Getting in the weeds... try staying out of the swamp!
Cares Act is only one of the contemporaneous financing instruments being bantered-about at state and federal level.
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The cable and phone companies could do it, but haven't and seem unwilling to help others erode their monopoly.
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There's a reason ... costs. Cable companies are not a monopoly, by law (not bylaw). Costs to run fiber to low housing density are the reason. Laconia now has two cable companies, thanks to Comcast. One of the few towns/cities to have more than one.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/...C-III-53-C.htm
Hub66 is mentioned because it came in vogue in Moultonborough, recently.
Owning a pole is not cost prohibitive. Not allowing fiber cable to be put on the poles was part of the early confusion with the propaganda for the first petition.
https://www.puc.nh.gov/regulatory/Rules/PUC1300.PDF
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To meaningfully affect the State of New HampshireÂ’s response to COVID-19, all expenditures under this program will end by December 30, 2020, and the projects must be complete as early as possible, and no later than December 15, 2020
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https://www.goferr.nh.gov/covid-expe.../connecting-nh
Look to Federal and National conversation regarding broadband technology with relevant inadequacies. Sandwich is no different than many other rural communities.
I'm all for accelerating good broadband and coverage. Is NHEC the solution. I'm not convinced, without more specifics.
I've been a proponent of hybrid systems, not just fiber cable, for years. Do I believe that fiber cable FTTP/FTTH is best, presently ... YES! Is it available presently to all ... NO! Now what!?
I haven't seen nor heard in this thread, anything new, or haven't heard before. I've always admired Dr. Yassini at UNH. Heard of him? Just down the road from Sandwich!
https://www.unh.edu/broadband/about
Enough said.
The only agreement I sense is a vote:
Amend Article X, Section 1. Paragraphs (d) and (e) to add, “and/or other facilities, equipment or property necessary to provide other goods and services or for the orderly furtherance of the business and operations of the Cooperative”;
Amend Article X, Section 2. to reference “controlled affiliate” in place of “controlled nonprofit cooperative (affiliate)”;
Amend Article XII, to remove, “on a nonprofit basis” concerning organizations to which NHEC may become a member or hold an ownership interest;
Amend Article XII to add, “necessary to provide other goods and services or for the orderly furtherance of the business and operations of the Cooperative, or is otherwise”;
Yes No
https://www.nhec.com/wp-content/uplo...nt-V.3_WEB.pdf
Wish you well, and the members will decide this change. So be it!
The marketplace will decide viability.