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Broad Problem

Broadband service has become an essential utility.

Despite this fact, 81% of the market has no gigabit option. 

Further, broadband is not available to 31% of U.S. households. Where broadband is available, the service quality is often poor and the upstream speeds severely limited.

Existing broadband providers are mostly monopolies or duopolies that face minimal pressure to upgrade their networks due to high barriers to entry for competitors.

Consequently, Americans pay far more than the rest of the developed world for markedly inferior broadband service.

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Why We'll Lead

Our network design delivers 10,000 Mbps internet service today!

Our crowdsourcing web-app helps local champions secure a sufficient level of participation to get new network projects off the ground and is a highly efficient method for providing cost estimates

Our platform creates the foundation for providing follow-on services to subscribers (e.g. voice and TV services) and to network owners (e.g. community Wi-Fi or security cameras)

Best of all, our futureproof networks can be easily upgraded to even faster speeds in the future by simply swapping in new equipment

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Traction &
Accomplishments

We have pioneered a unique service model for enabling customer-owned broadband networks and have been supporting live subscribers since April 2019. We have engineered the end-to-end technology platform needed to deliver this service: 10-gigabit network design, back-office systems (CRM, billing, monitoring). We have also designed and built a web-app to enable crowdsourcing and automate the design of network projects.

We also established the legal, operational and regulatory templates for creating non-profit Mutual Benefit Corporations to enable community-ownership of network assets. We currently serve both residential and commercial customers. Our crowdsourcing model is currently being applied by multiple champions in multiple neighborhoods.

We have over 60 project inquiries in our pipeline despite having been in “stealth mode” until recently.

We have established channel partnerships with the largest HOA management company in the U.S. and the largest metro dark fiber network operator in the U.S. We also have service delivery partnerships for telephony services, TV services, in-home installation services and network backhaul services.”

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Meet The Team

Darrell Gentry CEO

• Has pioneered the creation of award-winning broadband networks for 20+ years
• Founded an early data CLEC that rolled out DSL service in 5 Midwest states and an early wireless ISP focused on rural broadband delivery
• Also founded a company to accelerate real-time traffic across the internet, a precursor to modern-day SD-WAN systems
• Most recently he was responsible for operations at OnLive, the cloud gaming pioneer, where he oversaw an annual budget in excess of $10 million and a global network with over 25,000 route miles

David Barron COO

• Extensive experience with emerging technology and commercialization efforts in business development, strategic planning and operations management roles
• Led emerging technology efforts for CableLabs, an R&D consortium whose members were among the largest cable operators worldwide
• Held partner and operations management positions in Americast, a joint venture including U.S. Telcos and Disney that was focused on overbuilding wireline and wireless broadband networks.
• Negotiated technology development and distribution agreements for Microsoft’s Interactive Television division and Motorola’s Cellular Infrastructure Group.

Mark Ansboury INFRASTRUCTURE & OPERATIONS

• Decades of experience pioneering the development of broadband networks for public, private and non-profit sectors
• Previously served as Director of Telecommunications for the State of Texas Department of Information Resources, where he was responsible for building one of the nation’s first telemedicine and community coalition networks
• Led the development of Rocket Fiber (a FTTP overbuilder) and OneCommunity (a non-profit regional community broadband provider)
• A successful serial entrepreneur, Ansboury has brokered over $1 billion in IT-enabled infrastructure investments over the past 20 years

Derek Sedik NETWORK ENGINEERING

• 20+ years experience as a network engineer in telecoms
• Helped grow Excite@Home’s network from 60,000 to 4.1 million cable broadband customers in less than 5 years
• Was part of the national engineering team at Comcast, supporting a network of over 12.5 million data/voice customers
• Most recently Sedik was the lead network engineer at Rocket Fiber and architect of their FTTP solution

Eric Jacobson SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

•28+ years of professional software development experience
•One of the earliest developers at ServiceNow, he helped grow the company from a handful of small customers to its present portfolio of multi-national clients and a valuation of over $18 billion
•He has also performed development consulting for classified US Navy projects and built corporate-wide systems at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
•Last but not least, he developed stock systems for large financial institutions and developed airline reservation systems
 

Carrie Pendolino MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

• Decades of experience managing Corporate Communications and Government Affairs for startup companies
• Decades of experience organizing and managing political campaigns at the local community level
• Launched WebTV Networks and led integration efforts after acquisition by Microsoft
• Managed marketing at Zing Systems and led integration efforts after acquisition by Dell