The grantee shall maintain throughout the term of the franchise
the number of channels specified in its proposal to be initially activated
in the franchise agreement. The grantee shall also activate additional
channel capacity as required by public access or institutional users.
The grantee shall continually upgrade the system's facilities,
equipment, and service pursuant to the terms and conditions of the
franchise agreement.
A grantee's proposal shall describe, in detail, the location
of its head end, hubs, distribution system, studios, equipment and
other facilities and a plan for implementing the construction, utilization
and maintenance of those facilities including plans for accommodating
future growth and changing needs and desires of the community as determined
by the Township.
A grantee's proposal shall designate all publicly owned
buildings in the Township (Township Hall, Police Department, Fire
Department, schools, library, etc.) and any buildings owned or leased
for governmental use by any state, federal or local government in
the Township to which the grantee intends to provide service. The
provisions for such service shall be described in detail and shall
be provided without charge. A grantee's proposal shall include
in such designation plans for existing as well as future publicly
owned buildings.
A grantee's proposal shall describe the means and manner
of providing community specific cablecasting over the system and the
time of activation and points of delivery.
A grantee shall design and construct a system so that A and
B cables (serving residential and institutional users) accommodate
interactive data communications and so that the total network transmission
time is less than 1/10 of a second. Further, the system shall accommodate
interactive communications of point-to-point, point-to-multipoint,
and multipoint-to-multipoint communications between subscribers or
potential subscribers.
In case of any emergency or disaster, the grantee shall make
its entire system available, without charge, to the Township or to
any other governmental or civil defense agency that the Township may
designate. The system shall be engineered to provide an audio alert
system to allow authorized officials to override automatically the
audio signals on all channels and to transmit and report emergency
information. The system shall also have the capability for visual
transmission of emergency messages.