[1st-mile-nm] FCC Rural BB Funding in 23 states: not NM

[Doug Dawson]

Ha. Jeff is right. The word I’m hearing from the trenches is that Frontier and CenturyLink spent just enough money out of CAF II to be able to make a claim that they tried, but they didn’t spend nearly all that the FCC gave them.

What Steve is describing is what some if the smaller telcos did with ACAM funds. The FCC gave them enough to upgrade to DSL and the companies borrowed the rest of to money needed to build FTTH.

Doug

From: Jeff <jeff at mountainconnect.org>
Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 7:54 PM
To: Steve Ross <editorsteve at gmail.com>, Doug Dawson <blackbean2 at ccgcomm.com>
Cc: Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.org>, 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] FCC Rural BB Funding in 23 states: not NM

I am curious Steve, do you really think Incumbents will actually use the money to build sustainable solutions?

Jeffrey Gavlinski
CEO, Mountain Connect
mountainconnect.org
970 382-1799

From: 1st-mile-nm <1st-mile-nm-bounces+jeff=mountainconnect.org at mailman.dcn.org> on behalf of Steve Ross <editorsteve at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 4:29 PM
To: Doug Dawson <blackbean2 at ccgcomm.com>
Cc: Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.org>, 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] FCC Rural BB Funding in 23 states: not NM

Not the right question in most cases. The issue is how much extra a carrier needs to break even on service. So if she breaks even at cost per customer of $3000 and the cost for customer X is $5,000 then the extra $2k does the trick.

Steve Ross

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 12:34 PM Doug Dawson <blackbean2 at ccgcomm.com<mailto:blackbean2 at ccgcomm.com>> wrote:
The locations included in these awards are the most remote places in the US. I’m not even sure that $2,000 buy an upgrade to DSL. The issue for remote places is building fiber within a reasonable distance from a customer in order to shorten the loops.

Doug Dawson
President
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From: 1st-mile-nm <1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org<mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>> on behalf of "David Breecker [dba]" <david at breeckerassociates.com<mailto:david at breeckerassociates.com>>
Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 12:12 PM
To: Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.org<mailto:rl at 1st-mile.org>>
Cc: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org<mailto:1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>>
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] FCC Rural BB Funding in 23 states: not NM

I’d be very interested to hear folks’ opinion on what an average of $2K/home buys you…


On Jul 16, 2019, at 9:58 AM, Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.org<mailto:rl at 1st-mile.org>> wrote:

FCC Authorizes $524 Million for Rural Broadband Expansion in 23 States

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-authorizes-524-million-rural-broadband-expansion-23-states

Full Title: FCC Authorizes $524 Million for Rural Broadband Expansion in 23 States

The FCC authorized over $524 million in funding over the next decade to expand broadband to 205,520 unserved rural homes & businesses in 23 states, representing the 3rd wave of support from last year's successful Connect America Fund Phase II auction.

No funding for NM on this round.

RL



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