From rob at omsoft.com Wed Oct 24 15:17:37 2018 From: rob at omsoft.com (Robert Nickerson) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:17:37 -0700 Subject: [Davisgig] CANCELLED - No Quorum for Oct. 24, 2018 BATF Meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <757f19fc-c2a6-ab91-4e56-30b00e7e5f63@omsoft.com> Hi All FYI Thx RAN -------- Forwarded Message -------- Hello All, Tonight?s Oct. 24, 2018 meeting of the Broadband Advisory Task Force (BATF) meeting has been cancelled due to a lack of quorum.? Five of 10 Task Force members were unable to attend. The next meeting of the BATF is scheduled for Wed. November 28, 2018.? Please share this information with all you think interested.? Best, Sarah Sarah Worley, AICP Business Engagement Manager City of Davis (530) 747-5882 sworley at cityofdavis.org www.cityofdavis.org @sarahacworley -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CANCELLED - Oct 24 2018 Agenda Final.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 239579 bytes Desc: not available URL: From help at dcn.org Wed Oct 24 16:47:16 2018 From: help at dcn.org (help at dcn.org) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:47:16 -0700 Subject: [Davisgig] Orbital Angular Momentum for Light + More ATT FTTH construction in Davis + Pessimism Message-ID: <8da0ab6e-5885-0bcd-f2fe-eb65631be927@dcn.org> Hi 1) This is great news for fiber optic! "It fits the scale of existing fiber technology and could be applied to increase the bandwidth, or potentially the processing speed, of that fiber by over 100 times within the next couple of years. This easy scalability and the massive impact it will have on telecommunications is what's so exciting." Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-10-groundbreaking-technology-times-faster-internet-harnessing.html#jCp ?"It fits the scale of existing fiber technology and could be applied to increase the bandwidth, or potentially the processing speed, of that fiber by over 100 times within the next couple of years. This easy scalability and the massive impact it will have on telecommunications is what's so exciting." https://phys.org/news/2018-10-groundbreaking-technology-times-faster-internet-harnessing.html 2)? ATT is now deploying Fiber to the Home in other parts of Davis. Notably Sycamore and 8th, perhaps others. If anyone has any intel on neighborhoods let us know. This is good for our community and? we welcome it. However, a community owned fiber optic network is still preferable for a variety of reasons. We now have better broadband options coming, which is somethign we set out to do in 2015. 3) A phone survey is forthcoming to asses interest among the community for investing in community owned and operated telecommunications infrastructure.? This will be a somewhat complicated survey, and we hope that consumer response is genuine and constructive.? Does anyone have any specific thoughts for or against sending out a postal flat to all the residents of Davis, educating? about the possibility of having community fiber and to be ready for this survey ? DavisGIG could use some of its collected funds to raise awareness, and it could be timed with the phone survey. I will try and find out from City staff when the survey will take place. Its unclear to me if the canceled BATF meeting means the survey will be postponed. Take Care RAN -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rob at omsoft.com Tue Oct 30 11:47:11 2018 From: rob at omsoft.com (Robert Nickerson) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:47:11 -0700 Subject: [Davisgig] Municipal Broadband being "demonized" by Trump FCC Message-ID: Hi Take a look at this, the big telecom companies must be pretty concerned about municipal broadband, that they have their FCC shill making up outlandish claims about this. IT makes me actually determined to continue if they are this freaked out. It means we are all on the right track. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bj49j8/fcc-falsely-claims-community-broadband-an-ominous-threat-to-the-first-amendment?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark Thanks RAN -- Robert Nickerson UCD Class of 1996 CEO, Om Networks cell: 5308483865 www.omsoft.com