From rl at 1st-mile.org Wed Jan 4 16:11:57 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 17:11:57 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] CRS: Tribal Broadband Report Message-ID: 2017 greetings to all 1st-Milers. Attached, of interest to some on this list, is a recent report and recommendations from the Congressional Research Service, on Tribal Broadband: Status of Deployment and Federal Funding Programs. RL 1st-Mile-NM: Serving its subscribers since 2006. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The government needs to think of creative ways to ?provide resources to the innovators ... across the country," he added. Lujan advocated for establishing maker-spaces in public libraries, potentially outfitting them with small-scale manufacturing equipment such as 3-D printers, that are accessible to businesses, researchers and the nearby community. Because public libraries already exist across America, "including the rural parts, where we still don?t have bandwidth capacity," they could become hubs for technological development outside Silicon Valley, he said. Lujan, who co-founded the House Technology Transfer Caucus, singled out this and a few other innovation-themed recommendations for Trump's administration mentioned in a report from the ITIF and the Brookings Institution. He also advocated for creating an Energy Department-based nonprofit that could dole out funds to transition technology out of federal research labs and into the marketplace. Lujan said he's working on legislation that would encourage Energy to promote partnerships with local economic development groups including maker-spaces. Other specific recommendations mentioned in the report include encouraging student entrepreneurship and increasing research and development tax credit generosity. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From blackbean2 at ccgcomm.com Thu Jan 12 08:44:07 2017 From: blackbean2 at ccgcomm.com (Douglas Dawson) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:44:07 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Lujan: Libraries + Innovation In-Reply-To: <8d1abfbfeff885980fbefb46a577b170@dcn.org> References: <8d1abfbfeff885980fbefb46a577b170@dcn.org> Message-ID: <6a0fcd8cccff4c9a94f4a1e6ebdc491c@MBX13A-IAD3.mex06.mlsrvr.com> Maker-spaces sound interesting. But we know from experience that such efforts have a short shelf life. No matter what technology is picked, in today's world in 3 - 5 years it will become old technology and then will sit and collect dust. Government's role is to make sure that there is broadband everywhere. If that happens, then entrepreneurs will find innovative ways to make a living. Doug Dawson -----Original Message----- From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Richard Lowenberg Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 11:14 AM To: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Lujan: Libraries + Innovation Lujan: Libraries + Innovation http://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2017/01/lawmaker-public-libraries-can-boost-american-innovation/134518/ President-elect Donald Trump's technology agenda is largely opaque, but at least one member of Congress has a message for his administration: ideas for cutting-edge technology often comes from the grassroots. ?Innovation may have a national or even global impact but like politics, the process of innovation is inherently local,? Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., said during an Information Technology and Innovation Foundation event on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. The government needs to think of creative ways to ?provide resources to the innovators ... across the country," he added. Lujan advocated for establishing maker-spaces in public libraries, potentially outfitting them with small-scale manufacturing equipment such as 3-D printers, that are accessible to businesses, researchers and the nearby community. Because public libraries already exist across America, "including the rural parts, where we still don?t have bandwidth capacity," they could become hubs for technological development outside Silicon Valley, he said. Lujan, who co-founded the House Technology Transfer Caucus, singled out this and a few other innovation-themed recommendations for Trump's administration mentioned in a report from the ITIF and the Brookings Institution. He also advocated for creating an Energy Department-based nonprofit that could dole out funds to transition technology out of federal research labs and into the marketplace. Lujan said he's working on legislation that would encourage Energy to promote partnerships with local economic development groups including maker-spaces. Other specific recommendations mentioned in the report include encouraging student entrepreneurship and increasing research and development tax credit generosity. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.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 cirrus.ed.consulting at gmail.com Thu Jan 12 12:23:21 2017 From: cirrus.ed.consulting at gmail.com (Cirrus Consulting) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 13:23:21 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Lujan: Libraries + Innovation In-Reply-To: <6a0fcd8cccff4c9a94f4a1e6ebdc491c@MBX13A-IAD3.mex06.mlsrvr.com> References: <8d1abfbfeff885980fbefb46a577b170@dcn.org> <6a0fcd8cccff4c9a94f4a1e6ebdc491c@MBX13A-IAD3.mex06.mlsrvr.com> Message-ID: New Mexicans do indeed need more opportunities for access to innovative technology and its applications, and maker-spaces located in local libraries could be a step towards such opportunity. But without the support of human capital within those libraries, to maintain and manage sophisticated devices and to support the public in their application, this equipment will likely fall into disuse even before it becomes obsolete. While technology and hardware are undeniably critical elements of developing digital innovation and talent, we tend all too often to overlook the equally important element of staffing, which provides the maintenance, technical support, and user learning that ultimately make programs such as maker-spaces successful. These human resources are especially critical in rural and under-served communities, regions that have the most to gain from such programs but in which broadband adoption and technical skills are likely to be lowest and the need for support to be high. With ongoing cuts to state budgets, and federal spending likely to decrease with the incoming administration, staff at public institutions such as libraries will face even greater pressure to do more with less. Any maker-space programs, or similar technology-based innovation plans, should include dedicated funding for human resources to supply maintenance, technical support, and user learning as part of their strategy for long-term success. Eva Artschwager On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Douglas Dawson wrote: > Maker-spaces sound interesting. But we know from experience that such > efforts have a short shelf life. No matter what technology is picked, in > today's world in 3 - 5 years it will become old technology and then will > sit and collect dust. Government's role is to make sure that there is > broadband everywhere. If that happens, then entrepreneurs will find > innovative ways to make a living. > > Doug Dawson > > -----Original Message----- > From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf > Of Richard Lowenberg > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 11:14 AM > To: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Lujan: Libraries + Innovation > > Lujan: Libraries + Innovation > > http://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2017/01/lawmaker- > public-libraries-can-boost-american-innovation/134518/ > > President-elect Donald Trump's technology agenda is largely opaque, but at > least one member of Congress has a message for his administration: > ideas for cutting-edge technology often comes from the grassroots. > > ?Innovation may have a national or even global impact but like politics, > the process of innovation is inherently local,? Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., > said during an Information Technology and Innovation Foundation event on > Capitol Hill on Wednesday. The government needs to think of creative ways > to ?provide resources to the innovators ... across the country," he added. > > Lujan advocated for establishing maker-spaces in public libraries, > potentially outfitting them with small-scale manufacturing equipment such > as 3-D printers, that are accessible to businesses, researchers and the > nearby community. Because public libraries already exist across America, > "including the rural parts, where we still don?t have bandwidth capacity," > they could become hubs for technological development outside Silicon > Valley, he said. > > Lujan, who co-founded the House Technology Transfer Caucus, singled out > this and a few other innovation-themed recommendations for Trump's > administration mentioned in a report from the ITIF and the Brookings > Institution. > > He also advocated for creating an Energy Department-based nonprofit that > could dole out funds to transition technology out of federal research labs > and into the marketplace. Lujan said he's working on legislation that would > encourage Energy to promote partnerships with local economic development > groups including maker-spaces. > > Other specific recommendations mentioned in the report include encouraging > student entrepreneurship and increasing research and development tax credit > generosity. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director > 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, > rl at 1st-mile.org www.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 > -- Eva Artschwager, M.A. Outreach and Community Engagement for Broadband Adoption and Effective Use *Cirrus Broadband Consulting* cirrus.ed.consulting at gmail.com 505 660 3434 nmconnect.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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RL -------- Original Message -------- Subject: LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation Date: 2017-01-25 08:53 From: Richard Lowenberg To: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Reply-To: rl at 1st-mile.org Attached is a nine page .pdf of the recommendation by the Legislative Finance Committee, for State rural broadband aggregation options in New Mexico. RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: Broadband Deployment in New Mexico.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 295874 bytes Desc: not available URL: From JBadal at sacred-wind.com Thu Jan 26 08:32:27 2017 From: JBadal at sacred-wind.com (John Badal) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:32:27 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation In-Reply-To: <138fa445dde7035505029c1441c7afdc@dcn.org> References: <138fa445dde7035505029c1441c7afdc@dcn.org> Message-ID: Rarely do I respond to our distribution list with my opinions on a 1st Mile subject, but the premise of this report is flawed, which negates the conclusions. On page 4 the statement that the absence of higher internet speeds in rural NM is due to the cost of fiber optic electronics is flatly wrong. And on page 2 the assertion that DSL can't enable video streaming and that coaxial cable can't enable video conferencing is ludicrous. My company utilizes video conferencing equipment to connect our offices in Gallup, Grants and Albuquerque, and soon in Bloomfield, partially over coaxial cable. Recent tests of our broadband service over copper wire in McKinley County demonstrate 78Mbps download and 20 upload. Our fixed wireless systems in McKinley, San Juan, Cibola, and Bernalillo Counties can also provide customers up to 100 Mbps download. The absence of higher Internet speeds in major portions of rural NM is due to out of state local telecom carriers' lack of investment in broadband improvements to their current infrastructure. For example, the sample list of unserved cities in table 4 of this report does not include any rural town in a locally-based rural telco's service territory. This is not a criticism, it is a business economics fact. While fiber to the premise is sexy and has placed NM in a competitive technology race with other states, it is not necessary for the provision of high speed Internet service unless the general population of NM requires access to Sandia Labs' super computers. Don't get me wrong, fiber to the premise in our larger cities is a smart investment and can be made affordable, but, guys, even Google and AT&T have figured out that fiber to the premise everywhere cannot be justified economically, aggregation or no. John -----Original Message----- From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Richard Lowenberg Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:54 AM To: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation Attached is a nine page .pdf of the recommendation by the Legislative Finance Committee, for State rural broadband aggregation options in New Mexico. 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The only thing I see here missing other than the Statewide price agreement is incentives by the state of New Mexico to have outside companies come in and build extensive Broadband networks throughout the state of New Mexico, especially in rural areas that is greatly needed at this time. I would also like to state that public-private Partnerships (P3) are needed to enhance our broadband networks throughout the state of New Mexico which other states have indoctrinated and are using successfully. Vince Bradley States of New Mexico PSLTE Engineer Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: John Badal Date: 1/26/17 9:34 AM (GMT-07:00) To: rl at 1st-mile.org, 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation Rarely do I respond to our distribution list with my opinions on a 1st Mile subject, but the premise of this report is flawed, which negates the conclusions. On page 4 the statement that the absence of higher internet speeds in rural NM is due to the cost of fiber optic electronics is flatly wrong. And on page 2 the assertion that DSL can't enable video streaming and that coaxial cable can't enable video conferencing is ludicrous. My company utilizes video conferencing equipment to connect our offices in Gallup, Grants and Albuquerque, and soon in Bloomfield, partially over coaxial cable. Recent tests of our broadband service over copper wire in McKinley County demonstrate 78Mbps download and 20 upload. Our fixed wireless systems in McKinley, San Juan, Cibola, and Bernalillo Counties can also provide customers up to 100 Mbps download. The absence of higher Internet speeds in major portions of rural NM is due to out of state local telecom carriers' lack of investment in broadband improvements to their current infrastructure. For example, the sample list of unserved cities in table 4 of this report does not include any rural town in a locally-based rural telco's service territory. This is not a criticism, it is a business economics fact. While fiber to the premise is sexy and has placed NM in a competitive technology race with other states, it is not necessary for the provision of high speed Internet service unless the general population of NM requires access to Sandia Labs' super computers. Don't get me wrong, fiber to the premise in our larger cities is a smart investment and can be made affordable, but, guys, even Google and AT&T have figured out that fiber to the premise everywhere cannot be justified economically, aggregation or no. John -----Original Message----- From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Richard Lowenberg Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:54 AM To: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation Attached is a nine page .pdf of the recommendation by the Legislative Finance Committee, for State rural broadband aggregation options in New Mexico. RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john at citylinkfiber.com Thu Jan 26 09:38:52 2017 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:38:52 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation In-Reply-To: References: <138fa445dde7035505029c1441c7afdc@dcn.org> Message-ID: P3 requires communities (the public side) to actually be willing to actively engage and execute. CABQ had a P3 proposal that would have save it $2.0 Million a year forever, saved APS $4.9 million a year forever and reduce healthcare telecom costs, provided WiFi at every City Park, enhanced first responder wireless broadband network, and bring competitive gigabit service to the citizens. In 5+ years CABQ hasn't figured out how to actively engage or execute. Not sure how you legislate to force a public entity to engage in a P3........ The state could do a couple of simple things that would enhance the ability of additional investment. 1. Create a single state wide RoW / Franchise process so that entities don't have to goto hundreds of muni's to get RoW. 2. Create State run Pole Attachment rules that further support and enhance existing Federal Laws. Pole Attachment is critical and is one the most painful things to get executed with pole owners (telecom, electrical, etc) 3. Not game procurement rules that BLOCK and PROHIBIT innovative and successful broadband companies from responding to State RFP/RFB On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Bradley, Vince, DoIT wrote: > John, > > Let's be fair here, although I agree with your statement on DSL . I believe > this was a well-written report. The only thing I see here missing other > than the Statewide price agreement is incentives by the state of New Mexico > to have outside companies come in and build extensive Broadband networks > throughout the state of New Mexico, especially in rural areas that is > greatly needed at this time. I would also like to state that public-private > Partnerships (P3) are needed to enhance our broadband networks throughout > the state of New Mexico which other states have indoctrinated and are using > successfully. > > Vince Bradley > States of New Mexico > PSLTE Engineer > > > > > Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: John Badal > Date: 1/26/17 9:34 AM (GMT-07:00) > To: rl at 1st-mile.org, 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation > > Rarely do I respond to our distribution list with my opinions on a 1st Mile > subject, but the premise of this report is flawed, which negates the > conclusions. On page 4 the statement that the absence of higher internet > speeds in rural NM is due to the cost of fiber optic electronics is flatly > wrong. And on page 2 the assertion that DSL can't enable video streaming > and that coaxial cable can't enable video conferencing is ludicrous. My > company utilizes video conferencing equipment to connect our offices in > Gallup, Grants and Albuquerque, and soon in Bloomfield, partially over > coaxial cable. Recent tests of our broadband service over copper wire in > McKinley County demonstrate 78Mbps download and 20 upload. Our fixed > wireless systems in McKinley, San Juan, Cibola, and Bernalillo Counties can > also provide customers up to 100 Mbps download. The absence of higher > Internet speeds in major portions of rural NM is due to out of state local > telecom carriers' lack of investment in broadband improvements to their > current infrastructure. For example, the sample list of unserved cities in > table 4 of this report does not include any rural town in a locally-based > rural telco's service territory. This is not a criticism, it is a business > economics fact. While fiber to the premise is sexy and has placed NM in a > competitive technology race with other states, it is not necessary for the > provision of high speed Internet service unless the general population of NM > requires access to Sandia Labs' super computers. Don't get me wrong, fiber > to the premise in our larger cities is a smart investment and can be made > affordable, but, guys, even Google and AT&T have figured out that fiber to > the premise everywhere cannot be justified economically, aggregation or no. > > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of > Richard Lowenberg > Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:54 AM > To: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation > > Attached is a nine page .pdf of the recommendation by the Legislative > Finance Committee, for State rural broadband aggregation options in New > Mexico. > RL > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director > 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, > rl at 1st-mile.org www.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 Vince.Bradley at state.nm.us Thu Jan 26 09:43:34 2017 From: Vince.Bradley at state.nm.us (Bradley, Vince, DoIT) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 17:43:34 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation In-Reply-To: References: <138fa445dde7035505029c1441c7afdc@dcn.org> , Message-ID: <5tblwaelmii60mup8v6gouwq.1485452612271@email.android.com> Very well said. Hopefully people on this email are listening. Vince Bradley Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: John Brown Date: 1/26/17 10:38 AM (GMT-07:00) To: "Bradley, Vince, DoIT" Cc: John Badal , rl at 1st-mile.org, 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation P3 requires communities (the public side) to actually be willing to actively engage and execute. CABQ had a P3 proposal that would have save it $2.0 Million a year forever, saved APS $4.9 million a year forever and reduce healthcare telecom costs, provided WiFi at every City Park, enhanced first responder wireless broadband network, and bring competitive gigabit service to the citizens. In 5+ years CABQ hasn't figured out how to actively engage or execute. Not sure how you legislate to force a public entity to engage in a P3........ The state could do a couple of simple things that would enhance the ability of additional investment. 1. Create a single state wide RoW / Franchise process so that entities don't have to goto hundreds of muni's to get RoW. 2. Create State run Pole Attachment rules that further support and enhance existing Federal Laws. Pole Attachment is critical and is one the most painful things to get executed with pole owners (telecom, electrical, etc) 3. Not game procurement rules that BLOCK and PROHIBIT innovative and successful broadband companies from responding to State RFP/RFB On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Bradley, Vince, DoIT wrote: > John, > > Let's be fair here, although I agree with your statement on DSL . I believe > this was a well-written report. The only thing I see here missing other > than the Statewide price agreement is incentives by the state of New Mexico > to have outside companies come in and build extensive Broadband networks > throughout the state of New Mexico, especially in rural areas that is > greatly needed at this time. I would also like to state that public-private > Partnerships (P3) are needed to enhance our broadband networks throughout > the state of New Mexico which other states have indoctrinated and are using > successfully. > > Vince Bradley > States of New Mexico > PSLTE Engineer > > > > > Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: John Badal > Date: 1/26/17 9:34 AM (GMT-07:00) > To: rl at 1st-mile.org, 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation > > Rarely do I respond to our distribution list with my opinions on a 1st Mile > subject, but the premise of this report is flawed, which negates the > conclusions. On page 4 the statement that the absence of higher internet > speeds in rural NM is due to the cost of fiber optic electronics is flatly > wrong. And on page 2 the assertion that DSL can't enable video streaming > and that coaxial cable can't enable video conferencing is ludicrous. My > company utilizes video conferencing equipment to connect our offices in > Gallup, Grants and Albuquerque, and soon in Bloomfield, partially over > coaxial cable. Recent tests of our broadband service over copper wire in > McKinley County demonstrate 78Mbps download and 20 upload. Our fixed > wireless systems in McKinley, San Juan, Cibola, and Bernalillo Counties can > also provide customers up to 100 Mbps download. The absence of higher > Internet speeds in major portions of rural NM is due to out of state local > telecom carriers' lack of investment in broadband improvements to their > current infrastructure. For example, the sample list of unserved cities in > table 4 of this report does not include any rural town in a locally-based > rural telco's service territory. This is not a criticism, it is a business > economics fact. While fiber to the premise is sexy and has placed NM in a > competitive technology race with other states, it is not necessary for the > provision of high speed Internet service unless the general population of NM > requires access to Sandia Labs' super computers. Don't get me wrong, fiber > to the premise in our larger cities is a smart investment and can be made > affordable, but, guys, even Google and AT&T have figured out that fiber to > the premise everywhere cannot be justified economically, aggregation or no. > > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of > Richard Lowenberg > Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:54 AM > To: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation > > Attached is a nine page .pdf of the recommendation by the Legislative > Finance Committee, for State rural broadband aggregation options in New > Mexico. > RL > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director > 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, > rl at 1st-mile.org www.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 JBadal at sacred-wind.com Thu Jan 26 10:40:14 2017 From: JBadal at sacred-wind.com (John Badal) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:40:14 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation In-Reply-To: References: <138fa445dde7035505029c1441c7afdc@dcn.org>, Message-ID: Vince, I wholeheartedly endorse P3 broadband projects and find them beneficial in communities all around the state, not just where rural broadband is lacking. Quite frequently local community leaders are unaware as to how to maximize use of broadband to enhance government or other community services and even to help improve their economies. Properly structured P3 projects could help sustain rural communities. On another note, I didn't say that the report was poorly written; on the contrary, it states well and correctly that work needs to be done to improve broadband infrastructures in the state, but it misses the target mainly in 2 areas: the middle mile in NM needs to be much more robust and the last mile - whether copper, coaxial cable, fiber or fixed wireless - must be improved in rural areas that are for the most part served by our larger carriers. Thank you, John From: Bradley, Vince, DoIT [mailto:Vince.Bradley at state.nm.us] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 10:14 AM To: John Badal ; rl at 1st-mile.org; 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: RE: [1st-mile-nm] LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation John, Let's be fair here, although I agree with your statement on DSL . I believe this was a well-written report. The only thing I see here missing other than the Statewide price agreement is incentives by the state of New Mexico to have outside companies come in and build extensive Broadband networks throughout the state of New Mexico, especially in rural areas that is greatly needed at this time. I would also like to state that public-private Partnerships (P3) are needed to enhance our broadband networks throughout the state of New Mexico which other states have indoctrinated and are using successfully. Vince Bradley States of New Mexico PSLTE Engineer Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: John Badal > Date: 1/26/17 9:34 AM (GMT-07:00) To: rl at 1st-mile.org, 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation Rarely do I respond to our distribution list with my opinions on a 1st Mile subject, but the premise of this report is flawed, which negates the conclusions. On page 4 the statement that the absence of higher internet speeds in rural NM is due to the cost of fiber optic electronics is flatly wrong. And on page 2 the assertion that DSL can't enable video streaming and that coaxial cable can't enable video conferencing is ludicrous. My company utilizes video conferencing equipment to connect our offices in Gallup, Grants and Albuquerque, and soon in Bloomfield, partially over coaxial cable. Recent tests of our broadband service over copper wire in McKinley County demonstrate 78Mbps download and 20 upload. Our fixed wireless systems in McKinley, San Juan, Cibola, and Bernalillo Counties can also provide customers up to 100 Mbps download. The absence of higher Internet speeds in major portions of rural NM is due to out of state local telecom carriers' lack of investment in broadband improvements to their current infrastructure. For example, the sample list of unserved cities in table 4 of this report does not include any rural town in a locally-based rural telco's service territory. This is not a criticism, it is a business economics fact. While fiber to the premise is sexy and has placed NM in a competitive technology race with other states, it is not necessary for the provision of high speed Internet service unless the general population of NM requires access to Sandia Labs' super computers. Don't get me wrong, fiber to the premise in our larger cities is a smart investment and can be made affordable, but, guys, even Google and AT&T have figured out that fiber to the premise everywhere cannot be justified economically, aggregation or no. John -----Original Message----- From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Richard Lowenberg Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:54 AM To: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation Attached is a nine page .pdf of the recommendation by the Legislative Finance Committee, for State rural broadband aggregation options in New Mexico. RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Vince.Bradley at state.nm.us Thu Jan 26 10:46:10 2017 From: Vince.Bradley at state.nm.us (Bradley, Vince, DoIT) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:46:10 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation In-Reply-To: References: <138fa445dde7035505029c1441c7afdc@dcn.org>, , Message-ID: Thank you John, Vince Bradley Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: John Badal Date: 1/26/17 11:40 AM (GMT-07:00) To: "Bradley, Vince, DoIT" , rl at 1st-mile.org, 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: RE: [1st-mile-nm] LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation Vince, I wholeheartedly endorse P3 broadband projects and find them beneficial in communities all around the state, not just where rural broadband is lacking. Quite frequently local community leaders are unaware as to how to maximize use of broadband to enhance government or other community services and even to help improve their economies. Properly structured P3 projects could help sustain rural communities. On another note, I didn?t say that the report was poorly written; on the contrary, it states well and correctly that work needs to be done to improve broadband infrastructures in the state, but it misses the target mainly in 2 areas: the middle mile in NM needs to be much more robust and the last mile ? whether copper, coaxial cable, fiber or fixed wireless ? must be improved in rural areas that are for the most part served by our larger carriers. Thank you, John From: Bradley, Vince, DoIT [mailto:Vince.Bradley at state.nm.us] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 10:14 AM To: John Badal ; rl at 1st-mile.org; 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: RE: [1st-mile-nm] LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation John, Let's be fair here, although I agree with your statement on DSL . I believe this was a well-written report. The only thing I see here missing other than the Statewide price agreement is incentives by the state of New Mexico to have outside companies come in and build extensive Broadband networks throughout the state of New Mexico, especially in rural areas that is greatly needed at this time. I would also like to state that public-private Partnerships (P3) are needed to enhance our broadband networks throughout the state of New Mexico which other states have indoctrinated and are using successfully. Vince Bradley States of New Mexico PSLTE Engineer Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: John Badal > Date: 1/26/17 9:34 AM (GMT-07:00) To: rl at 1st-mile.org, 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation Rarely do I respond to our distribution list with my opinions on a 1st Mile subject, but the premise of this report is flawed, which negates the conclusions. On page 4 the statement that the absence of higher internet speeds in rural NM is due to the cost of fiber optic electronics is flatly wrong. And on page 2 the assertion that DSL can't enable video streaming and that coaxial cable can't enable video conferencing is ludicrous. My company utilizes video conferencing equipment to connect our offices in Gallup, Grants and Albuquerque, and soon in Bloomfield, partially over coaxial cable. Recent tests of our broadband service over copper wire in McKinley County demonstrate 78Mbps download and 20 upload. Our fixed wireless systems in McKinley, San Juan, Cibola, and Bernalillo Counties can also provide customers up to 100 Mbps download. The absence of higher Internet speeds in major portions of rural NM is due to out of state local telecom carriers' lack of investment in broadband improvements to their current infrastructure. For example, the sample list of unserved cities in table 4 of this report does not include any rural town in a locally-based rural telco's service territory. This is not a criticism, it is a business economics fact. While fiber to the premise is sexy and has placed NM in a competitive technology race with other states, it is not necessary for the provision of high speed Internet service unless the general population of NM requires access to Sandia Labs' super computers. Don't get me wrong, fiber to the premise in our larger cities is a smart investment and can be made affordable, but, guys, even Google and AT&T have figured out that fiber to the premise everywhere cannot be justified economically, aggregation or no. John -----Original Message----- From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Richard Lowenberg Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:54 AM To: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] LFC: Rural Broadband Aggregation Attached is a nine page .pdf of the recommendation by the Legislative Finance Committee, for State rural broadband aggregation options in New Mexico. RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl at 1st-mile.org Mon Jan 30 14:10:34 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 15:10:34 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: BB4B REPORT: Preliminary Policy Considerations In-Reply-To: <883a272229214e67a7150ae8dbf45958@MBXCAS001.nmes.lcl> References: <883a272229214e67a7150ae8dbf45958@MBXCAS001.nmes.lcl> Message-ID: <1aa55109dcf46eeaeb8475badd2e8966@dcn.org> From Gar Clarke at NM DoIT. RL -------- Original Message -------- Subject: BB4B REPORT: Preliminary Policy Considerations Date: 2017-01-30 13:33 From: "Clarke, George, DoIT" To: "Richard Lowenberg (rl at 1st-mile.org)" The Department of Information Technology (DoIT) Office of Broadband and Geospatial Initiatives (OBGI) has just completed a first in a series of reports linking up to a Broadband for Business (BB4B) Study that will include actionable items. This first preliminary report, "Broadband for Business: Preliminary Policy Considerations" is available on the NM Broadband Program (NMBBP) Website. Please review, and if you have constructive comments, I will be happy to receive them. In addition, we're conducting a speed test and short survey of New Mexico Businesses. If you have a New Mexico Business or know of organizations that can distribute the request. The OBGI will appreciate the canvassing. - NMBBP Reports: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/news.shtml [1] - BB4B Policy: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/reports/BB4B_CTC_Report_Policy_Considerations-final20170117.pdf [2] - NMBBP Speed Test: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/speedtest.shtml [3] - BB4B Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9X2TTFT [4] Thank You, Gar Clarke Gar Clarke NM Geospatial and Broadband Program Manager Agency Tribal Liaison Office of Broadband and Geospatial Initiatives 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 [5] Cell: 505.690-1661 [6] Fax: 505.827-2325 [7] DoIT Web: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/ [8] Broadband Web:: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/ [9] GAC Web: http://www.gac.state.nm.us [10] Links: ------ [1] http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/news.shtml [2] http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/reports/BB4B_CTC_Report_Policy_Considerations-final20170117.pdf [3] http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/speedtest.shtml [4] https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9X2TTFT [5] tel:505.827-1663 [6] tel:505.690-1661 [7] tel:505.827-2325 [8] http://www.doit.state.nm.us/ [9] http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/ [10] http://www.gac.state.nm.us/ From rl at 1st-mile.org Wed Feb 1 12:36:46 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 13:36:46 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM HB-57 / SB-53 Message-ID: Attached are two files on the current NM legislature's HB-57. SB 53 is the same bill and it has already passed Senate Corps and Senate Judiciary Committees. These largely change PRC regulation of CenturyLink and Windstream, with implications for NM-DoIT and many others. Any productive insights on these bills and their implications is appreciated. RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: HB0057 House FIR.PDF Type: application/pdf Size: 145824 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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HB133 will be reviewed in Committee tomorrow morning: HOUSE STATE GOVERNMENT, INDIAN & VETERANS AFFAIRS ON 2/2/2017 [1] https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?Chamber=H&LegType=B&LegNo=113&year=17 [2] Links: ------ [1] https://www.nmlegis.gov/Committee/Standing_Committee?CommitteeCode=HSIVC [2] https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?Chamber=H&LegType=B&LegNo=113&year=17 [3] http://www.nmpsfa.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: HB0113_1.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 43474 bytes Desc: not available URL: From john at citylinkfiber.com Wed Feb 1 13:31:17 2017 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 14:31:17 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM HB-57 / SB-53 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: These don't really help any new entrant to the market. We seem to be captured still by the concept of "wire centers", when those really don't exist or will not exist soon. Voice is mostly a over the top service today, Interconnected VoIP. The PRC still has not consumer protection authority for Interconnected VoIP based services. Nothing in these bills provides relief in areas that could materially impact and ATTRACT new providers of broadband services to our state. Namely: 1. Unified and Single Stop Rights of Way access. Today a provider must negotiate hundreds of different agreements to make use of ROW in our state. Highly Costly and Huge time waste == Barrier to Entry 2.State control of Pole Attachment rules. Today to get a Pole Attachment agreement can take years, even though there are federal rules stating the pole owners MUST do it. Current Pole Owners drag their feet and have no desire to actually execute in a reasonable and timely manner. Barrier to Entry. On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > Attached are two files on the current NM legislature's > HB-57. SB 53 is the same bill and it has already passed > Senate Corps and Senate Judiciary Committees. > These largely change PRC regulation of CenturyLink and > Windstream, with implications for NM-DoIT and many others. > > Any productive insights on these bills and their implications > is appreciated. > > RL > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director > 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, > rl at 1st-mile.org www.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.org Sun Feb 5 10:00:48 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2017 11:00:48 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Pole Line Attachment Guide Message-ID: A subject that keeps coming up on this list. New Mexico is under FCC jurisdiction, as noted in the article. Additional Pole Line attachment resource links are at article end. http://nextcenturycities.org/next-century-cities-guide-to-pole-attachments/ RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From drew at upspringassociates.com Sun Feb 5 10:01:44 2017 From: drew at upspringassociates.com (Drew Tulchin) Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 11:01:44 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] remove please Message-ID: pls remove tx dt -- Drew Tulchin UpSpring (formerly Social Enterprise Associates) drew at UpSpringAssociates.com 202-256-2692 *** 505-715-6927 UpSpringAssociates.com Skype: dtulchin tweet: GoUpSpring -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From john at citylinkfiber.com Sun Feb 5 19:59:28 2017 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 20:59:28 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Pole Line Attachment Guide In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Not sure what point Richard is attempting to make. All states that presently do not have a State level set of rules fall under the Feds. This however DOES NOT prevent New Mexico, or any other such state from adopting their own set of rules. The challenge here in NM, is that pole owners have a history of a) requiring NDA's and other such agreements to gag new attachers from discussing something that is already open. b) not wanting to engage c) not willing to present a federally compliant attachment agreement. d) not willing to present such agreement in a reasonable period of time e) stalling (you could say thats (a) above. In the end this leaves entrepreneurial businesses / new entrants with little to no chance of getting on the poles. Effectively asserting a monopolistic control over the ability to deploy affordable broadband On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > A subject that keeps coming up on this list. > New Mexico is under FCC jurisdiction, as noted in the article. > Additional Pole Line attachment resource links are at article end. > > http://nextcenturycities.org/next-century-cities-guide-to-pole-attachments/ > > RL > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director > 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, > rl at 1st-mile.org www.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 JBadal at sacred-wind.com Mon Feb 6 07:49:19 2017 From: JBadal at sacred-wind.com (John Badal) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 15:49:19 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Pole Line Attachment Guide In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I feel John Brown's frustration. We have to deal with the rural electric coops who are even exempted from the FCC's Pole Attachment Order, even more than with municipal owners. The difference we experience from the two is that the municipalities react to attachment requests as if their pole assets can be used as a contribution to broadband expansion while the electric coops see attachments as a revenue generating mechanism and an aged pole replacement strategy. Of the 3 coops operating in our service area, two strive to enter the broadband arena themselves and use their pole assets anticompetitively to their advantage. -----Original Message----- From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of John Brown Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2017 8:59 PM To: Richard Lowenberg Cc: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Pole Line Attachment Guide Not sure what point Richard is attempting to make. All states that presently do not have a State level set of rules fall under the Feds. This however DOES NOT prevent New Mexico, or any other such state from adopting their own set of rules. The challenge here in NM, is that pole owners have a history of a) requiring NDA's and other such agreements to gag new attachers from discussing something that is already open. b) not wanting to engage c) not willing to present a federally compliant attachment agreement. d) not willing to present such agreement in a reasonable period of time e) stalling (you could say thats (a) above. In the end this leaves entrepreneurial businesses / new entrants with little to no chance of getting on the poles. Effectively asserting a monopolistic control over the ability to deploy affordable broadband On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > A subject that keeps coming up on this list. > New Mexico is under FCC jurisdiction, as noted in the article. > Additional Pole Line attachment resource links are at article end. > > http://nextcenturycities.org/next-century-cities-guide-to-pole-attachm > ents/ > > RL > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director > 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, > rl at 1st-mile.org www.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 From john at citylinkfiber.com Mon Feb 6 08:08:21 2017 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 09:08:21 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Pole Line Attachment Guide In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: My experience with pole owners in larger areas is not the same as Mr. Badal's :( I've spent over $100K in costs trying to get one pole owner to operate in a reasonable manner (both in terms and in time). The agreements that have been presented look like very bad cut and paste hack jobs. Some pole owners come back and say that this is all new to them and they are having to work out the agreements, yet they have had telcom pole attachers for YEARS. I'd would have rather spent that money bring Fiber to Barelas area of Albuquerque..... The City of ABQ could careless, yet it's actually their RoW, but they aren't interested in having an open and competitive market place. At present, our only recourse is to litigate at the FCC or in Federal Court. Estimated legal costs exceed $250,000 and time frame is from 18 to 36 months before resolution. I'd call that a barrier to entry....... We on this list talk about wanting to see broadband all over. There are companies that are new entrants that would be highly interested in do this, but are bared because of these extreme regulatory hurdles. Instead of spending tax payer money on all these studies, and programs, why not create a rule set that makes it EASY for all of us telecom's to go about the business of providing broadband. Get rid of the stupid rules and put into place a set of no nonsense and easy to enforce rules that promote competitive behaviour. On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 8:49 AM, John Badal wrote: > I feel John Brown's frustration. We have to deal with the rural electric coops who are even exempted from the FCC's Pole Attachment Order, even more than with municipal owners. The difference we experience from the two is that the municipalities react to attachment requests as if their pole assets can be used as a contribution to broadband expansion while the electric coops see attachments as a revenue generating mechanism and an aged pole replacement strategy. Of the 3 coops operating in our service area, two strive to enter the broadband arena themselves and use their pole assets anticompetitively to their advantage. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of John Brown > Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2017 8:59 PM > To: Richard Lowenberg > Cc: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Pole Line Attachment Guide > > Not sure what point Richard is attempting to make. > > All states that presently do not have a State level set of rules fall under the Feds. > > This however DOES NOT prevent New Mexico, or any other such state from adopting their own set of rules. > > The challenge here in NM, is that pole owners have a history of > > a) requiring NDA's and other such agreements to gag new attachers from discussing something that is already open. > b) not wanting to engage > c) not willing to present a federally compliant attachment agreement. > d) not willing to present such agreement in a reasonable period of time > e) stalling (you could say thats (a) above. > > In the end this leaves entrepreneurial businesses / new entrants with little to no chance of getting on the poles. > Effectively asserting a monopolistic control over the ability to deploy affordable broadband > > On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: >> A subject that keeps coming up on this list. >> New Mexico is under FCC jurisdiction, as noted in the article. >> Additional Pole Line attachment resource links are at article end. >> >> http://nextcenturycities.org/next-century-cities-guide-to-pole-attachm >> ents/ >> >> RL >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------- >> Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director >> 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 >> Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, >> rl at 1st-mile.org www.