Curt - wouldn't Mr. Kittredge be open to discussing using wireless to extend the "last mile"?
Aaron D. Osgood Streamline Solutions L.L.C P.O. Box 6115 Falmouth, ME 04105 TEL: 207-781-5561 FAX: 615-704-8067 MOBILE: 207-831-5829 [email protected] http://www.streamline-solutions.net Introducing Efficiency to Business since 1986. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Curtis Maurand Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:44 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] stimulus announcements thus far I'm from Maine. Its good for Mainers. Its better for GWI and Fletcher Kittredge who's been looking to overbuild Fairpoint for a very long time. Now he gets his chance. Its going to be bad for the small provider. You're still not going to get a break on connectivity. It will follow GWI's usual pricing model which is very expensive. He's going to get a more advantageous deal for GWI retail and federal money to do the deal. He doesn't even have to put up much of his own money to get it done. Talk about an inside game. Trading one monopoly for another is not good. It does inject a third player into the game, though and that's good. On 12/17/2009 2:17 PM, Josh Cheney wrote: > Speaking as someone from Maine, and who knows a bit about what that plan > entails, it is an excellent project. > > On 12/17/09 2:10 PM, Robert West wrote: > >> On the outside, that all sounds like reasonable choices and towards the >> actual goal. >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Matt Liotta >> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 1:41 PM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: [WISPA] stimulus announcements thus far >> >> A $33.5 million grant to the North Georgia Network Cooperative for a >> fiber-optic ring that will bring high-speed Internet connections to >> the northern Georgia foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The >> project will serve an eight-county area with a population of 334,000. >> >> A $25.4 million grant to the Biddleford Internet Corp., a partnership >> between the University of Maine and service providers, to build three >> fiber-optic rings across rural Maine. The network will pass through >> more than 100 communities with 110,000 households and will connect 10 >> University of Maine campuses. >> >> A combined grant/loan of $2.4 million to the Consolidated Electric >> Cooperative in north central Ohio to build a 166-mile fiber network >> that will be used, among other things, to connect 16 electrical >> substations to support a smart grid project. >> >> A 4G wireless network to be built by an Alaska Native Corporation in >> southwestern Alaska, a fiber-to-the-home project in a remote corner of >> New Hampshire and computer centers for 84 libraries in Arizona. >> >> -Matt >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
