He was with another Wisp before he switched to us. Most of rural Clarksburg is covered by our towers.
From: Kees H Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 2:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [California] CA Meeting Follow Up - AB1665 We hooked James up a few weeks ago. From: Kristian Hoffmann Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 11:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [California] CA Meeting Follow Up - AB1665 We all need to look at this, and most likely get involved in blocking this bill. If you note their supporting maps, they exclude fixed wireless, so huge swaths of CA show as "unserved." http://www.internetforallnow.org/district_maps_of_unconnected_and_underconnnected_california https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/cetf/pages/144/attachments/original/1490040674/CETF_Map.jpg?1490040674 Brian, any chance you can ask Assembly Member Cecilia Aguiar-Curry why they're excluding fixed wireless providers from their maps? Here's the content of an email the CETF sent out regarding this bill. Does anyone out there serve Clarksburg? Meet James Johas. He and his wife Noel live in Clarksburg, California, 10 miles south of Sacramento. The Johases do not live in a remote place, yet their home—and most of the homes in Clarksburg (population 750)—can’t get high-speed Internet because the dominant carriers refuse to serve the area. The results for the Johases are bad. James is a grape farmer with 15 acres of Chardonnay and a farm advisor who consults on 2,500+ acres of vineyards. When he needs to send product-use reports for his vineyard to the county, he can’t do it from his home office. Noel is in a similar boat. She consults for a fruit packing company in Lodi. Much of her work requires being up to speed on food and worker safety standards, but she can't do her research from home. And although their sons are a few years away from homework, not having high-speed Internet for their school assignments is of growing concern. Right now, the Johas’ connection is too slow to do anything except send an email. They would gladly pay for high-speed Internet, if only they could get it. James and Noel Johas represent one of the 420,000 households in California on the wrong side of the Digital Divide--unconnected to high-speed Internet because of inadequate infrastructure. They are also among the thousands of Californians who support the Internet For All Now Act (AB 1665), a no-tax bill co-authored by 22 Democrat and Republican Assemblymembers that extends a successful infrastructure program of the California Public Utilities Commission and that will put pressure on Internet service providers to ensure that 98% of Californians have fast service within the next five years. AB 1665 is motivated by numerous studies that show connecting individuals and businesses to the Internet boosts self-sufficiency and economic activity and being offline does the opposite. So tell your Legislators every Californian deserves to be connected to the digital economy. CLICK HERE The California Emerging Technology Fund provides leadership statewide to close the Digital Divide by accelerating broadband deployment and adoption of broadband for unserved and underserved communities and disadvantaged populations through public policy and community investments. California Emerging Technology Fund http://www.internetforallnow.org/ -=-=- California Emerging Technology Fund · United States -Kristian On 04/27/2017 10:04 AM, Brian - Winters Broadband wrote: Assembly Member Cecilia Aguiar-Curry was unable to join us for lunch yesterday, but sent the attached slide yesterday morning (came in during our meeting) to update us on broadband bills currently being considered in the Assembly. In a call with her yesterday morning, before our meeting when she advised she would unable to join us for lunch, she advised she was prepared to meet with members of the WISP community if there were issues we want to discuss. Brian Horn _______________________________________________ California mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/california -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ California mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/california -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ California mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/california
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