[1st-mile-nm] CenturyLink to Invest in NM Broadband

[Christopher Mitchell]

Ummm... that story should read "CenturyLink Leaves New Mexico to Rot with
Mere $20 million Investment."

$20 million doesn't get you far in Sante Fe or Albuquerque each, let alone
the entire state!  But you are beating us, they got good press in MN for
promising $10 million a year for 5 years.

It's like stopping at a gas station to "fill up the tank" with $1.50.

Christopher Mitchell
Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
http://www.muninetworks.org
@communitynets
612-276-3456



On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Richard Lowenberg <
lowenberg at designnine.com> wrote:

> CenturyLink to invest $20 million to improve, expand broadband in New
> Mexico
> July 18, 2011
>
>
> www.lightwaveonline.com/fttx/news/CenturyLink-to-invest-20-million-to-improve-expand-broadband-in-New-Mexico-125743638.html?cmpid=EnlDirectJuly182011
>
>
> CenturyLink Inc. (NYSE:CTL), following its merger with Qwest
> Communications<http://www.lightwaveonline.com/business/news/CenturyLink-and-Qwest-to-merge-91888274.html>,
> has announced plans to invest at least $20 million to improve and expand broadband
> communications
> <http://www.lightwaveonline.com/fttx/news/Fiber-dominates-latest-US-rural-broadband-stimulus-funds-release-82618867.html>availability
> and increase connectivity speeds
> <http://www.lightwaveonline.com/about-us/lightwave-issue-archives/issue/interoperability-aids-fttp-deployments-53906692.html>to
> consumers in New Mexico.
>
> "This investment by CenturyLink to expand broadband services
> <http://www.lightwaveonline.com/fttx/news/Fiber-dominates-latest-US-rural-broadband-stimulus-funds-release-82618867.html>in
> New Mexico is an effective way for the company to introduce itself to the
> state," New Mexico Public Regulation Commission chairman Pat Lyons says.
> "CenturyLink is New Mexico's leading communications provider now that its
> merger with Qwest is complete. We look forward to the additional resources
> and opportunities that this increased Internet connectivity
> <http://www.lightwaveonline.com/about-us/lightwave-issue-archives/issue/multiplexing-streaming-data-in-an-ethernet-network-54891202.html>made
> possible by CenturyLink will provide the people of New Mexico."
>
> "As a result of CenturyLink's merger with Qwest, the combined company now
> has the financial strength, national breadth, and local depth to provide a
> compelling array of broadband products
> <http://www.lightwaveonline.com/lightwave-issue-archives/issue/bend-insensitive-multimode-fiber-improves-enterprise-networks-54893717.html>and
> high-bandwidth services in New Mexico," explains Valerie Dodd, vice
> president and general manager for CenturyLink in New Mexico.
>
> Dodd and her Albuquerque-based local operations team are studying the
> communities CenturyLink serves in the state to determine where to deploy the
> expanded broadband infrastructure<http://www.lightwaveonline.com/about-us/lightwave-issue-archives/issue/interoperability-aids-fttp-deployments-53906692.html>that the new initiative will fund. CenturyLink will implement the expanded
> broadband program over the next several years.
>
>
>
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> P. O. Box 8001,  Santa Fe, NM  87504
> 505-989-9110 off.; 505-603-5200 cell
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