City of Portsmouth, New Hampshire Cable and Broadband Internet Commission, 18 Jan 2023

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1.11.2023 Cable Television and Communications Committee

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um All right, thank you. Cynthia you're welcome very great, so I said there isn't that much under the.

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Public session, if you just want to move through those items, right we'll call the community order.

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um uh Approval of the uh the minutes for both the october and november meeting uh what I was.

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Thinking is so just for the recording, if you want to do a kind of roll call, uh rob caton sure member.

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Stephanie secord guests, public information officer, hey it's.

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Suzanne woodland, deputy city manager, that's okay,.

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uh Okay, so that that's like one uh second item on the analys approval of uh october.

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And november meetings moved to accept minutes as reported okay, okay, all right.

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Patents all right um and then, following up on the propose changes to the mission of the cable.

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Commission and as you all know, on monday night, the city council moved to pass second reading.

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And schedule third final reading for the next city council meeting. um They did point out that.

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There is one sort of typographical uh edit we might want to make, which I can go ahead and do.

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For third and final, which is just fix, the name of the committee in that one paragraph, so I'm.

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Happy to do that and make sure that gets to the city clerk's office for the final reading, so.

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uh It will be january 23rd.

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At the same time, 7 p.m. That's correct! Yes, and I'm dedicated until our event comes up yeah, whatever.

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Whatever happens, sorry, it was just one of those cases where I didn't have something completed.

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Or for what it's worth? Third and final is normally for luxury, the sense that they may.

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Just stop on the agenda they're in the bible, they're all happy with it pocket goes like.

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This in three minutes we're done and they're not asking for any comments or questions. So that's.

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The good news is like I said they seem to be quite supportive of it. Should change so, um but yeah be.

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Good if you're there just in case something comes up but yeah, and I I guess my thought too, is okay.

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That's normally, but the fact that they have not had a chance to talk with us if you ever previous.

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Two readings I wouldn't put it I'd, be happy to answer in the past the norm and what I will do.

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Is I will check with the the mayor, uh the city manager and see what they'd, like the other pieces.

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We make I'm slump you into the public comment session right into, which is normal right at the.

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Beginning so you could say here on the cable commission. Your third and final consideration.

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That might work too, that's good, because that kind of gets you in early sure, yeah.

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Yeah so, okay I'll put that on my list.

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Because it's help people.

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Yeah, so I I just get ready to get a meeting scheduled with att, so.

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We just needed to come and get past the holidays, so I would say, let's see when that gets scheduled and what we learn and understand from that meeting.

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And that might inform that your next, you know steps after that, but we're working on that. So yes,.

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And then, as far as other, because I think there are, while the verizon 18t are the two alpha invaded.

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Market, but there are others too, like I don't know if it's worth a t-mobile t-mobile and I don't know.

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But I honestly don't even know as far as what our coverage looks like and we can start also kicked.

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Around on the possibility of like a coverage, maps or trying to figure out, you know what.

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um How best to address the tax versus what people are saying as far as coverage issues.

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I don't know long, I think it's more just bringing it up not having any solutions.

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uh Which I eat but like there's something to be like basically say you know that obviously.

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We're going to be addressing coverage issues, it'd be good for us to somehow know.

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Where she's might be in a more scientific way identified, you know issue areas right. Thank you.

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Man- I don't know, I don't know how we would do that. I guess I mean that that would have.

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To be done by you know, each other providers, engineering team with their antenna on their car.

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um Tracking their own signal, but they do that's how they do it now at tnt, does badly having.

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Colored antenna, they probably sort of detracted, decibel uh the signal level um about how they pack.

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It so they'll, probably if we ask them to do that, they would do it around the ultimate. If we tell.

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Them those are problem areas throughout there to see broadband signals. So the first thing I would.

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Suggest is: is it possibility from the town a list of all the cell towers that are in city.

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Limits and who the carriers are that use those numbers. I don't think we have such a list honestly.

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um And I'm trying to think how we like generate. You know we may informally.

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No though we would say, okay, here's so we need to think about contact um and then the other comment.

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I would make so setting that aside for a moment. The other comment I would make, instead of getting.

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Right to you know having to do coverage mouse. I would just suggest an introductory meeting with.

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The list of people where it's set up just like we did with verizon, you know where we say: hey.

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This is what we're hearing you know, informally tell us about your challenges. What's going on.

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And then from there maybe we decided we asked some important more details. I could coverage numbers.

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uh My fear is, they will just give you the generic one that you finally get better.

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Right, absolutely yeah and- and that's fine, I think, if we go, my opinion is that I kind of.

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Ask for the meeting with the stuff in advance they may feel like. Oh I'm going to be brought.

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Up before the grill, I think our intent here is really want to tell us about your challenges and.

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We'll tell you what we're hearing and what do we think we can do about it if anything, right.

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Some of the areas you already know, if you just tell them you know you have plans to address.

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Those areas as well so well, I think, we've done that. I mean we have pretty good information on.

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Verizon and that helped inform the conversation and they revelated that they, you know there were.

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Areas that they were working on and already had a plan for revenue cell service, and I think we.

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Informally, the last meeting had a conversation that we're hearing the same, maybe not quite to.

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The same degree with att customers and I think we could do an introductory picking up on your theme.

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um Communication to say some of the other, smaller carriers and most of the carriers.

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Are servicing here? I think we can get a wrong idea. You know the couple other carriers that.

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Have any kind of significant number of customers here? That's true to mobile is big and we could.

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Just do a hey we'd like to: could you send a representative to a meeting yeah kind of what.

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You're hearing what your challenge has already said, that it was interesting horizon about.

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It was interesting to hear about their challenges, yeah and what they were doing about it. Yeah.

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So that being said, I think you know we're using the 80 20 approval verizon being.

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The largest semi, since we have the first meeting att's, probably number two, but it.

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That, maybe that consist of that list of who provides here yeah, let me see if I can find.

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It maybe they know on the public organs side, they may have a better understanding.

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I've just never seen such a list, but people may informally you know permitting. So you.

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Would require that permanent stockbridge tower trade, but the towers may not be owned by them.

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Understood so so you couldn't easily do it and or like it, and sometimes they have stuff on buildings.

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Sections of the town yeah exactly so the falls yeah.

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Yeah so I'll see I'll put that on my list to see what I can find for who the carriers are. Okay,.

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That's pretty good.

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Yeah, I think that makes sense that just the next meeting with the att and see how it goes.

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In the next question it may be related to this, but I want to kind of get it on the agenda, which is to.

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uh Suggests the idea of changes, maybe to the city website, concerning our commission to.

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Provide some more information about what we're trying to do right now.

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Investigated out there on the website that we're interested in your thoughts and comments.

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Well, that's perfect, because stephanie's here and she's the person I would work with um to help make.

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Changes to the website, so my suggestion is, um will make those make some updates after the 23rd after.

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We get our final reading and maybe stephanie's often good about kind of mocking something up, but.

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Not releasing it public and maybe we can find a way to review that with one or more of you.

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To look at our mock-up of a new, updated page: does that work for you? Yes, absolutely yeah.

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Comments in the comment section: um it's it's a little tricky. We don't have.

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What I've done on other pages is our our two-way communications with cities, primarily mailchimp.

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Because that's what the city newsletter is on and all of the individual dpw projects have their own.

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Page have a mailchimp list, that is p, that is comprised for people who are interested in.

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That project mailchimp also allows us to have a feedback area. It's just a simple open-ended.

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Comments if you'd like to give us some information, if you'd like to ask a question.

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If you have a concern anything like that, it's the language that we set up for the box, that's.

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Just fill in the black, the good thing about that is that anyone who fills out uh asks a.

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Question that has a comment whatever becomes part of the specific. In this case, commission.

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Mailchimp list so that then you're building some two-way communication with your folks.

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So that it's super easy to do it doesn't cost you anything it comes. It adds easily to the webpage.

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Or feedback, so when does this go? That then comes basically to me first and.

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Then I forwarded it to whomever you want to designate on a video or to suzanne or.

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If you guys, no, I'm assuming that these points would be like a forum posts, yeah, okay, good yeah,.

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The first person that comes to, and then I can either compile them, send them to you as they come.

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In, however, it works yes question on the web page. Would it be difficult or hard for our meetings.

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To publish on okay when the vaccine is that's, let's see it's actually built into the website.

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Today, awesome.

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Yes, so the idea of the meeting since the liquid the youtube link to the meeting as well yeah.

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It's they built something less as well as your minutes.

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Mind you they're all on the website now they're, just not in the content, description.

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That a lot of people that might be more interested in what we have, what we're doing in 99.

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Under other business, I have one other item, yes yeah, so we move on to.

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Everyone who wanted other business- yes, okay, this is um so I did reach out to ppm tv.

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um Extending your invitation to have a conversation with them. That's maybe needed either.

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um We're generally something that is public or if it is relative specific to.

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The franchise renegotiation, um and so uh they will probably take us up on the order, offer.

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At some point they weren't ready for tonight, but um I told them it was an open invitation.

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And they just need to, let me let me know, and we would get them here for our conversation.

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um Like I said, depending on the nature of their topic, which I get met with them,.

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Whether it be in public or non-public, if it's very specific to franchise and legal advice,.

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Do have somewhere on zoom. If you want to check to see, I can, I can start putting in a couple.

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Of comment sections, so I'm sorry the so the person who is in before we do that. I want to.

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Move that we add to the agenda over the comment section: okay and we'll do that going forward.

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And so um as in there last name is vaughn, you have any, uh you have to let them speak yeah.

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Yeah, they don't not show the microphone so maybe they're just listening.

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Well, just assume sorry if we it's secure, but we're gonna assume that your district lesson.

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So all right um at this point, I think we are now reaching point where we're.

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Going to close those meetings in public uh in the discussion of our financials.

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Okay, so you would want a motion to move into notes. I'm looking to enter into a closing second.