<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I’m lucky enough to give hundreds of people their literal first look at “the internet” - and I can tell you, in many cases, it blows their minds. <div><br></div><div>Honestly watching people’s eyes light up when they see all this, or hold a bare glass optical fiber in their hand, has got to be one of the very best parts of this whole gig.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Lest we grow too accustomed to the technology that profoundly changed my life around age 8 or so.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE<br class="">6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC <br class="">CEO <br class=""><a href="mailto:ben@6by7.net" class="">ben@6by7.net</a><br class="">"The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br class="">FCC License KJ6FJJ<br class=""></span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sent from my iPhone via RFC1149.</span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 7, 2021, at 10:34 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>NOC tours seem like a very 1990's thing, that and 'datacenter tours'.</span><br><span></span><br><span>"Oh you like seeing people at computers and you can't get enough of</span><br><span>that at your home workplace?"</span><br><span>"Oh, you also like cages? me too!! sometimes we put 'racks' in them...</span><br><span>or heavens to gertrude! 'computers'!!"</span><br><span></span><br><span>almost all of this seems like ... really not worth the time for</span><br><span>external people to bother with.</span><br><span>which is maybe why: "Sure, you wanna visit? pay me" (Oh, now you dont'</span><br><span>want to visit? ok, cool!)</span><br><span></span><br><span>On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 1:09 PM Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Department of Commerce OIG review of FirstNet request to tour AT&T GNOC</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>https://www.oversight.gov/sites/default/files/oig-reports/DOC/OIG-21-016-I.pdf</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Continued FirstNet Authority Management Attention is Needed to Address</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Control Environment Weaknesses</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>[...]</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>FirstNet Authority disagreed that the request for a GNOC tour “constituted</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>a request for ‘additional contract services outside the scope of the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>contract.’” In its response, FirstNet Authority stated, “GNOC tours are</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>not governed or limited by the [NPSBN] contract as these kinds of tours</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>are commonplace for AT&T to provide to outside parties.” However, we</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>found that the contractor only offers a multi-media presentation regarding</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>the GNOC at its Corporate Briefing Center. FirstNet Authority requested a</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>visit and tour of the GNOC, which is neither included in the contract nor</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>offered widely to the public. We reaffirm that the tour was not in the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>contract and could be viewed as exerting indirect pressure for the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>contractor to perform unreimbursed services outside the contract.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>[...]</span><br></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></body></html>