Sent from my iPhone On Mar 15, 2013, at 9:01 PM, "Owen Densmore" > wrote: I recently called comcast/xfinity (what's the diff?) to try their broadband. I got an unusually tech-sophisticated customer support person. After working out the installation details, I mentioned interest in Verizon FiOS. He said there was no FiOS in NM but Vzn and Comcast have a bundling agreement so that if you have both comcast and vzn services, you can get discounts. Is this true? I haven't seen much mention of this other than vague marketing announcements over the past year. Details? Thanks, -- Owen _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john at citylinkfiber.com Sat Mar 16 09:13:56 2013 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:13:56 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Here in Albuquerque a "Smart Company" is already deploying 100Mb/s symmetrical and 1000Mb/s symmetrical connections to homes and businesses Even doing 20Mb/s connections via wireless That smart company tried to do it in Santa Fe, but the City Government created new rules that financially make it near impossible to provide those symmetrical services. Its now costing that City tens of thousands of dollars in tax payer money to fight a federal lawsuit brought on by Qwest. Regards, John Brown, Head Geek at the "Smart Company " CityLink Fiber Holdings, Inc. From: Gillian Densmore > Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:28:59 -0600 To: Gary Gomes > Cc: "1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org" <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity Hmm com-cast/cox is already in the wired phone business- It seems like it has a monoply in many markets at cable speeds. What I don't get is why some smart company hasn't come along to provide at least 20mbs each way. When you look at the com-cast speeds they put heavy emphasis on download speeds of 20mbs down (give or take) but a snails pace up. Do people not want to have good upload speeds as well? Some of us want to have the option to have at least that 20mbs each direction. What i'm also unclear on is this: it'd seem easier to get people good internet acess if the darn copper wasn't a factor some sort of wireless stunt that'd get at least cable speeds in large areas without having to put down miles and miles of copper. Cell towers maybe? On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Gary Gomes > wrote: Owen, Unfortunately it is true. In one of the most egregious regulatory sell-outs of the Obama administration, in August of last year the Justice Department and the FCC approved a $3.6 Billion deal between Verizon and Comcast, Time Warner and Bright house cable companies that you and I will be paying for a very long time. The headline ?deal? was for the three cable companies to sell their cellular radio frequencies (they had planned to enter the cellular business as competitors of Verizon, AT&T , etc. So for $3.6 Million , Verizon got access to additional 700 MHz frequencies that they may or may not need but more importantly, got rid of three potential competitors. That wasn?t enough for the Cable companies though (if Verizon was to get rid of potential major competitors, so should they(m so they included an agreement for the companies to ?cross-sell? each other?s service. To no one?s surprise (except for the FCC and the DOJ, perhaps), as soon as the deal was approved, AT&T announced that they were not going to extend FiOS beyond current markets. So now Comcast is offering its customers Verizon wireless service at a ?savings? of $5.00 per month off Verizon?s published rates for 24 months if bundled with Comcast cable service. Comcast has not announced when they are raising the Cable and/or Internet rates to make up for this $5.00 ?discount?. Welcome to America Gary From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 9:01 PM To: 1st-Mile-NM Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity I recently called comcast/xfinity (what's the diff?) to try their broadband. I got an unusually tech-sophisticated customer support person. After working out the installation details, I mentioned interest in Verizon FiOS. He said there was no FiOS in NM but Vzn and Comcast have a bundling agreement so that if you have both comcast and vzn services, you can get discounts. Is this true? I haven't seen much mention of this other than vague marketing announcements over the past year. Details? Thanks, -- Owen ________________________________ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2904 / Virus Database: 2641/6178 - Release Date: 03/15/13 _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From owen at backspaces.net Sat Mar 16 09:20:27 2013 From: owen at backspaces.net (Owen Densmore) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:20:27 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I would so hate to have no fanny but boy would I give it for this! Better yet, lots o' bucks. -- Owen On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:13 AM, John Brown wrote: > Here in Albuquerque a "Smart Company" is already deploying 100Mb/s > symmetrical and 1000Mb/s symmetrical connections to homes and businesses > > Even doing 20Mb/s connections via wireless > > That smart company tried to do it in Santa Fe, but the City Government > created new rules that financially make it near impossible to provide those > symmetrical services. Its now costing that City tens of thousands of > dollars in tax payer money to fight a federal lawsuit brought on by Qwest. > > Regards, > > John Brown, > Head Geek at the "Smart Company " > CityLink Fiber Holdings, Inc. > > From: Gillian Densmore > Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:28:59 -0600 > To: Gary Gomes > Cc: "1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org" <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity > > Hmm com-cast/cox is already in the wired phone business- It seems like it > has a monoply in many markets at cable speeds. > > What I don't get is why some smart company hasn't come along to provide at > least 20mbs each way. > When you look at the com-cast speeds they put heavy emphasis on download > speeds of 20mbs down (give or take) but a snails pace up. Do people not > want to have good upload speeds as well? Some of us want to have the option > to have at least that 20mbs each direction. > > What i'm also unclear on is this: it'd seem easier to get people good > internet acess if the darn copper wasn't a factor some sort of wireless > stunt that'd get at least cable speeds in large areas without having to put > down miles and miles of copper. > > Cell towers maybe? > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Gary Gomes wrote: > >> Owen,**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Unfortunately it is true. In one of the most egregious regulatory >> sell-outs of the Obama administration, in August of last year the Justice >> Department and the FCC approved a $3.6 Billion deal between Verizon and >> Comcast, Time Warner and Bright house cable companies that you and I will >> be paying for a very long time.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> The headline ?deal? was for the three cable companies to sell their >> cellular radio frequencies (they had planned to enter the cellular business >> as competitors of Verizon, AT&T , etc. So for $3.6 Million , Verizon got >> access to additional 700 MHz frequencies that they may or may not need but >> more importantly, got rid of three potential competitors. That wasn?t >> enough for the Cable companies though (if Verizon was to get rid of >> potential major competitors, so should they(m so they included an >> agreement for the companies to ?cross-sell? each other?s service.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> To no one?s surprise (except for the FCC and the DOJ, perhaps), as soon >> as the deal was approved, AT&T announced that they were not going to extend >> FiOS beyond current markets. **** >> >> ** ** >> >> So now Comcast is offering its customers Verizon wireless service at a >> ?savings? of $5.00 per month off Verizon?s published rates for 24 months if >> bundled with Comcast cable service. Comcast has not announced when they >> are raising the Cable and/or Internet rates to make up for this $5.00 >> ?discount?.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Welcome to America**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Gary**** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* 1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org[mailto: >> 1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org] *On Behalf >> Of *Owen Densmore >> *Sent:* Friday, March 15, 2013 9:01 PM >> *To:* 1st-Mile-NM >> *Subject:* [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity**** >> >> ** ** >> >> I recently called comcast/xfinity (what's the diff?) to try their >> broadband.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> I got an unusually tech-sophisticated customer support person. After >> working out the installation details, I mentioned interest in Verizon FiOS. >> He said there was no FiOS in NM but Vzn and Comcast have a bundling >> agreement so that if you have both comcast and vzn services, you can get >> discounts.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Is this true? I haven't seen much mention of this other than vague >> marketing announcements over the past year.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Details? Thanks,**** >> >> ** ** >> >> -- Owen**** >> ------------------------------ >> >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2013.0.2904 / Virus Database: 2641/6178 - Release Date: 03/15/13 >> **** >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 1st-mile-nm mailing list >> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org >> http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm >> >> > _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gil.densmore at gmail.com Sat Mar 16 09:44:03 2013 From: gil.densmore at gmail.com (Gillian Densmore) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:44:03 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Ooooh santa fe how you make very little sense sometimes- Hmm ok- any insite to what prompted the city to make those rules? On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:13 AM, John Brown wrote: > Here in Albuquerque a "Smart Company" is already deploying 100Mb/s > symmetrical and 1000Mb/s symmetrical connections to homes and businesses > > Even doing 20Mb/s connections via wireless > > That smart company tried to do it in Santa Fe, but the City Government > created new rules that financially make it near impossible to provide those > symmetrical services. Its now costing that City tens of thousands of > dollars in tax payer money to fight a federal lawsuit brought on by Qwest. > > Regards, > > John Brown, > Head Geek at the "Smart Company " > CityLink Fiber Holdings, Inc. > > From: Gillian Densmore > Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:28:59 -0600 > To: Gary Gomes > Cc: "1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org" <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity > > Hmm com-cast/cox is already in the wired phone business- It seems like it > has a monoply in many markets at cable speeds. > > What I don't get is why some smart company hasn't come along to provide at > least 20mbs each way. > When you look at the com-cast speeds they put heavy emphasis on download > speeds of 20mbs down (give or take) but a snails pace up. Do people not > want to have good upload speeds as well? Some of us want to have the option > to have at least that 20mbs each direction. > > What i'm also unclear on is this: it'd seem easier to get people good > internet acess if the darn copper wasn't a factor some sort of wireless > stunt that'd get at least cable speeds in large areas without having to put > down miles and miles of copper. > > Cell towers maybe? > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Gary Gomes wrote: > >> Owen,**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Unfortunately it is true. In one of the most egregious regulatory >> sell-outs of the Obama administration, in August of last year the Justice >> Department and the FCC approved a $3.6 Billion deal between Verizon and >> Comcast, Time Warner and Bright house cable companies that you and I will >> be paying for a very long time.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> The headline ?deal? was for the three cable companies to sell their >> cellular radio frequencies (they had planned to enter the cellular business >> as competitors of Verizon, AT&T , etc. So for $3.6 Million , Verizon got >> access to additional 700 MHz frequencies that they may or may not need but >> more importantly, got rid of three potential competitors. That wasn?t >> enough for the Cable companies though (if Verizon was to get rid of >> potential major competitors, so should they(m so they included an >> agreement for the companies to ?cross-sell? each other?s service.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> To no one?s surprise (except for the FCC and the DOJ, perhaps), as soon >> as the deal was approved, AT&T announced that they were not going to extend >> FiOS beyond current markets. **** >> >> ** ** >> >> So now Comcast is offering its customers Verizon wireless service at a >> ?savings? of $5.00 per month off Verizon?s published rates for 24 months if >> bundled with Comcast cable service. Comcast has not announced when they >> are raising the Cable and/or Internet rates to make up for this $5.00 >> ?discount?.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Welcome to America**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Gary**** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* 1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org[mailto: >> 1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org] *On Behalf >> Of *Owen Densmore >> *Sent:* Friday, March 15, 2013 9:01 PM >> *To:* 1st-Mile-NM >> *Subject:* [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity**** >> >> ** ** >> >> I recently called comcast/xfinity (what's the diff?) to try their >> broadband.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> I got an unusually tech-sophisticated customer support person. After >> working out the installation details, I mentioned interest in Verizon FiOS. >> He said there was no FiOS in NM but Vzn and Comcast have a bundling >> agreement so that if you have both comcast and vzn services, you can get >> discounts.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Is this true? I haven't seen much mention of this other than vague >> marketing announcements over the past year.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Details? Thanks,**** >> >> ** ** >> >> -- Owen**** >> ------------------------------ >> >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2013.0.2904 / Virus Database: 2641/6178 - Release Date: 03/15/13 >> **** >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 1st-mile-nm mailing list >> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org >> http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm >> >> > _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john at citylinkfiber.com Sat Mar 16 09:58:49 2013 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:58:49 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Greed and a complete lack of clue on the part of the City Attorney. Here is a recent speed test from an APARTMENT connected to our fiber http://www.speedtest.net/result/2472277506.png From: Gillian Densmore > Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:44:03 -0600 To: John Brown > Cc: Gary Gomes >, "1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org" <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity Ooooh santa fe how you make very little sense sometimes- Hmm ok- any insite to what prompted the city to make those rules? On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:13 AM, John Brown > wrote: Here in Albuquerque a "Smart Company" is already deploying 100Mb/s symmetrical and 1000Mb/s symmetrical connections to homes and businesses Even doing 20Mb/s connections via wireless That smart company tried to do it in Santa Fe, but the City Government created new rules that financially make it near impossible to provide those symmetrical services. Its now costing that City tens of thousands of dollars in tax payer money to fight a federal lawsuit brought on by Qwest. Regards, John Brown, Head Geek at the "Smart Company " CityLink Fiber Holdings, Inc. From: Gillian Densmore > Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:28:59 -0600 To: Gary Gomes > Cc: "1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org" <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity Hmm com-cast/cox is already in the wired phone business- It seems like it has a monoply in many markets at cable speeds. What I don't get is why some smart company hasn't come along to provide at least 20mbs each way. When you look at the com-cast speeds they put heavy emphasis on download speeds of 20mbs down (give or take) but a snails pace up. Do people not want to have good upload speeds as well? Some of us want to have the option to have at least that 20mbs each direction. What i'm also unclear on is this: it'd seem easier to get people good internet acess if the darn copper wasn't a factor some sort of wireless stunt that'd get at least cable speeds in large areas without having to put down miles and miles of copper. Cell towers maybe? On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Gary Gomes > wrote: Owen, Unfortunately it is true. In one of the most egregious regulatory sell-outs of the Obama administration, in August of last year the Justice Department and the FCC approved a $3.6 Billion deal between Verizon and Comcast, Time Warner and Bright house cable companies that you and I will be paying for a very long time. The headline ?deal? was for the three cable companies to sell their cellular radio frequencies (they had planned to enter the cellular business as competitors of Verizon, AT&T , etc. So for $3.6 Million , Verizon got access to additional 700 MHz frequencies that they may or may not need but more importantly, got rid of three potential competitors. That wasn?t enough for the Cable companies though (if Verizon was to get rid of potential major competitors, so should they(m so they included an agreement for the companies to ?cross-sell? each other?s service. To no one?s surprise (except for the FCC and the DOJ, perhaps), as soon as the deal was approved, AT&T announced that they were not going to extend FiOS beyond current markets. So now Comcast is offering its customers Verizon wireless service at a ?savings? of $5.00 per month off Verizon?s published rates for 24 months if bundled with Comcast cable service. Comcast has not announced when they are raising the Cable and/or Internet rates to make up for this $5.00 ?discount?. Welcome to America Gary From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 9:01 PM To: 1st-Mile-NM Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity I recently called comcast/xfinity (what's the diff?) to try their broadband. I got an unusually tech-sophisticated customer support person. After working out the installation details, I mentioned interest in Verizon FiOS. He said there was no FiOS in NM but Vzn and Comcast have a bundling agreement so that if you have both comcast and vzn services, you can get discounts. Is this true? I haven't seen much mention of this other than vague marketing announcements over the past year. Details? Thanks, -- Owen ________________________________ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2904 / Virus Database: 2641/6178 - Release Date: 03/15/13 _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.orghttp://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gil.densmore at gmail.com Sat Mar 16 10:10:11 2013 From: gil.densmore at gmail.com (Gillian Densmore) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:10:11 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hmm unfortantly not much to do instantly about greed I don't expect everyone to subscribe to jedi notions of living modestly and comfortably- However a clueless and or city atourny can be remedied somewhat with a bit of financial counter pressure as well offering incentives to hire experts in areas. It might be healthy for santa fes market for citylink to see some sucess. On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:58 AM, John Brown wrote: > Greed and a complete lack of clue on the part of the City Attorney. > > Here is a recent speed test from an APARTMENT connected to our fiber > > http://www.speedtest.net/result/2472277506.png > > > > From: Gillian Densmore > Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:44:03 -0600 > To: John Brown > Cc: Gary Gomes , "1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org" < > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> > > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity > > Ooooh santa fe how you make very little sense sometimes- > Hmm ok- any insite to what prompted the city to make those rules? > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:13 AM, John Brown wrote: > >> Here in Albuquerque a "Smart Company" is already deploying 100Mb/s >> symmetrical and 1000Mb/s symmetrical connections to homes and businesses >> >> Even doing 20Mb/s connections via wireless >> >> That smart company tried to do it in Santa Fe, but the City Government >> created new rules that financially make it near impossible to provide those >> symmetrical services. Its now costing that City tens of thousands of >> dollars in tax payer money to fight a federal lawsuit brought on by Qwest. >> >> Regards, >> >> John Brown, >> Head Geek at the "Smart Company " >> CityLink Fiber Holdings, Inc. >> >> From: Gillian Densmore >> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:28:59 -0600 >> To: Gary Gomes >> Cc: "1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org" <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> >> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity >> >> Hmm com-cast/cox is already in the wired phone business- It seems like it >> has a monoply in many markets at cable speeds. >> >> What I don't get is why some smart company hasn't come along to provide >> at least 20mbs each way. >> When you look at the com-cast speeds they put heavy emphasis on download >> speeds of 20mbs down (give or take) but a snails pace up. Do people not >> want to have good upload speeds as well? Some of us want to have the option >> to have at least that 20mbs each direction. >> >> What i'm also unclear on is this: it'd seem easier to get people good >> internet acess if the darn copper wasn't a factor some sort of wireless >> stunt that'd get at least cable speeds in large areas without having to put >> down miles and miles of copper. >> >> Cell towers maybe? >> >> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Gary Gomes wrote: >> >>> Owen,**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> Unfortunately it is true. In one of the most egregious regulatory >>> sell-outs of the Obama administration, in August of last year the Justice >>> Department and the FCC approved a $3.6 Billion deal between Verizon and >>> Comcast, Time Warner and Bright house cable companies that you and I will >>> be paying for a very long time.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> The headline ?deal? was for the three cable companies to sell their >>> cellular radio frequencies (they had planned to enter the cellular business >>> as competitors of Verizon, AT&T , etc. So for $3.6 Million , Verizon got >>> access to additional 700 MHz frequencies that they may or may not need but >>> more importantly, got rid of three potential competitors. That wasn?t >>> enough for the Cable companies though (if Verizon was to get rid of >>> potential major competitors, so should they(m so they included an >>> agreement for the companies to ?cross-sell? each other?s service.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> To no one?s surprise (except for the FCC and the DOJ, perhaps), as soon >>> as the deal was approved, AT&T announced that they were not going to extend >>> FiOS beyond current markets. **** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> So now Comcast is offering its customers Verizon wireless service at a >>> ?savings? of $5.00 per month off Verizon?s published rates for 24 months if >>> bundled with Comcast cable service. Comcast has not announced when they >>> are raising the Cable and/or Internet rates to make up for this $5.00 >>> ?discount?.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> Welcome to America**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> Gary**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *From:* 1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org[mailto: >>> 1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org] *On Behalf >>> Of *Owen Densmore >>> *Sent:* Friday, March 15, 2013 9:01 PM >>> *To:* 1st-Mile-NM >>> *Subject:* [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> I recently called comcast/xfinity (what's the diff?) to try their >>> broadband.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> I got an unusually tech-sophisticated customer support person. After >>> working out the installation details, I mentioned interest in Verizon FiOS. >>> He said there was no FiOS in NM but Vzn and Comcast have a bundling >>> agreement so that if you have both comcast and vzn services, you can get >>> discounts.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> Is this true? I haven't seen much mention of this other than vague >>> marketing announcements over the past year.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> Details? 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URL: From angel at cs.unm.edu Sat Mar 16 10:21:37 2013 From: angel at cs.unm.edu (Edward Angel) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:21:37 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Gillian, If you go back a ways in the archives of the list you will see my summary of our adventures trying to help the city with broadband. Johm, I and many others were unsuccessful in getting the City to not pass its telecom ordinance. One of the points that we made at the council meeting almost three years ago was that if they passed the ordinance they would immediately be sued. They were and apparently it still hasn't been settled. The ordinance called for a committee that I headed to review the ordinance which we did. The city attorney and city manager refused to give our report to the council and disbanded the committee and formed another one more to their liking. Hard to see a path to better and affordable broadband in the city. Ed __________ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) angel at cs.unm.edu 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel On Mar 16, 2013, at 11:10 AM, Gillian Densmore wrote: > Hmm unfortantly not much to do instantly about greed I don't expect everyone to subscribe to jedi notions of living modestly and comfortably- > > However a clueless and or city atourny can be remedied somewhat with a bit of financial counter pressure as well offering incentives to hire experts in areas. It might be healthy for santa fes market for citylink to see some sucess. > > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:58 AM, John Brown wrote: > Greed and a complete lack of clue on the part of the City Attorney. > > Here is a recent speed test from an APARTMENT connected to our fiber > > http://www.speedtest.net/result/2472277506.png > > > > From: Gillian Densmore > Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:44:03 -0600 > To: John Brown > Cc: Gary Gomes , "1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org" <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> > > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity > > Ooooh santa fe how you make very little sense sometimes- > Hmm ok- any insite to what prompted the city to make those rules? > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:13 AM, John Brown wrote: > Here in Albuquerque a "Smart Company" is already deploying 100Mb/s symmetrical and 1000Mb/s symmetrical connections to homes and businesses > > Even doing 20Mb/s connections via wireless > > That smart company tried to do it in Santa Fe, but the City Government created new rules that financially make it near impossible to provide those symmetrical services. Its now costing that City tens of thousands of dollars in tax payer money to fight a federal lawsuit brought on by Qwest. > > Regards, > > John Brown, > Head Geek at the "Smart Company " > CityLink Fiber Holdings, Inc. > > From: Gillian Densmore > Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:28:59 -0600 > To: Gary Gomes > Cc: "1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org" <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity > > Hmm com-cast/cox is already in the wired phone business- It seems like it has a monoply in many markets at cable speeds. > > What I don't get is why some smart company hasn't come along to provide at least 20mbs each way. > When you look at the com-cast speeds they put heavy emphasis on download speeds of 20mbs down (give or take) but a snails pace up. Do people not want to have good upload speeds as well? Some of us want to have the option to have at least that 20mbs each direction. > > What i'm also unclear on is this: it'd seem easier to get people good internet acess if the darn copper wasn't a factor some sort of wireless stunt that'd get at least cable speeds in large areas without having to put down miles and miles of copper. > > Cell towers maybe? > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Gary Gomes wrote: > Owen, > > > > Unfortunately it is true. In one of the most egregious regulatory sell-outs of the Obama administration, in August of last year the Justice Department and the FCC approved a $3.6 Billion deal between Verizon and Comcast, Time Warner and Bright house cable companies that you and I will be paying for a very long time. > > > > The headline ?deal? was for the three cable companies to sell their cellular radio frequencies (they had planned to enter the cellular business as competitors of Verizon, AT&T , etc. So for $3.6 Million , Verizon got access to additional 700 MHz frequencies that they may or may not need but more importantly, got rid of three potential competitors. That wasn?t enough for the Cable companies though (if Verizon was to get rid of potential major competitors, so should they(m so they included an agreement for the companies to ?cross-sell? each other?s service. > > > > To no one?s surprise (except for the FCC and the DOJ, perhaps), as soon as the deal was approved, AT&T announced that they were not going to extend FiOS beyond current markets. > > > > So now Comcast is offering its customers Verizon wireless service at a ?savings? of $5.00 per month off Verizon?s published rates for 24 months if bundled with Comcast cable service. Comcast has not announced when they are raising the Cable and/or Internet rates to make up for this $5.00 ?discount?. > > > > Welcome to America > > > > Gary > > > > From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=soundviewnet.com at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 9:01 PM > To: 1st-Mile-NM > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity > > > > I recently called comcast/xfinity (what's the diff?) to try their broadband. > > > > I got an unusually tech-sophisticated customer support person. After working out the installation details, I mentioned interest in Verizon FiOS. He said there was no FiOS in NM but Vzn and Comcast have a bundling agreement so that if you have both comcast and vzn services, you can get discounts. > > > > Is this true? I haven't seen much mention of this other than vague marketing announcements over the past year. > > > > Details? 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Verizon does not offer FiOS in the NM market and the only bundle discount you can obtain with Comcast is for Verizon Wireless products. Regards, Danae From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+danae_fernandez=cable.comcast.com at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+danae_fernandez=cable.comcast.com at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 9:01 PM To: 1st-Mile-NM Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity I recently called comcast/xfinity (what's the diff?) to try their broadband. I got an unusually tech-sophisticated customer support person. After working out the installation details, I mentioned interest in Verizon FiOS. He said there was no FiOS in NM but Vzn and Comcast have a bundling agreement so that if you have both comcast and vzn services, you can get discounts. Is this true? I haven't seen much mention of this other than vague marketing announcements over the past year. Details? 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RL -------------- Hello everyone, Some interesting developments on indigenous broadband development in the U.S. The Office of Native Affairs and Policy (ONAP) is housed inside the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). According to the FCC's website: "Our Office of Native Affairs and Policy promotes the deployment and adoption of communications services and technology throughout tribal lands and Native communities. ONAP consults and coordinates with American Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages, Native Hawaiian organizations and other Native and Tribal entities, and is the official FCC contact point for these activities. It also engages in work with FCC commissioners, bureaus and offices, as well as other government agencies, private organizations and the communications industries, to develop and implement related FCC policies." In March 2013, the ONAP released its first (2012) Annual Report. * Read the ONAP Annual Report : http://transition.fcc.gov/cgb/onap/ONAP-AnnualReport03-19-2013.pdf * Read about the creation of ONAP : http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-300855A1.pdf Some background on the creation of ONAP from the FCC website: "The creation of ONAP was one of the recommendations of the National Broadband Plan, which includes increasing access to Broadband in Indian Country as an important goal. There are 4.1 million American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States and more than 565 federally recognized Tribes with their own unique political and tribal structures. There is minimal access to Broadband in Indian Country. The best evidence indicates that the broadband deployment rate on Tribal lands is less than 10 percent, and anecdotal evidence suggests that actual usage rates may be as low as 5 to 8 percent, compared to 65 percent nationwide." Best, Rob ------------------------------------ Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com ------------------------------------ From Terry.Brunner at nm.usda.gov Thu Mar 21 12:09:20 2013 From: Terry.Brunner at nm.usda.gov (Brunner, Terry - RD, Albuquerque, NM) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:09:20 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FTTH Council Toolkit In-Reply-To: <0a55aaf068314ec6f3ed1161efc875e1@dcn.org> References: <0a55aaf068314ec6f3ed1161efc875e1@dcn.org> Message-ID: <1CE4E6E4793FD540BBE9E0F601D4B1D305787B59@001FSN2MPN2-081.001f.mgd2.msft.net> This might be of interest to NM folks trying to get fiber to the home: FTTH Council is having a conference for communities interested in getting fiber deployed. It is low-cost [$125], in Kansas City, May 29-30. Business and community leaders across the U.S. understand that they must upgrade their broadband networks for their communities to remain competitive in the global economy. But information on how to achieve that goal is hard to find and often overwhelmingly technical. Building upon the experiences of its own members and that of its partners, the FTTH Council Americas is holding this special conference in Kansas City at The Westin Crown Center to provide communities with the Toolkit they need to deploy gigabit networks. Hear from those on the frontlines of the gigabit revolution-public and private sector leaders who have brought (or are bringing) ultra-high speed broadband to their communities. Through general sessions and interactive workshops, we will showcase the tools to get gigabit deployed, including an understanding of the value proposition of gigabit networks and how to create an asset inventory, aggregate demand, issue an RFP, and manage implementation. Conference participants include: * State and local government officials; * Community/civic leaders; * Companies and organizations that deliver video, Internet, and/or voice services over high-bandwidth, next-generation, direct fiber optic connections; and * Companies that manufacture FTTH products and others involved in planning and building FTTH networks. This is the event for you to connect with and learn from peers who have gone through the steps of building an all-fiber network and, most importantly, to craft an action plan that you can take home and begin implementing. Go to our website: http://www.ftthcouncil.org/p/cm/ld/fid=71 or contact carol.brunner at ftthcouncil.org Terry Brunner State Director USDA Rural Development-New Mexico 6200 Jefferson, NE Room 255 Albuquerque, NM 87109 Office: (505) 761-4950 Fax: (505) 761-4976 Follow me on Twitter @Terrybrunner This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely for the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message or the use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law and subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. If you believe you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. From rl at 1st-mile.com Thu Mar 21 15:57:03 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:57:03 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Udall Advocates for Telecom Infrastructure to Spur Economic Growth on Tribal Lands Message-ID: <32143afe6a5f5f3d84fd61020c6939fa@dcn.org> From: Tom Udall Press Office Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 6:23 PM To: Tom Udall Press Office Subject: Udall Advocates for Telecom Infrastructure to Spur Economic Growth on Tribal Lands For Immediate Release March 20, 2013 Contact: Marissa Padilla 202.228.6870 | news at tomudall.senate.gov |@TomUdallPress Udall Advocates for Telecom Infrastructure to Spur Economic Growth on Tribal Lands WASHINGTON ? U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.) spoke the at the Federal Communications Commission today to highlight efforts to improve engagement with tribes and tackle the digital divide in Indian Country. Udall has worked closely with the FCC to expand their outreach and address the lack of basic telecommunications services for Native American communities. The meeting coincided with the release of the Office of Native Affairs and Policy (ONAP) 2012 report, which details the Commission?s engagement with more than 400 Tribal Nations and travel to 42 federal Indian Reservations since the Office?s inception in the summer of 2010. Click here for photos from the event. "Today's report exemplifies how the FCC is making strides to expand communications services for Native Americans to harness new technologies and improve economic development, education and access to health care," said Udall, a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. ?I want to thank Chairman Genachowski, the Commission and Geoff Blackwell for their commitment to ensuring the first Americans receive the services their communities desperately need and I look forward to working together to continue building on these important efforts." "Tribal Nations have not always had a seat at the table. But thanks to our efforts, the full involvement of Tribal Nations is now recognized as key to unlocking the digital divide on their lands," said Chairman Genachowski. "Senator Udall is one of the reasons ONAP exists, and I am honored that he was here today to celebrate all the work the Commission has been able to do since ONAP's founding. The work is not done, and I look forward to working in concert both with Tribal Nations and the industry to create greater opportunities and incentives for Native communities." At the agency's regular open meeting, Geoffrey C. Blackwell, Chief of ONAP, outlined several Commission accomplishments with respect to Tribal Nations in a presentation to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and the other Commissioners. Blackwell spoke of the important exercise of the government-to-government relationship that the Commission shares with Tribal Nations through agency consultation and coordination on the ground with Tribal leaders in Indian Country. His presentation summarized highlights from ONAP?s 2012 Annual Report, as well as several case studies of Tribal Nations with whom the Commission is working. The ONAP 2012 Report is available at http://www.fcc.gov/topic/native-nations. The ONAP report discusses the progress that the Commission has made in closing the digital divide in Indian Country, and spells out how that progress will continue in the years to come, through the consultation efforts of the entire agency and the involvement and contributions of staff and managers of the Bureaus and Offices across the Commission. In October 2009, Udall sent a letter to Chairman Genachowski urging him to address lack of basic telecommunications services on Indian lands. ONAP was created by unanimous Commission vote in July 2010 in response a recommendation in the FCC?s National Broadband Plan, which recognized that the lack of basic and advanced communications services on Tribal lands leaves Tribal members with less access to telecommunications services than any other segment of the population. ONAP?s work with Tribes is focused on bringing modern communications infrastructure and the resulting benefits to Tribal Nations and Native communities throughout the United States. ONAP is responsible for developing and driving a Commission-wide Tribal agenda and ensuring Tribal voices are taken into account in Commission proceedings. ####### -------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com -------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Thu Mar 21 16:12:45 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:12:45 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] CIA Chief Tech Officer: Big Data Is The Future And We Own It Message-ID: Not specific to New Mexico, but an important look at the other side of our networked world. You may also want to read the article "Only Connect: in the April issue of Harpers, discussing a related aspect of the Google Kansas City fiber networking initiative, which I attach here, as you need to subscribe to read the article online. RL ------ CIA Chief Tech Officer: Big Data Is The Future And We Own It Michael Kelley | Mar. 21, 2013 GigaOm On Wednesday, the CIA's chief technology officer detailed the Agency's vision for collecting and analyzing all of the information people put on the Internet. The wide-ranging presentation at GigaOM's Structure:Data conference in New York City came two days after it was reported the spy agency is on the verge of signing a cloud computing contract with Amazon ? worth up to $600 million over 10 years ? that involves Amazon Web Services helping the CIA build a "private cloud" filled with technologies like big data. After laying out what the CIA does ? i.e. collect intelligence, conduct analysis, perform covert action ? CIA CTO Ira "Gus" Hunt detailed just how the agency plans to acquire, store, and analyze digital data on a massive scale. "You're already a walking sensor platform," Hunt said, referring to all of the information captured by smartphones. "You are aware of the fact that somebody can know where you are at all times because you carry a mobile device, even if that mobile device is turned off. You know this, I hope? Yes? Well, you should." In fact Hunt noted that based on the sensors in a smartphone, someone can be identified (with 100 percent accuracy) by the way they walk ? implying that someone could be identified even when carrying someone else's phone. The challenge for the CIA is to find the relevance is the ocean of information when something happens. The first step is for "data scientists" to save and analyze all digital breadcrumbs ? even the ones people don't know they are creating (i.e. "More is always better"). "Since you can't connect dots you don't have, it drives us into a mode of, we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang on to it forever," Hunt said. "It is really very nearly within our grasp to be able to compute on all human generated information." He ends with comments about how the "inanimate is becoming sentient," how cognitive machines (e.g. Watson) are going to "explode upon us," and how technology is moving faster than governments, legal systems, and even individuals can keep up. Check out the key slides from the presentation > Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/cia-presentation-on-big-data-2013-3?op=1#ixzz2ODarsLCq -------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com -------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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An additional 1,100 community institutions, including public safety, health, social services and emergency care facilities are expected to benefit from the new infrastructure. "It's a very complex project, and the Navajo Nation is the largest reservation in the country," said Mike Scully, general manager of the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority Wireless, first Navajo majority owned broadband company. The company is a joint venture between the utility authority, which owns 51 percent of the company, and Commnet Wireless, which owns the rest. The project began about three years ago, when the U.S. Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration awarded the utility authority a $32.2 million grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The utility authority committed another $11.3 million in contributions, and Commnet, another $2.2 million. The company already is testing its project in select locations, which are spread across the Navajo Nation. The company's product eventually will be available from nearly half of the tribe's land, which spans about 27,000 square miles. The area is notorious for shoddy cell phone and wireless Internet service. The vastness of the land, and its lack of existing infrastructure, posed challenges throughout the project for those trying to create a network. "It has a very unique terrain," Scully said. Still, the company has completed most of the construction. The project includes 550 miles of fiber optic cable and 32 new communications towers. Another 27 existing communications towers were modified. The fiber optic cable, which is cable containing up to 1,000 fibers that can transport multiple terabytes in one second, will run between various locations. The longest, spanning 161 miles, runs between Tohatchi and Tsaile, and the second-longest, 117 miles, will run between Farmington and Yah-ta-Hey. Others range from 20 to 98 miles long. Residents will be able to access the services, as will businesses in the cables' surroundings. Depending on how isolated the cables are, the company also will be installing advanced networks in the most isolated areas. "We're in the final phase," said Mike Hazel, director of operations and engineering at Navajo Tribal Utility Authority Wireless. Hazel, who runs the company's control and data center in Shiprock, said it's only a matter of time before the services will be available to the communities, including many of the chapter houses. Shiprock is already is hooked up to a trial cable, something that the chapter is considering using once the utility authority is ready to sell its product, chapter officials said. The company's packages will start at about $28 per month for the most basic service, though the company has not decided what the most expensive package will be. Company officials could not say when it would be ready to sell, though it likely be within the next few months, they said. They will be conducting trials during the next month or two. "We're going to do this right," Scully said. -------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com -------------------------------- From david at breeckerassociates.com Tue Mar 26 15:38:08 2013 From: david at breeckerassociates.com (David Breecker) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:38:08 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Google Network Fuels Kansas City Startups | Fiber City Episode 1 | TechNewsDaily.com Message-ID: <1F7A213D-25AB-4556-A09E-B2147CB4CD34@breeckerassociates.com> Some interesting observations in the short video: http://www.technewsdaily.com/17457-google-fiber-startups-episode-1.html?cmpid=520536 Fiber City: Google Network Fuels Kansas City Startups dba | David Breecker Associates, Inc. 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The workshop was held as a follow-up to FCC Chairman Genachowski?s announcement earlier this year that set a goal of having at least one gigabit community in every state by 2015. ?The cost of throwing fiber in the ground is really low compared with [the cost of] tearing up roads,? commented Christopher Mitchell, director of the Telecommunications as Commons Initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Municipalities that have acknowledged that reality have been able to do a range of things to increase the odds of their communities gaining high-speed broadband networks, said Mitchell, who took part in a panel discussion focused on ?Leveraging Local Tools? that was part of the gigabit workshop. Mitchell cited the examples of Santa Monica, Calif. and Seattle, where the local governments installed fiber whenever and wherever the streets were torn up. By using that approach, a city can amass substantial fiber resources in just a few years. In Santa Monica?s case, the city eventually had enough fiber to support a municipal network. In Seattle?s case, an extensive fiber footprint helped attract a high-speed network project that resulted from the Gigabit Squared initiative, Mitchell said. As Telecompetitor has previously reported, Gigabit Squared aims to bring high-speed broadband to several communities nationwide. The benefits of installing fiber when a street is already torn up apparently aren?t lost on the state of Minnesota. As Heather Gold, president of the Fiber-to-the-Home Council Americas noted, that state is considering legislation that would require the department of transportation to advise network operators in advance about construction plans. Careful coordination among various departments of a municipality is another good practice, said Mitchell. He noted, for example that one Florida municipality was able to maximize the benefits of a fiber network it was constructing through coordination with the department of transportation, which uses the fiber for traffic signals. Google also has seen benefits from big-picture planning for the gigabit network the company is constructing in Kansas City, Kan. and Kansas City, Mo. ?We can aggregate demand,? said Milo Medin, Google vice president of access services. Google has been building out the network on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis ? and when the company begins hooking up individual customers in a neighborhood, it does all of the other customers in that neighborhood who have signed up at the same time. In addition to minimizing the per-customer installation cost, this also enables the company to give customers appointments for a specific time rather than simply saying they will arrive some time during a four-hour or six-hour time window. How the FCC can help Panel participants also offered several suggestions for how the FCC could help spur the creation of more gigabit networks. Medin argued that service providers will need to offer a video service in order to make a business case for deploying high-speed broadband networks. But high programming costs make it challenging to put together a video offering. He pointed specifically to the cost of local sports as a ?non-trivial issue.? Gold said the FCC could help by preventing content providers from requiring service providers to take a package of channels in order to get just one or two popular channels that customers really want. In addition she said local broadcasters should be prohibited from negotiating jointly with service providers about re-transmission costs. (See the web site for links in the article) RL ------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Fri Mar 29 11:29:51 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:29:51 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Broadband Communities Summit: April 16-18 in Dallas Message-ID: The nation's premier annual broadband conference is coming up in a couple of weeks. 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I?m happy to announce our newest project: Google Fiber Poles. http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/introducing-google-fiber-poles.html https://fiber.google.com/about/poles/ (April Fools Day postings from Google) ------------------------------------ Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------ From christopher at newrules.org Mon Apr 1 08:27:59 2013 From: christopher at newrules.org (Christopher Mitchell) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 11:27:59 -0400 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Google Fiber Poles In-Reply-To: <1f199e929e23e89f8c0ca406fc14b90c@dcn.org> References: <1f199e929e23e89f8c0ca406fc14b90c@dcn.org> Message-ID: In the spirit of fun, be sure to check out Google Maps today - in addition to satellite view, they have treasure map view. Be sure to zoom into street view while in treasure map view for fun. Christopher Mitchell Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative Institute for Local Self-Reliance http://www.muninetworks.org @communitynets 612-276-3456 x209 On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > FIBER POLES > > [SOURCE: Google, AUTHOR: Michael Plump] > > We?ve heard this feedback a few times from our customers in Kansas > City; it seems that some folks have become hesitant to leave their home > connections. They want to be able to have access to Fiber even when > they?re out and about in KC, not just within the confines of their own > home. So my team of engineers started thinking about possible solutions. > How do you get a Gigabit everywhere in the community? We realized that > the answer was all around us ? utility poles. Poles already have our > Fiber strung to them; all we had to do was come up with a way to make > that Fiber accessible. That?s what we?ve done today. 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Only 53 percent of Navajoland has wireless broadband coverage through 3G wireless technology, according to a new report from the Office of Native Affairs and Policy and the Federal Communications Commission. Wireless broadband provides mobile voice and Internet services. Nationwide coverage for 3G wireless technology is higher than 98 percent. Jokes abound on the reservation, which consistently ranks staggeringly low in access to wireless Internet and cell phone services. The Navajo phrase for cell phone is "bil n'joobal'," or "something you use while spinning around in circles." The phrase is based on the description of someone spinning around with a phone, trying to get good reception. Navajo also use the phrase "hooghan bik bil dahjilwo" to describe a cell phone, or "something you use when you run up the hill." For the 63 percent of the Navajo population that doesn't have cell phones, however, the digital divide is even wider. The report, released March 19, is further evidence that Indian Country lags behind as the world races into the future of communications. "By virtually any measure, communities of tribal lands have historically had less access to telecommunications services than any other segment of the population," the report states. "The lack of robust communications services presents serious impediments to tribal nations' efforts to preserve their cultures and build their internal structures." A $46 million broadband project now in its final stages is expected to drastically improve digital communication on the 27,000-square-mile reservation. Funded in part by a $32 million grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the project will connect 30,000 households and 1,000 businesses in 15 of the largest communities, including Window Rock, Kayenta, Shiprock, Chinle and Tuba City. That's more than 135,000 more people on the grid and an additional 15,000 square miles connected to the wireless network, according to estimates from Navajo Tribal Utility Authority Wireless, the first broadband company of which the Navajo Nation is a majority owner. The venture is a joint effort between NTUA and Commnet Wireless, said Deenise Becenti, a spokeswoman for NTUA, which owns 51 percent of the company. The project began three years ago with plans to extend existing broadband services for 530 miles. Construction plans called for the installation of 96 strands of aerial fiber optic cable and 33 new microwave tower sites. "This is an extremely robust project," said Michael Scully, general manager for NTUA Wireless. "It's exciting for a rural area like the Navajo Nation." NTUA Wireless in February was granted a six-month extension for the project, Scully said. He hopes to complete the project "well before the new deadline." "We're trying to get it done as quickly as we can," he said. "Much of the project is complete." ----------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ----------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Fri Apr 5 14:48:03 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:48:03 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM DoIT Broadband Program: Update Message-ID: <0e6b61b0769953d607e42fc3e72828a6@dcn.org> A few weeks ago, Gar Clarke provided an encapsulated update on the NM Broadband Program, which is this State's NTIA funded broadband mapping, planning, capacity building and technical assistance initiative. I urge you to bookmark and occasionally look at the program web site for added information and materials, and for those with time and interest, to please participate in the process at: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/index.shtml In this update, I'd like to note that a NM Working Group had its first meeting on March 27, with additional meetings now scheduled, leading to a late Summer report and action agendas. Surveys have been prepared to address education, healthcare and economic development issues and information gathering. See: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/bb_workgroup.shtml The New Mexico Broadband Program (NMBBP) is launching two Regional Broadband Implementation Plan (RBIP) Pilots within the State to be completed by September 2014. These Pilots will not only provide technical assistance to help the regional groups chosen achieve a solid planning, funding and technology framework, but will also identify future funding to expand this implementation concept throughout New Mexico. To apply by May 17, See: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/surveys.shtml and: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/docs/NMBBP_RBIP_Application_final.pdf The New Mexico Broadband Program Community Broadband Master Plan Guidebook Version 1.1, March 2013 has just been posted. http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/reports/NM_Broadband_Guidebook_v1_1_final.pdf New Mexico Broadband Program Speed Test has also been deployed. Give it a try: http://nmbbmapping.org/speedtest/ There's probably a lot more to update this list about, and I'll leave it to Gar to do so. There is a good amount of work being planned for the coming months, through 2015. As the State proceeds, I'd like to encourage some participation, productive comments and related efforts by 1st-Mile subscribers. Productive is the key word. Simply being critical of process or outcomes is to easy, even though there may be vital issues to be critical of. The challenge before us is to move our state, communities, companies, institutions and residents forward, and not just to be playing 'catch-up'. This list should be one place where we can influence the State's process at a high level. Not an easy task, but I for one hope we can do so. Richard ----------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ----------------------------------- From ggomes at soundviewnet.com Sun Apr 7 13:44:45 2013 From: ggomes at soundviewnet.com (Gary Gomes) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 14:44:45 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM DoIT Broadband Program: Update In-Reply-To: <0e6b61b0769953d607e42fc3e72828a6@dcn.org> References: <0e6b61b0769953d607e42fc3e72828a6@dcn.org> Message-ID: <001701ce33d0$bcfb8f20$36f2ad60$@com> Richard/Gar, I am wondering where the data comes from and who benefits by the inclusion or exclusion of coverage areas that are shown on the interactive map. I own a home in the "Talavera" area of suburban Las Cruces. It is a pretty large geographical area (app 6 square miles) and it shows up as having Cable internet coverage. It does NOT. Comcast is the local Cable provider and they do not serve that area - one can confirm that by trying to order service to the house 5085 Copper Bar Rd Las Cruces, NM 88011. Obviously this makes me very suspicious of the entire endeavor. Gary -----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: Friday, April 05, 2013 3:48 PM To: 1st mile nm Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM DoIT Broadband Program: Update A few weeks ago, Gar Clarke provided an encapsulated update on the NM Broadband Program, which is this State's NTIA funded broadband mapping, planning, capacity building and technical assistance initiative. I urge you to bookmark and occasionally look at the program web site for added information and materials, and for those with time and interest, to please participate in the process at: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/index.shtml In this update, I'd like to note that a NM Working Group had its first meeting on March 27, with additional meetings now scheduled, leading to a late Summer report and action agendas. Surveys have been prepared to address education, healthcare and economic development issues and information gathering. See: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/bb_workgroup.shtml The New Mexico Broadband Program (NMBBP) is launching two Regional Broadband Implementation Plan (RBIP) Pilots within the State to be completed by September 2014. These Pilots will not only provide technical assistance to help the regional groups chosen achieve a solid planning, funding and technology framework, but will also identify future funding to expand this implementation concept throughout New Mexico. To apply by May 17, See: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/surveys.shtml and: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/docs/NMBBP_RBIP_Application_final.pdf The New Mexico Broadband Program Community Broadband Master Plan Guidebook Version 1.1, March 2013 has just been posted. http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/reports/NM_Broadband_Guidebook_v1_1_fi nal.pdf New Mexico Broadband Program Speed Test has also been deployed. Give it a try: http://nmbbmapping.org/speedtest/ There's probably a lot more to update this list about, and I'll leave it to Gar to do so. There is a good amount of work being planned for the coming months, through 2015. As the State proceeds, I'd like to encourage some participation, productive comments and related efforts by 1st-Mile subscribers. Productive is the key word. Simply being critical of process or outcomes is to easy, even though there may be vital issues to be critical of. The challenge before us is to move our state, communities, companies, institutions and residents forward, and not just to be playing 'catch-up'. This list should be one place where we can influence the State's process at a high level. Not an easy task, but I for one hope we can do so. Richard ----------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ----------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3272 / Virus Database: 3162/6226 - Release Date: 04/05/13 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3272 / Virus Database: 3162/6226 - Release Date: 04/05/13 From john at citylinkfiber.com Sun Apr 7 14:13:56 2013 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 21:13:56 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM DoIT Broadband Program: Update In-Reply-To: <001701ce33d0$bcfb8f20$36f2ad60$@com> References: <0e6b61b0769953d607e42fc3e72828a6@dcn.org> <001701ce33d0$bcfb8f20$36f2ad60$@com> Message-ID: I agree. I've raised this question before, only to fall upon deaf ears. There is no actual validation of the test results The "speedtest" site is a flawed test point. 1. there appear to be TCP issues as the test doesn't properly complete. 2. it does not make use of actual speedtest data / sites around the globe 3. The routing path to this site is POOR, packet path is 15+ hops away and takes multiple states to get to the UNM site. 4. Latency to the site is HIGH, which colors the test. 5. UNM does NOT have even have remotely a good connection to the general Internet. 6. There is no public information on what available bandwidth is for this site, or how far nested into UNM's network the site is located. Testing to the ABQ Comcast site from our Fiber network shows 67 mbps down and 37 mbps up, and this is going through our office firewall. http://www.speedtest.net/result/2630019517.png Testing to our speedtest server, also via our office firewall shows. 74 mbps down and 47 mbps up. http://www.speedtest.net/result/2630022192.png So similar results via the firewall. Comcast and our network only intersect via transit providers out of state. The UNM test site shows from the same desktop / firewall path 3.58 Mb/s down and 12.8Mb/s up. Very much WAY OUT OF WACK. In performing tests from a number of locations, I would believe that this test site is LIMITED to not more than around 20Mb/s worth of actual internet traffic. So not really an accurate test of higher speed services, if the test point is itself LIMITED. I love how year after year we all have the committee meetings and focus groups and master plans. All with and by people that generally have never actually built fiber networks. End result, more wasted money, more studies, no network. Do we actually move policies forward that truly enable new providers to provide, NOPE. Do we remove the real barriers to construction costs and network deployment costs, NOPE. Google had it right. They are building their stuff BECAUSE THEY CAN, .Gov be dammed. At present I see this as a waste of tax payer money. > -----Original Message----- > From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm- > bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Gary Gomes > Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 2:45 PM > To: rl at 1st-mile.com; '1st mile nm' > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] NM DoIT Broadband Program: Update > > Richard/Gar, > > I am wondering where the data comes from and who benefits by the inclusion > or exclusion of coverage areas that are shown on the interactive map. > > I own a home in the "Talavera" area of suburban Las Cruces. It is a pretty large > geographical area (app 6 square miles) and it shows up as having Cable > internet coverage. It does NOT. > > Comcast is the local Cable provider and they do not serve that area - one can > confirm that by trying to order service to the house 5085 Copper Bar Rd Las > Cruces, NM 88011. > > Obviously this makes me very suspicious of the entire endeavor. > > Gary > > > -----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: Friday, April 05, 2013 3:48 PM > To: 1st mile nm > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM DoIT Broadband Program: Update > > A few weeks ago, Gar Clarke provided an encapsulated update on the NM > Broadband Program, which is this State's NTIA funded broadband mapping, > planning, capacity building and technical assistance initiative. > > I urge you to bookmark and occasionally look at the program web site for added > information and materials, and for those with time and interest, to please > participate in the process > at: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/index.shtml > > In this update, I'd like to note that a NM Working Group had its first meeting on > March 27, with additional meetings now scheduled, leading to a late Summer > report and action agendas. > Surveys have been prepared to address education, healthcare and economic > development issues and information gathering. > See: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/bb_workgroup.shtml > > The New Mexico Broadband Program (NMBBP) is launching two Regional > Broadband Implementation Plan (RBIP) Pilots within the State to be completed > by September 2014. These Pilots will not only provide technical assistance to > help the regional groups chosen achieve a solid planning, funding and > technology framework, but will also identify future funding to expand this > implementation concept > throughout New Mexico. To apply by May 17, See: > http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/surveys.shtml and: > http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/docs/NMBBP_RBIP_Application_final.p > df > > The New Mexico Broadband Program Community Broadband Master Plan > Guidebook Version 1.1, March 2013 has just been posted. > http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/reports/NM_Broadband_Guidebook_v1 > _1_fi > nal.pdf > > New Mexico Broadband Program Speed Test has also been deployed. > Give it a try: http://nmbbmapping.org/speedtest/ > > There's probably a lot more to update this list about, and I'll > leave it to Gar to do so. There is a good amount of work being > planned for the coming months, through 2015. As the State proceeds, > I'd like to encourage some participation, productive comments and related > efforts by 1st-Mile subscribers. Productive is the key word. > > Simply being critical of process or outcomes is to easy, even though > there may be vital issues to be critical of. The challenge before us > is to move our state, communities, companies, institutions and residents > forward, and not just to be playing 'catch-up'. This list should be one place > where we can influence the State's process at a high level. > Not an easy task, but I for one hope we can do so. > > Richard > > > ----------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. > 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 > www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org > ----------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.3272 / Virus Database: 3162/6226 - Release Date: 04/05/13 > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.3272 / Virus Database: 3162/6226 - Release Date: 04/05/13 > > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm From john at citylinkfiber.com Sun Apr 7 14:48:48 2013 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 21:48:48 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Sample of Barriers to Entry and regulatory stupidity Message-ID: Here is a brief review of regulatory stupidity as experienced first-hand. Mountain Bell == US West == Qwest == CenturyLink, same wolves, different clothes...... Albuquerque Bernalillo Water Utility Authority Spends rate payer money to fill abandoned drinking water pipes with concrete so they can abandon in place. Refuses to engage in allowing those STEEL pipes to be used for Open Fiber Networks. WASTING resources. Refuses to engage in allowing conduit to be placed when they are cutting the City streets to replace water lines. Results, WASTED MONEY, WASTED LAND FILL, ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS AND WASTE, Higher costs for network deployment. Results, Higher fees to water drinking customers. Rio Rancho Wants to have the ability to TERMINATE agreements on 180 day notice with OR WITHOUT cause. (Yes that means you can spend millions building a fiber network, only to have your entire network trashed because the City decides it doesn't like you, and you have NO recourse). Rather have cash instead of having schools hooked up to dark fiber at no cost. Rather have cash instead of having libraries, city buildings, parks, community centers hooked up to dark fiber at no cost. And my all-time favorite, Top of the list still running 4+ years later. City of Santa Fe (not to be confused with County of Santa Fe) Expect you to pay thousands just to ask if it's ok to dig Expects you to pay even more thousands to make sure everyone around you thinks its ok to dig Expects you to pay even more to tell everyone you are going to dig Forms a study group to figure out what to do, disbands the group because it doesn't like answer, forms new group that can only give it an answer it likes. In sum, they want you to pay THOUSANDS (almost $7500 in fees and costs) just to do the paperwork to hook a house to fiber. So 7500 in City fees and mandated costs, plus around 1400 in actual construction and equipment, yields 8900 for a single family home That means it will take around 12-14 years to pay back hooking that home up, if you charge $79.95 per month, don't forget COGS. So in the meantime, they are spending hundreds of thousands defending a federal law suit. Yes they the City are SPENDING YOUR TAX MONEY defending a law suit because of their broken rules. You, the City of Santa Fe Citizen are thus DEPRIVED of next generation technology. Private Sector: PNM (as in Public Service Company of New Mexico) Um, we don't see you as a service provider and thus we aren't required to let you on our poles. If you don't like that, then you can sue us in federal court and take 3 years of your life. Yes, we know the spirit of the FCC and the Nation is to let fiber on our poles, but we will only let our friends on, or those that are bigger than us. Yes, we know that the revenue from pole attachment helps REDUCE electrical costs for our customers, but that doesn't matter. Yes, we will even let others who don't have a RoW with the City use our own rate payer paid for fiber cable, but only if we like them. From george.clarke at state.nm.us Tue Apr 9 16:35:38 2013 From: george.clarke at state.nm.us (Clarke, George, DoIT) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 23:35:38 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM DoIT Broadband Program: Update (Non Suspicous Processing) In-Reply-To: <001701ce33d0$bcfb8f20$36f2ad60$@com> References: <0e6b61b0769953d607e42fc3e72828a6@dcn.org> <001701ce33d0$bcfb8f20$36f2ad60$@com> Message-ID: <3D84DEBDC51FFF449BF8E8BF3FEEF7B9767086E6@CEXMB002.nmes.lcl> Hello Gary: We'll check out your address, compare with what the providers are giving us, and see what the deal is. To note, these data are "over reported" and not necessarily specific to your address. They are not "suspicious" just incorrect to the degree we'd all want to target. However, a simple fact. This is the best comprehensive Broadband Availability Resource available in the state to date. So, an explanation of the process may clarify the product and our shared frustration in producing a better map. Data Standards: These data are being "over-reported" both in some cases from the Provider and most definitely in the processing requirements specified by FCC/NTIA as a compromise to the industry. I'll explain, the NM Broadband Program has Non Disclosure Agreements (NDA)with each of the vendors who are participating to acquire their data twice yearly. There is a problem with not having standardized format for submittal of data. That's not a huge problem, as we can take spreadsheets, CAD Files, and napkin drawings to the standardized data model required by NTIA. Our real problem is content granularity. Some vendors provide customer addresses, this we prefer. Others provide customer coverage areas while others include an area that they "may" be able to provide services. Hence, we have a real normalization problem. So, this is our conundrum with cable, DSL, Fiber, etc. One can understand the challenge of different providers submitting various data formats with a mixture of "geographies". Now the Fixed Wireless providers have a similar challenge. We prefer obtaining Tower Locations where we run RF Propagation Modeling to produce an accurate coverage. However, again we have a lack of standardized granularity as some providers submit data with simple buffers and no tower specifications to run the model. We got some apples banging around with the sweet potatoes. Data Processing: Once we process these data we return them in map form (Layered PDF) to the providers in a secure environment for review. If issues, we correct and in some cases those providers who have limited map services are pleased to have their data illustrated. Next, we aggregate these data as per NDA and NTIA requirements. The requirements are to aggregate by US Census Block. Hence, if even an itty bitty piece of a providers coverage crosses into a Census Block, that entire Census Block is deemed served by that provider. See the problem now of over-reporting? Here in New Mexico we go a bit upscale. We conduct a series of Geoprocessing Analytics that remove areas with no structures, no addresses, and have zero population. In addition, we developed a NM Land Index Grid that will be able to overlay a smaller geography in rural areas and provide a better accounting of availability. Info: For additional information take a closer look at the NM Broadband Program Portal: - NMBBP Portal: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/ - Mapping Description: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/mapping.shtml - Latest Methodology Report: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/docs/NM_Methodology_2013_04_01.pdf I do hope this removes some of the mystery. If you've any questions or concerns, please contact me. Cordially, Gar Clarke Gar Clarke Broadband Program Manager Department of Information Technology Simms Building 715 Alta Vista Street Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 Email: george.clarke at state.nm.us Desk: 505.827-1663 Cell: 505.690-1661 Fax: 505.827-2325 BB Web: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/ -----Original Message----- From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Gary Gomes Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 2:45 PM To: rl at 1st-mile.com; '1st mile nm' Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] NM DoIT Broadband Program: Update Richard/Gar, I am wondering where the data comes from and who benefits by the inclusion or exclusion of coverage areas that are shown on the interactive map. I own a home in the "Talavera" area of suburban Las Cruces. It is a pretty large geographical area (app 6 square miles) and it shows up as having Cable internet coverage. It does NOT. Comcast is the local Cable provider and they do not serve that area - one can confirm that by trying to order service to the house 5085 Copper Bar Rd Las Cruces, NM 88011. Obviously this makes me very suspicious of the entire endeavor. Gary -----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: Friday, April 05, 2013 3:48 PM To: 1st mile nm Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM DoIT Broadband Program: Update A few weeks ago, Gar Clarke provided an encapsulated update on the NM Broadband Program, which is this State's NTIA funded broadband mapping, planning, capacity building and technical assistance initiative. I urge you to bookmark and occasionally look at the program web site for added information and materials, and for those with time and interest, to please participate in the process at: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/index.shtml In this update, I'd like to note that a NM Working Group had its first meeting on March 27, with additional meetings now scheduled, leading to a late Summer report and action agendas. Surveys have been prepared to address education, healthcare and economic development issues and information gathering. See: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/bb_workgroup.shtml The New Mexico Broadband Program (NMBBP) is launching two Regional Broadband Implementation Plan (RBIP) Pilots within the State to be completed by September 2014. These Pilots will not only provide technical assistance to help the regional groups chosen achieve a solid planning, funding and technology framework, but will also identify future funding to expand this implementation concept throughout New Mexico. To apply by May 17, See: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/surveys.shtml and: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/docs/NMBBP_RBIP_Application_final.pdf The New Mexico Broadband Program Community Broadband Master Plan Guidebook Version 1.1, March 2013 has just been posted. http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/reports/NM_Broadband_Guidebook_v1_1_fi nal.pdf New Mexico Broadband Program Speed Test has also been deployed. Give it a try: http://nmbbmapping.org/speedtest/ There's probably a lot more to update this list about, and I'll leave it to Gar to do so. There is a good amount of work being planned for the coming months, through 2015. As the State proceeds, I'd like to encourage some participation, productive comments and related efforts by 1st-Mile subscribers. Productive is the key word. Simply being critical of process or outcomes is to easy, even though there may be vital issues to be critical of. The challenge before us is to move our state, communities, companies, institutions and residents forward, and not just to be playing 'catch-up'. This list should be one place where we can influence the State's process at a high level. Not an easy task, but I for one hope we can do so. Richard ----------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ----------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3272 / Virus Database: 3162/6226 - Release Date: 04/05/13 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3272 / Virus Database: 3162/6226 - Release Date: 04/05/13 _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From george.clarke at state.nm.us Tue Apr 9 17:54:54 2013 From: george.clarke at state.nm.us (Clarke, George, DoIT) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:54:54 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM DoIT Broadband Program: Update (Wacked Speeds) In-Reply-To: References: <0e6b61b0769953d607e42fc3e72828a6@dcn.org> <001701ce33d0$bcfb8f20$36f2ad60$@com> Message-ID: <3D84DEBDC51FFF449BF8E8BF3FEEF7B97670884B@CEXMB002.nmes.lcl> Dear John: Geez, I wish you'd not be so shy with your opinions and technical expertise. So, give me a solution. We all know, even those who have never laid fiber, that speed testing can be a little better than spitting in the April Winds at times. However, to limit the anomalies, I chose to not use the FCC Site, yet to bring the Speed Testing Application (Ookla) closer to home at UNM. We have done some fine tuning and configuring to test high-speed networks/high latency scenarios. So, this is a "flawed" test site? What can I do to make it better. I appreciate you taking the time to compare results and report the issues. However, please advise me on how to improve our application. Others on this service may have some suggestions as well. Speed Blitz: Getting this cleaned up will be great as we're on the verge of launching a Speed Test Blitz. Please understand that our intent is not to split hairs on adequately serviced sites, yet identify those areas within the state that have inadequate service. The NM Broadband Program (NMBBP) will harvest the results, geocode the addresses, overlay these "points" onto census blocks, and aggregate these data. The assessment will take in "time series" analytics by stratifying a 24 hour period, parsing by technology type, and producing categories that will support our regional implementation pilots. Now if I was Mr. Google, I'd solve the broadband issue in a nanosecond. Also, my hearing has been compromised by a surfing accident many years ago, yet I am not deaf. Lastly, I am appreciative of the emails received in the last two days complimenting the work we're doing. - NMBBP Speed Test: http://nmbbmapping.org/speedtest/ Cordially, GAR Gar Clarke, Tax Payer Broadband Program Manager Department of Information Technology Simms Building 715 Alta Vista Street Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 Email: george.clarke at state.nm.us Desk: 505.827-1663 Cell: 505.690-1661 Fax: 505.827-2325 BB Web: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/ -----Original Message----- From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+george.clarke=state.nm.us at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+george.clarke=state.nm.us at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of John Brown Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 3:14 PM To: Gary Gomes; rl at 1st-mile.com; '1st mile nm' Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] NM DoIT Broadband Program: Update I agree. I've raised this question before, only to fall upon deaf ears. There is no actual validation of the test results The "speedtest" site is a flawed test point. 1. there appear to be TCP issues as the test doesn't properly complete. 2. it does not make use of actual speedtest data / sites around the globe 3. The routing path to this site is POOR, packet path is 15+ hops away and takes multiple states to get to the UNM site. 4. Latency to the site is HIGH, which colors the test. 5. UNM does NOT have even have remotely a good connection to the general Internet. 6. There is no public information on what available bandwidth is for this site, or how far nested into UNM's network the site is located. Testing to the ABQ Comcast site from our Fiber network shows 67 mbps down and 37 mbps up, and this is going through our office firewall. http://www.speedtest.net/result/2630019517.png Testing to our speedtest server, also via our office firewall shows. 