[1st-mile-nm] Akamai Report

[Michael Harris]

Hm, yes. Century Link seems particularly difficult to deal with re: pole access. Surprisingly enough, EPE has been reasonably cooperative.

-Michael

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> On Mar 25, 2016, at 2:40 PM, John Brown <john at citylinkfiber.com> wrote:
> 
> I would agree with Richard on the point that there are a few things
> that our state's leadership could do to make Broadband more accessible
> and increase competitive choices / options.
> 
> One such change would be to reduce the significant burden that exists
> for legitimate broadband providers to access aerial distribution
> methods.
> ergo Electric Utility Poles.  Both at the incumbent and at the rural level.
> 
> While there are federal rules in place, pole owners have not operated
> in a fair or timely manner and the cost to "litigate to get your
> right" is extremely expensive and takes money away that could be used
> to actually provide services.
> 
> It's reported that some pole owners gag a broadband provider's right
> to openly speak about the issues......   Leading to further barriers
> of entry.
> 
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.org> wrote:
>> The latest quarterly Report on the Global State of the Internet was recently
>> published.
>> 
>> https://www.stateoftheinternet.com/downloads/pdfs/2015-q4-state-of-the-internet-report.pdf
>> 
>> This sentence is from that report:
>> 
>> Despite seeing 22% quarterly growth in its (U.S.) 10 Mbps broadband
>> adoption rate, Idaho remained in last place across the country with
>> a 34% adoption rate.   Iowa, New Mexico, and Arkansas shared the
>> next-lowest 10 Mbps broadband adoption rate in the country at 36%.
>> 
>> Of interest, Utah easily ranks among the ten top states in bandwidth and
>> adoption.
>> 
>> 
>> (As I've stated repeatedly since 2008, though not an easy task, NM's low
>> national ranking does not have to be the case, as there are low-cost
>> strategic actions that could move us up to within top 20 ranking within a
>> very few years, while also 'raising our many other boats': education,
>> healthcare, jobs, energy, etc.   The digital divide is firmly rooted among
>> leadership as much as among the rural, poor, elderly and undereducated.)
>> 
>> RL
>> 
>> 
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