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

[Christopher Mitchell]

Thank you. Do you have speed test results still by any chance or would you
be open to talking to a reporter about this?

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 9:53 AM Mimbres Communications <mimcom at sw-ei.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 7:51 AM Christopher Mitchell <christopher at ilsr.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to document that fiber-fed cabinets are unconnected?
>>
>
> Near as we can tell, CenturyLink fed new cabinets with fiber but left the
> ADSLv2 cards in them, or cross-fed the old cabinets (two feet away).  If
> they had installed VDSL cards in those cabinets they would not be
> hemorrhaging customers the way they are.
>
> We turned up a customer yesterday who is less than 5 kft (I traced out the
> path pole by pole) from one of those cabinets.  Their '7 megabit' service
> (for several months now) would not reliably stream at 2-3 mbits.  Speed
> tests were reporting ~1.2 mbits during peak hours.
>
> A couple of miles up the road, in a small community with far higher
> housing density than the aforementioned area, we routinely disconnect
> bonded DSL services that will barely hold 1.5 mbits/sec (and typically cost
> at least $80 per month).
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>> 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.
>>
>
> The economics of fixed wireless can be quite attractive.  Pair that with
> investor money and a marketing budget and you create opportunities for
> large-scale fraud.
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