Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-12 Thread Tracy Tippett
the consumer folks  And it's CERTAINLY NOT about using OUR money efficiently. marlon - Original Message - From: Matt Larsen - Lists li...@manageisp.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 6:58 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste I filed 32

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-12 Thread MDK
: Monday, April 12, 2010 1:54 PM To: wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste You know that only the most motivated and intelligent people head for government service jobs - Right? --Original Mail-- From: Marco Coelho coelh...@gmail.com To: spie...@avolve.net, WISPA

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-10 Thread Marco Coelho
folks  And it's CERTAINLY NOT about using OUR money efficiently. marlon - Original Message - From: Matt Larsen - Lists li...@manageisp.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 6:58 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste I filed 32 protests

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-09 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
yeppers. marlon - Original Message - From: Pat O'Connor p...@inlandnet.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 8:02 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste Marlon was that the NoaNet build out? Marlon K. Schafer wrote: We protested a project

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-08 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
:16 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste Do you have the link to do the protests? Travis Microserv Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: I filed 32 protests during the first round of the stimulus plan, and none of them were funded. Protest long and protest often. From what I

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-08 Thread chris cooper
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 10:16 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste Do you have the link to do the protests? Travis Microserv Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: I filed 32 protests during the first round of the stimulus plan, and none of them were funded. Protest long

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-08 Thread Steve Barnes
Does someone have a good connection in the Indiana Ohio Kentucky area with a Mikrotik who can setup a user for me to do a Bandwidth test? I need to test a 50 Meg fiber connection clear out of our network. Inside its fine but to all outside speedtest.net sites I get 1/2 and I need to make sure

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-08 Thread Mike Hammett
Subject: [WISPA] Stimulus waste Hi, So, as I said since the Broadband Stimulus act was passed, the money will be wasted. Qwest just applied for $467 MILLION dollars to upgrade their DSL infrastructure in my coverage areas. They want to expand and upgrade the slower 7meg connections to go up to 12

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-08 Thread Mike Hammett
wireless@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste Does someone have a good connection in the Indiana Ohio Kentucky area with a Mikrotik who can setup a user for me to do a Bandwidth test? I need to test a 50 Meg fiber connection clear out of our network. Inside its fine but to all

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-08 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
- Original Message - From: Jeromie Reeves jree...@18-30chat.net To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 6:29 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste Insert explicatives here Thats 26 Y E A R S of my higher end tier of service, per customer. Why the #3!! do things

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-08 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
Larsen - Lists li...@manageisp.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 6:58 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste I filed 32 protests during the first round of the stimulus plan, and none of them were funded. Protest long and protest often. From what I have

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-08 Thread Bret Clark
List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 6:58 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste I filed 32 protests during the first round of the stimulus plan, and none of them were funded. Protest long and protest often. From what I have seen so far, most of the frivolous

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-08 Thread Pat O'Connor
money efficiently. marlon - Original Message - From: Matt Larsen - Lists li...@manageisp.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 6:58 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste I filed 32 protests during the first round of the stimulus plan

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-08 Thread Randy Cosby
Travis, Do you have a link to the article, or to a list of upgrade areas? Thanks, Randy On 4/7/2010 7:02 PM, Travis Johnson wrote: Hi, So, as I said since the Broadband Stimulus act was passed, the money will be wasted. Qwest just applied for $467 MILLION dollars to upgrade their DSL

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-08 Thread Stuart Pierce
] Stimulus waste I filed 32 protests during the first round of the stimulus plan, and none of them were funded. Protest long and protest often. From what I have seen so far, most of the frivolous projects have been rejected handily. Don't get all worked up about the waste until

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-08 Thread St. Louis Broadband
General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste I filed 32 protests during the first round of the stimulus plan, and none of them were funded. Protest long and protest often. From what I have seen so far, most of the frivolous projects have been rejected handily. Don't get all worked up

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-08 Thread Scottie Arnett
Yep, same here. Much smaller than you: http://www.nctc.com/version_3.0/StimBlog/BBStimulus.html They had already built out FTH on all the areas we cover. They also asked for money to expand out into areas already covered by Comcast and what they already covered with slower speeds(Comcast

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-08 Thread Scottie Arnett
I am behind on reading the messages, so I am behind. http://www.nctc.com/version_3.0/StimBlog/BBStimulus.html This company had already built out FTTH in our service area. They had also received protest from Comcast in their proposed area. It did not affect anything! Comcast is offering 3X

[WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-07 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi, So, as I said since the Broadband Stimulus act was passed, the money will be wasted. Qwest just applied for $467 MILLION dollars to upgrade their DSL infrastructure in my coverage areas. They want to expand and upgrade the slower 7meg connections to go up to 12 to 40 megabytes per second.

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-07 Thread Jeromie Reeves
Insert explicatives here Thats 26 Y E A R S of my higher end tier of service, per customer. Why the #3!! do things not get BID out? Who can do X users for the lowest $ I mean come on, that is just horrible. It doesnt even factor in what those new users will be paying for the service. I need to

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-07 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
I filed 32 protests during the first round of the stimulus plan, and none of them were funded. Protest long and protest often. From what I have seen so far, most of the frivolous projects have been rejected handily. Don't get all worked up about the waste until it finally comes to pass.

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-07 Thread Travis Johnson
Do you have the link to do the protests? Travis Microserv Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: I filed 32 protests during the first round of the stimulus plan, and none of them were funded. Protest long and protest often. From what I have seen so far, most of the frivolous projects have been

Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste

2010-04-07 Thread RickG
Way to go Matt! On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Matt Larsen - Lists li...@manageisp.com wrote: I filed 32 protests during the first round of the stimulus plan, and none of them were funded. Protest long and protest often.   From what I have seen so far, most of the frivolous projects have