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removing and repaving streets, why not build new infrastructure like more street light poles that can accommodate
both Wi-Fi as well as 4G and 5G deployments?
Because of the size of New York City they cannot tackle everything at one time. There are a variety of small pilot
projects that they are working on and once they are successful, they will proliferate those across the city in a broad
way. For example, NYC is bringing affordable public Wi-Fi to the city’s housing projects, but the City’s Housing Authority
covers thousands of residences. So they are starting out with five projects, one in each borough, and then they will
branch out from there.
By the same token, they are modifying small areas as they rezone them, like East New York, to invest in creating the
city's own conduit while the streets are open. In both of these instances, NYC is able to provide fiber services to a
variety of new commercial and residential neighborhoods that were traditionally devoid of broadband.
New York City is developing the connected city by going from the heart of Manhattan all the way out to the outer
boroughs. They have the core fiber hubs in the urban area. In order to reach the outer boroughs or the outer
perimeters of our marketplace, they really have to start from the core and then grow out.
They are also taking a look at areas outside of Manhattan—what they call the Outer Boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens,
the Bronx, and Staten Island. These places may not have fiber infrastructure in the ground. Trying to determine
whether the city would like to connect them through millimeter wave fiber backhaul solutions that could then be used
as hub locations to provide wireless, high speed services much faster and at a lower cost than provisioning fiber all the
way out to these locations.
The New York City broadband initiative is continuing to grow. They continue to attract new talent and new leadership
that brings new ideas to the table, new creativity and new innovation. This cycle of generating revenue from the city's
own real estate will make it possible to finance more and better broadband ideas and their plan is for New York City to
continue to lead in innovating telecommunications services.

5 Assessing the role of different technologies

Cities are facing a wide spectrum of different wireless connectivity technologies both for broadband and the Internet
of Things (IoT) applications, special with all recent evolutions in terms of unlicensed technologies both for IoT and
broadband proliferation.
This chapter identifies the most relevant wireless technologies and their main applications in the industry, in order to
facilitate the understanding and roadmap that cities should pursuit.
This analysis is divided into wireless broadband technologies and IoT and Smart City technologies both from a
perspective of unlicensed and licensed spectrums.

Report title: Connected City Blueprint
16 Issue Date: 15 December 2016 Wireless Broadband Alliance Confidential & Proprietary.
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