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 disputed), which I think is not right! The BBS is bunch of freaking bull, without the real investigations into this...But I digress, In the FCC, no-one exist but the cable and the telco companies? It is a duoploy and it is not going to be changed anytime soon, I hope I am wrong! Scottie ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Travis Johnson <[email protected]> Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:02:05 -0600 >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/ >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > Wireless High Speed Broadband service from Info-Ed, Inc. as low as $30.00/mth. Check out www.info-ed.com/wireless.html for information. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
