Kansas City, MO

Transportation &
Infrastructure
Committee
April 14, 2016

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What Is Happening with Wireless Networks?

Exponential growth in the use of
smartphones and in the demand for
data intensive services such as
video streaming, gaming, video
conferencing, mobile TV and other
data rich applications will soon
exhaust current wireless
technologies, existing network
capacity, and all available
spectrum
Source: CTIA White Paper
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The FCC calls it

history making

On April 17, 2015 the FCC established the

Citizens Broadband Radio Service with
new rules aimed at addressing todays
capacity challenges, including:

Dynamic
Spectrum Sharing

Shared spectrum (similar to wifi

where anyone can operate a radio)
A spectrum management system
that will coordinate between users
(similar to how todays cellular LTE
networks operate)
Allocation of a large new slice of
spectrum (150 MHz in the 3.5 GHz
band)

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Why Test in Kansas City Metro Area?

1.

2.

innovation
Google and the Kansas City metro area have worked well as excellent partners in
The Kansas City metro area understands technology and

innovation
3.

Google Fibers ultra

high speed fiber backbone in the Kansas City metro

area is necessary to facilitate the pilot project and will reduce construction related impacts
4.

Gigabit region to
benefit with new advanced wireless services
If successful, the Kansas City metro area will be the first

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Timeline Estimated

Jan

January 2016

Nov 2016

Wireless Node locations

determined

Testing and Integration

of the network

Mar

May

Jul

Sep

Nov

Jan

EOY 2017

Mar

Viability of 3.5 Spectrum for

Network Sharing

May

March 2016

Jan 2017

Equipment Delivery and

Construction Start

Ongoing Reports to FCC

and invitation to partners

Jul

Sep

Nov

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KCMO
Areas of Interest
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Waldo
Brookside
18th and Vine
Crossroads
Downtown
Country Club Plaza
Barry Road
Westport

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Proposed
KCMO street
light designs

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Thank you!

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