Karen Marshall & Michel Guite Emails III

Marshall, Karen From: Gordon Mathews [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 6:29 PM . To: 'Will Dodge'; Michel Guite; Groschner, Hoiiy Cc: Marshall, Karen Subject: RE: Contract Attachments: VTei VTA Eieot Comm Prop License Joint Effort Version 9 21 Thanks will. In speaking with Michel VTel would still request clarification in Exhibit that any adjustment to the State's base price will not affect afticense Fee currently in place. The suggested addition to Exhibit C, included 'in the attached, is: Gordon Mathews Site Acquisition Vermont lelephone Co., Inc. Mobi1e" E~Mail: waive montel.com . From: will Dodge Sent: Friday, September 28, 2912 4:44 PM To: Michel Guite; 'Groschner, Holly' Cc: 'Marshall, Karen'; Gordon Mathews Subject: RE: Contract Correct: all that happens is that 8 years from now, if VTel -decides to take another site, the VTA is not guaranteeing that the price will be the same as what wetake today. is stated in Section of the agreement, and that cont (which is just a general policy that is being used as a guideline at a fixed point in time). I Holly and I are discussing tweaking to make that point clearer and will recirculate, William 3. Dodge I Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC Director I Energy 8: Telecommunications -- Real Estate, Land Use and Environmental Group Street, PO Box 196 I Burlington, VT @5462-4319.6 Direct: 862-846-8395 I Mobile: 882~324~2114 I Main: 862-863-2375 1 Fax: [email protected] I Admitted in VT, NH Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC is the exclusive member firm For Vermont on' Lex Mandi, the world's leading association of independent law From: Michel Guite Sent: Friday, September 28, 2812 4:37 PM To: Groschner, Holly; will Dodge Cc: [email protected]; Marshall, Karen; Gordon Mathews Subject: RE: Contract Michel Guite President Vermont National.Telephone Co, Inc. 354 River Street E--Mail: ag Fmontel.com Important' Notice This e~mail may contain information that is confidential, privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. It you are not an intended recipient of this e--mail, do not duplicate or redistribute it by any means. 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From: Groschner, Holly [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2912 4:33 PM To: Michel-Guite; [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; Marshall, Karen Subject: RE: Contract Hi Michel, Happy Fridayd W111, are you available by phone? Holly Groschner General Counsel Vermont Te communications Authority [email protected] From: Michel Guite Sent: Friday, September 28, 2912 4:19 PM .To: Holly "Cc: [email protected] Subject: Contract Hi guys; Thanks you For sending the contract, that I am now readingd Looks good ekcept one perhaps small oversight. Ehifi egardifiyg Pi: I understand the intent is the State can change the pre--contract estimated-price, as needed, but the intent is not that the State can change the price agreed, post~contract. May I suggest we add the.fo11owing clarification to appear in both "Exhibit C, Section 3. Pricing," and "Exhibit Michel Guite President Vermont National Telephone Co, Inc. 354 River Street S;3ring1?ield;t Phone: e_ .d Important Notice . - This e-mail may contain information that is confidential, privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not_an intended recipient of-this e~mail, do not duplicate or redistribute it by any means. Please delete it and any attachments and notify the sender that .you have received it in error. Unintended recipients are prohibited from taking action on the basis.of information in this e~mail. E--mai1 messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be intercepted, deleted or intertered with without the knowledge 0% the sender or the intended recipient. If-you are not comfortable with the risks associated with e~mail messages, you may decide not to use e--mail to communicate with Vermont Telephone Company, Inc. Vermont Telephone Company, Inc. reserves the right, to the extent and-under circumstances permitted by applicable law, to retain, monitor and intercept e--mail messages to and from its systems. . Marshall, 'Karen From: -Michel Quite Sent: - Wednesday, October 03, 2012 5:00 PM To: Marshall, Karen; Lofy, Bill Cc: . Miller, Elizabeth; Cempbeil, Chris Subject: RE: presses" tomorrow OK will be there.- Michel Guite President CO: Inc- v' ,te1.co:m From: Marshall, Karen Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 4:28 PM Te: Michel Guite; Allen, Susan; Lofy, Bill Cc: Miller, Elizabeth; Campbell, Chris Subject: presser tomorrow Hi all, - . We aretargeting 2:15 tomorrow for a presser, 109 State Street, Montpelier, floor conference room. 2p briefing session with the Governor in advance. Sue Allen will draft a press release this afternoon, we can circulate and add comments"-and detail to finalize through the evening. Thanks everyone, more to follow. Karen L. Marshall, Chief Connect Vermont, Broadband and Mobile Agency Of Administration I Pavillion Buiiding 10 i eli- Marsheil, Karen From: I Marshali," Karen Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 9:13 PM To: Groschner, Holly Subject: RE: Error Thanks Holly Karen Llvlarshaii Chief Connect Vermont, Broadband and Mobile From: Groschner, .. Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 6:13 PM -- To: Michel Guite; 'Witt Dodge'; Marshail, Karen; Carnpbeii, Chris Cc: Malko, David; 'Peter Van Oot' - Subject: -RE: Error Michei, Veemunications Authority You'ii be delighted to know that have a morning meeting with tomorrow and i'm sure this itemvand how to fix it is on his iist. Vd iike to see it Wiil and can work out something-that keeps the policy separate from the references to the Wei document. in the state poiicy we need to be able to adjust the base price for rent in coming years. But in the license document we eat': certainiy make it ciear that no adjustments of the "Rate Pian" {the state poiioy} affects the License Fee (the applicable rent). I've just explained the issue to Karen, regarding the cross referencing of this VTel license into the pricing poiicy, and "obtained her input. I think we can solve this without referencing the provisions of your license. i appreciate your focus on getting this done. -Holly Groschner Ger-ier-at Counsel From: Michel Guite Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 5:42 PM To: Groschner, Holly; 'Wiil Dodge'; Marshali, Karen; Campbeli, Chris 'Cc: Malko, _David; 'Peter Van Oot' Subject: Error Holly, Chris, Karen, Dave, Good news is the FCC award, and it results from all working together. This email deals with a problem so small i have trouble believing the electricity needed to send it is well spent. - - However this tiny matter has become not-so-tiny, Will reports. Schedul The VTA contract which is generally excellent has a small oversight in it, that stumbled upon. .-it 'inr- . correctlyand. pr-efperly says the VTA can change its prices every year, for any new contracts, or new elements, or new ground space, etc. But this can be read by a third party to mean VTA can change its price for existing contract elements that have been accepted, negotiated, agreed, after contracts are signed. Springfieid, VT 05156 Holly tells Will Schedule 0 can't be changed. I can think of a dozen ways to fix this. For example we can perhaps change the contract language that says Schedule takes precedence over the contract, to instead say Schedule takes precedence except that the intent of the parties is that VTA's right to annually changeprices in Schedule applies before contracts are signed, but notafter contracts are signed. Michel Guite President Vermon.tNationa1 Telephone Co, Inc. 354 River Street Important Notice This e-malt may contain intozrnation that is confidentiai, privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure.' if you are not an intended rectpient of this e~mait, do not oupiicate or redistribute it by any means. detete it and any attachments and notify the sender that you have received it in error. Unintended recipients are prohibited from taking action on the basis of information in this e-maii. . E-mail messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be intercepted, deleted or interfered with without the knowledge of the sender or-the intended recipient. If you are not cornfortabie with the risks associated with e-mail messages, you may decide not to use e-mail to communicate with Vermont Telephone Company, inc. Vermont Tetephone Company, Inc. reserves the right, 't=iithe extent and under circumstances permitted by applicable law, to retain, monitor and intercept e-mail to and from its systems. Marshall, Karen From: Marshali, Karen - Sent: . Thursday, October 04, 2012 7:38 AM To: Michel Guite; Allen, Susan Subject: Re: 901 Auction Hi sue_and Michel. I have a meeting beginning at 9:36 today and will be unavailable until 115 or so. Hope the basics of the press release are ok. I will leave finalize. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 4, 2612, at 6:45 AM, "Michel Guite" <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks Chris. FYI the FCC requirement is for 46 LIE voice on 75 percent of road miles "won"- plus low~speed data. Justin can you confirm? Nonetheless this helps a lot because every piece and year tea.." incremental, and augments the breadth and'survivability of the network. But PLEASE member $2 million is st.