Montgomery Co., MD |
From: Aaron Rosenzweig
First a word of appreciation:
Thank
you for delaying the vote on the Zoning Text Amendment (ZTA 16-05) thus sparing us, for the
moment, from a large deployment of monopoles on our streets.
Now answers to questions that the PHED Committee raised today:
1) Why 120 cell tower deployments within 30 feet of homes right now? Why now?
Answer:
It’s a race to be the first to place a hotel on “Boardwalk” in a game
of Monopoly. If you can get your monopoles in, you can turn around and
rent to Verizon and T-Mobile. If you wait, another company will get
there first.
2) Citizens demand this data
usage right? If they didn’t, why would a telecom company spend the money
and effort to erect these poles?
Answer: Money is there
but usage is not justified. I guarantee, in every community where these
monopoles are slated to be installed, they already have acceptable
wireless phone signals. In each-and-every-location these citizens are
not clamoring for a wireless fix. To be brutally honest, the opposite is
happening. More people are starting to use their “wifi signal first”
and their “cellular signal second.” In other words, citizens across the
nation are utilizing their wired home Internet with unlimited Internet
data usage for one flat fee instead of their cellular data plans. All
the devices that telecom companies talk about from freezers to exercise
monitors, the “Internet of Things,” can all communicate easily and
freely over wifi. The money in these poles is based on speculation… very
much like real estate speculation… such as buying a plot of land
expecting it to be more valuable 10 years later
when a new metro-rail is built, if it is built. Verizon and T-Mobile
will pay someone, anyone, to navigate the legal and political quagmire
to get these speculative monopoles installed. It’s money on the table
now, up for grabs, whether citizens actually need the additional
wireless infrastructure or not.
3) Wireless
is the future is it not? We don’t want to be stuck buffering watching
our videos correct? We must adjust with the times and expand our
wireless speeds shouldn’t we?
Answer: Wireless is a cheap
substitute for fiber. We already have a great wireless network capacity
in all locations where these monopoles are to be installed. Wireless can
never meet our desire for streaming movies, video chat, and gaming like
fiber can. Fiber is the only “future proof” solution that can be buried
under ground and utilized for decades to come.
The
only purpose monopoles can serve is as a “temporary” solution until
fiber is rolled out to each and every house. That’s right, wireless is
only a “temporary” fix.
In rural
Minnesota citizens have formed their own telecom company to bring high
speed internet to farm houses. They call it “RS Fiber” for a reason
When will services be available to residents?
"The plan is to construct the backbone of the network by burying fiber between all participating communities in the spring of 2015 and hook up a few individual homes and businesses in late 2015. Also in late 2015, the cooperative will offer 25 Mbps symmetrical Air Broadband Internet to rural residents and businesses. In 2016 and 2017, the remaining cities will be constructed with fiber. Starting in 2018, the rural areas will be built out with fiber.”
"The plan is to construct the backbone of the network by burying fiber between all participating communities in the spring of 2015 and hook up a few individual homes and businesses in late 2015. Also in late 2015, the cooperative will offer 25 Mbps symmetrical Air Broadband Internet to rural residents and businesses. In 2016 and 2017, the remaining cities will be constructed with fiber. Starting in 2018, the rural areas will be built out with fiber.”
I repeat, right now
DAS small tower installations are installed in Minnesota as a “stop gap
measure” and will be completely removed in 2018 once fiber has been
rolled out. They are not “RS Wireless” they are “RS Fiber” created by
the citizens for the citizens who want the very best.
Give us the best in MoCo, give us the full enchilada (fiber) don’t sell us out for a value meal (wireless).
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