Community Broadband Networks

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Bringing broadband to your community

Investing in your community by extending high speed internet to every home will pay dividends now and for generations to come. Building a network that meets the current demands of your community while considering future needs can generate many positive returns including:

• Increased job and population growth
• Higher rates of new business formation
• Increased home values
• Decreased unemployment rates
• Improved opportunities for innovation and productivity gains

Broadband expansion can also improve health and life outcomes, access to remote healthcare providers, online social networks, and educational opportunities.

Pharr, Texas successfully brought broadband to their community, learn how here.

6 Steps to Follow in Planning Your Broadband Network

Whether you’re an experienced network operator or tackling broadband for the first time, the following steps will help you create and manage a plan to implement a broadband network in your community.

	1. Build Awareness and Understand Demand Communicate and engage with your community to identify needs and address concerns.
	2. Define the Project Establish scope of the project, create budget estimates, and complete a feasibility study.
	3. Design the Network Create a design that incorporates all the services that meets the needs of your community.
	4. Secure Funding Identify funding sources, apply, and manage regulations and timelines.
	5. Deployment Develop your implementation plan, establish formal processes, and build your network.
	6. Operate and Maintain Document operating and maintenance procedures and manage resources to keep network running smoothly.

Let’s connect to create a solution that’s right for you today and scalable for generations to come.

Watch this video where Barry Walton covers potential service offerings you might consider when designing your community network. Check out our other videos on topics related to planning, designing and implementing a network in your community on our Community Broadband University page.

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