Final Comcast Agreement

Below is a link to the agreement signed by Tuolumne County and Comcast, on 12/19/06. Thanks to Supervisor Teri Murrison for providing it and to Ed Fernandez for requesting it. Ed notes the following:

After a quick perusal I noted two significant things:

It calls for an update completion date in five years.

It obligates service to be provided where there are a minimum of 40 connections per cable mile. Connections not meeting the 40 minimum can still be made at Comcast's option. This probably exludes most of the rural areas and high end subdivisions like Curtis Creek, Lambert Lake Estates, Ridgewood, Whispering Woods, etc.. Consider that a square parcel of 300 by 300 feet is just over two acres. Assuming connections on both sides of a road this equates to about 35 connections and does not take into account the miles of cable that are needed just to get to the development. (Most of the lots in the above mentioned developments probably have footage well in excess of 400 feet.)

Document link (1295 KB PDF): http://www.networksierra.org/pdf/agree-comcast.pdf