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First Step Internet, LLC is submitting this application seeking an Order for income
tax credit for First Step s investment in "qualified" broadband equipment. The following
information is provided for your consideration:
Name and address of applicant including the contact person in the event there
are questions regarding the application and its content. Indicate whether the
applicant is a telecommunications carrier, a commercial mobile service
carrier, a cable or open video operator, a satellite carrier, or other type of
wireless carrier.
First Step Internet, LLc.
1420 S. Blaine St
Ste 10
Moscow, ill 83843
[phone]
Contact: Kevin Owen (kowenCZUJsLcom
First Step Internet, LLC is a regional fixed wireless service provider.
Identify the area of location where the equipment is installed in Idaho.
The equipment referenced in our application is installed in the communities of
Moscow, Lewiston, Deary, Troy, Bovill, Genesee, Potlatch , Orofino
Tammany, and the surrounding counties.
Describe the type of broadband service(s) offered to the public in Idaho.
First Step Internet, LLC provides high-speed broadband services to the
residents of the communities that we serve. This service may be delivered via
Ethernet, DSL, frame relay, or fixed wireless.
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State the network transmission rate in bits per second at which subscribers to
the relevant broadband network can receive and send (download and upload)
Network Type TransmIssion Download Upload
rate (bits/sec)
900mhz 256k -512k -256k - 768k
wireless 0Mbps 5Mbps
2.4ghz wireless 256k -512k -256k -
11.0Mbps 0Mbps 0Mbps
8ghz wireless 256k - 54Mbps 800k -256k -
0Mbps 0Mbps
DSL 256k -256k -128k-
0Mbps 0Mbps 0Mbps
Frame Relay 256k -256k -256k -
5Mbps 5Mbps 1.5Mbps
Ethernet 256k -256k -256k -
100Mbps 100Mbps 100Mbps
Provide a specific list of the equipment or types of equipment that the
applicant is requesting that the Commission determine is "qualified
broadband equipment " as defined in the Idaho Code 63-3029(3)(b). List the
brand, manufacturer, model numbers, or other distinguishing features of the
installed equipment.
Please see attached list of equipment deployed.
Provide the date (s) or time period when the broadband equipment was
installed in Idaho.
All of the equipment was deployed prior to December 31 , 2005.
Provide a written description (including basic schematics or general
drawings) of the relevant broadband network including a description of how
the installed equipment is "an integral part " of a broadband network.
Please see attached network map and deployment.
Description of First Step Internet, LLC broadband network:
The network depicted in the attached map is a microwave wireless network
anchored in Moscow. From our NOC in Moscow, we have an OC-
(155mbps) fiber optic connection to our upstream provider, AT&T as well as
a DS-3 located in Lewiston. From Moscow there is a backbone point to point
wireless network that connects our facility to Moscow Mountain and Paradise
Ridge. From these two strategic locations, we then have point to point
microwave links to Lewiston and Tammany, Deary, Troy, Bovill, Genesee
Princeton, Harvard and Potlatch. In each community, we then have access
points that distribute microwave signals in a point to multi-point manner. At
the end-users' site , a microwave bridge (client purchased) is installed that