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In the integrity and independence of the
enlightened individual lies the hope of the
nation A.J Fletcher Founder Capitol Broadcasting
Company
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National Broadband Plan

• Spur Innovation
• More broadband access
• Faster speeds
• Connect rural America
• Create more competition
• Better prices

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Spectrum Crisis Numbers

• Cisco forecasts mobile video will account for
  52.8 of all mobile data traffic in 2011.
• Mobile video will more than double every year
  between 2010 and 2015.
• Mobile video will account for 66 of all mobile
  data traffic by 2014.

Cisco -- Visual Networking Index
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Current Broadband Plan
The Economic Side

• Reduces competition/expands power of 4
  gatekeepers
• Creates an environment where the Government is
  picking winners and losers
• Harms tens of millions of Americans who utilize
  OTA on one or more TVs
• Most Importantly Short changes by billions
  spectrum value
• Allows time for demand side to outgrow supply
  side
• Creates a truly open and free market auction for
  120 MHZ

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Not Good
Just four (4) companies control over 90 of all
mobile connectivity in the United States.
Chetan Sharma Consulting
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Current Broadband Plan
The Spectrum Side

• Provides a short term solution to a long term
  problem
• Does not fix the problem it puts a band aid on
  it
• Creates a 10 year revolving door spectrum crisis
• Handcuffs our country in competition with other
  countries addressing the problem appropriately
• Mobile data traffic is projected to increase 35X
  in the next few years, ten times faster than the
  rate of increase in spectrum coming online for
  mobile broadband
• Chairman Julius Genachowski
• Federal Communications Commission
• NARUC (National Association of Regulatory
  Utilities Commissions) Annual Meeting
• Atlanta, GA
• November 15, 2010

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Current Broadband Plan
The Spectrum Side (Continued)

• Fails to identify and utilize fallow spectrum
• Misses complementary aspects of broadcast and
  broadband for spectrum maximization
• Does not contemplate international harmonization
• It does not address mobile video as primary
  demand driver
• Does not identify how local spectrum will remain
  local
• Most Importantly Does not leverage established
  broadcast infrastructure to help solve problem

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Current Broadband Plan
The Regulatory Side

• Does not contemplate a flexible broadcast
  architecture for the future
• Does not address double standard of broadcast
  straightjacket vs. wireless service providers
• Fails to identify real world harm of involuntary
  repacking
• Most Importantly Does not address broadcast
  industry innovation

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Current Broadband Plan
The new Verizon logo clearly states the end game
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• Broadcasting As Part
• of the Spectrum
• Crisis Solution

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Mobile Networks Are One-to-One
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240 Users Per 4G Transmitter
Assumes no voice or other data usage on the
network.
10Mbps per sector with 3 sectors per
transmitter 30 Mbps total and 384 Kbps video bit
rate NIST LTE Smart Grid 5Mhz Up and 5Mhz Down
Configuration
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Raleigh-Durham Market 2.78 Million People
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Everyone Can Connect
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Raleigh-Durham Market Ratio - 11,583 1
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Dont Take Our Word
Were working with all of our infrastructure
providersto develop the technology to
incorporate a broadcast capability. We think
that will be a solution to this problem down the
road Tony Melone, CTO, Verizon Wireless
Open Mobile Summit November 2010
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• A Better Broadband Plan

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The CBC Plan Step 1

• Timetable Year 1
• Launch Spectrum Inventory Analysis
• Launch Cross Industry Working Group
• Identify immediate opportunities to offload
  wireless broadband bandwidth overload to
  broadcasters utilizing the current mDTV
  technology
• Develop and implement broadcast and wireless
  broadband technology convergent evolution path
• Convergent Evolution a process by which
  unrelated organisms independently acquire similar
  characteristics while evolving in separate
  ecosystems

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The CBC Plan Step 2

• Timetable Years 2 - 4
• Broadcast Technology Evolution
• OFDM based system
• Eliminates adjacent channel interference
  problems!
• Enables 30Mbps-40Mbps throughput (vs. 19.4Mbps)
• Enables SFN layout for wireless broadband offload
• Fixed/Mobile integrated chipsets
• Built on software upgradable standards (LTE)
• Broadcast, Fixed, Mobile, VOD, Datacast

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Broadcast Evolution enables collaborative systems
that shift content on the fly between broadcast
and wireless broadband/unicast
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The CBC Plan Step 3

• Timetable Years 2 - 5
• FCC Holds 380 MHZ of Spectrum Auction
• Broadcast spectrum not included
• 5 year timeline for 330 MHZ met

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The CBC Plan Step 4

• Timetable Years 5-10 Years
• Broadcast Technology Evolution Launched
• Broadcast Stations Repack
• FCC Holds 120MHZ Incentive Auction
• Locally based spectrum licenses only
• Higher value created with multiple bidders as you
  have created an opportunity for both local and
  national players

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The CBC Plan Notes

• Public Interest Obligations Should Be Clear
• Net neutrality on services we provide
• Homeland Security and First Responders priority
  channels are established
• 5 Ancillary and Supplementary
• Government earns revenue from all of the
  additional services billions in revenue

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CBC Amended Broadband Plan

• Meets the 10 Year/500 MHZ goal
• Lowers capital outlay of wireless service
  providers lower consumer prices
• Spurs competition by significantly lowering cost
  of entry
• Does not harm actually HELPS Over The Air
  viewers

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CBC Amended Broadband Plan

• Creates the path to solve the spectrum problem
  long term
• Drives maximum efficiency of broadcast spectrum
  band
• Creates a complimentary broadcast and broadband
  architecture vs. duplicate
• Addresses mobile video as primary spectrum crisis
  driver and utilizes the most established and
  efficient technology (broadcast) to solve problem

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CBC Amended Broadband Plan

• Identifies broadcasting as part of the future
• Creates new innovation opportunities for local
  broadcasters
• It helps broadcasting versus harming it
• Maximizes the value of the spectrum
• Allows time for demand side to outgrow supply
  side
• Creates a truly open and free market auction for
  120 MHZ

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• Discussion