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

[Mimbres Communications]

Let's take this one offline...

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 9:02 AM Christopher Mitchell <christopher at ilsr.org>
wrote:

> 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).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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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Kurt Albershardt  |  Mimbres Communications, LLC  |  575-342-0042
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