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Foreword <br />The City of Saint Anthony Village, Minnesota (Saint Anthony Village) is <br />considering offering broadband connectivity . services 'to businesses and <br />residences in the community. In order to assess the potential of this opportunity, <br />Saint Anthony Village contracted with Columbia Telecommunications Corporation <br />(CTC) to investigate the financial and operational feasibility of developing a <br />broadband enterprise. <br />Connectivity Objectives <br />To assist in the study development, two key objectives were developed by the <br />project team (consultant and City staff). <br />1. The City of Saint Anthony Village seeks to enhance community <br />development in the city by promoting the demand and affordability of high- <br />speed and broadband. data connectivity. <br />2. The City of Saint Anthony Village seeks to enhance the operations and <br />applications available to public safety and public works. <br />The City's visions to reach this objective include, but are not limited to, the <br />following: <br />1. Saint Anthony Village is a community where enhancing the quality of life, <br />having open and accessible green space, efficient public safety operations, <br />and allowing all people to have an equal opportunity to access high-speed <br />connectivity throughout the entire community at all times; and <br />2. Saint Anthony Village is a community -wide Internet hot spot that will <br />enhance the local economy of the residential and small businesses <br />communities. <br />The goals to reach this objective include: <br />1. Advance the community's and the region's connectivity options. <br />2. Enable applications and other public services to support expanded public <br />safety and public works initiatives (video monitoring, remote access, AMR, <br />GIS, other). <br />3. Facilitate the ability to offer a high-speed alternative priced to compete <br />with dial-up services. <br />® Residential (under $25 per month) <br />® Small Business (under $30 per month) <br />4-. increase awareness of the benefits of high-speed access. <br />5. Recognize and support the benefits of high-speed mobile and . portable <br />connectivity via wireless technologies. <br />