Hearing on Whitespace at the Thurman town hall presented to you by the EDC

Hi everyone,

I bet you missed me... well, probably not, but here is the unedited version of today's public meeting. I will refrain, as always, from making personal comments with one exception. This is a subject near and dear to my heart; case in point, it took over 5 hours to download this, so that I could make it available to you. This jacked up my bandwidth and I will now be at a lower speed for about the next week due to this broadcast. Here it is, in its entirety. Whatever your viewpoints on this topic, this is a service I give to you so that you may hear and know what happened.

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February 15, 2014 Athol-Thurman Column (as seen in Adirondack Journal)

Audio of White space Demo

Below please find the link to town of Thurman webpage, new to it this year is audio recordings of the board meetings. The following is the recording of the controversial White Space Broadband Internet.

http://www.thurman-ny.com/supervisor.html

White space questions answered

Appeals Court Sets Aside Internet Neutrality Rules

I just heard this on NPR and thought you all might be interested in this.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=262473722

"Refresher" on White space

Tonight there is a special presentation of white space at the Thurman town hall. Below please find links to many informative sites describing this technology including the grant that our town qualified for. I am providing this again in case you want to review the information prior to tonight's meeting at 7 p.m. Following the meeting if you should have any questions that have not been answered at the meeting, please feel free to post them in the comment section below this post and I'm sure Fred Engellman will be more than happy to answer them.

http://nysbroadband.ny.gov/ConnectNY2012

http://www.carlsonwireless.com/solutions/tv-white-space-rural-broadband.html

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/23/tech/innovation/microsoft-beams-internet-into-africa/index.html

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57580862-93/california-gets-first-commercial-white-space-high-speed-internet/

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/white-space-internet-may-finally-spread-through-us/

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/02/white-space-broadband-microsoft-google-wireless-rural

http://siliconrepublic.com/comms/item/23395-uk-to-use-white-spaces-to

See you all there tonight!

Rural Broadband Delivery Options

Here is a little food for thought, if you will, about Broadband options for our community.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzuARjEnGB8tX3pqaUkyTzhvaTQ/edit