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SUCCESSFUL REGIONAL PROJECTS

John Honker – CEO, Magellan Advisors

Brett Lindsay – COO, OneCommunity

Hunter Newby – CEO, Allied Fiber

Mark DeFalco – Manager, Appalachian Regional Commission

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ENABLING GIGABIT BROADBAND FOR COMMUNITIES NATIONWIDE

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OneCommunity Network

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Bring the opportunity to local

communities

• 25% match for fiber deployment

• Held discovery day sessions to help educate civic leaders

• Entice communities to act versus waiting for them to issue RFPs on their own

• Open to a multitude of public/private models for operating the network

2014 Program

2014 Big Gig Winners

W. 25th Corridor • Utilize the funding to create a fiber network covering 900+ properties including 14 available development

sites

• Five communities within the city of Cleveland involved - Ohio City, Tremont, Clark-Fulton, Brooklyn

Centre and Old Brooklyn.

• 4 miles of underground and aerial construction, 144 count fiber, $150K investment

Village of Glenwillow • New fiber network connecting its municipal operations sites and city-owned properties as well as targeted

business and industrial parks

• Project incorporates partnerships with three private sector business owners and land developers

• 1.5 miles of aerial and underground construction, 144 count fiber, $90K investment

Lorain County Community College • Strategy to increase to an already-completed network as a previous sub recipient under our BTOP grant

through the creation of a community fiber road map for the area around the college

• Identification of three pilot programs to uncover new opportunities for fiber applications to inspire further

growth

• Planned investment of $175K over the next two years.

• Hosting a celebration to provide an overview of the successful 2014 projects as the kickoff for the 2015 program

• Moved our process to an online portal for submission of LOIs by interested parties making it easier and less intimidating

• Keeping our commitment for available matching funds consistent at $2M

Health-Tech Corridor Project

• $1M 100 Gigabit Network project

• Partnership between OneCommunity ($100K), City of Cleveland ($200K), Federal Economic Development Agency ($700K), Ideastream and Case Western Reserve University

• 3.5 miles of aerial construction and installation of Juniper 100 Gig equipment in two existing node sites

Launched For Profit Subsidiary

Desired to bring more competition to

the market

• Tripled our sales staff

• Driving more than 70% of all new customer acquisition

• Assigned sales resource to each targeted community and associated chamber

• Partnered with regional economic development (ED) organizations to help with business attraction

• Benefits from our OneCommunity infrastructure grant programs