$1.5 million. Sent via B1ackBerry by From: "Campbell, Chris" <[email protected]> -Date: wed, 3 Oct 2812 23:31:32 -6468 To: Marshall, Miller, Spaulding, Lofy, Cc: 'Michel Porter, - Subject: RE: 981 Auction Yes, we will.have_the TCS impacted by tomorrow morning. Many congratulations, Michel_to From: Marshall, Karen . Sent: Wednesday, October 83, 2912 3:13 PM To: Miller, Elizabeth; Spaulding, Lofy, Bill Cc; Campbell, Chris; 'Michel Guite'; Porter, James Subject: Auction Attached is a link to a map of the VTEL award areas from the FCC Auction. Essentially, VTEL will extend its wireless 768-MHZ wow network for mobility purposes First, th the ancillary benefit that these installations will also provide more, deeper fixed reless broadband and smart grid coverage. The benefit to Vermont and our mission-to expand cellular is that this-$2M in funding" rough the FCC Mobility Fund will expand cell coverage in several of our target corridor eas. Notably, Orange and Caledonia County} Vtel will have the ability to be both the retail cellular service provider in these areas, well as the_wholesale/ roaming partner for the agreements that they have established with carriers. "only" $2 million, and a single tower on a remote mountain can easily' while these funded areas look like disparate puzzle pieces, they contribute to further completion_ot the entire NOW network puzzle. Additionally, the VTA investment of $866 in the Orange County Fiber-Connector becomes a key infrastructure piece to provide backhaul capacity to wireless installations. . Kudos, Michel, to your_team tor acting so quickly. You are proving the power of small, rural telcos to meet the big challenges of coverage extension. Chris, can we identify/ overlay the specific cell target corridors that this impacts? Thanks Karen L. Marshall Chief Connect Vermont, Broadband and Mobile From: Miller, Elizabeth Sent: Wednesday, October 63,"2612 11:28 AM I To: Spaulding, Jeb; Marshall, Karen; Lofy, Bill Subject: FM: 961 Auction Thought you'd be interested in this good newsm quick with regulatory support; Karen and her team with other support. Liz From: Michel Guite Sent: Wednesday, October 63, 2612 11:22 AM To: Porter, James Cc: Miller, Elizabeth Subject: RE: 961 Auction Thanks For your help on this Jim. It 'made it happen'. Michel Guite President Vermont National Telephone Co, Inc. From: Porter, James Sent: Wednesday, October 63, 2612 11:21 AM To: Michel Guite - Cc: Miller, Elizabeth Subject: RE: 961 Auction Congratulations! From: Michel Guite Sent: Wednesday, October 63, 2612 11:11 AM To: 'Karen Porter, James; Campbell,-Chris; 'Mendelson, Keith'; Diane Guite; 'Charlie Davenport'; 'Kimberly Gates' Cc: Sharon Combes--Farr; Sam Coleman; Fran Stocker; 'will Dodge'; 'Peter Van Got'; Nancy Malmquist 'John Marshall' Subject: Fw: 961 Auction - - Good morning, Good news (I hope) is that we were today successful in FCC Auction 961results to bring more mobile voice, using 766 MHZ, to 941 miles of Vermont unwserved roads, at an average VTel cost of $2,184/mile. The award is $2,655,684. 38 of 56 bidders in the auction-won something. . . The FCC had showed Vermont with 1,166 miles of un--served roads, representing 6.167% ot the" U.S. 656,666 miles o? un--served roads. Had_the $366,666,666 been awarded solely based on "miles" Vermont as a state would have received $561,666. Our VTel wireless bid was at $2,184mile, and thus 39% below the average of $3,593/mile, generating $2,655,684, which is 416% over_Vermont's theoretical pro--rata share. - Help from Jim Porter at DPS, and full PSB help, and Karen Marshall as always, and Chris Campbell, with Nancy M. and John Marshall, and Bennett Ross and Scott Delacourt, all moving like lightning was essential. Charlie Davenport at Topsham Telephone was tremendously helpful, and more of the un--served wireless road miles are in his region than in any other region. we look forward to working with Charlie to make this a helpful model of how wired/wireless Telco's can cooperate for mutual survival in rural America. Thanks'all. Michel Guite President Vermont National Telephone Co,_Inc. From; justin M. Robinson "Sent: Wednesday, October 63, 2612 16:67 AM To} Michel Guite; Fran Stocker; Delacourt, Scott Sam Coleman Subject: RE: 961 Auction 3 I 4 . . . Justin M. Robinson~ .VP Engineering Inc. From: Justin M. Robinson - Sent: Wednesday, October 63, 2612 9:58 AM To: Michel Fran Stocker Delacourt, Scott Sam Coleman Subject: 961 Auction Looks like we were a winner in the auctionm justin <[email protected]> Marshall, Karen From: Michel Guite [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 8:54 AM To: Allen, Susan; Marshall, Karen; Porter, James; Miller, Elizabeth; Lofy, Bill Subject: RE: Final draft of today's press release. Please send any changes by noon. Sue I love it. Michel Guite President hone 1118>> t_1te1._com From: Allen, Susan Sent: Thursday, October 04, "2012 8:51 AM To: Marshall, Karen; Porter, James; Miller, Elizabeth; Michel Guite; Lofy, Bill Subject: Final draft of today's press release. Please send any changes by noon; Sue For immediate Release Oct. 4, 2912 'Contact: Susan Allen .- 802~828--6463 Gov. Shumlln, Sen. Le-ahy announce $2 million federal award to expand wireless phone service Award program will enable to provide 4G wireless service to 491 miles Gov. Peter Shumlin and Vermont's Congressional delegation today announced the award of more than $2 million to bring more mobile voice and data service, using 700 to 941 miles of Vermont roads that currently lack cellular access. The funding is the result of a first--ever auction by the Federal Communications Commission to fund cosloeffective wireless projects inunserved areas of the country, including Vermont. "Vermont and VTEL worked quickly to capitalize on this opportunity to bid for federal funding to extend wireless phone service to areas of Vermont that are currently black holes for cellular phone service," said Gov'. Shumlin. He said the funding would help Vermontiexpand broadband, cellular and smart grid telecommunications capacity, adding another. $2 million to the almost $60 million of federal, state, Smart Grid, and VTEL resources that are building this project. "Advances in wireless technology are vital to Vermont's economy, and good coverage and quality are important in Vermonters" dailylilves. Rural areas have lagged the rest of the country as networks have built out broadband access and mobile phone coverage, and Vermonfs terrain also has been a longstanding factor," said Sen. Patrick Leahy. "Vermonters deserve the same 3G and 46 coverage that is available in other parts of the country. i am pleased that VTel has won these new resources to bring us closer to full coverage in Vermont." Sen. Bernie Sanders said, "Largely as a result of-"aggressive federal investment over the past few years, Vermont is well o.n its way to extending universaland affordable broadband to all areas of the state. This new award will get us closer to 1 that goal, and will bring the many benefits of high--speed internet connectivity to more Vermonters, including businesses, schools, first responders, healthcare providers, and more." Welch quote is coming. The funding, which was awarded to VTEL through a nationwide auction, wili enable Vermont National Telephone Co. inc. to deliver wireless service to u-nserved areas of Orange", Caledonia, Orleans, Washington and other counties (for a map of locations, see web address below). Michel Guite, president of Vermont National Telephone, said that this award -will extend the 46 700 lvihz Wireless Open World network to targeted cellular corridors such as Route 125 in Caledonia and Orange County, and other areas. The new sites can function to deliver fixed broadband and rnobiie broadband and voice connections, with VTEL as a retail provider of cellular services. "It was astounding to see how fast government and the private sector could work together to make opportunity a reality in telecommunications," said Guite, who appeared at a news conference today with the Governorand congressional representatives to announce the award. "Our mission is to support rural Vermonters, on farms and in smaller viliages ulnserved by most' of giants, and to dose at low cost and with great service. To our small company this $2 million will be helpful, and couldn't have been done without rapid--action support from Verrnont's DPS, PS8, Connect VT, and the Administration. Vermont is becoming a national leader in wired and wireless broadband innovation, and we are proud to piay a small part." in announcing the awards, the FCC said as part of the auction rules, winning companies must complete projects within three years. They must also make their networks available to other providers for roaming so that as many consumers as possible can benefit from the new networks. The FCC said 38 companies and subsidiaries participated inthe auction, submitting nearly 900 bids. Winners ranged from larger national-carriers like T--lVlobile and'U.S. Cellular to smaller . carriers like Pine Belt Cellular, inc. in Alabama, and \/Tel Wireless, inc. I The FCC said carriers competed against others across the country, and winners were chosen based on the iowest cost- bids to extend coverage to unserved roads. The -bid was $2,184 mile. in a release, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said, "For too many, dead zones in mobile lnternet coverage are too common - and today's- winners will help the U.S. close those gaps. But today's real winnersare the American people, millions of whom will soon have greater access to the job, education and healthcare opportunities of Americas world- leading mobile economy. Over the iast few years, the U.S. has regained global leadership in mobile innovation -- and today's successful auction will help our nation maintain that leadership in the 21st centurythe Vermont areas that will be impacted by the award, visit result ext.htmi, and click on the Vermont icon on the right. For a full list of winning companies, visit Releases/Daiiv Business/2012/db1003/DA--12- Marshali, Karen From: Michel Guite [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 9:03 AM - To: 'Peter Van Oot'; Grosehner, Holiy; Wili Dodge; Marshall, Karen; Campbell, Chris Cc: lviaiko, David - Subject: RE: Error Holly, Same as Pete. Thanks. Also, we all share the identical concept that a lessee can modify the stuff he puts on a pole as long as the new stuff is not heavierfbigger than the old stuff. You have worked patiently with us to include wind shear as a measurement factor. Will and I talking last night agreed we don't really understand the definition of wind shear 100%, and will talk to one of our RF engineers this morning. I Michel Guite President - National Telephone Co, Inc. i I on.te1.oom From: Peter Van Oot Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 8:55 AM To: 'Groschner, Holly'; Michel Guite; Dodge; Marshaii, Karen; Campbell, Chris Cc: Maiko, David Subject: RE: Error Holly', Thanks. A Pete Peter o. van Got] oawns Rechiin Martin PLLC ?'0Ll Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC is the exciusive member firm for Vermont of Lex Mandi, the world's leading association of independent law From: Groschner, Holly Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 6:13 PM To: Michel Guitte; Will Dodge; Marshall, Karen; Campbeil, Chris Cc: Maiko, David; Peter Van Oot Subject: RE: Error Michel, You'il be delighted tolmow that i have a morning rneeting_with'Will tomorrow and I'm sure this item and how to fix itls on his list. - I'd like to see if Will and I can work out something that keeps the policy separate from the references to the VTel . document. in the state policy we need to be able. to adjust the base price for rent in coming years. But in the license document we can certainly make it clear that no adjustments of the "Rate Plan" (the state policy) affects the License Fee (the applicable rent). We just explained the issue to i<aren, regardingthe "cross referencing of this \/Tel license into the pricing 'policy, and obtained her input. ithink we can solvethis without referencing the provisions of your license. i appreciate -your focus on getting this done. Holly Groschner - General Counsel ecornmunications Authi . . From: Michel Guite Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 5:42 PM To: Groschner, Holly; 'Will Dodge'; Marshall, Karen; Campbell, Chris Cc: Malko, David; 'Peter Van Oct' Subject: Error Holly, Chris, Karen, Dave, Good news is the FCC award, and it results from "all working together. This email deals with a problem so small I have trouble believing the electricity needed to send it-is well spent. However thisil-tiny matter has Will repodsg The contract which is generally excellent has asrnall oversight in it, that I stumbled upon. Schedule correctly and properly says the can change its prices every year, for any new contracts, or new elements," orrzew ground space, etc. But this can be read by a third party to mean VTA can change its price for existing contract elements thathave been accepted, negotiated, agreed, after contracts are signed. - - -Holly tells Will Schedule changed. i can think of a dozen ways to fix this, Forexample we can perhaps change the contract language that says Schedule takes precedence over the contract, to instead say Schedule takes precedence except that the intent of the parties is that VTA's right to 'annually change prices in Schedule applies before contracts are signed, but not after contracts are signed. MioE1elGuite President Verrnont Nationa1'Te1ephone Co, Inc. -354 River Street 05156 important -Notice This e-mail may contain information that is confidential, privileged or otherwise-protected from disclosure. if you are not an intended recipient of this email, do not duplicate or redistribute it by any means. Piease delete it and any attachments and notify the sender that you have received it in error. Unintended recipients are prohibited from taking action on the basis of information in this -email. E--rnaii messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be eccurateiy repiioated on other systems, or may be intercepted, deleted or interfered with without the knowiedge oi the sender or the intended recipient. if you' are not comfortable with the risks associated" with email messages, you may decide not to use efmaii to communicate with Vermont Telephone Company, inc. - ea': Vermont Telephone Company, tnc. reserves the right, to the extent and under circumstances permitted by appiicabie iaw. to retain, monitor and intercept e--rnai| messages to and from its systems. - Marshall, Karen Marshall, Karen From: Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 11:50 AM To: Michel Guile Subject: Fwd: vetting addresses Attachments: . IS Specialist tblF'otentiaiiyUnse2'ved E91 him FYI. We have sent for query against your 911 points to deterrninewhat remains for us to tackle. Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: "Katie Bud.resl<i" To: "Marshall, Karen" '".lustin M. Ro_binson'" <[email protected]> Subject: FW: vetting addresses Hi Justin, 'Please see attached for a listing of addresses that Connect Vermont would like to vet for future coverage, per Karerfs e--1nail below. If yon would like the data in a different format, feel free to Contact riie. Thank. you for your assistance, Katie Katie Budreski 3 is" I Stone Environmental, Inc. - n*?PEUR1ien 05602 aim From: Marshall, Karen Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 12:29 To: 'Justin M. Robinson'; 'Sarn Coleman'; 'Michel Guite.'; 'Sharon Cc: Katie Budreski Subject: vetting addresses Hl folks, We continuously analyze our statewide remaining unserved address list after applying known, funded and committed projects. The 'goal is to assure that we have a provider /proj ect committed to be built. Working with Stone Environmental, we currently have 1600 addresses that we need to Vet for future coverage. A first, most logical step is to yet this against most current iteration of network design and eliminate those that will. be reached by your project. The list is e91-l site ID coded. Can we send this your way'? And have you Vet against your network design within the next week? - - - We are looking for two products: 1) The addresses you will reach we can discuss at what standard of service possibly, we use the 3 service A criteria) 2) The addresses you reach; from there, we 'll have to figure out what to do. Who can we ship the file to? And what format do you need to perform a query? Thanks KM Karen L. Marshall Chief Connect .'-Verrnont, Broadband and Mobile Agency Of Administration i Pavillion Building I EUR1itt>> 1 This communication, including any attachm_ents, is solely for the confidential use of the persor_1(s) named above. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender"-immediately the original. Any reader other than the intended recipient is "hereby notified that review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. Marshall, Karen From: Miohei Guite [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 6:34 PM To: 'Bob Flint' Co: Marshall, Karen'; 'Brady, Ted (Leahy)' Subject: VTel EB--5 Foilow Up Flag: - Foiiow up Flag Status: - Fiagged Jefi,Ed, EB--5 plan is now extended. Great work by Senator Leahy. This note is a memory jog, to try to reignite prior talks initiated .by'Bob Flint and me, about Jeff and Ed p.reparing an EB-5 economic study for telecom infrastructure investing for rural Vermor-it. We! would be the client. - am sending this email also to Karen Marshall, Ted Brady-, and Jim Candide, asking for any I suggestions. Might Bill Stenger have more suggestions? Best, Mic lGuite Presligeht Vermont National Teiephone Co, Inc. 354 River Street 05156 . E~Mai1: mtontomom Important Notice -- This e>>maii may contain information that is confidential, privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. if you are not an intended recipient ofthis e-mail, do not duplicate or redistribute it by any means. Please detete it and any attachments and notify the sender that you have received it in error. Unintended recipients are prohibited from taking action on the basis of information in this e-mail. Email messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be intercepted, deleted or interfered with without the itnowtedge of the sender or the intended recipient. It you are not comfortable with the risks associated with email messages. you may decide not to use e-mail to communicate with Vermont Telephone Company, inc. Vermont Teiephone Company, trio. reserves the right, to the extent and under circumstances permitted by apptioabie law, to retain, monitor and intercept e-maii messages to and from its systems. . . ifiarshail, Karen From: Michel Guite [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 10:03 AM To-: 'Bob Fiint' Cc: . Marshaii, Karen; Raymond, Brent; Fran Stocker Subject: Brent Raymond Foilow up Fiag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Categories: DUE 0 Jefi,Ed, Great news that Brent' Raymond is working with state on this. Fran Stocker at VTel suggests as follows: If Jeff invoices VTel $10,000 to 25,000 as a retainer for economics work, and Ed $5,000 to $10,000 as a retainer for legal work, and we set a date 45 days from now, we can make progress. We have investors who have already expressed interest in this' category, if federal authorities approve it. The-question is "Does $100,000,000 in infrastructure investing, in rural" Vermont telecommunications wireless towers and facilities create. 