Colorado Broadband Data & Development Program -- CBDDP

Date: November 19, 2010

Diane Simmons, Program Manager303-764-7914

Broadband Mapping• Project Funded by the NTIA/Dept of Commerce for Five

Years Through 2014

• Map BB Availability and Adoption – Collect Data from Service Providers and Community Anchor

Institutions (CAIs)

– Provide the Data to NTIA in Required Formats to Create a National BB Map by February 2011

Why This Is Important to the State of Colorado

• Pew Research Estimates – Colorado K-12 Schools Have 3.4 kbps/Student

– National Average 6.5 kbps

• Implementation of Future Federally Funded Programs May Use This Information– What is the Estimated Cost of the NG911 Network ??

• Drive Better Policymaking Around Broadband

Fun Facts -- What the Data Looks Like

• 3 Million Discrete Address Points

• 141,040 Census Blocks in State

• 128,659 Road Segments in Census Blocks >2 Sq. Mile with Reported BB

• 59 Service Providers Participating – Includes 37 Wireless Providers Reporting

Wireline and Fixed Wireless Service

How Do We Verify Service Provider Information?

• Surveys to Businesses & Consumers• Drive Testing• Information from Community Anchor Institutions

• Crowd Sourced Data from FCC Speed Tests

Community Anchor Institutions October 1, 2010 Data Set Identified Collected Includes

Speed Test Cat. 1 - School K through 12 2097 1927 665 Cat. 2 – Library 246 234 0 Cat. 3 – Medical/Healthcare 694 275 80 Cat. 4 – Public Safety 1813 548 264 Cat. 5 – University/College 53 53 0 Cat. 6 – Other Government 407 156 6 Cat 7 – Other Non-Government Total 5310 3193 1015

Why We Need Your Help

An Example of How to Do it

• In October We Published an Article in Daryl’s Newsletter

• A First Responder in Longmont Call and Asked How He Could Help

• We Set Up a Specific Google Doc Survey for Longmont So He Could Track Who Participated

• RESULT: In 15 Day He Collected 19 Speed Tests for 8 Facilities

EXCELLENT !!

An Example of How to Do it

DownStream Upstream Entity26.03 17.08 Safety and Justice 25.87 15.4 Fire Station #524.33 17.71 Fire station #424.46 17.58 fire station one

10 10 fire house #327.25 19.07 Fire Station #411.62 8.8 Fire Station #626.08 18.4 Station 2

24.6 18.44 Fire Station #43.06 1.98 Fire Station 6

26.69 19.39 Fire House #623.99 18 Safety and Justice 26.02 19.06 Safety and Justice 26.44 18.3 Civic Center26.99 18.51 Safety & Justice 26.43 19.57 Longmont Safety 16.89 12.77 Fire Station 1

We Need Your Help• Have an Employee at Each of Your Physical Locations Take the

Speed Test & Complete Form at:

http://tinyurl.com/CO-CAI

• I’d Appreciate Contact Information for Newsletters and or Associations to Help Spread the Word

This Data is Most Important to us in Remote Locations