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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Devereaux-Weber Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 7:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Cybertelecom-l] Telecom Carrier Hacks Apart Educational Networking in Wisconsin The following was inserted into a budget bill after 8 PM on a Friday which guts public sector networking in Wisconsin. It would kill WiscNet, the statewide educational Internet service provider, and stop the UW from using Internet2. It would force the UW to give back millions in BTOP grant money! It will devastate networking for more than 400 institutions around the State of Wisconsin, including University of Wisconsin schools, other colleges and universities, K12 schools, libraries, cities and counties. Here is the pertinent language: 23. Telecommunication Services: Prohibit the Board of Regents, the UW System, any UW institution, or the UW Extension, directly or indirectly, from doing any of the following: (a) receiving funds from any award from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under the U.S. Department of Commerce for the Building Community Capacity through Broadband (BCCB) project; (b) disbursing, spending, loaning, granting, or in any other way distributing or committing to distribute any funds received with respect to, budgeted to, or allocated for the BCCB project; and (c) participating in the planning, organization, funding, implementation or operation of the BCCB project. In addition, requires the Board of Regents to reduce the amount expended on telecommunications services during the 2011-12 biennium by the total value of any funds, goods, or services that have been or will be distributed by the or on behalf of the Board of Regents, the UW System, any UW institution, or the UW Extension on or after May 1, 2011, to any participant, contractor, or supplier related to the BCCB project. 24. Modify current law to specify that the Board of Regents shall not offer, resell, or provide telecommunications services, directly or indirectly, that are available from a private telecommunications carrier to the general public or to any other public or private entity. Define telecommunications services as including data and voice over Internet protocol services, broadband access and transport, information technology services, Internet access services, and unlit fiber. 25. Prohibit the Board of Regents, the UW System, any UW institution, or the UW Extension from becoming or remaining a member, shareholder, or partner in or with any company, corporation, non-profit association, joint venture, cooperative, partnership, consortium, or any other individual or entity that offers, resells, or provides telecommunications services or information technology services to members of the general public, or to any private entity, or to any public entity other than the Board, the UW System, any UW institution, or the UW Extension. 26. Specify that WiscNet could no longer be a department or office within the UW-Madison Division of Information Technology beginning on July 1, 2012, and delete $1,400,000 PR from the UW System related to WiscNet in 2012-13. Require the Legislative Audit Bureau to conduct a program audit and a financial audit of the Board of Regents' use of telecommunication services and relationship with WiscNet. Dave Devereaux-Weber, P.E. [email protected] _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
