You know that only the most motivated and intelligent people head for
government service jobs -
Right?
------Original Mail------
From: "Marco Coelho" <coelh...@gmail.com>
To: <spie...@avolve.net>,
"WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:23:29 -0500
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste
I look at it like this.... Remember the dot-coms... when these idiots
run their businesses into the ground, there will be lots of good
equipment to snap up at 5 cents on the dollar.
marco
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Stuart Pierce <spie...@avolve.net> wrote:
> Tell me about it.
>
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> From: Bret Clark <bcl...@spectraaccess.com>
> Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org>
> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:49:39 -0400
>
>>Yeah...one of the colleges in our state is trying for stimulus money in
>>round 2 to wire-up the entire state, then specifically mentions a town
>>in which we already have service in as being one of the first locations
>>that would be wired from the stimulas! What the @#$% is a college doing
>>getting into the ISP business and why are they @#$% trying to put local
>>ISP's out of business?!?!?!
>>
>>I might as just well move my business to China...competition is probably
>>fairer there! November can't come soon enough!
>>
>>Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
>>> We protested a project out here.
>>>
>>> A fiber build with wireless overlay.
>>>
>>> There is already fiber, DSL AND wireless.
>>>
>>> The project was funded anyway.
>>>
>>> It's not about the consumer folks.... And it's CERTAINLY NOT about using
>>> OUR money efficiently.
>>> marlon
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Matt Larsen - Lists" <li...@manageisp.com>
>>> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 6:58 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Stimulus waste
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I filed 32 protests during the first round of the stimulus plan, and
>>>> none of them were funded.
>>>>
>>>> Protest long and protest often. From what I have seen so far, most of
>>>> the frivolous projects have been rejected handily. Don't get all
>>>> worked up about the "waste" until it finally comes to pass. It was
>>>> pretty clear from looking at the first round apps that there were a lot
>>>> of stupid, wasteful applications.
>>>>
>>>> Matt Larsen
>>>> vistabeam.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 4/7/2010 7:29 PM, Jeromie Reeves wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> <Insert explicatives here>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thats 26 Y E A R S of my higher end tier of service, per customer.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why the #3!! do things not get BID out? "Who can do X users for the
>>>>> lowest $"
>>>>> I mean come on, that is just horrible. It doesnt even factor in what
>>>>> those new users
>>>>> will be paying for the service. I need to find out if they have
>>>>> applies for my area, I
>>>>> manage client networks with qwest dsl and they have been giving some BS
>>>>> about
>>>>> upgrading modems (for a /mo fee) when all the sites have adsl2+ modems.
>>>>> Not good
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Travis Johnson<t...@ida.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, as I said since the Broadband Stimulus act was passed, the money
>>>>>> will be wasted. Qwest just applied for $467 MILLION dollars to upgrade
>>>>>> their DSL infrastructure in my coverage areas. They want to expand and
>>>>>> "upgrade the slower 7meg connections" to go up to "12 to 40 megabytes
>>>>>> per second".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The article says they will increase coverage to 29,922 new customers.
>>>>>> That's an average cost of $15,607 PER CUSTOMER.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Many of the areas they list (Idaho Falls, Rexburg, Ammon, Blackfoot,
>>>>>> Rigby, Shelley, etc.) already have at least 3 providers and some have 4
>>>>>> or 5 provider choices.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Let the waste begin.... :(
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Travis
>>>>>> Microserv
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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Argon Technologies Inc.
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