[1st-mile-nm] American Broadband Initiative Milestones Report

[Christopher Mitchell]

Let me guess how much money they want to put into hiring the people that
are still needed to process permits even after the streamlining...

no wait, don't tell me...

I think I can guess...

.... oh this could be embarrassing if I am wrong...

how about ... zero dollars?

Not that it will stop them from blasting those agencies on the floor of
Congress and in the media for being slow to process permits...

Christopher Mitchell
Director, Community Broadband Networks
Institute for Local Self-Reliance

MuniNetworks.org <http://www.muninetworks.org/>
@communitynets
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 6:16 PM Doug Orr <doug.orr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I read this so you don't have to.
>
> Near as I can tell this "program" consists of getting rid of a bunch of
> environmental and good taste-related barriers to towers and stringing lines
> in pristine wilderness, enabling access to government buildings, towers and
> historically preserved things for antennas, streamlining federal
> regulations, streamlining regulations at the state and local level (more
> overreach, pros and cons) and inter-agency (probably good), and doing some
> obvious things like gathering data and setting goals (this is new?)
>
> It's the typical laissez-faire strip off the regulations program, plus
> some hard-to-pin-down amount of federal money to be spent in ways that
> weren't totally obvious just from reading this doc.
>
> I'm really interested to know how allowing access to federal buildings and
> towers for antennas and gear works when the antennas need maintenance.
>
> 5g rollouts seem to be picking up steam, including with some using
> contract vendors who seem to have some issues
> <https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CAASUL_enUS782US782&ei=HQRmXNi7BZSgjwTVooHABQ&q=%22mobilitie%22+problems+or+lawsuit&oq=%22mobilitie%22+problems+or+lawsuit&gs_l=psy-ab.3..35i302i39.18859.22797..23287...0.0..0.162.264.0j2......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71.kNqI3EWnGSI>.
> For balance some inspiring words
> <https://medium.com/@BrendanCarrFCC/5g-jobs-in-the-year-of-5g-3c4ce0b14ace>
> from Brendan Carr to the NATE.
>
>   Doug
>
>
> More detail:
> . getting around the NEPA (which was put in place to protect the
> environment after gross mismanagement of the federal resources. Money quote
> from the law case: "noting "a remarkable consensus of opinion" that the
> federal agencies contributed substantially to the country's degraded
> environmental state"). So no more of that annoying regulation.
> . permitting streamline, fee consistency, etc. Sure.
> . "streamline" review for national and state/local historic stuff
> (structures, buildings, objects, etc.) I assume "streamline" is a lot like
> the verb "steamroller."
> . one billing team: Sure
> . more "streamlining" of pesky environmental reviews
> . get rid of pesky restrictions on wilderness areas, national monuments,
> areas of critical environmental concern (ACECs), and other surface-limiting
> stipulations or buffer zones, because what we want is more broadband towers
> running through wilderness. (Full list, just of ACES here
> <https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/planningandnepa_aceclist.xlsx>)
> . lease DOE dark fiber: sure; inventory assets: sure
> . better data: sure
> . better integration with state/local: sure
> . some e- program (ReConnect <https://www.usda.gov/reconnect>) to use fed
> money "catalyze" private investment
> . better goals and accountability: sure
> . veterans, tribal vague promises including summits
> . new broadbandusa <https://broadbandusa.ntia.doc.gov/>site
> . coal country grants (jesus, really? really??)
> . some other junk
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:06 AM Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.org>
> wrote:
>
>> The NTIA yesterday posted the federal government's
>>
>> American Broadband Initiative Milestones Report
>>
>> February 13, 2019
>>
>>
>> https://www.ntia.doc.gov/report/2019/american-broadband-initiative-milestones-report
>>
>> This report outlines a vision for how the Federal Government can
>> increase broadband access and actions that Agencies are taking to
>> increase private-sector investment in broadband. Previous attempts to
>> expand broadband connectivity have made progress and provided valuable
>> lessons that guide this Initiative. The report’s recommendations are
>> grouped into three categories: streamlining Federal permitting processes
>> to speed broadband deployment, leveraging Federal assets to lower the
>> cost of broadband buildouts, and maximizing the impact of Federal
>> funding.
>>
>> RL
>>
>>
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