Broadband Engagement

View the Broadband Connectivity Hub Demo

Let us provide a one-stop shop of information and educational material for your stakeholders through a project specific website that incorporates your branding, voice, and tone. We’ll do the heavy lifting and maintenance, but your input, branding, and approval will be the centerpiece to making it a success. We’ll work with you on wireframes, content development, and the tools to include so that we can get data from visitors by linking to the survey and speed test to help bolster our data collection methods while educating your stakeholders.

Broadband Connectivity Hub

Broadband Connectivity Hub

Connect Beaver County Website

Connect Beaver County Website

Unbiased data is integral to understanding the true market and current baseline of connectivity in any given region. Through the development of simple, yet thorough public surveys that are distributed in a variety of methods ensuring accessibility for constituents of all digital literacy levels or needs, we provide an opportunity to understand your community and the impact their current connectivity has. We can collaborate and modify to incorporate questions specific to your region or initiative and can employ a variety of distribution and promotional techniques to ensure engagement.

Our Broadband Survey application incorporates Speedtest by Ookla to understand download speeds, upload speed, latency, and jitter. Information is captured at an address level to understand the true state of connectivity at every location, including the respondents sentiments on their connectivity.

Broadband Survey

Speed Test

In partnering with Ookla, Michael Baker collects connectivity information related to the user who took the survey. When a user is taking the public survey online, they are able to take the speed test as well. This speed test is key to determining the broadband download and upload speed at the user’s location. Additional information can also be recorded from the speed test such as the customer’s internet service provider, ping, jitter, and device used to take the test at the location.

Ookla Speedtest

Speedtest on phone. 5G network test. Very fast internet. Testing speed of the internet connection.

Ookla Speedtest

Stakeholder Engagement & Workshops

Having an opportunity to be in a room, whether in-person or virtually through our

, to hear about a project and talk in real-time about ideas or suggestions is invaluable. We thrive on talking to people and hearing their concerns because it does make a difference. We develop stakeholder engagement opportunities and workshops that allow for engaging and honest conversations. We take notes. We follow-up. This is what relationships are built on and at Michael Baker, we do it well. Connectivity is vital, just as water and electricity is, and we want to help. You’ll receive reports on attendance, participation, feedback and more. Stakeholder engagement will help drive identification of areas that need improvement or areas of opportunity for connectivity initiatives.