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Gila and Pinal Counties Community Telecom Assessment Phase One Report

Gila and Pinal Counties Community Telecom Assessment Phase One Report. The Vision for Pinal and Gila Counties. To be determined by task force/community. Community Telecom Assessment Planning Process. PHASE I Survey Needs Assessment PHASE II Infrastructure Inventory Business Models

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Gila and Pinal Counties Community Telecom Assessment Phase One Report

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  1. Gila and Pinal CountiesCommunityTelecom AssessmentPhase One Report MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  2. The Vision for Pinal and Gila Counties To be determined by task force/community MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  3. Community Telecom Assessment Planning Process • PHASE I • Survey • Needs Assessment • PHASE II • Infrastructure Inventory • Business Models • PHASE III • Technology Plan Development • Financing Alternatives • Final Report MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  4. Community Telecom Assessment Phase I • Survey • Distribution • Respondent Statistics • Results • Needs Assessment • On-site Interviews • Current and Future Bandwidth Requirements MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  5. Survey Distribution • County Web Sites • Casa Grande Water Bills • Chamber of Commerce • Rotary Club • One-on-One Interviews • E-mail • EDC distribution • Town Halls • Circle K MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  6. Public/Non-Profit/Commercial Surveys MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  7. Survey Sample Size MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  8. Public/Non-Profit/Commercial Surveys MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  9. Public/Non-Profit/Commercial Surveys Gila County MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  10. Public/Non-Profit/Commercial Surveys Pinal County MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  11. Residential Surveys MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  12. Residential SurveysGila County MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  13. Residential SurveysPinal County MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  14. Public/Non-Profit/Commercial Surveys MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  15. Number of Employees Range from 1 to 750 Employees < 10 = 50 entities 10 – 99 = 21 entities > 100 = 5 entities MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  16. SURVEYRESULTS MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  17. Public/Non-Profit/CommercialType of Internet Access MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  18. ResidentialType of Internet Access MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  19. The Need for Speed • Residential Households • 85% of HH say they have a “Slow” connection • 84% of “Slow” HH say they need faster speed • 37% of HH who say they have a fast connection….still want a faster connection MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  20. Additional Fees Willing to Payfor Greater Speed MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  21. Customer Satisfaction1= Very Satisfied 5=Very Unsatisfied MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  22. Applications MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  23. Applications (Cont’d) All Surveys • Faster Speed • E-Mail • Research/Surfing • High Speed Data Transfer • Distance Learning • VOIP • Web Hosting/E-Commerce MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  24. Applications (Cont’d) All Surveys • Training • Video Conferencing/Data Back-Up (tied) • Link Multiple Physical Locations • Tele-Medicine • Video Arraignment • GIS Data Sharing MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  25. Survey Respondent Comments “Data transfer is important! We are at a competitive disadvantage because of our usage of dial-up.” Eloy resident “I had Cox @Home for 5 years in Phoenix. Now dial up. Errrrr!!!! I hate it! I'll pay $40-50-60 a month for cable DSL. Please hurry!! Or I am moving back to Phoenix.” Casa Grande resident MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  26. Survey Respondent Comments “I would be on the Internet more if it were faster. I would use it more for my daughter, who is in high school. One of her classes requires Internet access. She would love it for music. We would be able to use it for our business more. We are in the process of building a home and I could use it for finding items easier.” Payson resident MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  27. Survey Respondent Comments “More affordable high speed connection.” Globe/Miami resident “I would like a high-speed connection to enhance husband's home based business. Includes research communication via e-mail. Also would like ability to do e-commerce and web-hosting.” Pine/Strawberry resident MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  28. Survey Respondent Comments “It is critical that the County have broad bandwidth Internet capability. B to B capability within the County would improve efficiency. Those f us doing business outside the County - it is a necessity.” Casa Grande Business “Lack of facilities to lure new businesses.” Apache Junction NP MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  29. Survey Respondent Comments ”We would like to download data to our other offices. We would like to download CT scans and x-rays. Tele-medicine would be beneficial. We use email now and do research on the Internet. Anything would be better than we have now. We send a lot of information over the fax. It is slow and wastes time.” Payson Medical Practitioner MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  30. Survey Respondent Comments “Please, we need broadband!! We send links and photos daily and dialup is so slow. We get kicked offline before the task is finished and have to start over. Thank you.” Pine SOHO MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  31. Needs Assessment • Personal Interviews • Governmental Agencies/Community Contacts • Tribal Nations • Health Institutions • Educational Institutions MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

