[1st-mile-nm] CityLink Fiber in Albuquerque: Grand Opening Event

[Richard Lowenberg]

>From the CityLink press release:

MEDIA SNEAK?PEEK: Fiber to the Home in Albuquerque

Albuquerque, NM ? May 28 2008 ??  CityLink Telecommunications,
Albuquerque?s only Next Generation
Fiber to the Home (FTTH) provider will be hosting a Sneak?Peek at the most
advanced entertainment
and communications service in Albuquerque.  This advanced technology is only
available with new FTTH
(Fiber to the Home) services.

FTTH (Fiber to the Home) refers to the installation of a special fiber optic
cable to the user?s home.  With
the fiber optic cable users will have access to faster Internet, digital
telephone and higher quality digital
video services.

?The fiber?optic network will deliver voice, video, ultra high speed
internet and other services at the
speed of light?, said John Brown, President of CityLink.  ?Fiber optics
allows us to meet current
subscriber needs, while having the ability to scale to thousands of times that
need in the future.
Traditional copper wire infrastructure is reaching the end of its useful life,
fiber is just beginning.?
A fiber optic network can scale to meet future needs by using specialized lasers
and different
frequencies of light (colors).  As more bandwidth is needed additional lasers
are added to the network to
augment the bandwidth.  With today?s technology one single color of light can
handle 40 Giga Bits per
second of data.  Today?s Cable or DSL technologies can only deliver around
20Mb/s to the home.

CityLink?s new service will start out providing home users with 50Mb/s of
service for an estimated
$69.95 a month, plus installation.  The company will also provide 100Mb/s of
service for an estimated
$129.95 a month, plus installation.  Pricing will be finalized in the next few
days.  The service will be
symmetrical in its speed offerings, meaning that download and upload speeds are
the same.  Cable or
DSL service is typically asymmetrical, meaning that download is faster than
upload.  ?Today?s users are
creating more video, more digital pictures and more content.  That content needs
to be uploaded to the
Internet, and that means users want faster upload speeds.? The company plans
to offer other advanced
services in the near future.

Service will be initially deployed to residents living in the O2 area (87102) of
Albuquerque.  The company
has worked with local developers and has installed its fiber cable in downtowns
newest Lofts and
Condo?s.  The company has over 150 homes with fiber optic cable already
installed.

As part of the grand opening of The Emerald Building on Friday May 30, 2008 the
company will be
demonstrating its new FTTH services from 4pm to 7pm.   The Emerald Building is
located at 4th and
Mountain NW in downtown Albuquerque.

About CityLink Telecommunications, Inc.
Albuquerque based CityLink Telecommunications, provides advanced voice, video
and data (Internet) services to residential and
business users via its fiber optic network.  CityLink is the first to bring
Fiber to the Home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The
company supports Open Access networks and has a wholesale model that allows
other service providers to make use of its
Fiber to the Home systems.

Media Contact:
John Brown
President, CityLink Telecommunications
john at citylinkfiber.com
+1 505 314 0892


-- 
Richard Lowenberg
1st-Mile Institute
P.O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110;   505-603-5200 cell
rl at 1st-mile.com  www.1st-mile.com

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