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106 | P a g e City of San Leandro, CA Fiber Master Plan challenged with the capital costs required to construct this infrastructure, particularly in high-cost urbanized environments. The utility infrastructure provides a cost-effective alternative to providers constructing the infrastructure themselves. In these cases, municipalities generally use a utility model or enterprise fund model to develop programs to manage these infrastructure systems and offer them to broadband service providers using standardized rate structures. • Government Services Provider: Municipalities that become a government service provider will utilize a fiber-optic network to interconnect multiple public organizations with fiber-optic or wireless connectivity. These organizations are generally limited to the community anchors that fall within their jurisdiction, including local governments, school districts, higher educational organizations, public safety organizations, utilities, and occasionally healthcare providers. The majority of these anchors require connectivity and often, the municipal network provides higher capacity at lower costs than these organizations are able to obtain commercially. Municipal and utility networks across the country have been built to interconnect cities, counties, school districts, and utilities to one another at lower costs and with long-term growth capabilities that support these organizations’ future needs and protect them from rising costs. In these cases, government service providers may be cities, counties, or consortia that build and maintain the network. The providers utilize inter-local agreements between public agencies to establish connectivity, rates, and the terms and conditions of service. • Open Access Provider: (Recommended Option for San Leandro – Phase 2) Municipalities that adopt open-access generally own a substantial fiber-optic network in their communities. Open-access allows these municipalities to “light” the fiber and equip the network with the electronics necessary to establish a “transport service” or “circuit” to service providers interconnecting with the local network. The City will provide last mile/lateral infrastructure and fiber to the building and then service providers are connected to that fiber to provide end user services. This is often referred to as a wholesale model. Open-access refers to a network that is available for any qualified service providers to utilize in order to connect their customers. It allows municipalities to provide an aggregation of local customers on a single network that are able to compete for and provide services. The concept of open-access is designed to enable competition among service providers across an open network that is owned by the municipality. The municipality retains neutrality and non-discriminatory practices with the providers who operate on the network. The municipality establishes a standard rate structure and terms of service for use by all participating service providers. • Retail Provider: This involves provision of business and residential services at retail rates to customers.