COLORADO CENTRAL TELECOM is providing a proposal for a technical solution based on an FCC licensed Fixed Wireless Microwave redundant middle mile and point to point fixed wireless to service enterprise and public sector customers. The three primary goals are addressed as follows:
1. Redundant broadband service to the region – COLORADO CENTRAL TELECOM proposes a FCC licensed high-capacity microwave loop originating in Salida, Colorado, traversing Chaffee county to Lake county. These core sites could be used to directly feed anchor institutions where feasible.
2. Expanded broadband capacity – COLORADO CENTRAL TELECOM’s offering of competitive middle mile pricing will enable last mile providers to offer much greater bandwidth to end users than what is currently available via DSL or cable modem offerings with no data caps.
3. Broadband services at a reasonable price – COLORADO CENTRAL TELECOM’s offering of competitive middle mile pricing will enable last mile providers to offer internet services at a lower cost per megabit per second per month ($/Mbps/month) COLORADO CENTRAL TELECOM proposes a 90 day pre-sales period during which it will solicit pre-sale contractual commitments from area businesses and anchor institutions with the understanding that upon meeting our pre-sales goal COLORADO CENTRAL TELECOM will begin the network construction and deliver service to pre-sale customers within the timeframe specified in a Pre-Sales Service Order Agreement (”SOA”).
The committed revenue required to justify the investment in network expansion is $5,000 per month in new recurring commercial revenue for a term of 36 months. This
commitment can be met by any combination of public sector, last mile service provider, and large business customers.
COLORADO CENTRAL TELECOM proposes the following project timelines: 1. Pre-sales period – 3 months commencing on April 1st, 2014 and concluding on June 30th, 2014.
2. Engineering period – concurrent with pre-sales period
3. FCC license acquisition – 45 days commencing on June 1st, 2014
4. Network build out, core and pre-sold anchor institutions - 3 months commencing on July 1st, 2014 and concluding by September 30th, 2014.
5. Coordination with last mile service providers for residential demand mapping – commencing on July 1st, 2014 and ongoing. If pre-sales activity results in commitments for the specified minimum recurring revenue of $5,000 per month prior to May 31st, 2014 COLORADO CENTRAL TELECOM will accelerate remaining timeframes by an equivalent number of days. If pre-sales activity fails to result in commitments for the
1. Withdraw the proposal, terminate open service orders with no cancellation or termination fees, and notify interest parties in writing, or:
2. Upon approval by all interested parties, extend the pre-sales period and postpone timeframes by a corresponding number of days, or:
3. Modify the committed revenue requirement to a level equal to the pre-sales orders executed by the conclusion of the pre-sales period and move forward according to the timeline.
Terms and Conditions
This proposal is not a contract. Neither party is obligated to perform in any way beyond the terms and conditions of an independently executed Service Order Agreement (“SOA”) by and between COLORADO CENTRAL TELECOM
and its direct customers.The sole purpose of this proposal is to demonstrate that under the condition of committed aggregate commercial demand COLORADO CENTRAL
TELECOM is capable of and willing to execute a commercial business expansion plan for the mutual benefit of future customers in and around Lake County.
Question/Factor Your Response
1. What technology type(s) do
you propose? Microwave Middle Mile
2. How will your middle mile solution be redundant (east-‐west, north-‐south) and offer 99.999% availability in support of your last mile services?
Redundancy is built into the microwave path via redundant radios. Primary radio fails over to secondary radio in event of failure of primary radio.
3. Does your solution enable an end user to subscribe to speeds of up to 1 Gbps services?
Yes. With appropriate provisioning.
4. What price range would an enterprise customer expect to pay in $/Mbps/month per location for your services if buying:
Colorado Central Telecom is proposing a middle mile service to last mile providers and,
potentially buyers of large quantities of bandwidth on a case-‐by-‐case basis
a. 10 Mbps? N/A
b. 50 Mbps? N/A
c. 100 Mbps? $29
d. 500 Mbps? $25
e. 1 Gbps? $17
5. How do you propose to service the community anchor
institutions of Lake County
Our highly competitive middle mile service drives down the wholesale cost of bandwidth which last mile providers can pass on to community anchor last mile subscribers. Custom solutions can be made available for community anchors buying bandwidth at levels
in excess of 100 Mbps. 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.
a. Access to light poles? Yes b. Access to rights of way? Yes c. Roof rights on public sector
buildings? Yes
d. Access to public safety wireless towers?
Yes e. Access to a publicly-‐owned
space for a carrier neutral location (CNL) as alternative to central office? If so, please describe.
Yes
f. Local government assistance in obtaining pole rights from electric service provider?
Yes
g. Access to existing indoor Distributed Antenna System (DAS) in public buildings?
No, however, we would be very interested in providing middle mile services in support of any DAS in Leadville
7. Does your solution include publicly accessible Wi-‐Fi solution? If so, please describe.
No
8. Does your solution include or support a Distributed Antenna System (DAS, Wi-‐Fi/cellular or Wi-‐Fi only)?
Yes.
10. Can you deliver service to community anchor institutions and leading businesses in Lake County by September 01, 2014?
Depending on funding of project, yes.
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 highly competitive middle mile service drives down the wholesale cost of bandwidth which last mile providers can pass on to community anchor last mile subscribers. Custom solutions can be made available for community anchors buying bandwidth at levels in excess of 100 Mbps.
for students enrolled in the Gilpin and Clear Creek school districts? If so, what is your suggested subscription price for families with students on free and reduced lunch?
which last mile providers can pass on to community anchor last mile subscribers. Custom solutions can be made available for community anchors buying bandwidth at levels in excess of 100 Mbps.
Conceivably, the school district could make its bandwidth available after hours via Wi-‐Fi in Leadville.
13. Please provide a proposed service level agreement for enterprise/community anchor institution customers of Lake County.
N/A Given our proposal is for middle mile services we do not have a “standard” service level agreement for last mile end users..