<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Thanks Richard!</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva" size="2">I cooked the Order down to an outline. See: <a href="http://www.wmxsystems.com/FCC-Rural-Broadband-Experiments">http://www.wmxsystems.com/FCC-Rural-Broadband-Experiments</a></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">Frank Ohrtman</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">WMX Systems</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">720-839-4063</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div>
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Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] FCC LAUNCHES RURAL BROADBAND EXPANSION<br>
EXPERIMENTS<br>
From: Richard Lowenberg <<a href="mailto:rl@1st-mile.org">rl@1st-mile.org</a>><br>
Date: Tue, July 15, 2014 5:48 pm<br>
To: 1st-Mile-NM <<a href="mailto:1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org">1st-mile-nm@mailman.dcn.org</a>><br>
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Here's the complete FCC background document:<div><a target="_blank" href="http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014/db0714/FCC-14-98A1.pdf">http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014/db0714/FCC-14-98A1.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>Also, here's a follow-on article from California, that sheds some light on the program.</div><div><a target="_blank" href="http://www.tellusventure.com/blog/only-telephone-companies-can-take-part-in-rural-broadband-experiments/">http://www.tellusventure.com/blog/only-telephone-companies-can-take-part-in-rural-broadband-experiments/</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>Only telephone companies can take part in rural broadband experiments</b><br><br>14 July 2014 <br><br>The FCC today released the full details on the rural broadband experiments approved by the commission on Friday. Of legal necessity, the program is limited to regulated telephone companies, although independent ISPs can either partner with one or go through the process to become one.<br><br>Eligibility is pretty much what was expected, with one new twist. The money can only be given to “Eligible Telecommunications Carriers” (ETCs) and projects have to include voice service and meet all the rules that pertain to it. But non-ETCs can apply to take part in the experiments and get the designation later.</div><div><br></div><div>(snip)</div><div><br></div><div>RL</div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 14, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Richard Lowenberg wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left: blue 2px solid; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">FCC LAUNCHES RURAL BROADBAND EXPANSION EXPERIMENTS<br> <br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-launches-rural-broadband-expansion-experiments">http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-launches-rural-broadband-expansion-experiments</a> <br> <br>July 11, 2014<br> <br>Applicants Will Compete to Deploy High-Performing Service at Lower Cost<br> <br>Washington, D.C. – Experiments to explore how robust broadband can be expanded at lower cost in rural America were launched today by the Federal Communications Commission.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; border-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>---------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director</div><div>1st-Mile Institute <a target="_blank" href="http://www.1st-mile.org">www.1st-mile.org</a> </div><div>P. O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504</div><div>505-603-5200 <a target="_blank" href="mailto:rl@1st-mile.org">rl@1st-mile.org</a></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br></div><hr>_______________________________________________<br>
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