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ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS:
3 What should you look for in a service provider? How should you decide
among diferent service ofers and technologies?
3 Do you "do it yourself," perhaps in cooperation with a local provider?
3 How will the latest court rulings on FCC Broadband regulations afect
your business?
3 What about Google spending more than $3 billion for a maker of smart
thermostats?
3 Most importantly, new broadband services are exciting, but how do you monetize them – and get
revenue from users and others to help pay for what you need to do?
At the Summit , you'll get up-to-date: NEW services to sell . . . NEW opportunities for promoting
your building's ultra-broadband to young renters . . . NEW regulations . . . NEW legal issues, and a
NEW look at fnancing broadband for your MDU communities.
Aside from the all-new MDU track , the Summit features in-depth workshops on fnancing MDU builds,
including free access to Broadband Communities' proven fnancial models. Broadband technology
pioneer Richard Holtz will lead a workshop on appropriate technologies for any owner's situation.
We'll also be presenting important new survey research – the largest such study ever, commissioned by
Broadband Communities – on attitudes of building owners and managers about fber. Plus, we've also
commissioned a parallel MDU residents study.
MDUs now need extra upstream bandwidth because
cellular providers are selling phones and tablets that
automatically latch on to residents' Wi-Fi signals. And
separate Wi-Fi systems interfere with each other,
degrading the quality of voice calls. You'll hear about
solutions ranging from Wi-Fi hotspots tied into the
building's backbone network, to distributed antennas,
relays, micro-cells, signal boosters and more – and
which technology is right for your situation, and what
you might be able to charge cellular providers.
Building owners and managers:
MAKING THE CASE FOR FIBER
The MDU market is hot, but the technology and the
needs have changed a lot since the start of the recession.
The triple play? That's old-school in an age of
low-margin conventional video.
Find out
what MDU
managers and
residents
think about
ultra-fast
broadband.
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