Text Box: Page # Text Box: Create a Business Plan For a Rural Community Broadband Project Text Box: Non-Profit Organizations Colleges School Districts Libraries Healthcare Facilities Utilities Telecommunications Equipment and Service Vendors Hotels/Motels/Resorts Other Local Businesses III. Requirements Analysis This section of the Plan should address the expected broadband needs of the various stakeholder groups. Specific needs areas typically include cost, bandwidth, service quality, and mobility, along with security considerations. This section is also the best place for a description of network services currently offered by local telephone, cellular, and cable providers, especially the extent to which these offerings meet or do not meet stakeholder needs. One additional and potentially important requirements consideration should be specific applications that the network could be expected to support, either immediately or in the future. Examples: surveillance video, wireless Internet access zones for shopping or business districts, online data records access for police and fire, community video links, remote health patient monitoring, distance learning, or traffic monitoring and enforcement. This section should also identify relevant requirements at a high level and then describe their relative priority. IV. Business Model Analysis Business models for community broadband networks represent ownership and operation arrangements. In particular, the emphasis of these models is on financial structure and designated responsibilities for ongoing administration and maintenance. This section is the place to consider alternative models and present a recommendation. For community broadband networks, business model options typically involve variations of public-private partnerships, including

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