Bill Jones
Bill has 30 years of experience in computer hardware and software development. He was Motorola's technical liaison with Microsoft, IBM, Apple Computers, and numerous third party developers on a joint effort to bring the Microsoft Windows operating systems to PowerPC based workstations. Other relevant projects include CDMA cell phone handset and protocol development as well as network protocol development back when the internet was an obscure defense department project.
Bill has worked with Lake County Connect to bring enhanced broadband services to the area. He formed High Country Internet, Inc. in order to provide Lake County with a first class internet service provider.
Bill graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Texas State University San Marcos in 1984.
Jack Saunders
For 35 years Jack has been a successful Lake County home builder, community leader and most recently insurance agency owner. In operating businesses since 1979 (three years later, Climax closed), Jack knows the challenges of the local economy, the need to create more private sector jobs, the demands of meeting payroll and the necessity to participate in and promote our community.
Jack was instrumental in working with Chaffee County Connect to establish a similar entity in Lake County to promote enhanced broadband connectivity. Lake County Connect was formed with the blessing of the Board of Commissioners and now has become a standing committee of the Lake County Economic Development Corporation.
Jack has a BA from SUNY Albany. He and Cindy were married at Turquoise Lake in 1980 and were blessed with three daughters all of whom graduated from Lake County Schools and Colorado colleges.
High Country Internet, Inc.
Jack and Bill are using their combined skills to make High Country Internet the premiere provider of Internet services in Central Colorado.
Question/Factor Your Response
1. What technology type(s) do you propose? Internet service for Lake County will require a combination of technologies depending on customer location and requirements. Among the available choices we propose to use
Wireless 802.11 TDMA PTMP unlicensed microwave. Wireless unlicensed TV whitespace.
Wireless licensed LTE based PTMP.
Licensed and unlicensed microwave for high bandwidth dedicated internet service.
802.11ac based hotspot service. Both fixed location and portable. 1
Fixed and mobile VOIP services.
2. How will your middle mile solution be redundant (east-west) and offer 99.999% availability in support of your last mile services?
Our solution will include both fiber and licensed microwave backhaul.
Existing lit fiber transport from CenturyLink in Lake County currently provides the redundant network paths that are needed for network reliability. Fiber connections to the numerous Denver based carrier hotels are available via routes through both Chaffee and Eagle counties. This network provides the technical components of redundancy but it lacks the necessary element of price competition. Licensed microwave backhaul links between Eagle, Park, and Chaffee counties will provide price competition in the county as well as additional level of technical redundancy.
Interconnections with future Lake County carriers will provide additional opportunities for redundancy.
3. Does your solution enable an end user to subscribe to speeds of up to 1 Gbps services?
Yes. Dedicated internet access via licensed microwave.
4. What price range would an enterprise customer expect to pay in $/Mbps/month per location for your services if buying: 2
Broadband | Dedicated 3 a. 10 Mbps? $7 | b. 50 Mbps? $4 | c. 100 Mbps? | d. 500 Mbps? | e. 1 Gbps? | 5. How do you propose to service the
community anchor institutions of Lake County (see attached Broadband Assessment for names and addresses)?
Using fixed wireless broadband service.
6. What public sector concessions would assist you in service delivery? If yes, how would you use those assets to bring better internet services to these communities? Please explain.
Expedited permitting.
Financial assistance for elements of the Leadville tourist network. Commitment for anchor subscribers.
a. Access to light poles? Yes
Access to poles tops and/or light standards for neighborhood access points and light backhaul.
Access to unmetered power.
b. Access to rights of way? Yes.
For placing lite utility poles or towers as antenna supports. For utility pole communications space to run above ground cable. For conduit access to run buried cable.
2 Excluding taxes and fees.
For trenching rights to run buried cable. For outdoor equipment cabinets.
c. Roof rights on public sector buildings? Yes
Wireless equipment co-location Access to unmetered power. Access to indoor equipment space.
d. Access to public safety wireless towers? Yes
Wireless equipment co-location Access to unmetered power.
e. Access to a publicly-owned space for a carrier neutral location (CNL) as alternative to central office? If so, please describe.
Yes
We would use this if it was available at a reasonable cost and at a location that is suitable for licensed and unlicensed wireless backhaul.
f. Local government assistance in obtaining pole rights from electric service provider?
Yes
Pole top and communication space for wireless equipment co- location.
Communication space for fiber communications cable. Access to unmetered power.
g. Access to existing indoor Distributed Antenna System (DAS) in public buildings?
Yes, if needed or practical. 7. Does your solution include publicly
accessible Wi-Fi solution? If so, please describe.
Yes.
8. Does your solution include or support a Distributed Antenna System (DAS, Wi- Fi/cellular or Wi-Fi only)?
Yes for VOIP based Telephone service over WIFI to mobile devices such as smart phones.
9. Does your solution include or support 4G cellular services?
No.
10. Can you deliver service to community anchor institutions and leading businesses in Lake County by September 01, 2014?
Yes. Via licensed and unlicensed microwave service.
11. In addition to servicing the enterprise customers of Lake County, how does your solution bring improved last mile internet and mobile (cellular) services to the residential and small business markets of these counties?
Our product offerings include
Fixed wireless subscriber broadband service providing up to 30Mbps of throughput.
Subscriber VOIP telephone service.
WIFI based mobile VOIP telephone service. This solution does not address commercial cellular service.
12. Can your last mile service provide low cost internet access for students enrolled in Lake County school district? If so, what is your suggested subscription price for families with students on free and reduced lunch?
Yes.
Low income subscribers are eligible to receive a $10 per month subsidy from the FCC's universal access fund. 75% of students in the Lake County schools participate in the free or reduced price lunch program and would automatically qualify for this subsidy. We welcome opportunities to partner with Lake County schools on programs to make internet access more available to their families.
13. Please provide a proposed service level agreement for enterprise/community anchor institution customers of Lake County.
The parameters of an SLA agreement will depend on the specific needs of the customer.