Blueprint Broadband today unveiled a new model for residential and commercial developers to bring fiber to their communities.
Blueprint integrates fiber into the development plan from the start, structuring it as a joint venture to provide developers with control and financial participation in the networks installed on their projects.
“Every new community needs fiber, but developers shouldn’t have to give the value away,” Scott Sampson, CEO of Blueprint Broadband, said in a prepared statement about the company’s model. “Blueprint builds it, we operate it, we support it — but the developer owns it with us. That changes the economics, the experience and the future of every project we touch.”
Blueprint handles the nuances of the developments, working with homebuilders, planned communities, commercial developers, and mixed-use operators. The Blueprint Broadband model provides developers with:
- Turnkey fiber design, construction, and operations
- Direct coordination with builders during every phase of construction
- Communication, service standards, and deployment timelines designed around construction workflows
Blueprint is closely partnered with two other companies, describing itself as “backed by Mac Mountain and powered by Lightcraft.” Mac Mountain provides strategy and capital for broadband networks around the nation, while LightCraft is described as Mac Mountain’s “operational engine” — the company that carries out the Blueprint model via network design, permitting, and construction.
The Blueprint Broadband model announcement was made from Centennial, Colorado. Other areas in Colorado are seeing developers investing in broadband, too. In August, Telecompetitor talked to John Cullen, president of Grand Heritage Hotel Group, about how high-speed broadband has impacted his business.
Grand Heritage owns historic hotels nationwide. Thirty years ago, the company acquired The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park — the hotel that inspired The Shining book and movie. Recently, the hotel was sold to the state of Colorado, with Grand Heritage continuing as the developer of the property.
