[1st-mile-nm] FW: Udall: Almost 9, 000 NM Households to Gain Broadband Access
Steve Smith
sas at lava3d.com
Mon Sep 9 21:15:35 PDT 2013
The FCC maps here and the NM DoIT maps both over-report service
coverage. I know for a fact that there are many locations through the
Pojoaque Valley (and probably Nambe, Tesuque, etc) that don't have
broadband access for a combination of topographic, geographic, and
right-of-way reasons. Both maps show that there is broadband coverage
throughout. NM DoIT was readily willing to acknowledge that the
commercial service providers over-report coverage for various reasons.
While I think the grants referenced here probably give the best return
on investment in terms of number of unserved citizens becoming served
citizens, they don't necessarily address the problem of how to help
those who are hardest to help with the most obvious solutions: 1)
telephone network upgraded to provide DSL class capabilities; 2) Cable
Network, ditto; 3) Line of Site Wireless from Pajarito and Santa Fe Ski
summits; 4) Cellular data.
I *was* able to replace my Tewacom service (who shut down on Aug 30)
with CNSP, but the install techs acknowledged that I was *right at* the
limit of their reach (32.2 km) from their tower on Santa Fe Baldy (I
don't have LOS to Pajarito) and if I had not been fairly aggressive with
pruning some of my trees, they would not have been able to get LOS at
all. I have been told by others with more understanding of the
technology and regulatory milieu that it is unlikely that CNSP (or
anyone else) could pick up 300 more households in the valley without
running out of licensed bandwidth and/or physical bandwidth in the bands
they use.
I am interested (as are a handful of others) in continuing to pursue the
problem of how to get higher bandwidth (or *any* bandwidth) to these
un(der)served areas. An honest accounting of those who will NOT be
served by this latest round of funding would be very helpful but I can
imagine that it would be hard for the recipients of those grants to help
identify where their easiest/best strategies don't work.
Anyone with ideas for how to collect better data on the truly
un(der)served would be very welcome. Also anyone else with interest in
a CoOp or non-profit model to pursue grants and a self-organizing,
self-helping model would also be welcome. I'm primarily interested in
local wireless tree or mesh networks to reach these un(der)served areas
*from* the RediNet backbone, but I'm open to other thoughts as well.
- Steve
> What's the FCC definition of "unserved" and "broadband" with respect
> to this program?
>
> Is the SE corner of Bernalillo County, where I live unserved by
> CenturyLink? The max speed they provide is 1.5 Mbit/s. I've heard
> that the FCC's current definition is 4 Mbit/s. At least 1.5M is an
> but improvement of the 256K ISDN Qwest used to claim was broadband.
>
> Hoping for 4M or better.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall)
> <Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov
> <mailto:Kevin_Cummins at tomudall.senate.gov>> wrote:
>
> Bill,
>
> Thanks for that update to this list and the clarification about
> validation that the locations are "unserved."
>
> Folks may also be interested in the nationwide map that the FCC
> made available on eligible areas for such support. You can zoom
> in to see New Mexico areas more clearly:
>
> http://www.fcc.gov/maps/connect-america-fund-phase-i-round-two
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Kevin
>
> Kevin Cummins
> Office of Sen. Tom Udall
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces+kevin_cummins
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> <mailto:tomudall.senate.gov at mailman.dcn.org>] On Behalf Of Garcia,
> Bill
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:10 PM
> To: 'rl at 1st-mile.com <mailto:rl at 1st-mile.com>';
> 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <mailto:1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] FW: Udall: Almost 9, 000 NM Households
> to Gain Broadband Access
>
> Richard,
> Thank you for your interest. I can answer your question, but
> would like to emphasize that Windstream has only *proposed* this
> work. It must be validated by the FCC, as funding will not be
> provided to any Census Block where broadband already exists.
> Final approvals by the FCC are expected in early 2014. With that
> in mind, here are Windstream's proposed work plans, organized
> according to the boundaries of telephone exchanges (i.e., when we
> say "Hobbs," we're not talking about the city limits of Hobbs proper):
>
> + Hobbs & Carlsbad
> + Capitan, Alto, Ruidoso Downs, Ruidoso
> + Truth or Consequences & Caballo
> + Northern Tier exchanges -- Dulce, Canjilon, Gallina, Abiquiu,
> + Espanola, Velarde, Chimayo, Jemez Springs, San Ysidro
>
> Also, you may be interested in knowing that Windstream earlier
> this year completed a major rural deployment initiative to other
> rural areas.
> + 787 households, or approx. 2,046 people -- to areas around Abiquiu,
> + El Rito, Ojo Caliente, & Dixon
> + 384 households, or approx. 1,000 people -- to areas around Ruidoso
> + 192 households, or approx. 500 people -- to areas around Truth or
> + Consequences
>
> These projects are all on line. They were funded through the US
> Dept. of Agriculture, as an outgrowth of the American Recovery &
> Reinvestment Act & Senator Udall played an active role in
> promoting the NM projects here too.
>
> Bill Garcia
> Regional Vice President of Governmental Affairs
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
> <mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>
> [mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org
> <mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org>] On Behalf Of Richard
> Lowenberg
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 11:49 AM
> To: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org <mailto:1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] FW: Udall: Almost 9, 000 NM Households
> to Gain Broadband Access
>
> Thanks for the postings, Kevin.
> I wonder if representatives of CenturyLink, Windstream or Frontier
> might chime in here, to give us their update on allocation of
> Round One CAF in NM, and how this second round of funds will be
> geographically distributed. That would be very helpful, as we
> all want to effectively mitigate the digital disparities in NM.
> Richard
>
>
>
> On 09.09.2013 11:15, Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall) wrote:
> > Just FYI. --Kevin
> >
> > FROM: Tom Udall Press Office
> > SENT: Monday, September 09, 2013 1:10 PM
> > TO: Tom Udall Press Office
> > SUBJECT: Udall: Almost 9,000 NM Households to Gain Broadband Access
> >
> > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> >
> > SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
> > CONTACT: Jennifer Talhelm
> > 202.228.6870 | news at tomudall.senate.gov
> <mailto:news at tomudall.senate.gov> [1] | @TomUdallPress [2]
> >
> > UDALL: ALMOST 9,000 NM HOUSEHOLDS TO GAIN BROADBAND ACCESS
> >
> > (Snip)
>
> > Here is the estimated breakdown of how many N.M. households will
> > benefit from the new CAF funding:
> >
> > Windstream: 3,378 households
> >
> > CenturyLink: 2,781 households
> >
> > Frontier: 2,623 households
> >
> > Total: 8,782 households (approx. 22,833 people)
> >
> > ######
>
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