The Office of Broadband Programs
OBP Community Technology manages use of public rights-of-way in Montgomery County by cable television providers, negotiates and enforces obligations in cable franchise agreements, provides consumer assistance with cable issues and complaints, and supports County policies addressing compensation for use of public rights-of-way by communications providers. Community Technology manages the Transmission Facility Coordinating Group to provide engineering review of applications to deploy towers and antennas for wireless services in Montgomery County, and coordination for deployment of wireless facilities among department and agencies.
Leadership
Chief Broadband Officer
Joe Webster
Chief Broadband Officer, Office of Broadband Programs
E-mail: [email protected]
Division Team Leads
Max Stuckey
Chief, Telecommunications Solutions
E-mail: [email protected] | Phone: 240-777-2933
Mitsuko Herrera
Montgomery Connects Program Director
E-mail: [email protected] | Phone: 240-777-2928
Marjorie Williams
Broadband, Cable & Franchise Division Manager
E-mail: [email protected] | Phone: 240-777-3762
Derrick Kenny
Media Services Manager - County Cable Montgomery/Community Engagement
E-mail: [email protected] | Phone: 240-777-3717
Mark Gardner
Senior FiberNet Engineering & Operations Manager
E-mail: [email protected] | Phone: 240-773-8116
Benjamin M. Harrington
Infrastructure Manager
E-mail: [email protected] | Phone: 240-777-8008
Ted Bowser
Data Center Manager
E-mail: [email protected] | Phone: 240-773-2907
Areas of focus
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County Cable Montgomery
The mission of CCM is to expand and enhance public participation in the governmental process by (a) broadcasting meetings of governmental bodies, public hearings, and news conferences; (b) creating and presenting programs that expand the awareness of residents, businesses and visitors of the County government.
Community Engagement
Community Engagement provides production services to record and transmit programming from the Council Office Building (which has cameras built into three hearing rooms that are supported by Community Engagement), production support for offsite Council Town Halls and County Executive Forums, closed captioning of programs, social media promotion of channel programming, engineering staff for the Technical Operations Center which monitors the audio and video signals provided to the cable providers, contract administration, and liaison and support services for other municipal and community media channels in the County (“PEG Channels”).
Community Technology
The office is responsible for administering Cable Television franchise agreements for the County and participating municipalities, facilitating and coordinating the entry of competing providers of telecom services, managing County Cable Channel 6, the government access channel, resolving issues regarding cable and communications technology for the County.
Montgomery Connects
Montgomery Connects is the County’s digital equity program operated by the Department of Technology & Enterprise Business Solutions (TEBS), Office of Broadband Programs (OBP). The focus is (1) to ensure all households have access to robust and reliable home broadband, and (2) that everyone has access to a device to use the internet and (3) the skills to use technology and the internet for daily living, civic engagement, and participation in the digital economy.
FiberNet
FiberNet is Montgomery County’s flagship fiber-optic communications network. FiberNet is the backbone infrastructure to enable delivery of communications services for all County agencies. FiberNet has enabled the County to cost-effectively provide voice, data, video and WiFi services to County departments, offices and agencies.
Wireless Facilities
The Transmission Facilities Coordination Group (TFCG/Tower Committee) is a coordinating committee comprised of land owning and land use members that are responsible for the initial review for radio and telecommunication carrier applications and make recommendations concerning the installation of radio and telecommunication infrastructure in Montgomery County.
