Welcome to the 2011 Utah Broadband Provider Roundtable

September 21, 2011

“Increase business opportunities in rural Utah by identifying unserved and underserved high-speed Internet service areas and by developing a plan to extend broadband service statewide”

The Utah Broadband Project

PurposeTo develop a statewide map of

available broadband services and a plan to increase broadband adoption

and deployment in the state.

Website: http://broadband.utah.gov

Basic Functionality:• What’s Available Here?

• Data Filters• Map Display

• Use Map Search to “Zoom To”

Additional Map Resources

Broadband Mapping: 100% Participation inApril 2011 NTIA Data Submission

• DirectComm• Emery• Frontier• Gunnison• HughesNet• InfoWest• Integra• Leap/Cricket• Level3• Manti• Myvocom• NeboNet• NewEdge• Qwest• RiverCanyonWireless• SatView

• SouthCentral• Spanish Fork• Sprint/Nextel• Strata• T-Mobile• ThreeSixty• Union• Utah Broadband• UTOPIA• Veracity• Verizon• Wild Blue• XOCommunications• XpressWeb

• AllWest• Altazip• American Fiber• AT&T• Baja• Beehive• Bresnan• Cache Broadband• CentraCom• Clearwire• Comcast• Covad• Digis

Upcoming Fall 2011NTIA Data Submission

DUE ASAP(as in…last week )

UNSERVED UTAH HOUSEHOLDSUsing Mapping Data for Broadband Planning:

Data Inputs• 2010 Census Block Data• Trimmed Census Blocks to reflect only populated areas• Process Data

– For each Census Block:• How many providers serve it?• At what speed?• Using what technology(s)

– Summarize Pop. & Housing Units for• Counties• Cities• Unincorporated Named Places (ex. Brighton, Magna)

• Broadband availability data submitted in April 2011

Winter 2011 Broadband Service Areas47 Providers: Mobile, Fixed Wireless, Cable, DSL, Fiber

Wireless Wireline

Summary of Findings99.67% of Utah households are served by broadband• Approximately 3,187 Utah households still lack broadband access • Out of 246 incorporated cities/towns in Utah, approximately 177 have some

form of broadband service provided to every household

98.56% of Utah households have a choice of two or more broadband providers• 11.93% have residential fiber service available

Out of Utah’s 29 counties, 14 entire counties lack any residential fiber access

Five of Utah’s 29 counties lack any broadband access from fixed wireless providers (Carbon, Duchesne, Rich, Uintah, and Wayne Counties)

Summary of FindingsWayne County has the highest percentage, at 18.04%, of unserved households in the state (representing only 278 households)• 15.36% are unserved in San Juan

County (859 HHs)• 5.22% in Garfield County (163 HHs)• 3.64% in Kane County (178 HHs)• 2.59% in Piute County (22 HHs)

This 5-county, Southeastern portion of the state has a total population of 31,373. For comparison, Salt Lake County’s population is 1,029,386 and Summit County’s 36,202

Use-case Scenario ResultsCounty

Basic Consumer

3 Mbps down/768

Kbps Up

Home Office10 Mbps down/3

Mbps Up

Higher Capacity

25 Mbps down/10 Mbps Up

Beaver 99.45% 98.10% 0.00%Box Elder 99.72% 79.92% 78.79%

Cache 99.84% 90.30% 90.30%Carbon 99.94% 6.44% 6.44%Daggett 75.30% 0.00% 0.00%

Davis 99.94% 98.52% 98.32%Duchesne 92.16% 0.00% 0.00%

Emery 98.11% 6.01% 6.01%Garfield 78.29% 52.19% 0.00%

Grand 98.97% 0.00% 0.00%Iron 99.43% 92.58% 0.00%Juab 96.57% 52.57% 52.57%Kane 96.36% 25.22% 0.00%

Millard 98.58% 0.00% 0.00%Morgan 99.83% 84.91% 84.91%

Piute 97.41% 0.00% 0.00%Rich 98.68% 32.97% 26.70%

Salt Lake 99.96% 98.75% 98.66%San Juan 76.62% 0.00% 0.00%Sanpete 99.93% 37.73% 37.68%

Sevier 99.26% 0.00% 0.00%Summit 99.76% 97.19% 74.03%

Tooele 99.56% 84.89% 81.66%Uintah 97.72% 0.00% 0.00%

Utah 99.79% 92.42% 89.55%Wasatch 99.90% 92.21% 68.92%

Washington 99.77% 98.25% 3.82%Wayne 77.55% 0.00% 0.00%Weber 99.34% 92.76% 92.76%

• 99.41% of Utah households have “basic consumer” availability

• 88.46% of Utah households have “home office/entertainment”

availability

• 79.12% of Utah households have “higher capacity” availability

Mapping Use-case Scenario Results

Note: This map does not currently show class assignments for unincorporated, unnamed areas

UTAH BROADBAND ADVISORY COUNCIL

Formed June 2011

Utah Broadband Advisory Council

Mission:To examine the condition of broadband

adoption and deployment in the State of Utah and to provide the Governor and Legislature with recommendations and

policy guidance related to the findings of the Advisory Council.

Utah Broadband Advisory Council

• Members• Objectives• Discussion Topics

• Next Meeting: – October 13, 8-10 a.m. (Location TBA)

BROADBAND MAPPING FOR BUSINESS RECRUITMENT

Upcoming Project Plans:

Businesses Demand High-Capacity Broadband…and Utah Can Deliver

• SLC is the western regional optical fiber nexus– Strategic location for national

connectivity– Low industrial power rates– Growing concentration of

corporate & public data centers• Twitter, Oracle, Overstock, NSA,

Ebay…• “Utah’s a bulls eye for data centers

right now!”

5 distinct major destinationsAt least 8 distinct fiber paths

Higher-Capacity Services Mapping• Use data from the Utah Education Network, other

Community Anchor Institutions (DTS, Libraries, Government offices, etc.) and UDOT to build a base fiber availability map.

• Gather voluntary data from providers that are able to provide commercial-grade communications infrastructure to businesses or other high-capacity users. – Including some information about redundancy (and possibly

backbone connection points)– A company designee for economic developers or site selectors to

work with.• Make map available on Broadband.Utah.gov website.

OTHER UPDATESAdditional Broadband Project items

Upcoming Events Utah Entrepreneurship Day September 27, 2011 11:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Utah

State Capitol Rotunda Mid-Course Workshop for Broadband Awardees: Accelerating Deployments

and Driving Toward Sustainability October 5-7, 2011 Cleveland, Ohio PushButton Summit Digital Media Summit 2011 October 13-15, 2011

Jordan Commons, Salt Lake City 2011 Rural Telecon: Annual Rural Telecommunications Congress Conference

October 17-19 Raleigh, North Carolina Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee Meeting October 19 9:00

a.m.

For other broadband-related events, follow us on Twitter: @UtahBroadband

QUESTIONS?

Tara Thue tthue@utah.gov

801-538-8742 or 801-541-3473Website: http://broadband.utah.gov