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Bite my shiny metal ass
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join:2005-03-19
Evanston, IL
clubs: | pork talk about pork spending. the idea of broadband mapping has potential but this is not being done right.
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
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| Re: pork said by bender  :talk about pork spending. the idea of broadband mapping has potential but this is not being done right. Why not? So far Connected Nation hasn't received any money, so what about it "is not being done right?"
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edesignway
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join:2003-05-03
Cheyenne, WY
clubs: | Wyoming At least it looks like Wyoming will have a respectable outfit performing our Broadband Mapping. | |
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jinjimbob
Troy Mcclure
join:2001-11-13 | Received is the proper word. Gotten, YUCK, horrible word.
Received is the proper word. | |
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join:2002-05-24
Sandy, UT | Re: Received is the proper word. Gotten is not proper English, I thought for minute that someone that was ESL (English as a second language) had done the title. It's that bad folks, fix it. | |
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chlen
Ethically Challenged
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join:2001-01-16
Albany, NY | NY In NY we have Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure doing the mapping, they are very respectable and advise 14 other states including fed agencies like the FBI and DOS. | |
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capecoddah
join:2005-03-18
Yarmouth Port, MA
| MA NTIA has awarded the Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI) over $1.5 million for broadband data collection and mapping activities over a two-year period and $500,000 for broadband planning activities over a five-year period in Massachusetts, bringing the total grant award to approximately $2 million. MBI is the designated entity for the state of Massachusetts.
»www.massbroadband.org/
In July 2009, Governor Patrick announced a partnership between the MBI and the Executive Office of Transportation (EOT) to bring broadband to unserved and underserved communities in western Massachusetts.
Broadband by the same people that brought you the Big Dig... | |
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Madness
Like a flea circus at a dog show.
join:2000-01-05
Quincy, MA
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| Re: MA said by capecoddah :Broadband by the same people that brought you the Big Dig... ROFL! Hopefully this holds up better than ceiling panels!
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Monty Python
@comcast.net
|  15 States have gotten broadband mapping money
Some of the states are indeed very competent at mapping, but that does not imply that those running the program are. Nor does it imply that Congress has a clue about the how or why of broadband mapping. As long as Congress continues to cater to its sugar daddies (the Telcos), nobody will get a complete data set from these providers. Most of the money spent will be devoted to finding workarounds; methods for getting full and accurate data despite the their unwillingness to provide it. This does not seem to be a very good use of the People's money. But in America, in the words of the erstwhile Congressman Ozzie Meyers, "money talks." That's not all he said, and I'm not saying it either--am assuming you can fill in the blanks.
As far as I can tell, the BB mapping program -- and the rest of the $7.2 billion being given away through the BTOP/BIP/RUS programs -- involves people with money and jobs giving money and jobs to people who already have money and jobs. Having excluded almost anyone who knows anything about the country's technology infrastructure or how to conduct social research, they have instead chosen inexperienced people with backgrounds in fields like Law and Public Policy to make the critical decisions about how BB mapping should be implemented - a subject about which they know next to nothing.
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