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WaupacaOnLine.net
- The Benefits and Challenges
- Of Creating a Communications Utility
- Presentation to
- Wisconsin City/County Management Association
- March 5, 2004
- Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
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Create a Communications Utility NOW
- Cost Nothing
- Why?
- Communitys Continued Competitiveness
- Take Additional Step
- Obtain Certified Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC)
- Certification from the PSC.
- Cost 1,200 - 1,500
- Takes about a week
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Why Did Waupaca Pursue A Telecommunications
Project?
- To provide broadband services to business and
residents where none existed - To offer an alternative to customers
- Where monopoly once existed customers now have a
choice - Enhance quality of life
- Property tax equalization and stabilization
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What is WaupacaOnLine.net
- High Speed Dedicated Internet Service Provider
- Wireless Platform 2.4ghz 5.8ghz unlicensed
frequencies - 1024kbs Up and Down
- Competes w/Charter Pipeline Product
- WOL.net Faster Upload Speeds. Charter Upload
Speed 128kbs 8x faster
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Customer Premise Equipment
- YDI
- Etherant II
- Etherant II LR
- USBANT
- Dlink Routers
- Wireless
- Wired
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Main Antenna Location
- Location?
- Water Tower?
- Old Tower?
- New Tower
- 192 Rohn
- Free Standing
- Designed for city equipment and 4 cellular
providers - 100,000 Cost
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5.8ghz at City Hall, Waupaca
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March 2004- Current Status
- 204 Customers
- 191 - Waupaca / 13- Weyauwega
- Business 65
- Residential 149
- 85 In City 42
- 199 Outside City 58
- Farthest Customer 20 miles away.
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Map of Customers
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The Project Timeline
- December 2000
- Centerline machine in the Industrial Park needs
affordable service - July 2001
- Chamber of commerce survey 207 businesses
- October 2002
- November 2001
- Trip to Sun Prairie
- Mayor, 3 Alderpersons, WIDC Rep and Consultants
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The Project Timeline (Continued)
- February 19, 2002
- Ordinance 2-02 Creating Communication Utility
- February 27, 2002
- CLEC Certification
- PSC Commission Order
- October 8, 2002 Went Live
- Service Officially Rolls Out
- Beta Test 25 Customers
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The Project Timeline (Continued)
- March 2003
- PSC order 3636NC-101- March 17
- Gave the City of Waupaca authorization to serve
Weyauwega - 2nd T1 Line Installed
- June 2003 Weyauwega Intergovernmental Agreement
- July 2003 100 customers
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100 Customers - July 2003
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The Project Timeline (Continued)
- January 2004 3rd T1 Line Installed
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Financial/Staffing
- FINANCIAL
- Capitalized with 320,000 Sewer Fund Internal
Loan - Additional Influx of 180,000 from Sewer Fund
- 2004 Budget approx. 150,000
- STAFFING
- Outsourced IT 1.5 days/week
- 3 Part Time Installers
- Customer Service InHouse w/existing personnel
- CA Manages Charge off of 10 to utility
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Challenges Facing WaupacaOnLine
- State/Federal legislative initiatives
- Not occurring locally
- Keeping Prices/Service competitive
- Financial
- Making project cash flow positive
- Projected on Monthly in Summer of 2004
- Projected System Wide in 4th Quarter - 2006
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Challenges (Continued)
- Quality workers and endpoint installations
- Determining where our responsibility ends and the
customers begins - Getting Cellular Providers on City Owned Tower
- Technical Services to other areas
- Managing/Council decision-making in a different
mode entrepreneurial
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BENEFITS
- ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNITY
- Increased Consumer Choice
- Service to those that would never get broadband
- Ability to Charge off General Fund costs
- Technology Park designation
- Property Tax Stabilization eventually
- PERSONAL
- Opportunity to manage in a different mode
- Learn how creative/capable the younger generation
is w/technology
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How to get started?
- Identify that demand exists
- Bring together current providers to understand
where they are now and where they are going - Need seed money 30,000 50,000
- SB272 Creates Problems Cant subsidize w/taxes
- Visit other communities that are providing the
service. Bring elected officials.
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FINAL POINT . . . . . . . .
- COME OFF THE 1,500 AND GET YOUR CLEC
CERTIFICATION FROM THE PSC - OR AT THE VERY LEAST. . . . . . .
- ADOPT AN ORDINANCE CREATING A COMMUNICATIONS
UTILITY
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