Broadband Deployment Catalysts One Congressional Perspective Matthew Hussey Telecommunications Legislative Assistant Senator Olympia Snowe

The Federal Wi-Net Act Introduced by Sens. Snowe and Warner in the 112 th Utilizing gov’t buildings and property to expand broadband Summary – Tasks GSA to install small wireless base stations, such as femtocells, and Wi-Fi hot-spots in all publicly accessible Federal buildings Authorizes $15 million of unobligated funds from the Federal Buildings Fund – Streamlines Federal rights-of-way and wireless tower sitings on Federal buildings* Fees based on fair market value, GSA able to make exceptions * Based on FCC’s National Broadband Plan Recommendations 6.9 & 6.10

Growing reliance on microcells Why Femtocells? At least 60 operators globally have ongoing trials 65% of carriers expect to use femtocells for their LTE coverage 49 million femtocell access points (FAPs) in the market by 2014 Why Wi-Fi? 90% of smartphones will be Wi-Fi capable by % of smartphone customers prefer Wi-Fi over 3G 50% of broadband homes have Wi-Fi installed Growing usage demands requiring new approaches Global mobile data traffic to increase 26-fold between 2010 and 2015 to 6.3 exabytes/month 65% of mobile Internet usage done inside 31% of global smartphone traffic offloaded onto fixed networks in 2010 Sources: Cisco VNI, Yankee Group, Informa

Federal Government is… The nation’s biggest landlord GSA manages 8,600 buildings across the nation 3.2 billion sq. ft. federally owned building space The U.S. Postal Service operates 36,400 post offices and locations The nation’s largest Landowner Federal government owns nearly 650 million acres of land = 30% of U.S. land area Owns 84.5% of Nevada’s land to 1.8% of Illinois’ In 2 nd place is Ted Turner w/ 2 million acres

Residential Fixed High-Speed Connections per 1,000 HH by Census Tract Providers of Mobile High-Speed Connections by Census Tract FCC broadband data maps FCC Form 477 Data as of December 31, 2008

Fixed Broadband Gaps Mobile Broadband Gaps Map of Federally owned Land

Legislation = user enhancements Benefits of femtocells & Wi-Fi Hotspots are numerous Provide simple, low cost, easy-to-install access points Help alleviate congestion on macro cellular networks Can greatly improve indoor coverage Increase phone performance and battery life Cost savings for consumers AND government employees Government being a facilitator in expanding coverage Increasing access to government buildings for wireless infrastructure can bridge existing gaps Will assist smaller carriers due to lower real estate acquisition costs and streamlined zoning Simplified processes = more carriers applications = more revenue