[1st-mile-nm] How Google Fiber launched in Louisville in just 5 months - TechRepublic

[Tom Johnson]

All:

I hope we won't be screwed over by the entire City Council once again, but
I'm pleased to announce that the City of Santa Fe Finance Committee
approved on Monday the uploading of Santa Fe Transit bus schedules to
Google Maps.  That means we can use Google Maps to figure out how to use
the bus to get across town by switching from one route to another.  (And
reportedly the Regional Transit District will be uploading its routes.
That means one can actually find out how to get from the Santa Fe Plaza to
the Taos Plaza.)  Final approval from the City Council is expected at next
Tuesday's meeting.  We have Councilman Peter Ives to thank for carrying the
bill.

In the case of Santa Fe, it has literally taken four years for the City
Clerk and the City Attorney to figure out that the risk of liability in
passing along this set of data was sufficiently low.  This came after it
was noted that *18,000* transit systems ranging from Nairobi, Kenya to
Bullhead City, AZ have posted the data for years along with the NM Dept. of
Transportation, City of ABQ and Railrunner.   Have your doubts?  Here's the
video:  https://vimeo.com/238858851 <https://vimeo.com/238858851>

TJ


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On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 3:16 PM, John Brown <john at citylinkfiber.com> wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> Correct, City didn't get it, didn't want to get it and wasted LOTS OF
> MONEY trying to look like they did something, but didn't.
> Look at the wasted $1,000,000 they spent on the fiber mile.  It was
> suppose to be open access, neutral, easily usable by ALL
> providers.  Don't see any information that is publicly available on
> how it works, pricing, etc.  Its all just CyberMesa.
>
> We get around 2 dozen requests a week for service in Santa Fe.  Our
> answer is simple:
> " We are sorry we don't service Santa Fe.  The reason is your City
> Government doesn't actually support competitive and open
> access.  The rules, processes and policies they create prohibit new
> entrants into the market.  When your City Gov changes its
> behavior we would be happy to bring our competitive services to your
> community."
>
>
> You can add to the list the City of Albuquerque.   They aren't even
> willing to enforce Federal Rules on pole attachment that would
> enable Broadband Providers to build out a competitive fiber network.
> Yet the City is the steward of the rights of way and they aren't
> actually making sure that neutral competitive services can be available.
>
> Then there is the fact that we offered to provide WiFI in all City
> Parks FOR FREE.  City of ABQ ignored and didn't do anything with it.
>
> We offered to provided DARK FIBER TO ALL SCHOOLS FOR FREE,  City of
> ABQ ignored and didn't take action.
> So now ABQ has to spend MILLIONS of rate payer money to get
> connectivity for schools.
>
> For most communities fiber is a sound bite that helps with the
> election cycle.  Very few communities have the actual intestinal
> fortitude
> to stand up to the big money from incumbents and create / enforce
> policy that Makes America Great.
>
> consumer prices.
>
> 10Mb/s  29.95
> 100Mb/s 49.95
> 1000Mb/s 79.95
>
>
> I'm happy to work with any community that actually wants to help build
> out a kick butt network.
> Unlike others, I actually BUILD and RUN a real live network that has
> done all the things I said it would do.!!
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Tom Johnson <tom at jtjohnson.com> wrote:
> > I think John Brown, from ABQ, proposed doing something similar in Santa
> Fe
> > more than five years ago, but of course the City Council didn't
> understand
> > what he was talking about.
> >
> > How Google Fiber launched in Louisville in just 5 months
> > The flagbearer of gigabit internet got some momentum back by using a new
> > deployment technique to light up its first city of 2017—in record time.
> > https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-google-fiber-
> launched-in-louisville-in-just-5-months/
> >
> >
> > TJ
> >
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