1. Rural Telecom Conference Springfield, Il. Tuesday October 16 th 2007

2. City of Princeton Fiber and PLC Services The Community and Economic Development Benefits of Providing Broadband Services

3. City of Princeton, Princeton, Il. Jason Bird, Superintendent of Electric and Telecommunications 815-875-1231

4. City of Princeton Broadband Service- Fiber, BPL and Shared Fiber Provide affordable high speed internet service to every citizen and business in the City of Princeton

5. Why? Retention of current customer base and economic growth.

6. Harper Wyman Largest customer and largest employer left August 2003

7. School Enrollment School enrollment continues to drop but population remains steady. 840 students in 1999, today 670.

8. LCN Hires New Plant CEO New CEO tells Mayor and City Council that the Princeton plant can not operate efficiently as other plants.

9. Fiber Network Get the OK Completed 12 mile 96 fiber count backhaul and several 12 fiber count drops taken to key customers sites. Fiber is owned by the city.

10. Would the City Be the Provider The City chose not to be the ISP and therefore decided to send RFP out to partner with the successful bidder.

11. Public/private Partnership City of Princeton and Connecting Point establish a partnership, select BPL as the last mile technology. Establish a revenue sharing.

12. Available Options Fiber broadband services, speeds starting off with several t-1 lines and easy to ramp the speed up, network systems, VoIP, security systems, energy management system.

13. Why BPL/PLC Minimal capital expense to the utility, connections possible to all customers, fast and easy to install, reliable internet access, speeds in excess of 5.0 mbps for G-2

14. Why BPL/PLC Alarming for power outages notifications, VoIP, security and video.

15. Utility Applications AMR, hotspots, traffic controls, potential system flaws that go unseen, security systems, energy management systems, switching to provide reliability and VoIP.

16. Benefits to Princeton Improving quality of life, promoting economic development, promoting broadband competition, retaining customer base, and enhancing responses to power outages.

17. What Has Happen to Date? Received EDA Grant for $675,000.00, LCN has made an investment to the Princeton Plant exceeding 6 million Dollars, we now have DSL, Cable Modems and BPL

18. What Has Happen to Date? Created a partnership with one business owner and U of Illinois, to establish a video conferencing center in Princeton.

19. Backhaul expands and BPL deployed to entire City Today we have over 22 miles of fiber and have all BPL equipment installed

20. Bureau County Republican Local paper announces Bureau County ranks fifth best rural county to live in the Midwest and 21 st in the country. Source Progressive Farmer magazine. Princeton is the county seat.

21. Another new Partnership The City of Princeton and Tetra Research Form a partnership.

22. FTTH The City and Connecting Point will be connecting our first residential customers with fiber soon.

23. Hot Spots We have a free wireless connection located at the Amtrak Depot and at one of our Parks.

28. PLC/BPL Layout