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 From john at citylinkfiber.com Mon Feb 6 13:07:52 2017 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 14:07:52 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Trump's FCC to gut Net-Neutrality rules, affects pole attachmentRe: Pole Line Attachment Guide Message-ID: Now with FCC Chairman Pai wanting to gut the 2015 Net-Neutrality order, and lack of State rules, many broadband providers are no longer permitted to use the Poles. Under the Wheeler Net-Neutrality order, Rule 224 (Pole Attachment) was afforded to Broadband providers. Previously to get pole attachment you had to become a CLEC. A regulatory regime from the mid 1990's. Many broadband providers, including Google Fiber, do NOT wish to be a CLEC and operate under those very outdated rules. This is another STRONG reason why our State needs to have clear, concise, equitable pole attachment rules... On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 8:49 AM, John Badal wrote: > I feel John Brown's frustration. We have to deal with the rural electric coops who are even exempted from the FCC's Pole Attachment Order, even more than with municipal owners. The difference we experience from the two is that the municipalities react to attachment requests as if their pole assets can be used as a contribution to broadband expansion while the electric coops see attachments as a revenue generating mechanism and an aged pole replacement strategy. Of the 3 coops operating in our service area, two strive to enter the broadband arena themselves and use their pole assets anticompetitively to their advantage. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of John Brown > Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2017 8:59 PM > To: Richard Lowenberg > Cc: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Pole Line Attachment Guide > > Not sure what point Richard is attempting to make. > > All states that presently do not have a State level set of rules fall under the Feds. > > This however DOES NOT prevent New Mexico, or any other such state from adopting their own set of rules. > > The challenge here in NM, is that pole owners have a history of > > a) requiring NDA's and other such agreements to gag new attachers from discussing something that is already open. > b) not wanting to engage > c) not willing to present a federally compliant attachment agreement. > d) not willing to present such agreement in a reasonable period of time > e) stalling (you could say thats (a) above. > > In the end this leaves entrepreneurial businesses / new entrants with little to no chance of getting on the poles. > Effectively asserting a monopolistic control over the ability to deploy affordable broadband > > On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: >> A subject that keeps coming up on this list. >> New Mexico is under FCC jurisdiction, as noted in the article. >> Additional Pole Line attachment resource links are at article end. >> >> http://nextcenturycities.org/next-century-cities-guide-to-pole-attachm >> ents/ >> >> RL >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------- >> Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director >> 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 >> Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, >> rl at 1st-mile.org www.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 From rl at 1st-mile.org Fri Feb 10 08:28:01 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 09:28:01 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Navajo Lifeline Letter to FCC Message-ID: Letter attached. 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If passed, SB24: Local Gov't Broadband Infrastructure, amends the Infrastructure Development Act to allow for local governments to develop broadband infrastructure. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From christopher at newrules.org Tue Feb 14 13:52:40 2017 From: christopher at newrules.org (Christopher Mitchell) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 15:52:40 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM Legislature: Broadband Bills In-Reply-To: <5291363dec04e959c6620cd8af7c7b5c@dcn.org> References: <5291363dec04e959c6620cd8af7c7b5c@dcn.org> Message-ID: Has anyone taken a look at SB53 from a consumer point of view? To my first, it looks like a deregulate CenturyLink bill - let them regulate themselves and hope for the best. I have yet to see that approach result in more investment or lower prices anywhere. 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URL: From rl at 1st-mile.org Mon Feb 27 14:51:01 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 15:51:01 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: TV Whitespace Grant Opportunity - ROUND 1 DEADLINE APPROACHING In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Here's an interesting, small grant opportunity. Application deadline: March 6. Only 5 awards; small amounts. But, it may be a good fit for a tribal or other library in NM. RL -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [NDIA] TV Whitespace Grant Opportunity - ROUND 1 DEADLINE APPROACHING Date: 2017-02-27 15:30 From: "Matthew Kopel" Internet access is a crucial part of a library's place in their community. By using TV Whitespace technology, institutions may extend their wifi far beyond the walls of their building, and into the communities they serve. Read details in the announcement from San Jose State University and the Gigabit Library Network about their IMLS-funded TV Whitespace project: http://www.giglibraries.net/BeyondTheWallsAnnouncement [1] APPLICATIONS FOR THE FIRST ROUND OF AWARDS ARE DUE MARCH 6TH. To learn about the project, and the basics of how TVWS works, check out this (super upbeat) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5IucDfMJ5w&feature=youtu.be [2] Additional information can be found here: http://www.giglibraries.net/Beyond-the-Walls [3] If you have additional questions or would like assistance with your application, please contact matthew at digitalinclusion.org Cheers, Matthew Links: ------ [1] http://www.giglibraries.net/BeyondTheWallsAnnouncement [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5IucDfMJ5w&feature=youtu.be [3] http://www.giglibraries.net/Beyond-the-Walls From rl at 1st-mile.org Tue Mar 7 16:07:54 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 17:07:54 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] BB Bills at the NM Legislature Message-ID: <21b1670859718f2cb4057f6a1b42f382@dcn.org> News: Broadband bills have or are moving through the Legislature, and some now await the Governor's signature. Stay tuned for updates. RL ----- Legislature acts on broadband internet access bills http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/legislature/broadband-internet-bills-surf-through-legislature/article_46015547-5421-5d4a-8429-0f174f06df55.html Posted: Monday, March 6, 2017 By Bruce Krasnow, The New Mexican New Mexico lawmakers are delivering on a promise to improve one of the state?s last-in-the-country rankings ? the speed of broadband internet. Several bills are moving through the Legislature, and two have cleared the Senate and House of Representatives and are heading to Gov. Susana Martinez for her consideration. Each would make it easier to expand broadband internet to underserved rural areas where the sparse population makes it difficult for companies to recoup their costs. ----- The Associated Press March 03, 2017 06:15 PM SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Legislation designed to expand broadband internet access to the farthest reaches of New Mexico is headed to the governor for consideration. The state Senate approved a trio of bills Friday designed to accelerate expansion of broadband infrastructure. One bill is being sent to Republican Gov. Susana Martinez that would ensure an opportunity to insert broadband conduit underground any time trenches are dug to access utility lines. Final House approval still is pending on a bill that would shore up a fund overseen by the Public Regulation Commission to spur investment in broadband infrastructure projects. That bill could change the current 5 percent charge on telephone-service bills to a flat rate. A third broadband bill seeks to attract federal funding for broadband projects and help connect Native American tribes. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Tue Mar 14 10:21:28 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 11:21:28 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Mountain Connect: Keystone, CO, May 22-24 Message-ID: <2d82253c447bb08c673fb7630630fd5a@dcn.org> The annual Mountain Connect conference is coming up at the Keystone Resort & Conference Center, May 22-24, 2017 For information and to register: www.mountainconnect.org This year Mountain Connect will include both a "wireless" and a "muncipal network lifecycle" track to go alongside with the main conference track: "Building Sustainable Communities Through Smart Networks" Stay tuned as they announce the agenda during the coming weeks. This year, more than 500 attendees are expected from city, county, and state government entities as well as ISP, carriers, utility, economic development, education, healthcare, and technology professionals. Note: If you are interested in being on a New Mexico panel, or if your company is interested in being a sponsor, please be in touch with me, off-list. A great opportunity. Richard --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Wed Mar 15 11:55:47 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:55:47 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FCC Chairman Pai's Speech Message-ID: <9a22c293575c18fda6c146d636c4acb0@dcn.org> FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai spoke in Pittsburgh this morning. Here is the link to the text of the speech ... the first FCC policy speech since taking office: https://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-pai-bringing-benefits-digital-age-all-americans This speech gives an indication of pending FCC directions and actions. Of note, Pai minimizes the effectiveness of both NTIA and RUS programs. He ends his Pittsburgh speech with a quote from local star, Andy Warhol. -------- Also of interest to some of you, this link to Susan Crawford's article yesterday: https://backchannel.com/google-fiber-was-doomed-from-the-start-a5cdfacdd7f2#.bls74hgmo RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From thomas at phys.unm.edu Wed Mar 15 12:36:10 2017 From: thomas at phys.unm.edu (T.L.Thomas) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:36:10 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] =?utf-8?q?1st-mile-nm_Digest=2C_Vol_125=2C_Issue_3?= =?utf-8?q?=2C_Topic_=E2=80=8B1=3A_FCC_Chairman_Pai=27s_Speech?= Message-ID: Hi. I am not a domain expert but have wanted to try to understand where things are headed with the FCC. So I took the time to outline the mentioned document for myself. I am sharing this for others who also don't have the time to dig deeply into it now. I did not dig that deeply and probably missed some very important points, but it was a start for myself. Please add missed important points...! - TLT OUTLINE - Seeming key points... "I'd like to outline some of my guiding principles as Chairman, and then discuss some specific proposals we will pursue. 1) "First, I believe in the power of Internet-based technologies to create jobs, grow our economy, and improve people's lives in countless ways. "Broadband can level the playing field. 2) "My second core principle: I believe that every American who wants to participate in our digital economy should be able to. Access to digital opportunity shouldn't depend on who you are or where you're from. 3) "My third guiding principle is that a competitive free market is crucial to unleashing private-sector ingenuity. 4) "Fourth and finally, I believe that a healthy respect for the free market doesn't mean that government has no role. For example, the FCC must protect consumers and promote public safety. And it will be critical for the agency to be proactive in freeing up more wireless spectrum to allow consumers to benefit from the next generation of wireless services, known as 5G. "How we plan to translate these principles into policies to promote infrastructure and innovation... "I'll start with infrastructure. The FCC has tools it can use to help close the digital divide: We can modernize our regulations, we can direct subsidies, and we can ask elected officials to change the law. "Second, Congress should include in the infrastructure bill my proposal for creating Gigabit Opportunity Zones. This proposal was at the core of the Digital Empowerment Agenda I introduced last September in Cincinnati. "The idea is to update Jack Kemp's vision for enterprise zones for the digital age. Under my proposal, we would provide tax incentives for Internet service providers (ISPs) to deploy high-speed broadband services in low-income neighborhoods. We would require local governments to make it easy for ISPs to deploy these networks. And we would offer tax incentives for startups of all kinds to take advantage of these networks and create jobs in these areas. "Smarter regulations, modernized subsidies, updating the law - those are some of the ways we'll work to close the digital divide." On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 1:00 PM, <1st-mile-nm-request at mailman.dcn.org> wrote: > Send 1st-mile-nm mailing list submissions to > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > 1st-mile-nm-request at mailman.dcn.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > 1st-mile-nm-owner at mailman.dcn.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of 1st-mile-nm digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > > ?? > 1. 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Here is the > link to the text of the speech ... the first FCC policy speech since > taking office: > > https://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-pai-bringing- > benefits-digital-age-all-americans > > This speech gives an indication of pending FCC directions and actions. > Of note, Pai minimizes the effectiveness of both NTIA and RUS programs. > He ends his Pittsburgh speech with a quote from local star, Andy Warhol. > > -------- > > Also of interest to some of you, this link to Susan Crawford's article > yesterday: > > https://backchannel.com/google-fiber-was-doomed-from- > the-start-a5cdfacdd7f2#.bls74hgmo > > RL > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director > 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, > rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > 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 125, Issue 3 > ******************************************* > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl at 1st-mile.org Wed Mar 15 17:12:28 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 18:12:28 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Gov. Vetoes SB 24 Message-ID: http://www.kob.com/new-mexico-news/governor-vetoes-broadband-legislation-bill/4426497/ Governor vetoes broadband legislation bill KOB.com Web Staff March 15, 2017 12:16 PM Governor Susana Martinez has vetoed a Senate bill (SB24) designed to encourage local government investment in broadband infrastructure. Gov. Martinez vetoed the bill Wednesday. "Governor Martinez's veto will prevent local governments from being able to provide broadband for their communities," said Senator Michael Padilla, one of the bill's sponsors. "After hearing the news that New Mexico has the highest unemployment in the nation, it's hard to imagine why Governor Martinez would stand in the way of our cities and counties efforts to bring high-speed internet that would attract needed jobs and support local small businesses." The bill passed the Senate by a vote of 37-1 and passed unanimously out of the House of Representatives. On March 9, Gov. Martinez signed two other broadband bills into law. One creates a "dig once" policy that ensures broadband conduit can be inserted underground any time trenches are dug to access utility lines. The second law seeks to spur investment in broadband infrastructure by combining demand for internet access among public schools and other educational institutions, while recovering a large portion of costs from a federal program established in 1996 to help connect public libraries and schools to the internet. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From JBadal at sacred-wind.com Thu Mar 16 17:14:30 2017 From: JBadal at sacred-wind.com (John Badal) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:14:30 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FW: SB 308 - Letter to Gov. and Fact Sheet In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Richard, Pls see this message below, as it might not have passed your filter. John From: Adriana Badal [mailto:adrianazbadal at gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 6:04 PM To: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org Subject: SB 308 - Letter to Gov. and Fact Sheet Mr. Lowenberg, Per your conversation with John Badal, attached is a letter to Gov. Martinez regarding SB 308 which asks her to sign the bill. Please feel free to revise the letter as you or your team deems appropriate. The letter should be hand-delivered or mailed ASAP this week. Also attached is a fact sheet with additional information. After working a number of years on legislative issues related to broadband in rural NM, I saw the need for a more coordinated effort to help NM advance in this arena and so I recently incorporated the New Mexico Rural Broadband Association. I will officially launch the association by the end of April and will send you additional information thereafter. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. 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I did not dig that deeply and probably missed some very important points, but it was a start for myself. Please add missed important points...! - TLT OUTLINE - Seeming key points... "I'd like to outline some of my guiding principles as Chairman, and then discuss some specific proposals we will pursue. 1) "First, I believe in the power of Internet-based technologies to create jobs, grow our economy, and improve people's lives in countless ways. "Broadband can level the playing field. 2) "My second core principle: I believe that every American who wants to participate in our digital economy should be able to. Access to digital opportunity shouldn't depend on who you are or where you're from. 3) "My third guiding principle is that a competitive free market is crucial to unleashing private-sector ingenuity. 4) "Fourth and finally, I believe that a healthy respect for the free market doesn't mean that government has no role. For example, the FCC must protect consumers and promote public safety. And it will be critical for the agency to be proactive in freeing up more wireless spectrum to allow consumers to benefit from the next generation of wireless services, known as 5G. "How we plan to translate these principles into policies to promote infrastructure and innovation... "I'll start with infrastructure. The FCC has tools it can use to help close the digital divide: We can modernize our regulations, we can direct subsidies, and we can ask elected officials to change the law. "Second, Congress should include in the infrastructure bill my proposal for creating Gigabit Opportunity Zones. This proposal was at the core of the Digital Empowerment Agenda I introduced last September in Cincinnati. "The idea is to update Jack Kemp's vision for enterprise zones for the digital age. Under my proposal, we would provide tax incentives for Internet service providers (ISPs) to deploy high-speed broadband services in low-income neighborhoods. We would require local governments to make it easy for ISPs to deploy these networks. And we would offer tax incentives for startups of all kinds to take advantage of these networks and create jobs in these areas. "Smarter regulations, modernized subsidies, updating the law - those are some of the ways we'll work to close the digital divide." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rl at 1st-mile.org Tue Mar 28 12:05:04 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 13:05:04 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM FUNDIT: Apply by April 14 Message-ID: <67bbf8004bcc3b77e50051f80b481ff5@dcn.org> Improved, economically vitalizing network connectivity, services and/or applications ought to be part of any FUNDIT application. RL ----------- From NMEDD: Funding Agencies Call on Communities to Submit Economic Development Project Proposals for Funding Opportunities Deadline for communities to submit a project for consideration is April 14 Santa Fe, NM - The New Mexico Economic Development Department will host the next FUNDIT meeting on April 25 to help local leaders identify funding for economic development projects. New Mexico FUNDIT, is a streamlined approach to help communities identify funding opportunities in one centralized location by bringing local, state and federal funding agencies together to analyze and compare proposals for capital projects. The state is calling on communities to submit project proposals by April 14 for review during its upcoming meeting. New Mexico FUNDIT is an informal group of funding agencies that meets regularly to review potential projects. Over 13 Federal and State entities are represented in the group. Their goal is to improve the effectiveness of project review and support, while ensuring communities have the information they need to obtain full funding for projects. The types of projects to be considered include: - Business Development - Community Development - Infrastructure Development - Housing Projects - Downtown Redevelopment The meeting will take place from 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 25, at the Bataan Building - Red Room 407 Galisteo Street Santa Fe, NM 87501. For more information, to submit a project application or to RSVP contact Johanna Nelson, Johanna.Nelson at state.nm.us , 505-827-0264. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Wed Mar 29 08:48:51 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 09:48:51 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM Legislature: NM Tech Council Message-ID: <8f3f8dd445b2aab7252d1f5f8693d600@dcn.org> NMTC Policy Update Forwarded from the NM Tech Council: The 2017 New Mexico Legislative Session has come to a close, and though we are still awaiting bills to be signed by Governor Martinez, we would like to provide you with a few updates. NMTC monitored and supported several pieces of legislation during the session, and many of those bills are now on the Governor?s desk or have been signed into law. The Governor has until April 7th to sign legislation. We will keep you updated as we have further updates. Below are some of the bills we are currently watching. SIGNED LEGISLATION INTO LAW House Bill 60 (Broadband Infrastructure): Adds infrastructure for new broadband telecommunications network facilities to the definition of ?economic development project? eligible for funding in the Local Economic Development Act. House Bill 113 (CIO to develop Statewide Broadband Network): Requires the state?s Chief Information Officer (CIO) (Department of Information Technology, DoIT) to develop and maintain a statewide, multipurpose, high-capacity scalable telecommunications and broadband network to meet the demand of state agencies, political subdivisions and educational institutions. The mandate is to be undertaken in partnership with the Public Education Department, Higher Education Department, political subdivisions, state universities and other educational institutions. AWAITING SIGNATURE ON GOVERNOR?S DESK House Bill 147 (Workforce Training Residency Requirement): Reduces the residency requirement for trainees in the Workforce Development Training Program, so long as high-wage jobs are guaranteed after the training ends Senate Bill 53 (PRC Jurisdiction over Local Exchanges "Telecom Modernization"): Offers critically needed changes in the regulatory environment of telecommunications and allows telecom companies to invest more dollars toward new technologies and services, like broadband Senate Bill 63 (Education Technology Improvement Uses): Clarifies the types of education technology improvements that constitute allowable capital improvements under the Public School Capital Improvements Act and the Public School Buildings Act. Senate Bill 308 (PRC to facilitate rural broadband service): Amends a section of the Rural Telecommunications Act of New Mexico to update State Rural Universal Service Fund provisions and establish a broadband program administered by the Public Regulation Commission to facilitate expansion of broadband service in rural areas. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Thu Mar 30 12:28:34 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:28:34 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Next Century Cities: Southwest Conference Message-ID: <9c1c12b361f9d71e39d4524a4e5627b0@dcn.org> Coming up in April, with a number of regional states 1st-Mile subscribers and example-setting NM broadband providers presenting. http://nextcenturycities.org/agenda-for-digital-sw-in-mesa-az-april-18-2017/ RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Fri Apr 7 11:50:41 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 12:50:41 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM SB-308 Signed by Gov. Message-ID: An update from one of our subscribers: SB 308 was signed yesterday by the Governor. This will kick off immediate work at the PRC to amend its USF rules and plan out a broadband grants program, likely to begin sometime next year once the funding mechanism for it begins to generate revenues. Senate Bill 308 (PRC to facilitate rural broadband service): Amends a section of the Rural Telecommunications Act of New Mexico to update State Rural Universal Service Fund provisions and establish a broadband program administered by the Public Regulation Commission to facilitate expansion of broadband service in rural areas. RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From nanrubin at gmail.com Fri Apr 7 12:15:19 2017 From: nanrubin at gmail.com (Nan Rubin) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 13:15:19 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM SB-308 Signed by Gov. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: GREAT! is there actually a fund in place already, or will this not happen because Suzanna has stripped out the funds? Nan *=====================================* *Nan Rubin* *Community Media Services* 917-656-0886 [*Rocky Mountain Time Zone!!!]* 4093 Calle de Estrellas Las Cruces, NM 88012 www.nanrubin.net On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > An update from one of our subscribers: > > SB 308 was signed yesterday by the Governor. This will kick off immediate > work at the PRC to amend its USF rules and plan out a broadband grants > program, likely to begin sometime next year once the funding mechanism for > it begins to generate revenues. > > Senate Bill 308 (PRC to facilitate rural broadband service): Amends a > section of the Rural Telecommunications Act of New Mexico to update State > Rural Universal Service Fund provisions and establish a broadband program > administered by the Public Regulation Commission to facilitate expansion of > broadband service in rural areas. > > RL > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director > 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, > rl at 1st-mile.org www.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 JBadal at sacred-wind.com Fri Apr 7 12:40:09 2017 From: JBadal at sacred-wind.com (John Badal) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 19:40:09 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM SB-308 Signed by Gov. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Nan, The NM PRC already has a broadband fund mechanism in place, but no revenues yet. It has to open up a rulemaking proceeding this year to begin the work to update its state Universal Service Fund rules according to the authority newly granted in SB 308. Those rules will include how the revenues are to be generated. The state law specifcies no less than $5 Million annually. John From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Nan Rubin Sent: Friday, April 7, 2017 1:15 PM To: Richard Lowenberg ; 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] NM SB-308 Signed by Gov. GREAT! is there actually a fund in place already, or will this not happen because Suzanna has stripped out the funds? Nan ===================================== Nan Rubin Community Media Services 917-656-0886 [Rocky Mountain Time Zone!!!] 4093 Calle de Estrellas Las Cruces, NM 88012 www.nanrubin.net On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Richard Lowenberg > wrote: An update from one of our subscribers: SB 308 was signed yesterday by the Governor. This will kick off immediate work at the PRC to amend its USF rules and plan out a broadband grants program, likely to begin sometime next year once the funding mechanism for it begins to generate revenues. Senate Bill 308 (PRC to facilitate rural broadband service): Amends a section of the Rural Telecommunications Act of New Mexico to update State Rural Universal Service Fund provisions and establish a broadband program administered by the Public Regulation Commission to facilitate expansion of broadband service in rural areas. RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.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.org Wed Apr 12 10:04:48 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:04:48 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Digital SW New Speaker Announcement In-Reply-To: References: <1127678639199.1118092311945.1893309643.0.291650JL.2002@scheduler.constantcontact.com> Message-ID: <701df637f24b6e7dc17f0f732c59296b@dcn.org> The Digital Southwest: Broadband Conference in Mesa, AZ is coming up next week. It looks like a very timely program with good presenters, including some from NM. http://nextcenturycities.org/2017/03/20/agenda-for-digital-sw-in-mesa-az-april-18-2017/ RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From christopher at newrules.org Wed Apr 12 10:22:27 2017 From: christopher at newrules.org (Christopher Mitchell) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 12:22:27 -0500 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Digital SW New Speaker Announcement In-Reply-To: <701df637f24b6e7dc17f0f732c59296b@dcn.org> References: <1127678639199.1118092311945.1893309643.0.291650JL.2002@scheduler.constantcontact.com> <701df637f24b6e7dc17f0f732c59296b@dcn.org> Message-ID: If anyone is on the fence about this event, you can get a better sense of what Next Century Cities thinks is important here - a summary of a recent report. https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2017/04/12/the-vision-of-next-century-cities/ See videos from the event Next Century Cities hosted in Seattle last year here: http://nextcenturycities.org/2016/04/07/watch-our-digital-northwest-event/ Also hosted this event in DC after the election last year: http://nextcenturycities.org/2016/11/30/next-century-cities-hosts-major-event-in-washington-dc-transforming-communities-broadband-goals-for-2017-and-beyond/ Lots of good speakers, discussions. Christopher Mitchell Director, Community Broadband Networks Institute for Local Self-Reliance https://www.muninetworks.org @communitynets 612-276-3456 x209 On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > The Digital Southwest: Broadband Conference in Mesa, AZ is coming up next > week. > It looks like a very timely program with good presenters, including some > from NM. > > http://nextcenturycities.org/2017/03/20/agenda-for-digital-s > w-in-mesa-az-april-18-2017/ > > RL > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director > 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, > rl at 1st-mile.org www.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 kimball at sfis.k12.nm.us Wed Apr 12 10:29:42 2017 From: kimball at sfis.k12.nm.us (Kimball Sekaquaptewa) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 17:29:42 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Digital SW New Speaker Announcement In-Reply-To: References: <1127678639199.1118092311945.1893309643.0.291650JL.2002@scheduler.constantcontact.com> <701df637f24b6e7dc17f0f732c59296b@dcn.org> Message-ID: <0A7D4763-E84B-4633-B23F-39951A8D05BD@sfis.k12.nm.us> Hi all. I can add to that: Here is a code for a free registration: Free registration for your networks with code #MESAVIP Hope to see you there! Kimball You can see the event landing page here and the agenda here. Address for Mesa Convention Center: 263 N Center St, Mesa, AZ 85201 Mesa Arts Center: 1 E Main St, Mesa, AZ 85201 Phoenix Marriott Mesa Hotel (right next door to convention center): 263 N Center St, Mesa, AZ 85201 Some important information about the conference: * Please register if you have not yet done so. * Please make every effort to attend the networking event on Monday evening (5:30 to 7pm) at the Mesa Arts Center. * It is a very short walk from the hotel. * Outdoor venue * Beer, wine, soft drinks and great apps * Interesting conversation! * If you have not already done so, please send us your twitter handle. We'd like to put them on the screen during your panel so folks can easily tweet as you speak. * Please share info about the conference with your networks. We are hoping to fill every seat and we are not there yet. * Twitter: #DigitalSW * Free registration for your networks with code #MESAVIP From: 1st-mile-nm <1st-mile-nm-bounces+kimball=sfis.k12.nm.us at mailman.dcn.org> on behalf of Christopher Mitchell Reply-To: "christopher at newrules.org" Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 11:22 AM To: Richard Lowenberg Cc: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Digital SW New Speaker Announcement If anyone is on the fence about this event, you can get a better sense of what Next Century Cities thinks is important here - a summary of a recent report. https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2017/04/12/the-vision-of-next-century-cities/ See videos from the event Next Century Cities hosted in Seattle last year here: http://nextcenturycities.org/2016/04/07/watch-our-digital-northwest-event/ Also hosted this event in DC after the election last year: http://nextcenturycities.org/2016/11/30/next-century-cities-hosts-major-event-in-washington-dc-transforming-communities-broadband-goals-for-2017-and-beyond/ Lots of good speakers, discussions. Christopher Mitchell Director, Community Broadband Networks Institute for Local Self-Reliance https://www.muninetworks.org @communitynets 612-276-3456 x209 On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Richard Lowenberg > wrote: The Digital Southwest: Broadband Conference in Mesa, AZ is coming up next week. It looks like a very timely program with good presenters, including some from NM. http://nextcenturycities.org/2017/03/20/agenda-for-digital-sw-in-mesa-az-april-18-2017/ RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.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.org Sat Apr 15 12:14:48 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 13:14:48 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FCC Announces Results of World's First Broadcast Incentive Auction Message-ID: <8d8b6861cf7c5c6e93cbd884ac1b05c7@dcn.org> FCC Announces Results of World's First Broadcast Incentive Auction http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017/db0413/DOC-344397A1.pdf http://www.telecompetitor.com/about-half-of-fifty-600-mhz-auction-winners-are-rural-companies In the forward auction, wireless carriers bid $19.8 billion on mobile broadband spectrum. A total of 50 winning bidders won 70 MHz of licensed spectrum nationwide. A total of 14 MHz of spectrum is available for unlicensed use and wireless microphones. On a nationwide basis, 70 MHz is the most mobile broadband ever auctioned below 1GHz by the FCC. Among the largest winners are T-Mobile, Dish, Comcast, and US Cellular. According to the FCC, 23 of the 600 MHz auction winners are rural carriers that are seeking rural bidding credits. Those credits allowed the carriers to place higher bids than they will actually have to pay. Qualified rural bidders get a 15% discount off of the amount they bid. Among listed rural winners are New Mexico wireless service providers: Plateau Telecommunications, Inc.: 5 licenses Smith Bagley, Inc.: 12 licenses RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Tue Apr 18 09:16:24 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:16:24 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Digital Southwest: Live Streaming Message-ID: <46360bb6df3aa4628528be5953be10f7@dcn.org> The Digital Southwest / Next Century Cities Conference is now being streamed. https://livestream.com/internetsociety/digitalsw RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From john at citylinkfiber.com Tue Apr 18 09:27:30 2017 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 16:27:30 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Digital Southwest: Live Streaming In-Reply-To: <46360bb6df3aa4628528be5953be10f7@dcn.org> References: <46360bb6df3aa4628528be5953be10f7@dcn.org> Message-ID: This is a great event, glad to be here. 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RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From christopher at newrules.org Thu Apr 20 13:45:23 2017 From: christopher at newrules.org (Christopher Mitchell) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:45:23 -0500 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Video from DigitalSW Message-ID: The main stage sessions and one breakout session were recorded by the Internet Society and are now available on YouTube. The session in Infrastructure Needs with John Brown and I among others is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej7hHoomQoE All of the videos are available here: http://nextcenturycities.org/2017/04/19/next-century-cities-host-digital-southwest-a-regional-broadband-summit-in-mesa-az/ It was a fun time and very informative. 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New kiosks will soon be popping up in downtown Las Cruces to help city staff determine whether free Wi-Fi on Main Street and the Plaza de Las Cruces would be used by visitors to the shops and events in the district. Las Cruces city councilors met Monday in their role as board members of the Tax Increment Development District and were told of the plan that will see seven Soofa stations installed downtown. The units, which cost a total of $30,000, offer charging stations for wireless devices and monitor how many people pass the unit who would be able to take advantage of wireless connectivity. The stations, which can be upgraded to offer Wi-Fi for an additional cost if the city chooses, were paid for through the city?s office of sustainability. The idea is to begin gathering data to see if Wi-Fi would add to the amenities that city officials hope will draw crowds to the area, not only for special events and the Farmers and Crafts Market, but also people who might want to access Wi-Fi during the workday, said Andy Hume, downtown planning and development coordinator. Last year, city staff began studying the current availability of Wi-Fi and exploring what would be required to add free Wi-Fi up and down Main Street, as well as the area around the plaza. Initially, a study determined the cost for deploying the system throughout downtown would be around $384,000, or $263,000 for the plaza alone. The system would have cost $50,000 per year to operate and maintain. Then the Soofa system came across the city?s radar, offering a much lower cost option, Hume said. ?We felt the permanent infrastructure approach was cost prohibitive and had no data to support a return on investment,? Hume said. ?During the time of the study, new technology came to light that is a much more modular approach, smaller in scope and will provide an incremental approach to provide service in the area.? The Soofa units can be relocated to different areas of the plaza to meet demand and have a roughly 150-foot coverage area. The units have solar panels and batteries to operate and to recharge guests' mobile devices. The units will be deployed in coming days and the results of the study presented to the public at a future City Council work session. (snip) ?2017 the Las Cruces Sun-News (Las Cruces, N.M.) Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Thu Apr 27 08:49:33 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 09:49:33 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Soofa Wireless in Las Cruces Message-ID: <712025a4d192285e8386403f9932638b@dcn.org> Adding to the prior posting, here is more info on the Soofa wifi installation, developed by MIT Media Lab students, and fact-finding in Las Cruces. Downtown use will grow based upon development of local business, cultural and other eco-social apps. http://www.soofa.co/soofatalks/2017/4/24/how-las-cruces-nm-is-measuring-pedestrian-activity-downtown RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Thu Apr 27 11:21:25 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:21:25 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Comcast offers Utah customers 1-Gig internet Message-ID: This article does not mention UTOPIA, serving the same service areas. It will not extend to underserved rural areas of Utah. RL ---------- Comcast offers Utah customers 1-Gig internet. Service available to all areas served by the cable company. By TOM HARVEY | The Salt Lake Tribune Apr 25 2017 http://www.sltrib.com/home/5213417-155/comcast-offers-utah-customers-1-gig-internet Comcast is launching its new 1-gigabit-per-second internet service Tuesday, making Utah the first where the cable company has rolled out the super fast speeds to all its customers in a single state. Comcast says anyone in its service area now may order the service, which the company is offering in competition with CenturyLink and Google Fiber, whose comparable services are available only in certain areas. While Comcast has been testing the service in other areas, "Utah is the first state that gets it rolled out as a whole throughout our entire footprint," said Leslie Oliver, director of external affairs. Many of Comcast's current internet customers receive a 150-megabit service now. It can download a two-hour movie in about a minute and a half. With the 1-gigabit service, that same movie will take eight seconds to download. "We just not taking an incremental step here," said Mike Spaulding, Comcast's vice president of engineering. "We're taking a step forward in terms of speed availability to our consumers." The cost is planned at $159.95 a month without a contract, but two promotions also are being tested to boost participation. One will offer the service for $70 a month in certain Salt Lake City, Provo and North Ogden areas. The other promotion will be for $109.99 a month across the rest of the state. The service runs over the company's existing cable network and requires only the installation of a modem with a built-in home wireless network. It's the wireless component that excites Merlin Jensen, area vice president for Utah and Arizona. "We will have the fastest in-home wireless experience for customers," he said. Comcast's service area stretches north to south from Logan to Spanish Fork, and east to west from Park City/Heber City to Tooele. CenturyLink has been offering super fast internet speeds in Utah starting at $79.99 a month. But it's not currently available in all areas served by the company, which is building a fiber-optic network. Company spokeswoman Michelle Jackson said CenturyLink offers 1-gig service to more than 100,000 homes and businesses but wouldn't say how many now subscribe. "We are continuing to aggressively expand our gigabit service offering to both businesses and residents," she said in a statement, which also said slower speeds were sufficient for most consumers. Google Fiber currently offers 1-gig service in Provo and certain areas of Salt Lake City for $70 a month. The company bought Provo's fiber optic network four years ago and has been building a network in Salt Lake City, where it now offers service in neighborhoods that include downtown and parts of the university area and Sugar House. Google Fiber also said it is continuing to build its network to serve more homes and businesses. But it's that piecemeal approach, and the need to build out networks before even being able to offer the speedy service, that Comcast apparently sees as its competitors' vulnerability. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From christopher at newrules.org Thu Apr 27 12:40:18 2017 From: christopher at newrules.org (Christopher Mitchell) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:40:18 -0500 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Comcast offers Utah customers 1-Gig internet In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The article has many shortcoming and is a reminder of how much bad / incomplete reporting there is even in a time when all journalism and reporting are being cut back. Somehow there is still time to do puff pieces on the most powerful companies on the planet. Guessing that those areas where you can get the new service for half price are the areas that already have some comparable service. This is being marketed as a gig but it is a gig in one direction. In other markets, the fastest upstream speeds are something like 35 Mbps. So you get 1,000 in one direction, 35 in the other. Want to do off-site backup? Too bad. You can't take full advantage of the downstream because the upstream is congested, too bad. You want to talk about bandwidth caps? Well the reporter didn't. But we have yet another reporter making it seem like Comcast is so amazing because they cannot be bothered to understand just how limited the Comcast product is, overpriced, and generally totally unimpressive when compared to the companies actually making good investments to serve local businesses and residents. Other than that, it is great. Christopher Mitchell Director, Community Broadband Networks Institute for Local Self-Reliance MuniNetworks.org @communitynets 612-276-3456 x209 On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > This article does not mention UTOPIA, serving the same service areas. > It will not extend to underserved rural areas of Utah. > RL > ---------- > > Comcast offers Utah customers 1-Gig internet. > Service available to all areas served by the cable company. > > By TOM HARVEY | The Salt Lake Tribune > Apr 25 2017 > > http://www.sltrib.com/home/5213417-155/comcast-offers-utah- > customers-1-gig-internet > > Comcast is launching its new 1-gigabit-per-second internet service > Tuesday, making Utah the first where the cable company has rolled out the > super fast speeds to all its customers in a single state. > > Comcast says anyone in its service area now may order the service, which > the company is offering in competition with CenturyLink and Google Fiber, > whose comparable services are available only in certain areas. > > While Comcast has been testing the service in other areas, "Utah is the > first state that gets it rolled out as a whole throughout our entire > footprint," said Leslie Oliver, director of external affairs. > > Many of Comcast's current internet customers receive a 150-megabit service > now. It can download a two-hour movie in about a minute and a half. With > the 1-gigabit service, that same movie will take eight seconds to download. > > "We just not taking an incremental step here," said Mike Spaulding, > Comcast's vice president of engineering. "We're taking a step forward in > terms of speed availability to our consumers." > > The cost is planned at $159.95 a month without a contract, but two > promotions also are being tested to boost participation. > > One will offer the service for $70 a month in certain Salt Lake City, > Provo and North Ogden areas. The other promotion will be for $109.99 a > month across the rest of the state. > > The service runs over the company's existing cable network and requires > only the installation of a modem with a built-in home wireless network. > > It's the wireless component that excites Merlin Jensen, area vice > president for Utah and Arizona. > > "We will have the fastest in-home wireless experience for customers," he > said. > > Comcast's service area stretches north to south from Logan to Spanish > Fork, and east to west from Park City/Heber City to Tooele. > > CenturyLink has been offering super fast internet speeds in Utah starting > at $79.99 a month. But it's not currently available in all areas served by > the company, which is building a fiber-optic network. > > Company spokeswoman Michelle Jackson said CenturyLink offers 1-gig service > to more than 100,000 homes and businesses but wouldn't say how many now > subscribe. > > "We are continuing to aggressively expand our gigabit service offering to > both businesses and residents," she said in a statement, which also said > slower speeds were sufficient for most consumers. > > Google Fiber currently offers 1-gig service in Provo and certain areas of > Salt Lake City for $70 a month. > > The company bought Provo's fiber optic network four years ago and has been > building a network in Salt Lake City, where it now offers service in > neighborhoods that include downtown and parts of the university area and > Sugar House. > > Google Fiber also said it is continuing to build its network to serve more > homes and businesses. > > But it's that piecemeal approach, and the need to build out networks > before even being able to offer the speedy service, that Comcast apparently > sees as its competitors' vulnerability. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director > 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, > rl at 1st-mile.org www.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 john at citylinkfiber.com Thu Apr 27 12:45:05 2017 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:45:05 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Comcast offers Utah customers 1-Gig internet In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This is what a Gig should generally look like. Take a couple of days ago at a client site on our fiber ring... http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6251420743 Maybe I need to hire some lobbyists and get some puff articles written about us :) On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Christopher Mitchell wrote: > The article has many shortcoming and is a reminder of how much bad / > incomplete reporting there is even in a time when all journalism and > reporting are being cut back. Somehow there is still time to do puff pieces > on the most powerful companies on the planet. > > Guessing that those areas where you can get the new service for half price > are the areas that already have some comparable service. > > This is being marketed as a gig but it is a gig in one direction. In other > markets, the fastest upstream speeds are something like 35 Mbps. So you get > 1,000 in one direction, 35 in the other. Want to do off-site backup? Too > bad. You can't take full advantage of the downstream because the upstream is > congested, too bad. > > You want to talk about bandwidth caps? Well the reporter didn't. > > But we have yet another reporter making it seem like Comcast is so amazing > because they cannot be bothered to understand just how limited the Comcast > product is, overpriced, and generally totally unimpressive when compared to > the companies actually making good investments to serve local businesses and > residents. > > Other than that, it is great. > > Christopher Mitchell > Director, Community Broadband Networks > Institute for Local Self-Reliance > > MuniNetworks.org > @communitynets > 612-276-3456 x209 > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: >> >> This article does not mention UTOPIA, serving the same service areas. >> It will not extend to underserved rural areas of Utah. >> RL >> ---------- >> >> Comcast offers Utah customers 1-Gig internet. >> Service available to all areas served by the cable company. >> >> By TOM HARVEY | The Salt Lake Tribune >> Apr 25 2017 >> >> >> http://www.sltrib.com/home/5213417-155/comcast-offers-utah-customers-1-gig-internet >> >> Comcast is launching its new 1-gigabit-per-second internet service >> Tuesday, making Utah the first where the cable company has rolled out the >> super fast speeds to all its customers in a single state. >> >> Comcast says anyone in its service area now may order the service, which >> the company is offering in competition with CenturyLink and Google Fiber, >> whose comparable services are available only in certain areas. >> >> While Comcast has been testing the service in other areas, "Utah is the >> first state that gets it rolled out as a whole throughout our entire >> footprint," said Leslie Oliver, director of external affairs. >> >> Many of Comcast's current internet customers receive a 150-megabit service >> now. It can download a two-hour movie in about a minute and a half. With the >> 1-gigabit service, that same movie will take eight seconds to download. >> >> "We just not taking an incremental step here," said Mike Spaulding, >> Comcast's vice president of engineering. "We're taking a step forward in >> terms of speed availability to our consumers." >> >> The cost is planned at $159.95 a month without a contract, but two >> promotions also are being tested to boost participation. >> >> One will offer the service for $70 a month in certain Salt Lake City, >> Provo and North Ogden areas. The other promotion will be for $109.99 a month >> across the rest of the state. >> >> The service runs over the company's existing cable network and requires >> only the installation of a modem with a built-in home wireless network. >> >> It's the wireless component that excites Merlin Jensen, area vice >> president for Utah and Arizona. >> >> "We will have the fastest in-home wireless experience for customers," he >> said. >> >> Comcast's service area stretches north to south from Logan to Spanish >> Fork, and east to west from Park City/Heber City to Tooele. >> >> CenturyLink has been offering super fast internet speeds in Utah starting >> at $79.99 a month. But it's not currently available in all areas served by >> the company, which is building a fiber-optic network. >> >> Company spokeswoman Michelle Jackson said CenturyLink offers 1-gig service >> to more than 100,000 homes and businesses but wouldn't say how many now >> subscribe. >> >> "We are continuing to aggressively expand our gigabit service offering to >> both businesses and residents," she said in a statement, which also said >> slower speeds were sufficient for most consumers. >> >> Google Fiber currently offers 1-gig service in Provo and certain areas of >> Salt Lake City for $70 a month. >> >> The company bought Provo's fiber optic network four years ago and has been >> building a network in Salt Lake City, where it now offers service in >> neighborhoods that include downtown and parts of the university area and >> Sugar House. >> >> Google Fiber also said it is continuing to build its network to serve more >> homes and businesses. >> >> But it's that piecemeal approach, and the need to build out networks >> before even being able to offer the speedy service, that Comcast apparently >> sees as its competitors' vulnerability. >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------- >> Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director >> 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 >> Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, >> rl at 1st-mile.org www.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 > From nanrubin at gmail.com Thu Apr 27 14:56:16 2017 From: nanrubin at gmail.com (Nan Rubin) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:56:16 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Soofa Wireless in Las Cruces In-Reply-To: <712025a4d192285e8386403f9932638b@dcn.org> References: <712025a4d192285e8386403f9932638b@dcn.org> Message-ID: given how dead it is downtown here most of the time, it will really be interesting to see what actual measurable Data reveals! it sounds like they pick up wireless devices whether or not the kiosks are used. invasion of privacy? Nan *=========================* *Daily until May 12 PLEASE VOTE for KTAL Radio! * *["Art on the Air - Rio Grande Radio Project".]* *THANKS for your support!* http://act.usatoday.com/submit-an-idea/#/gallery/60253947/ On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > Adding to the prior posting, here is more info on the Soofa wifi > installation, developed by MIT Media Lab students, and fact-finding in Las > Cruces. > > Downtown use will grow based upon development of local business, cultural > and other eco-social apps. > > http://www.soofa.co/soofatalks/2017/4/24/how-las-cruces-nm- > is-measuring-pedestrian-activity-downtown > > RL > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director > 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, > rl at 1st-mile.org www.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.org Mon May 8 15:57:01 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 16:57:01 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM DoIT Broadband Update Message-ID: <693de39577b1383a75d28c347527ac5c@dcn.org> Department of Information Technology News (DoIT): Gar Clarke/Kendra Karp ? BB4L: The State Library in cooperation with the DoIT Broadband for Libraries (BB4L) Initiative is pushing together a ?NM Transform Libraries? committee that will have a Broadband Subcommittee who will address broadband issues to libraries. This group will likely use the mapped CASA (Community Anchor Site Assessment) map and dataset together with availability data by technology type and provider in their planning. o See NMBBP Map: https://nmbbmapping.org/mapping/ ? BB4E: The Governor?s Broadband for Education (BB4E) is flying along assisting schools in connecting broadband and wifi services/equipment. The mapping information is being used heavily to determine comparative costs. Information Sheets were developed for schools inclusive of charter schools the public schools on tribal lands. In addition, sheets with map attachments were made available for libraries. Take a look at: o BB4E Info Sheets (Scroll Down): http://www.broadband4education.nm.gov/broadband-info-sheets.aspx ? BB4B: Again, DoIT Office of Broadband and Geospatial Initiatives (OBGI) has posted data on the NM Broadband Map that includes Places of Business. In addition, we are still pushing businesses to participate in a Speed Test and Survey as follows: o Speed Test: http://nmbbmapping.org/speedtest/ o Business Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9X2TTFT --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From john at citylinkfiber.com Thu May 11 13:14:25 2017 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 14:14:25 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] This is what a Gig looks like or Another Gig building in downtown ABQ Message-ID: Just connected another building in downtown ABQ with a Gig of service. This speed test is via a NAT'd connection, so the slight drop in speed is because of the clients NAT router.. http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6290260546 All using open source based tools, technologies and products. using simple passive optics we can upgrade the building to 10Gig, by simply changing out the SFP's to SFP+. About $200 in cost to do that...... What is really neat is we will shortly be leveraging Juniper's vSRX platform to handle network security on a per port basis for each tenant in the building. This will save the customer on firewall hardware / maint costs. They also won't have to do technology upgrades every few years. Another huge savings. Coming soon (like 2 weeks) we will turn up our first 2.5Gb/s wireless link to a commercial tenant, followed by a 5Gb/s link in June From john at citylinkfiber.com Thu May 11 17:19:54 2017 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 18:19:54 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] This is what a Gig looks like or Another Gig building in downtown ABQ In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We would love to serve the Santa Fe market. We get around 35 to 40 requests each week. Either for fiber based or fixed wireless based services. We have to decline them all because of the silly rules that Santa Fe has in place. Several years ago, when Santa Fe put out a bid for a fiber project, we submitted a proposal. For the $1M in tax payer money we proposed a RING based system (redundancy). Instead the City awarded the project to another company that: a) had never built or operated an outside fiber plant / network b) only built a straight line, no redundancy, no ring. This was of course after spending 5 years attempting to get the City to even engage and work towards a franchise agreement. We had to make a threat to sue the City for failing to act on our request. Only then did the City respond, but in a way that cause the City to get sued AGAIN by CenturyLink. I might add that CenturyLink was correct in litigating and defending its rights against a poorly written set of rules from the City. Then there are the City's wireless rules. If you read them and truly follow them, then every WISP in Santa Fe should be filing for permits and paying the fees. So, if at some point City of Santa Fe, or its people, want to discuss how to move forward, I'm all ears and willing to find a good solution. On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > I hate you! :) > > So whataya gotta do to get this in Santa Fe? I'm thinking about the second > street area, Lena St lofts and other office complexes. > > Then I'd love ya. > > -- Owen > > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:14 PM, John Brown wrote: >> >> Just connected another building in downtown ABQ with a Gig of service. >> This speed test is via a NAT'd connection, so the slight drop in speed >> is because >> of the clients NAT router.. >> >> http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6290260546 >> >> All using open source based tools, technologies and products. >> >> using simple passive optics we can upgrade the building to 10Gig, by >> simply changing out >> the SFP's to SFP+. About $200 in cost to do that...... >> >> What is really neat is we will shortly be leveraging Juniper's vSRX >> platform to handle network security on a per port basis for each >> tenant in the building. This will save the customer on >> firewall hardware / maint costs. They also won't have to do >> technology upgrades every few years. >> Another huge savings. >> >> Coming soon (like 2 weeks) we will turn up our first 2.5Gb/s wireless >> link to a commercial tenant, >> followed by a 5Gb/s link in June >> _______________________________________________ >> 1st-mile-nm mailing list >> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org >> http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > > From john at jfloren.net Thu May 11 17:23:48 2017 From: john at jfloren.net (John Floren) Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 18:23:48 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] This is what a Gig looks like or Another Gig building in downtown ABQ In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Do NE ABQ first! :) I'm dealing with CenturyLink and it's the worst. On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:19 PM, John Brown wrote: > We would love to serve the Santa Fe market. We get around 35 to 40 > requests each week. > Either for fiber based or fixed wireless based services. > We have to decline them all because of the silly rules that Santa Fe > has in place. > > Several years ago, when Santa Fe put out a bid for a fiber project, > we submitted a proposal. > For the $1M in tax payer money we proposed a RING based system (redundancy). > > Instead the City awarded the project to another company that: > a) had never built or operated an outside fiber plant / network > b) only built a straight line, no redundancy, no ring. > > This was of course after spending 5 years attempting to get the City > to even engage and work > towards a franchise agreement. We had to make a threat to sue the > City for failing to act on > our request. Only then did the City respond, but in a way that cause > the City to get sued AGAIN by CenturyLink. I might add that > CenturyLink was correct in litigating and defending its rights against > a poorly written set of rules from the City. > > Then there are the City's wireless rules. If you read them and truly > follow them, then every WISP in Santa Fe should be filing for permits > and paying the fees. > > So, if at some point City of Santa Fe, or its people, want to discuss > how to move forward, I'm all ears and willing to find a good solution. > > > > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: >> I hate you! :) >> >> So whataya gotta do to get this in Santa Fe? I'm thinking about the second >> street area, Lena St lofts and other office complexes. >> >> Then I'd love ya. >> >> -- Owen >> >> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:14 PM, John Brown wrote: >>> >>> Just connected another building in downtown ABQ with a Gig of service. >>> This speed test is via a NAT'd connection, so the slight drop in speed >>> is because >>> of the clients NAT router.. >>> >>> http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6290260546 >>> >>> All using open source based tools, technologies and products. >>> >>> using simple passive optics we can upgrade the building to 10Gig, by >>> simply changing out >>> the SFP's to SFP+. About $200 in cost to do that...... >>> >>> What is really neat is we will shortly be leveraging Juniper's vSRX >>> platform to handle network security on a per port basis for each >>> tenant in the building. This will save the customer on >>> firewall hardware / maint costs. They also won't have to do >>> technology upgrades every few years. >>> Another huge savings. >>> >>> Coming soon (like 2 weeks) we will turn up our first 2.5Gb/s wireless >>> link to a commercial tenant, >>> followed by a 5Gb/s link in June >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 john at citylinkfiber.com Thu May 11 17:35:43 2017 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 18:35:43 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] This is what a Gig looks like or Another Gig building in downtown ABQ In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi John. I would love to do the North East. Here is the single ROAD BLOCK. Pole Attachment. The ability to attach our fiber cable to the poles (owned by CenturyLink and PNM) would enable a more cost effective solution. In 2015 the FCC enacted new rules that GRANTED companies like ours the ability to legally use the poles. The pole owners (CenturyLink and PNM) are thus legally required to let us on the poles with a reasonable agreement. Since that 2015 time, I've spent more than $100K in legal and other costs trying to get the pole owners to get us that reasonable agreement and to permit us on the poles. One of them has basically come back saying that they don't think these FCC rules will stick around and thus only want to grant us a 1 year agreement. Why would I spend hundreds of thousands putting fiber on poles only to have it be at risk next year. CenturyLink, Comcast, Level3 don't have those risks. They have very long term agreements. I've even gone to the City of Albuquerque's CIO, Peter Ambs and to the City's legal folks. Neither of them see any reason to be involved. Yet its the City's rights of way and you would think that the City would want to encourage competition and actually promote a Gigabit City. They say its a matter between pole owners and the provider. Buts its their RoW and they require users of the RoW to follow Federal Law. But our city leaders don't want to rock the boat with big companies like CenturyLink or PNM BTW, that $100K+ i've spent could have been spent putting fiber on poles and would have gotten up to Carlise by now. And then you have that huge amount of money PNM is spending on automated meter reading. I think its like $90+ million. Hmm, If PNM had actually come to the table, we have a solution for AMR that would NOT have cost rate payers a penny.... Yup, PNM wants YOU to pay for their meter systems, so they can reduce operating costs...... I've also spoke with State elected officials and said that one of the two things they could do this last legislative session was to bring Pole Attachment under the PRC, with a simple unified set of rules. That would have actually done NEW MEXICO some good. But they didn't touch it at all. Don't like this stuff, call your elected leaders and get them doing their job. On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:23 PM, John Floren wrote: > Do NE ABQ first! :) I'm dealing with CenturyLink and it's the worst. > > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:19 PM, John Brown wrote: >> We would love to serve the Santa Fe market. We get around 35 to 40 >> requests each week. >> Either for fiber based or fixed wireless based services. >> We have to decline them all because of the silly rules that Santa Fe >> has in place. >> >> Several years ago, when Santa Fe put out a bid for a fiber project, >> we submitted a proposal. >> For the $1M in tax payer money we proposed a RING based system (redundancy). >> >> Instead the City awarded the project to another company that: >> a) had never built or operated an outside fiber plant / network >> b) only built a straight line, no redundancy, no ring. >> >> This was of course after spending 5 years attempting to get the City >> to even engage and work >> towards a franchise agreement. We had to make a threat to sue the >> City for failing to act on >> our request. Only then did the City respond, but in a way that cause >> the City to get sued AGAIN by CenturyLink. I might add that >> CenturyLink was correct in litigating and defending its rights against >> a poorly written set of rules from the City. >> >> Then there are the City's wireless rules. If you read them and truly >> follow them, then every WISP in Santa Fe should be filing for permits >> and paying the fees. >> >> So, if at some point City of Santa Fe, or its people, want to discuss >> how to move forward, I'm all ears and willing to find a good solution. >> >> >> >> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: >>> I hate you! :) >>> >>> So whataya gotta do to get this in Santa Fe? I'm thinking about the second >>> street area, Lena St lofts and other office complexes. >>> >>> Then I'd love ya. >>> >>> -- Owen >>> >>> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:14 PM, John Brown wrote: >>>> >>>> Just connected another building in downtown ABQ with a Gig of service. >>>> This speed test is via a NAT'd connection, so the slight drop in speed >>>> is because >>>> of the clients NAT router.. >>>> >>>> http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6290260546 >>>> >>>> All using open source based tools, technologies and products. >>>> >>>> using simple passive optics we can upgrade the building to 10Gig, by >>>> simply changing out >>>> the SFP's to SFP+. About $200 in cost to do that...... >>>> >>>> What is really neat is we will shortly be leveraging Juniper's vSRX >>>> platform to handle network security on a per port basis for each >>>> tenant in the building. This will save the customer on >>>> firewall hardware / maint costs. They also won't have to do >>>> technology upgrades every few years. >>>> Another huge savings. >>>> >>>> Coming soon (like 2 weeks) we will turn up our first 2.5Gb/s wireless >>>> link to a commercial tenant, >>>> followed by a 5Gb/s link in June >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 JBadal at sacred-wind.com Thu May 11 17:52:10 2017 From: JBadal at sacred-wind.com (John Badal) Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 00:52:10 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] This is what a Gig looks like or Another Gig building in downtown ABQ In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: John B. The FCC's recent Notice of Public Rulemaking (NOPR) on reducing broadband impediments -specifically targeting pole attachments and federal ROW - was just released in the federal register, which means comments can be submitted to the FCC over the next 30 days. I am skeptical about the FCC's will to preempt electric companies' rights to kill competition, especially as it applies to rural coops, but I've found that some good comes from these NOPR exercises. Often a tiny bit, but what an opportunity to vent! John B2. Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: John Brown Date: 5/11/17 6:37 PM (GMT-07:00) To: John Floren Cc: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] This is what a Gig looks like or Another Gig building in downtown ABQ Hi John. I would love to do the North East. Here is the single ROAD BLOCK. Pole Attachment. The ability to attach our fiber cable to the poles (owned by CenturyLink and PNM) would enable a more cost effective solution. In 2015 the FCC enacted new rules that GRANTED companies like ours the ability to legally use the poles. The pole owners (CenturyLink and PNM) are thus legally required to let us on the poles with a reasonable agreement. Since that 2015 time, I've spent more than $100K in legal and other costs trying to get the pole owners to get us that reasonable agreement and to permit us on the poles. One of them has basically come back saying that they don't think these FCC rules will stick around and thus only want to grant us a 1 year agreement. Why would I spend hundreds of thousands putting fiber on poles only to have it be at risk next year. CenturyLink, Comcast, Level3 don't have those risks. They have very long term agreements. I've even gone to the City of Albuquerque's CIO, Peter Ambs and to the City's legal folks. Neither of them see any reason to be involved. Yet its the City's rights of way and you would think that the City would want to encourage competition and actually promote a Gigabit City. They say its a matter between pole owners and the provider. Buts its their RoW and they require users of the RoW to follow Federal Law. But our city leaders don't want to rock the boat with big companies like CenturyLink or PNM BTW, that $100K+ i've spent could have been spent putting fiber on poles and would have gotten up to Carlise by now. And then you have that huge amount of money PNM is spending on automated meter reading. I think its like $90+ million. Hmm, If PNM had actually come to the table, we have a solution for AMR that would NOT have cost rate payers a penny.... Yup, PNM wants YOU to pay for their meter systems, so they can reduce operating costs...... I've also spoke with State elected officials and said that one of the two things they could do this last legislative session was to bring Pole Attachment under the PRC, with a simple unified set of rules. That would have actually done NEW MEXICO some good. But they didn't touch it at all. Don't like this stuff, call your elected leaders and get them doing their job. On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:23 PM, John Floren wrote: > Do NE ABQ first! :) I'm dealing with CenturyLink and it's the worst. > > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:19 PM, John Brown wrote: >> We would love to serve the Santa Fe market. We get around 35 to 40 >> requests each week. >> Either for fiber based or fixed wireless based services. >> We have to decline them all because of the silly rules that Santa Fe >> has in place. >> >> Several years ago, when Santa Fe put out a bid for a fiber project, >> we submitted a proposal. >> For the $1M in tax payer money we proposed a RING based system (redundancy). >> >> Instead the City awarded the project to another company that: >> a) had never built or operated an outside fiber plant / network >> b) only built a straight line, no redundancy, no ring. >> >> This was of course after spending 5 years attempting to get the City >> to even engage and work >> towards a franchise agreement. We had to make a threat to sue the >> City for failing to act on >> our request. Only then did the City respond, but in a way that cause >> the City to get sued AGAIN by CenturyLink. I might add that >> CenturyLink was correct in litigating and defending its rights against >> a poorly written set of rules from the City. >> >> Then there are the City's wireless rules. If you read them and truly >> follow them, then every WISP in Santa Fe should be filing for permits >> and paying the fees. >> >> So, if at some point City of Santa Fe, or its people, want to discuss >> how to move forward, I'm all ears and willing to find a good solution. >> >> >> >> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: >>> I hate you! :) >>> >>> So whataya gotta do to get this in Santa Fe? I'm thinking about the second >>> street area, Lena St lofts and other office complexes. >>> >>> Then I'd love ya. >>> >>> -- Owen >>> >>> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:14 PM, John Brown wrote: >>>> >>>> Just connected another building in downtown ABQ with a Gig of service. >>>> This speed test is via a NAT'd connection, so the slight drop in speed >>>> is because >>>> of the clients NAT router.. >>>> >>>> http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6290260546 >>>> >>>> All using open source based tools, technologies and products. >>>> >>>> using simple passive optics we can upgrade the building to 10Gig, by >>>> simply changing out >>>> the SFP's to SFP+. About $200 in cost to do that...... >>>> >>>> What is really neat is we will shortly be leveraging Juniper's vSRX >>>> platform to handle network security on a per port basis for each >>>> tenant in the building. This will save the customer on >>>> firewall hardware / maint costs. They also won't have to do >>>> technology upgrades every few years. >>>> Another huge savings. >>>> >>>> Coming soon (like 2 weeks) we will turn up our first 2.5Gb/s wireless >>>> link to a commercial tenant, >>>> followed by a 5Gb/s link in June >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 john at citylinkfiber.com Thu May 11 18:01:55 2017 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 19:01:55 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Pole Attachment.... was Re: This is what a Gig looks like or Another Gig building in downtown ABQ Message-ID: Hi John, Yes, I saw that pop up and read it this morning. The only place the term "pole attachment" came up was under "Other". They seem to be mulling over what to do about pole attachment. I believe a number of other providers around the country have executed business plans and have been able to get REASONABLE pole attachment agreements. Now they are worried those might go away. So Chairman Pai now has to figure out how to gut Wheeler's Net Neutrality order, but not actually cause end users to get disconnected, or business models to fail. That would be a political nightmare since the Pai FCC wants to be "light touch'. Personally I believe its pretty simple: If you are a provider of broadband services, a 477 filer, or a 499 filer (even de minimis), then you have rights to the poles and the pole owners must negotiate in a timely and good faith manner. For those that do not, the FCC can levy sanctions and other economic penalties. What I found interesting here in NM / ABQ, is that one pole owner presented us with a very cobbled together agreement, as if they had never done a pole attachment agreement in their life. Come on folks!!!!! This has been a common practice since, umm, 1996 with CLEC's !!! Take the same language and modify it slight for "Broadband Provider" and move on. A pole attachment agreement should spell out reasonable technical, safety, economic, and liability requirements that follow existing Federal rules. It does NOT need to be complicated. On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:52 PM, John Badal wrote: > John B. > > The FCC's recent Notice of Public Rulemaking (NOPR) on reducing broadband > impediments -specifically targeting pole attachments and federal ROW - was > just released in the federal register, which means comments can be > submitted to the FCC over the next 30 days. I am skeptical about the FCC's > will to preempt electric companies' rights to kill competition, especially > as it applies to rural coops, but I've found that some good comes from these > NOPR exercises. Often a tiny bit, but what an opportunity to vent! > > John B2. > > > > Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: John Brown > Date: 5/11/17 6:37 PM (GMT-07:00) > To: John Floren > Cc: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] This is what a Gig looks like or Another Gig > building in downtown ABQ > > Hi John. > > I would love to do the North East. Here is the single ROAD BLOCK. > > Pole Attachment. > > The ability to attach our fiber cable to the poles (owned by > CenturyLink and PNM) would enable > a more cost effective solution. > > In 2015 the FCC enacted new rules that GRANTED companies like ours the > ability to legally use the poles. The pole owners (CenturyLink and > PNM) are thus legally required to let us on > the poles with a reasonable agreement. > > Since that 2015 time, I've spent more than $100K in legal and other > costs trying to get the > pole owners to get us that reasonable agreement and to permit us on the > poles. > > One of them has basically come back saying that they don't think these > FCC rules will stick around and thus only want to grant us a 1 year > agreement. Why would I spend hundreds of thousands putting fiber on > poles only to have it be at risk next year. CenturyLink, Comcast, > Level3 don't have those risks. They have very long term agreements. > > I've even gone to the City of Albuquerque's CIO, Peter Ambs and to the > City's legal folks. > Neither of them see any reason to be involved. Yet its the City's > rights of way and you would > think that the City would want to encourage competition and actually > promote a Gigabit City. > They say its a matter between pole owners and the provider. Buts its > their RoW and they > require users of the RoW to follow Federal Law. But our city leaders > don't want to rock the > boat with big companies like CenturyLink or PNM > > BTW, that $100K+ i've spent could have been spent putting fiber on > poles and would have gotten up to Carlise by now. > > And then you have that huge amount of money PNM is spending on > automated meter reading. > I think its like $90+ million. Hmm, If PNM had actually come to the > table, we have a solution > for AMR that would NOT have cost rate payers a penny.... Yup, PNM > wants YOU to pay for their meter systems, so they can reduce operating > costs...... > > I've also spoke with State elected officials and said that one of the > two things they could do this > last legislative session was to bring Pole Attachment under the PRC, > with a simple unified > set of rules. That would have actually done NEW MEXICO some good. > But they didn't touch it > at all. > > Don't like this stuff, call your elected leaders and get them doing their > job. > > > > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:23 PM, John Floren wrote: >> Do NE ABQ first! :) I'm dealing with CenturyLink and it's the worst. >> >> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:19 PM, John Brown >> wrote: >>> We would love to serve the Santa Fe market. We get around 35 to 40 >>> requests each week. >>> Either for fiber based or fixed wireless based services. >>> We have to decline them all because of the silly rules that Santa Fe >>> has in place. >>> >>> Several years ago, when Santa Fe put out a bid for a fiber project, >>> we submitted a proposal. >>> For the $1M in tax payer money we proposed a RING based system >>> (redundancy). >>> >>> Instead the City awarded the project to another company that: >>> a) had never built or operated an outside fiber plant / network >>> b) only built a straight line, no redundancy, no ring. >>> >>> This was of course after spending 5 years attempting to get the City >>> to even engage and work >>> towards a franchise agreement. We had to make a threat to sue the >>> City for failing to act on >>> our request. Only then did the City respond, but in a way that cause >>> the City to get sued AGAIN by CenturyLink. I might add that >>> CenturyLink was correct in litigating and defending its rights against >>> a poorly written set of rules from the City. >>> >>> Then there are the City's wireless rules. If you read them and truly >>> follow them, then every WISP in Santa Fe should be filing for permits >>> and paying the fees. >>> >>> So, if at some point City of Santa Fe, or its people, want to discuss >>> how to move forward, I'm all ears and willing to find a good solution. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Owen Densmore >>> wrote: >>>> I hate you! :) >>>> >>>> So whataya gotta do to get this in Santa Fe? I'm thinking about the >>>> second >>>> street area, Lena St lofts and other office complexes. >>>> >>>> Then I'd love ya. >>>> >>>> -- Owen >>>> >>>> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:14 PM, John Brown >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Just connected another building in downtown ABQ with a Gig of service. >>>>> This speed test is via a NAT'd connection, so the slight drop in speed >>>>> is because >>>>> of the clients NAT router.. >>>>> >>>>> http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6290260546 >>>>> >>>>> All using open source based tools, technologies and products. >>>>> >>>>> using simple passive optics we can upgrade the building to 10Gig, by >>>>> simply changing out >>>>> the SFP's to SFP+. About $200 in cost to do that...... >>>>> >>>>> What is really neat is we will shortly be leveraging Juniper's vSRX >>>>> platform to handle network security on a per port basis for each >>>>> tenant in the building. This will save the customer on >>>>> firewall hardware / maint costs. They also won't have to do >>>>> technology upgrades every few years. >>>>> Another huge savings. >>>>> >>>>> Coming soon (like 2 weeks) we will turn up our first 2.5Gb/s wireless >>>>> link to a commercial tenant, >>>>> followed by a 5Gb/s link in June >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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 From rl at 1st-mile.org Wed May 17 08:26:24 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 09:26:24 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] RUS DLT Grant Program: Applications Due July 17 Message-ID: USDA RUS Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant Program: Applications Due July 17 Notice in the Federal Register. https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2017-05-16/pdf/2017-09852.pdf RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Wed May 31 11:28:44 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 12:28:44 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Akamai Q1-2017 State of the Internet Report Message-ID: Akamai's quarterly global State of the Internet report is just out. It makes a few survey comments about NM, excerpted here. RL ------ >> Across the nation, New Mexico was the only state to see a decline in >> 25 Mbps adoption in the first quarter of 2017, as its adoption rate >> fell 3.1% (to 7.9% adoption). Among the 50 gaining states, increases ranged from 2.3% in Idaho (to 7.5% adoption) to 59% in Montana (to 14% adoption), with 49 states enjoying double-digit quarterly growth. Kentucky and Alaska more than doubled their 25 Mbps adoption rates with yearly growth of 166% and 136% respectively (to adoption levels of 11% and 12%). New Mexico was the only state to see single-digit yearly growth, with an 8% gain, while the remaining states enjoyed increases ranging between 19% in Utah (to 22% adoption) and 99% in Kansas (to 17% adoption). Adoption levels for 25 Mbps broadband remain low throughout the nation, although they continue to improve. In the first quarter of 2017, Idaho again had the lowest adoption rate in the country at 7.5%, up 2.3% from the previous quarter, while New Mexico had the next lowest adoption rate at 7.9%.<< The complete Akamai global report is at: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/documents/state-of-the-internet/q1-2017-state-of-the-internet-connectivity-report.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Mon Jun 5 13:43:24 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 14:43:24 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FCC Blog Posting on Tribal Outreach Message-ID: Heading Together Toward the Future https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/blog/2017/06/02/heading-together-toward-future June 2, 2017 - 3:12 pm By Ajit Pai | FCC Chairman My post introducing the FCC?s infrastructure initiatives a few weeks ago mentioned Marty McFly?s misguided worries about running out of road in the 1985 film ?Back to the Future.? As you might remember, Dr. Brown assured Marty that roads wouldn?t be needed in the future. The wireless networks of the future too will look very different. Instead of just big towers that intermittently dot the landscape, the wireless networks of our future will rely on much smaller building blocks?things like ?small cells? and ?distributed antenna systems.? These new kinds of infrastructure take up much less space. They are generally much less noticeable. They impact the environment less. And because they operate at lower power, they will be deployed at many more locations than towers. As we move from the networks of today to those of tomorrow, the FCC wants to work collaboratively with everyone affected?particularly Tribal partners. That?s why, later this month, I?ll hit the road to discuss this transition with Tribal Nations. Some FCC coworkers and I have been kindly invited to attend the Mid-Year Session of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), which is the ?oldest, largest, and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization? serving Tribal interests. We?ll be participating in consultation sessions with a number of Tribes (and in addition to these NCAI sessions, dedicated FCC staff are already doing outreach to Tribes on both conference calls and visits to Indian Country). The FCC has a long and successful history of working with Tribes on a wide range of issues affecting Indian Country. These relationships led us to create a groundbreaking system, the Tower Construction Notification System (TCNS). This is an online system that notifies federally recognized Tribes, Native Hawaiian Organizations, and State Historic Preservation Officers about proposed wireless construction projects. The TCNS is widely acknowledged by Tribal Nations, industry, and other government entities as an important, effective tool to help ensure that these projects respect historic properties of religious and cultural significance to Tribes. The rules, protocols, and practices governing TCNS were crafted more than a decade ago, and as I mentioned earlier, advances in wireless networks are proceeding apace. It?s a challenge to match the two, but the FCC is aiming to do that in order to modernize our rules and close the digital divide. I?m excited to discuss this initiative with our Tribal partners. Going forward?just as in the past?we want to ensure that potential effects on culturally significant sites are identified and alternatives to avoid or minimize such effects are considered. I believe that the FCC and Tribal Nations share the same goal?ensuring high-speed Internet access to anyone who wants it, while respecting and preserving sites with historic, religious, and cultural significance to Tribes. To achieve this goal, the FCC needs to and wants to exchange perspectives with Tribes on the full range of issues associated with the deployment of wireless broadband infrastructure. I?m personally committed to that. I invite the leaders of the 567 federally-recognized Tribes and Native Hawaiian Organizations to join this important conversation. The FCC takes seriously its federal trust responsibilities and wants to have meaningful consultations. I look forward to listening, learning, and working together to sustain and improve our processes as our wireless networks go back to the future. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Wed Jun 7 16:23:17 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 17:23:17 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Grant Program Message-ID: <7a733426fad763175d96f349f77c1876@1st-mile.org> Subject FRS 2017 Rural Grants for telecom From Brian Tagaban To 1st-mile-nm Date Today 16:23 Grant Program http://www.frs.org/images/2017_FRS_Grant_image%20cover.jpg FRS 2017 Grant Application Now Available As part of its ongoing commitment to rural communities across the country, the Foundation for Rural Service provides annual grants for communities served by NTCA members. The goal of this program is to support local efforts to build and sustain a high quality of life in rural America. Grants will be concentrated in four major areas: Business Development Community Development Education Telecommunications Grants can range from $250 to $5000 that go back in to rural communities, every year http://www.frs.org/rural-community-outreach/grant-program?utm_source=facebook Brian Tagaban This electronic message contains information from Sacred Wind Communications, Inc. The contents may be privileged and confidential and are intended for the use of the intended addressee(s) only. If you are not an intended addressee, note that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this message is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact me at btagaban at sacred-wind.com. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Fri Jun 9 08:14:11 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 09:14:11 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FCC: Mapping Broadband Health in America Message-ID: <875a6117d2c1b70d00fb55ae00bbffe2@1st-mile.org> The FCC?s Connect2Health Task Force announced updates to its Mapping Broadband Health in America platform. The 2017 platform now reflects the latest complete annual fixed broadband dataset from the Commission and updated health data from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation?s County Health Rankings. The Mapping Broadband Health in America platform allows users to visualize, overlay and analyze broadband and health data at the national, state and county levels. The maps are an interactive experience, enabling detailed study of the intersection between connectivity and health for every county in the United States. https://www.fcc.gov/health/maps --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Tue Jun 27 11:37:44 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:37:44 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Facebook: Los Lunas Data Center Fiber Connection Message-ID: <4848308a85ce7f7e0eda351298c7489e@1st-mile.org> From last month: Any cooperative regional fiber deployments going in as well? -------- First-of-its-kind technology headed to Facebook Los Lunas data center May 23, 2017 http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/news/2017/05/23/first-of-its-kind-technology-headed-to-facebook.html For the first time at one of its data centers, Facebook is debuting a high-capacity, underground fiber cable that will be part of the first $250 million phase of its Los Lunas data center set to open in 2018. "When complete, this cable will stretch 200 miles and be one of the highest-capacity systems in the U.S.," said Facebook officials on the data center's Facebook page for the site Tuesday. Facebook officials said the state-of-the-art optical fiber cable being constructed for Los Lunas has never been used for one of the entity's data centers before and will be 50 percent more efficient when moving information compared to high-capacity cables the company has built in the past. "We expect the construction of this new cable will lead to more than 50 jobs over the next year, which is in addition to the hundreds of jobs created by the building of our Los Lunas Data Center," Facebook said in the announcement. Facebook officials confirmed in an email that Missouri-based ADB Cos. is the general contractor on the fiber cable, but that all of the subcontracting work has been awarded to New Mexico companies. Those companies include Albuquerque-based Directional Boring, Los Lunas-based IHP Construction, Los Lunas-based Volt Inc., Albuquerque-based Kelly Cable of NM Inc. Those companies will work on directional boring for the cable. Clovis-based Nick Griego and Sons Construction Inc. will work on the gravel quarry and hauling, and Las Cruces-based Armarc Landscapes is Facebook's hydro seed contractor for the project, according to Facebook officials. Facebook's Los Lunas data center is slated to create around 50 long-term jobs, in addition to around 200 to 300 jobs for its initial construction. Located in the Huning Ranch Business Park just off Interstate 25, the first $250 million phase of the center is set to open late next year. When it opens next year, it will join four other data centers operating throughout the U.S. