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<p>Hi <br>
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<p>Than you for your feedback, we will incorporate that into our
future efforts. <br>
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<p>Take Care and thanks for your interest <br>
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<p>RAN<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/4/2017 1:53 PM, Zana Coulibaly
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<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br>
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Is there a way we could have a progress bar on the amount
already raised? <br>
I think that would be really useful. </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Robert
Nickerson via Davisgig-announce <span dir="ltr"><<a
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Davisites<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Here are 5 benefits to this model:<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Please give generously today, at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.davisgig.org" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank">http://www.davisgig.org</a>, or <a
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rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.dcn.org</a>.<br>
<br>
Thank You<br>
<br>
DavisGIG committee of Davis Community Network<br>
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Robert Nickerson
UCD Class of 1996
CEO, Om Networks
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