[FRIAM] Digital infrstructure in New Mexico

[Tim Densmore]

I wrote out a long rant about the state of telephony in NM but decided that it 
would be in poor taste to post it.  It is my firm opinion that NM is probably 
in the bottom 10% of the USA in terms of wired-ness, possibly lower.  I don't 
think anything short of (rhetorical) violent bloody revolution is going to 
change this.  The LECs sure aren't going to volunteer to drop billions of 
dollars on this sort of project, and in fact have been making strong 
political movements in exactly the opposite direction.  What is happening in 
the telcom industry in NM (and the rest of the US for that matter) is nothing 
short of criminal IMO.

Humorously, I couldn't download the PDF linked to because the bandwith to that 
server has horribly saturated.  Digg Effect (slashdotted) or cosmic irony - 
you decide.