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Wed Jun 28 08:34:27 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 09:34:27 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Albuquerque is one of 5 New Cities to Become Smart Gigabit Communities Message-ID: <0e4c63f5373e532bcf633e46a3607036@1st-mile.org> 5 New Cities Become Smart Gigabit Communities BY DUSTIN HAISLER / JUNE 27, 2017 0 http://www.govtech.com/5-New-Cities-Become-Smart-Gigabit-Communities.html AUSTIN, Texas ? At the Smart Cities Connect Conference held June 25-28 at the Austin Convention Center, US Ignite and the National Science Foundation announced five new cities that have joined the Smart Gigabit Communities (SGC) program, which "accelerates the development of advanced gigabit applications that cannot run on current networks as the bedrock of smart communities by identifying new economic and social opportunities created by those applications," according to the SGC website. Each "gigabit" city receives support from the National Science Foundation to use its physical and wireless network infrastructure as an enabler of smart applications to solve specific community problems. Cities joining the program this year include: Washington, D.C. Albuquerque, N.M. Phoenix San Diego Jackson Energy Authority in Tennessee These selected communities join the ranks of 19 other previously selected cities, including Austin; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Lafayette, La.; Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas; and Cleveland. (snip) --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From john at jfloren.net Wed Jun 28 08:44:38 2017 From: john at jfloren.net (John Floren) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 09:44:38 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Albuquerque is one of 5 New Cities to Become Smart Gigabit Communities In-Reply-To: <0e4c63f5373e532bcf633e46a3607036@1st-mile.org> References: <0e4c63f5373e532bcf633e46a3607036@1st-mile.org> Message-ID: I'll believe it when I see gigabit service in these far-flung distant exurbs at Menaul and Wyoming ;) john On Jun 28, 2017 09:34, "Richard Lowenberg" wrote: > 5 New Cities Become Smart Gigabit Communities > > BY DUSTIN HAISLER / JUNE 27, 2017 0 > > http://www.govtech.com/5-New-Cities-Become-Smart-Gigabit-Communities.html > > AUSTIN, Texas ? At the Smart Cities Connect Conference held June 25-28 at > the Austin Convention Center, US Ignite and the National Science Foundation > announced five new cities that have joined the Smart Gigabit Communities > (SGC) program, which "accelerates the development of advanced gigabit > applications that cannot run on current networks as the bedrock of smart > communities by identifying new economic and social opportunities created by > those applications," according to the SGC website. > > Each "gigabit" city receives support from the National Science Foundation > to use its physical and wireless network infrastructure as an enabler of > smart applications to solve specific community problems. > > Cities joining the program this year include: > Washington, D.C. > Albuquerque, N.M. > Phoenix > San Diego > Jackson Energy Authority in Tennessee > > These selected communities join the ranks of 19 other previously selected > cities, including Austin; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Lafayette, La.; Kansas City, > Mo., and Kansas; and Cleveland. > > (snip) > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director > 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, > rl at 1st-mile.org www.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... 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At the Smart Cities Connect Conference held June 25-28 at >> the Austin Convention Center, US Ignite and the National Science Foundation >> announced five new cities that have joined the Smart Gigabit Communities >> (SGC) program, which "accelerates the development of advanced gigabit >> applications that cannot run on current networks as the bedrock of smart >> communities by identifying new economic and social opportunities created by >> those applications," according to the SGC website. >> >> Each "gigabit" city receives support from the National Science Foundation >> to use its physical and wireless network infrastructure as an enabler of >> smart applications to solve specific community problems. >> >> Cities joining the program this year include: >> Washington, D.C. >> Albuquerque, N.M. >> Phoenix >> San Diego >> Jackson Energy Authority in Tennessee >> >> These selected communities join the ranks of 19 other previously selected >> cities, including Austin; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Lafayette, La.; Kansas City, >> Mo., and Kansas; and Cleveland. >> >> (snip) >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------- >> Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director >> 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 >> Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, >> rl at 1st-mile.org www.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... 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CityLink Telecommunications (Albuquerque) Cybermesa (Santa Fe) From rl at 1st-mile.org Tue Jul 11 08:29:39 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:29:39 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: NMEDD FUNDIT Hosting Broadband Webinar In-Reply-To: <1128365651365.1105697510508.2432.0.131118JL.2002@scheduler.constantcontact.com> References: <1128365651365.1105697510508.2432.0.131118JL.2002@scheduler.constantcontact.com> Message-ID: Subject: NMEDD FUNDIT Hosting Broadband Webinar Date: 2017-07-11 09:18 From: New Mexico Economic Development Department Reply-To: edd.info at state.nm.us NMEDD FUNDIT HOSTING BROADBAND WEBINAR The New Mexico Economic Development Department's FUNDIT group is hosting a series of informational webinars for communities interested in economic development and infrastructure projects. This series of webinars supports FUNDIT's mission to educate communities on how to find funding for their economic development and infrastructure projects. The first webinar to kick off the series will be July 26th and will feature Gar Clarke, the NM Geospatial and Broadband Program Manager with New Mexico Department of Information Technology. Discussion items will include a general overview of the state of broadband in New Mexico, broadband issues related to business and community development, next steps for broadband development within the state and broadband funding opportunities. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions after the presentation. The webinar is open to the public. To RSVP go to, https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3799153906500349954 or contact Johanna.Nelson at state.nm.us or call 505-827-0264. Visit the New Mexico Economic Development Department online at gonm.biz New Mexico Economic Development Department, 1100 St. Francis Dr. , Joseph M. Montoya Building, Santa Fe, NM 87505-4147 --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Tue Jul 11 14:31:19 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:31:19 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_NMTC_Inspires_Federal_Bipartisan_L?= =?utf-8?q?egislation=C2=A0To_Address_Workforce_Shortage_In_Tech?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <72afeea889aa1f407997ea03817d196d@1st-mile.org> NMTC Inspires Federal Bipartisan Legislation?To Address Workforce Shortage In Tech From: NM Tech Council HEINRICH, GARDNER INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN LEGISLATION TO ADDRESS WORKFORCE SHORTAGE IN TECH INDUSTRY CHANCE IN TECH ACT WILL HELP PROVIDE NEW MEXICO WORKERS FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS WITH THE SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE THEY NEED TO FILL GOOD-PAYING TECH JOBS WASHINGTON, D.C. ?Yesterday, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) introduced the Championing Apprenticeships for New Careers and Employees in Technology (CHANCE in Tech) Act to provide New Mexico workers from all backgrounds with the skills and knowledge they need to fill good-paying tech jobs. Now more than ever before, the U.S. economy is dependent on the technology industry to create jobs and expand economic growth. In 2016 alone, the technology sector contributed more than $1 trillion to the U.S. economy [2], employed more than 7 million workers, and added more than 100,000 new jobs. Despite these impressive numbers, nationally, during any given 90-day period, there can be more than 500,000 tech job openings. In the fourth quarter of 2016, there were more than 2,000 tech occupation job openings in New Mexico. Additionally, as Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs prepare to fill over 5,000 vacancies, ensuring New Mexicans can compete for tech jobs is critical. The average tech industry wage in New Mexico is $85,200 a year, which is double the average state wage. ?As the technology sector continues to grow in New Mexico and across the country, we need to ensure that our students have the skills they need to compete for these high-paying jobs,? said Senator Heinrich. ?By encouraging apprenticeship programs for the tech sector, we can continue to strengthen the STEM pipeline and help New Mexico develop its vibrant technology economy. This bill will connect students, training programs, and community colleges in New Mexico to the growing tech sector where jobs are opening up every day, and create a more prosperous future for our state.? ?As the technology sector begins to play an even larger role in our economy, it?s important our workforce has the necessary skills and training to perform these jobs,? said Senator Gardner. ?The technology industry currently faces a workforce shortage and Congress must work together to address this problem. This bipartisan legislation is an innovative solution to address the workforce shortage and will result in more Coloradans and Americans across the country receiving the proper training to enter the technology industry. The next 100 years will be defined by our ability to compete in the technology sector and the CHANCE in Tech Act will help the United States remain the global leader in technological developments.? The CHANCE in Tech Act would create public-private partnerships to serve as intermediaries between employers participating in registered apprenticeship programs, industry and training partners, and government entities. Each intermediary would assess and train potential apprentices, lessening the regulatory burden on participating employers by tracking success indicators and managing other reporting requirements. The proposal would also establish a program to recognize those high schools and community colleges providing exemplary IT training and counseling. Collectively, this legislation will help to better align workforce training with local and regional demands. The bill was designed in partnership with the New Mexico Technology Council, which is an association of about 150 businesses in New Mexico?s technology business sector. Inspiration for the apprenticeship program came from the New Mexico Information Technology Apprenticeship Program (NMITAP). A branch of CNM Ingenuity, Inc., NMITAP is developing apprenticeships in high-quality, high-growth careers in information and health technology. ?New Mexico has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, yet companies in New Mexico are still struggling to find the skilled IT talent they need. Programs such as the New Mexico IT Apprenticeship Program, which has now been available in Central New Mexico for two years, are giving states the opportunity to reduce the overall skill gap, and begin to grow and develop their own local talent,? said Nyika Allen, President and CEO of the New Mexico Technology Council. ?We are excited to support the CHANCE in Tech Act, which would assist in the expansion of the IT Apprenticeship program to more parts of the state.? ?Given our success in establishing the first Registered Apprenticeship Program in Information Technology in New Mexico, we are excited about this bill helping to continue our work in improving New Mexican's access to better paying jobs, as well as assisting New Mexico employers in filling the skills gap in IT,? said Sue Buffington, Director of the New Mexico Information Technology Apprenticeship Program (NMITAP) at Central New Mexico Community College. U.S. Representatives Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.), Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.), and Mia Love (R-Utah) introduced the CHANCE in Tech Act in the House. For more information about the New Mexico IT Apprenticeship Program please visit: https://nmitap.org _Copyright ? 2017 New Mexico Technology Council, All rights reserved._ Links: ------ http://mailchi.mp/nmtechcouncil/nmtc-inspires-federal-bipartisan-legislation-to-address-workforce-shortage-in-tech?e=b4a470801b --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Thu Jul 20 11:22:40 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:22:40 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: NMEDD is Calling for Economic Development Proposals for Funding Opportunities In-Reply-To: <1128436603418.1105697510508.2432.0.141408JL.2002@scheduler.constantcontact.com> References: <1128436603418.1105697510508.2432.0.141408JL.2002@scheduler.constantcontact.com> Message-ID: <3aceba5cf354ff4ebc8bc9a63a5eb079@1st-mile.org> The NM EDD FUNDIT program is interested in possible broadband related submissions. RL ----- NMEDD, FUNDING AGENCIES CALL ON COMMUNITIES TO SUBMIT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECT PROPOSALS FOR FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Deadline for communities to submit a project for consideration is August 11. SANTA FE, NM - The New Mexico Economic Development Department will host the next FUNDIT meeting August 22nd to help local leaders identify funding for economic development projects. New Mexico FUNDIT, is a streamlined approach to help communities identify funding opportunities in one centralized location by bringing local, state and federal funding agencies together to analyze and compare proposals for capital projects. The state is calling on communities to submit project proposals by August 11th for review during its upcoming meeting. New Mexico FUNDIT is an informal group of funding agencies that meets regularly to review potential projects. Over 13 Federal and State entities are represented in the group. Their goal is to improve the effectiveness of project review and support, while ensuring communities have the information they need to obtain full funding for projects. Projects should be of public interest; projects from commercial businesses are not eligible for this program. The types of projects to be considered include: * Business Development * Community Development * Infrastructure Development * Housing Projects * Downtown Redevelopment The meeting will take place from 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. The meeting is on August 22nd at the WESST Enterprise Center, 609 Broadway Blvd. NE Albuquerque, NM 87102. For more information, to submit a project application or to RSVP contact Johanna Nelson at Johanna.Nelson at state.nm.us, 505-827-0264. Visit the New Mexico Economic Development Department online at gonm.biz New Mexico Economic Development Department, 1100 St. Francis Dr. , Joseph M. Montoya Building, Santa Fe, NM 87505-4147 --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Thu Jul 20 12:12:29 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:12:29 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] STTC schedule In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6dce0591cfd8670f929abb5b6a3db7b4@1st-mile.org> For those interested, the Schedule of statewide meetings of the Legislative STTC (Science, Technology and Telecommunications Committee), begun already this interim: July 10, 11 - Clovis July 31, August 1 - SpacePort and NM Tech August 23, 24 - Silver City September 25, 26 - NMSU November 8, 9 - Capitol More details as they are received. RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From mharris at visgence.com Thu Jul 20 12:52:14 2017 From: mharris at visgence.com (Michael Harris) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:52:14 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] STTC schedule In-Reply-To: <6dce0591cfd8670f929abb5b6a3db7b4@1st-mile.org> References: <6dce0591cfd8670f929abb5b6a3db7b4@1st-mile.org> Message-ID: Are these meetings open to the public? -Michael On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > For those interested, > the Schedule of statewide meetings of the Legislative STTC (Science, > Technology and Telecommunications Committee), begun already this interim: > > July 10, 11 - Clovis > > July 31, August 1 - SpacePort and NM Tech > > August 23, 24 - Silver City > > September 25, 26 - NMSU > > November 8, 9 - Capitol > > More details as they are received. > RL > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director > 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, > rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > -- Michael Harris -- President, Visgence Inc. www.visgence.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On 2017-07-20 13:52, Michael Harris wrote: > Are these meetings open to the public? > > -Michael > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Richard Lowenberg > wrote: > >> For those interested, >> the Schedule of statewide meetings of the Legislative STTC (Science, >> Technology and Telecommunications Committee), begun already this >> interim: >> >> July 10, 11 - Clovis >> >> July 31, August 1 - SpacePort and NM Tech >> >> August 23, 24 - Silver City >> >> September 25, 26 - NMSU >> >> November 8, 9 - Capitol >> >> More details as they are received. >> RL >> > > Michael Harris > -- > President, Visgence Inc. > www.visgence.com [4] --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From haroldskow at navajo-nsn.gov Mon Jul 24 07:11:28 2017 From: haroldskow at navajo-nsn.gov (Harold Skow) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 14:11:28 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] STTC schedule In-Reply-To: <6dce0591cfd8670f929abb5b6a3db7b4@1st-mile.org> References: <6dce0591cfd8670f929abb5b6a3db7b4@1st-mile.org> Message-ID: I am interested in this committee. I will try to join. Harold -----Original Message----- From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Richard Lowenberg Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 1:12 PM To: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] STTC schedule For those interested, the Schedule of statewide meetings of the Legislative STTC (Science, Technology and Telecommunications Committee), begun already this interim: July 10, 11 - Clovis July 31, August 1 - SpacePort and NM Tech August 23, 24 - Silver City September 25, 26 - NMSU November 8, 9 - Capitol More details as they are received. RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.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.org Wed Jul 26 11:27:14 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 12:27:14 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Daily Yonder Article Message-ID: Craig Settles has articles including this one, mentioning Kit Carson Electric Coop, in the Daily Yonder. http://www.dailyyonder.com/broadband-rural-economies-maybe-small-better/2017/07/24/20414/ RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Thu Jul 27 10:25:54 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 11:25:54 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Pots and Pans Message-ID: I want to once again recommend Doug Dawson of CCG Consulting's Pots and Pans blog: http://potsandpansbyccg.com. I have great respect for Doug, his expertise and point of view. His blog postings are clearly informative and often cut-to-the-chase, especially if you are wanting to more easily understand current networking and broadband related issues. Take a look. RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From roger.sno at gmail.com Fri Jul 28 06:49:07 2017 From: roger.sno at gmail.com (Roger Snodgrass) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 07:49:07 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Pots and Pans In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Richard -- I followed your original suggestion and subscribed to Doug's Pots and Pans blog and have since recommended it to others. I can't believe how rich, tempered and timely the blog is. Thanks for the pointer. Roger On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > I want to once again recommend Doug Dawson of CCG Consulting's > Pots and Pans blog: http://potsandpansbyccg.com. > > I have great respect for Doug, his expertise and point of view. > His blog postings are clearly informative and often cut-to-the-chase, > especially if you are wanting to more easily understand current > networking and broadband related issues. > > Take a look. > RL > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director > 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, > rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > -- Roger Snodgrass cell 505-920-3677 l\lllllllll/llllll/\llllll\ll -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From rl at 1st-mile.org Mon Jul 31 17:24:31 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 18:24:31 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Follow up to 7/26 FUNDIT NM Broadband Webinar Message-ID: Follow up to 7/26 FUNDIT NM Broadband Webinar Hello! Thank you for your interest and joining us during our first FUNDIT webinar: NM Broadband Overview, on July 26th. Also, thank you to Gar at NM DOIT and Juan at NM EDD for their time, expertise and information! Please see the below follow-up items. ? Attached you will find the PowerPoint presentation. Also, this is a link to the recorded session on our Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdao_ElnnvI&t=3s (however, sorry but we missed a few minutes from the beginning). ? Link to the guidebook Gar mentioned in his presentation for communities with broadband projects http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/reports/NM_Broadband_Guidebook_v1_1_final.pdf ? Our next FUNDIT webinar will be September 27th at 2:00. The topic is? Accessing funding for your community?s projects: How to improve your approach. Our featured speaker will be Terry Brunner, Chief Program Officer of Grow New Mexico and former USDA NM Director. You can register here https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7031994069911804162 ? Upcoming FUNDIT meeting is August 22nd at 1:30-3:30 at WESST in Albuquerque. To fill out an application, go here: https://gonm.biz/business-resource-center/edd-programs-for-business/finance-development/fundit/ and to RSVP for the meeting, please contact me. Feel free to forward the information on to anyone who would be of interest. Please let me know if you have any questions or if I can be of service in any way. Sincerely, Johanna Nelson, MBA Finance Development Specialist New Mexico Economic Development Department 1100 S. St. Francis, Santa Fe, NM 87505 O: 505-827-0264 C: 505-469-6204 Johanna.nelson at state.nm.us www.gonm.biz --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: NM EDD FUNDIT Webinar Series_JT.pptx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation Size: 8234295 bytes Desc: not available URL: From rl at 1st-mile.org Wed Aug 2 08:50:59 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 09:50:59 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] New Mexico to Opt-in to FirstNet Network Message-ID: <0e5ec5f2b55946f5c50034beadf302ad@1st-mile.org> New Mexico to Transform Communications for Public Safety; Governor Martinez Approves Buildout Plan for First Responder Network FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 1, 2017 News Media Contact: Chrissie Coon (571) 599-4093 (Click on article to see all links.) https://www.firstnet.gov/news/new-mexico-transform-communications-public-safety-governor-martinez-approves-buildout-plan First-of-its-Kind Solution Will Create Jobs, Spur Investment and Modernize Public Safety Communications across the State RESTON, Va., Aug. 1, 2017 ? New Mexico is paving the way for advancements in public safety communications technology. Today, Governor Susana Martinez announced her decision to accept the FirstNet and AT&T plan to deliver a wireless broadband network to the State?s public safety community. This will make New Mexico the 9th state or territory to ?opt-in? to FirstNet and bring advanced technologies that will help first responders save lives and protect communities. ?We have to keep doing more to keep our communities safe,? said Governor Susana Martinez. ?I worked closely with law enforcement as a prosecutor for 25 years. I?ve seen firsthand the need for a streamlined and modernized communication network for our men and women in uniform. This system will help them save more lives.? AT&T, in a public-private partnership with FirstNet, will build, operate and maintain a highly secure wireless broadband communications network for New Mexico?s public safety community at no cost to the State for the next 25 years. The FirstNet network will drive innovation and create an entire system of modernized devices, apps and tools just for first responders. The FirstNet network will transform the way New Mexico?s fire, police, EMS and other public safety personnel communicate and share information. Specifically, FirstNet and AT&T will: ? Connect first responder subscribers to the critical information they need in a highly secure manner when handling day-to-day operations, responding to emergencies and supporting large events, like the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. ? Create an efficient communications experience for public safety personnel in agencies and jurisdictions across the State during natural disasters. This includes large wildfires like the one experienced in 2012 that burned more than 170,000 acres in the Gila National Forest. ? Enhance network coverage in rural areas, benefitting first responders that serve the 690,000+ residents spread across rural New Mexico. ? Provide first responders with access to dedicated network deployables for additional coverage and support when needed. ? Drive infrastructure investments and create jobs across the State. ? Usher in a new wave of innovation that first responders can depend on. This will create an ever-evolving set of life-saving tools for public safety, including public safety apps, specialized devices and Internet of Things technologies. It also carries the potential for future integration with NextGen 9-1-1 networks and Smart Cities? infrastructure. ?This is a great step in making our communities safer,? said Department of Public Safety Cabinet Secretary Scott Weaver. ?I spent years as a State Police officer driving around New Mexico in a squad car ? in and out of every community in the state. I know firsthand just how exciting this improvement is for our men and women who put on the uniform.? ?We are proud of this partnership and the DOIT team will keep doing everything we can to support our partners in the law enforcement community,? said Department of Information Technology Cabinet Secretary Darryl Ackley. ?The Department will do everything we can to work with our technology partners at FirstNet and AT&T to deploy this system and help them make sure it is completely reliable for our men and women who put their lives on the line for us every single day.? The FirstNet solution that will be built in New Mexico was designed with direct input from the State?s public safety community. FirstNet has been engaging with New Mexico?s officials and public safety personnel for years to address their unique communication needs. This includes: ? Expanding coverage in rural and tribal areas, including New Mexico?s Bootheel ? Enabling state, local, tribal and federal agencies to effectively communicate and coordinate along the border ? Increasing capacity during emergencies and natural disasters through the use of deployables ?Governor Martinez?s decisive action to join FirstNet demonstrates New Mexico?s strong commitment to public safety," said FirstNet CEO Mike Poth. "The FirstNet network will connect first responders operating across New Mexico?s diverse landscape ? including its rural, mountainous and remote areas, as well as federal and tribal lands. FirstNet and AT&T are pleased to have delivered a plan that meets New Mexico?s unique needs, and we look forward to equipping first responders with the communications tools they need every day and in every emergency.? The decision enables FirstNet and AT&T to begin creating an entirely new wireless ecosystem for public safety communications. New Mexico?s first responder subscribers will have immediate access to quality of service and priority to voice and data across the existing nationwide AT&T LTE network. Preemption for primary users over the AT&T LTE network is expected by year-end. This means fire, police, EMS and other public safety workers will have dedicated access to the network when and where they need it ? 24/7/365, like their mission. ?AT&T is honored to work with the state to provide a communications network that will allow New Mexico?s first responders to operate faster, safer and more effectively,? said Jerry Fuentes, president, AT&T New Mexico. ?This first-of-its kind network will transform the way our public safety community communicates, in both our urban and rural areas, increasing safety for them and the New Mexicans they serve.? For more information on FirstNet, please visit FirstNet.gov/mediakit and att.com/FirstResponderNews. For more about the value FirstNet will bring to public safety, please visit FirstNet.com. About FirstNet The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) is an independent authority within the U.S. Department of Commerce, overseen by a 15 member Board. Chartered in 2012, its mission is to ensure the building, deployment, and operation of the nationwide, broadband network that equips first responders to save lives and protect U.S. communities. Learn more at FirstNet.gov/mediakit and follow FirstNet (@FirstNetGov) on Facebook and Twitter for updates. About AT&T AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) helps millions around the globe connect with leading entertainment, business, mobile and high speed internet services. We offer the nation?s best data network** and the best global coverage of any U.S. wireless provider. We?re one of the world?s largest providers of pay TV. We have TV customers in the U.S. and 11 Latin American countries. Nearly 3.5 million companies, from small to large businesses around the globe, turn to AT&T for our highly secure smart solutions. About FirstNet The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 created the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) as an independent authority within NTIA to provide emergency responders with the first nationwide, high-speed, broadband network dedicated to public safety. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Thu Aug 3 10:48:02 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 11:48:02 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Ready For Telemedicine's Impact on Community Broadband? In-Reply-To: <34F84F55-E118-4A53-AFF7-295AA3CC7DC8@cjspeaks.com> References: <34F84F55-E118-4A53-AFF7-295AA3CC7DC8@cjspeaks.com> Message-ID: Craig Settles has another good article in the Daily Yonder, on the pending and evermore urgent needs and opportunities for broadband telemedicine/telehealth networking, applications, training and support. http://www.dailyyonder.com/broadband-healthcare-just-doctor-ordered/2017/08/02/20666/ I've been thinking a lot lately about our rural and tribal needs for these critical applications, and their slow progress in this region. RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Thu Aug 3 14:49:03 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:49:03 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM Leg. STTC Meetings Update Message-ID: The work plan and dates/locations for this Summer's STTC meetings: https://www.nmlegis.gov/Publications/Work_Plans/STTCworkplan17.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Thu Aug 3 17:05:06 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 18:05:06 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FCC Takes Next Step Toward $2 billion Rural Broadband Expansion Message-ID: <05c7eb17338e582f40a8093a84f0aa46@1st-mile.org> https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-takes-next-step-toward-2-billion-rural-broadband-expansion --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Sat Aug 5 12:48:05 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 13:48:05 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] ISOC: Indigenous Connectivity Summit Message-ID: <959c64f4350fcd2bb1d5c5fd7a7ff4ec@1st-mile.org> Greetings, I'm very excited to post the following (preliminary/draft) announcement, and you are first to receive it. A few notes: This is confirmed. We are now working on the details: program structure and agenda, invitees and presenters; logistics +. An ISOC web site and formal announcement are coming soon. There will most likely be pre-summit programs (site visits, training, arts +) on Mon. and Tues. Nov. 6 and 7. I expect that the gathering of indigenous networkers from north america and beyond, will be most inspiring and a start to some next-step efforts. I also wonder if it might be worthwhile and timely to have a pragmatic regional working meeting on tribal/native networking, on Friday, Nov. 10 ? I think it could be very productive. I'd like to hear from you. About interest in the program; about wanting to be involved or of help; to offer suggestions, or to be a sponsor/supporter. Let me know. Richard --------------- Indigenous Connectivity Summit Save the date: November 8 to 9, 2017 The Internet is a hallmark of human innovation, but many Indigenous communities lack basic connectivity. Internet access is increasingly a lifeline to health, education and economic development for rural and remote Indigenous communities across North America. No-one should be left behind. You are needed at the Indigenous Connectivity Summit at Hotel Santa Fe on November 8 to 9, 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Conference attendance is free. Stay tuned for pre- and post-conference announcements. The Indigenous Connectivity Summit will showcase success stories of Indigenous community networks in Canada, the United States and around the globe to help find solutions to bridge the digital divide. We?ll explore the issues and themes around community network development and sustainability in a two-day series of panels, presentations and discussions. Who should participate? We need everyone on board. The Indigenous Connectivity Summit will gather community network managers/operators, Indigenous-owned Internet service providers, community members, youth, researchers, policy makers, and Indigenous leadership to join the conversation. We?ll discuss ways to ensure Alaska Native, Native American, Inuit, First Nations, and M?tis communities have affordable, high-quality and sustainable Internet access, and how it can support social, cultural, and economic vitality. Stay tuned for more details about the event and how to participate online. For more information, please contact ics at isoc.org . The Indigenous Connectivity Summit is an initiative of the Internet Society, the Internet Society New Mexico Chapter, the 1st-Mile Institute, and the Community Learning Network. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Mon Aug 7 13:34:46 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 14:34:46 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Links to two informative current articles Message-ID: BROADBAND ECONOMIC BENEFITS: WHY INVEST IN BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE AND ADOPTION? By Roberto Gallardo and Mark Rembert, August 7, 2017 The long-term economic benefits of providing broadband access to every rural community exceed the cost of building that infrastructure. And it isn?t even close. http://www.dailyyonder.com/broadband-economic-benefits-invest-broadband-infrastructure-adoption/2017/08/07/20695/ -------- Rural Broadband: Taking a Broad-Scope Look at State Legislation Broadband Internet access has been a focal point for legislators across the U.S. In 2017 sessions alone, many states have taken their own shot at crafting pro-access legislation. * See map and note on NM Broadband Legislation (Senate Bill 308). BY EYRAGON EIDAM, JESSICA MULHOLLAND / AUGUST 6, 2017 http://www.govtech.com/policy/Rural-Broadband-Taking-a-Broad-Scope-Look-at-State-Legislation.html RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From mharris at visgence.com Mon Aug 7 13:43:16 2017 From: mharris at visgence.com (Michael Harris) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 14:43:16 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM Leg. STTC Meetings Update In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Is there a page with more details (i.e. place, time, RSVP info) for these meetings? Myself and a couple others on this list would like to attend the one in September, Thanks! -Michael On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > > The work plan and dates/locations for this Summer's STTC meetings: > > https://www.nmlegis.gov/Publications/Work_Plans/STTCworkplan17.pdf > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director > 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, > rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > -- Michael Harris -- President, Visgence Inc. www.visgence.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please contact me with questions or comments and thank you very much for your consideration. _SCOTT_ Scott Beckman, Community Development Manager North Central New Mexico Economic Development District 3900 Paseo del Sol, Santa Fe, NM 87507 (505) 395-2676 Links: ------ [1] http://www.ncnmedd.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: VISTA Opportunity Announcement.docx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 163114 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From john at citylinkfiber.com Fri Aug 25 14:11:09 2017 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:11:09 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] State of NM DMV . DNS is broken Message-ID: when paying for a registration renewal, the system attempts to take you to a new page after payment. mvptap1.trd.state.nm.us that FQDN yields the following DNS error Given that DOIT basically ignores all cyber / technical reports from me, I figured maybe posting here would get someones attention and they can go FIX it. Sincerely John Brown, CISSP Citizen of New Mexico ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> mvptap1.trd.state.nm.us ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 57965 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;mvptap1.trd.state.nm.us. IN A ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: trd.state.nm.us. 3579 IN SOA ns0.trd.state.nm.us. trd-network.state.nm.us. 2016100501 900 600 72000 3600 ;; Query time: 5 msec From rl at 1st-mile.org Tue Aug 29 08:44:05 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 09:44:05 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Plan would ease expansion of broadband coverage in Santa Fe Message-ID: Plan would ease expansion of broadband coverage in Santa Fe By Tripp Stelnicki | The New Mexican Aug 28, 2017 http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/plan-would-ease-expansion-of-broadband-coverage/article_6469e2fb-5f06-5be9-838c-62af918aa3de.html A plan to streamline the approval process for telecommunication structures in Santa Fe would remove some hurdles for service providers who want to install new equipment or alter existing facilities, a move that might open the door to more antennas in public rights of way and improved wireless service. But a vocal cadre of residents who fear radio frequencies negatively impact their health are fighting the proposed ordinance, saying more wireless coverage would mean more harmful microwave radiation. The proposed changes would fulfill policy recommendations approved by city councilors in late June for code changes regarding telecommunications franchises to facilitate ?antenna installations on city-owned structures and in public rights-of-way to provide low visual impact and cost-effective options for expanding broadband coverage to businesses, residents and neighborhoods.? The city has identified the expansion of telecommunications services as ?a critical factor in economic development,? according to a city memo. A recent report in The New Mexican found wireless service was spotty across town and particularly scarce downtown for users of at least one major provider. The proposed ordinance comes as telecommunication carriers prepare to implement 5G service, a next step in network service that will provide faster downloads and better coverage. Planned 5G networks will use the high-frequency millimeter waveband of the wireless spectrum; these waves can move larger quantities of data at a quicker rate but don?t travel as far, according to Wired, a tech magazine. So, when the 5G networks are built, ?you?ll see mini-antennas basically everywhere,? the magazine reported earlier this year. The proposed city ordinance includes provisions to minimize the visual impact of telecommunication structures and requires that the city Planning Commission review modifications that do not meet aesthetic standards, amount to a ?substantial change? under federal law, or that require a waiver. While current rules require every telecommunication application to undergo Planning Commission review, the new guidelines would route smaller-scale modifications through city land-use staff. This irks some opponents of the proposal, who view it as a green light for the cell phone industry to plant towers on whichever city streets they choose. ?They don?t sit down and do a public health analysis of these proposals,? said John McPhee of the Santa Fe Alliance for Public Health and Safety, a group that opposes wireless proliferation. Current city code states that telecommunication networks will ?to the maximum extent possible ? be designed in such a manner as to locate facilities on existing structures; in nonresidential districts; and along major arterials.? That is unchanged in the new proposal. Another proposed change would relegate public notice of a telecommunication applications to the city?s website. Current requirements ? posters, mailings and display advertisements ? are not ?consistent? with the process for other sorts of utility facilities in the public rights of way, according to a city memo attached to the proposed ordinance, and might be ?prohibitive.? The proposed ordinance says telecommunication towers would be required to have ?a slender profile,? with antennas and other equipment ?pulled in as close as possible to the tower in order to present a uniform appearance.? New telecommunication structures could be taller than the permitted height of surrounding buildings, the proposal says, if there are taller structures within a 150-foot radius of the proposed facility ? that is, streetlights or telephone poles. A prohibition against self-supporting lattice and guyed towers (tall, thin structures kept in place by tensioned cables) in public rights of way is eliminated under the proposed ordinance, but, according to the city memo, that is because design standards would already preclude such towers. Arthur Firstenberg, a longtime local advocate against electromagnetic radiation and its increasing ubiquity, said he believes the ordinance is intended to clear the way for the arrival of 5G networks. ?There will be antennas on every block of Santa Fe? within a few years? time, he said. ?That is going to increase radiation enormously ? and quite frankly it will kill people.? The World Health Organization, citing decades of studies that have assessed whether electromagnetic fields present a health hazard, reports ?no adverse health effects have been established as being caused by mobile phone use? to date. Meanwhile, federal law explicitly prohibits the city from regulating ?the placement, construction and modification or personal wireless facilities on the basis of the environmental effects (including health effects) of radio frequency emissions to the extent the facilities comply with [Federal Communications Commission] regulations,? according to a city memo from City Attorney Kelley Brennan. Still, Firstenberg and others view the forthcoming development of 5G-capable structures ? whether in Santa Fe or elsewhere ? as a final stand. ?If they institute 5G networks, there will be nowhere for us to go,? Firstenberg said. ?Either we stop it here or we lose our environment totally.? Brennan, who wrote the proposed ordinance, declined to comment. Councilor Mike Harris, who sponsored the bill, was unavailable Monday. The City Council is scheduled to hold a public hearing on the ordinance as part of its agenda for a 7 p.m. Wednesday session at City Hall. Contact Tripp Stelnicki at 505-428-7626 or tstelnicki at sfnewmexican.com . --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Tue Aug 29 12:15:48 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:15:48 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] In Western Colorado... Message-ID: <9271314ae3ba5babefbd430917190086@1st-mile.org> Construction is completed on the Region 10, Delta-Montrose fiber deployment. While the system can connect .gov and .edu facilities, other ISPs may contract to interconnect and to provide further networking and services to area businesses and residents. http://www.deltacountyindependent.com/region-10-partners-light-up-broadband-cms-8112 --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Thu Aug 31 07:31:53 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 08:31:53 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe Telecom Ordinance Approval Message-ID: http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/in-late-night-vote-city-council-oks-telecomm-ordinance/article_75784859-8964-5417-9353-434c7885b5ce.html --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Mon Sep 11 14:57:51 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 15:57:51 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Amerind Risk Management Message-ID: Here's a short excerpted update on important broadband related initiatives at some New Mexico pueblo communities, from an article on the work of Amerind Risk Management. Quote: "Two New Mexico Tribal consortium applications were recently awarded a total of almost $8 million in federal E-rate funds to bring broadband to their schools and libraries. The funding awarded to these two applications?one filed on behalf of the Santa Ana, San Felipe, Santo Domingo and Cochiti Pueblos, and the other filed on behalf of the Jemez and Zia Pueblos?will be used to construct Tribally owned fiber broadband networks. ?Tribal schools and libraries have been going at it alone to increase their access to broadband Internet?with limited and varied success. ?The new E-rate opportunities allowed the two Tribal consortia in New Mexico to address connectivity issues together by aggregating demand and working with our Tribal neighbors, to create a network that is exponentially faster at a fraction of the cost,? Sekaquaptewa said. ?These applications show what E-rate can?and up until now has been unable to?accomplish in Tribal communities. They are bringing connectivity to Tribal schools and libraries that, but for E-rate dollars, would never enjoy benefits that 21st Century fiber connectivity provides,? Flannery said." --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Mon Sep 11 15:22:42 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:22:42 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Sen. Heinrich: Tribal Connect Act Message-ID: US Senator Martin Heinrich recently introduced a bill to improve broadband on tribal lands. https://www.heinrich.senate.gov/download/Tribal-connect-act-one-pager --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Mon Sep 11 21:08:43 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 22:08:43 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] ISOC Indigenous Connectivity Summit Message-ID: <97f04337472cc854aa9985b8da2fc7a8@1st-mile.org> As noted here last month, 1st-Mile Institute (me) is helping to organize and host the Internet Society?s Indigenous Connectivity Summit, in Santa Fe, Nov. 8 and 9. Attached is the recent announcement posted by Mark Buell of the Internet Society (ISOC). Updates are forthcoming, as their web site and program processes are not yet fully in place. I?ve begun actively reaching out to pueblo and tribal broadband contacts that I have in this Southwest region and across the country, but need help reaching the many I don?t know, who should be here. I hope that a number of you on this list will attend/participate to share your needs or successes. A few 1st-Mile subscribers are already getting involved. The Indigenous Connectivity Summit will most assuredly be a most inspiring gathering, just by nature of those doing good work, attending from near and far. Storytelling will be featured. Arts and cultural events are being planned to set a context not always present in hotel conference rooms. Special ?youth? presentations are planned. But the Summit will hopefully also offer opportunities for attendees (who don?t like going to conferences) to address practical matters that move their communities forward with equitable and affordable network infrastructure and services, while meeting with policymakers, funders, colleagues and possible future partners. The main ISOC Summit will be Wed. and Thurs., Nov. 8th and 9th, at Hotel Santa Fe. Pre-Summit activities, site visits and training sessions are being planned for Mon. and Tues., the 6th and 7th and facilities are available if a New Mexico Tribal Broadband Working Meeting is wanted/needed on Friday the 10th. I think that this program can strategically leverage some next step actions in this region that should be taken advantage of. The entire program will be free to attend. Unlike typical conferences with keynote speakers and panel discussions (there will be some), the Summit is intended to be participatory and self-determining by all attendees. Participation is more than encouraged; those in the room determine the process and outcomes. With that intent, there is a small fund available to help nearby and distant participants attend. Some hotel and travel subsidies will be available. If you know someone who should attend, please let me know. If you can be a sponsor, please contact me. As the Indigenous Connectivity Summit comes together in the coming weeks, I?ll occasionally post updates on this list, and hope that you will join us. For those on this list and in the region or beyond, for any information or questions regarding the Summit, or if you want to help, you may be in touch directly with me. And stay tuned for a more active local program web site, now being prepared. All networked best, Richard --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ICS-Invite-1.