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Mission Statement
Pivot's mission is to empower local communities to own the infrastructure that improve their residents' lives. We accomplish this through creative public/private partnership constructs that lead to the freedom of broadband "self rule".
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What Makes Pivot Tech Different?
Pivot-Tech Development, Inc. was formed in February 2023 to assist local, county, and state governments leverage the federal government’s once-in-a generation infrastructure investment to provide broadband services to their unserved and underserved residents. We believe if the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“IIJA”) funds are well leveraged and effectively implemented, communities can be transformed.
Layered Architecture
We created "Layered Architecture," that involves planning business models that bring traffic to fiber simultaneously with the network itself. Typically, these business models evolve over the network's lifetime, but we expedite this by gaining buy-in from nearby cities for Smart City initiatives and designing Smart Ag use cases, such as soil monitoring and drone surveillance for crops.
In rural areas with poor cellular connectivity, we plan small cell networks for residents and EMS services. Additionally, we design edge computing data centers, that can generate external revenues from tenants like streaming services, gaming platforms, and AI for school labs or M2M monitoring. Micro data centers can also provide disaster recovery for local governments and businesses, using liquid cooling to reduce operational costs.
Density Enables Sparsity
That is a simple sentence, but it illustrates the value of the public / private partnership. The debt we raise through tax-free municipal bonds can be used (and is encouraged to be used) for overbuild in dense metro or suburban areas. These dense areas are lower cost to build ($1,500 per home passed versus $5,400 for rural) and we know that our take rate will average 35%, so these areas are used to build revenues that sustain the entire network. Grant money can only be used to bring service to rural communities or addresses, so the pairing is what makes this work. The dense areas also provide ample opportunities for the business units mentioned above.
Industry Veterans Driving Innovation and Excellence
Three industry veterans had a vision: "Let's take everything we've learned from our careers and turn it into something special that the "usual suspects" either can't do or won't do."
James D. Cannon
CEO
Jim has a 43 year career in both telecom and cable, including building and operating four MVNOs from 2006-2013. Jim designed U.S. cable operator Charter Communications’ MVNO system end-to-end, “Spectrum Mobile”. Jim is an electrical engineer who understands system design but most importantly business use cases for technology. He is well versed in cable architecture as well as fiber networks in addition to his wireless knowledge. Jim brought together a group of “A Team” companies to respond to RFPs and other opportunities from an end-to-end perspective. He is an industry thought leader and respected speaker.
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John Bowles
COO
John has a wide range of telecom experience in telecom gained over 30+ years. He assisted regional Bell operating companies to become market driven post divestiture, including Pacific Bell, Ameritech, US West, and Southern Bell. John co-founded four MVNOs between 2006 2013 and he designed and developed a cloud based mobile PBX system for AT&T Mexico.
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Michael Adams
CTO
Michael has a 30-year career in broadband network development including the National Backbone fiber-optic network for Time Warner Cable (now Spectrum High-Speed Internet) and the AOL/TW Open Access program. Michael held VP Engineering roles at Time Warner Cable, Terayon, Tandberg Television and Ericsson. He is a published author of two cable engineering textbooks: “Open Cable Architecture” Cisco Press, and “Modern Cable Television Technology” Morgan Kaufman Publishing. As an industry leader and Cable TV Pioneer, Michael is an accomplished speaker and evangelist of innovative technologies.
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