Beaver Island Michigan

I was asked to post the following on the forum: Charlevoix County Hazard Mitigation Plan Public Input Sessions CHARLEVOIX, MI – The Charlevoix County Office of Emergency Management and Networks Northwest are working to update the County’s multi-jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan, which must be up...

Re-posting for a friend who is not on the forum, from Beaver Island This and That:

Hmmm... I entered a few addresses including my own and a few to test with and it returned "Your address qualifies for government broadband funding. We will communicate with you when the timeline of this buildout program is determined." I don't know but I suspect the color block around the ...

Thanks very much.

Update released today -- looks very promising -- hope Beaver Island is included. https://tdstelecom.com/networkupgrades.html

This was posted on the TDS Facebook page, so if anyone has any contacts or some time to put in a word, it might be a very good time to get them thinking of Beaver Island: Since we just received approval yesterday, final engineering and network deployment arrangements are still being finalized on thi...

I'd like to see some detailed discussion on the cost. For a Peaine primary residence (homestead) the 2015 millage was 16.87 for the Peaine winter tax and 10.7 for the Peaine summer tax. If I understand correctly, the proposal is a 2 mill increase for EMS which represents a ~7.25% property tax increa...

Thanks very much for the info. Is the assumption that the entire cost of paramedics will need to be covered by the townships, or does the ALS/paramedic position recover some of its own cost through insurance billing for transports? Obviously no one wants to bankrupt those already in bad shape in tim...

Is there an estimate for how much money is needed to fund this?
Will the order of magnitude be more like $25 per average homeowner per year or $250 per homeowner per year or ?

So sorry to hear this. Thoughts are with Karl and Amy and family today. A real trooper indeed; an Island friend for a long, long time, and the Best when it came to organizing and finding the Island's history. Only a tiny example of all that she did, I always really enjoyed the work she put into asse...

When someone has some spare bandwidth available, it would be interesting to run the RootMetrics app on a trip around the Island with both Verizon and AT&T to compare. (It does take some of your mobile bandwidth to run it while it's testing.) I only got a chance to graph a quick trip down the eas...

I also hope this will be considered carefully to maintain maximum flexibility for future service for all of the Island and Peaine Taxpayers and in the long term. As technology evolves, will TDS need or want to use the tower to provide service? Will ATT & Verizon have maximum incentive to equip t...

This has been very frustrating for the past couple of years. I tell TDS about it to no avail, plus put on Facebook to them and tweeted. It sounds like the right people at TDS are not being told about our problems on Beaver Island. My download time today, July 5, was 1.89 and upload .38 So - what do...

Please be careful with how you complain that everyone you speak with understands how important it is to have good broadband here. If youâ??re able to reach someone who has the power to direct resources towards broadband here that is great. But please be careful. My concern on page 1 was that if peop...

As you can tell, I'm really thankful for the service that TDS provides to the Island. It has changed my life and my ability to be on the Island; before TDS, I simply couldn't work and accomplish as much and probably couldn't be here at all now. (I'd have to budget $1400 a month for a T1 which was on...