Gee, Santa Fe needs better broadband. Who would have thought?<br><br>-tj<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dena Aquilina</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dena400@yahoo.com">dena400@yahoo.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:35 PM<br>Subject: [sfx: Discuss] Fw: News from City of Santa Fe Economic Development Division<br>To: discuss lists <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.sfcomplex.org">discuss@lists.sfcomplex.org</a>><br>
<br><br><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font:inherit" valign="top">FYI<br>Dena<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 2/24/11, City of Santa Fe Economic Development Division <i><<a href="mailto:info@santafebiz4biz.com" target="_blank">info@santafebiz4biz.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br>
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Subject: News from City of Santa Fe Economic Development Division<br>To: <a href="mailto:dena400@yahoo.com" target="_blank">dena400@yahoo.com</a><br>Date: Thursday, February 24, 2011, 11:15 AM<br><br><div>
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<b>Dear Dena,</b><br><br><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">While we continue to sift through the many comments and responses received so far from the Roundtable event held in January, one item of interest that came up in a number of comments was the question: what is the City doing to increase the access to broadband in our community? We felt that we could address this question directly by providing some background information, current activities and next steps.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">The City has been and continues to work toward providing access to broadband.<span> </span>To date the City has commissioned a number of studies which provided a better perspective on the existing availability and pricing of broadband services in the region. The results indicate that the lack of adequate broadband infrastructure and affordable telecommunications services has inhibited our overall economic growth potential as well as placed roadblocks to our ability to provide for our public safety, health and education.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">The City has used these findings to seek private sector partnerships as well as funding to build a municipal broadband network, the technical specifications of which would put us in the top ten American cities for such technology.. In the past two years the City has applied to a number of private and public funding
sources such as the Google Wired Cities initiatives and the federal Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP). While these efforts have so far not yielded any funding allocations, we continue to pursue other avenues, including public private partnerships through a request for proposals (RFP) process. Discussions with several potential private sector partners have been ongoing and we hope to be able to issue an RFP by early summer. Rest assured that we will not stop until we are able to find a way to fund this absolutely critical infrastructure. In the coming months we plan to have more public discussion and forums on this topic.<span> </span>In the meantime, if you would like more information on the City's Broadband plan, you can find it at <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=gfw4l6dab&et=1104635283849&s=159&e=001exFCzUAQinWZHyvYyRGfDZM6NFuZDYm0YJuTvnEzH_7ka1i21cBpzCAJHPsUzz5d867e1RgP4p2RPPz9eFEHLhD-VOcK5NRXeoW_lwuyXJs=" target="_blank">www.sfrtc.org</a>.</p>
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