[1st-mile-nm] NM DoT rule changes?

Wed Mar 3 12:33:51 PST 2021

I've glanced through the draft, I didn't see what the specific costs were.
Could someone point out that detail to me?

Brian

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 8:33 AM John Badal <jbadal at sacredwindnm.com> wrote:

> John Brown:  Check out SB 360 as well.  This is a PNM bill to allow
> electric utilities to easily convert their electric easements into
> communications easements, but the bill clearly states that there shall be
> no obligation or requirement to make those available to other broadband
> providers. The bill passed its first committee last night.  While on its
> face this is a good measure to accelerate broadband on all but federal
> lands in the state, it does nothing to encourage broadband services
> delivered by other than the electric companies who own the poles.  Simply,
> it reinforces the monopoly and discourages competitive investment and even
> competitive access to grant and federal auction funding if projects can’t
> be found to be “shovel ready.”  We want to support this bill but only if it
> encourages access to other broadband providers.  This is also further
> reminder that pole attachments need to be regulated by the state as done in
> a number of other states.
>
>
>
> JB
>
>
>
> *From:* John Brown <john at citylinkfiber.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 2, 2021 6:22 PM
> *To:* John Badal <jbadal at sacredwindnm.com>
> *Cc:* 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>; John Osmon <
> josmon at rigozsaurus.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [1st-mile-nm] NM DoT rule changes?
>
>
>
> the optics on this politically bad.
>
>
>
> we should have our customers inform their elected people as well.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 18:15 John Badal <jbadal at sacredwindnm.com> wrote:
>
> Every broadband provider in the state should state their opinion on this.
> Because of NM's quirky regulatory history - one of only two states in the
> country at the time with 2 regulatory commissions - electric and gas
> companies were regulated as utilities by the NM PSC and had rights of
> eminent domain, while telecom was regulated by the NM SCC and was
> classified differently and no rights of eminent domain.  The NM DoIT is
> perpetuating the anachronism by granting what looks like immunity to the
> "utilities" based on their eminent domain rights while ignoring the
> importance - the eminence -- of broadband to the NM public.  This is simply
> public policy run amok.  Your state legislators need to know this.
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 1st-mile-nm <1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org> On Behalf Of John
> Brown
> Sent: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 2:53 PM
> To: John Osmon <josmon at rigozsaurus.com>
> Cc: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] NM DoT rule changes?
>
> I see a number of issues here.
>
> 1. It has become clear that this Covid pandemic has highlighted the fact
> that there is NOT ENOUGH broadband in our state.
>     Why is the State / Feds wanting to INCREASE and CHARGE MORE for the
> deployment of broadband services ???
>
> 2. Why are Electrical, Water, Gas also not being charged similarly
> increased rates ???
>
> 3. The term ADT doesn't appear to be defined in the Broadband manual.....
>
> 4. Assuming ADT is Average Daily Traffic, ergo the number of cars that go
> based some point on a road, this metric is BIASED AGAINST WISP providers.
>     WISP (Wireless Internet Service Provider), not to be confused with
> Celluar Service, provide service based on FIXED (otherwords not
> mobile) microwave
> signals. Customers are located at a physical fixed non moving location.
> There are only so many physical customers you can connect to a single site.
> After that the site is "full".
>
> In summary this seems like a money grab by NMDOT since Telecom is the hot
> thing right now.......  More State barriers to entry for providers,
> existing or new.
> Not a good thing!!!!!!
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 2:06 PM John Osmon <josmon at rigozsaurus.com> wrote:
> >
> > This should be of interested to folks here:
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> > This stems from a notice of proposed rulemaking:
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> John Brown, CISSP
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