1.0) Le. 2,000 jobs". More simply "Does $500,000 in rural Vermont infrastructure investing in telecommunications wireless towers and facilities create 10 jobs"? Michel Guite President oiphonc Co, Inc. .. tr- i I 'onte1'.com From: Michei Guite Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012-6:34 PM To: [email protected]: 'Bob Ftint' Cc: Marshaii, Karen; 'Brady, Ted (Leahy)' Subject: VTei EB-S Jeff, Ed, EB--5 plan is new extended. Great work by Senator Leahy. This note is a memory jog, to try to reignite prior talks initiated by' Bob Flint and me, about Jeff and Ed preparing an EB--5 economic study for telecom infrastructure investing for rural Vermont. \/Tel would be the client. i am sending this email also to Karen Marshall, Ted Brady, and Jim Candide, asking for any suggestions, Might Bill Stenger have more suggestions? Best, Michel Guite President Vermont National Telephone Co, Inc. 354 River Street 3P1'ing_516 important Notice This e~maii may contain information that is conficientiai, priviieged-or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not an intended recipient of this e-maii, do not dupiicate or redistribute it by any means. Please delete it and any attachments and notify the sender that you have received it in error. Unintended recipients are prohibited from taking action on the basis of information in this e-maii. . E-mat! messages may contain computer viruses or otherdefects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be intercepted, deleted or interfered with without the tmowiedge of the sender or the intended recipient. If you are not comfortable with the risks associated with e~maii messages, you may decide not to use e-maii to communicate with Vermont Telephone Company, inc. Vermont Teieohone Company, inc. reserves the right, to the extent and under circumstances permitted by app?icable law, to retain, monitor and intercept email messages to and from its systems. - Marshall, Karen From: Justin M. Robinson Sent: Friday, October '12, 2012 10:46 AM To: . Katie Budreski; Marshall, Karen Subject: RE: vetting addresses Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged - Katie, pk?' Our list has 911 -addresses,' but we never kept the lD_ attached to so l'm new matching street addresses and town names to try and get this into a usable format. Justin M. Robinson VP Engineering ileoo-3 Ins E-Mail: imrobi ,rmonte1.c0m From: Katie Budreski Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 10:42 AM To: Justin M. Robinson; Marshall, Karen Subject: RE: Vetting addresses i l-ii Justin, - Thank you for your e--mail. Let me know if you would like additional information for these locationsand/or GIS data. Do you have the E911 Esite dataset in house? The E911 Site map to the Site H35 in that dataset. Thank you for your assistance, Katie - - .-. . ont'O5602 From: Justin M. Robinson Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012'10:38 AM - To: Katie Budreski; Marshall, Karen Subject: RE: vetting addresses Hi" Katie -- Have been working on this having problems with' matching up a handful of the addresses. Hope to have something back to you soon. Jastin'M. Robinson VP Engineering Telephone Co., Inc. 11te1.com Front}: Katie Budreski Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 11:41 AM To: Marshali, Karen,' Justin M. Robinson Subject: FW: vetting addresses Hi Please see attached for a listing of addresses that Connect Vermont would like to vet for future coverage, per Ka rerfs mail below. If you would like the data in a different format, feel free to Contact me. Thank you for your assi__sta"nce, :ot 05602 From; Marshall, Karen Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 12:29 PM - To: 'Justin M. Robinson'; 'Sam Coiem'an',' 'Michel"Guite'; 'Sharon Combes~Farr' Cc: Katie Budreski Subject: vetting addresses folks, - We continuously analyze our statewide remaining unserved address list after applying known, funded and committed projects. The goal is to assure that we have a provider /project committed to be built. Working with Stone Environmental, we currently have 1600 addresses that we need to vet for future coverage. A first, most logical step is to vet this against VTEL's most current iteration of network design and eliminate those that will be reached by your project. The list is 911 site ii) coded. Can we send this your way? And have you vet against your netvvork design withi-ii the next week? We are looking for two products: 1) The addresses-you will reach (we can discuss at what standard of service-- possibly, we use the 3' service A criteria) . 2} The addresses you reach; from there, we 'ii have to figure out what to do. . 2 .- Who can we ship the fiie to? And what format do you need to perform a query? Thanks KM 3 -l Karen L. Marshali Chief Connect Vermont, Broadband and Mobiie "Agency Of Administration 1 Pavillion Buiiding Monti-"tier! VT 05509 This commtinication, including any attachments, is safety for the confidential use ofthe person(s) named above. iffyott have received this in error, please notyfi; the sender intntediateiy and delete/destroy the original. Any reader other than the intended recipient is hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distriinition or copying of this message is strictiy prohibited This communication, incittciing any attachments, is solely for the confidential use of the person (.9) named above. iffyou have received this communication in error, please notijja the sender intntediateiy and delete/destroy the original. Any reader other than the intended recipient is hereby notified that any review, dissemination; distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. Marshall, Karen From: Michel Guite [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, October 14, 201-2 2:14 To: Johan Westerberg; Marshall, Karen; Sharon Combes--Faz'2* Cc: KevW1Ready Subject: Re: \/Tel Folloulr up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged . Great;' -5 "Sent via Blackaerry by ATgTfi From: Johan Nesterberg Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2812 14:88:54 . - To: Marshall, Sharon Cc: Kevin Subject: RE: Hi all, The good news is that GS Sickand will join us-in person on Tuesday so this will make the discussions easier! Cheers, Johan JOHAN NESTERBERG Vice President Eastern Region ,Eriosson Inc gafifi Le as ?V$H_P1ano TX 7so24 From: Marshall, Karen Sent: Friday, October 12, 2812 11:59 AM To: Johan westerberg; [email protected] Cc: Kevin Ready - Subject: RE: Thanks Johan, 2P works, I will plan to join you all in Springfield then. Karen L. Marshall Chief Connect Vermont, Broadband and Mobile -~~--Original From: Johan westerberg Sent: Friday, October 12, 2812 12:37 PM - To: Marshall, Karen; [email protected] Cc: Kevin Ready. Subject: RE: VTel Michel, how about 2pm Eastern time on Tuesday? we would_have GS Sickand participate via - phone, he is our favorite expert. Karen, I mention that he will be via phone so that you don't decide to be there in person for the sole reason to meet our expert and then he is not there? I am of course not discouraging you to be there, at all, just wanted you to know about our expert. Cheers" Johan Johan R. westerberg. Vice President Eastern Region Ericsson Inc Sent from my T~Mobile Google G2 Android phone From: Michel Guite [[email protected]] Received: Friday, 12 Oct 2612, 11:28 To: Marshall, Karen [[email protected]] CC: Johan Subject: RE: VTel Karen, You are most welcome. .3ohan, Karen is the Governor's advisor on broadband; and Vermont Telecommunications Agency Important Notice (VTA) reports to her. Any progress we can make on small cells, and on Rich Content with 46 Voice for IMS Core, is deeply involved with Karen and VTA. Can you advise if thgre might be a one or two hour period when we would discuss these things, when Karen could join us? - Michel Goite. President Vermont National Telephone Co, Inc. 354 River Street Sprin field, VT @3156 This_e~mai1 may contain information that is confidential, privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, do not duplicate or redistribute it by any means. Please delete it ?nd'anyrattachmedts app notify the sender that you have received it in error. Unintended recipients are prohibitedfitrom taking action on the basis oi intormation in this e~mail. - - E--mail messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be intercepted, deleted or interfered with without the knowledge of the sender or the intended recipient. If you are not comfortable with the_risks associated with e--mail messages, you may decidesiot to use e-mail to communicate with Vermont' Telephone Company,Inc. Vermont Telephone Company,Inc. reserves the right, to the extent and under circumstances permitted by applicable law, to retain, monitor and intercept'e--mail messages to and from its systems; - From: Marshall, Karen [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2912 12:16 PM To: Michel Guite Subject: RE: VTel Thanks Michel, if there is a technical discussion on Tuesday I might want to_listen in or .even be present) if it is appropriate to invite me. I have a relatively clear day on Tuesday." Kared L. Marshall Chief Connect Vermont, Broadband and Mobile From: Johan westerberg Sent: Friday, October 12, 2612 11:64 AM - To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Cc: Kevin Ready; Marc Brisson; [email protected]; David; [email protected]; Marshall, Karen; Andreea Timberlake; MARK EATON 'Subject: RE: VTel Dear Michel, This is a wondertully visionary email which will be great as a base for our face to Face discussions on Tuesday! I am typing on my mobile so that is my excuse For not providing a longer point by point response! Regarding the contract we have several ways forward including doing a 397 amendment for the next phase it that is we can finalize a decision on this on Tuesday. For the microcells and related deployments we can add a few folks via phone on Tuesday to discuss ideas and alternatives, and the points you raise with various poles etc. "Regarding IMS and RCS we absolutely agree, and we would like to not only discuss but also get . 