<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;">Hi All!</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;">The FCC is inviting challenges to the National Broadband Map for the purpose of ensuring an accurate map for rural Broadband Experiments and CAF II. Challenges are to be listed by the census block along the categories of:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">a. Internet speed</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">b. Is voice offered?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">c. Usage allowance (data caps) of less than 100 GB/month?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">d. Latency</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">e. Pricing</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;">Significance: </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">If you lived in Santa Fe, for example, you might challenge the map on the grounds of:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">a. The DSL speeds are less than 4 Mbps down, 1 up</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">b. The WISP with the faster service serving your census block does not offer voice services</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">c. The mobile providers have usage allowances (data caps) of 10 GB/month, far less than the 100 GB stated in the challenge</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">d. Latency on any other service (especially satellite) is greater than 100 ms making VoIP, gaming, etc impossible</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;">e. Pricing in terms of $/Mbps/month is much higher than Albuquerque or Denver. Example: in the Power Point see my monthly samknows statement for Denver Comcast (85 Mbps is average download speed at $80/month or less than $1/Mbps/month). What does one pay in $/Mbps/month in Santa Fe?</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;">See my web site for FREE Power Point giving some direction to completing a challenge:</div><div><font face="verdana, geneva" size="2"><a href="http://www.wmxsystems.com/FCC-Rural-Broadband-Experiments">http://www.wmxsystems.com/FCC-Rural-Broadband-Experiments</a></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva" size="2">Frank Ohrtman</font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva" size="2">WMX Systems</font></div><div><font face="verdana, geneva" size="2">720-839-4063</font></div></span></body></html>