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 56393 bytes Desc: not available URL: From rl at 1st-mile.org Thu Sep 14 14:03:32 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:03:32 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Article on WISPs Message-ID: BROADBAND ANALYSIS: SCRAPPY WIRELESS ISPS GET THE JOB DONE By Craig Settles September 14, 2017 http://www.dailyyonder.com/broadband-analysis-scrappy-wireless-isps-get-job-done/2017/09/14/21367/ Rural areas don?t need to wait on expensive and hard-to-build fiber-to-the-home networks to start using broadband. In many cases, fixed wireless can provide a fast and affordable last-mile connection in underserved areas. And some communities are building the system themselves. WISPs ? Wireless Internet Service Providers ? are the un-song heroes closing the digital divide in rural communities. New technology makes WISPs faster than ever, much more affordable than fiber, and a great option in areas where terrain and population density make wired systems problematic. (snip) --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From JBadal at sacred-wind.com Fri Sep 15 08:33:22 2017 From: JBadal at sacred-wind.com (John Badal) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:33:22 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Article on WISPs In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Richard, Thanks for this article; we have a few scrappy fixed wireless ISPs in NM as well. This article also begs the question about the feasibility or even reasonableness of gigabit-driven fiber to the home (FTTH) in smaller rural towns. Outside of a professional astronomer with a 20 meter telescopic lens connected digitally to the VLA in Socorro, who in the heck needs a gigabit? Or, maybe, someone who has outfitted every room in his house as a virtual reality environment similar to the holodeck on the newer version of Star Trek. It should be self evident to those who know something about the cost of building and operating broadband systems that a fiber to the home network in a sparsely populated community, especially one with a preponderance of citizens on a fixed income, that fiber to the home in many rural communities is a waste of resources. And beyond the ability of a sparsely populated community to sustain. Fiber to the home, as largely an entertainment oriented delivery system, would have to be supported in rural communities in some fashion by the local, state or federal government. A bigger question then: Is it good government policy to subsidize a business through state or federal grants or operational support to provide entertainment services? Fixed wireless really has a place in the rural world and has proven itself to be scalable to meet customers' needs, reliable, and affordable. Even Google, despite attempts to sell the sizzle of FTTH, has recognized the practicality of fixed wireless. John -----Original Message----- From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Richard Lowenberg Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 3:04 PM To: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Article on WISPs BROADBAND ANALYSIS: SCRAPPY WIRELESS ISPS GET THE JOB DONE By Craig Settles September 14, 2017 http://www.dailyyonder.com/broadband-analysis-scrappy-wireless-isps-get-job-done/2017/09/14/21367/ Rural areas don?t need to wait on expensive and hard-to-build fiber-to-the-home networks to start using broadband. In many cases, fixed wireless can provide a fast and affordable last-mile connection in underserved areas. And some communities are building the system themselves. WISPs ? Wireless Internet Service Providers ? are the un-song heroes closing the digital divide in rural communities. New technology makes WISPs faster than ever, much more affordable than fiber, and a great option in areas where terrain and population density make wired systems problematic. (snip) --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.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.org Wed Sep 20 07:45:48 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 08:45:48 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Education Superhighway State of the States Report Message-ID: From the Benton Foundation?s synopsis of the new Education Superhighway report on high-speed connections for the nation?s schools: >> More than 39 million students in America now have access to high-speed >> Internet at school, a 5.1 million student increase over last year. >> This research shows that 94 percent of school districts nationwide now >> meet the minimum 100 kilobits per second (kbps) per student goal set >> by the Federal Communications Commission in 2014. The report confirms >> that America continues to make extraordinary progress in narrowing the >> K-12 digital divide. Overall, 39.2 million students, 2.6 million >> teachers, and 74,000 schools are now achieving the minimum >> connectivity goal that gives students equal access to digital learning >> opportunities. However, 6.5 million students are on the other side of >> the digital divide without access to high-speed Internet. A divide >> that is particularly wide in the 1,587 rural K-12 schools that don?t >> yet have the infrastructure necessary to revolutionize the way >> teachers teach and students learn.<< http://stateofthestates.educationsuperhighway.org Attached is the New Mexico report. 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RL -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [New post] Measuring Mobile Broadband Speeds Date: 2017-09-25 06:24 From: POTs and PANs To: rl at 1st-mile.org CCGConsulting posted: "I was using Google search on my cellphone a few days ago and I thought my connect time was sluggish. That prompted me to take a look at the download speeds on cellular networks, something I haven?t checked in a while. There are two different companies " MEASURING MOBILE BROADBAND SPEEDS by CCGConsulting I was using Google search on my cellphone a few days ago and I thought my connect time was sluggish. That prompted me to take a look at the download speeds on cellular networks, something I haven?t checked in a while. There are two different companies that track and report on mobile data speeds, and the two companies report significantly different results. First is Ookla, which offers a speed test for all kinds of web connections. Their latest US speed test results represent cellphone users who took their speed test in the first half of this year. Ookla reports that US cellular download speeds have increased 19% over the last year and are now at an average of 22.69 Mbps. They report that the average upload speeds are 8.51 Mbps, an improvement of 4% over the last year. Ookla also found that rural mobile broadband speeds are 20.9% slower at urban speeds and are at an average of 17.93 Mbps. The other company tracking mobile broadband speeds reports a different result. Akamai reports that the average cellular download speed for the whole US was 10.7 Mbps for the first quarter of 2017, less than half of the result shown by Ookla. This is the kind of difference that can have you scratching your head. But the difference is significant since cellular companies widely brag about the higher Ookla numbers, and these are the numbers that end up being shown to regulators and policy makers. So what are the differences between the two numbers? The Ookla numbers are the results of cellphone users who voluntarily take their speed test. The latest published numbers represent tests from 3 million cellular devices (smartphones and tablets) worldwide. The Akamai results are calculated in a totally different way. Akamai has monitoring equipment at a big percentage of the world?s internet POPs and they measure the actual achieved speeds of all web traffic that comes through these POPs. They measure the broadband being used on all of the actual connections they can see (which in the US is most of them). So why would these results be so different and what are the actual mobile broadband speeds in the US? The Ookla results are from speed tests, which last less than a minute. So Ookla speed test measures the _potential_ speed that a user could theoretically achieve on the web. It?s a test of the full bandwidth capability of the connection. But this is not necessarily the actual results for cellphone users for a few reasons: * Cellphone providers and many other ISPs often provide a burst of speeds for the first minute or two of a broadband connection. Since the vast majority of web events are short-term events this provides users with greater speeds than would be achieved if they measured the speed over a longer time interval. Even with a speed test you often can notice the speed tailing off by the end of the test ? this is the ?burst? slowing down. * Many web experts have suspected that the big ISPs provide priority routing for somebody taking a speed test. This would not be hard to do since there are only a few commonly used speed test sites. If priority routing is real, then speed test results are cooked to be higher than would be achieved when connecting to other web sites. The Akamai numbers also can?t be used without some interpretation. They are measuring achieved speeds, which means the actual connection speeds for mobile web connections. If somebody is watching a video on their cellphone, then Akamai would be measuring the speed of that connection, which is not the same as measuring the full potential speed for that same cellphone. The two companies are measuring something totally different and the results are not comparable. But the good news is that both companies have been tracking the same things for years and so they both can see the changes in broadband speeds. They also both measure speeds around the world and are able to compare US speeds with others. But even that makes for an interesting comparison. Ookla says that US mobile speed test results are 44th in a world ranking. That implies that the mobile networks in other countries make faster connections. Akamai didn?t rank the countries, but the US is pretty far down the list. A lot of countries in Europe and Asia have faster actual connection speeds than the US, and even a few countries in Africa like Kenya and Egypt are faster than here. My conclusion from all of this is that ?actual? speeds are somewhere between the two numbers. But I doubt we?ll ever know. The Akamai numbers, though, represent what all cell users in aggregate are actually using, and perhaps that?s the best number. But back to my own cellphone, which is what prompted me to investigate this. Using the Ookla speed test I showed a 13 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload speed. There was also a troublesome 147 ms of latency, which is probably what is accounting for my slow web experience. But I also learned how subjective these speeds are. I walked around the neighborhood and got different results as I changed distances from cell towers. This was a reminder that cellular data speeds are locally specific and that the distance you are from a cell site is perhaps the most important factor in determining your speed. And that means that it?s impossible to have a meaningful talk about mobile data speeds since they vary widely within the serving area of every cell site in the world. Links: ------ [1] http://potsandpansbyccg.com/author/ccgcomm/ [2] http://potsandpansbyccg.com/2017/09/25/measuring-mobile-broadband-speeds/ --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Wed Sep 27 14:29:51 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:29:51 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Electric Cooperatives Stepping in to Fill the Rural Broadband Gap Message-ID: Attached are a .pdf CoBank press release, and the .pdf CoBank Report on this important piece of our rural broadband puzzle. 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During a public meeting Wednesday, September 27, Commissioner Lynda Lovejoy motioned to approve Sacred Wind?s petition for a variance to use the New Mexico Universal Service Fund for solar powered units to provide voice and Internet service to homes without electricity on Navajo Lands. ?The new technology Sacred Wind proposes will provide enough solar energy to power up a fixed wireless subscriber antenna, a voice/broadband modem, a computer and at least one desk lamp,? stated Commissioner Lovejoy. No less than 150 homes of residents who live in the most rural Navajo areas in New Mexico will benefit tremendously from this technology. (snip) --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Tue Oct 3 10:43:02 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:43:02 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] UNM Collaborative NSF Cyberinfrastructure Tribal Regional Workshop: Oct. 19 Message-ID: <95c4a7a7598087c2b9da7476d0de3695@1st-mile.org> UNM Collaborative NSF Cyberinfrastructure Tribal Regional Workshop to be held Oct. 19 By Emily Morelli September 25, 2017 http://news.unm.edu/news/unm-collaborative-nsf-cyberinfrastructure-tribal-regional-workshop-to-be-held-oct-19 The University of New Mexico, and New Mexico, New Mexico State University and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology invite the public to participate in a free cyberinfrastructure workshop Thursday, Oct. 19 from 7:30 a.m. ? 4:45 p.m. at UNM?s Continuing Education Building located at 1634 University Blvd., NE. This National Science Foundation Workshop Series is designed to enhance the ability of New Mexico?s universities to competitively conduct collaborative research through the implementation of high-speed networks that ? designed thoughtfully ? can be leveraged to improve the community?s access to broadband services and capacity for economic development. The workshop kicks off at 8 a.m. with a keynote address featuring Chad Adams, cyber security advisor, Office of Cyber Security and Communications, Department of Homeland Security, Region 6. Adams has more than 15 years of experience in Cyber Security, threat mitigation, risk management, advanced IT support, and complex system design and support. Workshop programs are developed in partnership with local leaders, economic development groups, businesses, public health providers, first responders, scientists, educators, students and community members. Tribal regional workshop panels include: Tribal Leadership & Economic Development, Public Safety & Cyber Security, Cyberinfrastructure in Higher Education and K- 12, and Healthcare. Additional panels and presentations will serve to inform New Mexico?s tribal and Pueblo stakeholders of the benefits of enhanced connectivity. Particularly important to rural areas of New Mexico, network improvements have the power to decrease isolation, educate distance learners, improve public safety and regional healthcare, foster economic development, advance discovery and innovation, connect public services, and enhance K-12 education, among other benefits. This is the final workshop in a statewide series funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to enhance the ability of our universities to competitively conduct collaborative research through the implementation of high speed networks that ? designed thoughtfully ? can be leveraged to improve the community?s access to broadband services and capacity for economic development. Previous workshops were held in Espanola, Silver City, and Portales, New Mexico, and also in Flagstaff, Ariz. Panels have been designed in response to the unique needs and challenges of our state?s communities, and in collaboration with Northern New Mexico College, Western New Mexico University, Eastern New Mexico University, and Navajo Technical University. For more information, contact the UNM Office of the Chief information Officer at 505.277.0752 or visit New Mexico Science, Education & Economic Development Network or NMSEED . --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From tom at jtjohnson.com Wed Oct 4 16:25:05 2017 From: tom at jtjohnson.com (Tom Johnson) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 17:25:05 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] [SPAM?] Why Does Verizon Care About Telephone Poles? - The New York Times Message-ID: Why Does Verizon Care About Telephone Poles? By SAM LICCARDOOCT. 3, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/opinion/wireless-verizon-telephone-poles.html TJ Sent with Free Email Tracker by cloudHQ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From Leo.Baca at CenturyLink.com Thu Oct 5 06:59:03 2017 From: Leo.Baca at CenturyLink.com (Baca, Leo) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 13:59:03 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] [SPAM?] Why Does Verizon Care About Telephone Poles? - The New York Times In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Separate Verizon issue??is anyone experiencing an unusual amount of dropped calls with Verizon on I-25 between Santa Fe and Albuquerque? Also, unusually poor reception with Verizon going north of Santa Fe towards Espanola? All of this within the past month or so. Leo From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Leonard Pascual Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2017 7:54 PM To: Tom Johnson Cc: Friam at redfish. com; 1st-Mile-NM Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] [SPAM?] Why Does Verizon Care About Telephone Poles? - The New York Times As anticipated. I appreciate you finding the article. On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Tom Johnson > wrote: [https://www.cloudhq.io/mail_track/mail/e504138269f4c341c99e5b8f56917ddd?uid=226430]Why Does Verizon Care About Telephone Poles? By SAM LICCARDOOCT. 3, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/opinion/wireless-verizon-telephone-poles.html TJ Sent with Free Email Tracker by cloudHQ _______________________________________________ 1st-mile-nm mailing list 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm -- Leonard Pascual A Sound Look 502 Cerrillos Road Santa Fe, NM 87501 505.983.5509 ext 201 Office lpascual at asoundlook.com leonard.pascual SKYPE This communication is the property of CenturyLink and may contain confidential or privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. 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I have an old Note 3, will see if that is part of the problem: http://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_view/verizon-cellphone-service-revisited/article_f7480074-3901-56a8-859b-8511fb8df8e9.html. Mike Michael Ripperger Telecom Bureau Chief Utility Division New Mexico Public Regulation Commission Phone 1-505-827-6902 Fax 1-505-827-4402 From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Baca, Leo Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2017 7:59 AM To: 'Leonard Pascual'; Tom Johnson Cc: Friam at redfish. com; 1st-Mile-NM Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] [SPAM?] Why Does Verizon Care About Telephone Poles? - The New York Times Separate Verizon issue??is anyone experiencing an unusual amount of dropped calls with Verizon on I-25 between Santa Fe and Albuquerque? Also, unusually poor reception with Verizon going north of Santa Fe towards Espanola? All of this within the past month or so. Leo From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Leonard Pascual Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2017 7:54 PM To: Tom Johnson Cc: Friam at redfish. com; 1st-Mile-NM Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] [SPAM?] Why Does Verizon Care About Telephone Poles? - The New York Times As anticipated. I appreciate you finding the article. On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Tom Johnson > wrote: [https://www.cloudhq.io/mail_track/mail/e504138269f4c341c99e5b8f56917ddd?uid=226430]Why Does Verizon Care About Telephone Poles? 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Leo From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Leonard Pascual Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2017 7:54 PM To: Tom Johnson Cc: Friam at redfish. com; 1st-Mile-NM Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] [SPAM?] Why Does Verizon Care About Telephone Poles? - The New York Times As anticipated. I appreciate you finding the article. On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: Why Does Verizon Care About Telephone Poles? 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URL: From steve at preferredbusinesssolutions.biz Thu Oct 5 10:25:36 2017 From: steve at preferredbusinesssolutions.biz (Steve Cimelli) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 13:25:36 -0400 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] [SPAM?] Why Does Verizon Care About Telephone Poles? - The New York Times In-Reply-To: <8e86ee5e32e142ac9de7e1b05b416164@MBXCAS005.nmes.lcl> References: <8e86ee5e32e142ac9de7e1b05b416164@MBXCAS005.nmes.lcl> Message-ID: <9FDF07D2-0D4F-4F28-9023-87989F1B277B@preferredbusinesssolutions.biz> I?ve not experienced Verizon?s pulling back since I switched from Verizon to T-Mobile over two years ago and found the service to have been better with T-Mobile at the time. I?ve also been pleased with T-Mobile?s network improvements to their service as they?ve migrated to frequencies like 700 Mhz and their better throughput. In many areas I?m now getting 40 megs download, close to 10 megs upload. I?ll be driving through rural New Mexico next week, will do a few speed tests along the way. While parked of course?... Verizon has been losing significant market share to T-Mobile over this time period. Third party Open Signal now ranks T-Mobile as having the best coverage, & I think I saw something along these lines by Ookla as well. Don?t know if that?s true or not. Not to be vanquished though, Verizon has launched their One-Talk service which is providing business class VoIP service on their cellular network as well as on hard-wired circuits. They launched this late last year and it has sold very well boosting Verizon?s share significantly in the UCaaS field of competitors. Verizon isn?t the only wireless provider to have the Broadsoft switch that delivers these features in their network. Other are sure to follow. Verizon may have decided on a ?narrow & deep? strategy to add more services and revenue to existing customers and in more densely populated areas by investing in cloud capabilities, i.e. the servers to support these features, rather than more radio infrastructure, especially in rural areas. Attached is a post from yesterday?s CGC Consulting?s ?POTs and PANs? blog where they talk about Verizon?s rural service that may be part of what you folks are seeing. Steve From: POTs and PANs Subject: [New post] When Customers Use Their Data Date: October 4, 2017 at 7:15:47 AM EDT To: steve at cimelli.com Reply-To: POTs and PANs Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on POTs and PANs When Customers Use Their?Data by CCGConsulting In a recent disturbing announcement ,Verizon Wireless will be disconnecting service to 8,500 rural customers this month for using too much data on their cellphones. The customers are scattered around 13 states and are a mix those with both unlimited and limited data plans. Verizon justifies this because these customers are using data where Verizon has no direct cell towers, meaning that these customers are roaming on cellular data networks owned by somebody else. Since Verizon pays for roaming the company say that these customers are costing them more in roaming charges than what the company collects in monthly subscription fees. Verizon may well have a good business case for discontinuing these particular data customers if they are losing money on each customer. But the act of disconnecting them opens up a lot of questions and ought to be a concern to cellular customers everywhere. This immediately raises the question of ?carrier of last resort?. This is a basic principle of utility regulation that says that utilities, such as traditional incumbent telephone companies, must reasonably connect to everybody within their service territory. Obviously cellular customers don?t fall under this umbrella since the industry is competitive and none of the cellular companies have assigned territories. But the lines between cellular companies and telcos are blurring. As AT&T and Verizon take down rural copper they are offering customers a wireless alternative. But in doing so they are shifting these customers from being served by a regulated telco to a cellular company that doesn?t have any carrier of last resort obligations. And that means that once converted to cellular that Verizon or AT&T would be free to then cut these customers loose at any time and for any reason. That should scare anybody that loses their rural copper lines. Secondly, this raises the whole issue of Title II regulation. In 2015 the FCC declared that broadband is a regulated service, and that includes cellular data. This ruling brought cable companies and wireless companies under the jurisdiction of the FCC as common carriers. And that means that customers in this situation might have grounds for fighting back against what Verizon is doing. The FCC has the jurisdiction to regulate and to intervene in these kinds of situations if they regulate the ISPs as common carriers. But the current FCC is working hard to reverse that ruling and it?s doubtful they would tackle this case even if it was brought before them. Probably the most disturbing thing about this is that it?s scary for these folks being disconnected. Rural homes do not want to use cellular data as their only broadband connection because it?s some of the most expensive broadband in the world. But many rural homes have no choice since this is their only broadband alternative to do the things they need to do with broadband. While satellite data is available almost everywhere, the incredibly high latency on satellite data means that it can?t be used for things like maintaining a connection to a school server to do homework or to connect to a work server to work at home. One only has to look at rural cellular networks to understand the dilemma many of these 8,500 households might face. The usable distance for a data connection from a cellular tower is only a few miles at best, much like the circles around a DSL hub. It is not hard to imagine that many of these customers actually live within range of a Verizon tower but still roam on other networks. Cellular roaming is an interesting thing. Every time you pick up your cellphone to make a voice or data connection, your phone searches for the strongest signal available and grabs it. This means that the phones of rural customers that don?t live right next to a tower must choose between competing weaker signals. Customers in this situation might be connected to a non-Verizon tower without it being obvious to them. Most cellphones have a tiny symbol that warns when users are roaming, but since voice roaming stopped being an issue most of us ignore it. And it?s difficult or impossible on most phones to choose which tower to connect to. Many of these customers being disconnected might have always assumed they actually were using the Verizon network. But largely it?s not something that customers have much control over. I just discussed yesterday how we are now in limbo when it comes to regulating the broadband practices of the big ISPs. This is a perfect example of that situation because it?s doubtful that the customers being disconnected have any regulatory recourse to what is happening to them. And that bodes poorly to rural broadband customers in general ? just one more reason why being a rural broadband customer is scary. CCGConsulting | October 4, 2017 at 7:15 am | Tags: carrier of last resort , cellular roaming , FCC , Title II Regulation , Verizon Wireless | Categories: Regulation - What is it Good For? , What Customers Want | URL: http://wp.me/p3kUkt-1C3 Comment See all comments Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from POTs and PANs. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions . Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://potsandpansbyccg.com/2017/10/04/when-customers-use-their-data/ Thanks for flying with??WordPress.com WordPress.com On Oct 5, 2017, at 10:13 AM, Ripperger, Mike, PRC wrote: My personal experience with my Verizon service is it appears to be getting worse, and it is not uncommon for me to lose calls now. From what I hear from others, they are experiencing similar issues. There was an article in the Santa Fe New Mexican about it. However, some of the problems may be related to the settings on your phone or software updates. I have an old Note 3, will see if that is part of the problem:http://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_view/verizon-cellphone-service-revisited/article_f7480074-3901-56a8-859b-8511fb8df8e9.html . Mike Michael Ripperger Telecom Bureau Chief Utility Division New Mexico Public Regulation Commission Phone 1-505-827-6902 Fax 1-505-827-4402 From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org ] On Behalf Of Baca, Leo Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2017 7:59 AM To: 'Leonard Pascual'; Tom Johnson Cc: Friam at redfish. com; 1st-Mile-NM Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] [SPAM?] Why Does Verizon Care About Telephone Poles? - The New York Times Separate Verizon issue??is anyone experiencing an unusual amount of dropped calls with Verizon on I-25 between Santa Fe and Albuquerque? Also, unusually poor reception with Verizon going north of Santa Fe towards Espanola? All of this within the past month or so. Leo From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org ] On Behalf Of Leonard Pascual Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2017 7:54 PM To: Tom Johnson Cc: Friam at redfish. com; 1st-Mile-NM Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] [SPAM?] Why Does Verizon Care About Telephone Poles? - The New York Times As anticipated. I appreciate you finding the article. On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Tom Johnson > wrote: Why Does Verizon Care About Telephone Poles? 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Alphabet Inc., which controls Google, obtained authorization from the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deploy the devices?developed from 2013 as part of a project known as "Loon." It aims to temporarily re-establish Puerto Rico's cellular network?where 83 per cent of cell sites were still out of service Friday, according to FCC figures. "More than two weeks after Hurricane Maria struck, millions of Puerto Ricans are still without access to much-needed communications services," FCC chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement. "That's why we need to take innovative approaches to help restore connectivity on the island," he added, urging wireless carriers to "cooperate with Project Loon to maximize this effort's chances of success." Loon, part of a series of futuristic projects out of Alphabet's "X" laboratory, was originally created to provide internet coverage in under-developed rural areas. A similar project using drones was closed down in 2016. The balloons are sent 12 miles (20 kilometers) above the Earth's surface, where they can remain autonomously for over 100 days. They are made from a polyethylene canvas the size of a tennis court. Initially designed to drift, the balloons are now equipped with navigation systems, powered by solar panels, which keep them in a specific area. The announcement comes after electric carmaker Tesla said it could help restore electricity to Puerto Rico using solar panels and batteries. Responding to a tweet asking if Tesla could help, chief executive Elon Musk answered: "The Tesla team has done this for many smaller islands around the world, but there is no scalability limit, so it can be done for Puerto Rico too." Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosello joined the conversation, tweeting to Musk: "Let's talk. Do you want to show the world the power and scalability of your #TeslaTechnologies? PR could be that flagship project." Tesla and Musk have for years been seeking to push the auto industry to electric to reduce the use of fossil fuels, and more recently have introduced residential and commercial solar batteries which can operate off the electric power grid. ------ Google Loon FCC Form: https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/els/reports/STA_Print.cfm?mode=initial&application_seq=80734 --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Tue Oct 10 09:35:34 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:35:34 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Microsoft TechSpark Rural Broadband 'White Space' Initiative Message-ID: NM is not on the list of 12 states to be included in the coming year. RL -------- Microsoft TechSpark Puts a Full Court Press on Rural Broadband 10/6/17 by Joan Engebretson http://www.telecompetitor.com/microsoft-techspark-puts-a-full-court-press-on-rural-broadband/ The Microsoft TechSpark initiative, which kicked off in Fargo, North Dakota late yesterday, aims to use technology to boost local economies outside the country?s major metropolitan areas. The five-faceted program will include deployment of the Airband fixed wireless technology that Microsoft has been promoting, as well as digital skills training for high schools and community colleges, cloud services for local non-profits and digital transformation initiatives for local businesses. The company also is planning TechSpark initiatives for Northeast Wisconsin and areas of four other states, including Virginia, Texas, Wyoming and Washington. ?The rapid transformation of our economy is driven in part by the pervasive use of new technology that is creating both challenges and opportunities for communities across the country . . .? said Microsoft CEO Brad Smith in a blog post about TechSpark. ?While we see these challenges across the country, they can be especially acute in rural communities and in less urban areas where populations are more widely spread, sometimes making it more expensive to scale programs and services.? Microsoft aims to ?learn more about regional challenges and how technology can help better contribute to local economic growth, with a plan to share our learnings more broadly,? Smith wrote. Rural Airband?s Role The Microsoft Rural Airband Initiative, announced in July, is a key element of an ambitious Microsoft proposal to bring broadband to unserved areas of the U.S. within five years. Airband is a fixed wireless technology that operates on an unlicensed basis in vacant TV broadcast spectrum known as white spaces. According to a Microsoft white paper about Airband, https://msblob.blob.core.windows.net/ncmedia/2017/07/Rural-Broadband-Strategy-Microsoft-Whitepaper-FINAL-7-10-17.pdf the company plans to launch TV white spaces projects through partnerships in 12 states at the rate of one project per month over a 12-month period. Partners will include a wide range of entities ?from major fixed-line operators to nationwide and regional mobile operators, rural cooperatives and wireless internet service providers.? The white paper includes a map showing the 12 states Microsoft has targeted, which includes the six states slated for TechSpark. The other four elements of Microsoft TechSpark include: Digital transformation initiatives for local businesses. Microsoft will assist companies to help them develop digital technology advances to ?reinvent their business processes, deepen their connections to customers, empower their employees and transform their products? with the goal of fostering business growth. Digital skills and computer science education for high schools. Microsoft will provide cash grants, technology, curriculum and resources to nonprofits and will partner with schools on this. The company?s Technology Education and Literacy in Schools Program is designed as a program that schools can sustain after Microsoft?s involvement. Career pathways through community college education. This initiative will focus on enabling people to acquire the skills to obtain jobs that require less than a traditional four-year college degree and will help them in the job search. Support for non-profits. Microsoft Philanthropies will increase its financial and technology support for non-profit groups in TechSpark areas. The company noted that it has donated more than $1 billion in cloud services to more than 90,000 nonprofits since early 2016. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Thu Oct 12 09:16:11 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:16:11 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NTIA Broadband USA: Toolkit for Local and Tribal Governments Message-ID: <7d97f63fb9ba3a28453351333fd46be1@1st-mile.org> The Power of Broadband Partnership: A Toolkit for Local and Tribal Governments May 2017 https://www2.ntia.doc.gov/files/powerbroadband_070517.pdf RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From tom at jtjohnson.com Thu Oct 19 12:57:32 2017 From: tom at jtjohnson.com (Tom Johnson) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:57:32 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] How Google Fiber launched in Louisville in just 5 months - TechRepublic Message-ID: I think John Brown, from ABQ, proposed doing something similar in Santa Fe more than five years ago, but of course the City Council didn't understand what he was talking about. How Google Fiber launched in Louisville in just 5 months The flagbearer of gigabit internet got some momentum back by using a new deployment technique to light up its first city of 2017?in record time. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-google-fiber-launched-in-louisville-in-just-5-months/ TJ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john at citylinkfiber.com Thu Oct 19 14:16:35 2017 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 15:16:35 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] How Google Fiber launched in Louisville in just 5 months - TechRepublic In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Tom, Correct, City didn't get it, didn't want to get it and wasted LOTS OF MONEY trying to look like they did something, but didn't. Look at the wasted $1,000,000 they spent on the fiber mile. It was suppose to be open access, neutral, easily usable by ALL providers. Don't see any information that is publicly available on how it works, pricing, etc. Its all just CyberMesa. We get around 2 dozen requests a week for service in Santa Fe. Our answer is simple: " We are sorry we don't service Santa Fe. The reason is your City Government doesn't actually support competitive and open access. The rules, processes and policies they create prohibit new entrants into the market. When your City Gov changes its behavior we would be happy to bring our competitive services to your community." You can add to the list the City of Albuquerque. They aren't even willing to enforce Federal Rules on pole attachment that would enable Broadband Providers to build out a competitive fiber network. Yet the City is the steward of the rights of way and they aren't actually making sure that neutral competitive services can be available. Then there is the fact that we offered to provide WiFI in all City Parks FOR FREE. City of ABQ ignored and didn't do anything with it. We offered to provided DARK FIBER TO ALL SCHOOLS FOR FREE, City of ABQ ignored and didn't take action. So now ABQ has to spend MILLIONS of rate payer money to get connectivity for schools. For most communities fiber is a sound bite that helps with the election cycle. Very few communities have the actual intestinal fortitude to stand up to the big money from incumbents and create / enforce policy that Makes America Great. consumer prices. 10Mb/s 29.95 100Mb/s 49.95 1000Mb/s 79.95 I'm happy to work with any community that actually wants to help build out a kick butt network. Unlike others, I actually BUILD and RUN a real live network that has done all the things I said it would do.!! On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: > I think John Brown, from ABQ, proposed doing something similar in Santa Fe > more than five years ago, but of course the City Council didn't understand > what he was talking about. > > How Google Fiber launched in Louisville in just 5 months > The flagbearer of gigabit internet got some momentum back by using a new > deployment technique to light up its first city of 2017?in record time. > https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-google-fiber-launched-in-louisville-in-just-5-months/ > > > TJ > > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm > From tom at jtjohnson.com Thu Oct 19 14:57:53 2017 From: tom at jtjohnson.com (Tom Johnson) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 15:57:53 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] How Google Fiber launched in Louisville in just 5 months - TechRepublic In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: All: I hope we won't be screwed over by the entire City Council once again, but I'm pleased to announce that the City of Santa Fe Finance Committee approved on Monday the uploading of Santa Fe Transit bus schedules to Google Maps. That means we can use Google Maps to figure out how to use the bus to get across town by switching from one route to another. (And reportedly the Regional Transit District will be uploading its routes. That means one can actually find out how to get from the Santa Fe Plaza to the Taos Plaza.) Final approval from the City Council is expected at next Tuesday's meeting. We have Councilman Peter Ives to thank for carrying the bill. In the case of Santa Fe, it has literally taken four years for the City Clerk and the City Attorney to figure out that the risk of liability in passing along this set of data was sufficiently low. This came after it was noted that *18,000* transit systems ranging from Nairobi, Kenya to Bullhead City, AZ have posted the data for years along with the NM Dept. of Transportation, City of ABQ and Railrunner. Have your doubts? Here's the video: https://vimeo.com/238858851 TJ ============================================ Tom Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) Society of Professional Journalists *Check out It's The People's Data * http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.com ============================================ On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 3:16 PM, John Brown wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Correct, City didn't get it, didn't want to get it and wasted LOTS OF > MONEY trying to look like they did something, but didn't. > Look at the wasted $1,000,000 they spent on the fiber mile. It was > suppose to be open access, neutral, easily usable by ALL > providers. Don't see any information that is publicly available on > how it works, pricing, etc. Its all just CyberMesa. > > We get around 2 dozen requests a week for service in Santa Fe. Our > answer is simple: > " We are sorry we don't service Santa Fe. The reason is your City > Government doesn't actually support competitive and open > access. The rules, processes and policies they create prohibit new > entrants into the market. When your City Gov changes its > behavior we would be happy to bring our competitive services to your > community." > > > You can add to the list the City of Albuquerque. They aren't even > willing to enforce Federal Rules on pole attachment that would > enable Broadband Providers to build out a competitive fiber network. > Yet the City is the steward of the rights of way and they aren't > actually making sure that neutral competitive services can be available. > > Then there is the fact that we offered to provide WiFI in all City > Parks FOR FREE. City of ABQ ignored and didn't do anything with it. > > We offered to provided DARK FIBER TO ALL SCHOOLS FOR FREE, City of > ABQ ignored and didn't take action. > So now ABQ has to spend MILLIONS of rate payer money to get > connectivity for schools. > > For most communities fiber is a sound bite that helps with the > election cycle. Very few communities have the actual intestinal > fortitude > to stand up to the big money from incumbents and create / enforce > policy that Makes America Great. > > consumer prices. > > 10Mb/s 29.95 > 100Mb/s 49.95 > 1000Mb/s 79.95 > > > I'm happy to work with any community that actually wants to help build > out a kick butt network. > Unlike others, I actually BUILD and RUN a real live network that has > done all the things I said it would do.!! > > > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: > > I think John Brown, from ABQ, proposed doing something similar in Santa > Fe > > more than five years ago, but of course the City Council didn't > understand > > what he was talking about. > > > > How Google Fiber launched in Louisville in just 5 months > > The flagbearer of gigabit internet got some momentum back by using a new > > deployment technique to light up its first city of 2017?in record time. > > https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-google-fiber- > launched-in-louisville-in-just-5-months/ > > > > > > TJ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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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This Zoom session, scheduled from 1 pm to 3 pm EST, will focus on practical procedures and tools for acquiring, handling and mapping the FCC?s data on fixed broadband connections (for Census tracts) and fixed broadband deployment (for Census blocks) in your locality. An NDIA Webinar: Using FCC Form 477 Census tract and block data Wednesday, November 15, 2007 1 to 3 pm EST https://zoom.us/j/4320943209 Please let us know by November 8 if you?re planning to participate, by email to bill at digitalinclusion.org. (Please note: Participants should be familiar with software for handling very large spreadsheet files, and for mapping data with U.S. Census geolocation codes and shapefiles. If you?re interested but need some prior help in either of these areas, contact Bill at the same email address.) Bill Callahan Research and Policy Coordinator National Digital Inclusion Alliance --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Tue Oct 24 08:14:18 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 09:14:18 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FirstNet Will Deal Directly With Tribal Nations Message-ID: <6327a31964185873fe5b48ffcc591e86@1st-mile.org> FirstNet Will Deal Directly With Tribal Nations After state opt in/out decision, net will deal 'nation to nation' 10/23/2017 http://www.multichannel.com/news/policy/firstnet-will-deal-directly-tribal-nations/416096 By: John Eggerton FirstNet, the broadband first-responder network, has made it clear that its connection with tribal governments in Indian Country will be a direct one. In a new tribal consultation policy, FirstNet said it will be honoring tribal sovereignty and encouraged those nations to talk directly with FirstNet, rather than having to go with the representatives designated by state governors, once a state governor has made their decision about participation. Governors in all 50 states got their respective state plans from NirstNet in September, and have until Dec. 28 to opt in or out of the plan. So far 27 states have opted in. Those who opt for different network approach--Verizon, for example, is pitching an alternative, must make sure they are interoperable with First Net. But Tribal Nations can make their own designations independent of states. FirstNet will engage with the tribes up until a governor's decision, but after that will deal directly with the tribes, whatever that decision, including to make sure their coverage needs and concerns are being met. The tribes are being treated like federal entities, which can also make their own FirstNet decisions independent of state participation. ?This policy recognizes the importance of working directly with Indian Country for the deployment and operation of the Network and being responsive to the needs of public safety communications on tribal lands? said Kevin McGinnis, the FirstNet Board tribal liaison. ?As they serve on the front lines of their communities, we look forward to providing them with reliable, broadband connections and tools that will help them save lives and protect their communities.? ------ FirstNet Press Release: https://www.firstnet.gov/sites/default/files/Tribal_%20Consultation_%20Policy_October_%202017.