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Education During engagement for Fellsmere's Broadband Feasibility Study, Magellan spoke with Indian River Public Schools regarding broadband needs and issues of the schools and their students. Their schools are fairly well covered with two 10 Gigabit connections on a redundant fiber ring. They service 25 schools and 27 facilities through their Indian River Consortium. The Consortium fiber doesn't have alternate pathways, which leads to issues with redundancy for the system. Many of their schools are brick buildings, so they have some issues with cellular service not penetrating the buildings. At the time of this report, the district was not planning any school expansions as the demographics of Indian River County leans older than many other growing areas of Florida. The Consortium has also been fairly dormant in recent years and the County should seek to update agreements to clarify ownership of newly built infrastructure as they move forward. During the pandemic the schools (specifically in Fellsmere) saw many students come sit on their steps to gain access to the Wi-Fi to complete assignments. Outside the fringes of town there isn't any AT&T or Comcast infrastructure, and Comcast Essentials is not available in all of the areas of need. The schools also handed out hot spots to students, however they received many calls that they didn't work well due to lack of cellular service. Their only solution was to place the hot spot near a window or on a porch to try to get better service. Radio One" Radio One is a Motorola partner in the LMR space that works with Disney, Advent Health, and other large enterprises to deploy artificial intelligence, video, and LTE12 products. Motorola's expansion products help solve big picture problems, for instance they have been in the public safety communication space for 15 years. Motorola operates over CBRS-based private LTE as a service. They are purpose- built, open and on -go certified. The company is targeting education with ARPA funding and they are seeing a lot of interest in distance learning and on premise for schools. Motorola offers Citizens Band Radio Service Device (CBSD) products provide approximately 800 users with " https://radiolcbrs.com/ 12 LTE stands for Long -Term Evolution and is a data communication protocol most used for 4G cellular. Many CBRS solutions uses LTE as it allows devices to be interoperable between vendors. 34 WWW.MAGELLAN—ADVISORS.coM 209