[1st-mile-nm] Long Haul Broadband Access

Mon Dec 23 00:10:21 PST 2019

Hi Richard,

I’m working with the Town of Patagonia, AZ, on its first broadband plan.

While it’s easy to see how a fiber drop and 5G transceivers can serve the majority of this 900-person community, it’s less obvious how to reach individuals beyond the immediate residential and business vicinity.  Ironically, I’m a case in point:  my new home, in the hilly region surrounding the Town, is a mile or so beyond the reach of the prospective broadband system.  I’m like Moses leading the Jews to the Promised Land, but not allowed to cross over.  More importantly, there are many residents in a similar position.  How do other locales handle the problem of citizen and business outliers?

I’m not looking forward to leaving Cox Cable, even with all its shortcomings, behind, in exchange for CenturyLink DSL.  I was blessed by the former Pacific Telesis with a DSL account in 1983, while I worked for the CA Legislature. It’s not improved one whit since its stuttering introduction back then.

Here’s to a better 2020!

  Bob

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>   1. Re: FCC: Improving and Increasing Broadband Deployment on
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> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 09:58:21 -0700
> From: Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net>
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> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] FCC: Improving and Increasing Broadband
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> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] FCC: Improving and Increasing Broadband
> 	Deployment on Tribal Lands
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> Owen,
> Good to hear from you.
> I'll be brief in my responses to fairly complex matters you ask about.
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> On 2019-12-18 09:58, Owen Densmore wrote:
>> Thanks for the report. Brought up two questions:
>> 
>> 1 - Casinos: Don't they use broadband, thus are a point of access for
>> the rest of the tribal lands? I realize they are typically on the
>> boundaries, to be close to customers, but still could be useful.
>> 
> I'm not privy to details but assume that many, of not most tribal 
> casinos
> have high bandwidth fiber connections (for their networked gaming 
> machines)
> and specific 'commercial' contracts with service providers.
> 
> These contracts are usually very restrictive to casino services, and are
> therefore not a means of 'public' provision for their very underserved
> communities.
> 
> Unfortunately, equitable tribal broadband development is economically
> difficult, politically contentious and only one a small part of larger
> eco-social relationship issues and world-views.
> 
> 
>> 2 - Are tribal lands planning to use Elon Musk's StarLink?
>> 
>> https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellite-internet-service-2020.html
>> 
> Possibly.  But, we are about to experience a number of satellite 
> broadband
> provision services in the coming years, including Dish, which is a 
> partner
> in the proposed Sprint/T-Mobile merger.  There are current plans and 
> approvals
> for launch of at least 20,000-40,000 sats. (Environmental Impact Reports 
> not
> required).   The emergence of new convergent service partnerships, 
> offerings,
> failures and costs for a proposed society of "IDIoTS" (Intelligent 
> Devices
> on the Internet of Things) is worrisome.
> 
> Comments by others are appreciated.
> 
> All seasonable best,
> Richard
> 
> 
>>   -- Owen
>> 
>> On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 12:54 PM Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> A recent report from the FCC's Native Nations Communications
>>> Task Force.
>>> 
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