Ooooh santa fe how you make very little sense sometimes-<br>Hmm ok- any insite to what prompted the city to make those rules?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:13 AM, John Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@citylinkfiber.com" target="_blank">john@citylinkfiber.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-wrap:break-word"><div>Here in Albuquerque a "Smart Company" is already deploying 100Mb/s symmetrical and 1000Mb/s symmetrical connections to homes and businesses</div>
<div><br></div><div>Even doing 20Mb/s connections via wireless</div><div><br></div><div>That smart company tried to do it in Santa Fe, but the City Government created new rules that financially make it near impossible to provide those symmetrical services. Its now costing that City tens of thousands of dollars in tax payer money to fight a federal lawsuit brought on by Qwest.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>John Brown,</div><div>Head Geek at the "Smart Company "</div><div>CityLink Fiber Holdings, Inc.</div><div><br></div><span><div style="border-right:medium none;padding-right:0in;padding-left:0in;padding-top:3pt;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;border-bottom:medium none;font-family:Calibri;border-top:#b5c4df 1pt solid;padding-bottom:0in;border-left:medium none">
<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Gillian Densmore <<a href="mailto:gil.densmore@gmail.com" target="_blank">gil.densmore@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Sat, 16 Mar 2013 09:28:59 -0600<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Gary Gomes <<a href="mailto:ggomes@soundviewnet.com" target="_blank">ggomes@soundviewnet.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> "<a href="mailto:1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org" target="_blank">1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org" target="_blank">1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity<br></div><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div>Hmm com-cast/cox is already in the wired phone business- It seems like it has a monoply in many markets at cable speeds.<br>
<br>What I don't get is why some smart company hasn't come along to provide at least 20mbs each way.<br>
When you look at the com-cast speeds they put heavy emphasis on download speeds of 20mbs down (give or take) but a snails pace up. Do people not want to have good upload speeds as well? Some of us want to have the option to have at least that 20mbs each direction.<br>
<br>What i'm also unclear on is this: it'd seem easier to get people good internet acess if the darn copper wasn't a factor some sort of wireless stunt that'd get at least cable speeds in large areas without having to put down miles and miles of copper.<br>
<br>Cell towers maybe?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Gary Gomes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ggomes@soundviewnet.com" target="_blank">ggomes@soundviewnet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Owen,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Unfortunately it is true. In one of the most egregious regulatory sell-outs of the Obama administration, in August of last year the Justice Department and the FCC approved a $3.6 Billion deal between Verizon and Comcast, Time Warner and Bright house cable companies that you and I will be paying for a very long time.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The headline “deal” was for the three cable companies to sell their cellular radio frequencies (they had planned to enter the cellular business as competitors of Verizon, AT&T , etc. So for $3.6 Million , Verizon got access to additional 700 MHz frequencies that they may or may not need but more importantly, got rid of three potential competitors. That wasn’t enough for the Cable companies though (if Verizon was to get rid of potential major competitors, so should they(m so they included an agreement for the companies to “cross-sell” each other’s service.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">To no one’s surprise (except for the FCC and the DOJ, perhaps), as soon as the deal was approved, AT&T announced that they were not going to extend FiOS beyond current markets. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">So now Comcast is offering its customers Verizon wireless service at a “savings” of $5.00 per month off Verizon’s published rates for 24 months if bundled with Comcast cable service. Comcast has not announced when they are raising the Cable and/or Internet rates to make up for this $5.00 “discount”.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Welcome to America<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Gary<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> 1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes=<a href="mailto:soundviewnet.com@mailman.dcn.org" target="_blank">soundviewnet.com@mailman.dcn.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:1st-mile-nm-bounces%2Bggomes" target="_blank">1st-mile-nm-bounces+ggomes</a>=<a href="mailto:soundviewnet.com@mailman.dcn.org" target="_blank">soundviewnet.com@mailman.dcn.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Owen Densmore<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 15, 2013 9:01 PM<br><b>To:</b> 1st-Mile-NM<br><b>Subject:</b> [1st-mile-nm] Verizon & Comcast/Xfinity<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">I recently called comcast/xfinity (what's the diff?) to try their broadband.</span><u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">I got an unusually tech-sophisticated customer support person. After working out the installation details, I mentioned interest in Verizon FiOS. He said there was no FiOS in NM but Vzn and Comcast have a bundling agreement so that if you have both comcast and vzn services, you can get discounts.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Is this true? I haven't seen much mention of this other than vague marketing announcements over the past year.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Details? Thanks,</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> -- Owen</span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><hr style="color:#a0a0a0" align="center" noshade size="1" width="100%">
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