Jeff,
Today Chip and I visited the principle Telecon companies in Chile for
a follow up on pricing. (Telefonica, Telmex, and Entel).
Two of the visits were very encouraging and we believe as a result
that we can state categorically we will come in on budget for the
10Gb from La Serena to Santiago. That is to say ~$600,000 p.a.
There is still some work to be done on this front in terms of
improving conditions, mtbf, redundancy etc, which will take place
over the next month or so.
It was stated that at the appropriate time (~2008) a "Letter of
Intent" could be signed to lock in the price and conditions, subject
of course to all the usual Governmental conditions.
On the second front, with Eduardo Vera and ALMA/Mining, we are
continuing to explore avenues and opportunities, and this has not
been discarded in view of the above. Our next Telecon meeting with
the relevant people is Nov 15th.
My view is that we can now breathe easier wrt to this segment for
LSST and anything better for Astronomy in Chile will be icing on the
cake.
Many thanks to Chip for his invaluable help in this exercise.
ron
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