I second wanting a link to do protests as well. Kurt Fankhauser WAVELINC P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820 419-562-6405 www.wavelinc.com
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson 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 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. It was > pretty clear from looking at the first round apps that there were a lot > of stupid, wasteful applications. > > Matt Larsen > vistabeam.com > > > On 4/7/2010 7:29 PM, Jeromie Reeves wrote: > >> <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 find out if they have >> applies for my area, I >> manage client networks with qwest dsl and they have been giving some BS about >> upgrading modems (for a /mo fee) when all the sites have adsl2+ modems. Not good >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Travis Johnson<[email protected]> 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 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". >>> >>> The article says they will increase coverage to 29,922 new customers. >>> That's an average cost of $15,607 PER CUSTOMER. >>> >>> Many of the areas they list (Idaho Falls, Rexburg, Ammon, Blackfoot, >>> Rigby, Shelley, etc.) already have at least 3 providers and some have 4 >>> or 5 provider choices. >>> >>> Let the waste begin.... :( >>> >>> Travis >>> Microserv >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- >>> 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
