Still waiting!!!!

Still waiting....

Some News on the fiber for St.Charles....

I just got off the phone with someone at Sunset Digital and was told as follows" If you live around existing fiber cable you can get connected but the lead time is 12 months.". So that is some good news their But NO new line expansion will happen for some time now. I was hoping to get this super fast fiber net but it looks like I will not be able to get it. Sorry for the bad news but at least it is something. Untill nrext time or if I find out anything else  BFN...

We are still here.

We are still waiting on some of our contacts to get back with us. WE ARE NOT DEAD.......

Good News for Saint Charles

Well everyone Good news for us in Lee county. I called Scott County Telephone Cooperative yesterday Feb 15, 2013 and was told that they were doing preliminary work on the fiber here in Jonesville and they will be completing all areas that Leno LLC did not want to Finnish out over this year and next. I do hope that they can do it a bit sooner here in Saint Charles I would really like to have their service. As for Sunset Digital Communications I really don't know if they will be involved in the finishing out or not.




I do hope the Sunset will be involved but I do see why they would not also. In my opinion SUNSET got crapped on big time LENO LLC should have let Sunset at least bid on their share of the network. I do wish SUNSET all the best and I do hope that they can be the ones that I deal with if/when Saint Charles area gets finished out..




Still digging for more info so please check back here to see more & please comment on this post....

Sunset not selling out..

 Well the heading basically says it all folks..

 The January 23rd court date between Lenowisco LLC vs. Sunset digital did not go as leno wanted. Well Leno wanted the entire Fiber network sold off as a whole to Powell Valley Electric Coop or "PVEC" for short. Now I do not have every detail of this but what I have learned is that Sunset can not sell their part under some other agreements from other parties involved. I hope that they can expand this network and get the rest of lee county done. In a phone conversation with Ryan Elswick he has told me that "we are going to keep our heads down and as soon as other funding comes our way we will do as much as we can with it" now that sounds very positive that they will do everything they can do to get more people on this network.. From another source telling me that LENOWISCO LLC is broke and on the verge of bankruptcy well I guess instead of giving them selves rises, using the money for other projects other than the fiber & using it to take SUNSET to court. I guess they should have used the money more wisely. The computer centers are not getting funds that leno was supposed to pay out for the upkeep and electric bills for them "that is why some of the computer centers have already closed" . All this money I speak of was grant money paid to leno for this.

Now Virginia Tobacco Indemnification & Community Revitalization Commission or 'TIC' for short is going to allow Leno LLC to sale off their part of this wonderful network and has blocked SUNSET from buying LENO's part. Now why would they do that? Well if SUNSET owned it all then they would have to work with sunset for use of the fiber and all the LENO board members would have to start paying for their Internet use instead of having free use of this network.. We the people should have a say as to what happens to this network it was installed and paid for by tax payer dollars "your tax dollars & mine" that is why at the very beginning the level 1 service price was set at $49.95 that is not a bad price to pay for that kind of service.

What would it mean to that purposed 4G cell service if SUNSET owned all of this network? Well for starters Verizon would have to work with SUNSET for Access and not LENO. They would have to come up with some major money to use the fiber for their own back haul of cell signals. They would also not OWN "Verizon" this part of their so called national network.

Until next time keep the faith for this network and this county.. 

All views here are mine and all rights are reserved(c)

Lee Board of Supervisors meeting..

As the heading states everyone the next "BoS" meeting will be on Jan 17th at 5pm in the General District Courtroom at the courthouse in Jonesville, VA.
Also Ms. Tina Rowe stated on here FB page:Lee County, VA District 5 Community  that and I quote her in typing "- I have the Fiber issue on the agenda" so anyone that wants this fiber in St.Charles please try and go to this meeting I think this meeting will have an impact on all of here. District 5 consists of St. Charles, Keokee, Robbins Chapel, Stone Creek, and East Pennington Gap (Voters at PMS). Let's show her that we do care about this fiber network and as many that can please show up.

The purposed 4G project

I have the list of tower sites in Lee County in the Coalfield Coalition wireless project, and here are the communities where they’ll add 4G equipment to an existing tower:

Jasper, Dryden, Pennington, Dot, Jonesville, Ben Hur and South Ewing

 A new tower is proposed for Rose Hill




If I hear more I'll post it as soon as I can.....