74 mbps down and 47 mbps up. http://www.speedtest.net/result/2630022192.png So similar results via the firewall. Comcast and our network only intersect via transit providers out of state. The UNM test site shows from the same desktop / firewall path 3.58 Mb/s down and 12.8Mb/s up. Very much WAY OUT OF WACK. In performing tests from a number of locations, I would believe that this test site is LIMITED to not more than around 20Mb/s worth of actual internet traffic. So not really an accurate test of higher speed services, if the test point is itself LIMITED. I love how year after year we all have the committee meetings and focus groups and master plans. All with and by people that generally have never actually built fiber networks. End result, more wasted money, more studies, no network. Do we actually move policies forward that truly enable new providers to provide, NOPE. Do we remove the real barriers to construction costs and network deployment costs, NOPE. Google had it right. They are building their stuff BECAUSE THEY CAN, .Gov be dammed. At present I see this as a waste of tax payer money. > -----Original Message----- > From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm- > bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Gary Gomes > Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 2:45 PM > To: rl at 1st-mile.com; '1st mile nm' > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] NM DoIT Broadband Program: Update > > Richard/Gar, > > I am wondering where the data comes from and who benefits by the inclusion > or exclusion of coverage areas that are shown on the interactive map. > > I own a home in the "Talavera" area of suburban Las Cruces. It is a pretty large > geographical area (app 6 square miles) and it shows up as having Cable > internet coverage. It does NOT. > > Comcast is the local Cable provider and they do not serve that area - one can > confirm that by trying to order service to the house 5085 Copper Bar Rd Las > Cruces, NM 88011. > > Obviously this makes me very suspicious of the entire endeavor. > > Gary > > > -----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: Friday, April 05, 2013 3:48 PM > To: 1st mile nm > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM DoIT Broadband Program: Update > > A few weeks ago, Gar Clarke provided an encapsulated update on the NM > Broadband Program, which is this State's NTIA funded broadband mapping, > planning, capacity building and technical assistance initiative. > > I urge you to bookmark and occasionally look at the program web site for added > information and materials, and for those with time and interest, to please > participate in the process > at: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/index.shtml > > In this update, I'd like to note that a NM Working Group had its first meeting on > March 27, with additional meetings now scheduled, leading to a late Summer > report and action agendas. > Surveys have been prepared to address education, healthcare and economic > development issues and information gathering. > See: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/bb_workgroup.shtml > > The New Mexico Broadband Program (NMBBP) is launching two Regional > Broadband Implementation Plan (RBIP) Pilots within the State to be completed > by September 2014. These Pilots will not only provide technical assistance to > help the regional groups chosen achieve a solid planning, funding and > technology framework, but will also identify future funding to expand this > implementation concept > throughout New Mexico. To apply by May 17, See: > http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/surveys.shtml and: > http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/docs/NMBBP_RBIP_Application_final.p > df > > The New Mexico Broadband Program Community Broadband Master Plan > Guidebook Version 1.1, March 2013 has just been posted. > http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/reports/NM_Broadband_Guidebook_v1 > _1_fi > nal.pdf > > New Mexico Broadband Program Speed Test has also been deployed. > Give it a try: http://nmbbmapping.org/speedtest/ > > There's probably a lot more to update this list about, and I'll > leave it to Gar to do so. There is a good amount of work being > planned for the coming months, through 2015. As the State proceeds, > I'd like to encourage some participation, productive comments and related > efforts by 1st-Mile subscribers. Productive is the key word. > > Simply being critical of process or outcomes is to easy, even though > there may be vital issues to be critical of. The challenge before us > is to move our state, communities, companies, institutions and residents > forward, and not just to be playing 'catch-up'. This list should be one place > where we can influence the State's process at a high level. > Not an easy task, but I for one hope we can do so. > > Richard > > > ----------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. > 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 > www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org > ----------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.3272 / Virus Database: 3162/6226 - Release Date: 04/05/13 > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.3272 / Virus Database: 3162/6226 - Release Date: 04/05/13 > > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl at 1st-mile.com Tue Apr 9 18:57:57 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:57:57 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Google Fiber coming to Austin, TX Message-ID: <2fffaf808839f35ac5a312ce6f9b9d07@dcn.org> Most of you already know this, but today Google announced that Google Fiber is going to come to Austin, Texas, following its first deployment in the greater Kansas City area. http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/google-fibers-next-stop-austin-texas_9.html New Mexico is not a likely candidate for Google's attention, unless the company wants to set an example for rural broadband development. But, without broad public-private cooperation, rural is a non-starter. RL ----------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ----------------------------------- From Tim at TEDxABQ.com Tue Apr 9 19:32:45 2013 From: Tim at TEDxABQ.com (Tim Nisly) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 20:32:45 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Google Fiber coming to Austin, TX In-Reply-To: <2fffaf808839f35ac5a312ce6f9b9d07@dcn.org> References: <2fffaf808839f35ac5a312ce6f9b9d07@dcn.org> Message-ID: What's interesting to me is that AT&T announced they're rolling out 1Gbps fiber in Austin a couple hours later. http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/09/att-1gbps-fiber-internet-austin-texas-official/ -Tim *Tim Nisly* *Curator, TEDxABQ* *505.750.8466* Follow us online via Facebook and Twitter, or visit our website at TEDxABQ.com . You can also join us live at one of our Meetup events! On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > Most of you already know this, but today Google > announced that Google Fiber is going to come to > Austin, Texas, following its first deployment in > the greater Kansas City area. > > > http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/google-fibers-next-stop-austin-texas_9.html > > New Mexico is not a likely candidate for Google's > attention, unless the company wants to set an example > for rural broadband development. But, without broad > public-private cooperation, rural is a non-starter. > > RL > > > ----------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. > 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 > P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 > www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org > ----------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Tim at TEDxABQ.com Tue Apr 9 19:32:45 2013 From: Tim at TEDxABQ.com (Tim Nisly) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 20:32:45 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Google Fiber coming to Austin, TX In-Reply-To: <2fffaf808839f35ac5a312ce6f9b9d07@dcn.org> References: <2fffaf808839f35ac5a312ce6f9b9d07@dcn.org> Message-ID: What's interesting to me is that AT&T announced they're rolling out 1Gbps fiber in Austin a couple hours later. http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/09/att-1gbps-fiber-internet-austin-texas-official/ -Tim *Tim Nisly* *Curator, TEDxABQ* *505.750.8466* Follow us online via Facebook and Twitter, or visit our website at TEDxABQ.com . You can also join us live at one of our Meetup events! On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > Most of you already know this, but today Google > announced that Google Fiber is going to come to > Austin, Texas, following its first deployment in > the greater Kansas City area. > > > http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/google-fibers-next-stop-austin-texas_9.html > > New Mexico is not a likely candidate for Google's > attention, unless the company wants to set an example > for rural broadband development. But, without broad > public-private cooperation, rural is a non-starter. > > RL > > > ----------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. > 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 > P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 > www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org > ----------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl at 1st-mile.com Thu Apr 11 17:13:27 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:13:27 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] ISP Radio Message-ID: Forwarded FYI, from 1st-Mile subscriber Steven Grabiel Beginning April 17th at 8am MST, one of the members the ISP community in New Mexico will begin broadcasting a live Internet Radio show dedicated to ISP's. This will be a place for open discussion on what interests ISP's. The shows host is Steven Grabiel who owns and operates a wireless internet company in rural New Mexico. Steven will bring to the show his years of wireless internet experience and invites those involved in the Internet to participate in the live show by bringing their knowledge to this open forum. The show will broadcast every Wednesday at 8am MST. So join in on the fun!" http://rockstarradionetwork.com/shows/ispradio ----------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ----------------------------------- From david at breeckerassociates.com Tue Apr 16 17:09:53 2013 From: david at breeckerassociates.com (David Breecker (dba)) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:09:53 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Japanese internet provider offers twice the speed of Google Fiber for less money | The Verge Message-ID: http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/15/4226428/sony-so-net-2gbps-download-internet-tokyo-japan A Japanese internet service provider has begun offering broadband plans with 2Gbps downloads and 1Gbps uploads to residents in Tokyo and six surrounding districts. dba | David Breecker Associates, Inc. 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URL: From rl at 1st-mile.com Thu Apr 18 08:45:25 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:45:25 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Google Fiber Announces Third Community Message-ID: <711de4c55a2e39c7a2088ca296575372@dcn.org> Google, deplying a fiber network in the Kansas City area, and having last week announced its selection of Austin, TX as second site, has now announced that Provo, Utah has been selected as a third location for Google Fiber. http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/silicon-slopes.html RL ------------------------------------ Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------ From haroldskow at navajo-nsn.gov Thu Apr 18 09:29:40 2013 From: haroldskow at navajo-nsn.gov (Harold Skow) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:29:40 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Google Fiber Announces Third Community In-Reply-To: <711de4c55a2e39c7a2088ca296575372@dcn.org> References: <711de4c55a2e39c7a2088ca296575372@dcn.org> Message-ID: <0EF6ADC9DEF2FB4C9E9E732AB8F61E169222C848@WDRXMB02V.navajo.org> You need to see if they can do this for Navajo Nation. -----Original Message----- From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+haroldskow=navajo-nsn.gov at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+haroldskow=navajo-nsn.gov at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Richard Lowenberg Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 9:45 AM To: 1st mile nm Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Google Fiber Announces Third Community Google, deplying a fiber network in the Kansas City area, and having last week announced its selection of Austin, TX as second site, has now announced that Provo, Utah has been selected as a third location for Google Fiber. http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/silicon-slopes.html RL ------------------------------------ Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm From rl at 1st-mile.com Thu Apr 25 19:18:59 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:18:59 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] =?utf-8?q?CenturyLink_contracts_to_provide_Defense?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=99s_New_100_Gigabit_Supercomputer_Network?= Message-ID: <832a40af15e500997474c2b3dbd74909@dcn.org> I assume that in NM, the two national labs and UNM will benefit, and wonder if there will be other connections and I2 opportunities? RL ----- Coming Soon: Defense?s New 100 Gigabit Supercomputer Network http://www.nextgov.com/cloud-computing/2013/04/coming-soon-defenses-new-100-gigabit-supercomputer-network/62752/ CenturyLink has started work on a contract with a maximum value of $750 million to stitch together Defense Department supercomputer centers with a 100-gigabits-per-second network. CenturyLink won the Defense Information Systems Agency contract on June 8, 2012, but the award was delayed by a protest from Verizon Business, which had held the high speed network contract since 2002. Diana Gowen, CenturyLink?s senior vice president and general manager for government business, said DISA re-awarded her company the Defense Research Engineering Network III, or DREN III, contract in Dec. 2012, but her company did not at that time receive clearance to issue a press release or talk about the network, which serves as the backbone of the Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program. Gowen said the DREN III high-speed fiber optic network will span 5,000 miles, from the Army Research Laboratory, at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., to the Maui High Performance Computing Center in Kihei, Hawaii, and 148 other Defense, NASA and Energy Department supercomputer centers. DREN III will provide a 40 percent increase in the speed of the current Defense supercomputing network, which has a maximum data rate of 2.4888 gigabits per second. Extensions to the DREN network allow customers in remote Alaska to access high performance computing resources in the rural Midwest. ?High bandwidth wide area networks (WAN) transfer data between supercomputing centers close to real-time,? according to a fact sheet from the High Performance Computing Modernization Program. Gowen said CenturyLink has a backbone network that will meet the DREN III requirements, except for circuits to Hawaii, and added it will also be connected to a high-speed Internet 2 research network that connects 60,000 U.S. educational, research and government institutions over its 100 gigabit network. Gowen said she expects DREN III to meet its goal of hooking up Defense users by December. John West, director of the High Performance Computing Modernization Program, said in a statement that ?DREN is an essential component of our program, connecting defense researchers located throughout the country with the department?s supercomputing resources ----------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ----------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Thu Apr 25 19:22:44 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:22:44 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Pew Report on Civic Engagement in the Digital Age Message-ID: <03802782bf25cde19d1a2acbe683d220@dcn.org> Civic Engagement in the Digital Age http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2013/PIP_CivicEngagementintheDigitalAge.pdf APRIL 25, 2013 The well-educated and the well-off are more likely than others to participate in civic life online? just as those groups have always been more likely to be active in politics and community affairs offline. Political activity in social networking spaces shows a somewhat more moderate version of that trend. Summary of Findings This study examines online and offline political engagement and pays special attention to the role of social networking sites in people?s political activities. There are several major findings: ? Class differences, especially those related to educational attainment, are prominent in political engagement of all kinds, whether that activity takes place offline, online, or within the specific context of social networking sites (SNS), though the trend is somewhat more moderate in SNS. ? There has been major growth in political activity on SNS between 2008 and this survey in 2012. The number of social networking site users has grown from 33% of the online population in 2008 to 69% of the online population in 2012. And there have been major jumps in the proportion of SNS users who post political news, who friend or follow candidates, and who joined an SNS group organized around political or social issues. In addition, notable shares of SNS users say their activity on the sites has prompted them to learn more about social or political issues and to take action around those issues. ? For most politically active SNS users, social networking sites are not a separate realm of political activity. They are frequently active in other aspects of civic life. ? Even as online platforms have grown more prominent in political affairs, Americans? day-to-day political conversations mostly occur offline. -------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com -------------------------------- From john at citylinkfiber.com Sun Apr 28 16:14:13 2013 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:14:13 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] This is what Internet Speed / Fast is all about Message-ID: http://www.speedtest.net/result/2675725306.png Now available in ABQ for $80 a month -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This is the > first and only Gigabit bandwidth open fiber network in New Mexico. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. > 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 > P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 > www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org > ------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl at 1st-mile.com Wed May 1 09:04:09 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 10:04:09 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] CenturyLink targets Omaha for 1-Gbps FTTP network pilot Message-ID: <58d6d1bd4fa2ffb355af27fb0b8c9718@dcn.org> Here are a couple of news stories on today's announcement by CenturyLink. RL ------- CenturyLink targets Omaha for 1-Gbps FTTP network pilot CenturyLink says it plans to connect 48,000 homes and businesses in Omaha, NE, as part of a fiber to the premises (FTTP) pilot that will see 1-Gbps connections available to the entire footprint by this October. http://www.omaha.com/article/20130501/MONEY/705019865 http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130501-905533.html?mod=googlenews_wsj ------------------------------------ Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------ From frank at wmxsystems.com Thu May 2 05:59:03 2013 From: frank at wmxsystems.com (frank at wmxsystems.com) Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 05:59:03 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] EAGLE-Net suspension lifted; still not sustainable Message-ID: <20130502055903.e4c653d4171ef05b5042f410c9d8e5d1.e44de8cf9c.wbe@email04.secureserver.net> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Horner, Inc. > >PO Box 9105, Albuquerque, NM? 87119 > >Office? 505.873-1577? ? ? ???? >? Fax? 505.873.4867? ? ? ???? >? ? dwallace at ashorner.com >-- >Michael Harris >-- >President, Visgence Inc. >www.visgence.com >_______________________________________________ >1st-mile-nm mailing list >1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org >http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > >No virus found in this message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 2013.0.3272 / Virus Database: 3162/6290 - Release Date: 05/01/13 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john at citylinkfiber.com Thu May 2 18:18:26 2013 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 01:18:26 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Wireless internet in ABQ In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: CityLink Wireless (a offshoot of CityLink Fiber) has a wireless network around the Albuquerque and East Mountains area. We also own a tower on the Crest and a few other locations around the general area. Our wireless speeds start around 20Mb/s symmetrical. We use both licensed and unlicensed technologies. Our wireless backbone in ABQ is Gigabit in speed. > -----Original Message----- > From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm- > bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Michael Harris > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 1:25 PM > To: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > Cc: Paul Brown; dwallace at ashorner.com > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Wireless internet in ABQ > > Hi All, > > Fastwave, a wireless ISP in Las Cruces/T or C and a client of mine, received an > email this morning from one of their customer asking about service in > Albuquerque. Fastwave doesn't provide service up there, but I thought someone > on this list might. Contact info below. > > Derek Wallace > > IT Administrator > > A.S. Horner, Inc. > > PO Box 9105, Albuquerque, NM 87119 > > Office 505.873-1577 ? Fax 505.873.4867 ? dwallace at ashorner.com > > -- > > Michael Harris > -- > President, Visgence Inc. > www.visgence.com From mharris at visgence.com Thu May 2 18:31:01 2013 From: mharris at visgence.com (Michael Harris) Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 19:31:01 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Wireless backhaul Message-ID: John's response just now about CityLink Wireless's backhaul capabilities impressed me greatly. I've seen excellent performance in the 100Mb range from LigoWave and Ubiquti equipment, but have been unimpressed with Ubiquiti's AirFiber, which claims to offer gigabit throughput. What are other people using and what are your feelings about the wireless market in general? -- Michael Harris -- President, Visgence Inc. www.visgence.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john at citylinkfiber.com Thu May 2 18:45:16 2013 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 01:45:16 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Wireless backhaul In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks for the kind words.... We try and are constantly improving. We have nearly 2 dozen air-fibers in operation in ABQ. I have only two words to say about them. THEY WORK(tm) There are certain tricks and skill/craft to make them work. Many network operators get away with engineering murder on the 2.4 thru 5.8 Ghz spectrum / gear. The slop you can get away with on the "WiFi-ish" gear will kill you, crush you, on the higher end stuff. You must ALWAYS engineer your paths, down to a nats-a.... If you don't, you will have problems. RF Engineering Physical hard touch LOS inspection (I love my bucket truck :) ) Bandwidth engineering and management if over subscribing Core / critical links are always licensed, or unique enough from the noise Tight beams (be a good neighbor) Proper QOS handling on packets. Monitor, Monitor, Monitor read do LOTS of SNMP and watch it. Installation standards that are verified and are tight with each install. Each site survey we do takes about 10 minutes for prelim (yes /no) If yes and customer is willing to pay the rates, then the real survey/engineering is about 3 to 4 hours. Only if Yes from this process will we install. No marginal. My house gets this http://www.speedtest.net/result/2675514643.png It's a UBNT Rocket M5-Ti back to another M5-Ti (ptp) then to an AF24 to downtown. It's a routed link via a Cisco 3650G that glues the AF24 to the M5-Ti ptp and sector gear None of our sector or backhaul ptp's have anything less than a GigE Ethernet port on the radio. The ether shouldn't be the limiting factor on the path. > -----Original Message----- > From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm- > bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Michael Harris > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 7:31 PM > To: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Wireless backhaul > > John's response just now about CityLink Wireless's backhaul capabilities > impressed me greatly. I've seen excellent performance in the 100Mb range > from LigoWave and Ubiquti equipment, but have been unimpressed with > Ubiquiti's AirFiber, which claims to offer gigabit throughput. > > What are other people using and what are your feelings about the wireless > market in general? > > -- > > Michael Harris > -- > President, Visgence Inc. > www.visgence.com From mharris at visgence.com Thu May 2 19:36:30 2013 From: mharris at visgence.com (Michael Harris) Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 20:36:30 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Wireless backhaul In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Not too shabby. How long are your AirFiber links and have you seen rain fade issues? We tried a pair down here - it ran great for 12hrs, then lost the link and would never associate again. Wound up RMA'ing and the replacements are sitting in limbo of being returned for the dealer or unboxed for another try. -Michael On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:45 PM, John Brown wrote: > Thanks for the kind words.... We try and are constantly improving. > > We have nearly 2 dozen air-fibers in operation in ABQ. > > I have only two words to say about them. THEY WORK(tm) > > There are certain tricks and skill/craft to make them work. > > Many network operators get away with engineering murder on the 2.4 thru > 5.8 Ghz spectrum / gear. > The slop you can get away with on the "WiFi-ish" gear will kill you, crush > you, on the higher end stuff. > > You must ALWAYS engineer your paths, down to a nats-a.... If you don't, > you will have problems. > RF Engineering > Physical hard touch LOS inspection (I love my bucket truck :) ) > Bandwidth engineering and management if over subscribing > Core / critical links are always licensed, or unique enough from the noise > Tight beams (be a good neighbor) > Proper QOS handling on packets. > Monitor, Monitor, Monitor read do LOTS of SNMP and watch it. > Installation standards that are verified and are tight with each install. > > Each site survey we do takes about 10 minutes for prelim (yes /no) > If yes and customer is willing to pay the rates, then the real > survey/engineering is about 3 to 4 hours. > Only if Yes from this process will we install. No marginal. > > My house gets this http://www.speedtest.net/result/2675514643.png > It's a UBNT Rocket M5-Ti back to another M5-Ti (ptp) then to an AF24 to > downtown. > It's a routed link via a Cisco 3650G that glues the AF24 to the M5-Ti ptp > and sector gear > > None of our sector or backhaul ptp's have anything less than a GigE > Ethernet port on the radio. > The ether shouldn't be the limiting factor on the path. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm- > > bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Michael Harris > > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 7:31 PM > > To: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Wireless backhaul > > > > John's response just now about CityLink Wireless's backhaul capabilities > > impressed me greatly. I've seen excellent performance in the 100Mb range > > from LigoWave and Ubiquti equipment, but have been unimpressed with > > Ubiquiti's AirFiber, which claims to offer gigabit throughput. > > > > What are other people using and what are your feelings about the wireless > > market in general? > > > > -- > > > > Michael Harris > > -- > > President, Visgence Inc. > > www.visgence.com > -- Michael Harris -- President, Visgence Inc. www.visgence.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This report gives guidance to communities and organizations across the country on how to structure the most effective broadband training programs, set up the most productive computing centers and teach people to use technology to improve their lives. The 68-page publication includes chapters on program planning, outreach, training and curriculum with many practical ideas and tools for bringing new groups online. NTIA utilized the contributions of nearly 40 programs in the toolkit. Key messages and guidance in the toolkit include the following: Make digital literacy programs relevant by teaching skills that can change people?s daily lives, such as how to apply and search for a job online. Partner with established community organizations that people know and trust to help engage hard-to-reach populations. Provide convenient times and locations for broadband training and computer use to ensure easy access. Address the cost of broadband adoption by providing access to discounted computer equipment and/or affordable broadband service. Today?s announcement also includes: A complete listing of projects funded under BTOP, along with extensive reporting data, to be found at www2.ntia.doc.gov . Link to Toolkit: http://www2.ntia.doc.gov/files/toolkit_042913.pdf (23MB) ------------------------------------ Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------ From christopher at newrules.org Fri May 3 11:38:08 2013 From: christopher at newrules.org (Christopher Mitchell) Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 13:38:08 -0500 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Is Omaha a Turning Point for CenturyLink? No. Message-ID: Given how little CenturyLink actually has to invest, I wanted to set the record straight with what communities can expect from the third largest telephone company in America. http://muninetworks.org/content/even-after-omaha-communities-cannot-count-centurylink-connectivity In short, Omaha is a fluke not a new strategy. ---------------- CenturyLink is a massive telephone company struggling to remain relevant as we transition to mobile phones and require connections much faster than DSLdelivers. Though the Omaha gigabit announcement may seem to be a monumental shift for this company, it actually is not. It is a blip on the radar - an important blip but a blip nonetheless. The Omaha pilot does not represent a sudden change of CenturyLink strategy or capacity. Part of West Omaha has a unique history that prompted this investment. The vast majority of communities in CenturyLink territory still have no hope for upgrades beyond the basic DSL they offer today. Sadly, this already-outdated technology will only fall further behind in coming years. First, if you missed it, CenturyLink has announced a 1 Gbps pilot project in Omaha, Nebraska . This is considerably more newsworthy that AT&T's toothless fiber-to-the-press-release response to Austin's Google Fiber . CenturyLink is a massive corporation in a tough spot. It operates in 38 states and in each one, subscribers are fleeing slow DSL for faster networks and moving from landlines to wireless devices. CenturyLink does not have enough revenue for the upgrades most communities need. CenturyLink deserves some praise for this gigabit trial because it recognizes the need to upgrade old networks to offer faster, more reliable connections. And it is symmetrical, offering the sameupload speeds as downstream whereas the Verizon FiOS network tends to prioritize downstream at the expense of up. For years, CenturyLink has told communities that basic DSL is just fine. We'll probably still hear that talking point in many communities from CenturyLink's government affairs staff. But this project is an admission that America needs better networks. *Why Omaha*? Read the rest here: http://muninetworks.org/content/even-after-omaha-communities-cannot-count-centurylink-connectivity Christopher Mitchell Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative Institute for Local Self-Reliance http://www.muninetworks.org @communitynets 612-276-3456 x209 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From owen at backspaces.net Fri May 3 19:10:29 2013 From: owen at backspaces.net (Owen Densmore) Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 20:10:29 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NTIA Broadband Adoption Toolkit In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Richard. Do you see this having impact on NM -- Owen On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > NTIA Broadband Adoption Toolkit > > > http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2013/ntia-broadband-adoption-toolkit-shares-best-practices-across-us > > The U.S. Commerce Department?s National Telecommunications and > Information Administration (NTIA) today released its Broadband Adoption > Toolkit, a document aimed at sharing best practices developed from > broadband adoption and digital literacy projects funded by the Broadband > Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP). Leveraging the experience of > about 100 communities served by BTOP to benefit the entire nation, the > Toolkit gives practical ideas and tools for overcoming barriers to > getting more Americans online access. > > NTIA collected many of the best practices developed by BTOP grantees to > create the Broadband Adoption Toolkit. This report gives guidance to > communities and organizations across the country on how to structure the > most effective broadband training programs, set up the most productive > computing centers and teach people to use technology to improve their > lives. The 68-page publication includes chapters on program planning, > outreach, training and curriculum with many practical ideas and tools > for bringing new groups online. NTIA utilized the contributions of > nearly 40 programs in the toolkit. > > Key messages and guidance in the toolkit include the following: > > Make digital literacy programs relevant by teaching skills that can > change people?s daily lives, such as how to apply and search for a job > online. > Partner with established community organizations that people know > and trust to help engage hard-to-reach populations. > Provide convenient times and locations for broadband training and > computer use to ensure easy access. > Address the cost of broadband adoption by providing access to > discounted computer equipment and/or affordable broadband service. > > Today?s announcement also includes: > A complete listing of projects funded under BTOP, along with extensive > reporting data, to be found at www2.ntia.doc.gov . > > Link to Toolkit: http://www2.ntia.doc.gov/files/toolkit_042913.pdf > (23MB) > > > > ------------------------------------ > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. > 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 > P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 > www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org > ------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From owen at backspaces.net Sat May 4 09:29:52 2013 From: owen at backspaces.net (Owen Densmore) Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 10:29:52 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Is Omaha a Turning Point for CenturyLink? No. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Interesting observation. Isn't Century Link's strategy to build out enough fiber to somehow also make DSL better via neighborhood hubs? I heard something like that and know a problem they face is simply getting into the household: no one wants more holed in the wall etc. A wireless 1st mile for example would make sense too. I guess the question is what is the end point in this game. Certainly a fiber world with several services other than just TCP/IP would be interesting. But the cellular folks are now getting huge data rates and I suspect their target is the home as well as the phone. An image I enjoy when trying to explain the "house interface" to the community is picturing a giant pulling up my house into the air, and looking at all that stuff that dangles back to the ground: water, sewer, phone, and generally cable. Hopefully cable will be replaced with a more general wire sometime, but not for a while. The giant is also careful to surround the house looking for RF in/out and thereby also finds satellite, TV/radio, cellular, and possibly wireless internet. -- Owen -- Owen On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Christopher Mitchell < christopher at newrules.org> wrote: > Given how little CenturyLink actually has to invest, I wanted to set the > record straight with what communities can expect from the third largest > telephone company in America. > > > http://muninetworks.org/content/even-after-omaha-communities-cannot-count-centurylink-connectivity > > In short, Omaha is a fluke not a new strategy. > ---------------- > > CenturyLink is a massive telephone company struggling to remain relevant > as we transition to mobile phones and require connections much faster than > DSL delivers. Though the Omaha > gigabit announcement may seem to be a monumental shift for this company, it > actually is not. It is a blip on the radar - an important blip but a blip > nonetheless. > > The Omaha pilot does not represent a sudden change of CenturyLink strategy > or capacity. Part of West Omaha has a unique history that prompted this > investment. The vast majority of communities in CenturyLink territory still > have no hope for upgrades beyond the basic DSL they offer today. Sadly, > this already-outdated technology will only fall further behind in coming > years. > > First, if you missed it, CenturyLink has announced a 1 Gbps pilot project > in Omaha, Nebraska . > This is considerably more newsworthy that AT&T's toothless > fiber-to-the-press-release response to Austin's Google Fiber > . > > CenturyLink is a massive corporation in a tough spot. It operates in 38 > states and in each one, subscribers are fleeing slow DSL for faster > networks and moving from landlines to wireless devices. CenturyLink does > not have enough revenue for the upgrades most communities need. > > CenturyLink deserves some praise for this gigabit trial because it > recognizes the need to upgrade old networks to offer faster, more reliable > connections. And it is symmetrical, > offering the sameupload speeds > as downstream whereas the > Verizon FiOS network tends to > prioritize downstream at the expense of up. > > For years, CenturyLink has told communities that basic DSL is just fine. > We'll probably still hear that talking point in many communities from > CenturyLink's government affairs staff. But this project is an admission > that America needs better networks. > > *Why Omaha*? > > Read the rest here: > > > http://muninetworks.org/content/even-after-omaha-communities-cannot-count-centurylink-connectivity > > > Christopher Mitchell > Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative > Institute for Local Self-Reliance > > http://www.muninetworks.org > @communitynets > 612-276-3456 x209 > > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From christopher at newrules.org Mon May 6 08:30:06 2013 From: christopher at newrules.org (Christopher Mitchell) Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 10:30:06 -0500 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Is Omaha a Turning Point for CenturyLink? No. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: CenturyLink is indeed doing fiber to the node and then some will see faster DSL as a result. I would put the one-more-hole-in-the-wall obstacle up there with "one" of the reasons I don't own a Porsche -- I would have to clean out part of my garage to have a place to put it. There are other reasons of course, and just about all of them are more important. For both myself and CenturyLink, the real problem is insufficient revenue to make things go faster =) Cellular is not getting huge data rates - real world tests of 4G show that it is inferior to cable, which is hardly super fast. And congestion is a far larger problem with wireless than many ackowledge, particuarly as we don't want towers blighting the landscape everywhere and the big companies don't want to pay to make them blend in. --christopher Christopher Mitchell Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative Institute for Local Self-Reliance http://www.muninetworks.org @communitynets 612-276-3456 x209 On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Interesting observation. Isn't Century Link's strategy to build out > enough fiber to somehow also make DSL better via neighborhood hubs? > > I heard something like that and know a problem they face is simply getting > into the household: no one wants more holed in the wall etc. A wireless > 1st mile for example would make sense too. > > I guess the question is what is the end point in this game. Certainly a > fiber world with several services other than just TCP/IP would be > interesting. But the cellular folks are now getting huge data rates and I > suspect their target is the home as well as the phone. > > An image I enjoy when trying to explain the "house interface" to the > community is picturing a giant pulling up my house into the air, and > looking at all that stuff that dangles back to the ground: water, sewer, > phone, and generally cable. Hopefully cable will be replaced with a more > general wire sometime, but not for a while. The giant is also careful to > surround the house looking for RF in/out and thereby also finds satellite, > TV/radio, cellular, and possibly wireless internet. > > -- Owen > > -- Owen > > > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Christopher Mitchell < > christopher at newrules.org> wrote: > >> Given how little CenturyLink actually has to invest, I wanted to set the >> record straight with what communities can expect from the third largest >> telephone company in America. >> >> >> http://muninetworks.org/content/even-after-omaha-communities-cannot-count-centurylink-connectivity >> >> In short, Omaha is a fluke not a new strategy. >> ---------------- >> >> CenturyLink is a massive telephone company struggling to remain relevant >> as we transition to mobile phones and require connections much faster than >> DSL delivers. Though the Omaha >> gigabit announcement may seem to be a monumental shift for this company, it >> actually is not. It is a blip on the radar - an important blip but a blip >> nonetheless. >> >> The Omaha pilot does not represent a sudden change of CenturyLink >> strategy or capacity. Part of West Omaha has a unique history that prompted >> this investment. The vast majority of communities in CenturyLink territory >> still have no hope for upgrades beyond the basic DSL they offer today. >> Sadly, this already-outdated technology will only fall further behind in >> coming years. >> >> First, if you missed it, CenturyLink has announced a 1 Gbps pilot >> project in Omaha, Nebraska. >> This is considerably more newsworthy that AT&T's toothless >> fiber-to-the-press-release response to Austin's Google Fiber >> . >> >> CenturyLink is a massive corporation in a tough spot. It operates in 38 >> states and in each one, subscribers are fleeing slow DSL for faster >> networks and moving from landlines to wireless devices. CenturyLink does >> not have enough revenue for the upgrades most communities need. >> >> CenturyLink deserves some praise for this gigabit trial because it >> recognizes the need to upgrade old networks to offer faster, more reliable >> connections. And it is symmetrical, >> offering the sameupload speeds >> as downstream whereas the >> Verizon FiOS network tends >> to prioritize downstream at the expense of up. >> >> For years, CenturyLink has told communities that basic DSL is just fine. >> We'll probably still hear that talking point in many communities from >> CenturyLink's government affairs staff. But this project is an admission >> that America needs better networks. >> >> *Why Omaha*? >> >> Read the rest here: >> >> >> http://muninetworks.org/content/even-after-omaha-communities-cannot-count-centurylink-connectivity >> >> >> Christopher Mitchell >> Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative >> Institute for Local Self-Reliance >> >> http://www.muninetworks.org >> @communitynets >> 612-276-3456 x209 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 1st-mile-nm mailing list >> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org >> http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl at 1st-mile.com Mon May 6 09:53:11 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 10:53:11 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Help plan for future broadband needs in New Mexico! Survey Message-ID: NM 1st-Milers, The NM DoIT, with New Mexico First, other partners and a volunteer NM Broadband Working Group have developed a survey that will help to identify ways forward for broadband in New Mexico. If appropriate for you, please take the time to fill in the online survey, as noted below. Thanks, Richard -------- Help plan for future broadband needs in New Mexico! The NM Department of Information Technology (DoIT) needs information on HOW your organization uses the internet (types of applications) plus the speed and reliability of the broadband available to you. And we need to know how you anticipate using it in the future. Technology is growing at an incredible rate and what didn?t exist yesterday is almost common place today. If we are to ensure that New Mexico has the resources for your critical services, we need your insight. That means we need non-technical people AND networking experts to take this survey. Feel free to forward this email. 