I don’t know if the Qwest lawsuit over the Communications Franchise Ordinance was ever settled. I would think that unless the ordinance was fixed, it will be hard for companies to provide services via this new link.
Ed _______________________ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu <mailto:an...@cs.unm.edu> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel <http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel> > On Dec 14, 2015, at 2:13 PM, Tom Johnson <t...@jtjohnson.com> wrote: > > Nick-- I don't think there are answers to your space question yet. First, > the City Council has to get on board. > > As to access, call Cybermesa. It has some contract related to laying the > lines. But there seem to be wifi-to-house alternatives, but I don't know the > details. > T > > On Dec 14, 2015 12:57 PM, "Nick Thompson" <nickthomp...@earthlink.net > <mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net>> wrote: > Thanks, Tom, for this report. > > > > So how does this work from here? Could I start a company called Egg-Head > Services (my logo would by Humpty-Dumpty sitting on a wall) and start > connecting people to the hub? Would I need my own wire? Or could I > commandeer wires already there? > > > > As for the space over REI, does the City now hire people to oversee it? Do > we have any thoughts who that might be? Wink, wink; nudge, nudge. Does > anybody have any policy guidelines for the operation of such a space? W,w; > n, n. > > > > Isn’t this something we have been dreaming about? > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> > > > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com > <mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>] On Behalf Of Tom Johnson > Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 12:31 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com > <mailto:friam@redfish.com>> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] ADVISORY: City Will "Flip the Switch" on Gigabit > Internet Speeds at 12/14 Special Event > > > > Yeah, I was there. Looks like it might be a good start, but it probably will > be a long time until fiber-to-the-home is available for most of Santa Fe. > What else is new. > > > > But the mayor did say that he is going to ask the city council to open up > 8,000 sf of space in the 500 Market St. (above REI) to start-ups. Free? I > don't know. As he said, that space, which now has gigabyte cnx, has been > vacant since the building was constructed. Of course this is what SF Complex > tried to do 8 yrs ago. I've seen the mayor recently at a couple events like > this. I think that unlike his predecessor, he gets the idea of the Digital > Revolution and is genuinely engaged is trying to move ahead. A welcome > change. > > > > This new gigabyte system is, we are told, an open system, so any provider can > connect and resell the service. > > > > -Tom > > > > Sent with MailTrack > <https://mailtrack.io/install?source=signature&lang=en&referral=jtjohnson...@gmail.com&idSignature=22> > > > > ============================================ > Tom Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA > 505.577.6482 <tel:505.577.6482>(c) > 505.473.9646 <tel:505.473.9646>(h) > Society of Professional Journalists <http://www.spj.org/> - Region 9 > <http://www.spj.org/region9.asp> Director > Check out It's The People's Data > <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-The-Peoples-Data/1599854626919671> > http://www.jtjohnson.com <http://www.jtjohnson.com/> > t...@jtjohnson.com <mailto:t...@jtjohnson.com> > ============================================ > > > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Arlo Barnes <arlo.bar...@gmail.com > <mailto:arlo.bar...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Barry MacKichan > <barry.mackic...@mackichan.com <mailto:barry.mackic...@mackichan.com>> wrote: > > On 7 Dec 2015, at 11:20, Nick Thompson wrote: > > On Monday, December 14th from 9 until 11 AM Mayor Gonzales will be joined by > special industry guests to flip the switch [...] > > Does anybody know how to find their rollout schedule, and a map of the “first > gigabit district”? > > Seconded, and did anyone go? 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