Brian Moura
Chairman
SAMCAT
c/o City of San Carlos
600 Elm Street
San Carlos, CA 94070
Phone: (650) 802-4210
Fax: (650) 595-6710

Established in 1988, the San Mateo County Telecommunications Authority or "SAMCAT" is a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) formed under California law. It includes 17 of the 20 cities in San Mateo County  as well as San Mateo County among its membership.

SAMCAT was originally formed to assist five member agencies in developing a Cable TV franchise agreement with TCI. In 1996, its JPA was amended to include work in all forms of telecommunications which stimulated a rapid growth in membership to today's level of 18 agencies.

SAMCAT has developed several model telecom agreements over the years involving Cable TV, wireless agreements, fiber optic cable projects and other technologies. The group was responsible for recruiting RCN of Boston to the State of California and 8 of its member agencies approved RCN's first competitive Cable TV agreements in the State. SAMCAT also manages the Emmy Award Winning Peninsula Television (Pen TV) Government Channel ( www.pentv.tv ) and the RCN Multi-jurisdictional Fiber Network (MJN) in Silicon Valley .

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