About Us

TeloPhase is an IT services and broadband - at least 1 megabit per second downstream and 500 kilobits per second upstream - communications infrastructure startup. TeloPhase's mission is to empower municipalities through deployment of 'not-for-profit', revenue-sharing entities providing IT services support and deploying carrier-grade, scaleable communications networks that maximize both commercial (ROI) and social returns-on-investment (SROI) resulting from citizen access to those services and networks. TeloPhase competes in the for-profit market, but chooses to re-invest a minimum of 75% of its profit back into the communities it serves, thus our 'not-for-profit' designation.

TeloPhase began with a question: "Is it possible to create significant, new revenue opportunities for communities? Our answer to this question was a resounding yes! Significant research and diligence led to the to the development of Community-Based Networks, a not-for-profit, revenue sharing, community-based, broadband communication network model.

Currently, ALL telecommunication profits LEAVE your community!

With TeloPhase, your community gets most of the profits BACK!

TeloPhase's Community-Based Network model is built to be scaleable and portable. It provides broadband services for 5% to 30% less than current DSL subscriber rates. In addition, TeloPhase returns a minimum of 75% of its operating profits back to sponsoring municipalities. Remaining profits feed a fund for starting up additional not-for-profit community communication networks. View the PDF version of our business summary (96KB) for Community-Based Networks.

Every community that TeloPhase enables will result in the sale of approximately $2.3M of infrastructure and applications equipment from commercial suppliers. In fact, TeloPhase's model substantially increases the absolute size of the market for commercial vendors - in some cases, by an order of magnitude, or more.

TeloPhase's technical model calls for deployment of carrier-grade hardware for every TeloPhase Community-Based Network. This hardware includes: Sun UNIX servers for all critical online functions; Cisco networking switches, routers, and firewalls. The actual technology used to develop a community network is selected once community functional requirements are developed. An example of a wireless network is as follows; wireless 60+ Mbs point-to-point backhaul networks (WANs); a 10 to 50 Mbs point-to-multi-point wireless MAN (Metropolitan Area Network); and WiFi enabled LANs for use within homes, parks, malls, educational institutions, and other private and/or public areas where mobile Internet access is needed. In addition, every Community-Based Network will deploy PIX firewalls to help protect the community from Internet based attacks.

TeloPhase's target market is comprised of all communities with populations ranging from 25,000-200,000 persons, nationally. There are several thousand communities in the United States that are a potential fits for TeloPhase model. TeloPhase's Community-Based Network model is projected to capture 50-80% of the customers in this niche, and is designed to be portable, and transportable to all communities in the stated target range - with potential for scaling to others outside the target range. Existing service providers have simply not been able to penetrate this target market to a significant degree.

TeloPhase creates maximum social returns on investment (SROI) for communities and maximum ROI for suppliers of consumer-based equipment, communications servers, and networking equipment. Every constituency - public and/or private - that plays a part in TeloPhase deployment benefits from maximal leveraging of heretofore under-utilized, human-capital assets that are not currently accessed by privately held communications providers.

TeloPhase is actively working with local municipalities and communications equipment vendors to obtain service and operational assistance necessary to carry through the early stages of its plan. TeloPhase is working with a community in the San Francisco Bay area to be a pilot for its business and technology models. This deployment will be followed by further deployments in one or more San Francisco Bay Area municipalities, and nationally.

TeloPhase wants to be the Information Technology (IT) group for communities by building and supporting the network/computer infrastructure and providing IT services and technical consulting. In sum, TeloPhase has the potential to enable communities - on a national scale - by organizing and operating not-for-profit IT services and broadband communication networks that create the following:

1. Community-based IT and broadband services - designed to become self-sustaining within 18 months - at lower rates than competing commercial vendors;


2. Significant revenues to participating equipment providers in the for-profit sector;


3. Low cost, and free, services to schools, government, selected community organizations, and residents via grants, gifts, and scholarships;


4. Stimulus to local employment.