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Tue Oct 31 14:44:09 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:44:09 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] ISOC Indigenous Connectivity Summit - Nov. 6-9 @ Hotel Santa Fe Message-ID: <26211512a0ab0cdb5f8d4319a6aaef01@1st-mile.org> The Internet Society's Indigenous Connectivity Summit starts next Monday and Tuesday with Training Days and other events, and continues on Wed. and Thurs. with the main Summit gathering. Attached is a flyer with the ISOC URL, with free registration sign-up, draft agenda, hotel info., and more. Around 150 attendee/participants are expected. Come join us. 1st-Mile Institute is a co-organizer/host, with many sponsors. Richard --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Tue Oct 31 14:54:10 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:54:10 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] ISOC Indigenous Connectivity Summit - Nov. 6-9 @ Hotel Santa Fe In-Reply-To: <26211512a0ab0cdb5f8d4319a6aaef01@1st-mile.org> References: <26211512a0ab0cdb5f8d4319a6aaef01@1st-mile.org> Message-ID: OK, Here it is, really. https://www.internetsociety.org/events/indigenous-connectivity-summit rl --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Tue Oct 31 20:30:59 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 21:30:59 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] FCC approval of the CenturyLink Level 3 merger Message-ID: <9e6902367bd78d84a8035d3e5c440d91@1st-mile.org> With FCC Approval of the CenturyLink Level 3 Merger in Hand, Deal is Set to Close Wednesday 10/30/17 at 5:39 PM by Joan Engebretson http://www.telecompetitor.com/with-fcc-approval-of-the-centurylink-level-3-merger-in-hand-deal-is-set-to-close-wednesday/ With FCC approval of the CenturyLink Level 3 merger announced today, the stage is set for the deal to close Wednesday, CenturyLink said today. The deal already has received all other necessary approvals, a press release states. Earlier this month, the Department of Justice approved the deal with relatively few conditions. Also this month, California approved the deal, marking the final state approval that CenturyLink needed, according to a press release. The combination of CenturyLink and Level 3 is expected to bring big changes to the enterprise and wholesale telecom markets. The combined company is expected to get up to three quarters of its revenue or more from the enterprise and wholesale market, making it by far the most enterprise and wholesale-focused of the top five companies serving that market. The next most enterprise-focused of the five is AT&T, which as of when the CenturyLink Level 3 deal was announced a year ago, was getting only 17% of its revenue from the enterprise and wholesale market. The announced acquisition price was $34 billion, including assumption of Level 3 debt. At that time, a merged CenturyLink Level 3 also was expected to rank second among U.S. providers measured by enterprise and wholesale revenues, with an estimated $18.8 billion in annual revenues, compared to AT&T?s $32.5 billion. The combined company would have network facilities in more than 350 metro areas in 60 countries, CenturyLink said. Executives of the two companies at that time said the merged company planned to continue Level 3?s traditional strategy of being the lowest-cost provider of services. Emphasizing the enterprise and wholesale strategy would seem to be a smart move for CenturyLink which, unlike the larger former Bell companies AT&T and Verizon, lacks a wireless business. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From tom at jtjohnson.com Wed Nov 1 08:27:26 2017 From: tom at jtjohnson.com (Tom Johnson) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 09:27:26 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Digital mediocrity - Santa Fe Reporter Message-ID: http://www.sfreporter.com/news/2017/11/01/digital-mediocrity/?utm_source=The+Santa+Fe+Reporter+List&utm_campaign=0a8c1a23c9-WEDNESDAY_NEWSLETTER_2017_11_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b77a98714b-0a8c1a23c9-36826133&mc_cid=0a8c1a23c9&mc_eid=e1fd84bc43 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john at citylinkfiber.com Wed Nov 1 11:01:44 2017 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 12:01:44 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Digital mediocrity - Santa Fe Reporter In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: As is the case, there are many details that are left out. A huge part of the problem is that the current rules don't create an easier process for providers to show up. I presented in 2016 to a State panel that there are a couple of very simple things our state could do to make it more inviting for folks to build infra-structure. NONE of those things have been acted on. 1. Create a single stop state wide place to secure right of way / franchise agreement. At present a carrier would have to negotiate with hundreds of entities in the state to secure rights of way. Each wanting their own special deal. Get rid of that. Have a single stop shop. Negotiate once, get the entire state, county, city all at once. Local politics and fiefdom games keep this from happening. 2. Create State level rules on pole attachment. These would replace or enhance Federal Rules. Make it painful for current pole owners (PNM, CenturyLink, etc) to prevent access. Today one has to spend large amounts of money and even litigation to get pole attachment which is already guaranteed by federal law. So carriers have to WASTE money on litigation and legal costs to get what is already suppose to be available. 3. Create State level rules that permit the equitable sharing of infra-structure sites. For example, The State has radio towers around the state that are hardly used. Those towers could be used to help bring broadband into rural areas. 4. Remove costly permitting processes. Some communities in our state charge more than $3K per application to attach an antenna to an existing structure. This is nothing more than that community trying to enhance their general operating bank account with more money. This is counter to the demands and needs for better broadband services that the citizens are screaming for. Listen up Muni's You want people to stay in your community, you want new companies to move to your communities, you want job growth, you want competitive broadband, and you want FASTER service. So says your citizens. So you need to STOP trying to nickel and dime the carriers who are willing to bring it to your community. Its simple business economics. If a business can't make a reasonable profit in your community, do you think they will show up ?? Nope. I would argue that you as a Muni make more money via enhanced jobs, more businesses, more people living there, over a longer period of time, than the high cost that you are putting on the carriers. BTW: Carriers equal anyone that is trying to run a business providing services in your community. Its not just the :"Big Bad Companies". Its all of us that provide services. If the cost is to high, it won't happen. Pojoaque Valley, I'd be happy to provide really fast affordable broadband in your community. Read, I'm willing to spend 10's to 100's of thousands on capital costs for infra-structure, backbone connectivity, routers, radios, antennas, installation costs, etc. What are you willing to bring to the table ?? Do you have buildings I can mount some small antennas to and distribute the signal ?? Are you willing to work on building a good partnership? one where your citizens get great service and we have a chance at making a reasonable income ?? If YES, then call me. Our state history is full of initiatives that have come, gone and failed. We keep doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome. It hasn't happened yet. On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Tom Johnson wrote: > http://www.sfreporter.com/news/2017/11/01/digital-mediocrity/?utm_source=The+Santa+Fe+Reporter+List&utm_campaign=0a8c1a23c9-WEDNESDAY_NEWSLETTER_2017_11_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b77a98714b-0a8c1a23c9-36826133&mc_cid=0a8c1a23c9&mc_eid=e1fd84bc43 > > _______________________________________________ > 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.org Wed Nov 1 11:26:23 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 12:26:23 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Mobile Broadband Service Is Not an Adequate Substitute for Wireline Message-ID: "Mobile Broadband Service Is Not an Adequate Substitute for Wireline" A report prepared by the engineers and analysts of CTC Technology & Energy. http://www.ctcnet.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/CTC-Mobile-Broadband-White-Paper-final-20171004.pdf I have not had time to look through the details of this report by CTC, but agree with the basic premise, which is that we need improved wireless networking, but that more fiber is critically needed to support that wireless infrastructure and the enhanced services being provided. CTC has also provided contracted reporting for the State of NM's Broadband Initiatives. The high costs for improving NM broadband infrastructure over the coming years can be met and profited from by increased take-rates (customers), resulting from improved services and quality-of-services, in addition to rural demand aggregation and properly structured public-private partnering. Easier said than done. R. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From haroldskow at navajo-nsn.gov Wed Nov 1 15:40:29 2017 From: haroldskow at navajo-nsn.gov (Harold Skow) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 22:40:29 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] ISOC Indigenous Connectivity Summit - Nov. 6-9 @ Hotel Santa Fe In-Reply-To: <26211512a0ab0cdb5f8d4319a6aaef01@1st-mile.org> References: <26211512a0ab0cdb5f8d4319a6aaef01@1st-mile.org> Message-ID: Richard, I will be attending TribalNet that week. Radford is assign to meet with you and others. Harold -----Original Message----- From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Richard Lowenberg Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 3:44 PM To: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] ISOC Indigenous Connectivity Summit - Nov. 6-9 @ Hotel Santa Fe The Internet Society's Indigenous Connectivity Summit starts next Monday and Tuesday with Training Days and other events, and continues on Wed. and Thurs. with the main Summit gathering. Attached is a flyer with the ISOC URL, with free registration sign-up, draft agenda, hotel info., and more. Around 150 attendee/participants are expected. Come join us. 1st-Mile Institute is a co-organizer/host, with many sponsors. Richard --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Thu Nov 2 11:51:42 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 12:51:42 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] KCEC's Luis Reyes on Community Networks Podcast Message-ID: <6fa96dccc49ab85eb8cde700bcf8aaa4@1st-mile.org> Podcast w/ New Mexico's Kit Carson Electric Cooperative CEO Luis Reyes on its Fiber-to-the-Home Project https://muninetworks.org/content/kit-carson-fibers-new-mexico-community-broadband-bits-podcast-277 --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From christopher at ilsr.org Thu Nov 2 12:09:33 2017 From: christopher at ilsr.org (Christopher Mitchell) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 14:09:33 -0500 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] KCEC's Luis Reyes on Community Networks Podcast In-Reply-To: <6fa96dccc49ab85eb8cde700bcf8aaa4@1st-mile.org> References: <6fa96dccc49ab85eb8cde700bcf8aaa4@1st-mile.org> Message-ID: Thank you for sharing Richard. For anyone that is interested, a transcript will soon be linked to from that page. Another day or two. 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URL: From rl at 1st-mile.org Sun Nov 12 07:50:48 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 08:50:48 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] ISOC Indigenous Connectivity Summit: Article Message-ID: <8f29269e844f5e9e283b723c5d4f0cc3@1st-mile.org> Native communities look to DIY model to get online By Sami Edge | The New Mexican Nov 11, 2017 http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/native-communities-look-to-diy-model-to-get-online/article_ae277bda-15ae-5945-b493-733d8c1cdfa1.html (See photos online) Lynn Roanhorse launched a skin care line for Native Americans two years ago, after years of research prompted by the toll acne was taking on young people?s self-esteem. Roanhorse, who works professionally as a federal programs director for the Education Department of the Jicarilla Apache Nation, designed the skin care line, Skindigenous, with natural ingredients, geared specifically toward Natives with sensitive skin. She also aims to help people learn about the dietary and environmental factors that can lead to skin conditions like rosacea and acne. But, she says, that effort is hindered by a service many small-business owners might take for granted: access to high-speed internet. Roanhorse doesn?t have internet access at her home in Dulce, a remote town in the Jicarilla Apache Nation in far Northern New Mexico, near the Colorado border. Most people in her corner of the Jicarilla Apache reservation don?t, she said ? it?s slow, and expensive. Roanhorse sells her products at trade shows and is developing a website so people can buy them online, but she feels like she could be doing more on the internet to reach her clients and assist them. For example, she said, when mothers approach her at trade shows and ask if she can help their children, some so embarrassed about acne that they?re threatening to drop out of school, her first impulse is to get on a plane and fly out to help them. But she can?t travel to everyone. ?If I had internet or videoconferencing ? I could help them,? she said. ?I probably could be out there, helping people worldwide. But I?m stuck, basically.? She?s not alone. According to a 2016 report by the Federal Communications Commission, ?many Americans still lack access to advanced, high-quality voice, data, graphics and video offerings, especially in rural areas and on Tribal lands.? Forty-one percent of Americans living on tribal lands lacked access to internet speeds necessary to do things such as videoconference in 2016, the report said. New Mexico didn?t get stellar marks for access, either. According to the report, more than 430,000 people in the state ? roughly 20 percent of the overall population and more than half of the state?s rural population, including most of the people living on tribal lands ? lacked access to this level of ?advanced telecommunications capability,? or good internet service. Last week, Roanhorse attended the Indigenous Connectivity Summit in Santa Fe, looking for solutions to help her community. Hosted by the international Internet Society and other nonprofits focused on expanding internet access throughout New Mexico and around the globe, the gathering centered on community-run internet systems as a solution to connectivity issues on tribal lands. ?The rural nature of many tribal lands makes that a really noticeable gap in the digital revolution,? said Mark Buell, director of the North American bureau of the Internet Society. ?These are the communities that stand to benefit most. You?re talking about high unemployment, low health rates, educational opportunities that simply aren?t available. ? It?s ripe for the internet.? Community networks are essentially a ?do-it-yourself? model of internet, built and operated by citizens or community organizations instead of recognizable conglomerates like Comcast or CenturyLink. The point, said Merridith Ingram, co-founder of the newly minted New Mexico chapter of the Internet Society, is that a community can build an internet system that is ?driven by the community, for the community, and built in a way that makes sense for them.? Laguna Pueblo, west of Albuquerque, got its own community internet up and running in 2014, according to Gilbert Martinez, senior technician for the network, which is called the Kawaika Hanu Internet Service and run through the Pueblo of Laguna Utility Authority. As internet issues came up, the pueblo government created a telecommunications work group to develop strategies for improving connections. Ultimately, the group won a $3.3 million grant from the U.S. Agriculture Department?s Community Connect program to install a wireless system and get residences, businesses and community centers in the pueblo?s six villages connected to the internet. Internet access is free to community centers, but the utility authority covers its costs by charging residences between $40 and $60 a month for high-speed internet access. After the network was set up, the pueblo sent a thank-you presentation to the USDA, full of testimonies about how the new connectivity had affected its residents. Kids can now do their homework at home, the package said, and one community center volunteer who had been unemployed said the internet service helped him get a new job. ?I get a lot of positive feedback from the elderly,? Martinez said. They tell him, ?Our grandkids need this if they expect to make it out there in the world. We didn?t have this growing up, but we can see how it will benefit our grandkids.? More New Mexico communities might soon have an opportunity to harness federal grant funding to develop their own networks, if a group of legislators has its way in Washington. Last week, U.S. Rep Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., and a number of other lawmakers introduced legislation that would authorize $100 million for the Community Connect grant pool that funded the Laguna Pueblo network. That was exciting news for Roanhorse. After the summit, she said she hopes to complete a feasibility study for a new internet provider in the Jicarilla Apache Nation and will encourage talks, and possibly solicit funding, for a new kind of community network. Right now, only people who can afford high bills have access to the internet at their homes on the reservation. And while students in the Dulce Independent Schools have access to a good network ? and a brand-new coding class that Roanhorse?s department started just a few weeks ago ? truly harnessing the potential of the internet will take more. With affordable, high-quality internet access in their homes, students who want to launch a career online, without having to leave the reservation, can do that, she said. And artists, entrepreneurs and other business owners like herself could share their offerings, and their legacies, with the world. Sick people in the community could even connect with top doctors and experts by videoconferencing. ?My interest is the youth, my community,? she said, ?and if the internet is going to make everybody?s life a little bit easier, I?m willing to help facilitate it and talk to people. For people like me who want to help others ? to educate, to get our most precious resource, our youth, to be self-sufficient ? it?s important to see these opportunities.? Contact Sami Edge at 505-986-3055 or sedge at sfnewmexican.com. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From david at breeckerassociates.com Thu Nov 30 15:16:16 2017 From: david at breeckerassociates.com (David Breecker [dba]) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:16:16 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Digitalization of the American workforce Message-ID: This Brookings Institution webinar and report may be of interest to some on the list: Upcoming event: The digitalization of the American workforce Waves of technological innovation are rapidly transforming the American workforce. On December 7, experts will discuss the trends surrounding digitalization and ways to connect underrepresented groups to today?s digital economy. 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Carolina: https://www.wired.com/story/net-neutrality-fiber-optic-internet/ David Breecker, President David Breecker Associates www.breeckerassociates.com Santa Fe Office: 505-690-2335 Abiquiu Office: 505-685-4891 Skype: dbreecker -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PastedGraphic-7.png Type: image/png Size: 7371 bytes Desc: not available URL: From rl at 1st-mile.org Mon Dec 4 12:25:23 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 13:25:23 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Two Articles from Government Technology Message-ID: Next-Gen Cities: 3 Jurisdictions Get Smarter From transportation to digital equity, connected communities like Albuquerque, Columbus and Las Vegas keep citizen needs at the forefront. DECEMBER 1, 2017 http://www.govtech.com/dc/articles/GT-December-2017-Next-Gen-Cities-3-Jurisdictions-Get-Smarter.html GT looked at Albuquerque, N.M.; Columbus, Ohio; and Las Vegas to learn about their journeys to becoming smarter communities. -------- Colorado Localities Vote for Broadband, but Must Get Creative to Actually Deploy It In last month's elections, 19 more Colorado cities and counties voted for municipal broadband. But the next steps aren't easy. DECEMBER 1, 2017 http://www.govtech.com/network/Colorado-Localities-Vote-for-Broadband-but-Must-Get-Creative-to-Actually-Deploy-It.html --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Thu Dec 7 11:04:02 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 12:04:02 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] City of Albuquerque RFI for Central Ave. broadband project Message-ID: <39d58b09a8debbd2039e1c1c61b0a146@1st-mile.org> City of Albuquerque releases RFI for Central Avenue broadband project: Online Vendor Registration https://www.cabq.gov/dfa/purchasing/solicitations?mc_cid=abd805c8ee&mc_eid=8ea27387bb Vendors interested in participating in the City of Albuquerque's procurement process may now review, download, and print any of the currently available Requests for Quotes (RFQs), Requests for Bids (RFBs), Request for Proposals (RFPs) online at this website for free. Registration is required to view the solicitations, but registration is free. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Fri Dec 8 15:36:10 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:36:10 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Sen. Heinrich introduces Tribal Connect Act Message-ID: <34db348ae4e3aeda998f4e7a800037fb@1st-mile.org> (From the Farmington Daily Times) Heinrich: Connecting tribal communities to high-speed internet U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, (D-N.M.) Published 4:01 a.m. MT Dec. 8, 2017 http://www.daily-times.com/story/opinion/2017/12/08/heinrich-connecting-tribal-communities-high-speed-internet/932934001/ For some Americans today, logging on to the internet is as easy as going home and turning on the lights. Students can browse the internet and do their homework on their laptops or at local libraries. However, in parts of New Mexico, and especially in tribal communities, a lack of access to high-speed broadband internet connections is leaving far too many of our children unable to learn and compete on an even playing field. An estimated 80 percent of New Mexicans who live in rural tribal lands still lack consistent access to high-speed broadband internet. We urgently need to provide the resources necessary to close this digital divide between tribal communities and the rest of the nation. That?s why I introduced the bipartisan Tribal Connect Act this week with Senator Dean Heller (R-Nev.) to steer much-needed federal investments to tribal communities to ensure that every single child can access high-speed internet. The Tribal Connect Act will make sure funding and resources from the Federal Communications Commission?s (FCC) Schools and Libraries Program?known as E-Rate? reach tribal communities that need help expanding high-speed internet access. Over the last twenty years, the E-Rate program has provided billions of dollars of discounts to public schools and libraries across the nation to help them obtain high-speed internet access at affordable rates. Earlier this year, I hosted a listening session with members of the Pueblos of Cochiti, Jemez, Zia, Santa Ana, San Felipe, and Santo Domingo, who received support through this program to bring broadband connectivity to their communities through their tribal libraries. The results were positive. Everett Chavez, Tribal Administrator of Santo Domingo, said, ?Pueblo broadband availability and presence will bring about tremendous benefit to our rural tribal communities, and will provide critical impetus toward tribal community development initiatives.? Unfortunately, the current application process and eligibility requirements for E-Rate funds do not reflect the unique challenges and needs in Indian Country, leading to complications for many tribes who try to apply for it. Although over 90 percent of public libraries throughout the nation have received these FCC funds to support improved internet access, the National Congress of American Indians estimates that only 15 percent of tribal libraries have received any of this critical funding. The Tribal Connect Act will enable more tribal libraries to apply for E-Rate support. It will also establish a new pilot program at the FCC that will allow tribes who don?t have tribal libraries to designate another tribally-owned anchor institution such as a chapter house or community center as eligible to apply for support to provide broadband connectivity for students and members of the community. We must do all we can to make sure all of our children, no matter where they live or go to school, can learn the skills they need to succeed in the 21st century. I remain committed to putting aside partisan politics in Washington to find ways to make forward-looking investments like this in New Mexico?s future. --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Fri Dec 8 15:59:16 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:59:16 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Advocates worry FCC changes to Lifeline could hit Indian Country hard Message-ID: <331c9e44dfb70adc95429d93a09a288c@1st-mile.org> Forwarded from the Navajo-Hopi Observer: https://www.nhonews.com/news/2017/dec/05/advocates-worry-fcc-changes-lifeline-could-hit-ind/ WASHINGTON ? The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is moving to rein in a low-cost telephone service for low-income customers that critics say will hit Indian Country hard if fully implemented. But FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai and other supporters say the reforms would close the digital divide between urban and rural Americans by ending ongoing waste, fraud and abuse in the program that serves more than 12 million people nationwide ? and 212,630 people in Arizona as of August. The Lifeline program, established under the Reagan administration, offers a subsidy of $9.25 a month to low-income residents, with residents of tribal areas eligible to receive an additional $25 subsidy per month. A Government Accountability Office Report earlier this year found a number of problems with the current program, including the FCC?s inability to verify how many of the 12.3 million people getting Lifeline were using it as a secondary phone service. The GAO also said it was only able to confirm two-thirds of customers were getting government support, like Medicaid or food stamps, critical to participation in the program. The commission voted 3-2 last week for a series of immediate changes ? including a shift in how tribal funds are allocated ? and a call for comment on several proposed changes that include an overall budget cap and the elimination of ?non-facilities based? providers ? or wireless resellers ? from the program. ?Far too many Americans lack the affordable broadband options that many of us take for granted,? Pai said in a prepared statement after the vote. ?And for far too long, policymakers have let unscrupulous wireless resellers waste Lifeline funding rather than demand these funds go to support real digital opportunity and infrastructure in underserved communities.? Pai noted the deeply disturbing problems?cited in the GAO report and comments from a Democratic lawmaker during hearings this summer that Lifeline?s problems are serious and persistent ? and the time for action is now. But critics panned the GAO report, which they said was based on numbers from 2014, a year before FCC reforms of the Lifeline program went into effect. Linda Sherry, the director of National Priorities for Consumer Action, added that the report?s ?supposed one-third-is-fraudulent number ? was based only on a small sample and cannot be extrapolated to the whole program.? A GAO official who testified to the Senate on the report laughed at those assertions, which he called ?a red herring.? ?Nice try,? said Seto Badoyan, GAO director of forensic audits and investigative service. ?The fact that the data is from 2014 is irrelevant,? Badoyan said. ?Whatever limited changes have occurred to the Lifeline program from the FCC or USAC (Universal Service Administrative Co., the nonprofit that manages Lifeline funding) or the telephone carriers would not have changed any of the data analysis we did. One change that will affect tribes immediately is the new allocation of the $25 a month tribal subsidy. It will not be restricted to tribes in rural areas, defined as being outside ?an urbanized area or urban cluster area with a population equal to or greater than 25,000.? Pai said the change was aimed at tribes in areas like Tulsa and Reno. But Brian Tagaban, who works for Sacred Wind Communications, a facilities-based telecommunications provider that serves the Navajo Nation, said the change in the definition of urban and rural is a great concern to us. ?I would say 80 percent of our customers are Lifeline customers,? said Tagaban, who formerly worked with the Navajo Telecommunications Regulatory Commission. ?We serve the Eastern Agency of the Navajo Nation, which is a checkerboard of different land statuses.? ?We are worried that they could exclude some of these areas and that they won?t be able to access tribal Lifeline benefits,? Tagaban said. Navajo Nation officials did not return calls seeking comment. Advocates are more concerned about a proposed change that would limit Lifeline subsidies to ?facilities-based providers,? cutting wireless service providers out of the program. Critics said that could eliminate four of the five major providers currently offering Lifeline. ?There are no other companies out there that can provide ? or are willing to provide ? this service to millions of Lifeline customers,? Sherry said. Rural areas often don?t have access to major providers, she said. Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Tucson, who joined 55 other lawmakers in a letter opposing the FCC changes, said in a statement after the vote that instead of improving service, the commission had taken ?a step backward by restricting mobile and internet access to hundreds of thousands of people, especially those who live in rural and tribal lands.? Kim Lehrman, the president of a Iowa service provider enTouch Wireless, that serves around 3,000 Lifeline customers in Arizona, said the change ?would disproportionately impact Native American tribes,? due to a lack of competition with rural providers. Lehrman said she fears she could lose customers if the proposed changes go through. ?We feel like we provide a very high quality of service to people with a tremendous amount of need,? she said. ?We hope to find a way to continue to provide these services.? --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From JBadal at sacred-wind.com Fri Dec 8 16:20:05 2017 From: JBadal at sacred-wind.com (John Badal) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 00:20:05 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Advocates worry FCC changes to Lifeline could hit Indian Country hard In-Reply-To: <331c9e44dfb70adc95429d93a09a288c@1st-mile.org> References: <331c9e44dfb70adc95429d93a09a288c@1st-mile.org> Message-ID: Thanks, Richard, this article has appeared in a couple other newspapers as well. Our employee's comment (below) appears to voice opposition to the FCC's Lifeline decision, but the opposite is true. We solidly advocate favoring facilities-based carrier investment on Tribal lands for Lifeline support as a means to stimulate infrastructure growth in the more challenging areas of the country. The resellers' discovery of a lucrative, easy-in, easy-out, niche market of low income people was a result of a public policy mistake made several years ago and flies in the face of the need for more infrastructure in lower income areas, especially on tribal lands. As I've always said, a mile of fiber cable or 100 feet of a communications tower will do more for a community's future than a hit-and-run sales booth at a flea market. John -----Original Message----- From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Richard Lowenberg Sent: Friday, December 8, 2017 4:59 PM To: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Advocates worry FCC changes to Lifeline could hit Indian Country hard Forwarded from the Navajo-Hopi Observer: https://www.nhonews.com/news/2017/dec/05/advocates-worry-fcc-changes-lifeline-could-hit-ind/ WASHINGTON ? The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is moving to rein in a low-cost telephone service for low-income customers that critics say will hit Indian Country hard if fully implemented. But FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai and other supporters say the reforms would close the digital divide between urban and rural Americans by ending ongoing waste, fraud and abuse in the program that serves more than 12 million people nationwide ? and 212,630 people in Arizona as of August. The Lifeline program, established under the Reagan administration, offers a subsidy of $9.25 a month to low-income residents, with residents of tribal areas eligible to receive an additional $25 subsidy per month. A Government Accountability Office Report earlier this year found a number of problems with the current program, including the FCC?s inability to verify how many of the 12.3 million people getting Lifeline were using it as a secondary phone service. The GAO also said it was only able to confirm two-thirds of customers were getting government support, like Medicaid or food stamps, critical to participation in the program. The commission voted 3-2 last week for a series of immediate changes ? including a shift in how tribal funds are allocated ? and a call for comment on several proposed changes that include an overall budget cap and the elimination of ?non-facilities based? providers ? or wireless resellers ? from the program. ?Far too many Americans lack the affordable broadband options that many of us take for granted,? Pai said in a prepared statement after the vote. ?And for far too long, policymakers have let unscrupulous wireless resellers waste Lifeline funding rather than demand these funds go to support real digital opportunity and infrastructure in underserved communities.? Pai noted the deeply disturbing problems?cited in the GAO report and comments from a Democratic lawmaker during hearings this summer that Lifeline?s problems are serious and persistent ? and the time for action is now. But critics panned the GAO report, which they said was based on numbers from 2014, a year before FCC reforms of the Lifeline program went into effect. Linda Sherry, the director of National Priorities for Consumer Action, added that the report?s ?supposed one-third-is-fraudulent number ? was based only on a small sample and cannot be extrapolated to the whole program.? A GAO official who testified to the Senate on the report laughed at those assertions, which he called ?a red herring.? ?Nice try,? said Seto Badoyan, GAO director of forensic audits and investigative service. ?The fact that the data is from 2014 is irrelevant,? Badoyan said. ?Whatever limited changes have occurred to the Lifeline program from the FCC or USAC (Universal Service Administrative Co., the nonprofit that manages Lifeline funding) or the telephone carriers would not have changed any of the data analysis we did. One change that will affect tribes immediately is the new allocation of the $25 a month tribal subsidy. It will not be restricted to tribes in rural areas, defined as being outside ?an urbanized area or urban cluster area with a population equal to or greater than 25,000.? Pai said the change was aimed at tribes in areas like Tulsa and Reno. But Brian Tagaban, who works for Sacred Wind Communications, a facilities-based telecommunications provider that serves the Navajo Nation, said the change in the definition of urban and rural is a great concern to us. ?I would say 80 percent of our customers are Lifeline customers,? said Tagaban, who formerly worked with the Navajo Telecommunications Regulatory Commission. ?We serve the Eastern Agency of the Navajo Nation, which is a checkerboard of different land statuses.? ?We are worried that they could exclude some of these areas and that they won?t be able to access tribal Lifeline benefits,? Tagaban said. Navajo Nation officials did not return calls seeking comment. Advocates are more concerned about a proposed change that would limit Lifeline subsidies to ?facilities-based providers,? cutting wireless service providers out of the program. Critics said that could eliminate four of the five major providers currently offering Lifeline. ?There are no other companies out there that can provide ? or are willing to provide ? this service to millions of Lifeline customers,? Sherry said. Rural areas often don?t have access to major providers, she said. Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Tucson, who joined 55 other lawmakers in a letter opposing the FCC changes, said in a statement after the vote that instead of improving service, the commission had taken ?a step backward by restricting mobile and internet access to hundreds of thousands of people, especially those who live in rural and tribal lands.? Kim Lehrman, the president of a Iowa service provider enTouch Wireless, that serves around 3,000 Lifeline customers in Arizona, said the change ?would disproportionately impact Native American tribes,? due to a lack of competition with rural providers. Lehrman said she fears she could lose customers if the proposed changes go through. ?We feel like we provide a very high quality of service to people with a tremendous amount of need,? she said. ?We hope to find a way to continue to provide these services.? --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.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.org Mon Dec 11 17:38:33 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:38:33 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NMBBP STUDY RELEASED: NM Broadband for Businesses In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9043ba2644084dae5e1a266a452dbc84@1st-mile.org> (Just released by NM DoIT, after a delaying review process.) BROADBAND FOR BUSINESSES STUDY (JUNE 2017) Business broadband connectivity is an important sector as is education, healthcare, and residential for economic development. The NM Department of Information Technology (DoIT) Office of Broadband and Geospatial Initiatives (OBGI) NM Broadband Program (NMBBP) in collaboration with the business community commissioned a Broadband for Businesses (BB4B) Study. The report creates an actionable roadmap with recommendations for improving access to affordable and reliable broadband services for businesses, An initial report, PRELIMINARY POLICY CONSIDERATIONS [1], was prepared in late 2016 that includes tools and recommendations for policymakers. This Study elaborates on those insights by evaluating the current broadband infrastructure available at business locations, develops a range of strategies for improving broadband services, and provides an estimate of costs. - BB4B Study: http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/reports/FINAL_CTC%20Report%20-%20NM%20Broadband%20for%20Business%20Policy%20Cons%20-%2020170117.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Mon Dec 11 18:13:52 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:13:52 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NM Broadband for Businesses: w/ Added Link In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3ffa147152704a67e4d1f77ae1e5c64d@1st-mile.org> Here's the link that was not active in my prior posting. RL PRELIMINARY POLICY CONSIDERATIONS, prepared in late 2016 http://www.doit.state.nm.us/broadband/reports/BB4B_CTC_Report_Policy_Considerations-final20170117.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From rl at 1st-mile.org Fri Dec 15 09:33:56 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 10:33:56 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: Invitation to the ARIN on the Road: Albuquerque In-Reply-To: <3e69e507-244a-4680-9a7e-dcac3d399faa-dklp@cvent-planner.com> References: <3e69e507-244a-4680-9a7e-dcac3d399faa-dklp@cvent-planner.com> Message-ID: Of possible interest to a few of you on this list. RL -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Invitation to the ARIN on the Road: Albuquerque Date: 2017-12-12 11:58 From: "ARIN" Reply-To: meetings at arin-meetings.net Hello! The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is bringing our roadshow to the Crowne Plaza Albuquerque from 9:30 AM to 3:45 PM on Thursday, 25 January, 2018. This one-day event is your opportunity to learn about topics like: - ARIN's Mission and Core Functions - ARIN Technical Services - Policy Development at ARIN - IPv4 Services - Waiting List, Transfers and more - ARIN Security Services - DNSSEC, RPKI, and more - ARIN Directory Services - RDAP, Whois, Whowas, Data Accuracy - IPv6 Services - Obtaining Resources, Networking Plans - Community Engagement with ARIN - Registration Services Department Update - Open microphone to answer your questions! Are you part of an organization that would like to share its IPv6 implementation story with others? We want to hear from you! We would like to include your story as part of the agenda. Would your organization like the opportunity to sponsor a happy hour from 4:00 - 5:00 pm? Please contact meetings at arin.net as soon as possible if you are interested in being a speaker or sponsor. In addition to providing great professional education, ARIN on the Road will give you a chance to connect with colleagues and find out how you can help shape the future of the Internet by getting involved in the ARIN community. Registration is free and lunch is on us! Seating is limited, so register today at: http://www.cvent.com/d/zD8awKAoJkOgR7Tjg-qTbw/dklp/P1/4W? Help ARIN spread the word by extending this invitation to interested local friends and colleagues by sharing this email or the URL above. http://www.cvent.com/d/1tqw90/5S?lang=en&cn=-hPFPnxNKkuhDTqS1UTFCA&sms=6 Regards, Susan Hamlin Director, Communications and Member Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) https://www.arin.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From david at breeckerassociates.com Fri Dec 15 13:51:48 2017 From: david at breeckerassociates.com (David Breecker [dba]) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 14:51:48 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial Message-ID: <0CEBFF0C-02C8-4161-8F4D-DA3FDCE48714@breeckerassociates.com> I?m curious to know if anyone knows anything about the effectiveness of this technology in its current state: https://na.smartcitiescouncil.com/article/how-internet-over-power-lines-could-be-solution-underserved-communities David Breecker, President David Breecker Associates www.breeckerassociates.com Santa Fe Office: 505-690-2335 Abiquiu Office: 505-685-4891 Skype: dbreecker -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Roman Maes BBA, JD 619-230-5582 Roman at romanmaes.com Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 16, 2017, at 2:55 PM, Roger Snodgrass wrote: > > Just a bit more recently here, tantalizing but inconclusive... > > http://time.com/5065454/net-neutrality-vote-att-internet-power-lines-project-airgig/ > > https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/13/att-project-airgig-second-round-of-tests/ > > > >> On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 2:51 PM, David Breecker [dba] wrote: >> I?m curious to know if anyone knows anything about the effectiveness of this technology in its current state: >> >> https://na.smartcitiescouncil.com/article/how-internet-over-power-lines-could-be-solution-underserved-communities >> >> David Breecker, >> President >> >> >> >> David Breecker Associates >> www.breeckerassociates.com >> >> Santa Fe Office: 505-690-2335 >> Abiquiu Office: 505-685-4891 >> Skype: dbreecker >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 1st-mile-nm mailing list >> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org >> http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm >> > > > > -- > > Roger Snodgrass > cell 505-920-3677 > l\lllllllll/llllll/\llllll\ll > > _______________________________________________ > 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.org Sun Dec 17 09:09:18 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 10:09:18 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NN Query In-Reply-To: References: <0CEBFF0C-02C8-4161-8F4D-DA3FDCE48714@breeckerassociates.com> Message-ID: Given the amount of 'noise' as well as informative info., for those who can parse it, I'm personally pleased that we've not had a major Network Neutrality back-and-forth on this list. The Benton Foundation has long been a good (biased?) source of info. for those wanting to follow news aggregation on this and other tele-networking matters. https://www.benton.org/headlines Here's the excerpted conclusion of their long, multi-sourced Friday report: "Even before the FCC's Order was released, a number of groups (including states) promised to challenge it in court." "The litigation process will not begin today. First, the FCC order will have to be released and published in the Federal Register. Although FCC Chairman Pai may want to move fast, that process could take days or weeks. FCC staff indicated after the FCC's meeting December 14 that the Office of Management and Budget will have to approve the FCC's new transparency rule, a process that could take months." "After suits are filed -- and, seriously, suits will be filed -- it could take 6 months or longer before a trial begins and another six months or so before a decision comes down. Whoever loses -- the FCC or the loyal opposition -- could then appeal the ruling. So this fight will continue through 2018, possibly (well, likely, actually) becoming an election issue. All cheer regulatory certainty!" RL On 2017-12-16 20:18, Roman Maes III wrote: > Query; I was a bit surprised that few if any remarks on Net > Neutrality camel about from 1st mile communicators .,,yes its great or > not so great? > > Roman Maes BBA, JD > 619-230-5582 > Roman at romanmaes.com > --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- From john at citylinkfiber.com Sun Dec 17 09:36:48 2017 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 10:36:48 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NN Query In-Reply-To: References: <0CEBFF0C-02C8-4161-8F4D-DA3FDCE48714@breeckerassociates.com> Message-ID: Certainly there are parts of the Wheeler NN that people didn't like. There are other parts that significantly enabled more competitive options and growth. NN was about more than just "fast lane / slow lane" for content. It was about creating a level playing field for basic access to the infrastructure. Now thats gone. One example: Pole Attachment rights. Under Wheeler's NN Broadband providers had a legal right to attach fiber and wireless to the poles of electric and incumbent telecom. After Thursdays vote that right disappeared. Current NM pole owners are a significant barrier to entry. City legal folks don't seem to care, NM PRC doesn't wish to get involved, and so it was left to the Feds. Now that is gone. The only way to get to the poles now is to become a CLEC (under 1996) rules. Why would a new entrant want to be encumbered by 20 year old scheme ??? Multiple states have created pole attachment regulations and enable competitive and neutral access to poles. New Mexico IS NOT one of those states. Incumbent providers (Comcast aka Xfinity, CenturyLink, Cox, Cable One, T-Mobile, ATT, Verizon, et al) all have good reason to prevent new comers from accessing the poles. So they work with pole owners and regulators to keep open access from happening. With all the lip service paid by politicians to wanting to get more broadband deployed in NM, they don't take the simple steps of creating a framework (and enforcing it or existing ones) that will actually do that. So if we really want fast broadband delivered via reliable technologies like fiber and fixed wireless and we want competitive choices, then we as a state need to suck it up and create/enforce a frame work that enables that. And not be captured by the incumbents. 1. Create a regulatory framework that requires open access to things like Poles and Ducts. This doesn't mean free access, but it does mean access. The Feds have a pricing scheme for poles that is level across the country. It works. We can use it. PNM / CenturyLink need to be required to allow access to their poles so that fiber and wireless can be deployed by broadband providers. Keep in mind that the money paid to PNM for pole attachment helps offset their operational costs for delivering electricity. Read, that reduces the need to increase electric rates. 2. Create a regulatory framework that allows for a single point of application for RoW access. This would enable a provider to apply at the State level and then be granted access to all municipal, county, and state RoW, state wide. As it sits today, a provider has to seek application in every county, town, city in our state that they wish to operate in. This is a significant cost and barrier to entry. This would NOT remove the requirement(s) that such construction must be permitted and follow generally acceptable standards in each community. It would NOT remove requirements for special construction steps in historical areas. It simply means that once the State issues a RoW "franchise" one can goto any location and complete the permitting / engineering and begin work. The framework should also prohibit communities from creating burdensom rules. 