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Thank you, Terry Boulanger Executive Director New Mexico Technet boulan at nm.net ------------------------------------ Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------ From christopher at newrules.org Mon May 6 12:00:23 2013 From: christopher at newrules.org (Christopher Mitchell) Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 14:00:23 -0500 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Aztec Network Helps Save Lost Pets Message-ID: Sorta... fun story. http://muninetworks.org/content/community-owned-network-new-mexico-helps-save-lost-pets We recently learned about Aztec, New Mexico's, free downtown Wi-Fi so we decided to contact Wallace Begay, the IT Director, to find out more. This desert community of about 6,600 people not only offers the free service, but uses its fiber to serve government, schools, and even four-legged residents. Begay tells us that in 1998 the city and school system coordinated to install the original fiber and the entities share ownership. The school wanted better, affordable connectivity for students while the city wanted economic development opportunities. Community leaders used E-rate funding and a Gates Foundation grant to construct the original fiber aerial route. The town provides water, wastewater, and electric services through municipal utilities with its SCADA system. The public library and all ten Aztec Municipal School facilities connect to the fiber network. Municipal government facilities also use the network. .... http://muninetworks.org/content/community-owned-network-new-mexico-helps-save-lost-pets Christopher Mitchell Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative Institute for Local Self-Reliance http://www.muninetworks.org @communitynets 612-276-3456 x209 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This > desert community of about 6,600 people not only offers the free service, > but uses its fiber to serve government, schools, and even four-legged > residents. > > Begay tells us that in 1998 the city and school system coordinated to > install the original fiber and the entities share ownership. The school > wanted better, affordable connectivity for students while the city wanted > economic development opportunities. Community leaders used E-rate funding > and a Gates Foundation grant to construct the original fiber aerial route. > > The town provides water, wastewater, and electric services through > municipal utilities with its SCADA system. The public library and all ten > Aztec > Municipal School< > http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aztecschools.com%2F&ei=3fqDUbiWAovyyAHTjoGQCw&usg=AFQjCNHWsFHV6A1Sbw_8J9Zo77xYUpIJPQ&bvm=bv.45960087,d.aWc > > > facilities > connect to the fiber network. 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Aztec Network Helps Save Lost Pets (Christopher Mitchell) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 14:00:23 -0500 >> From: Christopher Mitchell >> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Aztec Network Helps Save Lost Pets >> To: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> >> Message-ID: >> < >> CAAe53yvFtPysiPn1pvQ6fTsWT-Q-UjbikZO3fmcYyZPKMHszMQ at mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> Sorta... fun story. >> >> >> http://muninetworks.org/content/community-owned-network-new-mexico-helps-save-lost-pets >> >> We recently learned about Aztec, New >> Mexico's, >> free downtown Wi-Fi so we >> decided to contact Wallace Begay, the IT Director, to find out more. This >> desert community of about 6,600 people not only offers the free service, >> but uses its fiber to serve government, schools, and even four-legged >> residents. >> >> Begay tells us that in 1998 the city and school system coordinated to >> install the original fiber and the entities share ownership. The school >> wanted better, affordable connectivity for students while the city wanted >> economic development opportunities. Community leaders used E-rate funding >> and a Gates Foundation grant to construct the original fiber aerial route. >> >> The town provides water, wastewater, and electric services through >> municipal utilities with its SCADA system. The public library and all ten >> Aztec >> Municipal School< >> http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aztecschools.com%2F&ei=3fqDUbiWAovyyAHTjoGQCw&usg=AFQjCNHWsFHV6A1Sbw_8J9Zo77xYUpIJPQ&bvm=bv.45960087,d.aWc >> > >> facilities >> connect to the fiber network. Municipal government facilities also use the >> network. >> >> .... >> >> >> http://muninetworks.org/content/community-owned-network-new-mexico-helps-save-lost-pets >> >> >> Christopher Mitchell >> Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative >> Institute for Local Self-Reliance >> >> http://www.muninetworks.org >> @communitynets >> 612-276-3456 x209 >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> http://www2.dcn.org/pipermail/1st-mile-nm/attachments/20130506/fac6cb02/attachment-0001.html >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 1st-mile-nm mailing list >> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org >> http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm >> >> >> End of 1st-mile-nm Digest, Vol 79, Issue 7 >> ****************************************** >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl at 1st-mile.com Thu May 9 10:21:04 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 11:21:04 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Andrew Cohill Explains Common Mistakes in Community Networks Message-ID: Christopher Mitchell recently interviewed Andrew Cohill. Both are subscribers to this list, and as some of you know, I have long worked with Andrew and Design Nine, Inc. I recommend that you take 18 minutes to listen to the interview. RL --------- Andrew Cohill Explains Common Mistakes in Community Networks http://www.muninetworks.org/content/andrew-cohill-explains-common-mistakes-community-networks-community-broadband-bits-45 This is a show I have been wanting to do for years - discussing some of the common mistakes that have been make by community owned networks. Offering broadband and other telecommunications services is a difficult business for any entity, public or private and all network owners make mistakes. The vast majority of these errors can be and are fixed so the network may carry on. While in Dallas for the Broadband Communities Summit, I asked Design Nine founder Andrew Cohill about common problems faced by community owned networks and how to prepare for them or avoid them entirely. We discuss how having a strong business plan is essential, with some of the requirements that should be included. We agree that a reliance on grant funding is a giant warning flag. We also discuss a number of other things new networks should watch out for, especially overstaffing. We want your feedback and suggestions for the show - please e-mail us or leave a comment below. Also, feel free to suggest other guests, topics, or questions you want us to address. This show is 18 minutes long and can be played below on this page or subscribe via iTunes or via the tool of your choice using this feed. Search for us in iTunes and leave a positive comment! ------------------------------------ Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------ From rl at 1st-mile.com Tue May 14 08:19:32 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 09:19:32 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Gov. Martinez ignores Tech Commission Message-ID: Martinez ignores tech commission Governor tries to save money, ignores law www.krqe.com/dpp/news/on_assignment/martinez-ignores-tech-commission Tuesday, 14 May 2013 Katie Kim SANTA FE (KRQE) - An independent commission that, by state law, is supposed to keep a close eye on the tens of millions of dollars the state spends each year on computer and technology projects hasn?t met since Gov. Susana Martinez took office more than two years ago. In fact, Martinez hasn?t appointed even one person to the Information Technology Commission since being elected. ?If you don?t have an appointed commission, how can they meet?? said Rep. Luciano ?Lucky? Varela, D-Santa Fe, who is chairman of the Legislative Finance Committee. ?It?s so important that the department responsible for technology responds to someone a bit higher, which is the commission itself.? But Martinez said she held off appointing the commission because she wanted to consolidate the state Department of Information Technology into the much-larger General Services Department, thereby saving the state money. ?If that happened, that may have done away with that advisory commission,? Martinez said. The governor also said an internal group of employees from the information technology department ? headed by the department?s secretary ? have kept track of state IT projects, so they haven?t suffered from lack of oversight. ?We?ve got a lot of oversight mechanisms in place where we?re working to be very vigilant in terms of overseeing these projects,? said Darryl Ackley, information technology department secretary. Still, examples of technology mismanagement ? both new and old ? are not hard to find. In 2010, under former Gov. Bill Richardson?s administration, the Motor Vehicle Department spent $5 million to try and upgrade the agency?s 20-year-old computer system. But the project failed and the money went down the drain. Now, the department is trying again, and must spend additional millions to try and upgrade the computer system. Earlier this year, the Department of Workforce Solutions rolled out a new system for unemployed New Mexicans to get benefits online. But critics said the department was not ready for the flood of callers it received, and many were put on hold for hours. Overall, the state has spent more than $90 million on technology upgrades in the five years. The independent Information Technology Commission ? made up of governor appointees from technology, education and government sectors ? was created by the state Legislature in 2007 to keep track of and over see those projects. ?Who can function without technology anymore?? Varela said. ?Nobody. So we need to have this external oversight that looks at all of government.? Martinez has tried for the last four legislative sessions to consolidate the Department of Information Technology into GSD, but legislators never went for the idea. She also said the IT Commission, under Richardson, was ineffective, though critics said that?s not an excuse to ignore state law. Now, Martinez said she?s finally working on appointing qualified members to the commission. She plans on having a full commission within 30-to-60 days. ------------------------------------ Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------ From rl at 1st-mile.com Tue May 14 10:17:18 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 11:17:18 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM Broadband Survey Message-ID: <22858a837ee988a58795d06819a3bc56@dcn.org> For those of you in the education, healthcare or economic development sectors in NM, if you haven't already done so, please respond to the State's survey, and help move New Mexico "Fast Forward". RL -------------------------- From: NMFirst Info Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:41 AM Subject: Reminder: Help plan for future broadband needs in New Mexico! Reminder! Help plan for future broadband needs in New Mexico! The NM Department of Information Technology (DoIT) needs information on HOW your organization uses the internet (types of applications) plus the speed and reliability of the broadband available to you. And we need to know how you anticipate using it in the future. Technology is growing at an incredible rate and what didn?t exist yesterday is almost common place today. If we are to ensure that New Mexico has the resources for your critical services, we need your insight. That means we need non-technical people AND networking experts to take this survey. Feel free to forward this email. The DoIT engaged TechNet, with support from New Mexico First, the NM Telehealth Alliance, and EEIC, to collect and compile this statewide broadband survey on three areas: economic development, education, healthcare. If you work in any of these fields, please take 10-15 minutes to complete the online survey. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/nmbroadband Deadline: May 17, 2013. Thank you, Terry Boulanger Executive Director New Mexico Technet boulan at nm.net ------------------------------------ Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------ From rl at 1st-mile.com Thu May 16 19:15:19 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 20:15:19 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] New Cell Tower on Black Mesa Will Expand Internet Message-ID: <5a7e68cce8488f625b50c425b03cc85c@dcn.org> New Cell Tower on Black Mesa Will Expand Internet By Jeff Tucker SUN Staff Writer Published: Thursday, May 16, 2013 10:06 AM MDT http://www.riograndesun.com/articles/2013/05/16/news/county/doc5194045f62eef390912727.txt Cyber Mesa of Santa Fe has received initial approval to build a 65-foot tall wireless telecommunications tower atop Black Mesa near Chamita that company officials say will provide high-speed internet in areas of Espa?ola Valley that currently have little or no internet access. ?What the tower does is increase our reach to rural areas,? said Jane M. Hill, president of Cyber Mesa. ?We?ve got a few (new customers) waiting in the wings. It should be good for the community.? The proposed service areas for the tower are Abiqui?, Arroyo Seco, El Rito, Espa?ola, Hernandez, La Mesilla, Medanales, San Pedro, Santa Cruz, Sombrillo, Velarde, and the pueblos of Santa Clara and Ohkay Owingeh. Hill said Cyber Mesa needs another location for a small tower to reach the north end of Abiqui?. Hill declined to disclose the cost of the tower, which will be solar-battery powered, other than calling it a ?substantial investment.? The Rio Arriba County planning & zoning department approved a conditional use permit for the tower during an administrative public hearing May 8. No one spoke in opposition to the permit, although anyone opposed to it has 15 days from the May 8 approval to appeal the decision to the County planning & zoning committee. Charles R. Frans, manager of wireless operations for Cyber Mesa, said his firm plans to start construction of the tower on June 1, provided there are no appeals to the conditional use permit, which is necessary since the mesa is zoned rural agricultural. Construction should take about 30 days and the tower could be operational by July 1, Frans said. ?That?s our goal,? he said. Frans said the tower would enable Cyber Mesa to provide high-capacity internet service. ?It will allow us to provide high-speed internet access to businesses and residences in the Espa?ola Valley area,? he said, adding the tower would serve 500 to 1,000 customers with new and faster internet service, as well as speed up Cyber Mesa?s internet service in Abiqui?. ?We look forward to serving those residents that have little or no access to internet,? he said. ?We?re ready to go.? Hill said phone lines would not be necessary to receive internet service from the tower. ?It?s essentially DSL without the wire,? she said, adding Cyber Mesa would be competing with Windstream Corp. of Little Rock, Ark. ?in a lot of new areas.? The tower will also provide cell phone service for Cricket Wireless, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless customers, although it will not be designed to improve cell phone service. The tower would be located about 150 feet from the west edge of the mesa, limiting its profile. ?You?ll barely see it,? said assistant planner Phil Kilgour. The new tower would be located about 2,000 feet from an existing 67-foot telecommunications tower on the southern tip of the mesa. The new tower will be located on a 50-by-50-foot parcel leased from Richard Cook of Espa?ola. ?Richard Cook has been very supportive of our efforts to do internet,? Frans said. -------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com -------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Mon May 20 08:03:54 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 09:03:54 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: High Speed Internet Project Launched Message-ID: <72d3e991721bdb1ba9b5882aec128ba1@dcn.org> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 17, 2013 Contacts: Sean Moody; Project Administrator; Economic Development Division; 505-955-6350; sxmoody at santafenm.gov Jodi McGinnis Porter; Public Information/Multi-Media Administrator; 505-795-4169, jmporter at santafenm.gov HIGH SPEED INTERNET PROJECT LAUNCHED SANTA FE, NM - A $1 million broadband infrastructure project to improve Internet speed, pricing and availability in Santa Fe is beginning today. This has been a priority for City of Santa Fe Economic Development for almost five years. A Request for Qualifications is being issued to selected firms to compete for the opportunity to design, build, own and operate a fiber-optic link from downtown Santa Fe to the St. Michael's Drive corridor. "It's wonderful that we will finally be able to build this project and improve Internet in Santa Fe," said Mayor David Coss. "The City Council heard the request from businesses and community members and made it a priority for our bond funding." The project was authorized by the City Council as part of a Capital Improvements Program bond issue in 2012. Once complete it will enable local Internet providers to increase their network capacities and reduce costs. In turn this will translate into better speeds and lower prices for customers. Slow and expensive Internet has been a recurring complaint among local residents and businesses. Physically the project consists of a fiber optic cable running inside an underground pipe. Data is transmitted from one end of the cable to the other over strands of glass fiber using a signal composed entirely of visible light. This technology allows for extremely high data speeds, very low power consumption and no electromagnetic noise or interference. The cable will follow city streets using "directional boring" construction techniques which drastically reduce traffic impacts and asphalt cutting, trenching and patching. The only visual evidence of the completed project will be new manholes along the route. Santa Fe is considered "well-served" in a national ranking of the number of local providers, geographical availability and median level of service. Every home and most businesses already have two physical routes to the Internet: A telephone line and a television cable. In addition to these physical connections, mobile devices, as well as small, fixed antennas attached to the outside of buildings; provide Internet to an increasing number of individuals, residences and businesses. But in spite of this abundance of pathways, there is a crucial missing link in the infrastructure, an enduring legacy of the former telephone monopoly. This missing link spans from the central telephone office to a location about two miles away where several fiber optic cables emerge from the ground after traversing many miles of road, railroad and countryside from remote junctions across the state. Absent this two-mile link, local providers have only one way to connect to the outside world, and must pay a steep toll on the data transmitted over it. This effectively limits the levels of service they offer their customers. The project being launched today will bridge that gap, allowing providers for the first time to shop for better toll rates, interconnect with their choice of carriers, and increase levels of customer service. Once the project is operational, it is expected that local providers will begin to offer improved high speed Internet to businesses and institutions along the route, which will run through the Railyard to St. Michael's Drive. Airport Road and other areas will achieve similar availability as demand grows and providers extend the network to serve customers in those areas. -------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com -------------------------------- From owen at backspaces.net Mon May 20 08:33:35 2013 From: owen at backspaces.net (Owen Densmore) Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 09:33:35 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: High Speed Internet Project Launched In-Reply-To: <72d3e991721bdb1ba9b5882aec128ba1@dcn.org> References: <72d3e991721bdb1ba9b5882aec128ba1@dcn.org> Message-ID: Is there a reason to limit this to "businesses and institutions"? I guess the main reason is the route itself. -- Owen On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > May 17, 2013 > > Contacts: Sean Moody; Project Administrator; Economic Development > Division; 505-955-6350; sxmoody at santafenm.gov > > Jodi McGinnis Porter; Public Information/Multi-Media Administrator; > 505-795-4169, jmporter at santafenm.gov > > HIGH SPEED INTERNET PROJECT LAUNCHED > > SANTA FE, NM - A $1 million broadband infrastructure project to improve > Internet speed, pricing and availability in Santa Fe is beginning > today. > This has been a priority for City of Santa Fe Economic Development for > almost five years. A Request for Qualifications is being issued to > selected firms to compete for the opportunity to design, build, own and > operate a fiber-optic link from downtown Santa Fe to the St. Michael's > Drive corridor. > > "It's wonderful that we will finally be able to build this project and > improve Internet in Santa Fe," said Mayor David Coss. "The City Council > heard the request from businesses and community members and made it a > priority for our bond funding." > > The project was authorized by the City Council as part of a Capital > Improvements Program bond issue in 2012. Once complete it will enable > local Internet providers to increase their network capacities and > reduce > costs. In turn this will translate into better speeds and lower prices > for customers. Slow and expensive Internet has been a recurring > complaint among local residents and businesses. > > Physically the project consists of a fiber optic cable running inside > an > underground pipe. Data is transmitted from one end of the cable to the > other over strands of glass fiber using a signal composed entirely of > visible light. This technology allows for extremely high data speeds, > very low power consumption and no electromagnetic noise or > interference. > The cable will follow city streets using "directional boring" > construction techniques which drastically reduce traffic impacts and > asphalt cutting, trenching and patching. The only visual evidence of > the > completed project will be new manholes along the route. > > Santa Fe is considered "well-served" in a national ranking of the > number > of local providers, geographical availability and median level of > service. Every home and most businesses already have two physical > routes > to the Internet: A telephone line and a television cable. In addition > to > these physical connections, mobile devices, as well as small, fixed > antennas attached to the outside of buildings; provide Internet to an > increasing number of individuals, residences and businesses. But in > spite of this abundance of pathways, there is a crucial missing link in > the infrastructure, an enduring legacy of the former telephone > monopoly. > This missing link spans from the central telephone office to a location > about two miles away where several fiber optic cables emerge from the > ground after traversing many miles of road, railroad and countryside > from remote junctions across the state. Absent this two-mile link, > local > providers have only one way to connect to the outside world, and must > pay a steep toll on the data transmitted over it. This effectively > limits the levels of service they offer their customers. The project > being launched today will bridge that gap, allowing providers for the > first time to shop for better toll rates, interconnect with their > choice > of carriers, and increase levels of customer service. > > Once the project is operational, it is expected that local providers > will begin to offer improved high speed Internet to businesses and > institutions along the route, which will run through the Railyard to > St. > Michael's Drive. Airport Road and other areas will achieve similar > availability as demand grows and providers extend the network to serve > customers in those areas. > > > -------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. > 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 > www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com > -------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john at citylinkfiber.com Mon May 20 08:37:38 2013 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 15:37:38 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: High Speed Internet Project Launched In-Reply-To: References: <72d3e991721bdb1ba9b5882aec128ba1@dcn.org> Message-ID: I'll be posting my questions on this proposal shortly. I think the specified route is very expensive and seriously limits who can be connected. We have 4 alternative routes that would bring services to small businesses, homes and schools that are located between the two defined end-points. Citizens of Santa Fe should also have the ability to have their homes connected. After all its their money.... > -----Original Message----- > From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm- > bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 9:34 AM > To: Richard Lowenberg > Cc: 1st mile nm > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: High Speed Internet Project Launched > > Is there a reason to limit this to "businesses and institutions"? I guess the main > reason is the route itself. > > -- Owen > > > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Richard Lowenberg > wrote: > > > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > May 17, 2013 > > Contacts: Sean Moody; Project Administrator; Economic Development > Division; 505-955-6350; sxmoody at santafenm.gov > > Jodi McGinnis Porter; Public Information/Multi-Media Administrator; > 505-795-4169, jmporter at santafenm.gov > > HIGH SPEED INTERNET PROJECT LAUNCHED > > SANTA FE, NM - A $1 million broadband infrastructure project to > improve > Internet speed, pricing and availability in Santa Fe is beginning > today. > This has been a priority for City of Santa Fe Economic Development for > almost five years. A Request for Qualifications is being issued to > selected firms to compete for the opportunity to design, build, own and > operate a fiber-optic link from downtown Santa Fe to the St. Michael's > Drive corridor. > > "It's wonderful that we will finally be able to build this project and > improve Internet in Santa Fe," said Mayor David Coss. "The City Council > heard the request from businesses and community members and made > it a > priority for our bond funding." > > The project was authorized by the City Council as part of a Capital > Improvements Program bond issue in 2012. Once complete it will > enable > local Internet providers to increase their network capacities and > reduce > costs. In turn this will translate into better speeds and lower prices > for customers. Slow and expensive Internet has been a recurring > complaint among local residents and businesses. > > Physically the project consists of a fiber optic cable running inside > an > underground pipe. Data is transmitted from one end of the cable to the > other over strands of glass fiber using a signal composed entirely of > visible light. This technology allows for extremely high data speeds, > very low power consumption and no electromagnetic noise or > interference. > The cable will follow city streets using "directional boring" > construction techniques which drastically reduce traffic impacts and > asphalt cutting, trenching and patching. The only visual evidence of > the > completed project will be new manholes along the route. > > Santa Fe is considered "well-served" in a national ranking of the > number > of local providers, geographical availability and median level of > service. Every home and most businesses already have two physical > routes > to the Internet: A telephone line and a television cable. In addition > to > these physical connections, mobile devices, as well as small, fixed > antennas attached to the outside of buildings; provide Internet to an > increasing number of individuals, residences and businesses. But in > spite of this abundance of pathways, there is a crucial missing link in > the infrastructure, an enduring legacy of the former telephone > monopoly. > This missing link spans from the central telephone office to a location > about two miles away where several fiber optic cables emerge from > the > ground after traversing many miles of road, railroad and countryside > from remote junctions across the state. Absent this two-mile link, > local > providers have only one way to connect to the outside world, and must > pay a steep toll on the data transmitted over it. This effectively > limits the levels of service they offer their customers. The project > being launched today will bridge that gap, allowing providers for the > first time to shop for better toll rates, interconnect with their > choice > of carriers, and increase levels of customer service. > > Once the project is operational, it is expected that local providers > will begin to offer improved high speed Internet to businesses and > institutions along the route, which will run through the Railyard to > St. > Michael's Drive. Airport Road and other areas will achieve similar > availability as demand grows and providers extend the network to > serve > customers in those areas. > > > -------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. > 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 > www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com > -------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > > From sxmoody at ci.santa-fe.nm.us Mon May 20 09:06:38 2013 From: sxmoody at ci.santa-fe.nm.us (MOODY, SEAN) Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 10:06:38 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: High Speed Internet Project Launched In-Reply-To: References: <72d3e991721bdb1ba9b5882aec128ba1@dcn.org> Message-ID: Hi Owen & John, The City Council wanted this particular program to focus on economic development, in particular on alleviating constraints faced by businesses needing symmetric very-high-speeds. Examples are a film studio and a data mining consultant who must transfer huge files up and down. That said, the architecture of this first phase is intended to be very adaptable and should benefit all of Santa Fe's residents by lowering the $10/mbps marginal wholesale cost of backhaul which drives retail subscription speeds. In fact we are hoping respondents will propose alternate routes to pick up potential users along the way. And once the project is operational we expect carriers and providers to build out from the core to accommodate customer demand. Sean Sean Moody City of Santa Fe -----Original Message----- From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+sxmoody=ci.santa-fe.nm.us at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+sxmoody=ci.santa-fe.nm.us at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of John Brown Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 9:38 AM To: Owen Densmore; Richard Lowenberg Cc: 1st mile nm Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: High Speed Internet Project Launched I'll be posting my questions on this proposal shortly. I think the specified route is very expensive and seriously limits who can be connected. We have 4 alternative routes that would bring services to small businesses, homes and schools that are located between the two defined end-points. Citizens of Santa Fe should also have the ability to have their homes connected. After all its their money.... > -----Original Message----- > From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm- > bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 9:34 AM > To: Richard Lowenberg > Cc: 1st mile nm > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: High Speed Internet Project Launched > > Is there a reason to limit this to "businesses and institutions"? I > guess the main reason is the route itself. > > -- Owen > > > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Richard Lowenberg > wrote: > > > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > May 17, 2013 > > Contacts: Sean Moody; Project Administrator; Economic Development > Division; 505-955-6350; sxmoody at santafenm.gov > > Jodi McGinnis Porter; Public Information/Multi-Media Administrator; > 505-795-4169, jmporter at santafenm.gov > > HIGH SPEED INTERNET PROJECT LAUNCHED > > SANTA FE, NM - A $1 million broadband infrastructure project to > improve > Internet speed, pricing and availability in Santa Fe is beginning > today. > This has been a priority for City of Santa Fe Economic Development for > almost five years. A Request for Qualifications is being issued to > selected firms to compete for the opportunity to design, build, own and > operate a fiber-optic link from downtown Santa Fe to the St. Michael's > Drive corridor. > > "It's wonderful that we will finally be able to build this project and > improve Internet in Santa Fe," said Mayor David Coss. "The City Council > heard the request from businesses and community members and made it a > priority for our bond funding." > > The project was authorized by the City Council as part of a Capital > Improvements Program bond issue in 2012. Once complete it will enable > local Internet providers to increase their network capacities and > reduce > costs. In turn this will translate into better speeds and lower prices > for customers. Slow and expensive Internet has been a recurring > complaint among local residents and businesses. > > Physically the project consists of a fiber optic cable running inside > an > underground pipe. Data is transmitted from one end of the cable to the > other over strands of glass fiber using a signal composed entirely of > visible light. This technology allows for extremely high data speeds, > very low power consumption and no electromagnetic noise or > interference. > The cable will follow city streets using "directional boring" > construction techniques which drastically reduce traffic impacts and > asphalt cutting, trenching and patching. The only visual evidence of > the > completed project will be new manholes along the route. > > Santa Fe is considered "well-served" in a national ranking of the > number > of local providers, geographical availability and median level of > service. Every home and most businesses already have two physical > routes > to the Internet: A telephone line and a television cable. In addition > to > these physical connections, mobile devices, as well as small, fixed > antennas attached to the outside of buildings; provide Internet to an > increasing number of individuals, residences and businesses. But in > spite of this abundance of pathways, there is a crucial missing link in > the infrastructure, an enduring legacy of the former telephone > monopoly. > This missing link spans from the central telephone office to a location > about two miles away where several fiber optic cables emerge from the > ground after traversing many miles of road, railroad and countryside > from remote junctions across the state. Absent this two-mile link, > local > providers have only one way to connect to the outside world, and must > pay a steep toll on the data transmitted over it. This effectively > limits the levels of service they offer their customers. The project > being launched today will bridge that gap, allowing providers for the > first time to shop for better toll rates, interconnect with their > choice > of carriers, and increase levels of customer service. > > Once the project is operational, it is expected that local providers > will begin to offer improved high speed Internet to businesses and > institutions along the route, which will run through the Railyard to > St. > Michael's Drive. Airport Road and other areas will achieve similar > availability as demand grows and providers extend the network to > serve > customers in those areas. > > > -------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. > 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 > www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com > -------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > > _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm From rl at 1st-mile.com Mon May 20 20:08:18 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 21:08:18 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Supreme Court: FCC timeframes overrule local delays Message-ID: Reuters U.S. justices endorse FCC authority in cellphone tower case The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has authority to try to speed up the process for installing wireless communications towers when local governments have been slow to act. The case hinged on a federal law requiring state and local governments to act on tower-siting applications within a "reasonable period of time." In a 6-3 vote, the court said that the agency has leeway to interpret ambiguity in the law about the extent of its regulatory authority. The FCC had decided that 90-day and 150-day deadlines relating to decisions on cellphone towers were fair, and a federal appeals court upheld its decision. (snip) http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/20/usa-court-agencies-idUSL1N0BF5M920130520 ------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------- From editorsteve at gmail.com Wed May 22 10:07:36 2013 From: editorsteve at gmail.com (Steve Ross) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 13:07:36 -0400 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] New wireless advance Message-ID: A friend is looking for a person or small team that understands the math of signal processing and has experience in wireless communications. The friend has a new way of looking at FM and AM and has gone a long way toward reduction to practice. If it works, it vastly expands the information-carrying capability of existing wireless (cellular, wifi) spectrum, and also bitrate that can be carried by a single lambda on fiber. Pat Sims has looked at it and has been suitably wowed. There are some tricky mathematical issues still to be solved, however. If you think you have the chops to get involved, or if you know someone, please contact me off-list. 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From rl at 1st-mile.com Thu Jun 6 13:40:58 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:40:58 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Laguna Pueblo Broadband Announcement Message-ID: <5c08063d3f377ca1da4b3f970e54c3a4@dcn.org> Sacred Wind, NeoNova celebrate launch of Laguna Pueblo Broadband Network http://www.innovate-educate.org/dialogue/comments/laguna_pueblo_broadband_network/ LAGUNA PUEBLO, N.M. and RALEIGH, N.C. (June 6, 2013) ? NeoNova Network Services and Sacred Wind Communications will participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 7, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., in Paraje Village, to celebrate the launch of the Laguna Pueblo Broadband Network in New Mexico. The Laguna Pueblo Broadband Network is a comprehensive telecommunications system comprised of fiber-optic circuits, fixed wireless towers, and equipment that provides broadband and other high-speed Internet services to every home and building in the six villages of Laguna Pueblo. The $3.3 million total project was made possible through six coordinated Community Connect Grants through the U.S. Department of Agriculture?s RUS Broadband Initiatives Program . Laguna Pueblo Gov. Richard Luarkie will kick off the ribbon-cutting event on Friday which also will include key dignitaries such as New Mexico Public Regulation Commissioner Theresa Becenti-Aguilar and a delegate from the office of U.S. Senator Tom Udall. Sacred Wind Communications managed the construction of the network, and Sacred Wind Telesolutions will serve as the Internet Service Provider while mentoring the Pueblo?s Utility Authority. NeoNova, one of several public, private and non-profit entities involved in making the network possible, will provide subscriber services, network management, and professional services for the network. The Laguna Pueblo is a Native American tribe of the Western Keresan Pueblo people. It is located in West-Central New Mexico and is home to approximately 8,000 people. Sacred Wind not only will serve as the Internet Service Provider, but the company also plans to provide internet use education for adults at locations throughout the village in classrooms donated by Albuquerque Public Schools. ?Sacred Wind is pleased and honored to be a part of Laguna?s telecommunications and information future,? said John Badal, CEO of Sacred Wind Communications. ?The Pueblo has waited a long time for such advanced services, and it is only with the financial assistance of the federal government and the expertise of such folks as those at NeoNova that this system could be developed.? NeoNova will provide Sacred Wind with a number of ISP solutions including Google Apps and other end-user applications administered through the NovaAdmin provisioning platform. The programs are designed to enhance the benefits of communication and collaboration, through the cloud, by combining high-end technology with premium customer support so residents of the Laguna Pueblo community can have superior broadband access and services. ?NeoNova is honored to help build a more vibrant community by exercising our core competency of servicing local ISPs,? said NeoNova CEO Ray Carey. ?We are proud to be a part of Sacred Wind?s creative web of public, private and community partners, who passionately desire to enhance the Laguna Pueblo community from both an economic development and educational perspective.? Editorial Contacts RJ Moshay: NeoNova Network Services: (919) 473.5068 or rjmoshay at neonova.net Noah Garrett: NGC Communications for NeoNova: (252) 423.1277 or noah at thinkngc.com Sacred Wind Contact: John Badal (505) 821.5080 or jbadal at sacred-wind.com -------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com -------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Mon Jun 10 08:30:53 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:30:53 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NTIA: EXPLORING THE DIGITAL NATION Message-ID: <4cedaaee10809689f9c3222f92f5565c@dcn.org> A quick review of the maps and state numbers at the end of the document, indicates that New Mexico is still ranked near last among all states for broadband adoption and computer use (2011 Census data). This is primarily true for rural areas, but is also an issue in our urban areas. It is interesting to compare NM with other large western states, doing better. It seems that there was no data for some southern states (Arkansas, Mississippi) which do rank lower than NM. I would urge our Governor, Legislators and communities to focus dedicated attention on this problem and ways to address the challenge to move forward, as it directly impacts jobs, education, healthcare and other aspects of our eco-social well-being. RL ------- In a new report, Exploring the Digital Nation: America?s Emerging Online Experience, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) examines how Americans connect to the Internet and what Americans do once they get online. The report, co-authored with the Economics and Statistics Administration, confirms the dramatic growth in the number of Americans who are going online to perform important tasks like applying for jobs, looking up health information, and learning about current events. The new report, for the first time in eight years, explores how and why Americans go online. It is based on the U.S. Census Bureau?s July 2011 Current Population Survey (CPS) Computer and Internet Use Supplement, and includes information collected from 53,500 households. While most Americans still used a desktop or laptop computer to go online in 2011, mobile device use grew significantly, with more than a third of Americans reporting that they used their mobile phones to access the Internet. The report also found that almost all users who used the Internet at home did so via a broadband connection. The July 2011 CPS data collection gathered information on a broad range of online activities. This report focuses primarily on three areas ? employment, health, and civic engagement ? that are particularly important for society. The CPS data suggest that widespread Internet use benefits society, that mobile devices further increase these benefits, and that the Internet?s great utility leads users to go online regularly and rely on it in their daily lives. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/report/2013/exploring-digital-nation-americas-emerging-online-experience ------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Wed Jun 12 07:56:52 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:56:52 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] USDA Seeks Applications to Finance Rural Broadband in Remote Areas Message-ID: <424848fb366f0e565f9a903570e29eac@dcn.org> USDA Seeks Applications to Finance Rural Broadband in Remote Areas www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2013/06/0120.xml&contentidonly=true WASHINGTON, June 11, 2013 ? Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that applications are being accepted for grants to finance broadband deployment in remote, rural areas. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) remains focused on carrying out its mission, despite a time of significant budget uncertainty. Today's announcement is one part of the Department's efforts to strengthen the rural economy. "The Obama Administration believes that reliable infrastructure is critical to rural economic opportunity. Broadband service expands educational, medical and health services for rural residents," Vilsack said. "Expanded broadband service also is important because it supports employment opportunities and makes income growth possible in rural areas." Through this notice, USDA Rural Development may award up to $21 million in grants through the Community Connect Grant program. It serves rural communities where broadband service is not available, but where it can make a tremendous difference in the quality of life for citizens. (snip) ------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------- From david at breeckerassociates.com Sun Jun 23 13:09:48 2013 From: david at breeckerassociates.com (David Breecker (dba)) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 14:09:48 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] ConnectED program Message-ID: I'd be interested in anyone's thoughts on whether this could be used to "pull" better general connectivity for New Mexico's under-wired regions, and if so, how: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/digest.php?page=2013/061913&utm_source=SSTI+Weekly+Digest&utm_campaign=788999331a-SSTI_Weekly_Digest_June_19_20136_20_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ecf5992d4c-788999331a-212409789#story4 Obama Administration's Wireless, Broadband Agenda Targets Economic Growth Earlier this month, President Obama announced plans to expand broadband and wireless Internet access to every school and library in the U.S. The new initiative, ConnectEd, has a goal of connecting 99 percent of students to the Internet within five years by having the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) modernize and leverage its existing E-Rate program. The president claimed that millions of students lack access to high-speed broadband and fewer than 20 percent of educators say that their school's internet connection meets their needs, particularly those in rural America. Read more about the ConnectEd initiative... dba | David Breecker Associates, Inc. Santa Fe: 505-690-2335 Abiquiu: 505-685-4891 www.BreeckerAssociates.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov Fri Jun 28 14:04:31 2013 From: Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov (Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall)) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 21:04:31 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] USDA Invites Applications for Grants to Bring Improved Educational and Healthcare Services to Rural Communities Message-ID: <1938EA6ABFA5734187F744F0B6CD55B5218E6E@P-ESS-SEN-EXA2.senate.ussenate.us> FYI. See below for distance learning and telemedicine grant opportunities that may be of interest to members of this list. Please consider letting our office know if you're an NM entity or individual applying for federal grants such as those described below. The New Mexico congressional delegation offices can in some cases can send letters of support for such grant applications. Regards, Kevin Kevin Cummins Office of Sen. Tom Udall ----------------------------- ? Release No. 0136.13 Contact: Weldon Freeman (202) 690-1384 ? USDA Invites Applications for Grants to Bring Improved Educational and Healthcare Services to Rural Communities ? Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program has Funded 1,400 Rural Health and Education Projects ? WASHINGTON, June 28, 2013 ? Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is accepting applications for grants to provide access to education, training and healthcare resources in rural areas. Funding is authorized through the Department's Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) Grant Program. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) remains focused on carrying out its mission, despite a time of significant budget uncertainty. Today's announcement is one part of the Department's efforts to strengthen the rural economy. "With access to the latest technology, America's rural citizens can compete in today's global economy," Vilsack said. "These Distance Learning and Telemedicine grants will modernize equipment and improve healthcare services and educational opportunities for residents in remote areas. They will help generate jobs in small towns and revitalize rural economies." Under this notice, USDA may provide up to $17.5 million in grants. Funds can be used to buy equipment and provide technical assistance. To be eligible, applicants must serve a rural area, demonstrate economic need and provide at least 15 percent in matching funds. Awards range up to $500,000. In 2012, USDA Rural Development provided 58 DLT grants for projects in 36 states. Since the program began, 1,400 projects have been funded. For example, in 2011, USDA Rural Development awarded the Kennett School District in extreme southeast Missouri funds for a results-oriented distance learning project. Using the connectivity that interactive video affords, their distance learning initiative offers community college programs during after school hours. Also, in 2010, the St. Alexius Medical Center in Bismarck, North Dakota, received a grant to expand access to state-of-the-art EKG (electrocardiogram) and ECG (echocardiogram) services. More than 24,000 rural residents in 25 communities have benefited by not having to drive great distances for their heart care services. The medical center used the USDA grant to purchase medical equipment and software that immediately transmits patients' test results and other information to cardiac specialists in Bismarck. Completed applications must be received by August 12, 2013. For further details about eligibility rules and application procedures, see the notice published on page 38915 of the June 28, 2013 Federal Register: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-06-28/html/2013-15597.htm. President Obama's plan for rural America has brought about historic investment and resulted in stronger rural communities. Under the President's leadership, these investments in housing, community facilities, businesses and infrastructure have empowered rural America to continue leading the way ? strengthening America's economy, small towns and rural communities. USDA's investments in rural communities support the rural way of life that stands as the backbone of our American values. President Obama and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack are committed to a smarter use of Federal resources to foster sustainable economic prosperity and ensure the government is a strong partner for businesses, entrepreneurs and working families in rural communities. USDA, through its Rural Development mission area, has a portfolio of programs designed to improve the economic stability of rural communities, businesses, residents, farmers and ranchers and improve the quality of life in rural America. USDA has made a concerted effort to deliver results for the American people, even as USDA implements sequestration ? the across-the-board budget reductions mandated under terms of the Budget Control Act. USDA has already undertaken historic efforts since 2009 to save more than $828 million in taxpayer funds through targeted, common-sense budget reductions. These reductions have put USDA in a better position to carry out its mission, while implementing sequester budget reductions in a fair manner that causes as little disruption as possible. # USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. To file a complaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (866) 632-9992 (Toll-free Customer Service), (800) 877-8339 (Local or Federal relay), (866) 377-8642 (Relay voice users). # ? From Terry.Brunner at nm.usda.gov Fri Jun 28 09:39:52 2013 From: Terry.Brunner at nm.usda.gov (Brunner, Terry - RD, Albuquerque, NM) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:39:52 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] DLT NOFA Message-ID: <1CE4E6E4793FD540BBE9E0F601D4B1D305826596@001FSN2MPN2-081.001f.mgd2.msft.net> The USDA Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program was announced today in the Federal Register. Grants from $50,000-$500,000 will be made available for Distance Learning and Telemedicine projects in rural communities. 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BVT has received several Infrastructure Loans from RUS over time, totaling over $4.5 million. BVT wanted to extend a fiber optic network in the rural northeastern part of New Mexico. The company wants to meet the need for present and future bandwidth requirements by placing fiber to nodes in close proximity of the rural subscribers. The funded fiber build-out will replaces an old and deteriorating copper plant and low bandwidth microwave transport in some areas and provides new connectivity in others. With an expected life of 30 years, this fiber will provide a solid framework for providing the bandwidth needs of the future. How Rural Development Helped: In 2010, BVT received a Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) loan/grant combination from RUS. The grant was for $1,586,000 and the loan was for $1,651,000. The award funded fiber optic connectivity to a number of new cabinets and existing buildings. In addition, they deployed a last mile access system intended to provide broadband services to households and businesses in the northeast area of New Mexico Results: Today, BVT has a service area covering more than 2,600 square miles. In addition to residential service in the Des Moines and Maxwell exchanges, they provide cellular service, local Internet access, business telephone systems, security systems, and network cabling throughout northeastern New Mexico and southeastern Colorado. All construction on the project funded through BIP has been completed and their new broadband service is in place. The Des Moines and Maxwell Schools are also enjoying the improved broadband service, as are the two Rural Health Care Facilities, located at the schools. One of the goals of this project was to improve overall service to the most remote ranches and farms. These new services also allow for more children to return home and work on the family farms, ranches, and businesses. The addition of new Central Office broadband equipment is giving BVT the ability to expand services beyond the initial installation. This summer, they plan to install new fiber optic cable and broadband equipment at a Federal Wildlife Refuge near Maxwell, New Mexico. The expanded fiber facilities are also able to greatly improve bandwidth to many of BVT?s existing remote cabinets and in fact replaced several of them with newer, more modern equipment. ------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Thu Jul 25 10:07:13 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:07:13 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Two Recent Papers Message-ID: Attached are two recent reports, of possible interest to some of you. RL Four Years of Broadband Growth, from the White House. Open Wireless vs. Licensed Spectrum: Evidence from Market Adoption, by Yochai Benkler, at the Berkman Center, Harvard U. ------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: broadband_report_final.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 742269 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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RL ------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------- From john at citylinkfiber.com Sun Jul 28 12:46:58 2013 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 19:46:58 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Sandia Crest Help Message-ID: Given the massive lightning storm several folks have had issues on the Crest. If anyone in this community has a need for emergency bandwidth via the Crest let me know. We have a large licensed link from 505 Marquette up to the Crest. The link is running just fine and we have spare capacity. We own the tower and the comm building outright, so if you need to hang a radio on it we can make that happen as well. Not worried about $$$, just offering to help neighbors out if they are in a pinch. Cheers. John Brown -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl at 1st-mile.com Fri Aug 2 10:53:50 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 11:53:50 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] REDI Net Official Northern NM Broadband Network Ribbon Cutting Message-ID: <05ab25700a471512bebca90cc5d2fc13@dcn.org> REDI Net Official Northern NM Broadband Network Ribbon Cutting When: Friday August 16, 2013 from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM MDT Where: Rio Arriba County Annex, 221 Industrial Park Rd., Espanola, NM 87532 REDI NET Official Launch Invitation: http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1111183027530-147/REDI+NET+Official+Launch+08162013++Event+Invite+Save+The+Date+final.pdf Driving Directions: https://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=221+Industrial+Park+Rd,+Espanola,+NM,+87532,+US REDI Net website: http://www.redinetnm.org/ NCNMEDD Website: http://www.ncnmedd.com/ --------------- Invitation: Official Northern New Mexico Broadband Network Launch and Ribbon Cutting Event US Senator Tom Udall, Keynote Speaker August 16, 2013, Friday 1:30PM-3:30PM Rio Arriba County Annex, 1122 N. Industrial Park Road, Espanola, NM Light Refreshments Provided Please come celebrate the official launch of REDI Net --a critical regional community broadband initiative that is a high-speed, open access broadband network built in Northern New Mexico. The network will serve over 120 community institutions and thousands of end users, through partnerships with last-mile providers. Remarks from Senator Udall, Representative Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), Senator Martin Heinrich's office, and project partners will begin at 1:30PM at the Rio Arriba County Annex in Espa?ola. The Public is welcome to attend. Direct Project Partners include, in alphabetical order, the City of Espa?ola, Los Alamos County, the North Central New Mexico Economic Development District, Ohkay Owingeh, Pojoaque Pueblo, Rio Arriba County, Santa Clara Pueblo, Santa Fe County and Tesuque Pueblo. REDI Net is funded by $10.6 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. A pre-event demonstration of network performance will be held in Tesuque Pueblo (Intergeneration Center) at 10:00AM RSVP to: ncnmedd at ncnmedd.com by Friday, August 9, 2013 Visit www.redinetnm.org or call 505-827-7313 for event and project updates. Contact: Duncan Sill, duncans at ncnmedd.com for additional information or if you have questons. Thank you for your time and attention. We look forward to seeing you there. Sincerely, Duncan Sill North Central NM Economic Development District ncnmedd at ncnmedd.com 505-827-7313 North Central NM Economic Development District | PO Box 5115 | 3900 Paseo de Sol | Suite A350 | Santa Fe | NM | 87502-5115 ------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Tue Aug 6 11:35:39 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 12:35:39 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Tewacom Closing Message-ID: <6ede53894679e5813213fe05c0d5df79@dcn.org> I have received email (text below) from a friend in the San Ildefonso area, regarding the closing of Tewacom, the wireless provider in that region. http://www.tewacom.com/ "And not that long after buying out ChimayoRed ... I wonder how many people will be without and what their alternatives are. We don't have DSL nor Cable as an option at our location. Even Cellular is not possible... Satellite is our only recourse and that is very limited. Do you know of other wireless folks who might be able to pick up the area of operation?" Tewacom is a past RUS funding recipient and is a noted partner in the REDINet, as previously reported on this list. I repeatedly tried contacting Tewacom staff some time ago, without reply. If anyone on this list has any information, please post to the list. Thanks, Richard ---------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ---------------------------------------- From david at breeckerassociates.com Tue Aug 6 13:44:05 2013 From: david at breeckerassociates.com (David Breecker (dba)) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 14:44:05 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Tewacom Closing In-Reply-To: <6ede53894679e5813213fe05c0d5df79@dcn.org> References: <6ede53894679e5813213fe05c0d5df79@dcn.org> Message-ID: The founder of Chimayo Red, Charlie Frans (who bears NO responsibility for Tewacom's performance) is now in charge of wireless at Cybermesa. I suggest anyone confronting this problem contact Cybermesa and let them know you need service. db On Aug 6, 2013, at 12:35 PM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > I have received email (text below) from a friend in the San Ildefonso > area, > regarding the closing of Tewacom, the wireless provider in that region. > > http://www.tewacom.com/ > > "And not that long after buying out ChimayoRed ... > I wonder how many people will be without and what their alternatives > are. > We don't have DSL nor Cable as an option at our location. > Even Cellular is not possible... Satellite is our only recourse and > that is very limited. > Do you know of other wireless folks who might be able to pick up the > area of operation?" > > Tewacom is a past RUS funding recipient and is a noted partner in the > REDINet, > as previously reported on this list. > I repeatedly tried contacting Tewacom staff some time ago, without > reply. > If anyone on this list has any information, please post to the list. > > Thanks, > Richard > > > ---------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. > 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 > P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 > www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org > ---------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > dba | David Breecker Associates, Inc. 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The areas surrounding San Ildefonso (including El Rancho) will not be served by us due to a lack of LOS. Our 65' tower is located on the Black Mesa near Chamita approximately 6 miles northwest of downtown Espanola. We expect to be able to serve at least 500 customers with our current configuration. The tower is expected to be operational no later than Sept. 1. The tower is designed to serve residential, business, and institutional customers. We too have tried contacting Tewa to contact their customers and make them aware of our service to no avail (unfortunately). If you know people in our candidate serving area, please have them contact our sales department at 988-9200. Thanks for the opportunity Richard Sincerely, Charlie Charles Frans Cyber Mesa Office: 505-988-9200 Cell: 505-795-7107 ---------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ---------------------------------------- From sas at lava3d.com Tue Aug 6 19:48:22 2013 From: sas at lava3d.com (Steve Smith) Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 20:48:22 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Tewacom Closing In-Reply-To: <0A777BBF-CEA0-4039-80CA-994317CD1F81@1st-mile.org> References: <0A777BBF-CEA0-4039-80CA-994317CD1F81@1st-mile.org> Message-ID: <5201B576.10606@lava3d.com> As a customer of Tewacom (for another few weeks?) who is completely dependent on them for internet service with no other practical alternative, I'd be interested in helping to organize and promote alternatives. In particular, I'm interested in a co-operative model if possible, the time seems perfectly ripe for it. Can anyone (Vincente, Richard) give us contact information for this group, or other factions who might be interested? - Steve > Steve, > In case you don't know about this group. RL > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> *From: *V ROYBAL > > >> *Date: *August 6, 2013 2:23:31 PM MDT >> *To: *rl at 1st-mile.com >> *Subject: **Re: [1st-mile-nm] Tewacom Closing* >> >> Richard, >> >> There is a group of citizens in the Pojoaque Valley that include an >> engineer from LANL >> that have discussing a broadband cooperative for the Valley. >> >> Is this the group that may be able to assume infrastructure and >> provide service? >> >> vicente >> > > --------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director > 1st-Mile Institute www.1st-mile.org > P. O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 > 505-603-5200 rl at 1st-mile.org > --------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > -- Los Alamos Visualization Associates LAVA-Synergy 4200 W. Jemez rd Los Alamos, NM 87544 www.lava3d.com sas at lava3d.com 505-920-0252 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john at citylinkfiber.com Tue Aug 6 20:26:17 2013 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 03:26:17 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Tewacom Closing In-Reply-To: <5201B576.10606@lava3d.com> Message-ID: If there is anything we can do to help. Please let us know. I'd be happy to provide backbone bandwdith while folks figure out how to move the load around. What is happening to their physical infrastructure ?? We might be able to hit something from our tower on the Crest. Just need to know lat/long of where to shoot towards. If servers or domains need a home, we have the capacity. From: Steve Smith > Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 20:48:22 -0600 To: "1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org" <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Tewacom Closing As a customer of Tewacom (for another few weeks?) who is completely dependent on them for internet service with no other practical alternative, I'd be interested in helping to organize and promote alternatives. In particular, I'm interested in a co-operative model if possible, the time seems perfectly ripe for it. Can anyone (Vincente, Richard) give us contact information for this group, or other factions who might be interested? - Steve Steve, In case you don't know about this group. RL Begin forwarded message: From: V ROYBAL > Date: August 6, 2013 2:23:31 PM MDT To: rl at 1st-mile.com Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Tewacom Closing Richard, There is a group of citizens in the Pojoaque Valley that include an engineer from LANL that have discussing a broadband cooperative for the Valley. Is this the group that may be able to assume infrastructure and provide service? vicente --------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute www.1st-mile.org P. O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 505-603-5200 rl at 1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------- -- Los Alamos Visualization Associates LAVA-Synergy 4200 W. Jemez rd Los Alamos, NM 87544 www.lava3d.comsas 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrea at medialiteracyproject.org Thu Aug 8 09:46:38 2013 From: andrea at medialiteracyproject.org (Quijada, Andrea) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 16:46:38 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] =?windows-1252?q?FW=3A_FCC_ONAP_to_Hold_Broadband?= =?windows-1252?q?=2C_Telecom=2C_and_Media_Consultation_Workshop_=96_9/25-?= =?windows-1252?q?26/13?= In-Reply-To: <888AA466EA99C54AABE26F061DD44F0F329F2F@fcc.gov> References: <888AA466EA99C54AABE26F061DD44F0F329F2F@fcc.gov> Message-ID: <2548906B2D377645A0C64766EE1F739D0268D5@Genesis.aa.edu> From: Dan Rumelt [mailto:Dan.Rumelt at fcc.gov] On Behalf Of Native Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 10:02 AM To: Native Subject: FCC ONAP to Hold Broadband, Telecom, and Media Consultation Workshop ? 9/25-26/13 ADVISORY: FCC ONAP to Hold Broadband, Telecom, and Media Training Workshop in Santa Fe, NM ? SEPTEMBER 25-26, 2013 CONTACT: Dan Rumelt 202-236-4533; Email: Dan.Rumelt at fcc.gov The FCC?s Office of Native Affairs and Policy has set the dates for its next Native Broadband, Telecommunications, and Media Consultation Workshop. It will be conducted on September 25 and 26 at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), 83 Avan Nu Po Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87508. This free workshop will focus on opportunities for Tribal governments and Native communities to help build communications infrastructure on Tribal lands to improve connectivity and local efforts to enhance cultural and language preservation, economic development, public safety, education, and health care. Our target audience includes Tribal leaders, governmental managers and officials, including IT directors, radio station and communications officials, economic development managers, public safety officials, educators, and health service specialists. We will be providing important and breaking information about opportunities in broadband, radio, and telecommunications specifically for Indian country. In addition to these important policy and dialogue sessions, the workshop will feature our Native Learning Lab, a well-received and interactive computer space described by previous attendees as an ?internet caf? on steroids,? where attendees will be able to work with FCC staff and receive one-on-one personalized help or small group assistance to learn how to gather information and utilize FCC systems necessary to access many of these opportunities. In a few weeks, an agenda will be made available, along with instructions on free conference registration procedures, hotel information, as well as some logistical details. If you have any questions before then, or want to receive this information directly, please send an email to native at fcc.gov. # # # -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl at 1st-mile.com Thu Aug 15 08:31:18 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 09:31:18 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Navajo Nation opens Shiprock data center Message-ID: Navajo data center to spread wireless Internet Wednesday, August 14, 2013 http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/article_62678ffc-01dd-5c22-aa87-e4e847075e77.html?TNNoMobile Associated Press FARMINGTON ? The Navajo Nation is in the final testing phases of a project that will make wireless Internet available to a majority of people on the vast reservation. Tribal officials attending the opening of an $8 million commercial data center on Tuesday recalled how a teenage girl who had won a laptop computer in a school contest wasn?t able to connect to the Internet because she had no phone line at home and how residents in isolated communities climb mesas in search of cellphone service. They opened up a laptop in the northwestern New Mexico community of Shiprock, quickly connected to the Internet and played a video for the audience, the Farmington Daily Times reported. Broadband service soon should be accessible to 30,000 homes, 1,000 business and 1,100 community institutions across the reservation. ?The Navajo Nation, like most rural areas, faces considerable challenges regarding telecommunications services,? said Navajo Tribal Utility Authority general manager Walter Haase. ?With the opening of this facility, we have set the stage to allow high-quality, reliable telecommunications and data center services in the Navajo Nation that will enable information and communication flow throughout the region.? NTUA spokeswoman Deenise Becenti said Wednesday that Internet service will be available to residents later this fall. For now, businesses and organizations that want to rent server capacity from the data center can do so. The tribal authority partnered with a wholesale wireless provider in 2011 to upgrade telecommunications services on the Navajo Nation. The tribe has majority ownership of the venture, NTUA Wireless LLC., while Commnet Wireless owns the rest. The agreement built on work the two entities did to secure $32 million in stimulus funds for the $46 million high-speed network. NTUA board chairman Sidney Bob Dietz II was skeptical at first of the Navajo Nation getting into the telecommunications business, but now envisions an economy bolstered by the project that also could provide jobs for Navajo youth. Tribal officials also have been touting anticipated benefits in health care, education and emergency response services. ?We need these things for our young folks,? he said. The 3G mobile and 4G broadband services was deployed east to west across the reservation through hundreds of lines of new fiber optic cables and dozens of microwave towers. The network blankets almost half of the reservation?s 27,000 square miles. Becenti said the goal is to further strengthen the network by continuing to build it out and ?reach the pockets we didn?t get to.? ------- Navajo Nation opens Shiprock data center Facility promises to connect Navajos By Chuck Slothower The Daily Times Updated: 08/14/2013 http://www.daily-times.com/four_corners-news/ci_23856468/navajo-nation-opens-shiprock-data-center?IADID=Search-www.daily-times.com-www.daily-times.com (See article for photos) SHIPROCK ? When President Bill Clinton visited Shiprock in April 2000, he met a 13-year-old Navajo girl who had won a laptop computer through a school contest. The president was stunned to learn that the girl could not connect to the Internet because she had no phone line at home, and wireless access was a distant dream. At the opening of the Navajo Nation's new data center on Tuesday, officials opened a laptop on stage, quickly connected to the Internet and played a YouTube video without a hitch. "Bill Clinton's dream is finally realized," said Walter Haase, general manager of the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority. The NTUA on Tuesday hosted an invitation-only event at the secure data center in Shiprock. The $8 million facility will spread wireless Internet access to 70 percent of the Navajo population living on the reservation, tribal officials said. "We also wanted to be able to connect areas that were not profitable or less profitable," Haase said. The Navajo Nation retains control by owning 51 percent of the project through NTUA. Commnet Wireless owns the rest. Arviso Construction Co. of Fort Wingate, a construction company owned by a Navajo family, was the lead contractor. The data center is open for business to organizations that wish to rent server capacity from the NTUA. "Clearly it's for the Navajo Nation as the data center, but it's for the Four Corners as well," said Mike Hazel, NTUA division manager. Navajo President Ben Shelly said it's important for the tribe to maintain open markets on the reservation. "I don't want to have one enterprise monopolize the Navajo Nation," Shelly said. "It's wrong." He said the data center points to a more diverse business environment. "We are now a technology nation, not just an energy nation," he said. The data center is the only of its kind in the region. Located behind the NTAU's office building, the data center is surrounded by razor wire and has numerous other security features. The server room is kept at a constant temperature of 65 degrees and humidity is kept at 40 to 60 percent. NTAU board chairman Sidney Bob Dietz II said he was skeptical of the project at first. "I was the most reluctant of any (board member) to go into the telecom business," he said. "I felt it might be outside our wheelhouse." Dietz said he came around to the notion that the data center could spur economic development on the reservation and provide jobs for talented Navajo youths. "We need these things for our young folks," he said. "We don't want them to leave and go to California like me or (Washington), D.C. or wherever they might go." Johnny Naize, speaker of the Navajo Nation Council, recalled how residents of his isolated chapter, Tselani/Cottonwood, southwest of Chinle, Ariz., once climbed mesas in search of cell phone service before Cellular One built a site on an existing tower in the area. Elderly residents are clamoring for Internet service, he said. "It's our lifeline," Naize said. -------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org -------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Mon Aug 19 09:28:16 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:28:16 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] CenturyLink CFO Outlines Four Key Growth Areas Message-ID: <68794149aac2de833ebfd96173694a2c@dcn.org> This posting is for CenturyLinks entire service area, not just NM. RL CenturyLink CFO Outlines Four Key Growth Areas 8/14/13 by Joan Engebretson http://www.telecompetitor.com/centurylink-cfo-outlines-four-key-growth-areas/ CenturyLink sees its future in four key growth areas, said Stewart Ewing, executive vice president and chief financial officer for the company at the Oppenheimer Technology, Internet & Communications Conference today. Those four areas, he said, are the company?s paid video offering PrismTV, fiber-to-the-tower to support wireless carriers? burgeoning demand for bandwidth, broadband expansion and data hosting/ cloud. Moving forward the company sees revenues from these areas replacing the revenues the company is losing from its traditional voice business. As an Oppenheimer exec noted, the new growth areas are likely to have narrower margins than CenturyLink?s traditional business. But Ewing said the company aims to boost margins by emphasizing sales to customers that can be served over the company?s own network facilities. Some highlights from each of CenturyLink?s key focus areas. The company saw 10% growth in PrismTV subscribers in the second quarter of 2013. The company eventually expects to see a 9% take rate in areas where the offering is available. The vast majority (97%) also take high-speed Internet service ? and half of new customers are new to CenturyLink, either because they came from a competitor or because they moved into the service area. On the fiber-to-the-tower front, CenturyLink completed more than 1,150 builds in second quarter and is on track to do between 4,000 and 5,000 builds before year-end, Ewing said. He noted that the company aims to design fiber-to-the-tower routes so that businesses and residences also can benefit from the new fiber. Overall one third of CenturyLink customers can get broadband at speeds of 20 Mbps or more. The company is upgrading a traditional cable system in Omaha with fiber-to-the-home ? a choice Ewing said was less costly than a cable or fiber-to-the-node approach. On the data center/ hosting side, CenturyLink now has 55 data centers, some acquired when the company purchased Savvis. Thirty percent of sales on the Savvis side are to existing CenturyLink customers and that should help make them more ?sticky,? Ewing said. ?We?re using the data center business to maximize the value of our national and international network,? said Ewing. -------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org -------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Mon Aug 19 09:31:11 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:31:11 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Update on the FCC's Native Broadband, Telecommunications, and Media Consultation Workshop Message-ID: <98017798536df7743f0ef7e9b47f5761@dcn.org> From: Native Subject: Update on the FCC's Native Broadband, Telecommunications, and Media Consultation Workshop Date: August 19, 2013 9:27:40 AM MDT To: Native Hesci! Chukma! Greetings! I?m writing this message to provide you with updates to our previous notice about the FCC?s Native Broadband, Telecommunications, and Media Consultation Workshop, to be conducted on September 25-26 at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), 83 Avan Nu Po Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508. We have added registration and hotel information. Please register for this workshop by providing your name, title, Tribal or company affiliation, phone, and email contact information via email to native at fcc.gov. Please note that we have not received your registration unless you receive a confirmation email from us. A limited block of discounted rooms has been set aside for workshop participants nearby at the Inn at Santa Fe, 8376 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, NM 87507. Attendees should call the hotel directly at (888)-871-7138 or (505)-474-9500 and ask for the ?Federal Communications Commission? block of rooms. The group rate is $75 per night plus tax. The workshop will focus on opportunities for Tribal governments and Native communities to help build communications infrastructure on Tribal lands to improve connectivity and local efforts to enhance cultural and language preservation, economic opportunities, and community institutions. The workshop is free and open to Tribal governmental officials ? including Tribal leaders, IT Directors, Economic Development Specialists, Radio and Media Managers, Public Safety officials, and Tribal education, health care, and facilities staff with an interest and work relationship with the subject matter. In addition, entities including advocacy groups, nonprofits, and other entities involved in Native and Tribal telecommunications infrastructure development are invited. We will be providing timely and topical information about opportunities in broadband, radio, and telecommunications specifically for Indian Country. We will also be presenting and discussing and encouraging dialogue on proposed FCC rules impacting Tribal lands nationwide. In addition to these important policy and dialogue sessions, the workshop will feature our Native Learning Lab. This is an interactive computing and training space, where attendees will be able to work with FCC staff and receive one-on-one personalized help or small group assistance to learn how to access and utilize FCC systems in order to take advantage of these opportunities. In a few weeks, an agenda will be finalized and we will send it to you at that time. If you have any questions before then, please send us a note at native at fcc.gov. We hope you will be able to join us at the workshop and that you will help us maximize participation by forwarding this information to all of your contacts. Mvto! Thank you and best regards, Geoff Geoffrey C. Blackwell Chief Office of Native Affairs and Policy Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, SW Washington, DC 20554 Desk: 202-418-3629 Mobile: 202-253-4846 geoffrey.blackwell at fcc.gov -------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org -------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Tue Aug 20 09:13:31 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:13:31 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T Invests $35 Million in New Mexico Wireless and Wireline Networks in First Half of 2013 Message-ID: <9a3d75c9dba83e7337b3fec39d9d25c2@dcn.org> (See site for additional details) Albuquerque , New Mexico, August 08, 2013 AT&T Invests $35 Million in New Mexico Wireless and Wireline Networks in First Half of 2013 http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=24641&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=36843 Investments Strengthen Nation's Fastest and Most Reliable 4G LTE Network, Largest 4G Network Project Velocity IP Investments Result in New Cell Sites, Small Cells and Distributed Antenna Systems to Enhance Network Performance Across New Mexico Blazing speeds. Great reliability. Broad coverage. Excellent overall performance. That?s what New Mexico residents want from their mobile Internet, and it?s exactly what AT&T* is delivering with an array of network upgrades completed in the first half of 2013. In the first half of 2013, AT&T invested more than $35 million in its wireless and wired networks in New Mexico. The investments included deployment of new macro cell sites, small cells and Distributed Antenna Systems across the state as a part of AT&T?s Project Velocity IP, a three-year investment plan announced last fall to expand and enhance its IP broadband networks. The company also expanded and enhanced its 4G LTE network, which provides ultra-fast mobile Internet speeds, and deployed new Wi-Fi hot spots. These investments help to ensure that New Mexico residents continue to receive the best possible experience over the AT&T network, whether at home, at work or on the go. The great performance of AT&T?s 4G LTE network, now the nation?s fastest and most reliable, continues to be validated: AT&T now has the most reliable 4G LTE network. According to independent third-party data, AT&T has the highest success rate for delivering mobile content across nationwide 4G LTE networks. Meanwhile, our 4G LTE service was recognized as having faster average download and upload speeds than any of our competitors in PCWorld/TechHive?s most recent 20-market speed tests ? the second consecutive year that AT&T has ranked 1st overall. PCWorld/TechHive also ranked AT&T?s as the fastest combination of 3G and 4G services in the 20 cities it tested. And AT&T was named America?s fastest 4G LTE network in PC Magazine?s 2013 Fastest Mobile Networks 30-market study ? sweeping the top rankings in all six U.S. regions from coast to coast: Northeast, Southeast, North-Central, South-Central, Northwest and Southwest. ?Fast, reliable connectivity is essential to both quality of life and competitiveness at work,? said Jerry Fuentes, president of AT&T Arizona and New Mexico. ?No one understands that better than we do, and no one is doing more than AT&T to mobilize a world that works for people in New Mexico. With initiatives like Project Velocity IP, we?re working to ensure that New Mexico consumers and businesses remain at the leading edge of broadband services.? Highlights of network upgrades completed so far this year in New Mexico include launching 4G LTE in Farmington, Gallup and Las Cruces. ?AT&T?s network investment supports New Mexico?s economic health and our residents? ability to thrive and expand,? said Alex Romero, President and CEO of the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce. ?The expansion of mobile Internet service supports the way we live and work in the 21st century.? The 2013 year-to-date network investment builds on the nearly $175 million that AT&T has invested in its New Mexico wireless and wired networks from 2009 through 2012. AT&T 4G LTE is now available in multiple areas of the state, including Albuquerque, Farmington, Gallup and Las Cruces. Nationwide, more than 225 million Americans have access to AT&T 4G LTE service. By year-end 2013, AT&T expects to cover nearly 270 million people and 400 markets with its 4G LTE network. -------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org -------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Wed Aug 21 10:54:20 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:54:20 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] CenturyLink to accept $54 million in Connect America Funds Message-ID: The following stories/announcements pertain to CenturyLink nationally. Here's a little of the New Mexico aspect of the FCC's Connect America program: Many low-income rural and urban families in NM will benefit by qualifying for reduced rate ($9.99) broadband service from providers cooperating with the FCC in addressing the ?digital divide?. CenturyLink and Comcast are already participating. CenturyLink is currently utilizing Connect America funds in 21 NM communities, 19 of which are concentrated in Deming and Silver City. RL ----------- CenturyLink to accept $54 million in Connect America Funds Company to bring broadband to 92,000 rural consumers http://news.centurylink.com/index.php?s=43&item=3071 Aug 20, 2013 WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CenturyLink, Inc. announced today that it will accept $54 million from the Federal Communications Commission's Connect America Fund (CAF) this year to bring broadband to more than 92,000 rural homes and businesses in unserved high-cost areas. When combined with its copayment, CenturyLink will invest more than $108 million over the next three years to bring broadband speeds of 4 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream to rural households and businesses in 33 of the 37 states where it offers residential broadband service. The company's investment of its own capital will exceed the amount of CAF phase I, round 2 funding it accepts. Earlier this year, close to 100 members of Congress from both parties urged the FCC to quickly distribute CAF phase I, round 2 money to bring broadband to more rural Americans. "We commend the FCC for its collective commitment to bringing the many benefits of high-speed Internet service to unserved high-cost areas of rural America," said Steve Davis, CenturyLink executive vice president for public policy and government relations. "CenturyLink is investing millions of dollars to deploy broadband to thousands of Americans who live in areas that would be cost prohibitive to serve without programs like the FCC's Connect America Fund." CenturyLink was eligible to receive $90 million in CAF phase I, round 2 money, but the FCC's market eligibility restrictions made further deployment uneconomic. The $54 million is in addition to $35 million in CAF phase I, round 1 money that CenturyLink accepted in 2012 to deploy broadband service to 45,000 homes and businesses in unserved rural areas. Through the CAF I program, CenturyLink is deploying broadband to nearly 140,000 unserved rural consumers. ----------- CenturyLink Accepts More Than Half of This Year?s Connect America Funding 8/20/13 by Joan Engebretson http://www.telecompetitor.com/centurylink-accepts-more-than-half-of-this-years-connect-america-funding/ CenturyLink this morning said it would accept $54 million of $90 million offered to the company through the Connect America Fund program to help cover some of the cost of bringing broadband to areas that cannot get broadband today. Under the terms of the program established for this year, the company also will invest an additional $54 million or more of its own in the broadband deployments, which will include 33 of the 37 states where the company is the incumbent local telephone service provider. ?CenturyLink is investing millions of dollars to deploy broadband to thousands of Americans who live in areas that would be cost prohibitive to serve without programs like the FCC?s Connect America Fund,? said CenturyLink Executive Vice President for Public Policy and Government Relations Steve Davis in today?s announcement. The Connect America Fund program got underway last year and is funded by the telecom industry using money that previously would have gone toward the cost of providing voice service to high-cost rural areas. The FCC is transitioning away from that program to one focused on broadband. The commission last year established a yearly funding amount for each of the nation?s largest price cap carriers, based on the number of rural lines in a carrier?s territory. Last year CenturyLink accepted $35 million of the $90 million it was offered. The company likely accepted a higher amount of funding this year because the terms of the program changed somewhat for this year. Last year, carriers were offered $775 per line to bring service to customers that could not get broadband speeds of 768 kbps downstream and 200 kbps upstream. This year?s program again offers that option but also gives carriers the option of accepting $550 per line for homes that cannot get service at speeds of 3 Mbps downstream and 768 kbps upstream. And it appears that CenturyLink is primarily targeting homes in that category. According to today?s release, the company expects to bring service to nearly 95,000 homes for this year, which works out to an average of $568 per home. Update: In a follow up interview, Steve Davis offered some additional details about CAF funding requirements for this year. Before carriers can accept funding for any customers who currently get service above 768kbps downstream but below 3 Mbps, they must first confirm that they have brought service to every customer lacking service above 768 kbps who can be economically served for the $775 support rate. CenturyLink, he said, did a ?painstaking location-by-location analysis to find everywhere we could conceivably build broadband economically.? He also noted that CenturyLink aims to use a fiber-to-the-neighborhood approach to serving the homes it will upgrade through the Connect America program. ---------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ---------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Wed Aug 21 10:41:30 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:41:30 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Internet.org: A Facebook Initiative To Connect The Unconnected Message-ID: <5f885756faf5f2016f629e23314e572d@dcn.org> This story is being reported widely today, and we'll continue to see more on this. The 10 page Facebook issued report is attached. RL http://www.ibtimes.com/internetorg-facebook-initiative-connect-unconnected-1393301 Internet.org: A Facebook Initiative To Connect The Unconnected By Kukil Bora on August 21 2013 Facebook and six other tech companies join hands to make the Internet accessible to billions of people around the world, who are still not connected. Reuters Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), on Tuesday, announced that it has partnered with Samsung (KRX:005930), Nokia (NYSE:NOK) and four other companies to launch a project called Internet.org, to make the worldwide web available to two-thirds of the planet still not connected to the Internet. According to Facebook, only 2.7 billion people -- just over a third of the world's population -- around the world currently have access to the Internet. And, the goal of Internet.org is to connect the remaining five billion people and provide the same opportunities enjoyed by those in the connected third of the world. ?There are huge barriers in developing countries to connecting and joining the knowledge economy,? Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, said in a statement. ?Internet.org brings together a global partnership that will work to overcome these challenges, including making internet access available to those who cannot currently afford it.? The Internet.org project, which includes other players such as Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), MediaTek (TPE:2454), Opera (OTCMKTS:OPESF) and Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM), will also rope in NGOs, academics and experts over time to develop joint projects, and mobilize industry and governments to bring the world online. ?Our industry is now at an exciting inflection point where Internet connectivity is becoming more affordable and efficient for consumers while still offering them great experiences,? Stephen Elop, Nokia?s president and CEO, said in a statement. ?Universal internet access will be the next great industrial revolution.? Zuckerberg said about one billion people in the world currently use smartphones, and with the prices of smartphones coming down, more people are expected to use such high-end handsets over the next five years. However, getting a smartphone does not necessarily mean that those people will also have access to the Internet, because data plans in many countries remain unaffordable for a majority of the population. According to Zuckerberg, the Internet.org project will focus on three key challenges in developing countries -- making Internet access affordable, using data more efficiently and helping businesses drive Internet access. Potential projects may also include collaborations to develop lower-cost, higher-quality smartphones. ?This new initiative has big potential to help accelerate access to the Internet for everyone,? JK Shin, CEO and president of the IT & Mobile Communications division at Samsung Electronics, said in the statement. The Internet.org project is similar to efforts by other technology giants such as Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), aimed at boosting Internet penetration, which in turn could potentially open up demand for the products and services of these companies in underserved markets. In June, Google launched Project Loon, a small network of balloons over the Southern Hemisphere as part of an experiment to bring reliable Internet access to the world's most remote regions. Microsoft announced, in February, that it was collaborating with the Kenyan government and a local Internet service provider to offer broadband access using unused television spectrum and solar-powered base stations in Africa. The Internet.org website is currently live and provides an overview of its mission and goals, and in coming weeks, it is expected to feature interviews with technology leaders and experts, along with the latest news on the project's progress. ---------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ---------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The finding allows the commission to move to the next phase of the case to determine appropriate regulatory relief for CenturyLink, such as eliminating price controls and quality-of-service standards. Any regulatory changes, however, only will affect packaged services ? which encompass basic phone lines with added features such as caller ID and call waiting ? as well as bundled contracts that contain non-telephone services like Internet. Regulation will continue for basic, stand-alone telephone lines and for services provided to business customers, since the commission did not find those markets to be competitive. CenturyLink, which acquired Qwest Communications International in 2011, is the state?s largest provider of traditional landline phone service. But the local customer base under Qwest and now CenturyLink has fallen nearly 48 percent since 2001 as cellphone use has exploded and as cable-telephone and Internet-based services have spread. CenturyLink petitioned the PRC in fall 2011 to declare that effective competition exists in all market segments throughout New Mexico to pave the way for regulatory relief. In the end, however, the commission accepted PRC hearing examiner Carolyn Glick?s limited finding of competition just in packaged and bundled residential services. On the other hand, the commission rejected Glick?s recommendation to declare those residential services competitive in all 65 CenturyLink service areas, leaving regulation intact in four rural zones. It also rejected a recommendation to give CenturyLink another opportunity to present evidence of competition in more market segments, encouraging commissioners Pat Lyons and Valerie Espinoza to vote against the final order. ?I think CenturyLink has a lot of competition from wireless providers, and I don?t think they?ll get much regulatory relief with this order,? Lyons said. ?I also think they should have gotten a second chance to prove their case.? The case will now go back to the hearing examiner to consider regulatory reform, a process that could take up to six to eight months, Glick told the Journal. ----------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ----------------------------------------- From gil.densmore at gmail.com Sat Aug 31 12:42:14 2013 From: gil.densmore at gmail.com (Gillian Densmore) Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 13:42:14 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] PRC - CenturyLink In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: What does that do for a bloke like me? I ask because in santa fe the only people I here about providing a wire to my house is Comcast. It's my understanding that cybermesa just rents the access to the wires. I'd speculate it's possible one reason why Cellular has been getting momentum is kind of pragmatics: from one doodad: I can call, and use the intertubes, the same doodad will happly let my computers use the internet (all for 80-90 a month) I'll toss in one caveat: T-mobile and Verizon, play dirty with the language used in the contract by that I meen in the case of Tmobile 'unlimited' hotspotness actually means that close to a arbitrarily set amount of data munched up they will drop you from "4G" down to Edge. On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > > NM PRC moving to deregulate land line phone business > > > http://www.abqjournal.com/254646/biz/nm-prc-moving-to-deregulate-land-line-phone-business.html > > By Kevin Robinson-Avila / Journal Staff Writer | 2 days ago > > The state Public Regulation Commission ruled Wednesday that most of New > Mexico?s residential telephone market is competitive enough to ease > regulations for CenturyLink. > > The PRC voted 3-2 to declare the residential market for ?packaged and > bundled? telephone services competitive in 61 of the 65 areas that > CenturyLink serves in New Mexico, reflecting steady growth of wireless > and cable-telephone providers in those places. > > The finding allows the commission to move to the next phase of the case > to determine appropriate regulatory relief for CenturyLink, such as > eliminating price controls and quality-of-service standards. > > Any regulatory changes, however, only will affect packaged services ? > which encompass basic phone lines with added features such as caller ID > and call waiting ? as well as bundled contracts that contain > non-telephone services like Internet. > > Regulation will continue for basic, stand-alone telephone lines and for > services provided to business customers, since the commission did not > find those markets to be competitive. > > CenturyLink, which acquired Qwest Communications International in 2011, > is the state?s largest provider of traditional landline phone service. > > But the local customer base under Qwest and now CenturyLink has fallen > nearly 48 percent since 2001 as cellphone use has exploded and as > cable-telephone and Internet-based services have spread. > > CenturyLink petitioned the PRC in fall 2011 to declare that effective > competition exists in all market segments throughout New Mexico to pave > the way for regulatory relief. > > In the end, however, the commission accepted PRC hearing examiner > Carolyn Glick?s limited finding of competition just in packaged and > bundled residential services. > > On the other hand, the commission rejected Glick?s recommendation to > declare those residential services competitive in all 65 CenturyLink > service areas, leaving regulation intact in four rural zones. > > It also rejected a recommendation to give CenturyLink another > opportunity to present evidence of competition in more market segments, > encouraging commissioners Pat Lyons and Valerie Espinoza to vote against > the final order. > > ?I think CenturyLink has a lot of competition from wireless providers, > and I don?t think they?ll get much regulatory relief with this order,? > Lyons said. ?I also think they should have gotten a second chance to > prove their case.? > > The case will now go back to the hearing examiner to consider > regulatory reform, a process that could take up to six to eight months, > Glick told the Journal. > > > > > ----------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. > 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 > P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 > www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org > ----------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roman at romanmaes.com Sat Aug 31 18:31:35 2013 From: roman at romanmaes.com (Roman Maes) Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 18:31:35 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] PRC - CenturyLink In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6346C1D1-BB7A-448A-889E-FB7BABDD1EDE@romanmaes.com> PRC has no jurisdiction over cable or wireless..... Roman Maes NMPR 505-469-1342 Sent from my iPhone On Aug 31, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote: > What does that do for a bloke like me? I ask because in santa fe the only people I here about providing a wire to my house is Comcast. It's my understanding that cybermesa just rents the access to the wires. I'd speculate it's possible one reason why Cellular has been getting momentum is kind of pragmatics: from one doodad: I can call, and use the intertubes, the same doodad will happly let my computers use the internet (all for 80-90 a month) > I'll toss in one caveat: T-mobile and Verizon, play dirty with the language used in the contract by that I meen in the case of Tmobile 'unlimited' hotspotness actually means that close to a arbitrarily set amount of data munched up they will drop you from "4G" down to Edge. > > > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: >> >> NM PRC moving to deregulate land line phone business >> >> http://www.abqjournal.com/254646/biz/nm-prc-moving-to-deregulate-land-line-phone-business.html >> >> By Kevin Robinson-Avila / Journal Staff Writer | 2 days ago >> >> The state Public Regulation Commission ruled Wednesday that most of New >> Mexico?s residential telephone market is competitive enough to ease >> regulations for CenturyLink. >> >> The PRC voted 3-2 to declare the residential market for ?packaged and >> bundled? telephone services competitive in 61 of the 65 areas that >> CenturyLink serves in New Mexico, reflecting steady growth of wireless >> and cable-telephone providers in those places. >> >> The finding allows the commission to move to the next phase of the case >> to determine appropriate regulatory relief for CenturyLink, such as >> eliminating price controls and quality-of-service standards. >> >> Any regulatory changes, however, only will affect packaged services ? >> which encompass basic phone lines with added features such as caller ID >> and call waiting ? as well as bundled contracts that contain >> non-telephone services like Internet. >> >> Regulation will continue for basic, stand-alone telephone lines and for >> services provided to business customers, since the commission did not >> find those markets to be competitive. >> >> CenturyLink, which acquired Qwest Communications International in 2011, >> is the state?s largest provider of traditional landline phone service. >> >> But the local customer base under Qwest and now CenturyLink has fallen >> nearly 48 percent since 2001 as cellphone use has exploded and as >> cable-telephone and Internet-based services have spread. >> >> CenturyLink petitioned the PRC in fall 2011 to declare that effective >> competition exists in all market segments throughout New Mexico to pave >> the way for regulatory relief. >> >> In the end, however, the commission accepted PRC hearing examiner >> Carolyn Glick?s limited finding of competition just in packaged and >> bundled residential services. >> >> On the other hand, the commission rejected Glick?s recommendation to >> declare those residential services competitive in all 65 CenturyLink >> service areas, leaving regulation intact in four rural zones. >> >> It also rejected a recommendation to give CenturyLink another >> opportunity to present evidence of competition in more market segments, >> encouraging commissioners Pat Lyons and Valerie Espinoza to vote against >> the final order. >> >> ?I think CenturyLink has a lot of competition from wireless providers, >> and I don?t think they?ll get much regulatory relief with this order,? >> Lyons said. ?I also think they should have gotten a second chance to >> prove their case.? >> >> The case will now go back to the hearing examiner to consider >> regulatory reform, a process that could take up to six to eight months, >> Glick told the Journal. >> >> >> >> >> ----------------------------------------- >> Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. >> 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 >> P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 >> www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org >> ----------------------------------------- >> _______________________________________________ >> 1st-mile-nm mailing list >> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org >> http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Mike.Ripperger at state.nm.us Mon Sep 2 10:19:26 2013 From: Mike.Ripperger at state.nm.us (Ripperger, Mike, PRC) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 17:19:26 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] PRC - CenturyLink In-Reply-To: <6346C1D1-BB7A-448A-889E-FB7BABDD1EDE@romanmaes.com> References: <6346C1D1-BB7A-448A-889E-FB7BABDD1EDE@romanmaes.com> Message-ID: Pretty much, but the Commission does exercise jurisdiction over wireless consumer protection issues (billing issues primarily). Michael Ripperger Telecommunications Bureau Chief Utility Division New Mexico Public Regulation Commission 1120 Paseo De Peralta Santa Fe, NM 87501 Phone 1-505-827-6902 Faz 1-505-827-4402 From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Roman Maes Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 7:32 PM To: Gillian Densmore Cc: rl at 1st-mile.com; 1st mile nm Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] PRC - CenturyLink PRC has no jurisdiction over cable or wireless..... Roman Maes NMPR 505-469-1342 Sent from my iPhone On Aug 31, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Gillian Densmore > wrote: What does that do for a bloke like me? I ask because in santa fe the only people I here about providing a wire to my house is Comcast. It's my understanding that cybermesa just rents the access to the wires. I'd speculate it's possible one reason why Cellular has been getting momentum is kind of pragmatics: from one doodad: I can call, and use the intertubes, the same doodad will happly let my computers use the internet (all for 80-90 a month) I'll toss in one caveat: T-mobile and Verizon, play dirty with the language used in the contract by that I meen in the case of Tmobile 'unlimited' hotspotness actually means that close to a arbitrarily set amount of data munched up they will drop you from "4G" down to Edge. On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Richard Lowenberg > wrote: NM PRC moving to deregulate land line phone business http://www.abqjournal.com/254646/biz/nm-prc-moving-to-deregulate-land-line-phone-business.html By Kevin Robinson-Avila / Journal Staff Writer | 2 days ago The state Public Regulation Commission ruled Wednesday that most of New Mexico?s residential telephone market is competitive enough to ease regulations for CenturyLink. The PRC voted 3-2 to declare the residential market for ?packaged and bundled? telephone services competitive in 61 of the 65 areas that CenturyLink serves in New Mexico, reflecting steady growth of wireless and cable-telephone providers in those places. The finding allows the commission to move to the next phase of the case to determine appropriate regulatory relief for CenturyLink, such as eliminating price controls and quality-of-service standards. Any regulatory changes, however, only will affect packaged services ? which encompass basic phone lines with added features such as caller ID and call waiting ? as well as bundled contracts that contain non-telephone services like Internet. Regulation will continue for basic, stand-alone telephone lines and for services provided to business customers, since the commission did not find those markets to be competitive. CenturyLink, which acquired Qwest Communications International in 2011, is the state?s largest provider of traditional landline phone service. But the local customer base under Qwest and now CenturyLink has fallen nearly 48 percent since 2001 as cellphone use has exploded and as cable-telephone and Internet-based services have spread. CenturyLink petitioned the PRC in fall 2011 to declare that effective competition exists in all market segments throughout New Mexico to pave the way for regulatory relief. In the end, however, the commission accepted PRC hearing examiner Carolyn Glick?s limited finding of competition just in packaged and bundled residential services. On the other hand, the commission rejected Glick?s recommendation to declare those residential services competitive in all 65 CenturyLink service areas, leaving regulation intact in four rural zones. It also rejected a recommendation to give CenturyLink another opportunity to present evidence of competition in more market segments, encouraging commissioners Pat Lyons and Valerie Espinoza to vote against the final order. ?I think CenturyLink has a lot of competition from wireless providers, and I don?t think they?ll get much regulatory relief with this order,? Lyons said. ?I also think they should have gotten a second chance to prove their case.? The case will now go back to the hearing examiner to consider regulatory reform, a process that could take up to six to eight months, Glick told the Journal. ----------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ----------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john at citylinkfiber.com Mon Sep 2 10:33:58 2013 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 17:33:58 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] PRC - CenturyLink In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Last fall, CityLink attempted to introduce a revision to the rules that would create consumer protection and other benefits. Staff was consulted on this. The commission has taken no action? From: "Mike.Ripperger at state.nm.us" > Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 17:19:26 +0000 To: "Maes, Roman" >, Gillian Densmore > Cc: Richard Lowenberg >, "1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org" <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] PRC - CenturyLink Pretty much, but the Commission does exercise jurisdiction over wireless consumer protection issues (billing issues primarily). Michael Ripperger Telecommunications Bureau Chief Utility Division New Mexico Public Regulation Commission 1120 Paseo De Peralta Santa Fe, NM 87501 Phone 1-505-827-6902 Faz 1-505-827-4402 From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Roman Maes Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 7:32 PM To: Gillian Densmore Cc: rl at 1st-mile.com; 1st mile nm Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] PRC - CenturyLink PRC has no jurisdiction over cable or wireless..... Roman Maes NMPR 505-469-1342 Sent from my iPhone On Aug 31, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Gillian Densmore > wrote: What does that do for a bloke like me? I ask because in santa fe the only people I here about providing a wire to my house is Comcast. It's my understanding that cybermesa just rents the access to the wires. I'd speculate it's possible one reason why Cellular has been getting momentum is kind of pragmatics: from one doodad: I can call, and use the intertubes, the same doodad will happly let my computers use the internet (all for 80-90 a month) I'll toss in one caveat: T-mobile and Verizon, play dirty with the language used in the contract by that I meen in the case of Tmobile 'unlimited' hotspotness actually means that close to a arbitrarily set amount of data munched up they will drop you from "4G" down to Edge. On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Richard Lowenberg > wrote: NM PRC moving to deregulate land line phone business http://www.abqjournal.com/254646/biz/nm-prc-moving-to-deregulate-land-line-phone-business.html By Kevin Robinson-Avila / Journal Staff Writer | 2 days ago The state Public Regulation Commission ruled Wednesday that most of New Mexico?s residential telephone market is competitive enough to ease regulations for CenturyLink. The PRC voted 3-2 to declare the residential market for ?packaged and bundled? telephone services competitive in 61 of the 65 areas that CenturyLink serves in New Mexico, reflecting steady growth of wireless and cable-telephone providers in those places. The finding allows the commission to move to the next phase of the case to determine appropriate regulatory relief for CenturyLink, such as eliminating price controls and quality-of-service standards. Any regulatory changes, however, only will affect packaged services ? which encompass basic phone lines with added features such as caller ID and call waiting ? as well as bundled contracts that contain non-telephone services like Internet. Regulation will continue for basic, stand-alone telephone lines and for services provided to business customers, since the commission did not find those markets to be competitive. CenturyLink, which acquired Qwest Communications International in 2011, is the state?s largest provider of traditional landline phone service. But the local customer base under Qwest and now CenturyLink has fallen nearly 48 percent since 2001 as cellphone use has exploded and as cable-telephone and Internet-based services have spread. CenturyLink petitioned the PRC in fall 2011 to declare that effective competition exists in all market segments throughout New Mexico to pave the way for regulatory relief. In the end, however, the commission accepted PRC hearing examiner Carolyn Glick?s limited finding of competition just in packaged and bundled residential services. On the other hand, the commission rejected Glick?s recommendation to declare those residential services competitive in all 65 CenturyLink service areas, leaving regulation intact in four rural zones. It also rejected a recommendation to give CenturyLink another opportunity to present evidence of competition in more market segments, encouraging commissioners Pat Lyons and Valerie Espinoza to vote against the final order. ?I think CenturyLink has a lot of competition from wireless providers, and I don?t think they?ll get much regulatory relief with this order,? Lyons said. ?I also think they should have gotten a second chance to prove their case.? 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URL: From Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov Mon Sep 9 10:15:38 2013 From: Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov (Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall)) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 17:15:38 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FW: Udall: Almost 9, 000 NM Households to Gain Broadband Access Message-ID: <1938EA6ABFA5734187F744F0B6CD55B5289B5E@P-ESS-SEN-EXA2.senate.ussenate.us> Just FYI. --Kevin From: Tom Udall Press Office Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 1:10 PM To: Tom Udall Press Office Subject: Udall: Almost 9,000 NM Households to Gain Broadband Access [Description: 46996 Standard Letterhead-3] For Immediate Release September 9, 2013 Contact: Jennifer Talhelm 202.228.6870 | news at tomudall.senate.gov | @TomUdallPress Udall: Almost 9,000 NM Households to Gain Broadband Access ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Today U.S. Senator Tom Udall applauded the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) allocation of $5.18 million from the Connect America Fund (CAF) to expand and improve broadband service to nearly 9,000 New Mexico households. This announcement follows Udall's efforts to urge the FCC to free up unused funds that would help close the digital divide between urban areas that have access to high-speed Internet and rural areas that do not. "Reliable high-speed Internet is critical to leveling the playing field between rural and urban communities," said Udall. "Broadband access carries with it new opportunities for small businesses, education and telehealth medicine, but today's challenge is expanding it to the areas that are hardest to reach -- areas that are also hurting the most economically. I'm fighting to ensure the reach of the Internet is extended to all of New Mexico's communities, large and small. I worked with the FCC and broadband providers to put these existing funds to use, and I am glad to see our effort pay off here in New Mexico." After learning last year that a majority of Phase I CAF broadband funds would go unused due to eligibility requirements, Udall urged the FCC to refine the CAF rules to find a way to use all available resources to expand broadband coverage to rural areas. In two letters, he underscored the importance of quickly expanding broadband access to rural New Mexico. In June, the FCC announced the policy change that would unlock the remaining funds, and announced last month that broadband providers Windstream, CenturyLink and Frontier would receive $5.18 million from CAF and equally match the funds to expand broadband service to 8,782 unserved and underserved New Mexico households - reaching approximately 22,800 people. The Connect America Fund was created by the FCC to accelerate broadband to the millions of Americans living in rural areas who currently have no access to robust broadband infrastructure. This second round of funding from Phase I of CAF marks the continuation of the most significant public-private effort in history to ensure that every American home and business has access to broadband by the end of the decade. The push will spur economic growth and boost the nation's global competitiveness. Here is the estimated breakdown of how many N.M. households will benefit from the new CAF funding: Windstream: 3,378 households CenturyLink: 2,781 households Frontier: 2,623 households Total: 8,782 households (approx. 22,833 people) ###### -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Richard On 09.09.2013 11:15, Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall) wrote: > Just FYI. --Kevin > > FROM: Tom Udall Press Office > SENT: Monday, September 09, 2013 1:10 PM > TO: Tom Udall Press Office > SUBJECT: Udall: Almost 9,000 NM Households to Gain Broadband Access > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > SEPTEMBER 9, 2013 > CONTACT: Jennifer Talhelm > 202.228.6870 | news at tomudall.senate.gov [1] | @TomUdallPress [2] > > UDALL: ALMOST 9,000 NM HOUSEHOLDS TO GAIN BROADBAND ACCESS > > (Snip) > Here is the estimated breakdown of how many N.M. households will > benefit from the new CAF funding: > > Windstream: 3,378 households > > CenturyLink: 2,781 households > > Frontier: 2,623 households > > Total: 8,782 households (approx. 22,833 people) > > ###### -- ----------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ----------------------------------------- From frank at wmxsystems.com Mon Sep 9 11:08:17 2013 From: frank at wmxsystems.com (frank at wmxsystems.com) Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 11:08:17 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FW: Udall: Almost 9, 000 NM Households to Gain Broadband Access Message-ID: <20130909110817.e4c653d4171ef05b5042f410c9d8e5d1.5dbdff7c0f.wbe@email04.secureserver.net> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl at 1st-mile.com Mon Sep 9 12:49:15 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:49:15 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Southwest Colorado Access Network Message-ID: <3a1e8fa22c645732c4e74e846a3287db@dcn.org> Regional Internet project nearly done: Network should be live by January http://durangoherald.com/article/20130830/NEWS01/130839957/0/s/Regional-Internet-project-nearly-done By Chuck Slothower Durango Herald Staff Writer Friday, August 30, 2013 A 3-year-old project to enhance Internet connectivity throughout Southwest Colorado is nearly complete, officials said Friday. The Southwest Colorado Access Network links government buildings in Durango, Pagosa Springs, Cortez, Silverton, Dolores and Dove Creek with high-speed Internet. Hospitals, schools and other entities have jumped aboard. And private Internet service providers have added wireless towers to the government-funded infrastructure to reach even more users. The project is in various stages of completion throughout the region. Rick Smith, general manager of SCAN and mayor of Bayfield, said the physical infrastructure should be in place by November, and the network should be live by January. ?It?s expanding connectivity throughout the region,? Smith said. SCAN was funded by a $3 million grant from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs and $1 million in matching funds from local governments. The Department of Local Affairs is looking at SCAN as a model for expanding Internet access to rural areas of the state. ?The department, I would say, took a leap of faith with this project, and you guys have responded well,? said Ken Charles, regional manager for the Department of Local Affairs. Reeves Brown, the department?s Denver-based executive director, said he was impressed by the project?s apparent success. Brown was in Durango on Friday to meet with the Board of County Commissioners and city officials. ?More than connecting buildings, you?ve connected people, you?ve connected institutions,? Brown said. The project laid broadband Internet around the region, but some remote areas, including Silverton, will rely on wireless connections. Internet service providers have piggybacked off the project. For example, SkyWerx of Pagosa Springs built a 100-foot tower on Reservoir Hill to reach more residents, said Jeffrey Gavlinski, SkyWerx director of sales and marketing. The available public infrastructure allows Internet service providers to put their money into improving their services instead of installing fiber, said John Monday, director of network engineering and operations for Durango?s FastTrack Communications. ?The ability to expand our network, expand our bandwidth ? our resources are going to be redirected toward that,? Monday said. Broadband Internet is as important now as paved roads were in an earlier era, said Brown. ?I view broadband as the asphalt of this century.? (snip) ----------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ----------------------------------------- From Bill.Garcia at windstream.com Mon Sep 9 14:10:28 2013 From: Bill.Garcia at windstream.com (Garcia, Bill) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 21:10:28 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FW: Udall: Almost 9, 000 NM Households to Gain Broadband Access In-Reply-To: <66e56288f0fd504b913a85a353be291d@dcn.org> References: <1938EA6ABFA5734187F744F0B6CD55B5289B5E@P-ESS-SEN-EXA2.senate.ussenate.us> <66e56288f0fd504b913a85a353be291d@dcn.org> Message-ID: <1AA335930952174EB88C5BC1F03C41BE31E5C5@CWWAPP474.windstream.com> Richard, Thank you for your interest. I can answer your question, but would like to emphasize that Windstream has only *proposed* this work. It must be validated by the FCC, as funding will not be provided to any Census Block where broadband already exists. Final approvals by the FCC are expected in early 2014. With that in mind, here are Windstream's proposed work plans, organized according to the boundaries of telephone exchanges (i.e., when we say "Hobbs," we're not talking about the city limits of Hobbs proper): + Hobbs & Carlsbad + Capitan, Alto, Ruidoso Downs, Ruidoso + Truth or Consequences & Caballo + Northern Tier exchanges -- Dulce, Canjilon, Gallina, Abiquiu, + Espanola, Velarde, Chimayo, Jemez Springs, San Ysidro Also, you may be interested in knowing that Windstream earlier this year completed a major rural deployment initiative to other rural areas. + 787 households, or approx. 2,046 people -- to areas around Abiquiu, El Rito, Ojo Caliente, & Dixon + 384 households, or approx. 1,000 people -- to areas around Ruidoso + 192 households, or approx. 500 people -- to areas around Truth or Consequences These projects are all on line. They were funded through the US Dept. of Agriculture, as an outgrowth of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act & Senator Udall played an active role in promoting the NM projects here too. Bill Garcia Regional Vice President of Governmental Affairs -----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: Monday, September 09, 2013 11:49 AM To: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] FW: Udall: Almost 9, 000 NM Households to Gain Broadband Access Thanks for the postings, Kevin. I wonder if representatives of CenturyLink, Windstream or Frontier might chime in here, to give us their update on allocation of Round One CAF in NM, and how this second round of funds will be geographically distributed. That would be very helpful, as we all want to effectively mitigate the digital disparities in NM. Richard On 09.09.2013 11:15, Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall) wrote: > Just FYI. --Kevin > > FROM: Tom Udall Press Office > SENT: Monday, September 09, 2013 1:10 PM > TO: Tom Udall Press Office > SUBJECT: Udall: Almost 9,000 NM Households to Gain Broadband Access > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > SEPTEMBER 9, 2013 > CONTACT: Jennifer Talhelm > 202.228.6870 | news at tomudall.senate.gov [1] | @TomUdallPress [2] > > UDALL: ALMOST 9,000 NM HOUSEHOLDS TO GAIN BROADBAND ACCESS > > (Snip) > Here is the estimated breakdown of how many N.M. households will > benefit from the new CAF funding: > > Windstream: 3,378 households > > CenturyLink: 2,781 households > > Frontier: 2,623 households > > Total: 8,782 households (approx. 22,833 people) > > ###### -- ----------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ----------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message and any attachments. From Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov Mon Sep 9 14:27:01 2013 From: Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov (Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall)) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 21:27:01 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FW: Udall: Almost 9, 000 NM Households to Gain Broadband Access In-Reply-To: <1AA335930952174EB88C5BC1F03C41BE31E5C5@CWWAPP474.windstream.com> References: <1938EA6ABFA5734187F744F0B6CD55B5289B5E@P-ESS-SEN-EXA2.senate.ussenate.us> <66e56288f0fd504b913a85a353be291d@dcn.org> <1AA335930952174EB88C5BC1F03C41BE31E5C5@CWWAPP474.windstream.com> Message-ID: <1938EA6ABFA5734187F744F0B6CD55B528A0E5@P-ESS-SEN-EXA2.senate.ussenate.us> Bill, Thanks for that update to this list and the clarification about validation that the locations are "unserved." Folks may also be interested in the nationwide map that the FCC made available on eligible areas for such support. You can zoom in to see New Mexico areas more clearly: http://www.fcc.gov/maps/connect-america-fund-phase-i-round-two Regards, Kevin Kevin Cummins Office of Sen. Tom Udall -----Original Message----- From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+kevin_cummins=tomudall.senate.gov at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+kevin_cummins=tomudall.senate.gov at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Garcia, Bill Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:10 PM To: 'rl at 1st-mile.com'; 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] FW: Udall: Almost 9, 000 NM Households to Gain Broadband Access Richard, Thank you for your interest. I can answer your question, but would like to emphasize that Windstream has only *proposed* this work. It must be validated by the FCC, as funding will not be provided to any Census Block where broadband already exists. Final approvals by the FCC are expected in early 2014. With that in mind, here are Windstream's proposed work plans, organized according to the boundaries of telephone exchanges (i.e., when we say "Hobbs," we're not talking about the city limits of Hobbs proper): + Hobbs & Carlsbad + Capitan, Alto, Ruidoso Downs, Ruidoso + Truth or Consequences & Caballo + Northern Tier exchanges -- Dulce, Canjilon, Gallina, Abiquiu, + Espanola, Velarde, Chimayo, Jemez Springs, San Ysidro Also, you may be interested in knowing that Windstream earlier this year completed a major rural deployment initiative to other rural areas. + 787 households, or approx. 2,046 people -- to areas around Abiquiu, + El Rito, Ojo Caliente, & Dixon + 384 households, or approx. 1,000 people -- to areas around Ruidoso + 192 households, or approx. 500 people -- to areas around Truth or + Consequences These projects are all on line. They were funded through the US Dept. of Agriculture, as an outgrowth of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act & Senator Udall played an active role in promoting the NM projects here too. Bill Garcia Regional Vice President of Governmental Affairs -----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: Monday, September 09, 2013 11:49 AM To: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] FW: Udall: Almost 9, 000 NM Households to Gain Broadband Access Thanks for the postings, Kevin. I wonder if representatives of CenturyLink, Windstream or Frontier might chime in here, to give us their update on allocation of Round One CAF in NM, and how this second round of funds will be geographically distributed. That would be very helpful, as we all want to effectively mitigate the digital disparities in NM. Richard On 09.09.2013 11:15, Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall) wrote: > Just FYI. --Kevin > > FROM: Tom Udall Press Office > SENT: Monday, September 09, 2013 1:10 PM > TO: Tom Udall Press Office > SUBJECT: Udall: Almost 9,000 NM Households to Gain Broadband Access > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > SEPTEMBER 9, 2013 > CONTACT: Jennifer Talhelm > 202.228.6870 | news at tomudall.senate.gov [1] | @TomUdallPress [2] > > UDALL: ALMOST 9,000 NM HOUSEHOLDS TO GAIN BROADBAND ACCESS > > (Snip) > Here is the estimated breakdown of how many N.M. households will > benefit from the new CAF funding: > > Windstream: 3,378 households > > CenturyLink: 2,781 households > > Frontier: 2,623 households > > Total: 8,782 households (approx. 