'V-figaih, sorry to' we have all this set up and working! not giving your email the full answer it deserves at this time! I look forward to seing you on Tuesdayi Johan Johan R. Nesterberg Vice President Eastern Region Ericsson Inc Sent from my T--Mobile Google G2 Android phone From: Michel Suite [[email protected]] Received: Friday, 12 Oct 2812, 9:44 To: Johan westerberg Sam Coleman Justin M. Robinson [[email protected]] -CC: Kevin Ready Marc Brisson Gordon Mathews [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [[email protected]] Subject: VTel Johan, we hope the feedback provided was helpful. Three ideas for followup. 1. we are close to having 86 sites signed, which means almost ready to build. I am not seeing the orders to RUS for enough radios and anetennae and sites, or EMS, or 3G, and worry about the_timing. Also Rob O'Hara of RUS is saying to me he is worried that Ericsson thinks_a non--_ stahdard contract is readily achievable. He said he agrees if one coulg be agreed upon it would be a good format to_build on, but he reports the non-standard cdfitract Ericsson reports as 'agreed upon? at RUS is not agreed upon at RUS. I asked Rob "Should my message to Ericsson be that the non~standard contract appears to be a greater problem than they think?" and he replied "Yes". - 2. we need to put some Ericsson seniorelevel Far--sighted brilliance For a few hours into deployment of available technology for rural U.S. microwcells. So far I have been advocating this without much support. I feel it we can design this in Vermont Ericsson can sell 56,666 similar sites elsewhere in rural US within two years. Inside VTel I can easily see_a_need For 266 of these sites almost immediately. I'm_not an RF engineer and not well informed about the technology choices, but some questions are: One design needs to be For antennae on dedicated roadside.poles, and another application needs to be antennae on poles shared with existing public utilities; (ii) Generally I think VTel will look for our own private single- user pole in public utility rights of wayfeet. But we need.to know can we use conventional low cost wood poles o? the kind every highway engineer is accustomed vto, and as Ted Abrams recommends, or do we need to use steel poles. Both are readily available. Is it possible to make this decision without any "old fashioned" bias that steel is always better? One is better, but I am unsure which, and here ask Ted, Gordon, Mark, and Ericsson to discuss; How do we attach to these? Ted recommends a steel hat or_cannister on top of a private dedicated wood pole with antennae bolted to the cannister on three sides. This seems very logical, but we need to order the cannisters, and order connectors to go on shared wood poles below electric wires. 1 like wood poles with steel hats, but can be easily persuaded to adopt an alternative if someone knows a fact<<based'right answer; (iv) what do we attach and how? Dave Malko reports that Vanu and Coverageco with Sprint are using omnidirectional whip antennae. Mark thinks this might work well for 3G. I know of 4 foot AIR antennae with RRU's_built in, and thought I heard of 2~foot AIR antennae. Alcatel and Hiawei' have microcells alternatives they are both pitching. we need to develop two or three basic designs, For microcells, that can be used in many places. I think the first design should assume we have fiberdedicated foot wood or 'steel pole, we dangle from the hat microcells or femto cells for 3G and 46, and we integrate these with minimal base stations. 3. we need to immediately build new Rich Media applications (is this the right term?) into the IMS core. we don't want the IMS core of 2 years ago, with 2613 applications to be discussed another day; we want to purchase today the Rich-Content services you have today For late 2813, to take advantage of the fact that we are different to because 46 LTE is our most widespread network. I should add that Huawei came be last Friday, because I had called Bu Fan telling her I suggested to a banker who visited that-Huawei should buy Fairpoint. It was a fun meeting, and they spoke highly of Ericsson, showing me their wechat application they say is used by 566,888,666 Chinese subscribers today. Their advice was good. They said Ericsson and Huawei are the sole companies in the world able to integrate and provide the full suite of Rich Content applications, and advised_me to ask Ericsson about these to be built into the IMS core. They said as you would expect their IMS core tits in a small cabinet, and includes the full suite of voice, videoconference, and TV media. I have sent a copy to Karen Marshall, who is the Governor's broadband advisor, because Karen works closely with us on these topics. Best, Michel Guite President- - Vermont National Telephone Co, Inc. 354 River Street Springfield, VT Important Notice . This e--mail may contain information that is confidential, privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. It you are not an intended recipient of this e~mail, do not duplicate or redistribute it by any means. Please delete it_and any attachments and notify the sender that you have-received it in error. Unintended recipients are prohibited from taking action on the basis of intormation in this e~mail. E~mail messages may contain computer viruses or other defects,-may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be intercepted, deleted or interfered with without the knowledge of the sender or the intended-recipient. It you are not comfortable with the risks associated with e--mail messages, you may decide not to use ewmail to communicate with Vermont Telephone Company, Inc. Vermont Telephone Company, Inc. reserves the right, to_the extent and under circumstances permitted by applicable law, to retain, monitor and intercept e-mail messages to and from its systems. From: Bohan Nesterberg Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 3:39 PM To: Sam Coleman; Justin M. Robinson Cc: Kevin.Ready; Michel Guite . Subject: .RE: would you do me a favor today?? Now! You guys Eock! Thanks Sam? NESTERBERG Vice'President Eastern Region Ericsson Inc. _?366 Plano TX 75624 Fromi Sam Coleman Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2612 2:37 PM To: Johan westerberg; Justin M. Robinson CC: Kevin Ready; Michel Guite Subject: RE: would you do me a favor today?? Complete. Sam Coleman Network Engineer V??m0ot.Teleahsne.CO., Inc- s?di?aan vE?Eontel.com From: Johan westerberg 11, 2812 3:34 PM To: Bustin M. Robinson; Sam Coleman Cc: Kevin Ready; Michel Guite Subject: RE: would you do me a favor today?? And I Thank You_SIri JOHAN WESTERBERG Vice President Eastern Region. Ericsson Inc -s.ie TX 75924 From: Justin M. Robinson . Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2o12 2:29 PM To: Johan westerberg; Sam Coleman Cc: Kevin Ready Subject: RE: would you do me a iavor today?? Completed! ass Justin M. Robinson VP Engineering Vereent Teleph?ne C0-s Inc>> E~Mai1: From: Johan westerberg Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2612 3:19 PM . To: Justin M. Robinson;.Sam Coleman Cc: Kevin Ready Subject: RE: would you do me a favor today?? It is great when a plan comes Many Thanks, Johan JOHAN NESTERBERG s;_Vice President E?stern.Region Ericsson Inc 6388 TX ?so24 From: Justin M. Robinson Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2612 2:16 PM To: Johan westerberg; Sam Coleman Cc: Kevin Ready - Subject: RE: would you do me a Pavor today?? course. Actually my survey link just arrived! Justin M: Robinson VP Engineering . 5Qmofit,Telephone Co., Inc. From: Johan westerberg Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2912 3:15 PM To: Sam Coleman; Justin M. Robinson Cc: Kevin Ready Subject: RE: would you do me a favor today?? 