Saw this on MuniWireless. While it has nothing to do with wireless, this is an inspiring story of an underserved community taking matters into their own hands and building an open provider fiber network operated by a cooperative (I have a hard time feeling sorry for this particular demographic's current lack of high speed internet options, but that's a different story)
Begin forwarded message: > Date: November 24, 2009 12:15:31 PM PST > Subject: California Public Utilities Commission approves $5M grant for fiber > network > Source: MuniWireless > > > The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved a $5 million > grant from the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) to the Central Coast > Broadband Consortium (CCBC). The grant pays for 10% of the cost of a $50 > million fiber optic trunk line network planned for Santa Cruz, Monterey and > San Benito counties on California’s central coast (for more details, click > here). > > According to Steve Blum of Tellus Venture Associates, the project will build > “a 428-mile fiber optic backbone linking unserved and underserved areas to > better served communities, and connecting the entire region to Tier 1 > Internet facilities in Silicon Valley. Using a loop architecture, any point > on the network would have two independent paths to any other point, and to > the Internet. Current plans are for the system to be operated by a > cooperative, which will offer access on a wholesale basis to last-mile > Internet service providers and major institutional customers.” > > Read more… -- The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
