6. Labour Force
• Total labour force 61,805
• Education level
• University/College 57%
• Trades 10%
• High School 25%
• BC Unemployment rate 7.5%
(August 2011)
• Local job availability est. <50%
8. Transportation - Evergreen Line
• Approved in 2011
• Est. Project Cost: $1.4B
• 11 km (6 stations) connects Coquitlam,
Port Moody, Burnaby, New Westminster,
Richmond & Vancouver
• Ridership: 70,000 / day by 2021
14. Coquitlam Optical Network
Corporation - QNet
• Local government corporation incorporated
Nov. 12, 2008 as per a 30 year business plan
approved by Council in March, 2008
• Wholly owned by the City of Coquitlam with
independent board of six directors
• Startup financing: $5 million loan from City,
profitable by 2014, long term source of non-
tax revenue
• Primary service – lease dark fibre optic cables
to primarily to competitive telecom companies
15. Key Milestones
• 1999 – 2003: Approx. 45kms of underground ducts
installed by Engineering for traffic signal network
• 2003 – 2004: 45kms of fibre deployed to support
Voice-over-IP telephone system ($750k cost paid
for with telecom savings of $302k/year)
• March 2008: Council approves QNet business plan,
QNet incorporated in Nov/08
• 2009: City RFP for Internet and telephone services
brings in Bell and Allstream as upstream service
providers for QNet
• 2010: Uniserve begins selling competitive Internet
and telephone residential and business services
20. City of Coquitlam / QNet Benefits
• Reduce the impacts of telecom installation on
City rights-of-way
– Except for TELUS & Shaw, telecom companies
wishing to install fibre optics in Coquitlam now
lease from QNet (e.g. Rogers Wireless, Bell)
– No concerns about impacts on rights-of-way if
new competitors enter the Canadian telecom
market
– Work with wireless carriers to improve wireless
services in a publicly responsible manner
22. City of Coquitlam / QNet Benefits
• Improve telecom services and costs for the
City and community partners:
– Hard dollar operating savings of $357,000 per
year
– Two state-of-the-art data centre / co-location
facilities with green cooling technology
– Ability to centrally deploy and manage the
latest ICT applications in all of our facilities and
for mobile workers
– Internet connection speed increased by over
1000%
23. City of Coquitlam / QNet Benefits
• Enable the delivery of competitive telecom
services in order to foster job creation,
home based businesses and virtual
workplace (i.e. home office)
32. VANTX Internet Service Providers
• Bell Canada
• Shaw Business Solutions
• Peer 1 (USA)
• Tata Communications (India)
• TELUS
• Columbia Networks
• RackForce Networks
• Primus Telecom
• AEBC Internet Corp.
• Skyway West
34. Connecting to the Source - Benefits
• Predictable competitive pricing for QNet
customers
• Expand the market – additional ISPs
• Fully utilize capabilities of our Poirier co-
location facility (rack rentals, backup and
DR, cloud computing, etc.)
• CivicInfo BC provincial video conferencing
• Competitive exchange for other
municipalities
35. Vancouver and Collaboration
• Making it happen:
– City of New Westminster (power utility)
– District of Maple Ridge (job creation)
– Port Coquitlam (Coquitlam school district &
RCMP)
– City of North Vancouver (gas utility)
– Langley / Abbotsford (job creation)
– BC.Net & BC Broadband Association
(advocacy)
36. Vancouver and Collaboration
• Watching it happen:
– City of Vancouver (competitive downtown core)
– City of Burnaby (competitive high tech district & SAP)
– City of Richmond (city facilities only)
– City of Surrey (other priorities)
– MetroVan (GVRD) (too expensive)
– TransLink (for internal systems only)
– BC Hydro (for internal systems only)
– Province of BC ($1 billion 10 yr TELUS agreement –
rural connectivity a priority)
