[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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