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<div class="moz-forward-container">Hi Davisites<br>
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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. <br>
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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. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
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Take Care<br>
RAN<br>
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Robert Nickerson <span dir="ltr"><<a
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moz-do-not-send="true">omrob@omsoft.com</a>></span>
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Josh<br>
<br>
Hope you are well.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Although there are many ways to do this, DavisGIG is
suggesting the following strategy.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Please see the attached Executive Summary.<br>
<br>
SO!<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
If you or senior leadership at JBM-Inc would like to reach
out, please contact Doug Dawson of CCG at <a
href="tel:1-202-255-7689" value="+12022557689"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">1-202-255-7689</a>
or <a href="mailto:blackbean2@ccgcomm.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">blackbean2@ccgcomm.com</a>.<br>
<br>
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 <a
href="http://pm.at" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">pm.at</a> 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.<br>
<br>
Also if it makes sense to you, please share this with
other MDU operators in Davis.<br>
<br>
Hope to see you there, and if you have any questions,
don't hesitate to call me.<br>
<br>
Take Care<br>
<br>
RAN<br>
<br>
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-<br>
<br>
Robert Nickerson<br>
UCD Class of 1996<br>
CEO, Om Networks<br>
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cell: <a href="tel:5308483865" value="+15308483865"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">5308483865</a><br>
<a href="http://www.omsoft.com" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">www.omsoft.com</a><br>
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Robert Nickerson
UCD Class of 1996
CEO, Om Networks
cell: 5308483865
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