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M B. CORPORATE OVERVIEW Our team approach offers you our combined staff resources and expertise in conducting this type of Study. In this proposal, we provide details on the experiences, references, and resources of our firm. The train members bring direct and current experience reflecting leading edge technology and business practiccs. The methodology that we have proposed for this project is complete in its understanding of the project requirements, yet provides numerous opportunities for regular communications between Saint Anthony Village and team members as well as the flexibility to incorporate new information into the project when those opportunities occur. We can fully appreciate the unique opportunity you have extended to our team in allowing its to provide our proposal for this project. We bring a cost effective approach that provides both the experience and knowledge of issues related to studying the telecommunications and technology infrastructure and planning for your future needs_ We look forward to assisting Saint Anthony Village with your technology planning efforts. Our commni Imen[ is to help nen• clients succeed in meeting their slrategie goals. Columbia Telecommunications Corporation CTC has served the public sector and the, public inlcrest for oven 22 }ears. CTC provides communications engineering and public analysis consulting services for public sector and non -proiil Ghouls throughout the United States, Since 1953, we have provided wide-ranging communications engineering and consulting services for hundreds of ctients around tine country. All CTC Principal Engineers hold a professional engilreering license. Our senior staff averages more than 25 years experience in evaluation and design of As a woman -owned communications systems ranging from municipal networks to wireless facilities. �� ..�. �� All engineering work is performed by or under the direction of licensed company, y, Professional Engineers. minority business CTC has incomparable experience with engineering issues regarding broadband enterprise status in availability and open access broadband systems to serve the public interest. Since the open access issue first came to (lie fore in the 1990s, CTC has served numerous states, as the premiere engineering firm advising the public interest community and local governments regarding the engineering issues of broadband open access -- and the ways in which closed systems call be used by industry to manipulate and monitor user transmissions. In the past five years, CTC has advised the communities of Los Angeles, Montgomery County, MD, and Arlington County, VA regarding engineering means by which open access can be achieved over broadband cable. We advised the City of Philadelphia regarding the technical capability of other technologies to compete with cable broadband. Our engineers conceived, negotiated, and designed a "separate channels" open access solution for Arlington County's Institutional Network ---a truly open access environment in which the cable company cannot manipulate or monitor. We then oversaw implementation of that network, which is currently used to address digital divide issues by granting access to County school students whose eligibility is determined by school -lunch program participation. In addition, CTC has for a number of years advised a range of public interest groups regarding the engineering issues inherent in open access implementation, including, most recently, by writing a report for the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and the ACLU that served as the technical basis 10