Broadband Webinar Series

October 19, 2011Nebraska’s Broadband Map – What’s

Under the Cover?Don Gray

Nebraska Public Service Commission

History Fall of 2008 –

Congress enacts the Broadband Data Improvement Act (BDIA)

Intent is to provide funding to eligible entities in each state for mapping broadband and to support planning activities

Funding was not appropriated with enactment of the BDIA

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History continued February 2009 –

Congress enacts the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA - the Stimulus Bill)

Appropriates $350 million to fund the BDIA for five years

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History continued February 2009 – continued

$7.4 billion was appropriated to fund grants/loans for broadband infrastructure projects funded through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) (Dept. of Commerce) and Rural Utilities Service (RUS) (Dept. of Agriculture)

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History continued Fall 2009 –

The State designee’s were notified by the NTIA that the original grant program of five years was to be reduced to a two year grant with the possibility of three additional years of funding at a later date.

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History continued January 2010 -

NTIA awarded Nebraska Public Service Commission (NPSC) a grant of $2.1 million for years 1 and 2 $1.6 million for the Mapping Project and $0.5 million for the Planning Project

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History continued May 2010 –

NTIA notified Grantees that they were now prepared to entertain supplemental application requests for years 3 - 5 of the original grant period authorized by Congress

The NPSC and the Planning Team had 30 days to prepare the supplemental grant proposal

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History continued September 2010 –

NPSC notified by the NTIA that Nebraska had been awarded a supplemental grant of approximately $3.5 million for years 3-5 $1.5 million for continuation of the Mapping

effort and $2.0 million for the Planning effort

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History continued September 2010 – continued

Revised budget for the supplemental grant submitted on February 21, 2011

NTIA approved supplemental grant September 18, 2011

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Mapping Project ComponentsIdentify Internet Service Providers (ISP’s)Data CollectionData ProcessingData TransferMapping

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Identify Providers Initial list of potential providers (Federal Communications

Commission (FCC) 477 List, Nebraska Certificated telephone companies, and Commission Communications Provider Registry)

Remove duplicates due to multiple “doing business as” (DBA’s) Remove companies no longer in business Remove ISP’s that do not meet NTIA definition of broadband

(1.5 mb/768 kb) Develop Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) Invite initial list of ISP’s to participate

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Identify Providers continued Response of Initial List of ISPs

Participate Refuse No Response

Challenges Multiple Business/Company names and DBA’s No ability to compel data from providers or in a

uniform format (voluntary participation)

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Data Collection Develop method of Data Collection

Large cross section of providers National companies to local one person operations Multiple modalities (DSL, Cable, FTC, FTP, Wireless

(mobile, fixed) Multiple data formats Varying levels of detail provided

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Data Collection continued NTIA Requirements continues to evolve resulting in

changes in data requested of ISP New business rules each collection cycle

(allowed values, default values, formats)

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Data Collection continued NPSC developed Excel based Data Input Model (DIM)

Data collected based upon Unique provider identification using Federal

Registration Number (FRN) Type of provider Modality

User is guided through data entry

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Data Collection continued Data Input Model continued

Pull Downs and Business Rules help maintain integrity of data

Data can be manually entered one record at a time or imported in “batch” mode

Data exported for submittal to NPSC via secure web site

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Data Collection continued Data Entered via the DIM (per provider, per modality)

Service Address Census Block Road Segment Wireless Wireless Antenna Middle Mile Last Mile Service Overview – wireline Service Overview – wireless Community Anchor Institutions

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Data Processing Each data package reviewed to verify compliance w/NTIA Data

Model Data packages processed to produce an ArcReader “project” Provides visual tool for ISP to review how data will be displayed

on State map ISP agrees with representation or submits corrections to data Data packages aggregated to create the data package for

submittal to NTIA and the data behind the State map

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Data Processing continued Data currently collected every six months

ISP data as of June 30 ISP data as of December 31

Submitted to NTIA ~ 90 days after collection September 30 March 30

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Data Processing continued State map updated when data submitted to NTIA and

accepted National map is updated ~ six months after data

submittal December 31, 2010 data just posted to the National

map

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Project Key Dates and Maps Initial dataset provided to the NTIA in June, 2010 Update provided October 1, 2010 Update provided April, 2011 Update provided October, 2011 Next data submission will be April 2012 Maps:

Nebraska - http://broadbandmap.nebraska.gov National - www.broadbandmap.gov FCC - http://www.fcc.gov/blog/connect-america-fund-putting-consumers-map

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Nebraska Broadband Map http://broadbandmap.nebraska.gov Following series of slides provides an overview of the

Nebraska Broadband Map capabilities and tools

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Nebraska Broadband Map – Opening Screen

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Nebraska Broadband Map – Basic Controls

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Nebraska Broadband Map - Layers

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Nebraska Broadband Map – CAI Symbols

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Nebraska Broadband Map – Speed Symbols

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Nebraska Broadband Map – Identify Providers

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Nebraska Broadband Map – Locate Providers

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Nebraska Broadband Map – Locate Providers

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Nebraska Broadband Map – Locate Providers Results

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Nebraska Broadband Map – Locate Providers Results

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Nebraska Broadband Map – Identify Provider Results

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National Broadband Map www.broadbandmap.gov Following series of slides provides an overview of the

National Broadband Map capabilities and tools

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National Broadband Map – Opening

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National Broadband Map

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National Broadband Map

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National Broadband Map

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National Broadband Map

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National Broadband Map

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National Broadband Map

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FCC Map

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Glossary American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Broadband Data Improvement Act (BDIA) Data Input Model (DIM) Doing Business As (DBA’s) Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Federal Registration Number (FRN) Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Nebraska Public Service Commission (NPSC) Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA’s) Public Service Commission (PSC) Rural Utilities Service (RUS)

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This Broadband Mapping and Planning Initiative is funded through a grant to the Nebraska Public Service Commission by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration and aims to increase broadband adoption and utilization.

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