From rob at omsoft.com Tue Jan 16 13:58:53 2018 From: rob at omsoft.com (Robert Nickerson) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:58:53 -0800 Subject: [Davisgig] Community Fiber Networks are Cheaper for the consumer. Message-ID: <4b28720c-fbd6-143d-7c11-a8e84a919b09@omsoft.com> Hi Good news! https://cyber.harvard.edu/publications/2018/01/communityfiber Has anyone noticed how this has picked up a lot of steam over the past 6 months all around the USA? Take Care -- Robert Nickerson UCD Class of 1996 CEO, Om Networks cell: 5308483865 www.omsoft.com From ahirsch at neighborhoodselect.org Wed Jan 24 15:09:08 2018 From: ahirsch at neighborhoodselect.org (ahirsch) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:09:08 -0800 Subject: [Davisgig] 750 communities with Broadband Message-ID: <000601d39568$57030730$05091590$@neighborhoodselect.org> >From Daily Kos: . More than 750 U.S. communities have built their own broadband networks: community broadband map Communities invest in telecommunications networks for a variety of reasons - economic development, improving access to education and health care, price stabilization, etc. They range from massive networks offering a gig to hundreds of thousands in Tennessee to small towns connecting a few local businesses. This map tracks a variety of ways in which local governments have invested in wired telecommunications networks as well as state laws that discourage such approaches. A larger, interactive map can be found here . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 41750 bytes Desc: not available URL: From omrob at omsoft.com Wed Jan 24 16:44:56 2018 From: omrob at omsoft.com (Robert Nickerson) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:44:56 -0800 Subject: [Davisgig] Good Article about SF and what we are proposing here Message-ID: <94e4f785-bc63-a15a-9581-0efd11655b8a@omsoft.com> Hi All Bonus, Not from a vendor! http://www.bbcmag.com/2017mags/Nov_Dec/BBC_Nov17_DarkFiber.pdf Please folks, like our Davis GIG? Facebook page, at, https://www.facebook.com/davisca.gig I'll put this link up there too. Take Care RAN -- Robert Nickerson UCD Class of 1996 CEO, Om Networks cell: 5308483865 www.omsoft.com