UPDATE: The Friday October 5 Hearing has been POSTPONED!!!!!!!!!!!
PLEASE FELLOW Rural Residents--we can't go to the hearing, so please flood John Thune's office with Emails asking for another hearing JUST ON RURAL BROADBAND OPTIONS that are available NOW! Please copy and paste this entire article into an Email to your FRIENDS TOMORROW. The hearing is Friday, October 5.
CONTACT JUNE THUNE at https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact
MY TAKE ON THIS: As a Rural Broadband customer (if I still had SC, would by end of 2018 be a NON-customer as will be a number of neighbors in our township and county, when it pulls out of the rural area with no information on any other service prepared to step in at that time).
Mr Thune--this will be great for Sioux Falls, but are there not many more residents of rural SD than inside SIoux Falls that need some type of promise for the future. Recent news of the Halo-net (sponsered through, I believe, Midco and NBS and supported by Microsoft--low orbit satellites but not for a couple of years) we are told will be limited to extreme SE South Dakota which is not in the SpeedConnect area being abandoned, some of which does have some alternatives, but again, like electric power--even if 80% countryside covered, how can the other 20% go back into the dark ages of kerosene lamps.
Telco's can't cover this effectively or economically for the customer--again $5000 to run CL COPPER (NOT FIBER NET) from a Fibernet Node 3/4 mile from us on roads with 6 to 9 customers at the north and south boundaries, and yet about 6 not included in their rollout which right now requires $5000 for us to get now obsolete and very slow copper link to the Fibernet.
Taken from original article at
https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2018/09/28/john-thune-5-g-senate-commerce-committee-sioux-falls-could-get-fastest-internet-service-world/1455942002/
Sioux
Falls could be a test case for how the country deploys a new network
that promises the fastest Internet speeds in the world.
Sen.
John Thune, the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, will hold a
Commerce Committee hearing in Sioux Falls next Friday that will include
Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr, Sioux Falls Mayor Paul
TenHaken, industry representatives and the president of Dakota State
University, Thune announced Friday.
Known as 5G
mobile broadband technology, the network is capable of delivering speeds
that are 100 times faster than current networks. Communities with 5G
technology would be poised for a big boost in economic development.
“It
means more opportunities, more jobs, and more economic development,”
Thune wrote in a weekly column. “According to some estimates, 5G could
contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to the U.S. economy.”
“As
chairman of the Commerce Committee,” he added, “I want to help the
United States win this race, and I want South Dakota to be at the
forefront.”
Next week’s hearing will focus on the
hurdles that states and local communities face. At a national level,
Thune has introduced legislation to streamline 5G development. At a
White House 5G summit on Friday, Thune identified a major hurdle:
spectrum.
“But if America’s wireless carriers do
not have enough of the right kinds of spectrum available, Americans
simply won’t have the speed and connections we need,” Thune said at the
summit.
Sioux Falls is already poised to be a
laboratory for 5G. A couple of years ago, the city updated its
ordinances on small cell service, said T.J. Nelson, a spokesman for
TenHaken. The city currently has an internal task force working with
industry providers to negotiate details, including policies regarding
fees and easements.
“Our goal is to be one of the first, if not the first, mid-population cities in the U.S.,” Nelson said.
Correction: A previous version of this story misidentified Brendan Carr's title. He is a commissioner of the FCC.
Midco launches its Xstream Gig internet service in Sioux Falls, its
first market for the super-fast internet speed in South Dakota. The
service is about 35 times as fast as regular internet speeds.
Wochit
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