COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Regular Meeting Wednesday – July 13, 2022 – 6:30 PM City Hall – Boards and Commissions - Room 1101 301 W. 2nd Street - Austin, TX 78701 Some members of the Community Technology and Telecommunications Commission may be participating by videoconference. The meeting may be viewed online at: http://www.austintexas.gov/page/watch-atxn-live Public comment will be allowed in-person or remotely by telephone. Speakers may only register to speak on an item once either in-person or remotely and will be allowed up to three minutes to provide their comments. Registration no later than noon the day before the meeting is required for remote participation. To register, contact Jesse Rodriguez at jesse.rodriguez@austintexas.gov CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS: Nehemiah Pitts III, Chair Steven Apodaca Cristina Garza Maxine Eiland Nicole Thompson Sophie Gairo Malcolm Yeatts Dave Floyd Jennifer Ramos Sumit DasGupta AGENDA CALL TO ORDER PUBLIC COMMUNICATION: GENERAL The first ten speakers who register to speak no later than noon the day before the meeting will be allowed a three-minute allotment to address their concerns regarding items not posted on the agenda. 1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – June 8, 2022 2. STAFF AND COMMUNITY BRIEFINGS (A member of the public may not address a board at a meeting on an item posted as a briefing) a. Shaping Austin: Racism and Urban Planning (Sam Tedford, Principal Planner, Housing and Planning Department) b. T-Mobile For Government (John Bratcher, Nancy Anderson, and Heath Cox, T- Mobile) 3. NEW BUSINESS (Discussion and Possible Action) a. Commission Discussion on FCC Broadband Standards (Discussion and Action) b. Commission Discussion on the Digital Inclusion Strategic Plan (Discussion and c. Commission Discussion on an Intelligent Infrastructure Resolution (Discussion and Action) Action) 4. COMMISSION UPDATES (Discussion and Possible Action) a. Digital Inclusion, Civic Engagement, and Strategic Technology and Telecom Policy Working Group b. Knowledge, Information, and Data Stewardship Working Group c. Technology, Infrastructure, and Innovation Working Group FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS ADJOURNMENT The City of Austin is committed to compliance with the American with Disabilities Act. Reasonable modifications and equal access to communications will be provided upon request. Meeting locations are planned with wheelchair access. If requiring Sign Language Interpreters or alternative formats, please give notice at least 2 days (48 hours) before the meeting date. Please call Jesse Rodriguez at the Telecommunications and Regulatory Affairs Department, at jesse.rodriguez@austintexas.gov for additional information; TTY users route through Relay Texas at 711. For more information on …
Shaping Austin Racism and Urban Planning Community Technology & Telecommunications Commission July 13, 2022 Sam Tedford, she/they Principal Planner Inclusive Planning Outline Shaping Austin Inheriting Inequality Learning from History Content Warning 3 Shaping Austin Stay Engaged What you’re experiencing as you listen and discuss (physically, emotionally, mentally) Events that you think are connected to the map or neighborhoods discussed in the previous exercise (think about both the highs and lows) How your personal and ancestral histories intersect with this history Any actions that involved the City government. Keep a list of other key players. Is this the End of Austin? How presumptuous. Endings and Beginnings are always the same process. Austin has been around for a long time; only it wasn’t always called Austin…This cultural territory is old. In fact, it is the oldest continually inhabited place in the Americas. The oldest arrow-point ever found in North or South America was found at the Gault archeological site near Round Rock at over 14 thousand years old. The oldest continually inhabited sacred site in the Americas is the Coahuiltecan presence at Spring Lake in San Marcos at 12 thousand years. “Austin” sits in the middle. Instead of thinking about Austin ending, perhaps we should think of something that has been lost, something we are searching for. Instead of Austin, why don’t we call it Loston…[Loston] has been here for thousands of years, and I think it will be for thousands more, but only when people can find themselves historically, politically, and economically as connected with a larger world. How can we connect [Loston] with the end of…inequality? And what will this be the beginning of? It may take a hundred years to find ourselves…We may not see the great change in our lifetime. But this place will be here, long after we are gone. Dr. Tane Ward Finding Loston (2013) Land Acknowledgement We acknowledge, with respect, that the land we are on is the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Tonkawa, Lipan Apache, Ysleta del sur Pueblo, Texas Band of Yaqui Indians, Coahuiltecan, and other indigenous peoples not explicitly stated. It is important to understand the long history that has brought us to reside on the land, and to seek to acknowledge our place within that history. Adapted from the Climate Equity Plan and the research of Celine Rendon and Tane Ward mural by Raul Valdez Enslavement and Colonization of African …
8/3/2022 Leading the evolution of wireless for government [otherwise known as changing all the rules] 1 2 Introductions John Bratcher Government Account Executive, T-Mobile Nancy Anderson Sr. Government Account Executive , T-Mobile Heath Cox Engineer, T-Mobile 8/3/2022 Spectrum is the fuel that drives Enterprise 5G capabilities High-band mmWave (>24 GHz) High capacity, ultrafast, but limited range. Used for dense environments and private networking. Mid Band (1-6 GHz) Enhanced 5G speeds for metro areas. Critical for high bandwidth applications, both fixed and mobile. Low band (<1 GHz) Coverage for wide open spaces. Important for high mobility field applications and IoT sensing. A great 5G network requires ALL spectrum bands Combination of T-Mobile & Sprint spectrum in progress. Capable device required; coverage not available in some areas. 3 4 Why 5G spectrum matters Each spectrum frequency band has its own strengths and limitations. Most organizations require a combination to meet their performance requirements. Low-band Lower speed but wide coverage, can pass through buildings Mid-band A balance between coverage and capacity High-band (mmWave) High-speed, disrupted by barriers, narrow coverage 4 We lead the industry in deploying multi-layer 5G. population covered 20 0 20 0 15 0 10 0 50 0 35 0 30 0 25 0 20 0 15 0 10 0 50 0 ULTRA CAPACITY 5G EXTENDED RANGE 5G T-MOBILE VERIZON AT&T 8/3/2022 high-band (mmWave) dedicated mid-band low-band 5 6 We have a clear and demonstrable lead in 5G. low-band Extended Range 5G: 1.8M sq. miles 315M people covered 5G Nationwide 0.4M sq. miles ~234M people covered 5G Nationwide 1.3M sq. miles ~280M people covered mid-band mmWave Ultra Capacity 5G: 225M people covered Ultra Wideband: 101M people covered 5G Plus: <1M people covered 8/3/2022 We set some big goals for our 5G network, and are exceeding them. EXTENDED RANGE 5G CAPACITY 5G ULTRA Mid-band and Millimeter Wave Sites Combined LTE + 5G 310M 300M people covered by the end of 2021 210M 200M people covered by the end of 2021 4 4 4 estimates for the future of our 5G network 97% of Americans covered by the end of 2022 Bringing 5G to every corner of this country Over 250M covered by the end of 2022 90% of Americans covered by the end of 2023 85K ending Macro sites Thousands of new coverage sites 50K ending Small cells Our Extended Range 5G is the largest in the nation. Area covered for businesses …
