FROM PAGE 1 to the tower up on the hill by the prison.” The transmission towers would combine a 5 Ghz frequency “not to be confused with 5G” with a 3.56 Ghz CBRS band and capable of up to 50 (Mbps) Carolfi said, though noting that most customers got by on less than this.

“That band is licensed by the federal government,” Carolfi said of CBRS, meaning there were some “light hoops” to jump through. The federal government defines high-speed broadband, meanwhile, as being 25 Mbps. Kevin Hendrickson had a question for Carolfi March 1.

“And if I as a homeowner in the City of Stanley wanted to buy into this?”

“You could get service in the city as well,” Carolfi told Hendrickson, making Country Wireless the City’s effective provider. Koenig said that the school district provided students with hotspots, but that these were for areas where “their (Country Wireless) coverage won’t go as well,” Koenig said. “Where there is no coverage whatsoever.”

As to Country Wireless and the six-mile radius, meanwhile, Carolfi said that a coverage map provided to Council members was “a computer- generated best guess,” which could be inaccurate at times. Carolfi said that some sites serviced by the company wanted flat rates while others wanted meters, and that “it doesn’t really matter how you want to do that,” he said of the flat rate versus metered cost structure. The water towers themselves as used by the company tended to be sealed environments with access by key. But as to painting the towers in a year or two?

“As far as the painting water towers goes, we’ve had this in a lot of other communities,” Carolfi said, saying that the easiest way was to wrap the wires in a bag until everything was done, with no big problems foreseen from this.

By the end of the night the matter was left between Carolfi and city water operator Don Goettl for further discussion.