3. Create a regulatory framework that enables a State Wide "Dig Once" requirement. When a provider is going to dig the ground up and place infrastructure, they should announce it to others and those others have 10 business days to decide on if they want to "get in on the project" and place their own structures or not. This should be an absolute requirement for any Muni based or tax payer funded funded public works project. If the City of Santa Fe is going to dig a street and put new water, sewer, etc in the ground, then all of the RoW users should have an option to share in the cost and place their own conduits etc into the project. This works well in other states.!! It would REDUCE the muni's cost, it would enhance broadband deployment. Politicians, do the three things above, in a sensible manner and watch our state flourish. Put it to vote this session. Drive it, Get it DONE!!, Ignore CenturyLink / Comcast / PNM Have the guts to care about the every day citizen. Stay tuned to my upcoming essay on how a New Mexico City wasted over $50 Million dollars in tax payer money on a broadband project they didn't act on. We all wonder while we are always last on the good lists.................... Respectfully, John Brown, CISSP On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > Given the amount of 'noise' as well as informative info., for those > who can parse it, I'm personally pleased that we've not had a major > Network Neutrality back-and-forth on this list. > > The Benton Foundation has long been a good (biased?) source of info. > for those wanting to follow news aggregation on this and other > tele-networking matters. https://www.benton.org/headlines > > Here's the excerpted conclusion of their long, multi-sourced Friday report: > > "Even before the FCC's Order was released, a number of groups (including > states) promised to challenge it in court." > > "The litigation process will not begin today. First, the FCC order will have > to be released and published in the Federal Register. Although FCC Chairman > Pai may want to move fast, that process could take days or weeks. FCC staff > indicated after the FCC's meeting December 14 that the Office of Management > and Budget will have to approve the FCC's new transparency rule, a process > that could take months." > > "After suits are filed -- and, seriously, suits will be filed -- it could > take 6 months or longer before a trial begins and another six months or so > before a decision comes down. Whoever loses -- the FCC or the loyal > opposition -- could then appeal the ruling. So this fight will continue > through 2018, possibly (well, likely, actually) becoming an election issue. > All cheer regulatory certainty!" > > RL > > > On 2017-12-16 20:18, Roman Maes III wrote: >> >> Query; I was a bit surprised that few if any remarks on Net >> Neutrality camel about from 1st mile communicators .,,yes its great or >> not so great? >> >> Roman Maes BBA, JD >> 619-230-5582 >> Roman at romanmaes.com >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director > 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, > rl at 1st-mile.org www.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 josmon at rigozsaurus.com Sun Dec 17 10:59:26 2017 From: josmon at rigozsaurus.com (John Osmon) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 11:59:26 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NN Query In-Reply-To: References: <0CEBFF0C-02C8-4161-8F4D-DA3FDCE48714@breeckerassociates.com> Message-ID: <20171217185926.GX20788@jeeves.rigozsaurus.com> On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 10:09:18AM -0700, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > Given the amount of 'noise' as well as informative info., for those > who can parse it, I'm personally pleased that we've not had a major > Network Neutrality back-and-forth on this list. Right now, the regulatory framework pushes last-mile providers into a situation where they maximize their profits when they deny ISP competition. Network Neutrality (as it is currently thought of) does nothing to help this situation. If we really want to see ISP competition, we need to set the base regulations so that they make such competition ideal for last-mile providers. Perhaps we should be pursuing regulation that prohibits last-mile provider from being ISPs. We could preclude companies that use the public rights of way from being ISPs -- they could only connect end-consumers to ISPs. In such an environment, the people using public resources would maximize their profit when they offered paths to multiple ISPs, and the ISPs could follow whatever fast/slow lanes they wanted -- but consumers would have a choice in a marketplace that stood a chance of having actual competition. I see this as one simple law that pushes industry in the direction we want. The alternative is nothing, or a tapestry of laws that puts the burden on consumers to keep providers in check. From john at citylinkfiber.com Sun Dec 17 11:05:06 2017 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 12:05:06 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NN Query In-Reply-To: <20171217185926.GX20788@jeeves.rigozsaurus.com> References: <0CEBFF0C-02C8-4161-8F4D-DA3FDCE48714@breeckerassociates.com> <20171217185926.GX20788@jeeves.rigozsaurus.com> Message-ID: So who would be the "last mile" (er first-mile) provider(s) ?? On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 11:59 AM, John Osmon wrote: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 10:09:18AM -0700, Richard Lowenberg wrote: >> Given the amount of 'noise' as well as informative info., for those >> who can parse it, I'm personally pleased that we've not had a major >> Network Neutrality back-and-forth on this list. > > Right now, the regulatory framework pushes last-mile providers into a > situation where they maximize their profits when they deny ISP > competition. Network Neutrality (as it is currently thought of) does > nothing to help this situation. > > If we really want to see ISP competition, we need to set the base > regulations so that they make such competition ideal for last-mile > providers. > > Perhaps we should be pursuing regulation that prohibits last-mile > provider from being ISPs. We could preclude companies that use the > public rights of way from being ISPs -- they could only connect > end-consumers to ISPs. > > In such an environment, the people using public resources would maximize > their profit when they offered paths to multiple ISPs, and the ISPs > could follow whatever fast/slow lanes they wanted -- but consumers would > have a choice in a marketplace that stood a chance of having actual > competition. > > I see this as one simple law that pushes industry in the direction we > want. The alternative is nothing, or a tapestry of laws that puts the > burden on consumers to keep providers in check. > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm From josmon at rigozsaurus.com Sun Dec 17 11:14:13 2017 From: josmon at rigozsaurus.com (John Osmon) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 12:14:13 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NN Query In-Reply-To: References: <0CEBFF0C-02C8-4161-8F4D-DA3FDCE48714@breeckerassociates.com> <20171217185926.GX20788@jeeves.rigozsaurus.com> Message-ID: <20171217191413.GY20788@jeeves.rigozsaurus.com> The point of the exercise is to be able to honestly say: "Who cares?" On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 12:05:06PM -0700, John Brown wrote: > So who would be the "last mile" (er first-mile) provider(s) ?? > > > > On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 11:59 AM, John Osmon wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 10:09:18AM -0700, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > >> Given the amount of 'noise' as well as informative info., for those > >> who can parse it, I'm personally pleased that we've not had a major > >> Network Neutrality back-and-forth on this list. > > > > Right now, the regulatory framework pushes last-mile providers into a > > situation where they maximize their profits when they deny ISP > > competition. Network Neutrality (as it is currently thought of) does > > nothing to help this situation. > > > > If we really want to see ISP competition, we need to set the base > > regulations so that they make such competition ideal for last-mile > > providers. > > > > Perhaps we should be pursuing regulation that prohibits last-mile > > provider from being ISPs. We could preclude companies that use the > > public rights of way from being ISPs -- they could only connect > > end-consumers to ISPs. > > > > In such an environment, the people using public resources would maximize > > their profit when they offered paths to multiple ISPs, and the ISPs > > could follow whatever fast/slow lanes they wanted -- but consumers would > > have a choice in a marketplace that stood a chance of having actual > > competition. > > > > I see this as one simple law that pushes industry in the direction we > > want. The alternative is nothing, or a tapestry of laws that puts the > > burden on consumers to keep providers in check. > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 mimcom at sw-ei.com Sun Dec 17 11:48:23 2017 From: mimcom at sw-ei.com (Mimbres Communications) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 12:48:23 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] NN Query In-Reply-To: References: <0CEBFF0C-02C8-4161-8F4D-DA3FDCE48714@breeckerassociates.com> Message-ID: NN is important, yes -- but it's also a red herring which has managed to keep the public, the mainstream media, and most of the so-called experts distracted from a far uglier truth -- hundreds of billions of dollars in government-assisted corporate theft. http://newnetworks.com/fixingtelecomdocs/ http://irregulators.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/BookofBrokenPromises.pdf An FCC commission stacked with corporate telecom lawyers -- what did we expect? On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Richard Lowenberg wrote: > Given the amount of 'noise' as well as informative info., for those > who can parse it, I'm personally pleased that we've not had a major > Network Neutrality back-and-forth on this list. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john at citylinkfiber.com Sun Dec 17 12:43:30 2017 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 13:43:30 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] CityLink Net Neutrality Disclosure Message-ID: Here is a copy of the policy statement being sent to all of our customers. ----- CityLink Telecommunications NM, LLC Net Neutrality Disclosure. Sunday, December 17, 2017 With the recent FCC vote to remove present Net Neutrality rules there is much discussion and concern amongst users about what the future holds. Net Neutrality is a complex topic that has lots of ?moving parts?. Like many complex topics there are no simple quick answers, no one shoe fits all. In some cases regulation by a government has been good for society, in other cases it has not. And, as a society moves forward, older regulations may not be as beneficial as they once were. There is much work to be done in getting fast, reliable and competitively priced broadband available to all Americans. CityLink believes that it is important for our customers and the communities we serve to provide access to an Open Internet. We therefore would like to take a moment and address how we have and will continue to operate and provide service to our customers. In general we believe that users should be free to access lawful content and applications equally, regardless of the source and without us discriminating against specific services or websites. Basically we connect you to the Internet and we don?t control what you do on the Internet. Our terms of service require that you use our services in a lawful manner, including respecting copyright laws. Lawful access is based on the local, regional and national laws in place where we deliver the service to you. 1. Throttling. CityLink will never rate limit or throttle access to lawful content on the Internet, subject to the service level you are subscribing to and our aggregate capacities. 2. Blocking. CityLink will never block your access to lawful content on the Internet. 3. Prioritized Access. CityLink does not prioritize access based on content or applications, with the exception that we do honor packet prioritization, as set by the end user for VoIP. Access to lawful content is on an equal basis. Our job at CityLink is to connect you the very best way we can to the global Internet. CityLink reserves the right to block or throttle access based on activities that we determine is harmful to our customers, or our network or the general Internet. While we are unable to predict the future, we generally believe these positions will not change in the future, but the lawyers require us to say: ?These positions and policies are subject to change in the future and all customers will be notified should such changes occur.? If you have any questions or comments on the above, please send them to nn-policy at citylinkfiber.com Respectfully, John Brown, CISSP Managing Member CityLink Telecommunications NM, LLC From drew.einhorn at gmail.com Sun Dec 17 13:04:47 2017 From: drew.einhorn at gmail.com (Drew Einhorn) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 21:04:47 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Fwd: The Beginning of the End for Copper In-Reply-To: <49312101.6307.0@wordpress.com> References: <49312101.6307.0@wordpress.com> Message-ID: Hi, I worry about the FCC's decision on net neutrality. But, as a rural customer, I find this much more worrisome. In my neighborhood, lobo.net is providing a much-needed alternative to CenturyLink. But, other neighborhoods are not so fortunate. If Verizon and AT&T are successful in shedding their rural customers, I doubt it will take CenturyLink long to follow their example. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: POTs and PANs Date: Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 5:16 AM Subject: [New post] The Beginning of the End for Copper To: CCGConsulting posted: "The FCC voted last Thursday to relax the rules for retiring copper wiring. This change was specifically aimed at Verizon and AT&T and is going to make it a lot easier for them to tear down old copper wiring. The change eliminates some of the notifi" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on *POTs and PANs* The Beginning of the End for Copper by CCGConsulting The FCC voted last Thursday to relax the rules for retiring copper wiring. This change was specifically aimed at Verizon and AT&T and is going to make it a lot easier for them to tear down old copper wiring. The change eliminates some of the notification process to customers and also allows the telcos to eliminate old copper wholesale services like resale. But the big consequence of this change is that many customers will lose voice services. This change reverses rules put in place in 2014 that required that the telcos replace copper with service that is functionally as good as the copper facilities that are being removed. Consider what this change will mean. If the telcos tear down copper in towns then customers will lose the option to buy DSL. While cable modems have clobbered DSL in the market there are still between 15% and 25% of broadband customers on DSL in most markets. DSL, while slower, also offers lower cost broadband options which many customers find attractive. I don?t envision AT&T and Verizon tearing down huge amounts of copper in towns immediately. But there are plenty of neighborhoods where the copper is dreadful and the telcos can now walk away from that copper without offering an alternative to customers. This will give the cable companies a true monopoly in towns or neighborhoods where the copper is removed. Customers losing low-cost DSL will face a price increase if they want to keep broadband. The rural areas are a different story. In most of rural America the copper network is used to deliver telephone service and there are still a lot of rural customers buying telephone service. You might think that people can just change to cellular service if they lose their landlines, but it?s not that simple. There are still plenty of rural places that have copper telephone service where there is no good cellular service. And there are a lot more places where the cellular service is too weak to work indoors and customers need to go outside to find the cellular sweet spots (something we all remember doing in airports a decade ago). Of a bigger concern in rural areas will be losing access to 911. A lot of homes still keep landlines just for the 911 capabilities. Under the old rules the carriers had to demonstrate that customers would still have access to reliable 911, but it seems the carriers can now walk away without worrying about this. The FCC seems to have accepted the big telcos arguments completely. For instance, Chairman Pai cited a big telco argument that carriers could save $40 to $50 per home per year by eliminating copper. That may be a real number, but the revenue from somebody buying voice service on copper is far greater than the savings. It seems clear that the big telcos want to eliminate what?s left of their rural work force and get out of the residential business. This is a change that has been inevitable for years. The copper networks are deteriorating due to age and due even more to neglect. But the last FCC rules forced the telcos to work to find an alternative to copper for customers. Since AT&T and Verizon are cellular companies this largely meant guaranteeing adequate access to cellular service ? and that meant beefing up the rural cellular networks where there aren?t a lot of customers. But without the functional equivalency requirement it?s unlikely that the carriers will beef up cellular service in the most remote rural places. And that means that many homes will go dark for voice. This same ruling applies to other telcos, but I don?t think there will be any rush to tear down copper in the same manner as AT&T and Verizon. Telcos like Frontier and Windstream still rely heavily on their copper networks and don?t have a cellular product to replace landlines. And I don?t know any smaller telcos that would walk away from customers without first providing an alternative service. It?s hard to think that the FCC is embracing a policy that will leave some households with no voice option. The FCC is purposefully turning a blind eye to the issue, but anybody who knows rural America knows this will happen. There are still a lot of rural places where copper is the only communications option today. Our regulators once prided themselves on the fact that we brought telephone service to every place that had electricity. We had a communications network that was the envy of the world, and connecting everybody was a huge boon to the economy. We could still keep those same universal service policies for cellular service if we had the will to do so. But this FCC clearly sides with the big carriers over the public and they are not going to impose any rules that the big telcos and cable companies don?t want. *CCGConsulting * | November 20, 2017 at 7:15 am | Tags: DSL , FCC , retiring copper , rural 911 | Categories: Regulation - What is it Good For? | URL: https://wp.me/p3kUkt-1DJ Comment See all comments Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from POTs and PANs. 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This recent decision is unprecedented, and if allowed to stand, it effectively removes the FCC from having authority over broadband -- which in turn makes it nearly impossible for the FTC or any other agency to act. http://www.wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/no-the-draft-net-neutrality-repeal-does-not-restore-us-to-2014-and-2014-wasnt-exactly-awesome-anyway/ On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Shouldn't broadband be a utility .. like water, gas, etc? Not that that > would necessarily be great here in NM, but.. > > Bottom line: I think the NN issues are secondary to just admitting > broadband is a utility. > > -- Owen > -- Kurt Albershardt | Mimbres Communications, LLC | 575-342-0042 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From JBadal at sacred-wind.com Mon Dec 18 07:48:21 2017 From: JBadal at sacred-wind.com (John Badal) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:48:21 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial In-Reply-To: <0CEBFF0C-02C8-4161-8F4D-DA3FDCE48714@breeckerassociates.com> References: <0CEBFF0C-02C8-4161-8F4D-DA3FDCE48714@breeckerassociates.com> Message-ID: I looked at this a few years ago, visiting with a former Sandia Labs expert on the matter, and concluded then that the technology was nowhere near acceptable in the U.S. Older power equipment in rural areas and the number of transponders seemed to be just one hurdle. Signal loss is another. If I recall one overriding issue, with our DC electric power grids that require a power transformer every specified distance, Broadband Over Powerline (BBPL) will require corrective equipment at every transformer, not just at the switch and customer premise. I?m eager to see what AT&T comes up with. It?ll take a deep pockets company to figure this out. John From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of David Breecker [dba] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 2:52 PM To: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial I?m curious to know if anyone knows anything about the effectiveness of this technology in its current state: https://na.smartcitiescouncil.com/article/how-internet-over-power-lines-could-be-solution-underserved-communities David Breecker, President [cid:image001.png at 01D377DC.6212DC30] David Breecker Associates www.breeckerassociates.com Santa Fe Office: 505-690-2335 Abiquiu Office: 505-685-4891 Skype: dbreecker -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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If I recall one overriding issue, with our DC electric power > grids that require a power transformer every specified distance, Broadband > Over Powerline (BBPL) will require corrective equipment at every > transformer, not just at the switch and customer premise. I?m eager to see > what AT&T comes up with. It?ll take a deep pockets company to figure this > out. > > > > John > > > > > > > > *From:* 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] *On > Behalf Of *David Breecker [dba] > *Sent:* Friday, December 15, 2017 2:52 PM > *To:* 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> > *Subject:* [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial > > > > I?m curious to know if anyone knows anything about the effectiveness of > this technology in its current state: > > > > https://na.smartcitiescouncil.com/article/how-internet-over- > power-lines-could-be-solution-underserved-communities > > > > David Breecker, > > President > > > > * David Breecker Associates* > > *www.breeckerassociates.com * > > > > Santa Fe Office: 505-690-2335 > > Abiquiu Office: 505-685-4891 > > Skype: dbreecker > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Mon Dec 18 08:08:16 2017 From: JBadal at sacred-wind.com (John Badal) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:08:16 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial In-Reply-To: References: <0CEBFF0C-02C8-4161-8F4D-DA3FDCE48714@breeckerassociates.com> Message-ID: I think you?re right. I just remember that Edison favored DC. Guess he lost. John From: John Brown [mailto:john at citylinkfiber.com] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 8:52 AM To: John Badal Cc: David Breecker [dba] ; 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial Aren't our power grids AC ?? On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 8:48 AM, John Badal > wrote: I looked at this a few years ago, visiting with a former Sandia Labs expert on the matter, and concluded then that the technology was nowhere near acceptable in the U.S. Older power equipment in rural areas and the number of transponders seemed to be just one hurdle. Signal loss is another. If I recall one overriding issue, with our DC electric power grids that require a power transformer every specified distance, Broadband Over Powerline (BBPL) will require corrective equipment at every transformer, not just at the switch and customer premise. I?m eager to see what AT&T comes up with. It?ll take a deep pockets company to figure this out. John From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of David Breecker [dba] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 2:52 PM To: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial I?m curious to know if anyone knows anything about the effectiveness of this technology in its current state: https://na.smartcitiescouncil.com/article/how-internet-over-power-lines-could-be-solution-underserved-communities David Breecker, President David Breecker Associates www.breeckerassociates.com Santa Fe Office: 505-690-2335 Abiquiu Office: 505-685-4891 Skype: dbreecker _______________________________________________ 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 Mon Dec 18 08:56:33 2017 From: editorsteve at gmail.com (Steve Ross) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:56:33 -0500 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial In-Reply-To: References: <0CEBFF0C-02C8-4161-8F4D-DA3FDCE48714@breeckerassociates.com> Message-ID: AT&T has a big patent portfolio on this -- mainly ways to make the devices cheaply. The idea is to insert very high frequency signals on copper by clamping a transmitter on the wire, every few telephone poles along the line. This gets around the key problem that high frequency signals don't carry very far on copper. With Airgig, they get refreshed every few hundred feet. The (potentially) little refresh/relay devices on the poles would also broadcast to nearby premises and the roadway, replacing a physical drop. They also have variants that can be used on poles as needed to get around transformers and other devices that can screw up signals. This is quite different from the old BOP ideas around 2003-4 that inserted much lower frequency signals on devices much farther apart. We're talking 5+ and even 30+ Ghz now, 100 Mhz then. Even with the short copper runs between signal refresh, the copper has to be in good shape. Latency is pretty high along the network as a whole, and that can be a problem for driverless vehicles, which would probably use 802.11p to communicate with the little antennas that sit on the poles with the refresh circuitry. (Where 5G is installed, cars would presumably use cellular transmissions, not Ethernet 11p directly; ATT has a current test on that using 4G down in San Diego.) Unless conditions are ideal, the costs climb to where fiber would be easier, especially once you look at opex.... I would see a lot of trouble with using this on a transmission line above 880 V or even above 440 V just because the insulation and isolation issues get dicey and expensive; 440V would probably be the norm, though. Also, big transmission lines usually have fiber alongside anyway. But there is no theoretical reason why this would not work on big DC lines, except that the tower spacing is greater. We at Broadband Communities tend to think of these sorts of things in business terms. If the market is big enough, the devices can be multi-sourced and made cheaply. But no one solution seems ideal for huge swaths of problems. These are things that bring about 5 or 10% more business cases into the money. And that is GREAT! We have not talked about this much at the magazine, so these opinions are my own. Steve Ross Editor-at-Large, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com) 201-456-5933 mobile 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) editorsteve1 (Twitter) steve at bbcmag.com editorsteve at gmail.com On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:08 AM, John Badal wrote: > I think you?re right. I just remember that Edison favored DC. Guess he > lost. > > > > John > > > > *From:* John Brown [mailto:john at citylinkfiber.com] > *Sent:* Monday, December 18, 2017 8:52 AM > *To:* John Badal > *Cc:* David Breecker [dba] ; 1st-Mile-NM < > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> > *Subject:* Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial > > > > Aren't our power grids AC ?? > > > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 8:48 AM, John Badal > wrote: > > I looked at this a few years ago, visiting with a former Sandia Labs > expert on the matter, and concluded then that the technology was nowhere > near acceptable in the U.S. Older power equipment in rural areas and the > number of transponders seemed to be just one hurdle. Signal loss is > another. If I recall one overriding issue, with our DC electric power > grids that require a power transformer every specified distance, Broadband > Over Powerline (BBPL) will require corrective equipment at every > transformer, not just at the switch and customer premise. I?m eager to see > what AT&T comes up with. It?ll take a deep pockets company to figure this > out. > > > > John > > > > > > > > *From:* 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] *On > Behalf Of *David Breecker [dba] > *Sent:* Friday, December 15, 2017 2:52 PM > *To:* 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> > *Subject:* [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial > > > > I?m curious to know if anyone knows anything about the effectiveness of > this technology in its current state: > > > > https://na.smartcitiescouncil.com/article/how-internet-over- > power-lines-could-be-solution-underserved-communities > > > > David Breecker, > > President > > > > * David Breecker Associates* > > *www.breeckerassociates.com * > > > > Santa Fe Office: 505-690-2335 <(505)%20690-2335> > > Abiquiu Office: 505-685-4891 <(505)%20685-4891> > > Skype: dbreecker > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 JBadal at sacred-wind.com Mon Dec 18 08:58:57 2017 From: JBadal at sacred-wind.com (John Badal) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:58:57 +0000 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial In-Reply-To: References: <0CEBFF0C-02C8-4161-8F4D-DA3FDCE48714@breeckerassociates.com> Message-ID: Good information, thanks. John From: Steve Ross [mailto:editorsteve at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 9:57 AM To: John Badal Cc: John Brown ; 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial AT&T has a big patent portfolio on this -- mainly ways to make the devices cheaply. The idea is to insert very high frequency signals on copper by clamping a transmitter on the wire, every few telephone poles along the line. This gets around the key problem that high frequency signals don't carry very far on copper. With Airgig, they get refreshed every few hundred feet. The (potentially) little refresh/relay devices on the poles would also broadcast to nearby premises and the roadway, replacing a physical drop. They also have variants that can be used on poles as needed to get around transformers and other devices that can screw up signals. This is quite different from the old BOP ideas around 2003-4 that inserted much lower frequency signals on devices much farther apart. We're talking 5+ and even 30+ Ghz now, 100 Mhz then. Even with the short copper runs between signal refresh, the copper has to be in good shape. Latency is pretty high along the network as a whole, and that can be a problem for driverless vehicles, which would probably use 802.11p to communicate with the little antennas that sit on the poles with the refresh circuitry. (Where 5G is installed, cars would presumably use cellular transmissions, not Ethernet 11p directly; ATT has a current test on that using 4G down in San Diego.) Unless conditions are ideal, the costs climb to where fiber would be easier, especially once you look at opex.... I would see a lot of trouble with using this on a transmission line above 880 V or even above 440 V just because the insulation and isolation issues get dicey and expensive; 440V would probably be the norm, though. Also, big transmission lines usually have fiber alongside anyway. But there is no theoretical reason why this would not work on big DC lines, except that the tower spacing is greater. We at Broadband Communities tend to think of these sorts of things in business terms. If the market is big enough, the devices can be multi-sourced and made cheaply. But no one solution seems ideal for huge swaths of problems. These are things that bring about 5 or 10% more business cases into the money. And that is GREAT! We have not talked about this much at the magazine, so these opinions are my own. Steve Ross Editor-at-Large, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com) 201-456-5933 mobile 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) editorsteve1 (Twitter) steve at bbcmag.com editorsteve at gmail.com On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:08 AM, John Badal > wrote: I think you?re right. I just remember that Edison favored DC. Guess he lost. John From: John Brown [mailto:john at citylinkfiber.com] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 8:52 AM To: John Badal > Cc: David Breecker [dba] >; 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial Aren't our power grids AC ?? On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 8:48 AM, John Badal > wrote: I looked at this a few years ago, visiting with a former Sandia Labs expert on the matter, and concluded then that the technology was nowhere near acceptable in the U.S. Older power equipment in rural areas and the number of transponders seemed to be just one hurdle. Signal loss is another. If I recall one overriding issue, with our DC electric power grids that require a power transformer every specified distance, Broadband Over Powerline (BBPL) will require corrective equipment at every transformer, not just at the switch and customer premise. I?m eager to see what AT&T comes up with. It?ll take a deep pockets company to figure this out. John From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of David Breecker [dba] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 2:52 PM To: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial I?m curious to know if anyone knows anything about the effectiveness of this technology in its current state: https://na.smartcitiescouncil.com/article/how-internet-over-power-lines-could-be-solution-underserved-communities David Breecker, President David Breecker Associates www.breeckerassociates.com Santa Fe Office: 505-690-2335 Abiquiu Office: 505-685-4891 Skype: dbreecker _______________________________________________ 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... 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Name: bottom.letterhead Type: image/png Size: 21801 bytes Desc: not available URL: From steve at preferredbusinesssolutions.biz Mon Dec 18 09:52:44 2017 From: steve at preferredbusinesssolutions.biz (Steve Cimelli) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:52:44 -0500 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial In-Reply-To: <20171218102035.e4c653d4171ef05b5042f410c9d8e5d1.7fad5ec17d.wbe@email04.godaddy.com> References: <20171218102035.e4c653d4171ef05b5042f410c9d8e5d1.7fad5ec17d.wbe@email04.godaddy.com> Message-ID: Frank: I?m not understanding statement a) below: uses: a) wireless backhaul along power lines with power lines acting as wave guides When I think of wireless backhaul along power lines I think of line-of-site radio transmitter/ receivers placed on power poles spaced based upon the frequency, line-of-site, weather condition requirements, etc. When I think of power lines acting as wave guides, I think of metal conductors (for power tranmission) that have information coded as electromagnetic energy on them. Still needing to deal with all of the electro-stuff that got deployed, often over several generations of technology (fewer green-field installations one would suppose over years of evolution of maintenance upgrades, etc.). What am I missing here? Steve On Dec 18, 2017, at 12:20 PM, wrote: Hi All! Actually, it has nothing to do with copper/transmission/distribution lines. Its 5G wireless (up to 1 Gbps speeds to end user) that uses: a) wireless backhaul along power lines with power lines acting as wave guides b) last mile distribution with access points on top of power poles I think its very clever in that it solves: a) backhaul - MUCH cheaper than fiber b) last mile issues made simple given pole attachment agreements that AT&T has c) if an autonomous vehicle will require 4 Tbps/day,how is that need met? Answer: from the power lines that parallel most roads While AT&T may have propriety vendors/patents, etc., its not rocket science to build a wireless network on top of a power grid (I'm thinking the generic "Farmers Co-op Electric" meets rural ISP = rural broadband problem solved). Of course there are major safety issues in that power linemen would have to do all installs and maintenance, and the many advantages of having backhaul plus poles to attach access points too contribute to ease of planning and deployment. Read more at: http://about.att.com/newsroom/att_to_test_delivering_multi_gigabit_wireless_internet_speeds_using_power_lines.html -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial From: John Badal > Date: Mon, December 18, 2017 9:58 am To: Steve Ross > Cc: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > Good information, thanks. John From: Steve Ross [mailto:editorsteve at gmail.com ] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 9:57 AM To: John Badal > Cc: John Brown >; 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial AT&T has a big patent portfolio on this -- mainly ways to make the devices cheaply. The idea is to insert very high frequency signals on copper by clamping a transmitter on the wire, every few telephone poles along the line. This gets around the key problem that high frequency signals don't carry very far on copper. With Airgig, they get refreshed every few hundred feet. The (potentially) little refresh/relay devices on the poles would also broadcast to nearby premises and the roadway, replacing a physical drop. They also have variants that can be used on poles as needed to get around transformers and other devices that can screw up signals. This is quite different from the old BOP ideas around 2003-4 that inserted much lower frequency signals on devices much farther apart. We're talking 5+ and even 30+ Ghz now, 100 Mhz then. Even with the short copper runs between signal refresh, the copper has to be in good shape. Latency is pretty high along the network as a whole, and that can be a problem for driverless vehicles, which would probably use 802.11p to communicate with the little antennas that sit on the poles with the refresh circuitry. (Where 5G is installed, cars would presumably use cellular transmissions, not Ethernet 11p directly; ATT has a current test on that using 4G down in San Diego.) Unless conditions are ideal, the costs climb to where fiber would be easier, especially once you look at opex.... I would see a lot of trouble with using this on a transmission line above 880 V or even above 440 V just because the insulation and isolation issues get dicey and expensive; 440V would probably be the norm, though. Also, big transmission lines usually have fiber alongside anyway. But there is no theoretical reason why this would not work on big DC lines, except that the tower spacing is greater. We at Broadband Communities tend to think of these sorts of things in business terms. If the market is big enough, the devices can be multi-sourced and made cheaply. But no one solution seems ideal for huge swaths of problems. These are things that bring about 5 or 10% more business cases into the money. And that is GREAT! We have not talked about this much at the magazine, so these opinions are my own. Steve Ross Editor-at-Large, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com ) 201-456-5933 mobile 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) editorsteve1 (Twitter) steve at bbcmag.com editorsteve at gmail.com On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:08 AM, John Badal > wrote: I think you?re right. I just remember that Edison favored DC. Guess he lost. John From: John Brown [mailto:john at citylinkfiber.com ] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 8:52 AM To: John Badal > Cc: David Breecker [dba] >; 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial Aren't our power grids AC ?? On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 8:48 AM, John Badal > wrote: I looked at this a few years ago, visiting with a former Sandia Labs expert on the matter, and concluded then that the technology was nowhere near acceptable in the U.S. Older power equipment in rural areas and the number of transponders seemed to be just one hurdle. Signal loss is another. If I recall one overriding issue, with our DC electric power grids that require a power transformer every specified distance, Broadband Over Powerline (BBPL) will require corrective equipment at every transformer, not just at the switch and customer premise. I?m eager to see what AT&T comes up with. It?ll take a deep pockets company to figure this out. 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URL: From josmon at rigozsaurus.com Mon Dec 18 10:51:34 2017 From: josmon at rigozsaurus.com (John Osmon) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:51:34 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial In-Reply-To: References: <20171218102035.e4c653d4171ef05b5042f410c9d8e5d1.7fad5ec17d.wbe@email04.godaddy.com> Message-ID: <20171218185133.GF20788@jeeves.rigozsaurus.com> Waveguides can channel sound and electromagnetic waves -- but the waveguide material isn't used as a conductor. Microwave antennas are often connected to their transmitter/receiver via hollow tubes. The tubes are the waveguides. Fiber optics cables are waveguides as well. Evidently, the characteristics of the powerlines allow for guiding the transmissions -- but the articles I've found aren't that forthcoming with just how this occurs, nor how important it is to the "new" type of broadband over powerline. On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 12:52:44PM -0500, Steve Cimelli wrote: > Frank: I?m not understanding statement a) below: > > uses: > a) wireless backhaul along power lines with power lines acting as wave guides > > When I think of wireless backhaul along power lines I think of line-of-site radio transmitter/ > receivers placed on power poles spaced based upon the frequency, line-of-site, weather condition > requirements, etc. > > When I think of power lines acting as wave guides, I think of metal conductors (for power > tranmission) that have information coded as electromagnetic energy on them. Still needing > to deal with all of the electro-stuff that got deployed, often over several generations of technology > (fewer green-field installations one would suppose over years of evolution of maintenance upgrades, > etc.). What am I missing here? > > Steve > > > > On Dec 18, 2017, at 12:20 PM, wrote: > > Hi All! > > Actually, it has nothing to do with copper/transmission/distribution lines. Its 5G wireless (up to 1 Gbps speeds to end user) that uses: > a) wireless backhaul along power lines with power lines acting as wave guides > b) last mile distribution with access points on top of power poles > > I think its very clever in that it solves: > a) backhaul - MUCH cheaper than fiber > b) last mile issues made simple given pole attachment agreements that AT&T has > c) if an autonomous vehicle will require 4 Tbps/day,how is that need met? Answer: from the power lines that parallel most roads > > While AT&T may have propriety vendors/patents, etc., its not rocket science to build a wireless network on top of a power grid (I'm thinking the generic "Farmers Co-op Electric" meets rural ISP = rural broadband problem solved). Of course there are major safety issues in that power linemen would have to do all installs and maintenance, and the many advantages of having backhaul plus poles to attach access points too contribute to ease of planning and deployment. > > Read more at: > > http://about.att.com/newsroom/att_to_test_delivering_multi_gigabit_wireless_internet_speeds_using_power_lines.html > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial > From: John Badal > > Date: Mon, December 18, 2017 9:58 am > To: Steve Ross > > Cc: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > > > Good information, thanks. > > John > > From: Steve Ross [mailto:editorsteve at gmail.com ] > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 9:57 AM > To: John Badal > > Cc: John Brown >; 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial > > AT&T has a big patent portfolio on this -- mainly ways to make the devices cheaply. The idea is to insert very high frequency signals on copper by clamping a transmitter on the wire, every few telephone poles along the line. This gets around the key problem that high frequency signals don't carry very far on copper. With Airgig, they get refreshed every few hundred feet. The (potentially) little refresh/relay devices on the poles would also broadcast to nearby premises and the roadway, replacing a physical drop. > > They also have variants that can be used on poles as needed to get around transformers and other devices that can screw up signals. > > This is quite different from the old BOP ideas around 2003-4 that inserted much lower frequency signals on devices much farther apart. We're talking 5+ and even 30+ Ghz now, 100 Mhz then. > > Even with the short copper runs between signal refresh, the copper has to be in good shape. Latency is pretty high along the network as a whole, and that can be a problem for driverless vehicles, which would probably use 802.11p to communicate with the little antennas that sit on the poles with the refresh circuitry. (Where 5G is installed, cars would presumably use cellular transmissions, not Ethernet 11p directly; ATT has a current test on that using 4G down in San Diego.) Unless conditions are ideal, the costs climb to where fiber would be easier, especially once you look at opex.... > > I would see a lot of trouble with using this on a transmission line above 880 V or even above 440 V just because the insulation and isolation issues get dicey and expensive; 440V would probably be the norm, though. Also, big transmission lines usually have fiber alongside anyway. But there is no theoretical reason why this would not work on big DC lines, except that the tower spacing is greater. > > We at Broadband Communities tend to think of these sorts of things in business terms. If the market is big enough, the devices can be multi-sourced and made cheaply. But no one solution seems ideal for huge swaths of problems. These are things that bring about 5 or 10% more business cases into the money. And that is GREAT! We have not talked about this much at the magazine, so these opinions are my own. > > > > Steve Ross > Editor-at-Large, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com ) > 201-456-5933 mobile > 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice > editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) > editorsteve1 (Twitter) > steve at bbcmag.com > editorsteve at gmail.com > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:08 AM, John Badal > wrote: > I think you?re right. I just remember that Edison favored DC. Guess he lost. > > John > > From: John Brown [mailto:john at citylinkfiber.com ] > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 8:52 AM > To: John Badal > > Cc: David Breecker [dba] >; 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial > > Aren't our power grids AC ?? > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 8:48 AM, John Badal > wrote: > I looked at this a few years ago, visiting with a former Sandia Labs expert on the matter, and concluded then that the technology was nowhere near acceptable in the U.S. Older power equipment in rural areas and the number of transponders seemed to be just one hurdle. Signal loss is another. If I recall one overriding issue, with our DC electric power grids that require a power transformer every specified distance, Broadband Over Powerline (BBPL) will require corrective equipment at every transformer, not just at the switch and customer premise. I?m eager to see what AT&T comes up with. It?ll take a deep pockets company to figure this out. > > John > > > > From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org ] On Behalf Of David Breecker [dba] > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 2:52 PM > To: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial > > I?m curious to know if anyone knows anything about the effectiveness of this technology in its current state: > > https://na.smartcitiescouncil.com/article/how-internet-over-power-lines-could-be-solution-underserved-communities > > David Breecker, > President > > > David Breecker Associates > www.breeckerassociates.com > > Santa Fe Office: 505-690-2335 > Abiquiu Office: 505-685-4891 > Skype: dbreecker > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 editorsteve at gmail.com Mon Dec 18 11:00:27 2017 From: editorsteve at gmail.com (Steve Ross) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:00:27 -0500 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial In-Reply-To: <20171218185133.GF20788@jeeves.rigozsaurus.com> References: <20171218102035.e4c653d4171ef05b5042f410c9d8e5d1.7fad5ec17d.wbe@email04.godaddy.com> <20171218185133.GF20788@jeeves.rigozsaurus.com> Message-ID: How the signal moves on the copper doesn't matter much at those frequencies if the copper is in good shape, but waveguide implies that the signal sort of gets losslessly reflected by the inside surface of the copper. It's more an interaction of the mmwave signal's fields with the copper and its own (or induced) fields. The device input and output gets clamped onto the wire from the outside. This is not lossless as a "waveguide" would imply. The field extends outside and has to interact with the copper. Hence losses. Gawd, I still remember soldering and bending hollow lab waveguides for 2cm signals -- at the incredible frequency range of 1 to 2 Ghz. In