[1st-mile-nm] FCC RDOF Awardees in NM

[Christopher Mitchell]

Is it possible to document that fiber-fed cabinets are unconnected?

>From what we have heard, the small WISPs that got in are somewhat
frustrated at being outbid by bigger more national WISPs that some have
accused of dramatically overstating what they can deliver.

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

MuniNetworks.org <http://www.muninetworks.org/>
@communitynets
612-545-5185


On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 8:48 AM Mimbres Communications <mimcom at sw-ei.com>
wrote:

> FCC seemed in an awfully big hurry to hold this auction.  WISPA pushed
> unsuccessfully for fixing our badly broken broadband mapping scheme prior
> to determining eligible locations for RDOF.
>
> Small providers were effectively foreclosed from participating (as usual)
> by byzantine requirements imposed on potential bidders.  Big corporate
> players with well-documented failures meeting their CAF & CAF II
> obligations once again promised to deliver things we know they won't.
> CAF-funded fIber-fed cabinets that connect to noone continue to dot the
> local landscape here.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:14 PM Christopher Mitchell <christopher at ilsr.org>
> wrote:
>
>> For folks that want to know a bit more about RDOF and why many are now
>> angry about it...
>>
>>
>> https://muninetworks.org/content/rdof-auction-ends-confusion-and-corruption-may-just-be-beginning
>>
>>
>> Christopher Mitchell
>> Director, Community Broadband Networks
>> Institute for Local Self-Reliance
>>
>> MuniNetworks.org <http://www.muninetworks.org/>
>> @communitynets
>> 612-545-5185
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 12:25 PM Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Attached .xlsx        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
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