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Leveraging city assets for telecommunications equipment
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Brett Sikoff discusses the aspect of leveraging city assets from the Internet Master Plan that is still being considered. He explains the recent request for information to explore using public infrastructure for digital equity purposes.
- Sikoff mentions cataloging potentially available sites for telecommunications equipment on city facilities
- He notes that a recent request for information was published to gather input on using public infrastructure
- This aspect of the Internet Master Plan is presented as still relevant to current efforts
Brett Sikoff
1:39:11
Yeah.
1:39:11
One in particular comes to mind, is leveraging city assets.
1:39:15
So whether it's city buildings or other types of public infrastructure, that's certainly an area that was referenced in the Internet Master Plan, and there was an extensive engagement with city agencies at the time to catalog those potentially available sites where whether it's fiber provider or a wireless carrier can site telecommunications equipment on city facilities.
1:39:39
So that's one of the reasons why we recently published a request for information, which is also referenced in roadmap, which puts out a request for information from tech companies, the general public, elected officials, community boards, wide range of potential respondents to so we can learn how best to use public infrastructure to serve the public for digital equity purposes.
1:40:04
So that's just the one thing that comes to mind, but there are certainly other elements of it that are worth considering.
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