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Grand Rapids meeting. Highlight? Bill Arthur’s comments

Ann Treacy caught a bunch of video at our meeting last Friday -- click HERE to watch the folks that came out to testify.  Ann also did a fantastic job of summarizing the rest of the meeting -- so if you want to read about our "speed" deliberations, scroll down past the videos to her summary of the meeting.  If you have thoughts about where we're going with broadband speed recommendations, post 'em in the comments.

I want to highlight one person -- Bill Arthur from Orr, Minnesota.  Click HERE to watch his testimony.  Be patient, he gets off to a slow start while he's doing the introductory part of his comments.  But about 3 minutes in he gets to the points he wants to make.  From there on he nails it -- talks about broadband mapping and rural-broadband system-design in ways that really make sense to me.

Bill's a good example of "don't judge a book by the cover" -- under that curmudgeonly exterior lurks a retired Fortune 100 hotrod and serial entrepreneur who's still running on all cylinders and has a lot to tell us about how to organize broadband in rural communities.  I'm really glad I met him.

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2 Responses to “Grand Rapids meeting. Highlight? Bill Arthur’s comments”

  1. Tim Larkin Says:
    June 22nd, 2009 at 7:47 am

    OK...how can some guy who lives on a farm be the "urban-user rep" ??? :)

  2. Mike O'Connor Says:
    June 22nd, 2009 at 9:28 am

    Well, I kinda straddle both worlds. I live in St Paul, and spend a lot of time at our farm. By the time this task-force ends, I may not be much of an "urban users" rep -- as we spend more and more time at the farm. :-)

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