<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>That CAF story sounds really nice. I just have 2 questions:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Who is responsible for oversight to ensure those funds are spent the way they are supposed to be spent (invested)?</div><div>2. Who monitors the internet speeds (actual speeds not advertised speeds) after those funds are "invested" in the service provider network and who holds the service provider recipient responsible for poor or non-performance?</div><div><br></div><div>Frank Ohrtman</div>
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Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] FW: Udall: Almost 9, 000 NM Households to<br>
Gain Broadband Access<br>
From: Richard Lowenberg <<a href="mailto:rl@1st-mile.com">rl@1st-mile.com</a>><br>
Date: Mon, September 09, 2013 10:48 am<br>
To: <<a href="mailto:1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org">1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org</a>><br>
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Thanks for the postings, Kevin.<br>
I wonder if representatives of CenturyLink, Windstream or Frontier<br>
might chime in here, to give us their update on allocation of<br>
Round One CAF in NM, and how this second round of funds will be<br>
geographically distributed. That would be very helpful, as we<br>
all want to effectively mitigate the digital disparities in NM.<br>
Richard<br>
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On 09.09.2013 11:15, Cummins, Kevin (Tom Udall) wrote:<br>
> Just FYI. --Kevin<br>
><br>
> FROM: Tom Udall Press Office<br>
> SENT: Monday, September 09, 2013 1:10 PM<br>
> TO: Tom Udall Press Office<br>
> SUBJECT: Udall: Almost 9,000 NM Households to Gain Broadband Access<br>
><br>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br>
><br>
> SEPTEMBER 9, 2013<br>
> CONTACT: Jennifer Talhelm<br>
> 202.228.6870 | <a href="mailto:news@tomudall.senate.gov">news@tomudall.senate.gov</a> [1] | @TomUdallPress [2]<br>
><br>
> UDALL: ALMOST 9,000 NM HOUSEHOLDS TO GAIN BROADBAND ACCESS<br>
><br>
> (Snip)<br>
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> Here is the estimated breakdown of how many N.M. households will<br>
> benefit from the new CAF funding:<br>
><br>
> Windstream: 3,378 households<br>
><br>
> CenturyLink: 2,781 households<br>
><br>
> Frontier: 2,623 households<br>
><br>
> Total: 8,782 households (approx. 22,833 people)<br>
><br>
> ######<br>
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Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir.<br>
1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200<br>
P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504<br>
<a href="http://www.1st-mile.org">www.1st-mile.org</a> rl@1st-mile.org<br>
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