BroadBand Means Business On the Central Coast June 27 2017 Monterey Plaza Hotel & Spa 400 Cannery Row Monterey, CA 93940 Tony Cricelli 712 Hawthorne St Monterey CA 93940
History • 1995 Started providing "Internet type" Services • Email • Dial-Up • At least 8 Internet Local Companies, lots of choice! Internet Monterey Bay Mbay Net Monterey Bay Internet Scruz Net Carmel Net Netpipe Ultima Net Monterey Network Center Prodigy AOL Netcom PacBell Internet
History (Continued) • 1999 Started offering DSL to Monterey County • Pac Bell Phone Company • Pac Bell Internet Company • Laws changed ! • Next 10 Years Wasted Competing Against Tax Dollar Subsidized cable and phone companies. • Diversified to offering Consulting, Hosting and Colocation • 2010 Started offer Fixed Wireless Internet to Underserved Areas • 2017 Still serving areas ignored by cable/phone companies and State and Federal Governments
Red Shift is Invested In Local Economy • 14 Employees • Half In Monterey • Half In Marina • We all shop, eat, pay rent, etc.. local. We are a CA corporation • Certified Green • Continuing to build green broadband relays • Involved in Community, Some of the local non-profits we directly support: • Rice Plus Project • Boy and Girls Club • Prunedale Educational Association • Interfaith Homeless Emergency Lodging Program • Cannery Row Foundation • Salinas PAL • The Panetta Institute • Ag and Land-Based Training Assoc. (ALBA)
Red Shift Provided Free Hosting to Local Non-Profits • Ag and Land-Based Training Assoc (ALBA) • Monterey County SPCA • Aromas Community Grange • Monterey Bay Kids • Cannery Row Foundation • Monterey Peninsula FlyCasters • Carmel High School Athletic Boosters • Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club • Carmel Public Library Foundation • NCF Foundation • Carmel Valley Ranchers Days • Pacific Repertory Theatre • Carmel Valley Trail & Saddle Club, Inc • Panther Youth Sports • Community Human Services • Prunedale Educational Association • Computer House • Rats to Riches • Salinas Area Modelers • Feast of Lanterns • Salinas PAL • First Night Monterey • San Carlos Church • Foundation for Photographic Preservation • Seaside Chamber of Commerce • Helping Our Peninsula's Environment (HOPE) • Sons of the American Revolution • Hide 'N Seek • St. Angela's Children's Center • Hollister SDA Church • St. Mary's by the Sea • I Cantori di Carmel • St. Peter's Holy Catholic Church • Interfaith Homeless Emergency Lodging • The Village Project Inc Program • Troop 60 • King City Union School District • United Nations Association of the USA • LULAC Councel #2055 • WILPF Monterey County • MBUG • Monterey and Salinas Valley Model Railroad and Historical Society (M&SVRR)
Where Are We Now? Source: 2017 results from Berkeley IGS Poll. Prior year results as reported by CETF from surveys conducted by The Field Poll (2014-2016) and the Public Policy Institute of California (2008-2013).
Where Are We Now? • Recent poll finds that 87% of California households report having broadband Internet connectivity at home. (Berkeley IGC Poll 2017) Is this true for Monterey County? • What percentage of Big Sur kids have broadband access at home? • What about the hundreds of homes up Palo Colorado Canyon Rd? • Why aren't all Internet companies fighting each other for that business?
What is the reason ? • Corporate stock holders? • Government regulations or lack of regulations? • Will prices go down if : • Comcast purchases Charter? • ATT purchases Time Warner? • Government "funds" geared towards dealing with billion dollar corporations and lobbyist …
Recent Success Stories Wireless Broadband to: Otto Construction - VA Clinic Gonzales City Government Santa Lucia Preserve Bonnie Dunes Elkhorn Slew Bay Ridge Camphora Farmworker Housing Soledad Correctional Facility Housing We bring broadband to neglected markets without subsidies! (but willing to accept help to speed up deployments J )
Moving Forward • Red Shift is committed to serving ignored Monterey County Areas • Ensure remote locations, like Oak Hills, Monterey Dunes, Soledad , Green Field and King City have high speed connectivity • Continue to rely on on eco-friendly, resilient, sustainable, technologies like solar and wind • Continue to build partnerships with Monterey Businesses and Governments
BroadBand Means Business On the Central Coast Thank you! Tony Cricelli 712 Hawthorne St Monterey CA 93940
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