Wyoming Broadband Gap Analysis

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Wyoming Broadband Gap Analysis

• Work In Progress
• 12/1/2006

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Agenda

• Our goals for todays review are to discuss
• Project Goals
• Online Maps and Reports
• Updates for 2006 study.
• Status of information receipt and updates

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Definition of Study-no changes

• Goal of study is to determine the cost of
  terrestrial broadband technologies in a Broadband
  Gap Area
• Technologies being compared
• Hybrid Fiber/CoaxCable
• Fiber/Copper DSLAMTelco
• Fixed WirelessWireless
• Satellite
• Broadband capacity is defined as at least 1
  Mb/Sec downstream and 256 Kb/Sec upstream using
  technologies currently available to providers in
  State of Wyoming
• Unit of study is housing units within eligible
  Census Blocks
• We will exclude Census Blocks in Yellowstone,
  Grand Teton and John D. Rockefeller Memorial
  Parkway

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Online Maps and Reports

• Developing an online tool that will help answer
  questions posed in the past.
• What areas are broadband served?
• What is the investment across technologies in an
  area?
• Who are the providers in an area?

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Online Maps and Reports

• As well as other questions
• How much is federal land?
• Show broadband service in terms of County, Zip,
  Urban-Rural or Legislative boundaries
• Fiber routes-interstate and intrastate.
• Medical Infrastructure
• Unserved Housing Units by School Districts
• Unserved Medical Facilities
• Onscreen Demo
• Report Demo
• Providers within Census Block
• Augmentation Investment Estimates by CB

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Updating the Study Tasks Completed

• Sent out data requests (8/25), have had follow up
  meetings, phone calls and emails with providers
• Compiling data and putting together engineering
  review to reflect cost changes from prior year
• Submitted to WTC information on Rights of Way
  responses

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Data Request - Progress To Date

• Data requests were due 10/15/2006
• Signed and distributed NDAs as requested
• Thirty-eight DR sent out - to date
• Received 7 in various stages of completion
• Awaiting 8 from others

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Data Requests

• Notable developments
• Some providers are providing digital CAD
  information to improve accuracy of broadband
  boundary
• Some providers are providing fiber maps within
  their service territory.
• In both cases, maps are generalized to protect
  actual fiber node and route location.
• Some wireless providers are providing more
  detailed coverage information to generate
  accurate coverage viewsheds

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Next Steps

• Conflate Engineering/Cost Responses
• Updates cost inputs and service areas for 2006
• Re-run model to get 2006 estimates
• Revise summary form
• Updating boundary and served area information in
  GIS
• Develop Process and Location to Host Online
  Materials and information

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Questions

• Mark Guttman
• 513-662-2124 x102 (office)
• 513-702-6897 (cell)
• mguttman_at_costquest.com
• Jim Stegeman
• 513-941-9009 (office)
• 513-300-2567 (cell)
• jstegeman_at_costquest.com