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Hi, everybody, Many of you will recall that a representative of Ting Internet visited with “the local chapter” last Friday, hosted by my friend Sean Moody, who works for the City. Ting is a Canadian business whose business model includes bringing fiber to cities like Santa Fe. I asked Sean to get back to us, and his report appears below. If I understand correctly, the crucial issue seems to be whether enough of our fellow citizens are sufficiently fed up with our current service to make a switch. I may have mis-heard, but I thought I heard you guys bandying around a number like $50/mo. With I am certainly in at that price. Does any of you remember that conversation? See below, Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University From: MOODY, SEAN [mailto:[hidden email]] Hi Nick, Please share with FRIAM: Thanks to everyone for the collegial reception. The visit was quite successful. I think Adam got a sufficient taste of Santa Fe to help Ting make a decision. And I got enough insight into their business model to understand what the city would need to do to rank high on their list of prospective locations. The two factors driving an investment decision are the capital expense per service drop, which typically ranges between $2,000 and $8,000 depending on local conditions, and the expected “take rate”, or ratio of subscribers-to-drops along a street or fiber segment, which ranges between 8% and 40% depending on the community’s level of satisfaction with current providers. Our next challenge is to prove to Ting that the take rate will be sufficient, and to provide the regulatory environment that will keep utility construction costs under control. I was extremely impressed by this particular company. Fundamental to their thinking is the reproducibility of their model across many different urban environments. Hence their taking the time to understand Santa Fe. I honestly think they've got a page or two on Google Fiber in this regard. Lastly, you FRIAM folks may appreciate the graphic below. It illustrates the correlation between broadband speed and household income. The report from which it is extracted is one of the few I have encountered approaching the issue objectively. Sean
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Hi, Everybody, My $50. Dollar number was way off the mark. Please read below. Sorry, Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University From: MOODY, SEAN [mailto:[hidden email]] Ting’s pricing is shown here: $89/month residential gigabit service and $139/month business gigabit service. Thanks Nick! Sean. From: Nick Thompson [[hidden email]] Hi, everybody, Many of you will recall that a representative of Ting Internet visited with “the local chapter” last Friday, hosted by my friend Sean Moody, who works for the City. Ting is a Canadian business whose business model includes bringing fiber to cities like Santa Fe. I asked Sean to get back to us, and his report appears below. If I understand correctly, the crucial issue seems to be whether enough of our fellow citizens are sufficiently fed up with our current service to make a switch. I may have mis-heard, but I thought I heard you guys bandying around a number like $50/mo. With I am certainly in at that price. Does any of you remember that conversation? See below, Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University From: MOODY, SEAN [[hidden email]] Hi Nick, Please share with FRIAM: Thanks to everyone for the collegial reception. The visit was quite successful. I think Adam got a sufficient taste of Santa Fe to help Ting make a decision. And I got enough insight into their business model to understand what the city would need to do to rank high on their list of prospective locations. The two factors driving an investment decision are the capital expense per service drop, which typically ranges between $2,000 and $8,000 depending on local conditions, and the expected “take rate”, or ratio of subscribers-to-drops along a street or fiber segment, which ranges between 8% and 40% depending on the community’s level of satisfaction with current providers. Our next challenge is to prove to Ting that the take rate will be sufficient, and to provide the regulatory environment that will keep utility construction costs under control. I was extremely impressed by this particular company. Fundamental to their thinking is the reproducibility of their model across many different urban environments. Hence their taking the time to understand Santa Fe. I honestly think they've got a page or two on Google Fiber in this regard. Lastly, you FRIAM folks may appreciate the graphic below. It illustrates the correlation between broadband speed and household income. The report from which it is extracted is one of the few I have encountered approaching the issue objectively. Sean
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Hi Nick! I would LOVE to have more options!Right now I have DSL. It's peppy for DSL. As importantly it's reliable. I had Comcast(also known as Cox on the West coast) for about 6Months. It simply wasn't reliable so I swiched back to CyberMesa who are. On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:
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