 | Joe, welcome to Dawson/Lumpkin politics. Keep asking the questions. Good Luck. |
Comment History  | I discussed the issue of not deploying the Gigabit Internet with Charles Gibson, CEO of AmEMC ($410,000 in 2012) over the phone. He told me that it was too risky. He is afraid that someone would come in and take the business away and the AmEMC ratepayers would be stuck with considerable debt to pay off. I asked him to put the position in writing and he refused. AmEMC gets 38% of energy from nuclear, 29% from coal and 29% from gas. AmEMC constantly lobbies against renewables. Some members of the AmEMC board have been there for 20-30-40 years. |
 | Thank you for this information. I assume too risky, means not enough money to be made. They are creating a monopoly (or already have) through the EMCs then for the G I. Google is doing GigInt in many cities also and giving all the Telcoms competition. |
| Windsrteream Communications is a publicly traded corporation with a legal monopoly to supply land-line telephone service in their service area. NGN, and GCC, their, their child assigned the task to retail the Gigabit internet in Lumpkin and oher couties, are nonprofit cooperatives owned by their customer/members. Amicacola, Habersham and Blue Ridge EMC are all nonprofit cooperatives with legal monopolies to supply electricity in their service areas. The electric EMC's were created by FDR in the New Deal. Habersham and Blue Ridge are both retailing the Gigabit internet in White, Habersham, Blue Ridge and Townes and Rabun Counties. AmEMC refuses to participate in the retailing of Gibabit internet in Lumpkin and elsewhere claiming that it is too risky. |
| I was expecting something like this from Senator Gooch. But instead, he said TWICE that he had talked to WS and ATT's lobbyists and then asked the Windstream account manager that was sent to the Lumpkin County Tech Forum, if he had a phone number of someone that could do something. That's something you do when you call them for the first time for someone in his position trying to get something done. A Senator could question with some authority and power. But instead he asked for a phone number and then left early, so he could not be questioned. I had a few questions for him to ask personally about what the lobbyists said, since he told everyone he had talked to them. It's pretty obvious what's going on. At the beginning, it was stated by all three companies they they all work together. It was said there was competition allowed. But why is WS the only one with access to the last mile, even though they said there was competition? I lived in Bay County FL, and we had actual competition. The prices were incredibly cheap and deals were run all the time. NGN CEO Bruce Abram said NGN would only supply wireless ISP's. Also, NGN's fiber is ABOVE GROUND in some places. I'd like to know how much of the SONET loop is not buried. There will most definitely be network outages occurring with their network, but they claim a 90 something percent up time. Fiber was expensive and tricky to splice, but with technology that's become easier. It can be fixed fairly easy, but it would not fail in the ground where it's supposed to be. In Winter, there will be down time on the fiber loop. They advertised a data center coming to Lumpkin County. If I was in charge of that project, I would have a huge problem with the fiber in the air, since a data center of the type they are talking about "backing up Atlanta"(per the article in the Nugget) would be extremely sensitive to downtime. I don't think they will come for that reason. A SONET (Syncronous Optical NETwork) loop is redundant. But when it's in the air, both lines are subject to go down at the same time. That is unacceptable. I am seeing the whole picture now. Stimulus money bought the loop, it was underfunded, and the exec's highly paid. In other words, the people who built it, stole most of the money, in my opinion, and are not honoring the requirements that come with stimulus packages such as what they used. And they don't have to pay taxes. If you read their website and see their mission statement, you can understand that the money they got came with stipulations. NGN is a non-profit company, which Mr. Abram's acknowledged. THEY DON'T PAY TAXES. But most all of the CEO's answers in the forum were about profit. He did not talk about anything on their website, nor did he support his own companies' Mission Statement. |
Original Post  | Funny how the FCC goes after AT&T over throttling but they do nothing about Windstream providing essentially throttled service constantly. Oh and the whole unlimited long distance isn't unlimited based on whatever phone numbers they consider as abuse. |
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