'Justin, Sam: Now that Michel has led the way can I ask you to fill it in as well? Thanks! Johan JOHAN WESTERBERG Vice Presidentfifiastern Region Ericsson Inc . Drive, P1ano_TX 75824 From: Michel Guite 7 Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2912 12:15 PM To: Johan westerberg; Sam Coleman; Bustin M. Robinson Cc: Kevin Ready RE: woo1d_you do me a favor today?? Donel -Q. - Added "Great company, and our Ericsson team led by Johan westerberg and Kevin Ready are wonderful Friends, who have become trusted sources of advice." Didn't say that Huawei came to see me last Friday to talk about my idea they should by' Fairpoint. or course they won't. but I wish they would. They also offered consulting services in category or Rich Content on saying only they and Ericsson have ability to provide full suite of applications through IMS Core, and they showed their wechat service, which they say is used by 588 million (millioni) Chinese, that permits you to click on a Facebook name, and then another up to 198, and have them all on-a voice call.with videoconferencing, all on - It caused me to realize we need to invest more VTel time learning what we can do, that cannot do, on 46 LTE. Michel Guite President Vermont National Telephone Co, Inc. From: Johan westerberg Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2612 12:16 PM "To: Michel_6uite; Sam Coleman; Justin M. Robinson Cc: Kevin Ready Subject: would-you do me a favor today?? Gentlemen, - I am?, ~7flgp' _k for a big favor! You are becoming one ot my largest customers, and I real 'auai+~ ;see your inputs to our customer satisfaction survey. I know they are a pain to do but Ericsson reviews the outcome very seriously_and.we do take'action to_correct things we learn from the answers. would you help me by responding today or tomorrow?? The survey closes on Sunday. Please see the email you received from with a subject line of "welcome to Share Your Opinion About Ericsson". It will have your personalized link. This has been sent already a few times and you should receive a fresh email today if you cannot tind the earlier email! Just so you know, it is not that I am measured on the ratings of your responses, although our top management is, it is rather that they-want to see that my main customers make their opinion\heard1 we do not track your individual responses (except personalized verbal comments) we only track whether you respond or not. -- Thanks a lot, johan Johan WESTERBERG -. Vice President Eastern Region Ericsson Inc ,3aa_ JL iv? _Plano TX 75a24 Marshall, Karen From: . Marshall, Karen Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 10:41 AM To: Will Dodge Groschner, Holly Co: 'Michel Guile' . Subject: pole top permitting procedures for small cell technology Follow Up Flag: Follow up' Flag Status:' Flagged Hi Will and Holly, As a follow up to the Ericsson discussion this week, I would like to pull Will and Holly together to discuss a strategy for requesting at procedure at the PS8 for 248.3, deminimus for pole top installations. Holly and are going to be together on Monday at 9.3; Will could you possibly do a conference call in the 9 10 30 window? if appropriate, lcould also wrap Jim Porter into the Please advise, Thanks Karen L. Marshall Chief Con neat Vermont, Broadband and Mobile Agency Of Admlnistration Pavillion Building Marshall, Karen .Svcin From: Michel Guite [[email protected]] Sent: . Saturday, 'October 20, 2012 8:14 AM To: Marshail, Karen; 'Johan Westerberg' Cc: Kevin Ready; GS Sickand Subject: RE: Vte! Speedtest-'10--16--2012 Follow Up I'-'tag: Followup Hag Status: Fiagged Thanks Karen and thanks for taking time when you son was at home. Thanks to GS for conveying so much information, and to 3ohan and Kevin for making it happen. Michel Guite President Vermont National Telephone Co, Inc. 354 River Street . 5 [email protected] This e--mail may contain information that is confidential, privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not an intended recipient of this e~maii, do not duplicate or redistribute it by any means. Please delete it and any attachments and notify the sender that you have received it in error. "Unintended recipients are prohibited from taking action on the basis ot information in this e--mail. . E--mai1 messages may contain computer viruses or other_detects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be intercepted, deleted or interfered with without the knowledge of the sender or the intended recipient. If you are not comfortable with the risks associated with e~mai1 messages, you may decide not to use e~mai1 to communicate with Vermont Telephone Company,Inc. Vermont Telephone Company,Inc. reserves the right, to the extent and under circumstances permitted by applicable law, to retain, monitor and intercept e--mail messages to and from its systems. From: Marshall, Karen [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2812 6:87 PM To: 'Johan westerberg' Cc: Michel Guite; Kevin Ready; GS Sickand Subject: RE: Vtel Speedtest 16~16~2@12 Gentlemen- I just wanted to thank you for your time this week and the opportunity to review the exciting technical developments on the wireless horizon." we're building something special in Vermont! I appreciate your commitment to our state and look Forward to taking a photo of VTe1's tirst and last installations? Best regards, Karen Karen L. Marshall _Chief_ Connect Vermont, Broadband and Mobile - From: Johan westerberg Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2912 5:36 PM To: Marshall, Karen Cc: [email protected]; Kevin Ready; GS Sickand Subject: Fw: Vtel Speedtest 19-16-2812 . Here is the_speedtest for the 5+5 bandwidfh. we will upgrade this to which will double the speed! - Thanks Johan Johan R. westerberg Vice President Eastern Region Ericsson Inc Sent from my T~Mobi1e Google G2 Android phone From: Bradley Balthrop Received: Tuesday, 16 Oct 2812, 16:33 To: Johan westerberg CC: Paul Attard [[email protected]] Subject: FM: Vtel-Speedtest 16~16--2612 Hi Bohae, Please Find attached wireless System Speed Test These are the screen shots_of the speed tests taken this afternoon while Michel and Karen were onsite at the CO. Best Regards, Brad Balthrop Implementation Manager II Contractor on behalf of Ericsson Inc. L00 6386 Legacy Drive .;aTxe;flniied States -From: tim tassinari 2 Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2612 5:22 PM To: Bradley Balthrop Subject: Vtel Speedtest 18~16~2612 This email comes to you from the.VTe1 wireless Network! Marshall, Karen From; Michel Guite Sent: Saturday, October.20, 2012 3:25 PM - To: Sharon Combes--Farr; Marshafi, Karen . Cc: Maiko, David; Sam Coleman; Gordon Mathews;-Justin M. Robinson; Kathy Benson; Fran Stocker - Subject: RE: VTA back roads broadband Foliow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged I agree-with Sharon. Thank you for the good advice. Michel Guite President Vermont National Telephone Co, Inc. 354 River Street 'veFfii"tel.com Important Noutice .. This ewmail may contain information that is contidential, privileged or-otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not an intended recipient of this e--mail, do not duplicate or redistribute it by any means. Please delete it and any attachments and notify the sender that you have received it in error. Unintended recipients are prohibited from taking action on the basis of information in this e--mail. E-mail messages may contain computer viruses or other detects,-may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be intercepted; deleted or intertered with withoot the knowledge of the sender or the intended recipient. If you are not comfortable with the risks associated with e--mail messages, you may decide not to use e~mai1 to communicate with Vermont Telephone Company,Int. Vermont Telephone Company,Inc. reserves the right, to the extent and under circumstances _permitted by applicable law, to retain, monitor and intercept e--mail messages to and from its systems. From: Sharon Combes~Farr Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2812 2:32 PM To: Marshall, Karen Cc: Malko, David; Michel Guite; Sam Coleman; Gordon Mathews; Justin M. Robinson; Kathy Benson; Fran Stocker - Subject: Re: VTA back roads broadband Thanks so much, Karen. I will work with Dave and get this submitted by Tuesday at the latest. '1 am_a1so copying in some members of the VTel team so that we are all on the same page. Enjoy your weekend!' Regards, Sharon On Oct 26, 2612, at 1:58 PM, "Marshall, Karen" <[email protected]> wrote: I think that the most valuable pieces of information regarding progress on any VTA_Funded projects are contained within the site spreadsheet. I believe that Gordon and Michel are updating this regularly-- which reflects communities, site acquisition, status and projected coverage. I think that the necessary steps for extension may be to write a letter to the broadband committee and board, with 1) status of the sites that are subject to the BACKROADS grant area and 2) request for extension through end oF-2813 and 3) update on when equipment is targeted for installation and potential service availability. A general update on project status all sites, acquired, permitted, ordering of equipment, outlook for installation timeline, steps to service availability, speed test results on corefwith 788 and ANS gear may all be relevant. Most of-this info is_in the spreadsheet. Karen L. Marshall Chief Connect Vermont, Broadband and Mobile -~-~~0riginal From: Sharon Combes-Farr Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2812 4:24 AM - To: Marshall, Karen Cc: Malko, David Subject: VTA back roads broadband Karen, I was reminded the other day that the original Backroads Broadband grant has a Nov 1, 2812 end date. what are the steps we need to take for that to be extended into 2913? . . . David, Michel asked me to take the lead on the reporting from now on. when you are next in our office, can we meet on what is needed in addition to