Pittsylvania County January 2022 BOS MeetingROB TAYLOR –BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MGR
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY -BEP & VATI 2022 OVERVIEW
JANUARY 18, 2022
WILKES TELEPHONE MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION
A member owned broadband cooperative established in 1951
Headquarters located in Wilkes County, NC
Approximately 30,000 accounts –23,000 North Carolina and 7,000 in Virginia
Over $146M in Assets, $56M in Annual Revenues and over 210 employees
RIVERSTREET NETWORKS
A wholly owned for profit subsidiary of Wilkes TMC
Serves customers in five states –NC, VA, SC, GA, and TN
Our sole focus is serving unserved and underserved areas that lack high speed Internet access at
affordable rates
WHO WE ARE
REVERSE AUCTION –Companies bid for support against each other for who will do it for the least
amount of that support –each round that passes the support is reduced until one company is left
FCC CAF II AUCTION –Connect America Fund (CAF) Reverse Auction –a federal funding mechanism
FCC RDOF ROUND I AUCTION –Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Auction Round I of II
FTTH –Fiber To The Home –high speed internet delivered over fiber optic cables
BROADBAND –FCC Defines service that is 25/3 or greater –25Mbps downstream / 3Mbps upstream
UNSERVED AREAS –Locations that do not have access to internet service of speeds of 25/3
CENSUS BLOCK GROUP –Minimum geographic area eligible to bid on in FCC auctions and consist of
census blocks
CENSUS BLOCKS –Minimum geographic area that is funded –includes all locations in the block
LOCATION –A home, business, or lots/parcels with habitable structures from 2011 Census
HELPFUL TERMS
BROADBAND EXPANSION PLAN
(OVERVIEW)
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY –BEP
INDEX
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY -BEP
FCC 477 REPORTING
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY -BEP
Book Page 9
FCC –RDOF
(RURAL DIGITAL OPPORTUNITY FUND)
$20.4B IN TWO AUCTIONS
Phase I ($16B) -Awarded $9.2B -2021
Note: $6.8B carried to next phase
Phase II ($11.2B) -Auction Date Not Scheduled
FCC -RURAL DIGITAL OPPORTUNITY FUND (RDOF) PHASE I
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY 2021 Award Areas –All Providers
https://i3connect.org/auctions/map
RSN
1,162 CENSUS BLOCKS
8,369 LOCATIONS
$7,672,070 10 YR SUPPORT
$916.68 PER
MEC
1 CENSUS BLOCK
2 LOCATIONS
$1,470 10 YR SUPPORT
$735 PER
Book Page 24
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY -BEP
SAMPLE TIMELINE (60 Months)
ENGINEERING PLAN AND DESIGN TOTAL PROJECT COST
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY -BEP
(BACKBONE ONLY)
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY -BEP
(BACKBONE to FTTH)
EAST
VATI APPLICATIONS 2022
•Six Counties; Amelia, Bedford, Campbell, Charlotte,
Pittsylvania, Nottoway
•Two VACO Regions; Region 4, Region 10
•Two GO Virginia Regions; Region 2, Region 3
•Two Congressional Districts; District 5, District 7
•Three PDC Regions
•West Piedmont –Pittsylvania
•Region 2000–Bedford, Campbell
•Commonwealth –Amelia, Charlotte, Nottoway
WP PDC East Application Areas
VA DHCD –Virginia Department of Housing & Community Development is the state agency that
oversees and administers the VATI Grants
VATI –Virginia Telecommunication Initiative is the grant mechanism that provides funding to extend
broadband services to unserved and underserved areas of the Commonwealth.
PDC -Planning District Commission applicant and administrator of the awards, overseeing the
distribution of VATI funds to RiverStreet (West Piedmont PDC -East and West Applications)
VATI HELPFUL TERMS
WP PDC EAST APPLICATION
WP PDC –EAST VATI APPLICATION LOCATIONS
SpaceX AWARD
PROJECT AREA
CAF AWARD
PROJECT AREA
RDOF AWARD
PROJECT AREA
WP PDC EAST
VATI APPLICATION
RSN
RDOF I AUCTION
WITH SPACEX
& UNFUNDED FTTH PROJECT
24,641
RSN RDOF –
14,580
SPACEX –651
UNFUNDED –
9,410
CAF II LOCATIONS
TO BE LEVERAGED
5,764
UNFUNDED
PROJECT AREA
WP PDC –EAST VATI APPLICATION PROPOSED FIBER ROUTES
WP PDC EAST APPLICATION FUNDING SOURCES
Local Funds –COUNTY $27,948,766 18%
State Funds -VATI $87,003,888 55%
RDOF I (YEARS 1 –3)$5,499,463 3%
RDOF I (YEARS 4 –10)$12,830,081 8%
RSN Matching Funds -Cash / Loan $24,642,5000 16%
$157,924,698 100.0%
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY –CAF II & VATI APPLICATION LOCATIONS
CAF AWARD
PROJECT AREA
RDOF AWARD
PROJECT AREA
CAFF II & VATI
APPLICATION
LOCATIONS PASSED
BY RSN FTTH PLAN
TOTAL -14,397
RSN RDOF –8,369
UNFUNDED –3,616
CAF II -2,412
UNFUNDED
PROJECT AREA
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VATI 2022 APPLICATION
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY CAF II
Federal Funds -CAF II $4,056,552 39.8%
Federal Funds -ARP $0 0.0%
State Funds -VATI $0 0.0%
Local Funds Phase $0 0.0%
RSN Matching Funds -Cash / Loan $6,125,940 60.2%
$10,182,492 100.0%
Federal Funds –RDOF I (years 1 -3)$2,301,619 3.0%
Local Funds –ARP $16,528,939 21.8%
State Funds -VATI $39,510,529 52.2%
RSN Matching Funds –RDOF 1 (years 4 –10)$5,370,445 7.1%
RSN Matching Funds –Installation (40% Take)$11,985,000 15.9%
$75,696,532 100.0%
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