this kind of deployment, where you have to raise a bucket at every pole or every few poles or every 10 poles to install the electronics, and the electronics have to be powered and maintained, how is this (in general) vastly cheaper than fiber? Even if the capex is marginally lower, the opex will be higher. Capex for a device full of electronics has to be more than capex for a few hundred feet of fiber, I would think. Steve Ross Editor-at-Large, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com) 201-456-5933 mobile 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) editorsteve1 (Twitter) steve at bbcmag.com editorsteve at gmail.com On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 1:51 PM, John Osmon wrote: > Waveguides can channel sound and electromagnetic waves -- but the > waveguide material isn't used as a conductor. Microwave antennas > are often connected to their transmitter/receiver via hollow tubes. > The tubes are the waveguides. > > Fiber optics cables are waveguides as well. > > Evidently, the characteristics of the powerlines allow for guiding the > transmissions -- but the articles I've found aren't that forthcoming > with just how this occurs, nor how important it is to the "new" type of > broadband over powerline. > > > > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 12:52:44PM -0500, Steve Cimelli wrote: > > Frank: I?m not understanding statement a) below: > > > > uses: > > a) wireless backhaul along power lines with power lines acting as wave > guides > > > > When I think of wireless backhaul along power lines I think of > line-of-site radio transmitter/ > > receivers placed on power poles spaced based upon the frequency, > line-of-site, weather condition > > requirements, etc. > > > > When I think of power lines acting as wave guides, I think of metal > conductors (for power > > tranmission) that have information coded as electromagnetic energy on > them. Still needing > > to deal with all of the electro-stuff that got deployed, often over > several generations of technology > > (fewer green-field installations one would suppose over years of > evolution of maintenance upgrades, > > etc.). What am I missing here? > > > > Steve > > > > > > > > On Dec 18, 2017, at 12:20 PM, < > frank at wmxsystems.com> wrote: > > > > Hi All! > > > > Actually, it has nothing to do with copper/transmission/distribution > lines. Its 5G wireless (up to 1 Gbps speeds to end user) that uses: > > a) wireless backhaul along power lines with power lines acting as wave > guides > > b) last mile distribution with access points on top of power poles > > > > I think its very clever in that it solves: > > a) backhaul - MUCH cheaper than fiber > > b) last mile issues made simple given pole attachment agreements that > AT&T has > > c) if an autonomous vehicle will require 4 Tbps/day,how is that need > met? Answer: from the power lines that parallel most roads > > > > While AT&T may have propriety vendors/patents, etc., its not rocket > science to build a wireless network on top of a power grid (I'm thinking > the generic "Farmers Co-op Electric" meets rural ISP = rural broadband > problem solved). Of course there are major safety issues in that power > linemen would have to do all installs and maintenance, and the many > advantages of having backhaul plus poles to attach access points too > contribute to ease of planning and deployment. > > > > Read more at: > > > > http://about.att.com/newsroom/att_to_test_delivering_multi_ > gigabit_wireless_internet_speeds_using_power_lines.html < > http://about.att.com/newsroom/att_to_test_delivering_multi_gigabit_ > wireless_internet_speeds_using_power_lines.html> > > > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial > > From: John Badal >> > > Date: Mon, December 18, 2017 9:58 am > > To: Steve Ross > > > Cc: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>> > > > > Good information, thanks. > > > > John > > > > From: Steve Ross [mailto:editorsteve at gmail.com editorsteve at gmail.com>] > > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 9:57 AM > > To: John Badal > > > Cc: John Brown >; > 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org dcn.org>> > > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial > > > > AT&T has a big patent portfolio on this -- mainly ways to make the > devices cheaply. The idea is to insert very high frequency signals on > copper by clamping a transmitter on the wire, every few telephone poles > along the line. This gets around the key problem that high frequency > signals don't carry very far on copper. With Airgig, they get refreshed > every few hundred feet. The (potentially) little refresh/relay devices on > the poles would also broadcast to nearby premises and the roadway, > replacing a physical drop. > > > > They also have variants that can be used on poles as needed to get > around transformers and other devices that can screw up signals. > > > > This is quite different from the old BOP ideas around 2003-4 that > inserted much lower frequency signals on devices much farther apart. We're > talking 5+ and even 30+ Ghz now, 100 Mhz then. > > > > Even with the short copper runs between signal refresh, the copper has > to be in good shape. Latency is pretty high along the network as a whole, > and that can be a problem for driverless vehicles, which would probably use > 802.11p to communicate with the little antennas that sit on the poles with > the refresh circuitry. (Where 5G is installed, cars would presumably use > cellular transmissions, not Ethernet 11p directly; ATT has a current test > on that using 4G down in San Diego.) Unless conditions are ideal, the costs > climb to where fiber would be easier, especially once you look at opex.... > > > > I would see a lot of trouble with using this on a transmission line > above 880 V or even above 440 V just because the insulation and isolation > issues get dicey and expensive; 440V would probably be the norm, though. > Also, big transmission lines usually have fiber alongside anyway. But there > is no theoretical reason why this would not work on big DC lines, except > that the tower spacing is greater. > > > > We at Broadband Communities tend to think of these sorts of things in > business terms. If the market is big enough, the devices can be > multi-sourced and made cheaply. But no one solution seems ideal for huge > swaths of problems. These are things that bring about 5 or 10% more > business cases into the money. And that is GREAT! We have not talked about > this much at the magazine, so these opinions are my own. > > > > > > > > Steve Ross > > Editor-at-Large, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com < > http://www.bbcmag.com/>) > > 201-456-5933 mobile > > 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice > > editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) > > editorsteve1 (Twitter) > > steve at bbcmag.com > > editorsteve at gmail.com > > > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:08 AM, John Badal > wrote: > > I think you?re right. I just remember that Edison favored DC. Guess he > lost. > > > > John > > > > From: John Brown [mailto:john at citylinkfiber.com john at citylinkfiber.com>] > > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 8:52 AM > > To: John Badal > > > Cc: David Breecker [dba] breeckerassociates.com>>; 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > > > > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial > > > > Aren't our power grids AC ?? > > > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 8:48 AM, John Badal > wrote: > > I looked at this a few years ago, visiting with a former Sandia Labs > expert on the matter, and concluded then that the technology was nowhere > near acceptable in the U.S. Older power equipment in rural areas and the > number of transponders seemed to be just one hurdle. Signal loss is > another. If I recall one overriding issue, with our DC electric power > grids that require a power transformer every specified distance, Broadband > Over Powerline (BBPL) will require corrective equipment at every > transformer, not just at the switch and customer premise. I?m eager to see > what AT&T comes up with. It?ll take a deep pockets company to figure this > out. > > > > John > > > > > > > > From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>] On Behalf Of David Breecker [dba] > > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 2:52 PM > > To: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>> > > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial > > > > I?m curious to know if anyone knows anything about the effectiveness of > this technology in its current state: > > > > https://na.smartcitiescouncil.com/article/how-internet-over- > power-lines-could-be-solution-underserved-communities smartcitiescouncil.com/article/how-internet-over- > power-lines-could-be-solution-underserved-communities> > > > > David Breecker, > > President > > > > > > David Breecker Associates > > www.breeckerassociates.com > > > > Santa Fe Office: 505-690-2335 > > Abiquiu Office: 505-685-4891 > > Skype: dbreecker > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm < > 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 < > 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 < > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Name: bottom.letterhead Type: image/png Size: 21801 bytes Desc: not available URL: From david at breeckerassociates.com Mon Dec 18 16:42:14 2017 From: david at breeckerassociates.com (David Breecker [dba]) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:42:14 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial In-Reply-To: References: <0CEBFF0C-02C8-4161-8F4D-DA3FDCE48714@breeckerassociates.com> Message-ID: Just want to thank everyone for the very helpful comments, db > On Dec 18, 2017, at 9:56 AM, Steve Ross wrote: > > AT&T has a big patent portfolio on this -- mainly ways to make the devices cheaply. The idea is to insert very high frequency signals on copper by clamping a transmitter on the wire, every few telephone poles along the line. This gets around the key problem that high frequency signals don't carry very far on copper. With Airgig, they get refreshed every few hundred feet. The (potentially) little refresh/relay devices on the poles would also broadcast to nearby premises and the roadway, replacing a physical drop. > > They also have variants that can be used on poles as needed to get around transformers and other devices that can screw up signals. > > This is quite different from the old BOP ideas around 2003-4 that inserted much lower frequency signals on devices much farther apart. We're talking 5+ and even 30+ Ghz now, 100 Mhz then. > > Even with the short copper runs between signal refresh, the copper has to be in good shape. Latency is pretty high along the network as a whole, and that can be a problem for driverless vehicles, which would probably use 802.11p to communicate with the little antennas that sit on the poles with the refresh circuitry. (Where 5G is installed, cars would presumably use cellular transmissions, not Ethernet 11p directly; ATT has a current test on that using 4G down in San Diego.) Unless conditions are ideal, the costs climb to where fiber would be easier, especially once you look at opex.... > > I would see a lot of trouble with using this on a transmission line above 880 V or even above 440 V just because the insulation and isolation issues get dicey and expensive; 440V would probably be the norm, though. Also, big transmission lines usually have fiber alongside anyway. But there is no theoretical reason why this would not work on big DC lines, except that the tower spacing is greater. > > We at Broadband Communities tend to think of these sorts of things in business terms. If the market is big enough, the devices can be multi-sourced and made cheaply. But no one solution seems ideal for huge swaths of problems. These are things that bring about 5 or 10% more business cases into the money. And that is GREAT! We have not talked about this much at the magazine, so these opinions are my own. > > > > Steve Ross > Editor-at-Large, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com ) > 201-456-5933 mobile > 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice > editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) > editorsteve1 (Twitter) > steve at bbcmag.com > editorsteve at gmail.com > > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:08 AM, John Badal > wrote: > I think you?re right. I just remember that Edison favored DC. Guess he lost. > > > > John > > > > From: John Brown [mailto:john at citylinkfiber.com ] > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 8:52 AM > To: John Badal > > Cc: David Breecker [dba] >; 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial > > > > Aren't our power grids AC ?? > > > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 8:48 AM, John Badal > wrote: > > I looked at this a few years ago, visiting with a former Sandia Labs expert on the matter, and concluded then that the technology was nowhere near acceptable in the U.S. Older power equipment in rural areas and the number of transponders seemed to be just one hurdle. Signal loss is another. If I recall one overriding issue, with our DC electric power grids that require a power transformer every specified distance, Broadband Over Powerline (BBPL) will require corrective equipment at every transformer, not just at the switch and customer premise. I?m eager to see what AT&T comes up with. It?ll take a deep pockets company to figure this out. > > > > John > > > > > > > > From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org ] On Behalf Of David Breecker [dba] > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 2:52 PM > To: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial > > > > I?m curious to know if anyone knows anything about the effectiveness of this technology in its current state: > > > > https://na.smartcitiescouncil.com/article/how-internet-over-power-lines-could-be-solution-underserved-communities > > > David Breecker, > > President > > > > > David Breecker Associates > > www.breeckerassociates.com > > > Santa Fe Office: 505-690-2335 > Abiquiu Office: 505-685-4891 > Skype: dbreecker > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 David Breecker, President David Breecker Associates www.breeckerassociates.com Santa Fe Office: 505-690-2335 Abiquiu Office: 505-685-4891 Skype: dbreecker -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 12:38 PM, wrote: > I confess: my understanding is no deeper than the explanation John > provides. :) Very simply put: on a point to point microwave shot with > Point A being one micrwave radio mounted on the top of a transmission pole > and Point B being the receiving radio also mounted on a transmission pole > some miles distant along the transmission line, the fresnel zone or > concentration of the waves remains along/around the transmission line > rather than dissipating into the atmosphere. I speculate that there is some > optimization for this built into the radios and antennas of the backhaul > radio system, otherwise there might be some harmful interference from the > power lines. > > The transmission wires themselves do not actively carry any signals, just > "guide" them. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial > From: John Osmon > Date: Mon, December 18, 2017 11:51 am > To: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> > > Waveguides can channel sound and electromagnetic waves -- but the > waveguide material isn't used as a conductor. Microwave antennas > are often connected to their transmitter/receiver via hollow tubes. > The tubes are the waveguides. > > Fiber optics cables are waveguides as well. > > Evidently, the characteristics of the powerlines allow for guiding the > transmissions -- but the articles I've found aren't that forthcoming > with just how this occurs, nor how important it is to the "new" type of > broadband over powerline. > > > > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 12:52:44PM -0500, Steve Cimelli wrote: > > Frank: I?m not understanding statement a) below: > > > > uses: > > a) wireless backhaul along power lines with power lines acting as wave > guides > > > > When I think of wireless backhaul along power lines I think of > line-of-site radio transmitter/ > > receivers placed on power poles spaced based upon the frequency, > line-of-site, weather condition > > requirements, etc. > > > > When I think of power lines acting as wave guides, I think of metal > conductors (for power > > tranmission) that have information coded as electromagnetic energy on > them. Still needing > > to deal with all of the electro-stuff that got deployed, often over > several generations of technology > > (fewer green-field installations one would suppose over years of > evolution of maintenance upgrades, > > etc.). What am I missing here? > > > > Steve > > > > > > > > On Dec 18, 2017, at 12:20 PM, < > frank at wmxsystems.com> wrote: > > > > Hi All! > > > > Actually, it has nothing to do with copper/transmission/distribution > lines. Its 5G wireless (up to 1 Gbps speeds to end user) that uses: > > a) wireless backhaul along power lines with power lines acting as wave > guides > > b) last mile distribution with access points on top of power poles > > > > I think its very clever in that it solves: > > a) backhaul - MUCH cheaper than fiber > > b) last mile issues made simple given pole attachment agreements that > AT&T has > > c) if an autonomous vehicle will require 4 Tbps/day,how is that need > met? Answer: from the power lines that parallel most roads > > > > While AT&T may have propriety vendors/patents, etc., its not rocket > science to build a wireless network on top of a power grid (I'm thinking > the generic "Farmers Co-op Electric" meets rural ISP = rural broadband > problem solved). Of course there are major safety issues in that power > linemen would have to do all installs and maintenance, and the many > advantages of having backhaul plus poles to attach access points too > contribute to ease of planning and deployment. > > > > Read more at: > > > > http://about.att.com/newsroom/att_to_test_delivering_multi_ > gigabit_wireless_internet_speeds_using_power_lines.html < > http://about.att.com/newsroom/att_to_test_delivering_multi_gigabit_ > wireless_internet_speeds_using_power_lines.html> > > > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial > > From: John Badal >> > > Date: Mon, December 18, 2017 9:58 am > > To: Steve Ross >> > > Cc: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org >< > mailto:1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>>> > > > > Good information, thanks. > > > > John > > > > From: Steve Ross [mailto:editorsteve at gmail.com < > mailto:editorsteve at gmail.com >] > > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 9:57 AM > > To: John Badal >> > > Cc: John Brown >>; 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org >< > mailto:1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>>> > > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial > > > > AT&T has a big patent portfolio on this -- mainly ways to make the > devices cheaply. The idea is to insert very high frequency signals on > copper by clamping a transmitter on the wire, every few telephone poles > along the line. This gets around the key problem that high frequency > signals don't carry very far on copper. With Airgig, they get refreshed > every few hundred feet. The (potentially) little refresh/relay devices on > the poles would also broadcast to nearby premises and the roadway, > replacing a physical drop. > > > > They also have variants that can be used on poles as needed to get > around transformers and other devices that can screw up signals. > > > > This is quite different from the old BOP ideas around 2003-4 that > inserted much lower frequency signals on devices much farther apart. We're > talking 5+ and even 30+ Ghz now, 100 Mhz then. > > > > Even with the short copper runs between signal refresh, the copper has > to be in good shape. Latency is pretty high along the network as a whole, > and that can be a problem for driverless vehicles, which would probably use > 802.11p to communicate with the little antennas that sit on the poles with > the refresh circuitry. (Where 5G is installed, cars would presumably use > cellular transmissions, not Ethernet 11p directly; ATT has a current test > on that using 4G down in San Diego.) Unless conditions are ideal, the costs > climb to where fiber would be easier, especially once you look at opex.... > > > > I would see a lot of trouble with using this on a transmission line > above 880 V or even above 440 V just because the insulation and isolation > issues get dicey and expensive; 440V would probably be the norm, though. > Also, big transmission lines usually have fiber alongside anyway. But there > is no theoretical reason why this would not work on big DC lines, except > that the tower spacing is greater. > > > > We at Broadband Communities tend to think of these sorts of things in > business terms. If the market is big enough, the devices can be > multi-sourced and made cheaply. But no one solution seems ideal for huge > swaths of problems. These are things that bring about 5 or 10% more > business cases into the money. And that is GREAT! We have not talked about > this much at the magazine, so these opinions are my own. > > > > > > > > Steve Ross > > Editor-at-Large, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com www.bbcmag.com/>) > > 201-456-5933 <(201)%20456-5933> mobile > > 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773 <(707)%20969-7773>) Google Voice > > editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) > > editorsteve1 (Twitter) > > steve at bbcmag.com > > > editorsteve at gmail.com > > > > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:08 AM, John Badal < > mailto:JBadal at sacred-wind.com >> wrote: > > I think you?re right. I just remember that Edison favored DC. Guess he > lost. > > > > John > > > > From: John Brown [mailto:john at citylinkfiber.com > >] > > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 8:52 AM > > To: John Badal >> > > Cc: David Breecker [dba] breeckerassociates.com >>; 1st-Mile-NM < > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>>> > > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial > > > > Aren't our power grids AC ?? > > > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 8:48 AM, John Badal < > mailto:JBadal at sacred-wind.com >> wrote: > > I looked at this a few years ago, visiting with a former Sandia Labs > expert on the matter, and concluded then that the technology was nowhere > near acceptable in the U.S. Older power equipment in rural areas and the > number of transponders seemed to be just one hurdle. Signal loss is > another. If I recall one overriding issue, with our DC electric power grids > that require a power transformer every specified distance, Broadband Over > Powerline (BBPL) will require corrective equipment at every transformer, > not just at the switch and customer premise. I?m eager to see what AT&T > comes up with. It?ll take a deep pockets company to figure this out. > > > > John > > > > > > > > From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org > <1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org> mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>>] On Behalf Of > David Breecker [dba] > > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 2:52 PM > > To: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org >< > mailto:1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>>> > > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial > > > > I?m curious to know if anyone knows anything about the effectiveness of > this technology in its current state: > > > > https://na.smartcitiescouncil.com/article/how-internet-over- > power-lines-could-be-solution-underserved-communities smartcitiescouncil.com/article/how-internet-over- > power-lines-could-be-solution-underserved-communities> > > > > David Breecker, > > President > > > > > > David Breecker Associates > > www.breeckerassociates.com > > > > Santa Fe Office: 505-690-2335 <(505)%20690-2335> > > Abiquiu Office: 505-685-4891 <(505)%20685-4891> > > Skype: dbreecker > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>> > > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm < > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>> > > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm < > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>> > > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm < > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Kurt Albershardt | Mimbres Communications, LLC | 575-342-0042 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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No silver bullet. Steve Ross Editor-at-Large, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com) 201-456-5933 mobile 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) editorsteve1 (Twitter) steve at bbcmag.com editorsteve at gmail.com On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:56 PM, Mimbres Communications wrote: > So the conductors form a kind of half-waveguide -- perhaps more like a > quarter. What kind of efficiency gain might this have over a free-field > PtP link? > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 12:38 PM, wrote: > >> I confess: my understanding is no deeper than the explanation John >> provides. :) Very simply put: on a point to point microwave shot with >> Point A being one micrwave radio mounted on the top of a transmission pole >> and Point B being the receiving radio also mounted on a transmission pole >> some miles distant along the transmission line, the fresnel zone or >> concentration of the waves remains along/around the transmission line >> rather than dissipating into the atmosphere. I speculate that there is some >> optimization for this built into the radios and antennas of the backhaul >> radio system, otherwise there might be some harmful interference from the >> power lines. >> >> The transmission wires themselves do not actively carry any signals, just >> "guide" them. >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial >> From: John Osmon >> Date: Mon, December 18, 2017 11:51 am >> To: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org> >> >> Waveguides can channel sound and electromagnetic waves -- but the >> waveguide material isn't used as a conductor. Microwave antennas >> are often connected to their transmitter/receiver via hollow tubes. >> The tubes are the waveguides. >> >> Fiber optics cables are waveguides as well. >> >> Evidently, the characteristics of the powerlines allow for guiding the >> transmissions -- but the articles I've found aren't that forthcoming >> with just how this occurs, nor how important it is to the "new" type of >> broadband over powerline. >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 12:52:44PM -0500, Steve Cimelli wrote: >> > Frank: I?m not understanding statement a) below: >> > >> > uses: >> > a) wireless backhaul along power lines with power lines acting as wave >> guides >> > >> > When I think of wireless backhaul along power lines I think of >> line-of-site radio transmitter/ >> > receivers placed on power poles spaced based upon the frequency, >> line-of-site, weather condition >> > requirements, etc. >> > >> > When I think of power lines acting as wave guides, I think of metal >> conductors (for power >> > tranmission) that have information coded as electromagnetic energy on >> them. Still needing >> > to deal with all of the electro-stuff that got deployed, often over >> several generations of technology >> > (fewer green-field installations one would suppose over years of >> evolution of maintenance upgrades, >> > etc.). What am I missing here? >> > >> > Steve >> > >> > >> > >> > On Dec 18, 2017, at 12:20 PM, < >> frank at wmxsystems.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hi All! >> > >> > Actually, it has nothing to do with copper/transmission/distribution >> lines. Its 5G wireless (up to 1 Gbps speeds to end user) that uses: >> > a) wireless backhaul along power lines with power lines acting as wave >> guides >> > b) last mile distribution with access points on top of power poles >> > >> > I think its very clever in that it solves: >> > a) backhaul - MUCH cheaper than fiber >> > b) last mile issues made simple given pole attachment agreements that >> AT&T has >> > c) if an autonomous vehicle will require 4 Tbps/day,how is that need >> met? Answer: from the power lines that parallel most roads >> > >> > While AT&T may have propriety vendors/patents, etc., its not rocket >> science to build a wireless network on top of a power grid (I'm thinking >> the generic "Farmers Co-op Electric" meets rural ISP = rural broadband >> problem solved). Of course there are major safety issues in that power >> linemen would have to do all installs and maintenance, and the many >> advantages of having backhaul plus poles to attach access points too >> contribute to ease of planning and deployment. >> > >> > Read more at: >> > >> > http://about.att.com/newsroom/att_to_test_delivering_multi_g >> igabit_wireless_internet_speeds_using_power_lines.html < >> http://about.att.com/newsroom/att_to_test_delivering_multi_ >> gigabit_wireless_internet_speeds_using_power_lines.html> >> > >> > >> > -------- Original Message -------- >> > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial >> > From: John Badal > m >> >> > Date: Mon, December 18, 2017 9:58 am >> > To: Steve Ross > >> >> > Cc: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org >< >> mailto:1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>>> >> > >> > Good information, thanks. >> > >> > John >> > >> > From: Steve Ross [mailto:editorsteve at gmail.com >> >] >> > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 9:57 AM >> > To: John Badal > >> >> > Cc: John Brown > >>; 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org >< >> mailto:1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>>> >> > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial >> > >> > AT&T has a big patent portfolio on this -- mainly ways to make the >> devices cheaply. The idea is to insert very high frequency signals on >> copper by clamping a transmitter on the wire, every few telephone poles >> along the line. This gets around the key problem that high frequency >> signals don't carry very far on copper. With Airgig, they get refreshed >> every few hundred feet. The (potentially) little refresh/relay devices on >> the poles would also broadcast to nearby premises and the roadway, >> replacing a physical drop. >> > >> > They also have variants that can be used on poles as needed to get >> around transformers and other devices that can screw up signals. >> > >> > This is quite different from the old BOP ideas around 2003-4 that >> inserted much lower frequency signals on devices much farther apart. We're >> talking 5+ and even 30+ Ghz now, 100 Mhz then. >> > >> > Even with the short copper runs between signal refresh, the copper has >> to be in good shape. Latency is pretty high along the network as a whole, >> and that can be a problem for driverless vehicles, which would probably use >> 802.11p to communicate with the little antennas that sit on the poles with >> the refresh circuitry. (Where 5G is installed, cars would presumably use >> cellular transmissions, not Ethernet 11p directly; ATT has a current test >> on that using 4G down in San Diego.) Unless conditions are ideal, the costs >> climb to where fiber would be easier, especially once you look at opex.... >> > >> > I would see a lot of trouble with using this on a transmission line >> above 880 V or even above 440 V just because the insulation and isolation >> issues get dicey and expensive; 440V would probably be the norm, though. >> Also, big transmission lines usually have fiber alongside anyway. But there >> is no theoretical reason why this would not work on big DC lines, except >> that the tower spacing is greater. >> > >> > We at Broadband Communities tend to think of these sorts of things in >> business terms. If the market is big enough, the devices can be >> multi-sourced and made cheaply. But no one solution seems ideal for huge >> swaths of problems. These are things that bring about 5 or 10% more >> business cases into the money. And that is GREAT! We have not talked about >> this much at the magazine, so these opinions are my own. >> > >> > >> > >> > Steve Ross >> > Editor-at-Large, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com >> ) >> > 201-456-5933 <(201)%20456-5933> mobile >> > 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773 <(707)%20969-7773>) Google Voice >> > editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) >> > editorsteve1 (Twitter) >> > steve at bbcmag.com > >> > editorsteve at gmail.com > > >> > >> > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:08 AM, John Badal < >> mailto:JBadal at sacred-wind.com >> wrote: >> > I think you?re right. I just remember that Edison favored DC. Guess he >> lost. >> > >> > John >> > >> > From: John Brown [mailto:john at citylinkfiber.com >> > >] >> > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 8:52 AM >> > To: John Badal > >> >> > Cc: David Breecker [dba] < >> mailto:david at breeckerassociates.com >>; >> 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org >> cn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>>> >> > Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial >> > >> > Aren't our power grids AC ?? >> > >> > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 8:48 AM, John Badal < >> mailto:JBadal at sacred-wind.com >> wrote: >> > I looked at this a few years ago, visiting with a former Sandia Labs >> expert on the matter, and concluded then that the technology was nowhere >> near acceptable in the U.S. Older power equipment in rural areas and the >> number of transponders seemed to be just one hurdle. Signal loss is >> another. If I recall one overriding issue, with our DC electric power grids >> that require a power transformer every specified distance, Broadband Over >> Powerline (BBPL) will require corrective equipment at every transformer, >> not just at the switch and customer premise. I?m eager to see what AT&T >> comes up with. It?ll take a deep pockets company to figure this out. >> > >> > John >> > >> > >> > >> > From: 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org >> <1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org> > ilman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>>] On Behalf Of David >> Breecker [dba] >> > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 2:52 PM >> > To: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org >< >> mailto:1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>>> >> > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial >> > >> > I?m curious to know if anyone knows anything about the effectiveness of >> this technology in its current state: >> > >> > https://na.smartcitiescouncil.com/article/how-internet-over- >> power-lines-could-be-solution-underserved-communities < >> https://na.smartcitiescouncil.com/article/how-internet- >> over-power-lines-could-be-solution-underserved-communities> >> > >> > David Breecker, >> > President >> > >> > >> > David Breecker Associates >> > www.breeckerassociates.com >> > >> > Santa Fe Office: 505-690-2335 <(505)%20690-2335> >> > Abiquiu Office: 505-685-4891 <(505)%20685-4891> >> > Skype: dbreecker >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 1st-mile-nm mailing list >> > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>> >> > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm < >> http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm> >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 1st-mile-nm mailing list >> > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>> >> > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm < >> http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 1st-mile-nm mailing list >> > 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>> >> > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm < >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> > > > -- > > Kurt Albershardt | Mimbres Communications, LLC | 575-342-0042 <(575)%20342-0042> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Long list of partners, including AMERIND Critical Infrastructure, State of NM, UNM, Zayo + Jupiter Networks, Kelly Cable, Santa Fe Indian School, +. Special recognition for the remarkable and successful coordination and leadership of Kimball Sekaquaptewa. Photo, L-R: Geoffrey Blackwell (Chief Strategy Officer, AMERIND Risk), Irene Flannery (Director, AMERIND Critical Infrastructure), Kimball Sekaquaptewa (Manager, AMERIND Critical Infrastructure), Derek Valdo (CEO, AMERIND Risk), Jai Quintana (Kimball's son trying to connect). Continued development and success for this important initiative. RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org --------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Pueblo-Fiber-12.18.17.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1415180 bytes Desc: not available URL: From trey at 3dsc.co Wed Dec 27 10:22:13 2017 From: trey at 3dsc.co (Trey Scarborough) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 12:22:13 -0600 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial In-Reply-To: References: <0CEBFF0C-02C8-4161-8F4D-DA3FDCE48714@breeckerassociates.com> Message-ID: <7db8d796-85fb-055f-d22b-aaec8c72c8f1@3dsc.co> These articles are very misleading. They are not actually doing internet over the power lines, but using the power poles... Something they have done for as long as I know. The difference is that they are using small cell and high frequency microwave 60/80-ghz. Currently these are being installed on top of the power poles not actually using the power lines for anything other than power. Not sure how these was construed as gigabit over power lines. On 12/18/2017 10:56 AM, Steve Ross wrote: > AT&T has a big patent portfolio on this -- mainly ways to make the > devices cheaply. The idea is to insert very high frequency signals on > copper by clamping a transmitter on the wire, every few telephone poles > along the line. This gets around the key problem that high frequency > signals don't carry very far on copper. With Airgig, they get refreshed > every few hundred feet. The (potentially) little refresh/relay devices > on the poles would also broadcast to nearby premises and the roadway, > replacing a physical drop. > > They also have variants that can be used on poles as needed to get > around transformers and other devices that can screw up signals. > > This is quite different from the old BOP ideas around 2003-4 that > inserted much lower frequency signals on devices much farther apart. > We're talking 5+ and even 30+ Ghz now, 100 Mhz then. > > Even with the short copper runs between signal refresh, the copper has > to be in good shape. Latency is pretty high along the network as a > whole, and that can be a problem for driverless vehicles, which would > probably use 802.11p to communicate with the little antennas that sit on > the poles with the refresh circuitry. (Where 5G is installed, cars would > presumably use cellular transmissions, not Ethernet 11p directly; ATT > has a current test on that using 4G down in San Diego.) Unless > conditions are ideal, the costs climb to where fiber would be easier, > especially once you look at opex.... > > I would see a lot of trouble with using this on a transmission line > above 880 V or even above 440 V just because the insulation and > isolation issues get dicey and expensive; 440V would probably be the > norm, though. Also, big transmission lines usually have fiber alongside > anyway. But there is no theoretical reason why this would not work on > big DC lines, except that the tower spacing is greater. > > We at Broadband Communities tend to think of these sorts of things in > business terms. If the market is big enough, the devices can be > multi-sourced and made cheaply. But no one solution seems ideal for huge > swaths of problems. These are things that bring about 5 or 10% more > business cases into the money. And that is GREAT! We have not talked > about this much at the magazine, so these opinions are my own. > > > > Steve Ross > Editor-at-Large, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com > ) > 201-456-5933 mobile > 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice > editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) > editorsteve1 (Twitter) > steve at bbcmag.com > editorsteve at gmail.com > > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:08 AM, John Badal > wrote: > > I think you?re right.? I just remember that Edison favored DC. > Guess he lost.____ > > __ __ > > John____ > > __ __ > > *From:* John Brown [mailto:john at citylinkfiber.com > ] > *Sent:* Monday, December 18, 2017 8:52 AM > *To:* John Badal > > *Cc:* David Breecker [dba] >; 1st-Mile-NM > <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > > *Subject:* Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial____ > > __ __ > > Aren't our power grids AC ??? ____ > > __ __ > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 8:48 AM, John Badal > wrote:____ > > I looked at this a few years ago, visiting with a former Sandia > Labs expert on the matter, and concluded then that the > technology was nowhere near acceptable in the U.S.? Older power > equipment in rural areas and the number of transponders seemed > to be just one hurdle.? Signal loss is another.? If I recall one > overriding issue, with our DC electric power grids that require > a power transformer every specified distance, Broadband Over > Powerline (BBPL) will require corrective equipment at every > transformer, not just at the switch and customer premise.? I?m > eager to see what AT&T comes up with.? It?ll take a deep pockets > company to figure this out.____ > > ____ > > John____ > > ____ > > ____ > > ____ > > *From:* 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org > ] *On Behalf Of > *David Breecker [dba] > *Sent:* Friday, December 15, 2017 2:52 PM > *To:* 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > > > *Subject:* [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial____ > > ____ > > I?m curious to know if anyone knows anything about the > effectiveness of this technology in its current state:____ > > ____ > > https://na.smartcitiescouncil.com/article/how-internet-over-power-lines-could-be-solution-underserved-communities > ____ > > ____ > > David Breecker,____ > > President____ > > > ____ > > * > David Breecker Associates*____ > > *www.breeckerassociates.com *____ > > ____ > > Santa Fe Office: 505-690-2335 ____ > > Abiquiu Office: 505-685-4891 ____ > > Skype: ?dbreecker____ > > ____ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > From john at citylinkfiber.com Wed Dec 27 10:24:18 2017 From: john at citylinkfiber.com (John Brown) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 11:24:18 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial In-Reply-To: <7db8d796-85fb-055f-d22b-aaec8c72c8f1@3dsc.co> References: <0CEBFF0C-02C8-4161-8F4D-DA3FDCE48714@breeckerassociates.com> <7db8d796-85fb-055f-d22b-aaec8c72c8f1@3dsc.co> Message-ID: The two words are Spinn and Marketing On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Trey Scarborough wrote: > These articles are very misleading. They are not actually doing internet > over the power lines, but using the power poles... Something they have done > for as long as I know. The difference is that they are using small cell and > high frequency microwave 60/80-ghz. Currently these are being installed on > top of the power poles not actually using the power lines for anything other > than power. Not sure how these was construed as gigabit over power lines. > > > On 12/18/2017 10:56 AM, Steve Ross wrote: >> >> AT&T has a big patent portfolio on this -- mainly ways to make the devices >> cheaply. The idea is to insert very high frequency signals on copper by >> clamping a transmitter on the wire, every few telephone poles along the >> line. This gets around the key problem that high frequency signals don't >> carry very far on copper. With Airgig, they get refreshed every few hundred >> feet. The (potentially) little refresh/relay devices on the poles would also >> broadcast to nearby premises and the roadway, replacing a physical drop. >> >> They also have variants that can be used on poles as needed to get around >> transformers and other devices that can screw up signals. >> >> This is quite different from the old BOP ideas around 2003-4 that inserted >> much lower frequency signals on devices much farther apart. We're talking 5+ >> and even 30+ Ghz now, 100 Mhz then. >> >> Even with the short copper runs between signal refresh, the copper has to >> be in good shape. Latency is pretty high along the network as a whole, and >> that can be a problem for driverless vehicles, which would probably use >> 802.11p to communicate with the little antennas that sit on the poles with >> the refresh circuitry. (Where 5G is installed, cars would presumably use >> cellular transmissions, not Ethernet 11p directly; ATT has a current test on >> that using 4G down in San Diego.) Unless conditions are ideal, the costs >> climb to where fiber would be easier, especially once you look at opex.... >> >> I would see a lot of trouble with using this on a transmission line above >> 880 V or even above 440 V just because the insulation and isolation issues >> get dicey and expensive; 440V would probably be the norm, though. Also, big >> transmission lines usually have fiber alongside anyway. But there is no >> theoretical reason why this would not work on big DC lines, except that the >> tower spacing is greater. >> >> We at Broadband Communities tend to think of these sorts of things in >> business terms. If the market is big enough, the devices can be >> multi-sourced and made cheaply. But no one solution seems ideal for huge >> swaths of problems. These are things that bring about 5 or 10% more business >> cases into the money. And that is GREAT! We have not talked about this much >> at the magazine, so these opinions are my own. >> >> >> >> Steve Ross >> Editor-at-Large, Broadband Communities Magazine (www.bbcmag.com >> ) >> 201-456-5933 mobile >> 707-WOW-SSR3 (707-969-7773) Google Voice >> editorsteve (Facebook, LinkedIn) >> editorsteve1 (Twitter) >> steve at bbcmag.com >> editorsteve at gmail.com >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:08 AM, John Badal > > wrote: >> >> I think you?re right. I just remember that Edison favored DC. >> Guess he lost.____ >> >> __ __ >> >> John____ >> >> __ __ >> >> *From:* John Brown [mailto:john at citylinkfiber.com >> ] >> *Sent:* Monday, December 18, 2017 8:52 AM >> *To:* John Badal > > >> *Cc:* David Breecker [dba] > >; 1st-Mile-NM >> <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org > >> *Subject:* Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial____ >> >> __ __ >> >> Aren't our power grids AC ?? ____ >> >> __ __ >> >> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 8:48 AM, John Badal > > wrote:____ >> >> I looked at this a few years ago, visiting with a former Sandia >> Labs expert on the matter, and concluded then that the >> technology was nowhere near acceptable in the U.S. Older power >> equipment in rural areas and the number of transponders seemed >> to be just one hurdle. Signal loss is another. If I recall one >> overriding issue, with our DC electric power grids that require >> a power transformer every specified distance, Broadband Over >> Powerline (BBPL) will require corrective equipment at every >> transformer, not just at the switch and customer premise. I?m >> eager to see what AT&T comes up with. It?ll take a deep pockets >> company to figure this out.____ >> >> ____ >> >> John____ >> >> ____ >> >> ____ >> >> ____ >> >> *From:* 1st-mile-nm [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org >> ] *On Behalf Of >> *David Breecker [dba] >> *Sent:* Friday, December 15, 2017 2:52 PM >> *To:* 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org >> > >> *Subject:* [1st-mile-nm] AT&T broadband over power lines trial____ >> >> ____ >> >> I?m curious to know if anyone knows anything about the >> effectiveness of this technology in its current state:____ >> >> ____ >> >> >> https://na.smartcitiescouncil.com/article/how-internet-over-power-lines-could-be-solution-underserved-communities >> >> ____ >> >> ____ >> >> David Breecker,____ >> >> President____ >> >> >> ____ >> >> * >> David Breecker Associates*____ >> >> *www.breeckerassociates.com >> *____ >> >> ____ >> >> Santa Fe Office: 505-690-2335 ____ >> >> Abiquiu Office: 505-685-4891 ____ >> >> Skype: dbreecker____ >> >> ____ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.org Sat Dec 30 16:48:58 2017 From: rl at 1st-mile.org (Richard Lowenberg) Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 17:48:58 -0700 Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Indigenous Connectivity Summit Videos Message-ID: <130f4eedc65de23422c269060e95ffc9@1st-mile.org> 2017 Year-end greetings. I?m pleased to announce that 1st-Mile Institute?s post-event web page for the early Nov. 2017 Indigenous Connectivity Summit is finally online, with links to partners, image artist and to a series (23) of short video clips of some participating attendees. Take a look. Please let me know if any changes are needed. http://www.1st-mile.org/indigenous-connectivity-summit.html All networked best in 2018, RL --------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, rl at 1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org ---------------------------------------------------------------