Saturday, January 7, 2012

Bill Esbeck, the Town of Dunn is on Line 1

They'd like a copy of that report you mentioned.



Town of Dunn keeps up the pressure for high-speed Internet access. (12/23/2011)



And as for some of Esbeck's other whines, here's some information recently shared with members of WLA's Library Development & Legislation Committee.

  • 95% of BadgerNet’s 2,420 sites either get a 90% subsidy from TEACH or are state agency sites which are required by DOA to use BadgerNet. If these two conditions did not exist, the state would have a network that hardly anyone would use because it is too expensive. (And remember, the $17 million TEACH subsidy goes right back to the telcos.) 
  •  A 1.5Mbps circuit on BadgerNet costs $460/month.   Most households have 2-4 times this capacity at well under $100/month. -- 
  • The FCC’s benchmark of “broadband” is 4Mbps.    90% of Wisconsin public libraries have less than this and thus they really don’t have broadband. 

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