Re: how networking happens in Hawaii

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

This reads a lot like dsl wars between ilecs and clecs in the late 90s and
early 2ks.

Great times? Or Greatest times?

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 15:44 scott via NANOG <nanog () nanog org> wrote:

> I thought I'd put a smile on your faces for Friday.  This is how
> networking happens in Hawaii...
>
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> https://www.civilbeat.org/2022/04/thousands-of-hawaiians-could-lose-phone-and-internet-service-amid-bankruptcy-dispute
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> "State regulators have opened an emergency investigation of Sandwich
> Isles Communications..."
>
> "The investigation comes as Sandwich Isles is apparently blocking access
> to its telecom infrastructure to another provider, Hawaiian Telcom,
> alleging trespass, filing police reports and putting customer phone and
> internet service at risk."
>
> "Sandwich Isles Communications is an Oahu-based telephone company
> founded in 1995 with a mission to provide communication services to
> Native Hawaiians living on homesteads"
>
> "In 2015, founder Albert Hee was convicted of criminal tax fraud...Hee
> was sentenced in 2016 to 46 months in prison."
>
> "With federal backing, the company built the Paniolo Network, a web of
> undersea and terrestrial fiber optic cables."
>
> "...a bankruptcy trustee ordered the sale of the Paniolo Network to
> Hawaiian Telcom."
>
> "Hawaiian Telcom says Sandwich Isles has removed, destroyed or tampered
> with Hawaiian Telcom locks on perimeter fences surrounding buildings
> purchased by Hawaiian Telcom. And that Sandwich Isles has installed its
> own locks and devices on buildings and premises owned by Hawaiian
> Telcom, as well as welding shut access gates. The company also says
> Sandwich Isles has made multiple false police reports alleging Hawaiian
> Telcom is trespassing on its property."
>
> "Al Hee was requesting that Hawaiian Telcom’s lock on its Paniolo
> Building at Laiopua on the Big Island be replaced. Otherwise, Hee said
> he would call the police."
>
> "In a Sept. 11 letter to customers, Sandwich Isles blamed the situation
> on Hawaiian Telcom."
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>
> When your brother is very connected politically I guess one feels
> invincible...
>
> "...welding shut access gates..."  hahaha!  Insanity!
>
> There're other 'outages' that didn't make the article.  Repeated fiber
> damaged off shore, etc.
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> scott