<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div style=""><font face="verdana, geneva" size="2" style="">FWIW, the Denver Post published my letter to the editor re EAGLE-Net suspension lifted, in today's print and online edition:</font></div><div style=""><font face="verdana, geneva" size="2" style=""><a href="http://blogs.denverpost.com/eletters/2013/05/01/suspension-or-not-eagle-net-failing/22179">http://blogs.denverpost.com/eletters/2013/05/01/suspension-or-not-eagle-net-failing/22179</a>/</font></div><div style=""><font face="verdana, geneva" size="2" style=""><br style=""></font></div><div style=""><font face="verdana, geneva" size="2" style="">Dear Editor,</font></div><div style=""><font face="verdana, geneva" size="2" style="">I want to thank Andy Vuong for his insightful coverage of the EAGLE-Net project. Lifting the suspension on this project does not solve the issue of the financial sustainability (income must equal outgo). I suspect that in about one year, there will no longer be an EAGLE-Net as an independent entity and that the taxpayer-funded network will possibly be handed off to some large incumbent telecommunications company with deep political connections.</font></div><div style=""><font face="verdana, geneva" size="2" style=""><br style=""></font></div><div style=""><font face="verdana, geneva" size="2" style="">Sadly, after the $100.6 million grant, the average public school Internet speed in Colorado will not have changed.</font></div><div style=""><font face="verdana, geneva" size="2" style=""><br style=""></font></div><div style=""><font face="verdana, geneva" size="2" style="">Frank Ohrtman, Denver</font></div><blockquote id="replyBlockquote" webmail="1" style="color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: blue; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px;"><div id="wmQuoteWrapper"><br>
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