From rob at omsoft.com  Wed Jul  5 10:40:57 2017
From: rob at omsoft.com (Robert Nickerson)
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 10:40:57 -0700
Subject: [Davisgig] 5G Needs Fiber
Message-ID: <5d589f98-3143-9c0e-c666-13fbe67b9baf@omsoft.com>

Hi

Good article today by the firm doing the Feasibility Study for fiber for 
Davis.

RAN

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Robert Nickerson
UCD Class of 1996
CEO, Om Networks

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From rob at omsoft.com  Wed Jul 19 17:14:09 2017
From: rob at omsoft.com (Robert Nickerson)
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:14:09 -0700
Subject: [Davisgig] Public Fiber Optic Meeting 7/28 11:30am -5:30pm
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Hi Davisites

The author of the forthcoming municipal fiber optic feasibility study 
will be meeting with the community  at the Bicycle Hall of Fame on 
Friday 07/28 from 11:30pm to 5:30pm.   This is the July Broadband 
Advisory Task Force meeting, and perhaps some other task force members 
could provide any additional details.

It would be a great time, to come and see what is happening and please 
offer your support and anecdotes so Doug Dawson, the author, can get a 
better sense of any community desire for better broadband options.  
Please let your circles know. One of the big areas of concern, is 
adoption in apartment complexes, and so the Task Force would very much 
like to speak with apartment complex owners or apartment management 
companies. Please share with any you know of, or suggest contacts you 
might have.

Below is a template of a letter I sent to Josh Berkley of Berkley 
Management, who is coming to the meeting offer his perspective, feel 
free to use it if desired.

Take Care
RAN


On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Robert Nickerson <omrob at omsoft.com 
<mailto:omrob at omsoft.com>> wrote:

    Hi Josh

    Hope you are well.

    I've been part of a group that is advising and advocating the City
    of Davis invest in a fiber optic cable outside plant throughout all
    the homes and businesses in the town. The group is known as
    DavisGIG, and it has developed over the last year into a formal
    group advising City Council. That is the Broadband Advisory Task
    Force,  which is comprised of folks from the community, UCD and
    DJUSD, they are actively researching and considering this investment
    in the community.  Chris Clements, whom I've cc'd on this email,  is
    the UCD Rep, and Chair of the BATF.

    Although there are many ways to do this, DavisGIG is suggesting the
    following strategy.

    City of Davis finances and owns the fiber optic infrastructure
    throughout  the community; the network infrastructure  is managed
    and maintained by a community non-profit that has board level
    representation and investment from the City, UCD, DJUSD, chamber,
    MDUs, citizens; that infrastructure is leased on an open access
    basis to private ISPs to sell data, phone, voice services to
    residents of Davis. End users are customers of the ISP who then pays
    a portion of the monthly revenue collected to the non-profit, which
    takes some small percentage and delivers the rest to the City.   So
    every month, part of your monthly internet, phone or Netflix (etc) 
    bill goes back to fund the City.

    We see this as a strategy to give the city a tremendous long lasting
    asset that it will generate revenues from for decades, and help
    address the City's long term structural pension deficit. It will
    also stimulate economic diversity, and give residents more choices
    at better prices for Internet Access.

    Please see the attached Executive Summary.

    SO!

    The City has retained an industry leading firm, CCG Communications, 
    to help evaluate the costs and potential revenues this could
    generate for the community. One of the big unknowns that could make
    or break this project  would be adoption at MDUs. The CEO of that
    company would love to talk with as many MDU operators as possible as
    they help build the business case. Many other cities have property
    owners that have exclusive relationships with the Big 2, or are not
    allowing upgrades of infrastructure or right of way on property.

    If you or senior leadership at JBM-Inc would like to reach out,
    please contact Doug Dawson of CCG at 1-202-255-7689
    <tel:1-202-255-7689> or blackbean2 at ccgcomm.com
    <mailto:blackbean2 at ccgcomm.com>.

