[1st-mile-nm] NLR recollection

[John Brown]

And how much did our State and UNM spend of tax payer money on this
'wonderful' NLR.
It was suppose to enhance NM connectivity to the world.
In the end it looks like it didn't come thru on that mission.
More wasted tax payer money on broadband projects that don't deliver.

It makes much more sense for our State to create some simple policies
that enable
competitive providers to actually compete.

One stop process for rights of way access.  Instead of over 200
different agreements.

One stop process for pole attachment, instead of seeing if PNM or
CenturyLink will or will not
drag their feet and let you on the poles.

Dig Once requirements for when a Muni does construction to allow
providers access to the
trench at the same time..  Huge savings there



On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.org> wrote:
> While there is much featured news about the purchase of the L.A. Times and
> other publications by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiung, I recalled the demise
> of the
> National LambdaRail (NLR) Network a few years back, and thought I'd note:
>
> From Wikipedia:
>>>
>>> In November 2011 the control of NLR was purchased from its university
>>> membership by a billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong for $100M, who indicated his
>>> intention to upgrade NLR infrastructure and repurpose portions of it to
>>> support an ambitious healthcare project through NantHealth. The upgrade
>>> never took place. NLR ceased operations in March 2014.<<
>
>
> RL
>
>
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