22,833 people) > > ###### -- ----------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ----------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message and any attachments. _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm From drew.einhorn at gmail.com Mon Sep 9 17:20:09 2013 From: drew.einhorn at gmail.com (drew einhorn) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 18:20:09 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FW: Udall: Almost 9, 000 NM Households to Gain Broadband Access In-Reply-To: <1938EA6ABFA5734187F744F0B6CD55B528A0E5@P-ESS-SEN-EXA2.senate.ussenate.us> References: <1938EA6ABFA5734187F744F0B6CD55B5289B5E@P-ESS-SEN-EXA2.senate.ussenate.us> <66e56288f0fd504b913a85a353be291d@dcn.org> <1AA335930952174EB88C5BC1F03C41BE31E5C5@CWWAPP474.windstream.com> <1938EA6ABFA5734187F744F0B6CD55B528A0E5@P-ESS-SEN-EXA2.senate.ussenate.us> Message-ID: What's the FCC definition of "unserved" and "broadband" with respect to this program? Is the SE corner of Bernalillo County, where I live unserved by CenturyLink? The max speed they provide is 1.5 Mbit/s. I've heard that the FCC's current definition is 4 Mbit/s. At least 1.5M is an but improvement of the 256K ISDN Qwest used to claim was broadband. Hoping for 4M or better. On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall) < Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov> wrote: > Bill, > > Thanks for that update to this list and the clarification about validation > that the locations are "unserved." > > Folks may also be interested in the nationwide map that the FCC made > available on eligible areas for such support. You can zoom in to see New > Mexico areas more clearly: > > http://www.fcc.gov/maps/connect-america-fund-phase-i-round-two > > Regards, > > > Kevin > > Kevin Cummins > Office of Sen. Tom Udall > > > -----Original Message----- > From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces+kevin_cummins= > tomudall.senate.gov at mailman.dcn.org [mailto: > 1st-mile-nm-bounces+kevin_cummins=tomudall.senate.gov at mailman.dcn.org] On > Behalf Of Garcia, Bill > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:10 PM > To: 'rl at 1st-mile.com'; 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] FW: Udall: Almost 9, 000 NM Households to Gain > Broadband Access > > Richard, > Thank you for your interest. I can answer your question, but would like > to emphasize that Windstream has only *proposed* this work. It must be > validated by the FCC, as funding will not be provided to any Census Block > where broadband already exists. Final approvals by the FCC are expected in > early 2014. With that in mind, here are Windstream's proposed work plans, > organized according to the boundaries of telephone exchanges (i.e., when we > say "Hobbs," we're not talking about the city limits of Hobbs proper): > > + Hobbs & Carlsbad > + Capitan, Alto, Ruidoso Downs, Ruidoso > + Truth or Consequences & Caballo > + Northern Tier exchanges -- Dulce, Canjilon, Gallina, Abiquiu, > + Espanola, Velarde, Chimayo, Jemez Springs, San Ysidro > > Also, you may be interested in knowing that Windstream earlier this year > completed a major rural deployment initiative to other rural areas. > + 787 households, or approx. 2,046 people -- to areas around Abiquiu, > + El Rito, Ojo Caliente, & Dixon > + 384 households, or approx. 1,000 people -- to areas around Ruidoso > + 192 households, or approx. 500 people -- to areas around Truth or > + Consequences > > These projects are all on line. They were funded through the US Dept. of > Agriculture, as an outgrowth of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act & > Senator Udall played an active role in promoting the NM projects here too. > > Bill Garcia > Regional Vice President of Governmental Affairs > > > > -----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: Monday, September 09, 2013 11:49 AM > To: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] FW: Udall: Almost 9, 000 NM Households to Gain > Broadband Access > > Thanks for the postings, Kevin. > I wonder if representatives of CenturyLink, Windstream or Frontier might > chime in here, to give us their update on allocation of Round One CAF in > NM, and how this second round of funds will be > geographically distributed. That would be very helpful, as we > all want to effectively mitigate the digital disparities in NM. > Richard > > > > On 09.09.2013 11:15, Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall) wrote: > > Just FYI. --Kevin > > > > FROM: Tom Udall Press Office > > SENT: Monday, September 09, 2013 1:10 PM > > TO: Tom Udall Press Office > > SUBJECT: Udall: Almost 9,000 NM Households to Gain Broadband Access > > > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > > > SEPTEMBER 9, 2013 > > CONTACT: Jennifer Talhelm > > 202.228.6870 | news at tomudall.senate.gov [1] | @TomUdallPress [2] > > > > UDALL: ALMOST 9,000 NM HOUSEHOLDS TO GAIN BROADBAND ACCESS > > > > (Snip) > > > Here is the estimated breakdown of how many N.M. households will > > benefit from the new CAF funding: > > > > Windstream: 3,378 households > > > > CenturyLink: 2,781 households > > > > Frontier: 2,623 households > > > > Total: 8,782 households (approx. 22,833 people) > > > > ###### > > -- > ----------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. > 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 > P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 > www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org > ----------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the > intended recipient(s). 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NM DoIT was readily willing to acknowledge that the commercial service providers over-report coverage for various reasons. While I think the grants referenced here probably give the best return on investment in terms of number of unserved citizens becoming served citizens, they don't necessarily address the problem of how to help those who are hardest to help with the most obvious solutions: 1) telephone network upgraded to provide DSL class capabilities; 2) Cable Network, ditto; 3) Line of Site Wireless from Pajarito and Santa Fe Ski summits; 4) Cellular data. I *was* able to replace my Tewacom service (who shut down on Aug 30) with CNSP, but the install techs acknowledged that I was *right at* the limit of their reach (32.2 km) from their tower on Santa Fe Baldy (I don't have LOS to Pajarito) and if I had not been fairly aggressive with pruning some of my trees, they would not have been able to get LOS at all. I have been told by others with more understanding of the technology and regulatory milieu that it is unlikely that CNSP (or anyone else) could pick up 300 more households in the valley without running out of licensed bandwidth and/or physical bandwidth in the bands they use. I am interested (as are a handful of others) in continuing to pursue the problem of how to get higher bandwidth (or *any* bandwidth) to these un(der)served areas. An honest accounting of those who will NOT be served by this latest round of funding would be very helpful but I can imagine that it would be hard for the recipients of those grants to help identify where their easiest/best strategies don't work. Anyone with ideas for how to collect better data on the truly un(der)served would be very welcome. Also anyone else with interest in a CoOp or non-profit model to pursue grants and a self-organizing, self-helping model would also be welcome. I'm primarily interested in local wireless tree or mesh networks to reach these un(der)served areas *from* the RediNet backbone, but I'm open to other thoughts as well. - Steve > What's the FCC definition of "unserved" and "broadband" with respect > to this program? > > Is the SE corner of Bernalillo County, where I live unserved by > CenturyLink? The max speed they provide is 1.5 Mbit/s. I've heard > that the FCC's current definition is 4 Mbit/s. At least 1.5M is an > but improvement of the 256K ISDN Qwest used to claim was broadband. > > Hoping for 4M or better. > > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall) > > wrote: > > Bill, > > Thanks for that update to this list and the clarification about > validation that the locations are "unserved." > > Folks may also be interested in the nationwide map that the FCC > made available on eligible areas for such support. You can zoom > in to see New Mexico areas more clearly: > > http://www.fcc.gov/maps/connect-america-fund-phase-i-round-two > > Regards, > > > Kevin > > Kevin Cummins > Office of Sen. Tom Udall > > > -----Original Message----- > From: > 1st-mile-nm-bounces+kevin_cummins=tomudall.senate.gov at mailman.dcn.org > > [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+kevin_cummins > =tomudall.senate.gov at mailman.dcn.org > ] On Behalf Of Garcia, > Bill > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:10 PM > To: 'rl at 1st-mile.com '; > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] FW: Udall: Almost 9, 000 NM Households > to Gain Broadband Access > > Richard, > Thank you for your interest. I can answer your question, but > would like to emphasize that Windstream has only *proposed* this > work. It must be validated by the FCC, as funding will not be > provided to any Census Block where broadband already exists. > Final approvals by the FCC are expected in early 2014. With that > in mind, here are Windstream's proposed work plans, organized > according to the boundaries of telephone exchanges (i.e., when we > say "Hobbs," we're not talking about the city limits of Hobbs proper): > > + Hobbs & Carlsbad > + Capitan, Alto, Ruidoso Downs, Ruidoso > + Truth or Consequences & Caballo > + Northern Tier exchanges -- Dulce, Canjilon, Gallina, Abiquiu, > + Espanola, Velarde, Chimayo, Jemez Springs, San Ysidro > > Also, you may be interested in knowing that Windstream earlier > this year completed a major rural deployment initiative to other > rural areas. > + 787 households, or approx. 2,046 people -- to areas around Abiquiu, > + El Rito, Ojo Caliente, & Dixon > + 384 households, or approx. 1,000 people -- to areas around Ruidoso > + 192 households, or approx. 500 people -- to areas around Truth or > + Consequences > > These projects are all on line. They were funded through the US > Dept. of Agriculture, as an outgrowth of the American Recovery & > Reinvestment Act & Senator Udall played an active role in > promoting the NM projects here too. > > Bill Garcia > Regional Vice President of Governmental Affairs > > > > -----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: Monday, September 09, 2013 11:49 AM > To: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] FW: Udall: Almost 9, 000 NM Households > to Gain Broadband Access > > Thanks for the postings, Kevin. > I wonder if representatives of CenturyLink, Windstream or Frontier > might chime in here, to give us their update on allocation of > Round One CAF in NM, and how this second round of funds will be > geographically distributed. That would be very helpful, as we > all want to effectively mitigate the digital disparities in NM. > Richard > > > > On 09.09.2013 11:15, Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall) wrote: > > Just FYI. --Kevin > > > > FROM: Tom Udall Press Office > > SENT: Monday, September 09, 2013 1:10 PM > > TO: Tom Udall Press Office > > SUBJECT: Udall: Almost 9,000 NM Households to Gain Broadband Access > > > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > > > SEPTEMBER 9, 2013 > > CONTACT: Jennifer Talhelm > > 202.228.6870 | news at tomudall.senate.gov > [1] | @TomUdallPress [2] > > > > UDALL: ALMOST 9,000 NM HOUSEHOLDS TO GAIN BROADBAND ACCESS > > > > (Snip) > > > Here is the estimated breakdown of how many N.M. households will > > benefit from the new CAF funding: > > > > Windstream: 3,378 households > > > > CenturyLink: 2,781 households > > > > Frontier: 2,623 households > > > > Total: 8,782 households (approx. 22,833 people) > > > > ###### > > -- > ----------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. > 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 > P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 > www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org > > ----------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the > intended recipient(s). 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A copy of the agenda is attached in both PDF and Word formats, and the agenda will be posted on the FCC ONAP website at www.fcc.gov/native [1]. The consultation workshop continues a series of similar consultative and training events aimed at strengthening the government-to-government relationship that the Commission shares with sovereign Tribal Nations. The agenda will continue the FCC?s dialogue on critical mission issues shared Indian Country, including the deployment of communications technologies on Tribal lands, efforts to strengthen Tribal self-determination, and a comprehensive understand of relevant FCC rules and policies. The agenda released today supports the FCC?s overarching agenda of working with Tribal Nations and Native communities to assist them in their efforts to close the digital divide, work and coordinate with the communications industries regulated by the FCC, and deploy Tribally-driven and sustainable local communications solutions and broadcast infrastructure. It seeks to strengthen the Commission?s work with Tribal governments and Native entities as they encounter FCC rules and policies, and seek to work with carriers and provides to build critical infrastructure to serve their people and lands. Agenda highlights include: * Discussion panels on wireless solutions and spectrum policy over Tribal lands * Guided group dialogue with FCC key management and staff on how the Commission can best move forward in building a comprehensive Tribal Consultation policy and program * Dialogue and consultation with FCC staff on hurdles to market entry faced by Tribal Nations and Native entities seeking to work with the communications industries and provide telecommunications, broadband, and broadcast services on their lands * Updates from members of the Native Nations Broadband Task Force and an open forum for Workshop attendees to bring any matter of interest from their Tribes to the attention of the FCC The FCC recommends attendance at this workshop for interested Tribal leaders as well as those in management and decision-making positions in Tribal Nations and Native entities. These include IT directors, radio and broadcast media specialists, economic development leaders, community planners, grant writers, Tribal education officials, and public safety officials involved in communications. Registration and attendance are free. The FCC asks that attendees simply register via email to native at fcc.gov [2] and provide your name, title, Tribal or company affiliation, phone, and email contact information. A limited block of rooms has been reserved at the nearby Inn at Santa Fe at the group rate of $75/night. To access the rate, call the hotel directly at (888)-871-7138 or (505)-474-9500 and ask for the "Federal Communications Commission" block of rooms. Consultation Workshop location: Institute of American Indian Arts Center for Lifelong Education 83 Avan Nu Po Road Santa Fe, NM 87508 Hotel location: Inn at Santa Fe 8376 Cerrillos Road Santa Fe, NM 87507 Links: ------ [1] http://www.fcc.gov/native [2] mailto:native at fcc.gov ---------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ---------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: FCC Native Broadband, Telecom, and Media Consultation Workshop Agenda, Sept 25-26, 2013_final.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 330322 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I would add this: If you do NOT get a fiber backbone for your city, it may well trigger a new generation of economic distress. Quoting once again: "Fiber networks are seen by many as one of the most important infrastructure developments of the 21st century." dba | David Breecker Associates, Inc. Santa Fe: 505-690-2335 Abiquiu: 505-685-4891 www.BreeckerAssociates.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cfrans at cybermesa.com Wed Sep 11 14:51:38 2013 From: cfrans at cybermesa.com (Charles Frans) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:51:38 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Why you MUST fight for fiber-optic (or fall behind) |www.smartcitiescouncil.com In-Reply-To: <445C8631-F9A2-4B9E-8F99-AB60B2F1BD1F@breeckerassociates.com> References: <445C8631-F9A2-4B9E-8F99-AB60B2F1BD1F@breeckerassociates.com> Message-ID: David, et al, I co-founded a fiber-to-the-home company 10 years ago that built networks for new community developments. The following are some quotes that you might find useful and are still pertinent today. "Cities of the past were built along railroads, waterways, and interstate highways. Cities of the future will be built along information highways - broadband systems of communications connected to every home, office, school, library and healthcare facility in the region, and through the World Wide Web to millions of other institutions across the globe." - John M. Eger, World Foundation for Smart Communities "All of a sudden, we found that one of the most important questions for homebuyers-right after they verified the tax rate and the school system was, what kind of broadband access do I have?" - Robert Lohr, town manager for Purcellville "Fiber to the Home (FTTH) networks are a future-proof architecture." - The International Engineering Consortium "One development reports 50 percent of homebuyers purchased specifically due to the technology." - Donna Keegan, TechHome Builder Magazine Sincerely, Charlie Charles Frans Cyber Mesa Office: 505-988-9200 Cell: 505-795-7107 _____ From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of David Breecker (dba) Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 3:21 PM To: 1st-Mile-NM Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Why you MUST fight for fiber-optic (or fall behind) |www.smartcitiescouncil.com http://smartcitiescouncil.com/article/why-you-must-fight-fiber-optic-or-fall -behind In the process of researching our forthcoming Smart Cities Readiness Guide, we learned about the importance of high-speed fiber-optic networks. 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URL: From rl at 1st-mile.com Tue Sep 17 10:14:17 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:14:17 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] White House: Broadband Initiative Message-ID: <5861a07b9340022c9b76459ea42a5502@dcn.org> Accelerating Broadband Infrastructure Deployment Across the United States (excerpts from the White House announcement) http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/09/16/accelerating-broadband-infrastructure-deployment-across-united-states ... the Administration is working to bolster broadband deployment is by reducing barriers for companies to install broadband infrastructure on Federal properties and roads. The Federal Government owns or manages nearly 30 percent of all land in the United States, including 10,000 buildings nationwide. These properties can provide excellent pathways for deployment of broadband infrastructure. That?s why, last year, President Obama signed an Executive Order to make broadband construction projects along Federal roadways and properties cheaper and more efficient. Today, we are announcing new steps to build on this progress, including the launch of several new tools and resources to help make it easier for companies to build out high-speed Internet, particularly in underserved communities, and the release of a progress report on implementation of the President?s Executive Order. Both the tools and the report were developed by a Federal Working Group made up of 14 Federal agencies charged with managing Federal properties and roads. Some of the tools and resources for broadband carriers released today, in response to recommendations from the Working Group, include: - An interactive mapping tool that allows carriers and communities to view and identify opportunities to leverage Federal properties for the deployment of high-speed Internet networks. - A ?Dig Once? guide, which includes best practices and policies to help carriers time their broadband deployment activities to periods when streets are already under construction?an approach that can reduce network deployment costs along Federal roadways by up to 90 percent. - A new broadband inventory toolkit that can serve as a one-stop shop for companies to access permitting forms, lease agreements, and other Federal broadband application documents from various agencies. In addition, the General Services Administration, as directed in the Executive Order, is working to implement common forms and templates across agencies, such as a single master application for deploying broadband on Federal properties, to provide multiple broadband service providers and public-safety entities with streamlined business documents for the deployment of wireline and wireless facilities on Federal property. Going forward, the Department of Agriculture is also working to develop an on-line electronic application form to further streamline the process. In the coming weeks, we will also be launching an online broadband projects platform, located on the Department of Transportation?s Federal Infrastructure Projects Permitting Dashboard , which will allow agencies to identify and expedite key broadband projects and to publicly track their status. (snip) ------------------------------------------ Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------------ From rl at 1st-mile.com Fri Sep 20 12:41:48 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:41:48 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Civics for a Digital Age Message-ID: <49a55d714c8938764ef47bc97ea08f49@dcn.org> The Atlantic has a review of Anthony Townsend's new book, worth recommending on this list, for a broader view of ways to think about our broadband networked communities. I recommend the full article, and the book, at the links below. RL -------- Civics for a Digital Age September 19, 2013 http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/civics-for-a-digital-age/279829/ Author: Jathan Sadowski A new book, Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia, by Anthony Townsend, a research director at the Institute for the Future, provides some guiding principles we might use in to direct ?smart city? development. Townsend sets out to sketch a new understanding of ?civics,? one that will account for new technologies. 1. The commercial success and cultural ascendance of the Internet lends an air of inevitability to the idea of smart cities ? we should never default to smart technology as a solution. 2. Community-owned broadband is one of the best investments a smart city can make. 3. Build a web, not an operating system. 4. Smart cities need to be savvy about what data and service infrastructure they own and what they give up to private interests in the cloud. 5. Yet the most powerful information in the smart city is the code that controls it. Exposing the algorithms of smart-city software will be the most challenging task of all. They already govern many aspects of our lives, but we are hardly aware of their existence. 6. How can we harden smart cities against [crises], and ensure that when parts of them fail, they do so in controllable ways, and that vital public services can continue to operate even if they are cut off? 7. Organizations and governments should ?provide cities with incentives to share, and designers with advice on how to build systems that can solve local problems and be reused elsewhere. 8. Smart-city designers will also need to be transdisciplinary -- able to think across disciplines inside their own minds. 9. Figuring out how to harness real-time data and media to think about long-term challenges is one of the most important opportunities we must exploit. 10. Crowdsourcing with care means limiting its use to areas where government needs to mobilize citizens around efforts where it lacks capacity, and there is broad consensus over desired outcomes. 11. The consequences of disconnection go beyond just a lack of access. Connection is the means by which people will participate in civic life, not just actively but passively as well. Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia, by Anthony Townsend http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393082873/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER ------------------------------------------ Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------------ From rl at 1st-mile.com Mon Oct 7 14:45:28 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 15:45:28 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NATOA Blueprint for Localism in Communications Message-ID: Last month, the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Administrators issued its NATOA Blueprint for Localism in Communications. ?Communications Policy in an IP Environment: Principles, Challenges and Strategies? http://www.natoa.org/policy-advocacy/documents/NATOA%27S%20Blueprint%20for%20Localism%20in%20Communications%209-15-2013.pdf Many of these items and the report's structure can be a guide for New Mexico and its communities. Richard ------------------------------------------ Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------------ From rl at 1st-mile.com Wed Oct 23 11:28:43 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:28:43 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FCC: E-Rate Eligible Services Message-ID: <60d9957c0489e389239c558a318a4c6e@dcn.org> From today's Baller Herbst email list: FCC releases new E-Rate Eligible Services List; -"Ineligible Fiber Costs. Special construction charges to build out dark fiber connections from an applicant's facilities to an off-premises fiber network are NOT eligible. Special construction charges include design and engineering costs, project management costs, digging trenches and laying fiber." 2014 Eligible Services List http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2013/db1022/DA-13-2037A1.pdf ------------------------------------------ Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------------ From rl at 1st-mile.com Wed Oct 23 12:57:26 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:57:26 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] 8 hot IT skills for 2014 Message-ID: <2cac9c84f58db1e0d225abbf1776c100@dcn.org> 8 hot IT skills for 2014 http://www.infoworld.com/t/it-jobs/8-hot-it-skills-2014-227342 Originally published: October 22, 2013 Source: ComputerWorld Author: Mary Brandel When it comes to overall job prospects for IT professionals, 2014 will look a lot like 2013, with 32 percent of companies expecting to increase head count in their IT shops, compared with 33 percent in 2013, according to Computerworld's annual Forecast survey. Here's a look at the IT skills that will be in demand in 2014, according to companies with plans to hire IT professionals in 2014: 1. Programming/application development 2. Help desk/technical support 3. Networking 4. Mobile applications and device management 5. Project Management 6. Database Administration 7. Security Compliance/Governance 8. Business Intelligence/Analytics How's New Mexico faring on this jobs needs and creation agenda? ------------------------------------------ Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------------ From rl at 1st-mile.com Fri Oct 25 13:12:17 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:12:17 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Community Connect Grants Message-ID: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Community Connect Grants Date: 25.10.2013 10:13 From: Les Matthews As you are aware the USDA/RUS announced yesterday $20.3M in Community Connect Grant Awards for 2013 to 14 recipients. Once again New Mexico, despite having one of the poorest rankings in rural broadband penetration in the nation was left out. The last time New Mexico received one of these awards was in 2009. Since that time at least 6 applications have been denied. This years snub was especially painful. It was for the Pine Hill-Ramah Navajo areas. The application covered 1,700 residents that have NO access to broadband. The only internet available to this community is satellite internet, which doesn't meet the USDA/RUS definition of broadband, and costs $80.00/mo. This community, according to the 2010 census is the poorest community in the state. It has 70% unemployment. This grant would have been a lifeline to them. I would have created jobs, and online educational and employment opportunities. The community contracted out the engineering and grant writing of this grant to ACRS in Oklahoma City. ACRS's clients over the past 10 years have been awarded over 50% of all Community Connect Grants, so a weak grant application wasn't one of the problems here. Even a commitment of matching funds in cash was provided ($180,000). The application was accompanied by letters of support from the entire New Mexico Congressional Delegation, The Ramah Navajo Tribal Council, Several tribal/community leaders, over 200 residents, and NMDOiT. This year, due to the short timeline for grant submissions after the posting of the NOFA, a smaller number of applications was received by the USDA/RUS for these grants. The USDA dispatched their local GFR's to the field to confirm broadband availability for about half of the applications. This application didn't even make that cut. Why is that New Mexico keeps being ignored by the USDA/RUS for these important grants? Les Matthews 505 690 0207 -- ---------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ---------------------------------------- From dalverson at salud.unm.edu Fri Oct 25 13:17:36 2013 From: dalverson at salud.unm.edu (Dale Alverson) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:17:36 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Community Connect Grants In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <526A7D8002000068001FCF66@hsc-iagate1.health.unm.edu> This is extremely disappointing and tragic for Pine Hill.--Dale Dale C. Alverson, MD Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and Regents' Professor Professor, Health Sciences Center Library and Informatics Center Medical Director, Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine Research University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center 1005 Columbia, NE Albuquerque, NM 87106 Office: (505) 272-8633 e-mail: dalverson at salud.unm.edu Web: http://som.unm.edu/telehealth >>> Richard Lowenberg 10/25/2013 2:12 PM >>> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Community Connect Grants Date: 25.10.2013 10:13 From: Les Matthews As you are aware the USDA/RUS announced yesterday $20.3M in Community Connect Grant Awards for 2013 to 14 recipients. Once again New Mexico, despite having one of the poorest rankings in rural broadband penetration in the nation was left out. The last time New Mexico received one of these awards was in 2009. Since that time at least 6 applications have been denied. This years snub was especially painful. It was for the Pine Hill-Ramah Navajo areas. The application covered 1,700 residents that have NO access to broadband. The only internet available to this community is satellite internet, which doesn't meet the USDA/RUS definition of broadband, and costs $80.00/mo. This community, according to the 2010 census is the poorest community in the state. It has 70% unemployment. This grant would have been a lifeline to them. I would have created jobs, and online educational and employment opportunities. The community contracted out the engineering and grant writing of this grant to ACRS in Oklahoma City. ACRS's clients over the past 10 years have been awarded over 50% of all Community Connect Grants, so a weak grant application wasn't one of the problems here. Even a commitment of matching funds in cash was provided ($180,000). The application was accompanied by letters of support from the entire New Mexico Congressional Delegation, The Ramah Navajo Tribal Council, Several tribal/community leaders, over 200 residents, and NMDOiT. This year, due to the short timeline for grant submissions after the posting of the NOFA, a smaller number of applications was received by the USDA/RUS for these grants. The USDA dispatched their local GFR's to the field to confirm broadband availability for about half of the applications. This application didn't even make that cut. Why is that New Mexico keeps being ignored by the USDA/RUS for these important grants? Les Matthews 505 690 0207 -- ---------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ---------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Terry.Brunner at nm.usda.gov Fri Oct 25 13:33:20 2013 From: Terry.Brunner at nm.usda.gov (Brunner, Terry - RD, Albuquerque, NM) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 20:33:20 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Community Connect Grants In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1CE4E6E4793FD540BBE9E0F601D4B1D3058EF85D@001FSN2MPN2-083.001f.mgd2.msft.net> I too am disappointed that this particular application wasn't funded. If it helps to know, this program, Community Connects, and the Distance Learning and Telemedicine program are heavily oversubscribed. In other words, we receive far more applications than we are able to fund. In the case of Community Connects, I believe we had more than $100 million in requests, but were allocated approximately $20 million in funding for the program. That doesn't make things better in Ramah, but we will continue to try our best to help that community through other sources. Terry Brunner State Director USDA Rural Development-New Mexico 6200 Jefferson, NE Room 255 Albuquerque, NM 87109 Office: (505) 761-4950 Fax: (505) 761-4976 Follow me on Twitter @Terrybrunner www.rurdev.usda.gov | "Committed to the future of rural communities" Stay Connected with USDA: USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. -----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: Friday, October 25, 2013 2:12 PM To: 1st mile nm Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Community Connect Grants -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Community Connect Grants Date: 25.10.2013 10:13 From: Les Matthews As you are aware the USDA/RUS announced yesterday $20.3M in Community Connect Grant Awards for 2013 to 14 recipients. Once again New Mexico, despite having one of the poorest rankings in rural broadband penetration in the nation was left out. The last time New Mexico received one of these awards was in 2009. Since that time at least 6 applications have been denied. This years snub was especially painful. It was for the Pine Hill-Ramah Navajo areas. The application covered 1,700 residents that have NO access to broadband. The only internet available to this community is satellite internet, which doesn't meet the USDA/RUS definition of broadband, and costs $80.00/mo. This community, according to the 2010 census is the poorest community in the state. It has 70% unemployment. This grant would have been a lifeline to them. I would have created jobs, and online educational and employment opportunities. The community contracted out the engineering and grant writing of this grant to ACRS in Oklahoma City. ACRS's clients over the past 10 years have been awarded over 50% of all Community Connect Grants, so a weak grant application wasn't one of the problems here. Even a commitment of matching funds in cash was provided ($180,000). The application was accompanied by letters of support from the entire New Mexico Congressional Delegation, The Ramah Navajo Tribal Council, Several tribal/community leaders, over 200 residents, and NMDOiT. This year, due to the short timeline for grant submissions after the posting of the NOFA, a smaller number of applications was received by the USDA/RUS for these grants. The USDA dispatched their local GFR's to the field to confirm broadband availability for about half of the applications. This application didn't even make that cut. Why is that New Mexico keeps being ignored by the USDA/RUS for these important grants? Les Matthews 505 690 0207 -- ---------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ---------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely for the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message or the use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law and subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. If you believe you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. From tom at jtjohnson.com Fri Oct 25 14:04:54 2013 From: tom at jtjohnson.com (Tom Johnson) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:04:54 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Community Connect Grants In-Reply-To: <1CE4E6E4793FD540BBE9E0F601D4B1D3058EF85D@001FSN2MPN2-083.001f.mgd2.msft.net> References: <1CE4E6E4793FD540BBE9E0F601D4B1D3058EF85D@001FSN2MPN2-083.001f.mgd2.msft.net> Message-ID: So was there/is there pre-contact and eventual support from our congressional delegation? -tom johnson On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Brunner, Terry - RD, Albuquerque, NM < Terry.Brunner at nm.usda.gov> wrote: > I too am disappointed that this particular application wasn't funded. If > it helps to know, this program, Community Connects, and the Distance > Learning and Telemedicine program are heavily oversubscribed. In other > words, we receive far more applications than we are able to fund. In the > case of Community Connects, I believe we had more than $100 million in > requests, but were allocated approximately $20 million in funding for the > program. > > That doesn't make things better in Ramah, but we will continue to try our > best to help that community through other sources. > > > Terry Brunner > State Director > USDA Rural Development-New Mexico > 6200 Jefferson, NE Room 255 > Albuquerque, NM 87109 > Office: (505) 761-4950 > Fax: (505) 761-4976 > Follow me on Twitter @Terrybrunner > www.rurdev.usda.gov | "Committed to the future of rural communities" > > Stay Connected with USDA: > > USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. > > > > > -----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: Friday, October 25, 2013 2:12 PM > To: 1st mile nm > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Community Connect Grants > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Community Connect Grants > Date: 25.10.2013 10:13 > From: Les Matthews > > As you are aware the USDA/RUS announced yesterday $20.3M in Community > Connect Grant Awards for 2013 to 14 recipients. Once again New Mexico, > despite having one of the poorest rankings in rural broadband > penetration in the nation was left out. The last time New Mexico > received one of these awards was in 2009. Since that time at least 6 > applications have been denied. > This years snub was especially painful. It was for the Pine Hill-Ramah > Navajo areas. The application covered 1,700 residents that have NO > access to broadband. The only internet available to this community is > satellite internet, which doesn't meet the USDA/RUS definition of > broadband, and costs $80.00/mo. This community, according to the 2010 > census is the poorest community in the state. It has 70% unemployment. > This grant would have been a lifeline to them. I would have created > jobs, and online educational and employment opportunities. > The community contracted out the engineering and grant writing of this > grant to ACRS in Oklahoma City. ACRS's clients over the past 10 years > have been awarded over 50% of all Community Connect Grants, so a weak > grant application wasn't one of the problems here. Even a commitment of > matching funds in cash was provided ($180,000). The application was > accompanied by letters of support from the entire New Mexico > Congressional Delegation, The Ramah Navajo Tribal Council, Several > tribal/community leaders, over 200 residents, and NMDOiT. > This year, due to the short timeline for grant submissions after the > posting of the NOFA, a smaller number of applications was received by > the USDA/RUS for these grants. The USDA dispatched their local GFR's to > the field to confirm broadband availability for about half of the > applications. This application didn't even make that cut. Why is that > New Mexico keeps being ignored by the USDA/RUS for these important > grants? > > Les Matthews > 505 690 0207 > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. > 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 > P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 > www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org > ---------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > > > > > > This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely > for the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message > or the use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law > and subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. If you believe you > have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete > the email immediately. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) Twitter: jtjohnson slideshare.net/jtjohnson/presentations http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.com ========================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From les at mesacapitalpartners.us Fri Oct 25 14:17:22 2013 From: les at mesacapitalpartners.us (Les Matthews) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:17:22 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Community Connect Grants In-Reply-To: Message-ID: The application was accompanied by an excellent letter of support signed by all members of the Delegation. Les Matthews From: Tom Johnson Date: Friday, October 25, 2013 3:04 PM To: "Brunner, Terry - RD, Albuquerque, NM" Cc: "rl at 1st-mile.com" , 1st mile nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Community Connect Grants So was there/is there pre-contact and eventual support from our congressional delegation? -tom johnson On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Brunner, Terry - RD, Albuquerque, NM wrote: > I too am disappointed that this particular application wasn't funded. If it > helps to know, this program, Community Connects, and the Distance Learning and > Telemedicine program are heavily oversubscribed. In other words, we receive > far more applications than we are able to fund. In the case of Community > Connects, I believe we had more than $100 million in requests, but were > allocated approximately $20 million in funding for the program. > > That doesn't make things better in Ramah, but we will continue to try our best > to help that community through other sources. > > > Terry Brunner > State Director > USDA Rural Development-New Mexico > 6200 Jefferson, NE Room 255 > Albuquerque, NM 87109 > Office: (505) 761-4950 > Fax: (505) 761-4976 > Follow me on Twitter @Terrybrunner > www.rurdev.usda.gov | "Committed to the future > of rural communities" > > Stay Connected with USDA: > > USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. > > > > > -----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: Friday, October 25, 2013 2:12 PM > To: 1st mile nm > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Community Connect Grants > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Community Connect Grants > Date: 25.10.2013 10:13 > From: Les Matthews > > As you are aware the USDA/RUS announced yesterday $20.3M in Community > Connect Grant Awards for 2013 to 14 recipients. Once again New Mexico, > despite having one of the poorest rankings in rural broadband > penetration in the nation was left out. The last time New Mexico > received one of these awards was in 2009. Since that time at least 6 > applications have been denied. > This years snub was especially painful. It was for the Pine Hill-Ramah > Navajo areas. The application covered 1,700 residents that have NO > access to broadband. The only internet available to this community is > satellite internet, which doesn't meet the USDA/RUS definition of > broadband, and costs $80.00/mo. This community, according to the 2010 > census is the poorest community in the state. It has 70% unemployment. > This grant would have been a lifeline to them. I would have created > jobs, and online educational and employment opportunities. > The community contracted out the engineering and grant writing of this > grant to ACRS in Oklahoma City. ACRS's clients over the past 10 years > have been awarded over 50% of all Community Connect Grants, so a weak > grant application wasn't one of the problems here. Even a commitment of > matching funds in cash was provided ($180,000). The application was > accompanied by letters of support from the entire New Mexico > Congressional Delegation, The Ramah Navajo Tribal Council, Several > tribal/community leaders, over 200 residents, and NMDOiT. > This year, due to the short timeline for grant submissions after the > posting of the NOFA, a smaller number of applications was received by > the USDA/RUS for these grants. The USDA dispatched their local GFR's to > the field to confirm broadband availability for about half of the > applications. This application didn't even make that cut. Why is that > New Mexico keeps being ignored by the USDA/RUS for these important > grants? > > Les Matthews > 505 690 0207 > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. > 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 > P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 > www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org > ---------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > > > > > > This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely for > the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message or the > use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law and > subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. 