From omrob at omsoft.com Wed Jan 23 10:10:37 2019 From: omrob at omsoft.com (Robert Nickerson) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:10:37 -0800 Subject: [Davisgig] Much like the government, I hope some sort of compromise can come together around community fiber Message-ID: Hi All Here is an article about a community non profit taking private activity bonds in Oregon to do Fiber in neighborhoods. I think a good strategy might be, have the city move ahead with the backbone ring and sub rings, so we can get all our important anchor tenants and neighborhood arterials connected to the infrastructure.? Then work through a separate financing vehicle like a non profit to build out the neighborhoods in some kind of demand aggregation based staggered build, using something like Service Zones.? This cost would be about $10M or less based on the current Feasibility Study. This is a good solution because ?- City still gets lease revenues from Fiber, in a limited ring and sub ring deployment the city can position itself to lease fiber for 5G, DJUSD schools could likely connect on this and stop paying monthly recurring amounts to ATT for fiber transport,? and it provides fiber to all the main arterials,? which have bus stops, for the unlicensed LTE network for UCD can use to provide the campus WiFi on Unitrans buses. City has fiber for future SmartCity and other uses. -? The community non profit, overseen? by communtiy? stakeholders and members of the public,? can build out the residential neighborhoods, and work with contractors at a non prevailing wage for neighborhood deployments, and lease access to that fiber to multiple ISPs. Perhaps it finds its initial? private financing from stake holders, and some local banks, or works with Neighborly for financing. As one neighborhood is built it generates revenues for financing the next neighborhood, and so it goes like dominoes. The whole city does get built this way, and we retain local control. This way, the city isn't on the hook for it all, and we can stop thinking about the $100 M costs that is the current Albatross around the neck of the BATF Thoughts or Ideas about this strategy? Thanks RAN -- Robert Nickerson UCD Class of 1996 CEO, Om Networks cell: 5308483865 www.omsoft.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: BBC_Nov18_FinanceFiber.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 105592 bytes Desc: not available URL: