PDR 15-173

Here we go:

Responsive Documents Cross Reference

(1a) What is the operating cost of Click's cable

television arm?
(1b) What is the income?
(1c) Is the cable arm profitable?
(1d) What is the average expense incurred and
average income generated from a cable television
customer?

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

(2a) What is the operating cost of Click's data arm?

(e.g. the internet arm, and how I shall refer to it
from here on out)
(2b) What is the income?
(2c) Is the internet arm profitable?
(2d) What is the average expense incurred and
average income generated from an internet
customer?

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

(3a) What costs are shared between the two, if any? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

(3b) What costs are shared between Click and
Tacoma Power/TPU? e.g., what costs does Tacoma
Power bear that would not show up on any Click
documentation but is, in fact, a cost directly related
to Click.
(3c) What are the real personnel costs? Again, are
any shouldered by Tacoma Power, e.g. (3b).
(4) What is the infrastructure cost of operating the
network?
(4b) Again, in line with (3b), are any shouldered by
Tacoma Power/TPU?

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

(5) What are any projected future build-out costs?

e.g.
(I)
(a) upgrading the network to allow fully
redundant gigabit to all homes passed
(b) upgrading the network to docsis 3.1 /
future proofing the network for any future updates
to that technology
(c) installing new nodes and upgrading old
ones from 10 gig to 20 gig or faster
(II)
(a) What is the theoretical maximum
sustainable speeds Click could currently bear
before the nodes fail redundancy and the network
collapses?
(b) as in, if all 25,000 homes serviced had
active connections at the same time, running at the
fastest allowable speed, when would the network
cease to be redundant, and when would it collapse?

No responsive documents.

(6) In relation to (1) and (2), and if this has not

already been answered directly, would Click's
internet arm be profitable _if_ all operation,
maintenance, upgrade, personnel, et cetera costs
were limited to _only_ what is required to operate
said arm?

7, 8, 9

(7) Would Click's internet arm be profitable if it

was to act as a retail provider of internet services?
(e.g., residential retail, commercial retail, et cetera,
competing directly with or buying out the existing
retail partners)

7, 8, 9

(8a) Is the $9,000,000 deficit, which is quoted as

being subsidized by Tacoma Power ratepayers to
the tune of 2-3% a cycle, subsidized only by
residential customers or residential and commercial
customers?
(8b) How many residential customers does Tacoma
Power service? How many commercial customers?
(8c) What is the average residential bill? What is
the average commercial bill?

No responsive documents for 8a.

Residential customers: 152,633
Commercial customers: 17,984 8b.
Please go to our website. We have two
levels for residential and multiple levels
for commercial customers.
http://www.mytpu.org/customerservice/rates/power-rates/
8c.

(9a) Maintaining the status quo is quoted as losing

approximately $60,000,000 over ten years, while
the public-private partnership with Wave is quoted
as generating approximately $80,000,000 in
income (or is that profit?) over ten years.
(9b) How do we reconcile a $140,000,000
difference over ten years?
(9c) How do we reconcile what amounts to being a
$12,000,000 difference per year?

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and Wave Proposal.

I believe my math is correct on the above question,

but I am going from memory and some barely
legible notes.
(10a) What are the total peering costs, delivery
costs, transmission costs, and other real contractual
costs of Click's internet arm?
(10b) What are the programming costs for Click's
television arm? A spreadsheet or list of what Click
pays to every station, whether flat rate or per
customer or both, would be best for public
consumption.
(10c) Is the transfer cap instituted for any real
financial reason? As opposed to simply being a
common, if almost exclusively unenforced,
practice.

No responsive documents to 10a.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 for 10b.
It could be in the documents we have
provided. Not sure what the requestor is
requesting. We need clarification. Further
scoping needed for 10c.

Mr. Kauffman, documents which pertain to the

questions above (e.g. any and all financial
documents pertaining to Click's operation) are the
ones I will be seeking in any FOIA request.

The attached documents in the email.

As well as any internal emails which pertain to this

or any proposals and to Click's financial wellbeing. I would like your assistance in ensuring that
any request goes smoothly for both of us.

We asked for some clarification about the

kinds of emails being requested to help us
search for responsive documents. You were
going to send a clarifying email about the
kinds of emails being requested.