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DEPARTMENTS Editor's Note . . . . . . . 2 Bandwidth Hawk . . . . 6 MarketPlace Ads . . . .103 IN THIS ISSUE Provider Perspective In-N-Out, Off or On, More or Less | 8 By Bryan J. Rader ■ Bandwidth Consulting LLC Could the future of TV be broadband? If college students are the wave of the future, it just may be. Owners Corner TV Dream – or Nightmare? | 10 By Henry Pye ■ RealPage Inc. and Scott Craig ■ Davis Craig & Taylor TV Everywhere will soon be available as a bulk service in some student housing communities. Not all communities will be able to follow suit, however. Property of the Month Coronado Shores, Coronado, Calif. | 12 By Joe Bousquin ■ Broadband Communities DISH Network just installed its first fiber-to-the-home system, retrofitting a condo community near San Diego. Residents have access to DISH programming and high-speed broadband. Municipal FTTH Deployment Snapshot Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) | 16 Since its founding in 2005, UTOPIA has faced business, technical and political challenges. Today, it is expanding its open-access FTTH network and opening up new growth opportunities for its member cities. 2012 Summit Coverage Small Telcos, Municipal Systems Dominate New FTTH Builds | 78 By Steven S. Ross ■ Broadband Communities Te latest industry statistics from RVA's Michael Render show there is still life after FiOS. Lessons Learned From Three FTTH Industry Pioneers | 82 By Cheri Beranek ■ Clearfield Deploying FTTH in rural areas is a challenge, but the payoff is great – for the first time, young people can stay in their communities. Summit Perspectives on Community Fiber | 85 A BBC Staff Report Communities tell their stories: New ways to finance, build and use fiber networks. Visit www.bbcmag.com for up-to-the-minute news of broadband trends, technologies and deployments. Follow BROADBAND COMMUNITIES on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ bbcmag for alerts about breaking news items. Table of Contents COVER STORY: Advertiser Index . . . .104 Calendar . . . . . . . . .104 COMMUNITY BROADBAND 117 Models for Community Broadband – and Counting | 20 By Masha Zager ■ Broadband Communities Broadband Communities' annual census of public and public/ private FTTH builds, with an analysis of trends and new models for community broadband. Building an Open-Access Network in a Small City | 30 By Rick Smith ■ City of Cortez In a true pioneering spirit, the city of Cortez, Colo., built a fiber network to support its business community. Public-Public Partnerships: Leveraging Your Neighbor | 34 By John Schultz ■ U-reka Broadband Ventures A consortium of eight Minnesota communities is building a fiber- to-the-home network that shares equipment and a manager with a nearby municipal fiber provider. Lighting San Leandro | 70 By Masha Zager ■ Broadband Communities A San Leandro, Calif., businessman is building a fiber-to-the-busi- ness network through the city's conduits. He – and the city – hope the network will revitalize the city's industrial base. Lessons From Community Broadband Successes | 74 By Christopher Mitchell ■ Institute for Local Self-Reliance Tree municipal fiber success stories offer lessons for communities that hope to follow in their footsteps. 7th Annual Fiber-to-the-Home Primer What Fiber Broadband Can Do for Your Community | 37 Produced by the editors of BROADBAND COMMUNITIES Broadband Policy What Really Keeps People From Using Broadband? | 94 By David Moore ■ Louisiana State Broadband Grant Program and Kirby Goidel ■ Louisiana State University Broadband adoption programs need to focus on the real barriers to adoption. A new survey in Louisiana suggests the answers are more complex than previously thought. MDU Operations Making MDU Broadband Competition Work | 97 By Carl E. Kandutsch ■ Attorney and Richard Price ■ Broadband Consulting Competition at multifamily properties can benefit all parties. Here's how to make it a success. Broadband Apps: Video In the Era of Multiple Screens, Quality Counts | 100 By Steve Day ■ Cheetah Technologies Video providers should care about users' quality of experience – it's a new revenue opportunity. 4 | BROADBAND COMMUNITIES | www.broadbandcommunities.com | MAY/JUNE 2012