477 forms are like prayers, you send them, but is anyone listening? I used to work for a boss who every month put in the middle of his required status report “If you read this, call XXX and I will pay you $10”. No one ever claimed the $10.
At another company, I worked with a guy who put one impossible to meet spec in every RFP. Any vendor who said they could meet all the specs was disqualified. Many were. From: Jeremy Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 7:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] National Broadband Map I do the export from my billing system for the FCC, but it doesn't yet support VoIP.. So those customers have to be accounted for and put into each tract and entered manually. Come on Powercode! Add a VoIP export option! On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote: Billing system export to the FCC, that is. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Jeremy" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 2, 2015 5:08:44 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] National Broadband Map The state is so much easier than the FCC. I just send them a basic .kmz file On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Brian Webster <[email protected]> wrote: Since the FCC has yet to release any of the 477 public data, you could easily send the state your census blocks file. They would at least keep the state map updated that way. They can easily process that same file. Thank You, Brian Webster 214 Eggleston Hill Rd. Cooperstown, NY 13326 (607) 643-4055 Office (607) 435-3988 Mobile (208) 692-1898 Fax Skype: Radiowebst www.wirelessmapping.com www.Broadband-Mapping.com From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeremy Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 10:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] National Broadband Map Our state (Utah) has allocated funds and is continuing the Utah Broadband Mapping Initiative (brodband.utah.gov/map/). They called me recently for a map update. I mentioned that it is all on the 477 map now and she said they were continuing to update the local map independently of the 477 map. On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 6:12 AM, Brian Webster <[email protected]> wrote: The National Broadband Map program was funded through the ARRA program and was under the control of the NTIA. That grant funding did not get renewed so as of the end of 2014 that state and national broadband map program stopped. The solution to continue to collect broadband deployment data was rolled in to the FCC form 477 program. That is where you have the new additional requirement to report not only your customer my census tract, but that you now have to report by law your service areas by census block. The census block service area data will become public information but your customer tract data still remains protected under NDA. If the FCC only has one person on the mapping program that would explain why you all seem to get notices so long after a filing if there are issues AND it also explains why there have been to releases to date of the block level coverage data for carriers by the FCC. That means the most current broadband deployment data available is from the national broadband map and that last round of data was collected and turned in to the NTIA in September of last year. That data has been published. Some states have continued to work on their mapping programs by requesting from carriers their latest 477 block level data, but there is no national effort to do so outside of the FCC. Thank You, Brian Webster www.wirelessmapping.com www.Broadband-Mapping.com From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ty Featherling Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 10:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] National Broadband Map I bet Brian Webster could shine a little light on it. -Ty On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 9:07 PM, CBB - Jay Fuller <[email protected]> wrote: Ok - two articles that I read today both cite the national broadband map for "information". I wanted to pass along some information I received in a state of Alabama broadband meeting / briefing today. At a conference recently an Alabama state staffer discussed with personnel from the FCC the National Broadband Map. Staffer was told the fcc currently had *one* employee working on that map and to not expect it to be updated anytime soon. There was, and I quote, "little to no funding..." for the project. FYI. grain of salt. take it or leave it. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ken Hohhof To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 8:28 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Any of you guys service this guy in the news? Ouch, that Farm Futures article is pretty awful. Probably what passes for journalism today. I hope you weren't too harsh on her. Probably some gig economy writer paid a penny a word or something? -----Original Message----- From: Rick Harnish Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 6:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Any of you guys service this guy in the news? I contacted Peter Maher at Netwurx about the article. They are close. Maybe that is who Matthew Howard works for. http://www.netwurx.net/wireless-high-speed I also wrote an email to Jessica Michael at Farm Futures about her lack of knowledge about the Wisp industry yesterday. I haven't heard back from her yet. http://farmfutures.com/blogs-rural-internet-options-smart-office-10241 Respectfully, Rick Harnish Broadband Consultant & Industry Analyst 260-307-4000 cell Skype: rick.harnish.Twitter: @rharnish > -----Original Message----- > From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve > Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 7:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Any of you guys service this guy in the news? > > Contact Ars... have them update the site saying that Wireless can solve a > lot > of these problems for a fraction of the price. It'll be a good piece > they can do > on the wireless industry. Find the name of the guy who wrote the article. > ahhh his email is [email protected] > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mathew Howard" <[email protected]> > To: "af" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 7:28:01 PM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Any of you guys service this guy in the news? > > I'll just skimmed through the article... We might be able to get there, > I'll see if > I can figure out where exactly it is. > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Would be a good followup Ars story if someone with a 450 was able to > > hit this guy up with faster than DSL speeds! Good PR for the WISP > > industry. > > > > > > http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/09/man-builds-house-then-finds- > ou > > t-cable-internet-will-cost-117000/ > > > >
