<div dir="ltr"><div>Is it possible to document that fiber-fed cabinets are unconnected?</div><div><br></div><div>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. <br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Christopher Mitchell</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Director, Community Broadband Networks</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Institute for Local Self-Reliance</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br><a href="http://www.muninetworks.org/" target="_blank">MuniNetworks.org</a><br><div>@communitynets</div><div>612-545-5185</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 8:48 AM Mimbres Communications <<a href="mailto:mimcom@sw-ei.com">mimcom@sw-ei.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:14 PM Christopher Mitchell <<a href="mailto:christopher@ilsr.org" target="_blank">christopher@ilsr.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>For folks that want to know a bit more about RDOF and why many are now angry about it...</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/rdof-auction-ends-confusion-and-corruption-may-just-be-beginning" target="_blank">https://muninetworks.org/content/rdof-auction-ends-confusion-and-corruption-may-just-be-beginning</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Christopher Mitchell</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Director, Community Broadband Networks</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Institute for Local Self-Reliance</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br><a href="http://www.muninetworks.org/" target="_blank">MuniNetworks.org</a><br><div>@communitynets</div><div>612-545-5185</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 12:25 PM Richard Lowenberg <<a href="mailto:rl@1st-mile.org" target="_blank">rl@1st-mile.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Attached .xlsx RL<br>
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