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IT and tech access is considered by many, especially home businesses and the education community, to be a need particularly in rural communities with limited transportation, to be a 21st Century necessity. Those of you who agree are urged to write down your comments
today and submit your words as testimony for a bill to be heard at the State House on Monday. The legislature needs testimony NO LATER THAN 24 hours prior to the scheduled hearing.
With the planned takeover of Oceanic Time Warner by ComCast is the ideal time to push this issue and make our state IT accountable! If we don't show support for Rep. Joy SB bill regarding tech access for Puna and other rural parts of the state, we'll go on being ignored! Please send testimony...the recent natural threats affecting our daily lives provided ample examples of why we need this so much.
From Joy: Testimonies for my resolution for a broadband/cell service study for rural communities are needed ASAP. Hearing is scheduled for monday and testimony is needed now, no later than sunday.
http://capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HCR&billnumber=131&year=2015
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"Submit Testimony" does not work.
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Apparently you have to "register", then quit, start over, login again.
Websites are hard.
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Aloha Frankie: Mahalo for posting this important message/reminder of the urgency to submit for Monday's hearing. I only learned of this bill through your post this morning. Surprised that it was not promulgated more widely.
Anyway, testimony submitted - and as Kala says, one must be registered to submit. Once having done so, you are good for future testimony submissions as needed.
-dwajs
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one must be registered to submit
These must occur in separate sessions; unlike other sites, "registration" is not "logging in".
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Thanks for this! However this should have been posted weeks sooner!
If anyone needs a can message, email me and I can help you out with the wording.
Your testimony has been submitted successfully. You will receive a confirmation email within a few minutes detailing your submission.
I feel for the people that don't have access to services and the sad part is, how will people testify without internet service? Never mind that there is only a few hours left to testify.
This issue if is very important to me, and I think that services should be available to even people that are running on solar and don't haver permits... etc...etc...
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Thanks David and kalakoa.. ericlp, even the legislators don't get weeks ' notice. They're lucky to get 5 days' notice, often have to make do with 2 or 3 days' notice. It's noticeable to me that not many Punawebbers know much about how the Hawaii legislature functions. That's why the PAR workshops are so important...
For those who have never gone to the PAR workshops held all around the islands every year in anticipation of our January-May legislative sessions, here is the link to the Legislature's Public Access Room:
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov To research and testify on this, type in HCR131 (no spaces) in the left where it asks for the bill you're looking for.
This is the home page where you can register and have access to all sorts of important info. You can see the legislative calendars of both houses, read and track proposed legislation, read and/or submit testimony. You only have to register once. I highly recommend the PAR classes that are presented generally at the public libraries. Highly worthwhile, as is this public access service. It has won national awards for citizen transparency. It's up to us to become fluent in its use...should we have a lesson on use of the website, maybe at the Pahoa library?
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This bill is for another study. These studies spend a lot of our tax money and the end product is a report. It's kind of like going to a doctor to see about a liver transplant and he says his son could do a real good study for you, fees applied of course, and you would get a top notch report. How can you go wrong with a study, everybody loves studies, especially the people getting paid to do them.
Comcast buying out Time Warner isn't a done deal.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspecula...h-comcast/
FCC's Recent Rulings Add Uncertainty To Time Warner Cable's Deal With Comcast
There are already all kinds of references available for Hawaii island showing the broadband availability, cell, satellite, cable, DSL, fiber. What needs to be studied even more? Hawaiian Telcom doesn't want to roll out more DSL to Puna because the rate of return is low versus cost of operations (storms and albezia trees). Satellite gets broadband but it costs more, there is lag, and the up speed is slow.
This holds more prospects for wider fiber rollout. Charter is Paul Allen and he has a place up by Kohala. He does have interests in Hawaii island and there are several FO initiatives going on. Could be Comcast is just too big for this merger to be approved by the FCC and it sounds like Charter is waiting in the wings.
http://deadline.com/2015/03/charter-eady...201385376/
Charter Ready To Go After Time Warner Cable If Comcast Deal Falls
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Hawaiian Telcom doesn't want to roll out more DSL to Puna because the rate of return is low versus cost of operations
If it's really just a simple ROI issue, let's just have a rate structure for "Country Broadband", I would gladly pay more for DSL but Telcom's rate structure is "one-size-fits-all".
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I don't understand Hawaii Telcom's position. We're talking about houses that are already wired for telcom and DSL service. Sure they have to add more "ports" (whatever that is) but they have guaranteed customers (at least in Orchidland). Hundreds of customers wanting to pay them for broadband service. Just add the ports. Are they allergic to money?
