[Davisgig] [Davisgig-announce] Please Donate to DCN and Davis GIG Today!
Robert Nickerson
rob at omsoft.com
Fri May 5 09:35:42 PDT 2017
Hi
Than you for your feedback, we will incorporate that into our future
efforts.
Take Care and thanks for your interest
RAN
On 5/4/2017 1:53 PM, Zana Coulibaly wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way we could have a progress bar on the amount already raised?
> I think that would be really useful.
>
> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Robert Nickerson via Davisgig-announce
> <davisgig-announce at list.davisgig.org
> <mailto:davisgig-announce at list.davisgig.org>> wrote:
>
> Hi Davisites
>
> Today is the one time we are actively raising money to create
> better broadband for our community. More cities in the US are
> looking to themselves to deploy Gigabit level Internet connections
> for economic development, network service completion, and quality
> of life.
>
> We believe we can make a model in Davis that will make a
> difference to this country wide effort, by putting in place a
> system that provides broad benefits over the long term. City and
> Stakeholder one time investment in the fiber optic
> infrastructure. A non profit operator, manages the
> infrastructure investment, reasonably plans for network growth,
> allows for citizen and community oversight, will lease access to
> this infrastructure to ISPs, large or small. ISPs, all on equal
> infrastructure, sell Internet Access to citizens and businesses.
>
> Here are 5 benefits to this model:
>
> One of the great things this model does, is remove the
> monopolistic pricing leverage the large ISPs have, because they
> exclusively own the infrastructure used to provide service.
>
> Second thing this does is create real competition in the broadband
> access marketplace, which translates to lower prices, better
> service, and increased variation on service offerings
>
> Third thing it does, is give the City a multi generational long
> term infrastructure asset it will be able to lease to Internet,
> TV, Cell Phone, Utility, Research, Telemedicine companies.
>
> Fourth thing one time investment means school district, city
> government facilities get a permanent advanced fiber
> infrastructure owned and operated by the community at very minimal
> recurring monthly cost.
>
> Fifth thing is, this network will attract medium to large size
> business to diversify the tax base, as it does in every other
> community that deploys modern network technology.
>
> Your support at this point is crucial. We are raising $10,000.00
> to implement a demand aggregation engine, that will facilitate
> planning and deployment of the network, by identifying what
> neighborhoods have the strongest interest, and so get built out first.
>
> Please give generously today, at http://www.davisgig.org, or
> http://www.dcn.org.
>
> Thank You
>
> DavisGIG committee of Davis Community Network
>
>
>
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Robert Nickerson
UCD Class of 1996
CEO, Om Networks
cell: 5308483865
www.omsoft.com
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