5G and Fiber—50 Billion Reasons You NEED to Understand Telecom!

To meet the skyrocketing demand for telecommunications, automous vehicles, and smart cities, $55 billion in federal money and billions more in private sector dollars are building a “fifth utility” nationwide. These massive investments are building wireless (5G) and wireline (fiber optic) networks in public rights-of-way, improving public infrastructure, and erecting millions of 5G towers—often with a terrible impact on public works agencies. Come to this presentation to learn how public works agencies can: Create millions in new revenues. Manage the “tsunami” of fiber optic street cuts, microtrenching, and 5G towers. Create a municipally-owned ultra high-speed, low-cost fiber optic backbone. Provide “gigabit” broadband services to residents, often as revenue-generating enterprises or profit centers. “Future-proof” your smart city. Create resilient, critical “intelligent infrastructure.” Interconnect your traffic signals with federally-funded fiber optics, which become revenue generators. Municipalize your streetlights, reduce your illumination costs by 80%, and rent them as 5G transmitter sites. Control street cuts and microtrenching with full cost recovery, lane rental, and pavement degradation fees. Avoid chaos, cost causers, unnecessary utility cuts, and ugly “frankenpoles.” . . .All at the same time, largely with other people’s money!
At the conclusion of this session participants will be better able to:
• Prepare your agency for a “smart” future, get your share of $55 billion, “gigafy” your public works agency, and create new standards and policies to enhance the management of your infrastructure.
• Create partnerships with the private sector and obtain federal funding to construct hundreds of miles of fiber optic lines, allowing “glorious gigabits” to flow to your residents AND all your public works infrastructure.
• Determine how to repurpose your existing infrastructure—including traffic signals and utility-owned street lighting, converting them from “cost causers” to new revenue sources.