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Connect VT Update Town Meeting 2012. Karen L. Marshall Chief, Connect VT Broadband and Mobile Agency of Administration karen.marshall@state.vt.us 802 828 6452. What are we building? The Broadband and Mobile Ecosystem. Universal availability of broadband and mobile by 2013.
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Connect VT Update Town Meeting 2012 Karen L. Marshall Chief, Connect VT Broadband and Mobile Agency of Administration karen.marshall@state.vt.us 802 828 6452
Universal availability of broadband and mobile by 2013 Availability of Infrastructure Projects in Process Tools for you to use
Projects in Process: Broadband • NTIA: VT Fiber Connect: 880 miles of middle mile fiber, providing services to 340+ community anchor institutions; 18% complete • RUS: VTEL WOW: wireless broadband , reaching 184 towns and covering virtually all unserved areas of Vermont; last mile service ; 5% complete • NTIA: VTEL fiber: 1 GIG FTTP in Vtel service area, 132 miles; 8% complete • RUS: WCVT: FTTP in 7 areas of their service territory, 100 miles, 27% complete • FairPoint 51: 1100 miles and 100% connectivity in 51 telephone exchanges; achieved commitment on June 30, 2011; offering ADSL speeds on their Vantage Point network ( 768 kbps/3 mbps/7 mbps/15 mbps down and 128 kbps to 1 mbps up) • EC Fiber: 24 miles and 100% complete, FTTP, Barnard region; 5/7/10 Mbps symmetrical household speeds. Currently in second round of private fund raising. • VTA: Cloud Alliance: 4 new towers for wireless broadband service in Hardwick, Plainfield, Wolcott, Woodbury; spring 2012 completion; 768 kbps to 6 mbps down/ 256 kbps to 2 mbps up • VTA: Hardwick Newport Fiber -40 mile fiber up, Route 14 connecting Hardwick and Newport; 2012 • VTA: FairPoint Backroads- funded 644 Jeffersonville exchange completion; 2012 • VTA: VTEL Backroads- adding communities of Dummerston, Newfane, Townshend, Westminster to Vtel WOW network; 2103 • VTA: NCIC- tower infrastructure to support WISP, Northeast Kingdom; complete • US Dept of Energy: E Energy Vermont- Smart Grid, 35% complete • ISO NE: VELCO- 1000 miles fiber reliability for electrical distribution utilities and Smart Grid Collaborative; 51% complete • AOT Vermont interstate fiber conduit: initial bid for construction of 6 conduits in median of 350 miles of interstate; 2013
Tools for you to use • www.broadbandvt.org- Vermont’s one stop shop for information about broadband deployment • Current broadband map ( 6/30/2011) • By address look up for service provider • Register an unserved address, tell your story • Speed test • Keep up to date on broadband progress, investments and development • Map: Served, projects on process, target communities map • Cellular target corridors map ( VTA)