It is good to see that the future Makalei fire station continues to move forward. The Kalaoa area is in desperate need of fire station. Especially taking into account all the explosive growth that has occurred over the years in this area.
General Growth Properties found a hedge fund to invest in their beleaguered company.On the surface this investment is very perplexing. Especially since GGP may have file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection soon.But looking at this investment deeper I figure this hedge fund is betting sum of the parts is more valuable than keeping GGP intact as a company.
It appears the Lloyd’s TSB purchase of HBOS is moving forward. This will undoubtedly have an impact locally on the Hokulia project.
Oceanic Time Warner Cable’s digital phone service is experiencing a serious disruption due to an outage at their main regional data center in California. This is yet another reason why keeping your Hawaiian Telcom land line is much better option in the long run. Yes Oceanic’s digital phone is cheaper overall. But you lose out on that reliability that a Hawaiian Telcom land line gives you.
The HDOT will be awarding the contract for the Queen Kaahumanu Highway Phase II widening no later than December 5th, 2008. However the revised bids came in higher than the money already appropriated for this project. Thus the HDOT will have to go the legislature to ask for more money to cover the overage. Despite the latter setback the HDOT will still be able to execute the contract and start the design process for Phase II.
In regards to the Phase I, the four lanes should be completely finished by the end of 2008. However construction on the peripheral roads and completing the punch list items will continue into 2009.
Lastly,West Hawaii’s housing market continues to tumble into oblivion, according to this WHT article.
I have to disagree on having a land line for your phone. The outage was only for an hour.
Hawaii Telcom services start at around $40.00 bucks a month. Multiply that by 12 and you get $480.00 per year.
Why would you waste close to $500.00 Extra per year for an extra phone line that might be needed during a one hour outage every couple years?
Hawaii Telcom has never recovered since they screwed their customers a few years back with there billing statements.
I won’t ever go back to them again. Besides… my cell phone is $40.00 bucks a month and I can take it wherever I want. Can’t do that with a land line.
Well, I’ve got another reason for keeping the Hawaii Telecom line. Digital systems like the one Oceanic offers will NOT work with TTY systems, designed to allow communication access for the deaf and hearing impaired. Why they were granted a waiver on this, I’ll never know, especially since the technology is quite capable of being programmed to do this. Auwe!
Good stuff on the ’sum of it’s parts’ opinion, Aaron.
Chuck
Aaron-Mahalo Chuck.To extend a little on your thoughts about Oceanic’s digital phone service.As far as I understand, the Hawaii PUC exempted Oceanic from being required to offer carrier grade service. Carrier grade service is akin to Hawaiian Telcom landline service. Which will work if the power goes out.
I deaf person needing a TTY/TDD can get a free account at Nextalk.net and use their program over the web. It’s a toll-free number, so it’s no expense for someone trying to reach them from a TTY (most people would use email or a video relay service anyway these days).
I kept my landline in order to send and receive faxes, but these days, I don’t do much of either. I’ll probably drop the landline when I work up the courage.