<meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Ummm... that story should read "CenturyLink Leaves New Mexico to Rot with Mere $20 million Investment."<div>
<br></div><div>$20 million doesn't get you far in Sante Fe or Albuquerque each, let alone the entire state! But you are beating us, they got good press in MN for promising $10 million a year for 5 years. </div><div>
<br></div><div>It's like stopping at a gas station to "fill up the tank" with $1.50. </div><div><br></div></span>Christopher Mitchell<br>Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative<br>Institute for Local Self-Reliance<br>
<a href="http://www.muninetworks.org" target="_blank">http://www.muninetworks.org</a><br><div>@communitynets</div><div>612-276-3456</div><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Richard Lowenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lowenberg@designnine.com">lowenberg@designnine.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><h1 style="font-size:18px">CenturyLink to invest $20 million to improve, expand broadband in New Mexico</h1>
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July 18, 2011<br>
<br></div><div style="font-size:12px"><a href="http://www.lightwaveonline.com/fttx/news/CenturyLink-to-invest-20-million-to-improve-expand-broadband-in-New-Mexico-125743638.html?cmpid=EnlDirectJuly182011" target="_blank">www.lightwaveonline.com/fttx/news/CenturyLink-to-invest-20-million-to-improve-expand-broadband-in-New-Mexico-125743638.html?cmpid=EnlDirectJuly182011</a> </div>
<div style="font-size:12px"><br><p>CenturyLink Inc. (NYSE:CTL), following its <a href="http://www.lightwaveonline.com/business/news/CenturyLink-and-Qwest-to-merge-91888274.html" target="_blank">merger with Qwest Communications</a>, has announced plans to invest at least $20 million to improve and expand <a href="http://www.lightwaveonline.com/fttx/news/Fiber-dominates-latest-US-rural-broadband-stimulus-funds-release-82618867.html" target="_blank">broadband communications </a>availability and increase <a href="http://www.lightwaveonline.com/about-us/lightwave-issue-archives/issue/interoperability-aids-fttp-deployments-53906692.html" target="_blank">connectivity speeds </a>to consumers in New Mexico.</p>
<p>"This investment by CenturyLink to expand <a href="http://www.lightwaveonline.com/fttx/news/Fiber-dominates-latest-US-rural-broadband-stimulus-funds-release-82618867.html" target="_blank">broadband services </a>in
New Mexico is an effective way for the company to introduce itself to
the state," New Mexico Public Regulation Commission chairman Pat Lyons
says. "CenturyLink is New Mexico's leading communications provider now
that its merger with Qwest is complete. We look forward to the
additional resources and opportunities that this increased <a href="http://www.lightwaveonline.com/about-us/lightwave-issue-archives/issue/multiplexing-streaming-data-in-an-ethernet-network-54891202.html" target="_blank">Internet connectivity </a>made possible by CenturyLink will provide the people of New Mexico."</p>
<p>"As a result of CenturyLink's merger with Qwest, the combined company
now has the financial strength, national breadth, and local depth to
provide a compelling array of <a href="http://www.lightwaveonline.com/lightwave-issue-archives/issue/bend-insensitive-multimode-fiber-improves-enterprise-networks-54893717.html" target="_blank">broadband products </a>and
high-bandwidth services in New Mexico," explains Valerie Dodd, vice
president and general manager for CenturyLink in New Mexico.</p><p>Dodd and her Albuquerque-based local operations team are studying the
communities CenturyLink serves in the state to determine where to
deploy the expanded <a href="http://www.lightwaveonline.com/about-us/lightwave-issue-archives/issue/interoperability-aids-fttp-deployments-53906692.html" target="_blank">broadband infrastructure</a> that the new initiative will fund. CenturyLink will implement the expanded broadband program over the next several years.</p>
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<div>Richard Lowenberg<br>P. O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504<br><a href="tel:505-989-9110" value="+15059899110" target="_blank">505-989-9110</a> off.; <a href="tel:505-603-5200" value="+15056035200" target="_blank">505-603-5200</a> cell</div>
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