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• Fiber in the home—demand is there. 86% of home users are unhappy with their internet <br /> connectivity. Steve said this has to be more of a partnership with the towns, OpenCape, and <br /> probably a third party. He said if you look at the towns being connected(Concord, Lexington, <br /> etc.) at some time the town makes the investment to run fiber throughout the town. The town <br /> awns the fiber and the town decides whether to provide to business, fire/police, homes, etc. It is <br /> up to the town to decide what is in the best interest of the town. <br /> • Steve said this past summer the merchants on Main Street in Falmouth could not get enough <br /> bandwidth from Comcast to process credit cards. OpenCape is working on that problem with <br /> Falmouth right now. <br /> • Steve noted that in Boston's proposal to Amazon Boston listed quality of life in Boston as the <br /> number one issue. Steve said Cape Cod is definitely quality of life. He said you can live here and <br /> work from here if you have great connectivity. This is a way to attract those kinds of jobs. <br /> OpenCape pricing...Steve said OpenCape offers only 2 services: <br /> 1. Business service is a dedicated symmetrical service that starts at$300 and goes up to the <br /> thousands. He said symmetrical service is important to business because whatever you download <br /> you get same uploaded symmetrically. <br /> 2. GPON (Gigabit Passive Optional Network)is sharing a connection with other folks. This would <br /> cost somewhere between $65 to $100. per month. <br /> Steve said maintaining and operating a fiber network is an expensive proposition. <br /> Bill Nay explained that MashpeeTV is mainly dealing with Comcast. He asked where OpenCape core <br /> comes from. Steve said they buy internet service from providers in Boston or Providence. <br /> Bill Nay asked if there was a way to use OpenCape service and then connect to Comcast. Steve <br /> responded"yes". Steve said even though OpenCape is up 99% of the time,things do happen. He said <br /> they've had outage this past summer because squirrels were eating the fiber. <br /> Bill Nay asked if he wants to send a live signal and connect to Comcast can that be done. Steve said he <br /> couldn't answer but someone in the OpenCape technology area would respond to that question. <br /> Bill asked if they would do a demo test for him. Steve said he could stream out of town hall. <br /> Lolita McCray asked about clarity of OpenCape compared to Comcast since HD not available through <br /> Comcast. Steve said HD is just a format. He said when streaming HD video, Comcast is not able to do so <br /> because it takes too much bandwidth. He said OpenCape doesn't have that limitation. <br /> Bill Nay asked if Mashpee wanted to do their own cable network could OpenCape help put that together. <br /> Steve said he worked for PBS for 17 years. He said doing your own cable network would be a bad idea, <br /> TV is dead technology. People want to watch what they want to watch and when they want to watch it on <br /> Wad; phone; etc. Steve said costs/production, etc. outweigh the benefit. Steve explained that a better <br /> solution for a town is do a bond; do betterment to connect to the home; and get ISP provider to supply the <br /> data package. Then you have all the technology in the town and you can change providers. <br /> Dan Riley thanked Steve Johnston for his helpful comments. The Board expressed their appreciation. <br /> Steve Johnston exited the meeting since he had another meeting to attend. Angela Hurwitz remained to <br /> answer any questions that may arise prior to adjournment of this meeting. <br /> 3 <br />