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Paul Cardillo Todd Broucksou Alan Fitzpatrick—Co-founder and CTO of Open Broadband (10 min presentation) Agenda: Discuss the charge—recommend a plan to BOCC;will be time for public input later;talk about BB solutions available to all OC residents—focus on 5000 households and target them first Action: - Alan Fitzpatrick: provide estimate of number of towers needed to service 5000 households - Jim: get RFI/RFQ and "county run fiber project" ready for BbTF to review Alan Fitzpatrick—presenting PowerPoint(attached) - Presentation - Q&A o Todd—what is cellular solution? AF: NetGear(?)Wave(cradlepoint)cellular router/plan— unlimited usage, no data caps,25-26 homes in service,only 3 that didn't work;fixed wireless are using CBRS 3.5Ghz spectrum to get through dense trees; had to go to 9 Mhz; using shared spectrum but managed by provider that manages bandwidth;every endpoint has to be programmed into spectrum sharing o Pat—of the residents who signed up to receive service what portion are you able to serve,AF: 10%; even some that sign up can't be served;TOH water tower is 102' but with rolling terrain 60- 80' height still challenges getting signal through o Earl—what tower height would OpenBB need should county build a tower;AF: 250-300' would be ideal;Q:what is limitation in height for county vertical assets;JN: no limit but higher the tower,the more the regulations to adhere to; Earl: limitation now is FAA regulations;SUT process gets you to 200'tower then FAA regs kick in. o Sally-how tall are Viper towers?;Todd:—80' monopole;Sally—if commission were to request a tower-if reason was to provide high-speed wireless internet service—hopes exception would be made;Alan—provide#of how many towers OpenBB would need to build to service 5000 households;AF:will review;considerations are terrain around tower, capacity of equipment— 500 users per tower; if perfectly placed, 10 towers;TB: 14-15 towers ideally; latticework towers (roan?)$20-25k/tower;guy wires would be required so need large tract of land for"fall zone", power is also a requirement;JN: ES tower was first tower and was used to successfully service trailer park o Earl—out of the total#of units in mobile home park how many signed up,AF: 65-70%,others didn't sign up because they wanted a bundled TV/internet solution, also part of it was lack of confidence—had a working solution so were reluctant to change to"unknown"; results on Phase 1 didn't live up to the promise o Earl—on Phase 1 outcome wasn't what was expected—what has acceptance rate been around towers? Need to understand what works for OpenBB as well as residents;AF:#1 reason don't have more is because coverage rate of existing equipment—35-50%"take rate"; regular LTE worked in Gaston Co and Wayne Co and getting 5 miles with 50 Mb; in OC towers not that tall and too much rolling terrain and density of trees. o Earl—what distance can expect from tall towers?AF: 2-2.5 miles;Sally-cost per household $1000; RDOF cost is$1700;GREAT grants average rate was$1100/household;Jeff Sural- $2900/household (includes all modes—fiber,fixed,etc);fixed wireless is$1500/household; drop