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CenterFuse Broadband Feasibility Report Verizon says that broadband speeds average from 5 — 12 Mbps download and 2—5 Mbps upload. If a customer refuses to pay the overage charges and doesn't buy additional broadband, Verizon throttles broadband to a crawl once the start of the next monthly cycle. T-Mobile. T-Mobile has six hotspot pricing plans based upon the monthly data usage. The 2 GB plan is $10. The 6 GB plan is $25,the 10 GB plan is $40, the 14 GB plan is $55,the 18 GB plan is $70, and the 22 GB plan is $85. Each plan offers a $5 discount for customers who authorize autopay. The killer with this plan is that speeds revert to 3G speeds when the cap has been met. The plans also include unlimited texting. It's worth noting that T-Mobile will offer a plan that provides 100 GB of monthly data to qualified students for the next 5 years as one of the promises made to merge with Sprint. We don't yet know the definition of eligible households, but the company estimated that it would eventually reach 10 million students. AT&T. AT&T has three hotspot plans. That includes 3 GB of data for$25, 10 GB of data for $50, and 18 GB of data for$75. The overage data prices range from $10 for 1 GB with the $25 dollar plan to $10 for 2 extra GB with the 18 GB plan. These hotspots are some of the most expensive broadband in the world. You have to look at third world countries to see similarly high data prices. • Verizon plans range from $3.75 to $6.00 per gigabyte. Additional gigabytes are $10 each. • T-Mobile data prices range from $3.86 to $5 per gigabyte. After hitting the data cap, the company throttles customers rather than provide more expensive data. • AT&T hotspots are the most expensive and range between $4.16 and $8.22 per gigabyte. Extra gigabytes on AT&T range between $5 and $10 per gigabyte. Long-Haul Fiber/Internet Bandwidth Long-haul fiber is fiber that reaches between communities and across the country. Long-haul fiber is used primarily to connect ISPs to the Internet or to provide the long-haul transmission of data to other locations such as large businesses, data centers, universities, etc. In the past, long-haul fiber largely bypassed Ellensburg. There has been a fiber connection for many years to the university. Consolidated and Charter have had a connection to the internet for many years. There are multiple fibers built along Interstate 90 that are operated by almost every long-haul ISP imaginable including Verizon, AT&T, CenturyLink, and Level 3, along with numerous smaller providers like Zayo and NoaNet. When the city wanted to provide broadband to city buildings it found that it wasn't cheap or easy to get a connection to the Internet. The city constructed a POP(point-of- presence) near the Interstate and persuaded a few ISPs to provide a connection to the long-haul fiber network. City Fiber subsequently has created a second fiber path to Portland along US 97. It is the only ISP in the city to do so and the other ISPs connect only to Seattle. We perceive this lack of fiber diversity as a big risk for the city. The city is vulnerable to a major fiber cut to the west since the city would lose Internet for everybody not connected to City Fiber. A major fiber cut for an event like an earthquake could cut off Internet access every Internet customer not Page 60