Most of our LCWA members live in rural Santa Fe County and I am consistently amazed by the very interesting people who have chosen to live here—there is something about this area that attracts creative and independent thinkers. This month I will briefly profile Nicholas Petrović, an LCWA member who...
Are you getting a new smartphone, tablet, or laptop over the holidays? Well, if you have a cloud account like iCloud, OneDrive, Google Drive, or Dropbox, and lots of data, you may kill your internet speed for about a day after you activate your device. That’s because the new device...
We’ve been gently urging (pushing) members to activate their LCWA portals account, mainly because with you paying by credit card on the portal, it helps save us the processing fees we pay when handling paper checks. And so, switching to credit card payments helps keep everyone’s monthly service rates...
Our 1-800 support number now has a new twist to it: you can indicate your need by pushing a button at the start! Us adding this really helps our volunteer staff, and it will save you time too. Now, I know we all really dislike those 7-layer “Push 5 if you...
Our annual LCWA Holiday Party will be held on December 10 at our monthly board meeting, 7 PM. Bring some snacks and good cheer, it will be fun! It will also be a good chance to meet the new board members and for you to air any suggestions you With...
In this month’s President’s Letter, I provide tips on setting up credit card payment, WiFi passwords, and volunteer roles. Read on and enjoy the articles! Dana Simmons, President LCWA Please Use Online Credit Card Payments We announced last month that you can now pay by credit card and set up automatic recurring...
We announced last month that you can now pay by credit card and set up automatic recurring payments. But this month I’d like to personally encourage you to do that. The reason is that you doing that greatly lowers our LCWA billing costs: it costs a lot more for...
I bet you have never heard of DMCA (The Digital Millennium Copyright Act). Actually you probably have. It’s the formal law behind the idea that it is illegal to download copyrighted material from the Internet. What you may not know is there are mechanisms in the Internet where such downloads...
You know that LCWA is run mostly by volunteers, right? We’d like you to volunteer. Contact me, Dana Simmons (president@lcwireless.net), if you’d like to volunteer in some way, and I’ll find something for you that meets your skills and schedule. With that in mind, there are lots of one-off and...
In this month’s President’s Letter, I am very pleased to announce our new portal that allows credit card payments! We've also got another Member Profile and some other news. Read on and enjoy the articles! Dana Simmons, President LCWA LCWA is Now Accepting Credit Cards: Announcing the New LCWA Portal! LCWA has recently...
