Copper Mountain Consolidated Metro District Cable and Internet

Metro district officials signed a three-year contract with ResortInternet, a company based out of Denver, to install high-speed Internet throughout the resort's village.

The service will use Copper Mountains cable television infrastructure and should be available to homeowners and businesses by Dec. 1, 2004, said Eric Geis, president of ResortInternet.

Subscribers must purchase a cable modem from ResortInternet - specific to the Copper system - to access the high-speed Internet service. The cable modem costs $72.00 and will prevent people from poaching the system, Geis said.

ResortInternet offers two installation options to its Internet customers. Self-installation is available only for those who subscribe to the basic service, and will cost $25.00. Professional installation is required for those opting for premium services and costs $60.00.

Officials expect to recuperate the approximately $42,000 installation costs within the first several years. Copper Mountain’s high-speed installation is ResortInternet's first village project.

Copper's Internet customers are able to choose between four different levels of service: the Standard Package, offering 1 Mbps, will cost $24.00 per month; Enhanced Package includes basic service plus five email addresses and 25 Mb of Web-hosting disk space for $32.00 per month; Telecommuter Package includes service at the Enhanced level and allows streaming audio/video, teleconferencing, file sharing applications or IP telephony for 50.00 per month.  The Premium Package offers a 1.5 Mbps connection with 10 email addresses and 25 Mb of Web-hosting disk space for $105.00 per month.

The service also includes a 24-hours-per-day, seven-day-a-week help desk for users, with a technician based in Summit County.  The tech support number is 1-877-208-4141.

The Copper Metro District receives a small commission for the service. They estimated about 400 users will subscribe this winter, which would generate about $24,000 a year.

ResortInternet said they started by installing one T-1 line, but will provide an additional T-1 line for each 400 subscribers.

Standard Package ("HSIS") $24.00 a month

• 1 Mbps Connection to the Internet

Enhanced High Speed Internet Service ("EHSIS") $32.00 a month

• 1 Mbps Connection to the Internet
• 5 email addresses & 5 Mb web hosting space

Telecommuter High Speed Internet Service ("THSIS") $50.00 a month

• 1 Mbps Connection to the Internet
• 5 email addresses & 5 Mb web hosting space

Premium High Speed Internet Service ("PHSIS") $105.00 a month

• 1.5 Mbps Connection to the Internet
• 10 email addresses & 25 Mb web hosting disk space

Copper Mountain Activated Modem $72.00

• This charge is always assessed

Self Installation (HSIS only) $25.00

Professional Installation (HSIS, EHSIS, THSIS, PHSIS) $60.00

By ordering Copper Mountain. Consolidated Metropolitan District Internet (CMCMDI) High Speed Internet Service (HSIS) for your residence or business you agree to:

• Subscribe to HSIS for a period of 12 months at the Monthly Service Cost for the Product Package you select below. The Subscription Agreement will renew automatically unless you give us notice via our website www.resortinternet.com of your intent to cancel within 60 days of your anniversary date.
• Pay for all remaining months of HSIS - due in full, in 1 payment, upon notification of your early termination (the “Early Termination Fee”), if you should cancel your HSIS for any reason - other than on documented failure by CMCMDI to provide HSIS in an appropriate and consistent manner. If you sell your unit and the new owner agrees to subscribe to our HSIS, the Early Termination Fee will be waived.
• Neither resell CMCMDI’s HSIS nor to share it with anyone outside of your unit. If you install a wireless access point in your unit, you need to use encryption for your own data security and to prevent others outside your unit from using your HSIS.
• Install a commercially available virus protection software application, and that if a computer in your unit is found to be transmitting a virus and harming our network, we may disconnect your Internet modem until the virus is removed from your computer.

CMCMDI will be responsible for maintaining HSIS to and through your CMCMDI cable modem. You may install any telecommunications or data networking device(s) on the subscriber side of the modem, as long as it does not harm the integrity of CMCMDI’s HSIS network or interfere with the provision of HSIS to other CMCMDI Subscribers. CMCMDI does not support subscriber installed equipment. You are responsible for maintaining service beyond the modem. Service calls that we respond to that are caused by equipment or software you installed behind the modem will be charged to you at our current service charges.