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3. d - CC JANUARY 13, 2015 Page 1 of 14 Visioning Session COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX • Execulink’s Roll in the County • SWIFT Project Overview • What SWIFT’s Consultants Have Said • Execulink’s View of SWIFT • SWIFT Next Steps Ian Stevens, P.Eng, MSc. President and CEO

3. d - CC JANUARY 13, 2015 Page 2 of 14 Visioning Session EXECULINK’S ROLL IN MIDDLESEX – INTERNET, VIDEO and VOICE 2

3. d - CC JANUARY 13, 2015 Page 3 of 14 Visioning Session EXECULINK’S ROLL IN MIDDLESEX – FIXED WIRELESS

3. d - CC JANUARY 13, 2015 Page 4 of 14 Visioning Session MELROSE A FIBRE CONNECTED COMMUNITY EXECULINK’s ROLL IN MIDDLESEX – FIBER TO THE HOME Based upon demand, we will bring fibre to the homes in Melrose

3. d - CC JANUARY 13, 2015 Page 5 of 14 Visioning Session EXECULINK’S ROLL IN MIDDLESEX – CONNECTING 150 Federal High Speed Funding Project Fiber to the Home Request for • Poplar Hill • • Coldstream • Lobo Denfield • Carlisle • Upgrades majority of Middlesex Towers • 5

3. d - CC JANUARY 13, 2015 Page 6 of 14 Visioning Session SWIFT OVERVIEW – BRINGING FIBER TO MIDDLESEX’s TOWNS SWIFT identified the following Middlesex communities to bring POPs to. London Thames Lucan • • • • Ailsa Craig Center • Delaware • Parkhill • Thorndale • Ilderton Appin Dorchester Strathroy • • • Glencoe Granton Newbury • • • All but Appin already have more than 1 RAN provider with Fibre in the community 8

3. d - CC JANUARY 13, 2015 Page 7 of 14 Visioning Session SWIFT’S OWN CONSULTANT HAS SAID “[Though the Alberta] SuperNet has points of presence in more than 400 communities in the province, a universal fee structure designed for affordability, and offers high quality, high reliability connectivity between the last mile and the internet backbone … broadband service to rural Alberta residents did not improve once the SuperNet was operational.” Professor Catherine Middleton, Ryerson University 9

3. d - CC JANUARY 13, 2015 Page 8 of 14 Visioning Session EXECULINK’s VIEW OF SWIFT – CRITICAL FLAW SWIFT will not help WOWC meet its goal of last mile fibre to the rate payers Fibre transport facilities are already prevalent throughout SW Ontario & Middlesex Will needlessly duplicate competitive networks that already exist and will waste funding $$$ 11

3. d - CC JANUARY 13, 2015 Page 9 of 14 Visioning Session Feasibility Study 1. Data collected and mapped from providers and users (MUSH sector) 2. Problems identified – SWO has poor broadband in comparison to GTHA – Providers pick broadband winners and losers based on ROI – Very little competition to improve price and service quality 3. SWIFT network is feasible to build – One time NBCF funding, ongoing funding for last mile based on residuals from rates

3. d - CC JANUARY 13, 2015 Page 10 of 14 Visioning Session EXECULINK’s VIEW OF SWIFT – CRITICAL FLAW Execulink will not use the SWIFT network When we invest in a community by building the last mile, it is a 50 year investment, we will not rent facilities for 50 years, we will build it ourselves. If a community already has a fibre to the home provider, we will not compete in that market. It is too expensive to build last mile to not get most of the market share. A competitively available RAN will only ever get one carrier per community. 13

3. d - CC JANUARY 13, 2015 Page 11 of 14 Visioning Session WHERE TO INVEST? Small Tow n Execulink Ontario

3. d - CC JANUARY 13, 2015 Page 12 of 14 Visioning Session WHERE TO INVEST? Small Tow n Execulink Ontario

3. d - CC JANUARY 13, 2015 Page 13 of 14 Visioning Session SWIFT NEXT STEPS “The challenge that the WOWC now faces is in assessing the operational feasibility of the SWIFT model, to understand whether the network will be able to attract a critical mass of users, and realize the promise of increased competition and improved service delivery across the region.” Professor Catherine Middleton, Ryerson University 16

3. d - CC JANUARY 13, 2015 Page 14 of 14 Visioning Session EXECULINK PROPOSAL Given the knowledge and experience of Execulink and 9 other Independent Operators in the region, who have privately built over $125M of Fibre Networks, we don’t understand why the WOWC is so reluctant to heed our sound advice about the SWIFT Network. Don’t build another RAN … it won’t be used Invest in the last mile! 17