    At the very least if interested please make a little time to drop in
    attend, the next Broadband Advisory Task Force Meeting is Friday
    July 28th from 11:30am to 5:30 pm.at <http://pm.at> the Bicycle Hall
    of Fame. Doug will be here from North Carolina to meet with members
    of the community and would like to meet as many stakeholders as
    possible to get input on the study that is due in September.

    Also if it makes sense to you, please share this with other MDU
    operators in Davis.

    Hope to see you there, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate
    to call me.

    Take Care

    RAN







    -

    Robert Nickerson
    UCD Class of 1996
    CEO, Om Networks

    cell: 5308483865 <tel:5308483865>
    www.omsoft.com <http://www.omsoft.com>





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From rob at omsoft.com  Tue Jul 25 18:50:55 2017
From: rob at omsoft.com (Robert Nickerson)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 18:50:55 -0700
Subject: [Davisgig] Fwd: Your event was successfully created: Broadband
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Hi Folks

Sent this out on Facebook, and Next Door.

Looking for help sharing this message on nextdoor.com in West, South or 
North Davis, shared in Birch, not sure about other East Davis 
neighborhoods.

Thx

RAN



Broadband Advisory Task Force
Fiber Optic Feasibility Study Kick Off meeting
Bicycle Hall of Fame, Davis CA
Friday July 28th 2017
11:30am - 5:30pm


Hi Davisites

City of Davis has contracted with CCG Communications to prepare a 
comprehensive Feasibility Study on the topic of building community-owned 
fiber optic network cable throughout the city. The goal here is to 
provide all parcels within the City with the next generation of Gigabit 
Internet capability as an economic development investment, as well as, 
possible revenue source and major asset for our City government.

The pre-engineering analysis is already underway, and the President of 
CCG, Doug Dawson, will have some preliminary costs in mind at this 
meeting. The Task Force will get an update on current engineering 
analysis progress, and will be having a collaborative discussion, 
refining the remaining scopes of the Study, and further steps.

Undoubtedly, on Doug's mind is consideration of the strength of interest 
and enthusiasm for community adoption and use of municipal fiber optic 
network, as well as the business model about how its operated.

  Davis GIG has been advocating this innovative model: City of Davis 
invests and owns the fiber optic cable infrastructure, a community non 
profit manages operation and leasing of that infrastructure to private 
ISPs,  multiple ISPs offer data/phone/TV bundled or a la carte to 
residents and businesses in the City. Competition gives consumers better 
prices, better services, plus a portion of your monthly broadband 
payment collected by the ISP is paid back to the City to pay its 
investment. See https://www.davisgig.org

The Task Force would like to hear from residents and businesses that 
have an interest in seeing some sort of fiber optic cable deployment 
throughout Davis. If you believe you have a thoughtful or constructive 
contribution to this community dialogue, the meeting is open to the 
public but please please be in email contact with Sarah Worley with City 
of Davis - sworley at cityofdavis.org so we can get an idea of attendance.

Here is a link to the meeting agenda. 
http://www.cityofdavis.org/city-hall/commissions-and-committees/broadband-advisory-task-force/agendas-and-minutes







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From rob at omsoft.com  Tue Jul 25 19:29:20 2017
From: rob at omsoft.com (Robert Nickerson)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 19:29:20 -0700
Subject: [Davisgig] Doug's Column Today about ZTE's pricing on Fiber Optic
	OLTs
Message-ID: <a31791e9-332e-7f07-bcbd-f72feb62468c@omsoft.com>

Hi

This is the expensive gear that sits in the wire center and talks to all 
the homes and businesses. Good news for our plans

https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2017/07/25/shaking-up-the-fttp-industry/?t=1&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&iid=784c1cb45ab54308a694d5ac063a5051&uid=54835492&nid=244+272699400


Take Care


-- 
Robert Nickerson
UCD Class of 1996
CEO, Om Networks

cell: 5308483865
www.omsoft.com