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Governor’s Office of Economic Development Board Meeting
May 26, 2011
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GOED Board Presentation
May 26, 2011
Utah ranks #1 in the nation for home
broadband adoption-“Exploring the Digital Nation: Home Broadband Internet Adoption in the United States” U.S.
Department of Commerce, November 2010.
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Governor’s Economic Development Plan Objectives1. Strengthen and grow existing Utah
businesses, both urban and rural.**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.**2. Increase innovation, entrepreneurship and
investment.3. Increase national and International business.4. Prioritize education to develop the workforce
of the future.
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The Utah Broadband Project
Purpose
To develop a statewide map of available broadband services and a
plan to increase broadband adoption and deployment in the state.
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First Year Accomplishments• Created and Released Utah Broadband Project Website:
broadband.utah.gov.• Successfully produced the first-ever broadband map for the
State of Utah.• Secured funding for additional projects and extension of the
program from two to five years.• Held the Broadband Provider Roundtable, the first attempt in
Utah to tackle broadband issues at the State-level by convening stakeholders and decision-makers.
• Interfaced with other states’ broadband projects to learn best practices and hear about innovate programs.
• Received favorable press coverage and an E-Gov website award.
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Second Year Goals• Have a data review session with every broadband provider
serving Utah.• Hit the road! Make local facilities visits to get updates from
providers, meet with community leaders and learn more about Utah’s needs for deployment and adoption.
• Release broadband demand study results and summary.• Create and convene the Utah Broadband Advisory Council,
whose role will be to identify barriers to deployment and adoption, create regional coordination, and make recommendations for the State Broadband Plan.
• Continue to interface with efforts in-state, out-of-state and nationally to promote broadband deployment and use.
• Incorporate state and federal speed test data into the Utah Broadband Map.
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Website: http://broadband.utah.gov
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Basic Functionality:•What’s Available Here?
•Data Filters•Map Display
•Use Map Search to “Zoom To”
Additional Map Resources
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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
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Utah’s Populated AreasWhat?• Map layer showing where
concentrations of people live. Populated areas cover ~7% of the state of Utah
How?• Manually trimming of 2010
Census Blocks layer
Why?• Target for high speed wireline-
based broadband.
Broadband Availability
Categorized by Speed
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Community Anchor Institutions
• Facilities such as schools, hospitals or government buildings require high capacity connections
• Broadband connections to these types of institutions serve as the springboard to residential and business access to broadband services
• In rural Utah, schools are our most common anchor tenants
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Utah Education Network
UEN is a robust broadband educational network connecting more than a thousand Utah public schools and districts, charter schools, colleges, universities and libraries. UEN works with local telecom providers as an anchor tenant to fulfill its mission. UEN
enters into long-term Wide-Area- Network (WAN) contracts which spur economic development and growth of technology
and new services. UEN’s public/private partnership model helps to provide employment for Utah’s workers and expand
sustainable broadband infrastructure into communities for local homes and businesses.
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Rural Utah Providers
• Work closely with the Utah Education Network and UDOT to provide services to anchor tenants and surrounding homes/businesses
• These rural companies are providing services at competitive prices and at the fastest speeds available
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Businesses Demand High-Capacity Broadband…and Utah Can Deliver
• SLC is the western regional optical fiber nexus– Twitter, Oracle, Overstock, NSA…– Strategic location for national
connectivity– Growing concentration of
corporate & public data centers locally
– Low industrial power rates• Application drivers
– HD Video Conferencing– Telemedicine– Education– Cloud computing
5 distinct major destinationsAt least 8 distinct fiber paths
