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BroadBand Means Business On the Central Coast

June 27 2017 Monterey Plaza Hotel & Spa 400 Cannery Row Monterey, CA 93940

Tony Cricelli 712 Hawthorne St Monterey CA 93940

History

• 1995 Started providing "Internet type" Services
• Email
• Dial-Up
• At least 8 Internet Local Companies, lots of choice!

Internet Monterey Bay Mbay Net Monterey Bay Internet Scruz Net Carmel Net Netpipe Ultima Net Monterey Network Center Prodigy AOL Netcom PacBell Internet

History (Continued)

• 1999 Started offering DSL to Monterey County
• Pac Bell Phone Company
• Pac Bell Internet Company
• Laws changed !
• Next 10 Years Wasted Competing Against Tax Dollar Subsidized

cable and phone companies.

• Diversified to offering Consulting, Hosting and Colocation
• 2010 Started offer Fixed Wireless Internet to Underserved Areas
• 2017 Still serving areas ignored by cable/phone companies and State

and Federal Governments

• 14 Employees
• Half In Monterey
• Half In Marina
• We all shop, eat, pay rent, etc.. local. We are a CA corporation
• Certified Green
• Continuing to build green broadband relays
• Involved in Community, Some of the local non-profits we directly support:
• Rice Plus Project
• Boy and Girls Club
• Prunedale Educational Association
• Interfaith Homeless Emergency Lodging Program
• Cannery Row Foundation
• Salinas PAL
• The Panetta Institute
• Ag and Land-Based Training Assoc. (ALBA)

Red Shift is Invested In Local Economy

• Ag and Land-Based Training Assoc (ALBA)
• Aromas Community Grange
• Cannery Row Foundation
• Carmel High School Athletic Boosters
• Carmel Public Library Foundation
• Carmel Valley Ranchers Days
• Carmel Valley Trail & Saddle Club, Inc
• Community Human Services
• Computer House
• Feast of Lanterns
• First Night Monterey
• Foundation for Photographic Preservation
• Helping Our Peninsula's Environment (HOPE)
• Hide 'N Seek
• Hollister SDA Church
• I Cantori di Carmel
• Interfaith Homeless Emergency Lodging

Program

• King City Union School District
• LULAC Councel #2055
• MBUG
• Monterey and Salinas Valley Model Railroad and

Historical Society (M&SVRR)

Red Shift Provided Free Hosting to Local Non-Profits

• Monterey County SPCA
• Monterey Bay Kids
• Monterey Peninsula FlyCasters
• Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club
• NCF Foundation
• Pacific Repertory Theatre
• Panther Youth Sports
• Prunedale Educational Association
• Rats to Riches
• Salinas Area Modelers
• Salinas PAL
• San Carlos Church
• Seaside Chamber of Commerce
• Sons of the American Revolution
• St. Angela's Children's Center
• St. Mary's by the Sea
• St. Peter's Holy Catholic Church
• The Village Project Inc
• Troop 60
• United Nations Association of the USA
• WILPF Monterey County

Where Are We Now?

Source: 2017 results from Berkeley IGS Poll. Prior year results as reported by CETF from surveys conducted by The Field Poll (2014-2016) and the Public Policy Institute of California (2008-2013).

Where Are We Now?

• Recent poll finds that 87% of California households report having

broadband Internet connectivity at home. (Berkeley IGC Poll 2017) Is this true for Monterey County?

• What percentage of Big Sur kids have broadband access at home?
• What about the hundreds of homes up Palo Colorado Canyon Rd?
• Why aren't all Internet companies fighting each other for that business?

What is the reason ?

• Corporate stock holders?
• Government regulations or lack of regulations?
• Will prices go down if :
• Comcast purchases Charter?
• ATT purchases Time Warner?
• Government "funds" geared towards dealing with billion dollar

corporations and lobbyist …

Recent Success Stories

Wireless Broadband to: Otto Construction - VA Clinic Gonzales City Government Santa Lucia Preserve Bonnie Dunes Elkhorn Slew Bay Ridge Camphora Farmworker Housing Soledad Correctional Facility Housing We bring broadband to neglected markets without subsidies! (but willing to accept help to speed up deployments J )

Moving Forward

• Red Shift is committed to serving ignored Monterey County Areas
• Ensure remote locations, like Oak Hills, Monterey Dunes, Soledad , Green

Field and King City have high speed connectivity

• Continue to rely on on eco-friendly, resilient, sustainable, technologies

like solar and wind

• Continue to build partnerships with Monterey Businesses and

Governments

BroadBand Means Business On the Central Coast

Thank you!

Tony Cricelli 712 Hawthorne St Monterey CA 93940