2. Technology founded in Bella Bella B.C Canada
(2005)
• Remote Areas
• 350 miles north of major city
center
• E – Education Class room
• Initial installation 2005

3. Advanced Interactive Joint Venture with M.I.K to form
Rural First Broadband Inc
“To Connect & Protect”
Advanced Interactive
Inc. engineers solutions that
increase access speeds to the
Internet in remote communities
such as:
Alaska, American Samoa,
northern Canada, Hawaii, India,
Kenya, Nigeria, Tahiti, Tonga,
Uganda, etc.
www.ruralfirstbroadband.com

4. • International
Presence
• Over 55 Years in
Business
• 690 Employees
• Over 600,000 sq/ft of
facilities
worldwide

5. Applications to Industry Canada were
procured, equipment was
purchased, programmed and mounted on
a existing broadcast tower in a rural
community called Whitecourt, Alberta.
Proof of Concept using UHF
We took our knowledge base
from the cable plant and
applied it to wireless.
Initially we were astonished to
find that the footprint of coverage
to be a 50km radius or ~8000
Sq/Km.

6. Residential
Viability
After proof of
concept the organic
migration of live
customers on
system was
achieved.
The first system took 4 years of residential
installs and thousands of hours of tweaking
and fine tuning to fully understand the
abilities & Limitations of the 'White Space'
Technology.
This gave rise to the second
system servicing Grande Prairie,
Alberta and its surrounding areas.
Term to describe
the UHF
Spectrum.
Financial
Investment of
$15 Million
Canadian
Dollars.

7. Alberta Coverage Map
UHF Coverage footprints along the
Highway 43 Alaska Highway
Each system has an approximate
coverage of 50km radius or 8,000
square km.
• 40,447 Residential Homes
• 4,272 Businesses
• Thousands of Well Heads
• 12 First Nation Settlements
Covering Over

8. Types of Connectivity
Fiber
DSL
Cable

10. Previous slide was types of connectivity, this slide needs
to be enhanced on different wireless system
types, capabilities, features and benefits of our wireless
systems
Wireless Spectrum
Licensed- UHF 500Mhz-899Mhz
Unlicensed-
900Mhz-2.4Ghz
-Lower frequency allows for greater signal penetration
through foliage.
-Higher frequency are blocked and/or has difficulty
penetrating through foliage.
-Near Line of Sight allows signal to “Bend” around hills
and valleys.
-Line of Sight requires a non obstructed path between
transmission and receive antennas for connectivity.
-Competitors cannot cause interference on licensed
allocated frequency.
-Non licensed frequency transmission by many carriers
cause interference resulting in non reliable service

11. Prioritizing traffic and adding in Quality of Service (QOS)
Priority Broadband

12. Case Study
Wireless broadband communication system

13. Fox Creek (Industrial Communication System)
Over 5,000 Well
Heads

14. Our Industrial Broadband Network
will provide reliable broadband services to businesses, residential, oil well heads and First Nation settlements
communities.

15. Our business broadband Network

16. Our Residential Broadband Network

17. Rapid Deployment
Carrier on Wheels
• Quick deployment for recovery of any system tower issue
• Emergency response during disaster relief