TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Supervisor Hamburg
MEETING DATE: November 1, 2016
DEPARTMENT CONTACT:
Supervisor Hamburg
PHONE:
463-4441
ITEM TYPE: Regular Agenda
TIME ALLOCATED FOR ITEM: 45 min
AGENDA TITLE:
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Discussion and Possible Acceptance of Presentation by AT&T on the Connect America Funding Phase II Plans for Mendocino, and Update on AT&T's North Coast Network Resiliency Plan Upgrade (Sponsor: Supervisor Hamburg)
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RECOMMENDED ACTION/MOTION:
recommendation
Accept the presentation by AT&T on the Connect America Funding Phase II plans for Mendocino, and the update on AT&T's North Coast Network Resiliency Plan upgrade.
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PREVIOUS BOARD/BOARD COMMITTEE ACTIONS:
On February 2, 2016, AT&T made a presentation to the Board of Supervisors regarding their proposed Network Resiliency Plan. On September 19, 2016, AT&T transmitted a press release to the Board of Supervisors to notify completion of their North Coast Resiliency Network Upgrade.
SUMMARY OF REQUEST:
In August of 2015, AT&T accepted approximately $427 million per year in Connect America Fund Phase 2 (CAFII) support for each of the next six years. These funds will be used in deploying, maintaining, and offering internet access and voice service in FCC-identified census blocks in 18 states located within AT&T's exchange areas. For California, AT&T plans to use this support to offer high-speed internet to more than 141,500 homes statewide via a fixed wireless technology. This wireless "last mile" connection between the fiber at a cell site and the customer premises will provide services of at least 10 Mbps download. Carriers must meet specified deployment milestone dates: 40% of the overall (state-wide) build by year-end of 2017, 60% by 2018, 80% by 2019, and 100% by 2020-21.
AT&T engineers have identified locations in Mendocino where existing AT&T cell sites can have modifications for new equipment to be added to provide this service, other existing third party s...
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