Senator

Woodsome, Representative

Berry and fellow committee members,

My name

is

moments

of your time to express the need

Dan

Manager

Sullivan, IT

Woodland Pulp and

St.

at

Woodland
in

Pulp LLC and

Croix Tissue provide over

Tissue mill

is

a

modern day

run 24X7 365 days a year and

it is

their

homes

may be

The

anywhere

existing DSL, Cable

drive into the mill

else they

and

would

like

to take a

few

Our two

mills rely

on

fast

We

are an anchor

is

in

an

broadband connections. Our

Our

imperative to our bottom line that our workforce provide support from

fixed wireless

when support

I

highly computerized facility that utilizes a trained technological workforce.

mills

or

Croix Tissue Inc.

400 well-payingjobs with great benefits.

otherwise economically depressed Washington County.

new

St.

our area for robust future proof fiber broadband.

24X7.

A

fiber

broadband connection

networks do not.

In

department

needed due to slow inconsistent

will

after

Internet.

allow that support to happen.

department our employees must

With

a fiber,

broadband connection

many

of these issues could be corrected immediately saving our mills precious dollars and our employees precious

time.

This isn't about watching Netflix or playing that latest video

ability

of companies

Some examples but

like

certainly not limited to

This.is

about Maine's economy, the

what our employees need

to

do remotely:

v

Access our Plant Information systems to control equipment and

~

Communicate with vendors across the world from work and from home. Time and date
communicating

The

game.

ours to remain economically viable to provide valuable employment to Maine families.

at

all

fix

errors eliminating costly

hours to keep our equipment running 24X7.

v

Monitor

Q

Schedule trucking and shipment of our products 24X7

¢

Allow our employees to access state of the art training to maintain and update their

bill

mill

processes to ensure environmental compliance.

before you, LD 1399

is

an important piece

have received millions of public dollars to address
than they were

my home

many

in

addressing

this issue

this.

with

success.

Our networks are barely better

years ago. To give you an example, just yesterday Fairpoint Communications installed DSL at

technology that uses existing copper telephone

lines.

This project

is

a

1399

requiring a
fiber

will

50mb down and 5Omb up

life

bill

we

ensure that

No more

help put the needs and interests of the

we

this

is

dollars to build

alone future ones.

One

part

public dollars

.

By building

It is

not achievable with DSL, fixed wireless and Cable

build a sustainable future proof

network the

will

serve the

wasted building networks that don't work. This

Maine taxpayer ahead of company

and begin building the networks many other

bill

let

can build networks that are referred to as ”future proof"

span for fiber networks;

will

needs of present and future Mainers.

this

an outdated

connection. Those speed requirements need a fiber connection.

networks and only fiber networks

networks. The passage of this

fund

is

help eliminate the building of this type of network by our Internet Service Providers simply by

estimated an average 100~year

will

DSL

good example of using public

networks that are slow, outdated and unable to handle present day Internet needs
of LD

skills.

Over the years our Internet Service Providers

little

Cooper Maine as part of the Federally funded Connect America program.

in

downtime.

issues require

states

profits.

bill

Please support, pass and

have already done. Maine can't afford to

slip

any

further behind.

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aniel Sullivan
Baileyville,

Maine

207-214-4516
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