From: "William Murphy" To: "Jeffrey Epstein" <[email protected]> Cc: ' " , "William Murphy" Subject: Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:22:09 +0000 Attachments: ChoiceCommServiceProposal.doc; J_Epstein_St_Thomas_3M.pdf: J_Epstein_St_Thomas_6M.pdf Last September, we brought consultants from the communications company we use in New Mexico to Little St James for a site survey. The purpose was to determine the best means of improving data delivery for our users in St Thomas and LSJ. To date, there have been several inquiries made to bandwidth vendors in St Thomas with none of them offering any rates better than $1000 per megabit (MB). I spoke to Richard Boltz (from the NM Communications Company) today and he summarized our issue in this fashion: Last mile using physical infrastructure (copper/fiber) will require Innovative. Last mile services wirelessly will most likely be delivered through Broadband VI. There are regular power issues at the Caprita point location where the equipment we need to deliver voice and data to LSJ fails and service is interrupted. At the Wireless Consortium in Vegas earlier this year, Richard made contact with CommNet who were interested in delivering broadband services to St Croix. They were hoping to use LSJ as a relay in delivering bandwidth to St Croix. Our cost for this project was extremely high as we were looking to implement WiMax on LSJ. WiMax devices currently cost substantially more than WiFi devices and have yet to be an accepted standard in the US. CommNet has recently contacted Richard to see if we are still interested in a partnership of sorts. I have attached the estimates that we have received from Sprint for increased bandwidth. These quotes are for bonded T Is delivered to Caprita Point. ATT had verbally committed to being able to deliver 10Mbps to LSJ. When we pressed them for a commitment, they claimed they would not be able to deliver their initial proposal because of lagging infrastructure upgrades i