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Hi Davisites<br>
<br>
WELCOME to the Davis GIG email list.<br>
<br>
Well, at some point you have expressed interest in getting Gigabit
Fiber infrastructure installed in Davis, so I have created this list
as one of the tools we can use to explore this concept, and see if
we can all bring this to fruition. <br>
Attached is a document I wrote up in response to the Fiber Internet
(Request for Expression of Interest) RFEI the City of Davis put out
in May at the same time the Innovation Park RFEI went out. At the
time, I was trying to convince, a larger Stockton based Phone
Company to join me in putting in a response, so please excuse the
somewhat informal tone of this document, as that was its first
incarnation. <br>
<br>
Omsoft never put in a response, and I'm not aware of other
responses, and time has passed. Since then, lots of cities seem to
be interested in putting their own networks in, and are committing
themselves to providing this infrastructure to their residents, and
from my point of view our city would be well suited to do the same.
The Internet duoopoly is tightening its hold on things, and net
neutrality issues aside, our government's ability to protect the
privacy, affordability and integrity of our telecommunications has
degraded. <br>
<br>
Putting in this network will do many positive things for our City,
but its going to take a major group effort to get this worked out
and approved. I also want to make sure its all reasonable, do-oable
and it will be a good thing for our community, and so I'm asking you
to take a look at this proto white paper I've put together and
think critically on it, and provide feedback. <br>
<br>
If you have feedback, this list would be the place for it, and I
think in time if it passes this first test, we should meet at
Sudwerk or something and work on figuring out next steps. <br>
<br>
For now , lets take this as a thought experiment and go from there.
<br>
<br>
Here are some links pertinent to this topic<br>
<br>
A coalition of Cities doing this <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://nextcenturycities.org/">http://nextcenturycities.org/</a><br>
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A way to fund it <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://crowdfiber.com/">http://crowdfiber.com/</a><br>
<br>
If others have more links, please share and discuss. I look forward
to working with you all to get this going in our city.<br>
<br>
Best<br>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
Rob Nickerson <br>
<br>
CEO<br>
Om Networks<br>
UCD Class of 96<br>
C: 530-848-3865<br>
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