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The AT&T Lightspeed Project involves installing new Video Ready Access Device (VRAD) cabinets to provide AT&T subscribers with access to their new IPTV service called U-Verse. AT&T has permission from the state to install these cabinets and is working with the city to identify locations and permit installations. As of July 2008, 40 of the planned 95 VRAD cabinets have been installed or were under construction, with the goal of completing the full rollout by the end of the year. Property owners near cabinet locations can receive $1500 in screening, and cabinets near public lands will be screened by the city.

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The AT&T Lightspeed Project involves installing new Video Ready Access Device (VRAD) cabinets to provide AT&T subscribers with access to their new IPTV service called U-Verse. AT&T has permission from the state to install these cabinets and is working with the city to identify locations and permit installations. As of July 2008, 40 of the planned 95 VRAD cabinets have been installed or were under construction, with the goal of completing the full rollout by the end of the year. Property owners near cabinet locations can receive $1500 in screening, and cabinets near public lands will be screened by the city.

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AT&T Lightspeed Project

EXISTING NEW VRAD


AT&T Lightspeed Project
AT&T Lightspeed is a project to provide AT&T
subscribers with access to AT&T’s new internet
protocol television product named U-Verse. The
new cabinets to be installed in the public right of
way are called VRADs (Video Ready Access
Devices), and they serve as a junction between
the fiber system which carries a video signal from
the provider to the VRAD cabinet and the copper
system that will bring the signal into the
subscriber’s home.
BACKGROUND
AT&T Lightspeed Project

• Illinois Cable and Video Competition Law


STATEWIDE FRANCHISE: AT&T granted statewide franchise by the Illinois
Commerce Commission in 2007. As a result, the City cannot refuse to allow
video providers such as AT&T the use of its right-of-way.

CITY STRENGTHENS ROW ORDINANCE: In October 2007, the City


Council strengthened its Right of Way Ordinance to gain controls over the
manner in which utilities, like AT&T, construct facilities in the right of way.

AT&T AGREES TO FUND SCREENING: AT&T is required to provide $1500


per cabinet location for visual screening of the VRADs. The funding is
available to abutters of the cabinets for screening. All VRADs adjacent to
public land (parks, schools and parking lots) will be screened by the City.
REVIEW AND PERMITTING PROCESS
AT&T Lightspeed Project

• Twice weekly meetings with Public Works, Parks


& Forestry, and AT&T representatives

• Meetings are pre-construction meetings or site


visits for each proposed VRAD box
REVIEW AND PERMITTING PROCESS
AT&T Lightspeed Project

• On-Site Field Visit Review


Review of proposed box locations
Proximity to existing AT&T boxes
Utility Conflicts
Line-of-sight considerations
Impact to trees and screening ability
REVIEW AND PERMITTING PROCESS
AT&T Lightspeed Project

• Pre-Construction Meeting

Construction methods

Conflicts with other construction projects

Impacts of the construction and the traffic control


requirements

Project schedule and restoration


REVIEW AND PERMITTING PROCESS
AT&T Lightspeed Project
• Construction
AT&T required to notify adjacent property
owner of box location

Restoration of site within six weeks


following completion of construction

Timeframe takes into consideration


AT&T’s follow up with electrical work to
cabinet.
AT&T WORK TO DATE
AT&T Lightspeed Project

• Original AT&T estimated 119 cabinet


locations has been decreased to 95

• 40 boxes have been installed or under


construction (as of 7/14/08)

• All 95 boxes will be installed by the end of


2008
BOX ADJACENT TO EXISTING CABINET
AT&T Lightspeed Project

NEW
CABINET

OLD CABINET
BOX WITH SCREENING
AT&T Lightspeed Project

SCREENTING
TREATMENT
ALLEY BOX LOCATION
AT&T Lightspeed Project

20-Foot Wide Alley Application


SUMMARY
AT&T Lightspeed Project
• 40 of 95 VRAD cabinet installations in progress or
completed.
• AT&T schedule is to have all 95 VRADs installed
in 2008.
• All abutters to the VRAD cabinets have a
screening option and AT&T is providing $1500 per
location for this purpose.
• All VRAD cabinets installed adjacent to public land
will be screened by the City.

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