AeA Venture Forum

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Jeff Levy Lance Weatherby Chairman CEO VP
Business Development Presentation to AHECTA
Conference June 27, 2006

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Company Overview

• Founded 2001 Atlanta, GA
• Privately held
• Management Team has combined 90 years experience
  in cable, telecom, data
• Member of NCTC
• Provide television, telephone, Internet and Wi-Fi
  services with exclusive focus on MDU properties

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Launch of IP Triple Play

• Fall 2004
• PurDigital Internet
• 10Mbps Synchronous
• PurDigital Voice
• Uncompressed Digital Voice
• PurDigital TV
• Over 100 all digital channels with true
  Video-on-Demand

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Why IPTV?

• More programming
• Hundreds of channels from major content providers
  
• Switched network
• Theoretically infinite channel capacity both
  for linear and VOD offerings
• Get ready to Google your TV
• Better picture quality
• Digital from the head-end to the STB
• Significantly lower costs for bundled IP services
• Content encryption
• DRM to the satisfaction of the studios

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Many Approaches to IPTV

• Public Internet or private fiber networks
• TVs or Computers
• GSU Model complete outsource
• San Jose State Model buy platform, content
  manage internally
• Hybrid Models

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Why is Fiber Feed and 100 Base-T Network
Important?
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On Campus IP Quad Play Service

• May 2005 Georgia State University 2600 dorm
  rooms
• Gigabit Ethernet over fiber to the campus
• 100 Base-T Network in buildings
• First quad play over IP service on a college
  campus in the country.
• 150 channels of digital IPTV
• Unlimited local VoIP telephone service plus 500
  LD minutes
• 10 Mbps to the desktop Internet service
• Wi-Fi coverage tied into campus-wide network

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Off-Campus IP Quad Play Service

• First private student housing with IP quad
  play in the country
• Service launched August 2005 - across the street
  from Georgia Tech
• Developed by Academic Privatization, LLC

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Learnings To Date

• Usage
• Channel demands
• Application demands
• Move-in logistics pre-registration critical
• Set-up issues on-site team in week one
• Service issues
• Working with the university managing
  expectations

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Biggest Surprises

• Bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth
• Computer illiteracy rates
• Peak usage hours
• Phone service