Ottumwa Business Broadband Needs Assessment

10 minutes of your time could make a big difference in Ottumwa's future.

Your business success directly impacts Ottumwa’s ability to improve, prosper, and make this a better community for you, your employees, your family and theirs. Please help us understand how highspeed Internet access is helping you now to reach this goal, or how if can be enhanced to help your business in the future. It only takes a few minutes to complete this survey (cut & paste this URL for the Spanish version - http://s.zoomerang.com/s/ottumwabizsp).

Your feedback plays a key role getting us started. Thank you very much for your time.

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* 1. What is the intersection or cross streets nearest your main office/facility? (Your actual address will not be included with your survey responses) If you are not located in Ottumwa, please tell us the town or community where you are located.

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* 2. Who’s the Internet service provider at your home or apartment?

Other (please specify)

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* 3. How do you primarily get your Internet Service?

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* 4. What do you currently do with your Internet connection? (Check all that apply)

Run a business from home

Browse the Web for business-related information

Send/Receive large data files (e.g. manuals, brochures, PowerPoint presentations)

Send/Receive graphically intensive files (e.g. color catalogs, schematics, complex images that are larger than a megabit)

Run video applications (e.g. online training/sales videos, live video conferencing, live video streaming)

Run applications between your company and suppliers, customers, partners, etc. (e.g. inventory mgmt, ordering systems, Electronic Data Interchange – EDI, collaboration software)

Telecommunications such as VoIP (phone calls over the Internet) or PBX software

Remote access by mobile or home based workers and executives, telecommuting

Cloud computing (running software applications stored on remote computers), running Web-based applications such as Salesforce.com

Other (please specify)

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* 5. What would you like to do now, or do more frequently/intensively, that you currently cannot do because your existing Internet connection is inadequate? (Check all that apply)

Browser – view supplier or competitor web sites

Send/Receive large data files that are larger than a megabit (e.g. manuals, brochures, PowerPoint presentations)

Send/Receive graphically intensive files (e.g. color catalogs, schematics, complex images that are larger than a megabit)

Run video applications (e.g. online training/sales videos, live video conferencing, live video streaming)

Run applications between your companies and suppliers, customers, partners, etc. (e.g. inventory mgmt, ordering systems, Electronic Data Interchange – EDI, collaboration software)

Telecommunications such as VoIP (phone calls over the Internet) or PBX software

Remote access by mobile or home based workers and executives, telecommuting

Cloud computing (running software applications stored on remote computers), running Web-based applications such as Salesforce.com

Other (please specify)

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* 6. Looking three (3) to five (5) years in the future, what would you potentially need or want to do with your Internet connection? (Check all that apply)

Browser – view supplier or competitor web sites

Send/Receive large data files that are bigger than a megabit (e.g. manuals, brochures, PowerPoint presentations)

Send/Receive graphically intensive files (e.g. color catalogs, schematics, complex images that are bigger than a megabit)

Run video applications (e.g. online training/sales videos, live video conferencing, live video streaming)

Run applications between your companies and suppliers, customers, partners, etc. (e.g. inventory mgmt, ordering systems, Electronic Data Interchange – EDI, collaboration software)

Telecommunications such as VoIP (phone calls over the Internet) or PBX software

Remote access by mobile or home based workers and executives, telecommuting

Cloud computing (running software applications stored on remote computers), running Web-based applications such as Salesforce.com

Other (please specify)

There are only three short questions left.

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* 1. What is the intersection or cross streets nearest your main office/facility? (Your actual address will not be included with your survey responses) If you are not located in Ottumwa, please tell us the town or community where you are located.

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* 2. Who’s the Internet service provider at your home or apartment?

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* 3. How do you *primarily* get your Internet Service?

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* 4. What do you currently do with your Internet connection? (Check all that apply)

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* 5. What would you like to do now, or do more frequently/intensively, that you currently cannot do because your existing Internet connection is inadequate? (Check all that apply)

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* 6. Looking three (3) to five (5) years in the future, what would you potentially need or want to do with your Internet connection? (Check all that apply)

* 3. How do you primarily get your Internet Service?