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  33. Gila County Globe Hayden Miami Payson Pine/Strawberry Winkleman Young Pinal County Apache Junction - Mammoth Casa Grande - Maricopa Coolidge - Oracle Dudleyville - San Manuel Eloy - Stanfield Florence - Superior Kearny Communities MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  34. Health Care Entities • Cobre Valley Medical Center • Casa Grande Regional Medical Center • Payson Regional Medical Center • Practitioners • Allied Health Care Providers • Veterinarians MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  35. Tribal Nations • San Carlos Apache • San Carlos Apache Telecommunications • Tonto Apache • Tribal Council Leader • Gila River • Gila River Telecommunications • Gila River School and Library Consortium MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  36. Interview Results MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  37. K-12 Education • K-12 Public School Districts have benefited extensively from Arizona‘s StudentsFIRST "Deficiency Corrections" networking efforts in combination with E-rate "Internal Connections" funding • "Broadband" connectivity of school district WANs is typically T-1 • Charter and non-public schools did not receive StudentsFIRST networking assistance MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  38. K-12 Education (cont.) • StudentsFIRST technology standards, set in 2000, require a minimum of an 8 to 1 student-to-computer ratio and: • Internet connectivity to all instructional areas in all public schools • 100 Mb connectivity to all instructional areas, expandable to 1 Gigabit • 100 Mb connectivity to each networkable computer both in instructional areas and any other non-instructional areas that have networkable computers; e.g., administrative areas • Cache engines at all schools having a minimum of 25 networkable computers • Unmanaged 10/100 auto sensing switches at all locations • All computers in each school on a LAN • All School LANs in a district aggregated on a District-wide WAN • Connection to the Internet via the district aggregation point with broadband potential MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  39. Higher Education (cont.) • Central Arizona College (Coolidge) • Microwave, landline and unregulated wireless/IP video networking • 12Mb Microwave connectivity to Apache Junction (CAC Superstition Mountain Campus) • fiber optic link to Apache Junction HS • 12 Mb to CAC Aravaipa Campus in Winkleman • wireless link to a classroom the State Prison Center in Florence. • Distance education service provider for: • Central Arizona Valley Institute of Technology (CAVIT) CAVIT is a public school district working in partnership with five area high schools: Casa Grande Union High School, Coolidge High School, Florence High School, Maricopa High School, and Santa Cruz Valley Union High School, providing vocational training. MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  40. Higher Education (cont.) • Gila Community College • Distance education from Pima CC via Cable television in Payson • ASU - Ending ASPIN network services • University of Arizona - E-ratable ISP to Gila Library Consortium MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  41. Libraries "Internet access is an essential tool to our provision of service. We wouldn't be in business, now, without it." -- Librarian, Gila County MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  42. Libraries (cont.) • Pinal County • Nine libraries and a district office linked to a centralized catalog and internet link via Pinal County MIS • libraries in Florence, Arizona City, Eloy, Maricopa, Superior, Mammoth, Oracle, San Manuel, and Kearny. • Apache Junction • own catalog on-site • shares a 2Mb ATM connection to the Internet with the City of Apache Junction via ASU. • Casa Grande • own catalog on-site • T1 connection to the Internet via CyberTrails (a local ISP). MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  43. Libraries (cont.) • Gila County • Eight libraries and a district office linked to a centralized catalog, with shared T-1 frame Internet access via the University of Arizona. • Libraries inGlobe, Hayden, Pine, Payson, San Carlos, Tonto Basin, and Young. • Miami Memorial Library connects via recently installed Cable Internet access. • Internet access to the County Juvenile Jail via a fiber optic link to its adjacent building. • Gila Libraries district office is in the County Building. MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  44. Current Cobre Valley Med. Center High Casa Grande Med. Center High Payson Regional Med. Ctr. High Practitioners Moderate Allied Health Professionals Moderate Future High High High Moderate Moderate Health Care IndustryBandwidth Demands MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  45. High Gila County Payson Pinal County Apache Junction Casa Grande Coolidge Florence Medium Globe Arizona City Eloy Kearny Maricopa Sacaton Superior Governmental/Community Current Bandwidth Demands Low Dudleyville Hayden Miami Pine/Strawberry Winkelman Young Bapchule Mammoth Oracle San Manuel Stanfield MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  46. High Gila County Globe Payson Pinal County Apache Junction Arizona City Casa Grande Coolidge Florence Maricopa Medium Eloy Kearny Sacaton Superior Governmental/Community Future Bandwidth Demands Low Dudleyville Hayden Miami Pine/Strawberry Winkelman Young Bapchule Mammoth Oracle San Manuel Stanfield MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  47. NEXT STEPS MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  48. Community Telecom Assessment Phase II • Infrastructure Inventory • Business Model Development MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  49. Infrastructure Inventory • Existing Infrastructure Alternatives • Fiber Optics – retail (accessible) • Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL) • Cable Modem Service • Fixed Wireless • Frame Relay or conventional T1 service • ISDN - Integrated Switched Digital Network • Satellite Service • 3rd Generation Wireless ( Internet enabled handheld devices, PCS picture phone) • Maps MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

  50. Business Models • Revenue Model • Components • Population and Household Estimates and Projections • Number of Businesses Projections • Industry Statistics – Internet/Data Usage • Market Share Assumptions • Pricing Assumptions • Products to be Sold • High, Medium and Low Bandwidth • Firewalls • Equipment • Market Pricing MANWEILER TELECOM CONSULTING, LLC

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