I'm not quite sure how to answer this one in this context. Just went by
snippets I'd heard over the years on that one.
I'll give you a couple of specific local examples though.
Years ago I looked into what it would take to sell access to the school.
erate is set up so that one company provides all telecom needs to the
school. Voice, data etc. The only companies that can do that are the ilec
or a clec. clec status runs $10,000 plus from what I've always been told.
That puts the rate of return on the school's system somewhere in never never
land if all you want is to provide bandwidth. It's sad, we offer 8 meg
connections here for $75 per month and they don't buy from me because the
government won't pay that bill but will pay for the t-1 that they have now.
Unless they have a 10 meg fiber feed like I do then they are paying hundreds
per month like I am.
Second is our local hospital with their telemedicine program. I used to
sell the hospital internet. They couldn't use my internet for their
telemedicine program for security reasons. It just HAD to be a ptp
connection to the big hospital. I even tried to split the costs of the t-1
with them as they were only configured to use 348k anyhow. Well, now the
telemedicine program is somehow able to sell them internet as part of the
same government funded system! It's ok to put internet over the
telemedicine system but not telemedicine over the internet. Gotta love it.
In both cases there are LOCAL assets available to the government supported
agencies and they can't use them because of the design of the grants etc.
This needs to be changed.
Marlon
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From: "chris cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: [WISPA] USF fund reform
Marlon-
This paper mentions Wispa's desire to see changes in the erate program.
Im familiar with the issues involved with erate in Ohio. What types of
competitive issues are other wisps facing in efforts to win erate
contracts?
Chris
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