Maine Broadband Planning Project—2010-2014Objective: Increase broadband uptake in a focused and measurable way.5 October 2010

The Sewall Team:

James W. Sewall Company Packard Judd Kaye Strategic Marketing Group Dr. Todd Gabe Jeff Letourneau

ConnectME Planning Project—Workflow

Baseline Needs Assessment—Task A

Baseline Needs Assessment—Task AIdentifying the Stakeholders Current resources Interests Barriers

Gathering Stakeholder Input Public Surveys and Forums Business Surveys Mapping Project Data

• Community Anchor Institutions• Service Provider Data• ConnectME Award Data

Other Constituencies’ Data

Assessment Tasks Assessing Other Development Strategies Economic Modeling Assessing Barriers Preparing the Assessment

StakeholdersData Providers Service Providers Public Consumers Business Consumers Community Anchor Institutions First Nations Telemedicine Entities State Agencies

Constituencies—Current Lead Legislative Committees/Legislators Broadband Strategy Council Telephone Association of Maine New England TeleHealth Consortium Maine Research & Education Network ConnectME / BTOP Awardees Maine Municipal Association

Public & Business Surveys & Forums

Initial Effort Six public forums—October-November

Initial Survey (10,000 + 10,000 forms)—December

Three Annual Updates—Same level of effort

Community Anchor Institutions Every institution surveyed directly

Public Forums

Schedule October 13, 12 – 1 pm

Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library, Presque Isle

October 20, 6 – 7 pmSkowhegan Community Center, Skowhegan

October 23, 2 – 3 pmPorter Memorial Library, Machias

October 27, 6 – 7 pmBangor Public Library, Bangor

November 3, 6 – 7 pmBelfast Free Library, Belfast

November 15, 12 – 1 pmPortland Public Library, Portland

Economic Modeling of Broadband in Maine

Dr. Todd GabeProfessor of EconomicsUniversity of Maine

Purpose

Increase broadband use in Maine by … Identifying barriers to broadband deployment by

service providers

Identifying barriers to broadband use by households and businesses

Data & Methods (municipality-level analysis)

Data from ConnectME mapping project on percentage of municipality with access to broadband via DSL, cable, fixed wireless, etc.

Data from FCC (form 477) on number of residential fixed high speed connections per 1,000 households

Examine association with municipality-level characteristics such as population density, household and business characteristics, presence of community anchor institutions, etc.

Data & Methods (household- and business-level analysis)

Data from current project on type of Internet connection used by household (or business); e.g., dial-up, DSL, cable, etc.

Examine association with household (or business) characteristics from survey, industry and town-level characteristics

Modeling Summary

Goal is to integrate economic analysis with mapping project, current data collection efforts, and overall objectives of ConnectME

Needs Assessment Schedule

Maine Broadband Planning Project

Contact:

Randy Claar

James W. Sewall Company136 Center StreetOld Town, ME 04468

207 827 4456 x203randy.claar@sewall.com