[Davisgig] Public Fiber Optic Meeting 7/28 11:30am -5:30pm

[Robert Nickerson]

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







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    Robert Nickerson
    UCD Class of 1996
    CEO, Om Networks

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





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Robert Nickerson
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