Thats actually what im looking for. whats allocated, whats distributed, whats pending, and whats up their sleeves. I have to show that its more near the end of a gold rush than the beginning if entering right now, but theres still plenty of contracts to sign.
IMHO, there is a broadband drunken spending 5 year window on construction, we are in year 1 or 2 of that, depending on how you look at it. After 5 years that boom will start trailing down, and at 10 years the industry will stabilize. Any new shenanigans of course could disrupt that. Not sure why josh is berating me on ISP stuff when I just want people to pay me to put all that stuff in the dirt. Maybe needs a snickers. Like the COVID broadband money, its allocated like 33 times and I dont recall if it was ever specifically connectivity funding. Our Illinois money, IIRC its actual new money. CAF, RDOF, etc, I dont know where it all intertwines in the back end. Then at some point I thought Microsoft was doing something. Google I quit keeping track of. We have an outfit in this region thats pretty much just saying "fuck you guys, we are putting orange pipes everywhere we go cause we can". I wouldnt be suprised if Musk decided that anywhere one of his satellites hit he will deploy FTTH. None of this makes me any less broke today though, so I can wait for a WISPA recap You know its hard out here for a pimp when he tryin' to get this money for the rent On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 2:14 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Come to think of it, in my experience vehicles and construction equipment > were both eligible expenses in the grant programs I was involved in. > > If you’re considering grant funding then putting a trencher, HDD machine, > and associated trucks and trailers as expenses on your application is > probably going to be ok. As I recall, NY State asked us to justify why we > needed 3 bucket trucks and a Bobcat T450, and my response was (in a more > long winded way) “because we can’t build a fiber network without bucket > trucks and digging equipment”. We also had trailers to transport the > equipment and a pole barn to store them in. All of it was ultimately > approved. > > > > Buying another company on the other hand was not an eligible expense. > That’s somewhat of a complication because the people to operate all that > equipment can be harder to get than the actual machines. > > > > As far as your original question, I think that’s harder than you might > imagine. CAF is a federal program but at least some of it was managed by > states. If you took info from the feds saying they have $X of CAF funding > and data from states saying they have $Y of CAF you have to know to not add > those together. NY State also didn’t distribute all of it’s funding in one > go, they didn’t award all available funding in round one, so they had > several successive rounds. If you took announcements from different times > saying “we have $x for broadband” and add them all together then you’d be > dramatically overcounting. Really they had $x at the beginning, then the > remainder of $x – previous awards + new appropriations for the new fiscal > year. Bottom line if you didn’t do a deep dive on this you’d add up the > same piles of money multiple times and think there were a skillion dollars > more than there really were. > > > > -Adam > > > > > > *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Steve Jones > *Sent:* Thursday, February 10, 2022 2:16 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Federal funding totals > > > > im trying to fund buying out a small underground construction outfit. I > can barely afford to eat, let alone pay entry into WISPAmerica and the > associated bail when the WISP degenerates get me drinking > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 12:34 PM Josh Luthman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Go to WISPAmerica 2022 in NOLA. Broadband Billions on Monday. > > > > 10s of billions maybe a few 100 billion in just the last couple of years. > > > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 12:31 PM Steve Jones <[email protected]> > wrote: > > CAF, RDOF, State level, COVID, etc > > > > Is there a compiled list of all the funding for connectivity is out there? > Im just looking for the numbers, not for funding. > > I'm curious how much has been dispersed in the last decade, how much is > pending dispersal, how much is pending allocation and how much is pending > legislation. Its got to be readily available info somewhere compiled > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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