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URL: From tom at jtjohnson.com Fri Oct 25 14:30:17 2013 From: tom at jtjohnson.com (Tom Johnson) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:30:17 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Community Connect Grants In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Great. Thanks. -tom johnson On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Les Matthews wrote: > The application was accompanied by an excellent letter of support signed > by all members of the Delegation. > Les Matthews > > > > From: Tom Johnson > Date: Friday, October 25, 2013 3:04 PM > To: "Brunner, Terry - RD, Albuquerque, NM" > Cc: "rl at 1st-mile.com" , 1st mile nm < > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Community Connect Grants > > So was there/is there pre-contact and eventual support from our > congressional delegation? > -tom johnson > > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Brunner, Terry - RD, Albuquerque, NM < > Terry.Brunner at nm.usda.gov> wrote: > >> I too am disappointed that this particular application wasn't funded. If >> it helps to know, this program, Community Connects, and the Distance >> Learning and Telemedicine program are heavily oversubscribed. In other >> words, we receive far more applications than we are able to fund. In the >> case of Community Connects, I believe we had more than $100 million in >> requests, but were allocated approximately $20 million in funding for the >> program. >> >> That doesn't make things better in Ramah, but we will continue to try our >> best to help that community through other sources. >> >> >> Terry Brunner >> State Director >> USDA Rural Development-New Mexico >> 6200 Jefferson, NE Room 255 >> Albuquerque, NM 87109 >> Office: (505) 761-4950 >> Fax: (505) 761-4976 >> Follow me on Twitter @Terrybrunner >> www.rurdev.usda.gov | "Committed to the future of rural communities" >> >> Stay Connected with USDA: >> >> USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. >> >> >> >> >> -----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: Friday, October 25, 2013 2:12 PM >> To: 1st mile nm >> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Community Connect Grants >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Community Connect Grants >> Date: 25.10.2013 10:13 >> From: Les Matthews >> >> As you are aware the USDA/RUS announced yesterday $20.3M in Community >> Connect Grant Awards for 2013 to 14 recipients. Once again New Mexico, >> despite having one of the poorest rankings in rural broadband >> penetration in the nation was left out. The last time New Mexico >> received one of these awards was in 2009. Since that time at least 6 >> applications have been denied. >> This years snub was especially painful. It was for the Pine Hill-Ramah >> Navajo areas. The application covered 1,700 residents that have NO >> access to broadband. The only internet available to this community is >> satellite internet, which doesn't meet the USDA/RUS definition of >> broadband, and costs $80.00/mo. This community, according to the 2010 >> census is the poorest community in the state. It has 70% unemployment. >> This grant would have been a lifeline to them. I would have created >> jobs, and online educational and employment opportunities. >> The community contracted out the engineering and grant writing of this >> grant to ACRS in Oklahoma City. ACRS's clients over the past 10 years >> have been awarded over 50% of all Community Connect Grants, so a weak >> grant application wasn't one of the problems here. Even a commitment of >> matching funds in cash was provided ($180,000). The application was >> accompanied by letters of support from the entire New Mexico >> Congressional Delegation, The Ramah Navajo Tribal Council, Several >> tribal/community leaders, over 200 residents, and NMDOiT. >> This year, due to the short timeline for grant submissions after the >> posting of the NOFA, a smaller number of applications was received by >> the USDA/RUS for these grants. The USDA dispatched their local GFR's to >> the field to confirm broadband availability for about half of the >> applications. This application didn't even make that cut. Why is that >> New Mexico keeps being ignored by the USDA/RUS for these important >> grants? >> >> Les Matthews >> 505 690 0207 >> >> -- >> ---------------------------------------- >> Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. >> 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 >> P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 >> www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org >> ---------------------------------------- >> _______________________________________________ >> 1st-mile-nm mailing list >> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org >> http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm >> >> >> >> >> >> This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely >> for the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message >> or the use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law >> and subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. If you believe you >> have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete >> the email immediately. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) > Twitter: jtjohnson > slideshare.net/jtjohnson/presentations > http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.com > ========================================== > _______________________________________________ 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 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) Twitter: jtjohnson slideshare.net/jtjohnson/presentations http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.com ========================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov Mon Oct 28 09:58:48 2013 From: Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov (Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall)) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:58:48 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] (SENDER VALIDATION FAILED --- May not have originated from apparent sender ) Re: Fwd: Community Connect Grants In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1938EA6ABFA5734187F744F0B6CD55B52CABDE@P-ESS-SEN-EXA2.senate.ussenate.us> Tom, First Milers, Senator Udall and the other members of the Congressional delegation work cooperatively to try to help New Mexicans who seek federal funding and other opportunities. In many cases, such applications designed to help constituents in the state can be supported with a letter from Sen. Udall or the entire NM Congressional delegation. (There are also some cases where such letters are not appropriate or prohibited by law.) More detailed information about federal rural economic development initiatives and requests for letters of support can be found online at http://www.tomudall.senate.gov/?p=grants. Best regards, Kevin Kevin Cummins Office of Sen. Tom Udall From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Tom Johnson Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 5:30 PM To: Les Matthews Cc: rl at 1st-mile.com; 1st mile nm Subject: (SENDER VALIDATION FAILED --- May not have originated from apparent sender ) Re: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Community Connect Grants Great. Thanks. -tom johnson On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Les Matthews > wrote: The application was accompanied by an excellent letter of support signed by all members of the Delegation. Les Matthews From: Tom Johnson > Date: Friday, October 25, 2013 3:04 PM To: "Brunner, Terry - RD, Albuquerque, NM" > Cc: "rl at 1st-mile.com" >, 1st mile nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Community Connect Grants So was there/is there pre-contact and eventual support from our congressional delegation? -tom johnson On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Brunner, Terry - RD, Albuquerque, NM > wrote: I too am disappointed that this particular application wasn't funded. If it helps to know, this program, Community Connects, and the Distance Learning and Telemedicine program are heavily oversubscribed. In other words, we receive far more applications than we are able to fund. In the case of Community Connects, I believe we had more than $100 million in requests, but were allocated approximately $20 million in funding for the program. That doesn't make things better in Ramah, but we will continue to try our best to help that community through other sources. Terry Brunner State Director USDA Rural Development-New Mexico 6200 Jefferson, NE Room 255 Albuquerque, NM 87109 Office: (505) 761-4950 Fax: (505) 761-4976 Follow me on Twitter @Terrybrunner www.rurdev.usda.gov | "Committed to the future of rural communities" Stay Connected with USDA: USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. -----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: Friday, October 25, 2013 2:12 PM To: 1st mile nm Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Community Connect Grants -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Community Connect Grants Date: 25.10.2013 10:13 From: Les Matthews > As you are aware the USDA/RUS announced yesterday $20.3M in Community Connect Grant Awards for 2013 to 14 recipients. Once again New Mexico, despite having one of the poorest rankings in rural broadband penetration in the nation was left out. The last time New Mexico received one of these awards was in 2009. Since that time at least 6 applications have been denied. This years snub was especially painful. It was for the Pine Hill-Ramah Navajo areas. The application covered 1,700 residents that have NO access to broadband. The only internet available to this community is satellite internet, which doesn't meet the USDA/RUS definition of broadband, and costs $80.00/mo. This community, according to the 2010 census is the poorest community in the state. It has 70% unemployment. This grant would have been a lifeline to them. I would have created jobs, and online educational and employment opportunities. The community contracted out the engineering and grant writing of this grant to ACRS in Oklahoma City. ACRS's clients over the past 10 years have been awarded over 50% of all Community Connect Grants, so a weak grant application wasn't one of the problems here. Even a commitment of matching funds in cash was provided ($180,000). The application was accompanied by letters of support from the entire New Mexico Congressional Delegation, The Ramah Navajo Tribal Council, Several tribal/community leaders, over 200 residents, and NMDOiT. This year, due to the short timeline for grant submissions after the posting of the NOFA, a smaller number of applications was received by the USDA/RUS for these grants. The USDA dispatched their local GFR's to the field to confirm broadband availability for about half of the applications. This application didn't even make that cut. Why is that New Mexico keeps being ignored by the USDA/RUS for these important grants? 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The project is part of an effort to create a new high-speed network in Albuquerque, starting along Central Avenue, according to city documents. Up to $1 million from the city?s bond program is available to help start the project. But companies that already provide Internet service in Albuquerque aren?t keen on the idea. Comcast and CenturyLink say they?ve already invested heavily to make high-speed service available in New Mexico. Mayor Richard Berry is an enthusiastic supporter of the broadband project. He sees it as a way to spur economic development, especially among industries that need the ability to move enormous amounts of data quickly, such as architecture firms or companies that do post-production work for the film industry. ?We don?t want to shy away from something just because it?s challenging,? Berry said in an interview. ?? We?re trying to be very strategic.? Comcast spokeswoman Cindy Parsons said her company believes competition benefits consumers. But ?government-owned or -subsidized networks distort the marketplace, often times leaving taxpayers with significant outstanding funding obligations and without much to show for them,? she said in a written statement. She added that there are ?countless examples of cities across the country that have ventured into this arena and have found themselves in a money-losing proposition.? Peter Ambs, Albuquerque?s chief information officer, said similar projects have succeeded elsewhere. Google is building networks in Austin, Texas, and Kansas City, Mo., he said, and local governments have been getting involved in some cities, too. The goal is to request proposals from interested companies in about two months, Ambs said. Free Wi-Fi ? a wireless connection to the Internet ? along Central Avenue or other services could start in roughly a year, Ambs said, if all goes well. The project would involve installation of fiber-optic lines along Central, from 98th Street on the West Side to Tramway Boulevard near the foothills. There may already be ?dark fiber? ? unused lines ? available, and the city could fill in the gaps, Ambs said. Burying the lines isn?t likely to disrupt traffic, he said, because it can be done using ?micro-trenches? just a few inches wide. A private operator of the system would connect homes and businesses to the fiber lines along Central, Ambs said. The city?s work would act as a subsidy of sorts, allowing the private company to offer Internet service cheaper than it would be otherwise, he said. The speeds would be far faster than what?s now offered by Comcast and CenturyLink, Ambs said. The Internet service is moving from a ?luxury to a necessity,? Ambs said, and the city project could help neighborhoods where few residents can pay for the speeds they need to, say, take a class online. ?The thirst for data and Internet is going to do nothing but increase,? Ambs said. Berry said Central Avenue is a good spot to start the project because of the diversity of neighborhoods. ?We live in a digital world,? the mayor said. ?We want to make sure that all of our citizens have the ability to tap into it.? The price of high-speed Internet service in Albuquerque varies widely, especially because of the menu of options for buying it with telephone, television and similar services. CenturyLink advertises high-speed Internet, with no home phone required, for about $30 a month for the first year. Comcast offers Internet and some TV channels for about $40 a month for the first year. Details on how much companies might charge through the city?s broadband project isn?t clear, though Ambs said he generally expects the service to be both cheaper and faster than what?s provided now. CenturyLink spokesman David Gonzales said his company already invests hundreds of millions a year to bring broadband to people across the county. ?While we believe that public broadband networks that compete directly with private industry are not the best use of taxpayer dollars,? he said, ?we support government initiatives to leverage existing infrastructure and extend broadband service to unserved areas.? Parsons said Comcast is always analyzing the market and making adjustments. The company has ?increased Internet speeds 11 times over the past several years,? she said. Sandoval County, just north of Albuquerque, ran into trouble after launching a broadband project in late 2004. The $3 million project was beset by delays and criticized for vague accounting. Ambs said the city needs to be ready to help as more of its residents? lives move online. ?It?s going to be a transformative project,? he said in an interview. ?We want to be one of the top digital cities in the United States.? -------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com -------------------------------- From john at citylinkfiber.com Thu Nov 7 18:39:18 2013 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 02:39:18 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fire at Internet Wayback Machine Message-ID: Hi Folks, Not sure how many of us in NM use the Internet Archive's wayback machine or other digital resources. They have been highly useful over the years for me and I suspect others. Recently they had a fire that damaged portions of their operations. https://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/scanning-center-fire-please-help-rebuild/ Brewster has done a great thing with this and for the Internet. If you can, please review their site and if you feel willing, please make a contribution to help them get back on their feet. We just made a donation for $1000. Have a good day From owen at backspaces.net Thu Nov 7 20:37:26 2013 From: owen at backspaces.net (Owen Densmore) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 21:37:26 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fire at Internet Wayback Machine In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Just donated. And loved looking at my digital history that, yup, is still there! -- Owen On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 7:39 PM, John Brown wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Not sure how many of us in NM use the Internet Archive's wayback machine > or other digital resources. > They have been highly useful over the years for me and I suspect others. > > Recently they had a fire that damaged portions of their operations. > > > https://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/scanning-center-fire-please-help-rebuild/ > > Brewster has done a great thing with this and for the Internet. > > If you can, please review their site and if you feel willing, please make > a contribution to help them get back on their feet. > > We just made a donation for $1000. > > > Have a good day > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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A project worth paying attention to. www.fiercetelecom.com/press-releases/c-spire-reveals-finalists-get-fiber-first-challenge-brings-fiber-home-deplo-0 RL -------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.com rl at 1st-mile.com -------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Sun Nov 10 17:29:10 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:29:10 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] 1st-Mile Contributions Request Message-ID: As we approach the end of this year, I have decided to reach out to you, list subscribers, for needed 1st-Mile Institute financial support contributions. Initiated exactly seven years ago, the 1st-Mile Institute and this email list continues to be the only dedicated source for information exchange on New Mexico related ?broadband networking? matters. During these last seven years, I as the Institute, have also played an advisory role for various NM State, regional and community broadband initiatives. There is, however, much more we can and need to do. If you have thoughts about how to improve 1st-Mile efforts, please let me know. If you are able to make a financial contribution, in support of ongoing 1st-Mile efforts, please send checks made out to 1st-Mile Institute. If you need your contribution to be tax-deductible, please let me know. 1st-Mile Institute is fiscally sponsored by the 501c3 New Mexico Community Foundation. Thanks in advance, and see you online. Richard ---------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.corg ---------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.com Sat Nov 16 17:18:29 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 18:18:29 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Google - Open - White Spaces - Rural Message-ID: <289a68c2c6019ad7ef7a48438f77a468@dcn.org> I'm curious about this step by Google and if there may be rural NM opportunities? Go to the online story, for many active links. RL ----- White spaces anyone? Google opens its spectrum database to developers http://gigaom.com/2013/11/14/white-spaces-anyone-google-opens-its-spectrum-database-to-developers/ By Kevin Fitchard Google is removing the velvet ropes from its white spaces database in the U.S. Any device maker can now search their locales for unused TV frequencies and stake a claim on those airwaves. All of those unused frequencies that linger between TV channels, called white spaces, are ripe for the taking, and starting today network builders and device makers can start using them, with a little help from Google. The internet giant was one of a handful of companies approved by the FCC to run a white spaces database, and on Thursday Google is opening up that database to all comers. That will allow would-be networkers to identify unused TV spectrum in their area and stake a claim on the airwaves. While typically unlicensed spectrum is a free-for-all ? anyone is free to set up a Wi-Fi network or Bluetooth link wherever you please ? white spaces are managed airwaves. The spectrum is reserved for TV broadcast use, but where there is no TV signal present (or other permitted usage, such as wireless microphones) the public is free to tap it. The thing is TV stations use different frequencies in different markets. In order to ensure these new unlicensed networks don?t wipe CSI off the airwaves in your neighborhood, white space users need to register their use to a geographical database like Google?s so they don?t interfere with local transmissions. In urban markets, the TV airwaves are pretty crowded so at least in the U.S., the primary use for white spaces is going to be for rural broadband, though companies like Neul have promised to build networks here that would serve as a connectivity web for the internet of things. Since its database came online in July, Google has been testing it with GE on industrial communications applications. A white spaces broadband network has been live in Wilmington, N.C., since early 2012, using a database provided by Spectrum Bridge (see disclosure). We?ve started seeing other innovative uses for white spaces pop up all over the country. Wireless broadband radio maker Redline has been working with oil and gas companies and even mine operators to use white spaces to carry data into the bowels of the Earth. Globally, we?re seeing white space trials from the U.K. to South Africa. Google is launching a developer API that lets anyone access the database, but it?s allowing device makers to create commercial accounts through which they can register their transmitters in the database. Adaptrum is the first device maker onboard, working with the Air.U consortium to set up shop in the unlicensed airwaves surrounding West Virginia University?s campus. That?s just a starting point, though. Air.U has plans to launch networks on college campuses nationwide. ------------------------------------------ Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------------ From rl at 1st-mile.com Tue Nov 26 12:28:18 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:28:18 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Broadband Assessment and Recommendations: Education, Healthcare, and Economic Development Report Released Message-ID: <1b3d3e754cd90f2978ced94a6171c95a@dcn.org> Forwarded from New Mexico First: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Broadband Assessment and Recommendations: Education, Healthcare, and Economic Development Report Released Date: 26.11.2013 12:58 From: NMFirst Info Dear Broadband Working Group Members, Thank you so much for your expertise and diligence as a member of the Broadband Working Group. We are pleased to announce that the Broadband Assessment and Recommendations: Education, Healthcare, and Economic Development Report [1] is final and ready for distribution to policymakers and the public. Your participation and advice during this process was invaluable. We would also like to acknowledge the thoughtful work of the lead writers: ? Terry Boulanger, New Mexico Technet (lead author of education section) ? Dale Alverson, New Mexico Telehealth Alliance (lead author of healthcare section) ? Charles Lehman, Employment and Economic Information Center of NM (lead author of economic development section) ? Richard Lowenberg, 1st-Mile Institute (lead author of technical analysis and appendices) Best regards, Heather Balas New Mexico First P.O. Box 56549, Albuquerque, NM 87187 505-241-4813 phone www.nmfirst.org Links: ------ [1] http://nmfirst.org/_literature_194439/NM_Broadband_Recommendations_and_Assessment [2] http://www.nmfirst.org/ [3] http://www.facebook.com/nmfirst [4] http://www.twitter.com/newmexicofirst ------------------------------------------ Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 1853 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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However, FirstNet also put an end to negotiations with several public-safety entities hoping to lease its spectrum for public-safety networks within their jurisdictions. (snip) Seven original BTOP entities had their funding for LTE public-safety networks halted last year by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which oversees FirstNet. NTIA was concerned their projects might be incompatible with FirstNet's mission. Of the seven, only the Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System (LA-RICS) and the state of New Mexico have since signed agreements allowing them to lease the 20 MHz of 700 MHz Band 14 broadband spectrum allocated to FirstNet for their projects. ------- http://advancingtelecom.blogspot.com/2013/11/firstnet-funding-issues-who-would-have.html (snip) New Mexico is using its portion of the BTOP funding, which has nothing to do with the $7 Billion, and is only deploying LTE of 6-10 towers along the border, essentially a pilot. Their initial program doesn?t even come close to addressing the $200 Million required to build just the estimated 639 towers, for just the RAN portion of the deployment, of which will be required to cover the State, let alone the long-term operations and maintenance. New Mexico still has to ask itself, "Where it will get that money when it wants to deploy statewide?" This will put New Mexico into the same conundrum as the rest of the States ? like Ohio. When all said-and-done, New Mexico will be looking at a 500-700 Million dollar, all-inclusive, network.... ------------------------------------------ Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------------ From Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov Mon Dec 9 08:51:45 2013 From: Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov (Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall)) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 16:51:45 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] USDA webinar for NM broadband grant opportunities - 1pm MTN Dec. 12th Message-ID: <1938EA6ABFA5734187F744F0B6CD55B5305A37@P-ESS-SEN-EXA2.senate.ussenate.us> Dear First Milers, Below and attached is information for an upcoming webinar hosted by USDA Rural Development on Community Connect broadband grants and how to make your New Mexico applications as compelling as possible. This free webinar will take place Dec. 12th and should be helpful for folks who are interested in available opportunities--as well as those with experience applying for similar grants in the past. The Word document attachment has call in and log in details for the webinar. I hope all interested First Milers will be able to participate. Kind regards, Kevin Kevin Cummins Office of Sen. Tom Udall From: Campanola, Mary - RD, Washington, DC [mailto:Mary.Campanola at wdc.usda.gov] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 3:17 PM Subject: Fw: Community Connect Webinar Invite Here is the information on a webinar to be conducted by the Broadband Program staff on the Community Connect Grant Program. This is targeted to entities in or serving New Mexico. No registration is required. Please help us publicize the event. Thank you. From: Mailander, Jessica - RD, Washington, DC Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 08:06 PM Coordinated Universal Time To: Campanola, Mary - RD, Washington, DC Subject: Community Connect Webinar Invite Jessica Mailander Policy and Outreach Specialist | Rural Utilities Service Rural Development United States Department of Agriculture (202) 720-0698 jessica.mailander at wdc.usda.gov www.rurdev.usda.gov | "Committed to the future of rural communities" Stay Connected with USDA: [Description: cid:image001.jpg at 01CE1BF5.06C7ADD0][Description: cid:image002.png at 01CE1BF5.06C7ADD0] [Description: cid:image003.png at 01CE1BF5.06C7ADD0] [Description: http://www.usda.gov/img/content/sc-twitter-large.png] [Description: cid:image005.png at 01CE1BF5.06C7ADD0] [Description: cid:image006.png at 01CE1BF5.06C7ADD0] [Description: cid:image007.png at 01CE1BF5.06C7ADD0] Rural Development is an equal opportunity provider, employer and lender. 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Name: Community Connect Webinar Dec 12 invite.docx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 46762 bytes Desc: Community Connect Webinar Dec 12 invite.docx URL: From sas at lava3d.com Mon Dec 9 11:41:44 2013 From: sas at lava3d.com (Steve Smith) Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 12:41:44 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] USDA grants and RediNet CoOp interest in the Pojoaque/Nambe/??? valley area? In-Reply-To: <1938EA6ABFA5734187F744F0B6CD55B5305A37@P-ESS-SEN-EXA2.senate.ussenate.us> References: <1938EA6ABFA5734187F744F0B6CD55B5305A37@P-ESS-SEN-EXA2.senate.ussenate.us> Message-ID: <52A61CF8.7040605@lava3d.com> Since TewaCom's closing in September I've been using CNSPs 5Mbps service with mostly good results. A *small* group of us in the Nambe/Pojoaque valley area continue to discuss possible establishment of a RediNet connected Community Network for our area. We are interested in finding *other* folks in the area (could be further from us, Tesuque Valley(s), Chimayo, etc.) but the key is others in rural locations with highly limited network options that might be motivated to form a Community Broadband Network. - 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 Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov Thu Dec 12 07:01:59 2013 From: Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov (Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall)) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:01:59 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] REMINDER: USDA webinar for NM broadband grant opportunities - 1pm MTN Dec. 12th Message-ID: <1938EA6ABFA5734187F744F0B6CD55B5307C14@P-ESS-SEN-EXA2.senate.ussenate.us> First Milers, This is just a reminder that today officials from USDA Rural Development will provide a free webinar for those interested in broadband funding opportunities and how to make your grant applications as competitive as possible. I hope all those interested will be able to join the webinar today at 1pm MTN time. The attached Word document has call in/log in details. Best, Kevin Kevin Cummins Office of Sen. Tom Udall From: Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall) Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 11:52 AM To: '1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org' Subject: USDA webinar for NM broadband grant opportunities - 1pm MTN Dec. 12th Dear First Milers, Below and attached is information for an upcoming webinar hosted by USDA Rural Development on Community Connect broadband grants and how to make your New Mexico applications as compelling as possible. This free webinar will take place Dec. 12th and should be helpful for folks who are interested in available opportunities--as well as those with experience applying for similar grants in the past. The Word document attachment has call in and log in details for the webinar. I hope all interested First Milers will be able to participate. Kind regards, Kevin Kevin Cummins Office of Sen. Tom Udall From: Campanola, Mary - RD, Washington, DC [mailto:Mary.Campanola at wdc.usda.gov] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 3:17 PM Subject: Fw: Community Connect Webinar Invite Here is the information on a webinar to be conducted by the Broadband Program staff on the Community Connect Grant Program. This is targeted to entities in or serving New Mexico. No registration is required. Please help us publicize the event. Thank you. From: Mailander, Jessica - RD, Washington, DC Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 08:06 PM Coordinated Universal Time To: Campanola, Mary - RD, Washington, DC Subject: Community Connect Webinar Invite Jessica Mailander Policy and Outreach Specialist | Rural Utilities Service Rural Development United States Department of Agriculture (202) 720-0698 jessica.mailander at wdc.usda.gov www.rurdev.usda.gov | "Committed to the future of rural communities" Stay Connected with USDA: [Description: cid:image001.jpg at 01CE1BF5.06C7ADD0][Description: cid:image002.png at 01CE1BF5.06C7ADD0] [Description: cid:image003.png at 01CE1BF5.06C7ADD0] [Description: http://www.usda.gov/img/content/sc-twitter-large.png] [Description: cid:image005.png at 01CE1BF5.06C7ADD0] [Description: cid:image006.png at 01CE1BF5.06C7ADD0] [Description: cid:image007.png at 01CE1BF5.06C7ADD0] Rural Development is an equal opportunity provider, employer and lender. 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Name: Community Connect Webinar Dec 12 invite.docx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 46762 bytes Desc: Community Connect Webinar Dec 12 invite.docx URL: From rl at 1st-mile.com Fri Dec 13 10:11:37 2013 From: rl at 1st-mile.com (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:11:37 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FCC Actions Message-ID: <184b378531f3aac5bf684c45b73807df@dcn.org> Under new Chairman Tom Wheeler, the FCC is beginning to address many pending issues. Here are two items copied from today's Benton Foundation's news postings, with additional links. RL ---------- FCC, CELLPHONE CARRIERS AGREE TO 'UNLOCKING' POLICY http://benton.org/node/170008 Under pressure from the Federal Communications Commission, major cellphone carriers agreed to a new policy to allow customers to "unlock" their phones and switch providers. The companies agreed to the voluntary policy after FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler warned them they could face mandatory regulations if they failed to act. CTIA, the lobbying organization for the cellphone industry, said it plans to include the policy in its bylaws. Here are the half-dozen steps to assist with consumer unlocking per CTIA?s letter to the FCC: 1. Disclosure. Each carrier will post on its website its clear, concise, and readily accessible policy on postpaid and prepaid mobile wireless device unlocking. 2. Postpaid Unlocking Policy. Carriers, upon request, will unlock mobile wireless devices or provide the necessary information to unlock their devices for their customers and former customers in good standing and individual owners of eligible devices after the fulfillment of the applicable postpaid service contract, device financing plan or payment of an applicable early termination fee. 3. Prepaid Unlocking Policy. Carriers, upon request, will unlock prepaid mobile wireless devices no later than one year after initial activation, consistent with reasonable time, payment or usage requirements. 4. Notice. Carriers that lock devices will clearly notify customers that their devices are eligible for unlocking at the time when their devices are eligible for unlocking or automatically unlock devices remotely when devices are eligible for unlocking, without additional fee. Carriers reserve the right to charge non-customers/non-former-customers a reasonable fee for unlocking requests. Notice to prepaid customers may occur at point of sale, at the time of eligibility, or through a clear and concise statement of the policy on the carrier?s website. 5. Response Time. Within two business days after receiving a request, carriers will unlock eligible mobile wireless devices or initiate a request to the OEM to unlock the eligible device, or provide an explanation of why the device does not qualify for unlocking, or why the carrier reasonably needs additional time to process the request. 6. Deployed Personnel Unlocking Policy. Carriers will unlock mobile wireless devices for deployed military personnel who are customers in good standing upon provision of deployment papers. Brian Fung at the Washington Post writes, ?Everyone leaves happy, right? Not exactly.? Fung points out that the agreement leaves your carrier the sole gatekeeper for all unlocking requests. So if you're preparing to travel abroad and want to use your device on European networks, chances are your unlocking request will be turned down if you aren't already at the end of your contract. ----------- The Benton Foundation commends the work of the Technology Transitions Policy Task Force. http://benton.org/node/169915 Today?s presentation is an important, positive step on a long road to transitioning to all-IP networks. We are glad to see the emphasis the FCC is placing on the universal deployment of broadband networks, promoting public safety, protecting consumers, and preserving and enhancing competition and interconnection. There?s strong consensus that the transition must embrace these core values. As the Commission considers the next steps in managing the transition, Benton asks that it also include in a new Network Compact additional values that are dear to consumers and crucial if vulnerable communities ? children, seniors, low-income and minority households, and people and businesses in rural and remote areas ? are to enjoy the full benefits of IP networks: Affordability: Since enactment of the Communications Act of 1934, the availability of world-class networks at affordable rates has been a key policy goal. Accessibility: The 54 million Americans with disabilities must be able to make full use of broadband networks and the video and voice services that run over these networks. Diversity: In addition to ubiquitous availability, Americans must have the ability to access and distribute content that reflects the country?s diversity of viewpoints. Openness: Consumers must retain their rights to utilize any legal applications, content, devices, and services of their choosing on the broadband networks to which they subscribe. Speed: Consumers need fast networks that allow them access to, and choice of, a full range of services to meet their needs. Innovation: For consumers, the promise of the IP transition is new services and ways to collaborate and communicate that are better and more advanced than current basic telephone communications. While there?s no doubt that the nation is on the verge of a bold digital opportunity, smart policy decisions, not just capital investments, are needed if every American -- regardless of zip code, race, disability or income ? is to get a chance to tap into a world where voice, video and information are available faster and in more and better ways than ever before. The Task Force advanced us on that path today; now is the time for the full Commission to act. ------------------------------------------ Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------------ From Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov Fri Dec 13 14:53:33 2013 From: Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov (Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall)) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 22:53:33 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] REMINDER: USDA webinar for NM broadband grant opportunities - 1pm MTN Dec. 12th In-Reply-To: <1938EA6ABFA5734187F744F0B6CD55B5307C14@P-ESS-SEN-EXA2.senate.ussenate.us> References: <1938EA6ABFA5734187F744F0B6CD55B5307C14@P-ESS-SEN-EXA2.senate.ussenate.us> Message-ID: <1938EA6ABFA5734187F744F0B6CD55B530A0F2@P-ESS-SEN-EXA2.senate.ussenate.us> Just FYI. I have a PPT deck of slides from the USDA webinar that I can share with interested folks. But I don't want to post here due to file size. If you're interested, e mail me directly at kevin_cummins at tomudall.senate.gov, and I will send it to you. Best, Kevin Kevin Cummins Office of Sen. Tom Udall From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall) Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 10:02 AM To: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org Subject: (SENDER VALIDATION FAILED --- May not have originated from apparent sender ) [1st-mile-nm] REMINDER: USDA webinar for NM broadband grant opportunities - 1pm MTN Dec. 12th First Milers, This is just a reminder that today officials from USDA Rural Development will provide a free webinar for those interested in broadband funding opportunities and how to make your grant applications as competitive as possible. I hope all those interested will be able to join the webinar today at 1pm MTN time. The attached Word document has call in/log in details. Best, Kevin Kevin Cummins Office of Sen. Tom Udall From: Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall) Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 11:52 AM To: '1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org' Subject: USDA webinar for NM broadband grant opportunities - 1pm MTN Dec. 12th Dear First Milers, Below and attached is information for an upcoming webinar hosted by USDA Rural Development on Community Connect broadband grants and how to make your New Mexico applications as compelling as possible. This free webinar will take place Dec. 12th and should be helpful for folks who are interested in available opportunities--as well as those with experience applying for similar grants in the past. The Word document attachment has call in and log in details for the webinar. I hope all interested First Milers will be able to participate. Kind regards, Kevin Kevin Cummins Office of Sen. Tom Udall From: Campanola, Mary - RD, Washington, DC [mailto:Mary.Campanola at wdc.usda.gov] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 3:17 PM Subject: Fw: Community Connect Webinar Invite Here is the information on a webinar to be conducted by the Broadband Program staff on the Community Connect Grant Program. This is targeted to entities in or serving New Mexico. No registration is required. Please help us publicize the event. Thank you. From: Mailander, Jessica - RD, Washington, DC Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 08:06 PM Coordinated Universal Time To: Campanola, Mary - RD, Washington, DC Subject: Community Connect Webinar Invite Jessica Mailander Policy and Outreach Specialist | Rural Utilities Service Rural Development United States Department of Agriculture (202) 720-0698 jessica.mailander at wdc.usda.gov www.rurdev.usda.gov | "Committed to the future of rural communities" Stay Connected with USDA: [Description: cid:image001.jpg at 01CE1BF5.06C7ADD0][Description: cid:image002.png at 01CE1BF5.06C7ADD0] [Description: cid:image003.png at 01CE1BF5.06C7ADD0] [Description: http://www.usda.gov/img/content/sc-twitter-large.png] [Description: cid:image005.png at 01CE1BF5.06C7ADD0] [Description: cid:image006.png at 01CE1BF5.06C7ADD0] [Description: cid:image007.png at 01CE1BF5.06C7ADD0] Rural Development is an equal opportunity provider, employer and lender. 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RL http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/16/5216184/susan-crawford-interview-broadband-video ------------------------------------------ Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir. 1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200 P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504 www.1st-mile.org rl at 1st-mile.org ------------------------------------------