the_timeline? . Best regards, Sharon Marshall, Karen From: Groschner, Hofiy Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 5:22 PM To: Marshal-I, Karen - Submct Foiiow Up Flag: Foliow up Flag Status: . Fiagged You know, this is all about getting Terry Lavalleys changes (not onerous) into the document and I had asked will to discuss any concerns he had with me before going to his client so that we could understand his interpretation and make sure we were on the same page. From: Marshall, Karen Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2812 5:29 PM To: Groschner, Holly Subject: . Not-sure I follow this one, what are they objecting to? Karen L. Marshall Chief. Connect Vermont, Broadband and Mobile From: Michel Guite Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2912 12:51 To: Marshall, Karen Cc: Sam Coleman; will Dodge Subject: RE: Map Of course. Bad news is the VTA contract came back with new, previously--never~mentioned, conditions wiil Dodge reports are extremely difticult to accept. More details later today. Michel Guite President Vermoot Nationa1_Telephone Co, Inc. "tel . com From: Marshall, Karen Sent: Tuesday, October 23, ZBIZ 11:18 AM To: Michel Guite Subject: Map Is there possibility pf getting a most recent1y_updated propagation map with Search rings and ;cell target corridors. I have the Sept version. Thanks. _Sent from Karen's iPad please excus? ?ny typos Marehaii, Karen From: Groschner, Hoily Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 T139 To: - - Michel Guite . - Cc: Marshail, Karen Subject: RE: VTei Capacity Reservation License Agreement Foiiow Up Fiag: Foliow up F-"tag Status: Flagged Michel, Do we have your permission to proceed to finalize with Will tomorrow? ldon't want you to incuradditional expense inadverteritiy. hg From: Michel Guite Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 1:22 PM To: Groschner, Hoiiy . Cc: Wili Dodge; Malko, David; Marshall, Karen; Gordon Mathews; Sam Coleman; Peter D. Van Oot Diane Guite; Campbell, Chris Subject: RE: Capacity Reservationticense Agreement Holly, I meant to say your contract of ayear ago was pretty excellent. I should have signed Best, Michel Guite President tin phone Co, Inc. 1: nte1.com From: Groschner, Hoiiy Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:09 AM To: Michei Guite . . . Cc: Will David; Marshaii, Karen; Gordon Mathews; Sam Coleman; Peter D. Van Oot Diane Guite; Campbeil, Chris . - Subject: Re: VTel Capacity Reservation License Agreement Thank you Michel. The simple answer is to finish what we have begunm and to compromise on low-<<risk conditions. is it best to do an "aii hands" discussion to conclude the iimited issues iisted by Wiil? Negotiating with the state is adrnittediy 'a task and creating this new form (to get the benefit) - adds complexity. it-is frustrating. That said, and although it does not heip, i apologize for my contribution to the extended period of negotiation, and the iate "additions" that appear to have been "the last straw." in fact they are not additions, but rather the if)PS's rejection of VTel's request for reduced standards (that I attempted to promote). Please remember these terms be available to ali carriers. With ail due respect, and it is due, the form of a year ago would have been funotionaliny -incomplete in some regards that Will has identified. With further due respect, some of \/Tel requirements attempt to shift ail risk of the unknown -- especiaily with regard to to the "other party" (here the State and spe_cifi'caily the DPS). 1 We have done our ievei best to contain fluctiiating--"cost in this document. i believe that the biggest "risk" is the cost-of reinforcing towers, and Karen has (with my support) prevaiied on the DPS to apply a stronger tower standard to which is a significant "give." if all works out the way it's supposed to, the-DPS wiil never need i-t's'10% or interference language. if the DPS equipment becomes integral to VTei's equipment, the 10% redundancy would-probably be meaningless as would. the interference language (except that it applies to other carrier parties who be signing contracts with the same language in it). Perhaps your future service agreement with DPS would say as much, reieasing VTel from that risk on those sites? Let us know how you would like to proceed. Best Regards, Holly Groschner - ihone On Oct 24, 2012, at 9:09 AM, "Michel Guite" <[email protected]> wrote: Hi all, Because I consider everyone on this list a friend, hope all will permit me to be direct in a way that offends no one. (I added_Diane in Bombay to this email, to let her know the Government of India isn't unique inbeing sometimes baffling.) Vermont want to be an innovator in wireless, and we are all working -together as one team, trying 100%, and sometimes even 500% to make this happen. We all agree the "old days" of towers as few and- costly, with lawye_rs spending $30,000 and $40,000 on a site for permitting, and contracts that take $100,000 to negotiate, are becoming as obsolete as IBM 360 mainframes. mistakenly asked Keith Mendelson to look at the VTA contract a year ago. Keith spent many hours with Will. Will and Keith and Holly went to work on drafts again and again. I have read this contract in what I thought was final form again and again. So I take responsibility. Holly's draft of a year ago was better than anything we have done since. We] can't financially afford these negotiations, paying so many consultants, -skill-ed attorneys, and site experts. It is equally frustrating for Holly, and Dave, and Will, and Karen. We seem to have agreed yesterday on final pricing and language for 20 nice sites with SBA, with a lot of help from Will and Ericsson. I will today ask SBA to translate this into 20 SBA contracts. lf hope these contracts ..come back from SBA with NO new financial terms, and NO new unseen language, and-expect they will. However the -contrast between SBA and VTA is worth mentioning. SBA is no friend of ours. Yet we came to a "meeting ground." Our average price with microwave is almost exactly VTA's list price, but has no rural discount. VTA's pricing is in line with a very expensive market leader. Yet we can't get a final VTA contract for a much smaller number of sites. - 2 For VTA to succeed its contracts and processes need to be simpler, easier, faster than the contracts of SBA and other giant competitors. What can-we do? A Michel Guite President Veephone Co: Inc- :tonte1.c0m From: Groschner, Holly Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 7:05 PM To: Will Dodge Cc: Malko, David; Marshall, Karen; Michel Guite; Gordon Mathews; Sam Coleman; Peter D. Van Oot ([email protected]) . Subject: RE: Wei Capacity Reservation License Agreement Dear Will, Thank you for proposing a solution. i will check with my clients and colleagues to see if the DPS is not present and won't likely be present on any of the sites below (i believe that is true at least for Bennington (Airport Beacon), and N. Springfield (Airport Beacon), and whether the State can accept the 10/8 draft for those purposes, with the Exhibit corrections, as a "'one--oi'f" contract. As for the rest, as you can imagine, I have a different point of view about where we were on 10/8 and where we are now. Somehow, it seems, expectations are unaligned. As a reminder, i did call you to offer to discuss" this latest draft with you and to work out some of the items listed below in advance of your discussion with your clients (and before calling this draft complete), especially with regard to item No. 1. You may not be aware (as was not until last week) of the thousands of dollars of operating costs directly attributable to carriers' use that the State incurs annually? As i offered in the document, this "pass through" is (1) at cost, (2) only applicable to certain "rernote" locations (which would be identified in advance of signing an agreement), (3) is per capita (not by weight or antennas) and (4) is paid only once annually. "in addition to these carefully chosen limitations, I have also offered to you that it can be capped to promotepredictability if you provided acceptable language. I believe that your client would have encountered sirnilarrequirements on other communications sites where costs were required. it seems to me that it is not a major change especially since it does not (i believe) apply to the sites had selected (except the recently added Killington location). Also, at the time of the 10/8 draft, I let you know that I would check with the DPS regarding reserved capacity and interference (as shown in the document comments) as lhave done. Upon consideration, the DPS asserts that providing 10% at one structural element/location as VTel proposes-is virtually useless; and the DPS also requires a means (on less than 30 days' notice) to resolve interference with public safety equipment (which was deleted from Attachment A without DPS permission). I will, at this request, return to the DPS to verify that understanding but i'thinl< these two are issues for the agency. Remember, please, that this document, which was viewed by others in state government as "irnpossible to modify," was being changed to accommodate the capacity reservation pricing that the State 3 has offered to \/Tel. You and i had agreed we would attempt to merely "clean up" some of the non-- industry standard language - and we have certainly moved fat beyond. that. in order to move forward it would be helpful to have a more complete explanation of your points. i understand from your separate email that you have time on Thursday to discuss the document. 5 will be able to meet by telephone and will remove any barriers in my calendar. Thank you foryour continued effort, in no small part due to your persistence, we are, in fact, quite close to having a very sophisticated license agreement for VTei's benefit that accommodates the novel concept of capacity reservation pricing: <image001.jpg> Holly Groschner General Counsel A Ftorn: Will 'Dodge Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 5:25 PM To: Groschner, Holly Cc: Malko, David; Marshall, Karen; 'Michel Guite' 'Gordon Mathews'; Sam Coleman ([email protected]) Subject: RE: \/Tel Capacity Reservation License Agreement Holly: Let me first say that VTel greatly appreciates the time and effort that you and others at the state have put into the document. There are obviously a number of competing concerns from different agencies that need to be taken into account in putting this together, and it can't be easy to finalize comments when the thinking from state personnel is constantly evolving. With thatsaid, VTel cannot accept the latest version of the changes to the License Agreement draft. The main groupings of critical issues we have from this new draft include: The open-ended nature of the "operational costs for services" language in Section and Exhibit B. Definition of Applicable Structural Standard, the bifurcation between DPS non--DPS towers, and the Reserved Capacity "at all elevations" definition and technical specification Conflicting interference resolution standards in the License Agreement and Exhibit A. Loss of State Asset Expansion Adiustrnent except where remaining capacity is 20% or greater. The revisions to Exhibit should be acceptable -- i will confer on that point with Gordon Mathews. with the understanding that we had reached an agreement with the last version sent on'10f8/2012 after extended discussions, VTel's preference would be to proceed 10/33350" (With the it's only an available option for some of the sites), please let us 'know, and you canlinciucle all add-ressees . on the response. wiliiam 3. Dodge Downs Rachiin Martin Pi..t.C Director 1 Energy &Teiecommun*ications Real Estate, Land Use and Environmental Group -- VT . Admitted in VT, NH - Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC is the exclusive member firm for Vermont of Lex Muncli, the world's leading association of independent law From: Groschner, Holly Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 1:51 PM To: Will Dodge Cc: Maiko, David; -Marshall, Karen subject: We] Capacity' Reservation License Agreement Dear Will, My apologies for the length "it took me to return this to you. It would have happened earlier but for a family health emergency on Wednesday'. The "attached has three parts: The License with changes accepted (i trust you will run your own redline), the revised State Capacity Reservation Rate Policy October 2012 (unfortunately the agreement has an older version, the terms have not materially changed], and a redline of Exhibit from your original and the revised State Capacity Reservation Rate Policy (shown separately because it is the vast majority of the redlined 'changes from the document as you lastsaw it. _l-would suggest that we finalize this document in any way possible. i am suggesting to _my colleagues that we accept the September 203.2 version of Exhibit if that is your strong preference with regard to sites that are currently applied for. lam requesting here, as a matter of convenience, that Dave Malko look at the October 2012 version and fill in the missing weights of panel antennas and for us so that we can apply the discounts uniformly. Thanks Will. <image001.jpg> Holly Groschner General Counsel lecomrnuications Authority Marshall, -Karen From: Marshatl, Karen Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 3:14 PM To: 'MicheI Guite'; fisandbiast@aoLcom' Subject: Hockey Follow Up Flag: Follow up F?-lag Status: Flagged Thanks Michei, Amanda is an incredible talentthat we have all cheered on and foilowed her success to this point! Congrats on her accompiishments John. - t?aren L. Marshail, Chief Cohnect Vermont, Broadband and Mobiie From: Michel (Suite Seat: Thursday, October 25, 2012 3:11 PM To: Marshaii,'Karen- Subject: Hockey Hi John and Karen, never introduce Person A to Person 8, in a field! don'! a;nderetand= However .. John Pelkey is coachinng director for all Vermont hockey, and he reports today his daughter Amanda Pelkey is on US hockey national "team. Karen's son is I think at Junior Bruins. These ere two hockey champions in one state. 'Parent of Hockey Champion A may I introduce you to Parent of Hockey Champion B. Beet, Michel Guite President Vermont National Telephone" Co, Inc. 3 54 'River Street Springfield, VT 05156 ,nte1.com important Notice This e~rnaiI may contain information that is confidential, privileged or otherwise protected from disciosure..|f you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, do not dupiicate or redistribute it by any means. Piease delete it and any attachments and notify the sender that you havereceived it in error. Unintended recipients are prohibited from taking action on the basis of information in this e-mait. . E-mait messages may contain computer viruses or other-detects, may not be accurateiy replicated on other systems, or may be intercepted, deleted or" interfered with without the knowledge of the sender or the "intended recipient. If you are not comfortabte with the risks associated with e-mail messages, you may decide not to use e~maii to communicate with Vermont Teiephone Company, inc. - Vermont Telephone Company, Inc. reserves the right, to the extent andunder circumstances permitted by applicable iaw_ to retain, monitor and intercept e-mail messages to and from its systems. Marshall, Karen From: Marshall, Karen Sent: "Friday, October 26, 2012 8:07 To: Justin M. Robinson .Subj_ect: - Re: AWS Speed Test 10--25~20fi2 Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged They must have opened. up full throttle. The one we sawllast week was 27/8 at 5 meg open. Awesome, can": wait to have this Sent from Karerfs iPad please excuse any typos. On Oct 25, 2012, at l0:l)9 PM, "JL_1stin M. Robinson" Hi Karen not sure if I should be sharing this,' but 'thought you might be interested. This was one of the LTE speed tests performed today on our AWS spectrum. Not too shabby forwireless (C) -Justin. M. Robinson VP Engineering Vet ., Inc. ioonteleom From: Timothy Tassinari Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 12:44 PM To: Paul Attard; Christer Hiort; MARK Bradley Balthrop; Kevin Ready; Sam Coleman; Michel Guite; Justin M. Robinson; Marc Brisson . Subject: AWS Speed Test All, Pleese see attached word doc. It is 21 screen shot of the Speed Test just performed on lhe AWS MBR in the switch. We connected at a ping speed of 35rns, Upload of M62 and Download- of --. - Tim Tassi.nari' - Site Development Manager II [email protected] speedtest 400 AWS Marshall, Karen From: Marshail, Karen Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 8:10 AM To: - Michel Guite Subject: Re: waitsfieid, route 17 west to Buelis Gore! Starksboro TOWER Follow up Flag: Foliow up Flag Status: Flagged - Heather Douglas Territory Manager-Business Development Northeast (New England/NY/NJ) American Tower Corporation 10 Presidential Wav Wm 01801 Sent from Karen's iPad please excuse any typos On Oct 25, 2012, at 6:35 PM, "MicheI'Guite" wrote: Karl, rumor is it is American Tower (ATC) and theynare being required to tear it down because lease with state means it needs to have tenants. Your info matches the photo, and that is using it, -but rumor from a government Public Safety source is it is ATC and taiied tease terms. Mark can you heck if this might be If so we could use it toward our 20. i Michel .Goite President ecphone Co, Inc. ii: I itecntc1.com In From: Lazykarl@aoLcom Sent: Thursday, October 25', 2012 5:49 PM To: Michel Guite; [email protected]; Gordon Mathews; Sam Coleman Subject: Re: waitsfielcl, route 17 west to_Buells Goref Starksboro TOWER Yes. I think it belongs to SBA 'is in Buels Gore, Huntington, VT. Near the Mad River Ski Area. lt.is not a very good site as it was built about 50 years ago just for point to 'point microwave for -- 44.211066 72.931013 2389 AMSL From memory the ower is-{somewhere between 60' I will try to find out more ASAP. Sheers. I Karl A. Rinker President . Rinkers Communications 103 -South Main Street Barre, VT 05641 Consulting_ FCC License Work Dealer For: DAVID CLARK. HARRIS ICOM RAM TOWERS VERTEX WHELEN WILSON ZETRON In a message dated 10/25/2012 12:04:57 PM. Eastern Daylight Time, writes: YES ABSOLUTELY. Sam anct Karl do we know this tower? Michel Guite President Vermont National Telephone Co,_ Inc. E-Mail: [email protected] From: Marshall, Karen Sent: -Thursday, October 25, 2012 11:54 AM To: Michel (Suite; Gordon Mathews Subject: waitsfield, route 17 west: to Bueiis Gore/ Starksboro TOWER Hi I have knowledge that there is a tower without occupants at tho crest of route 17 going . from Waitsfield west to buells gore. . This looks to correspond with site #225 on your list. Would jrou have an in speaking with the tower owner? Kafen L. Marshall Chief Connect Vermont, Broadband and Mobiie Agency Of Administration 1 Paviliion Buiiding 109 State Street 1 M'ontpe1ier, VT 05609 . [email protected]