Six months ago, I wrote about a book by Alex Marshall, the Surprising Design of Market Economies. In a few weeks, he will be presenting...
Anyone looking for a short introduction to community owned networks should start with this brief animated video. Please share it around – embed in Facebook,...
This is the third time we have found an occasion to highight the community of Ketchum in Idaho. We previously noted their work on a...
With a population of over 9,000 just across Puget Sound from Seattle, Poulsbo is a town with a lot of commuters and a vision for...
Google knows how to differentiate its gigabit Internet access from the slower options offered by cable and DSL. Community networks should take notes on effective...
Yet another Minnesota town is fed up with slow, unreliable Internet access and is examining what it can do to make sure it has the...
For my money, the best headline of last week was “The U.S.’s crap infrastructure threatens the cloud.” The rant goes on to explain just how...
Holyoke Gas & Electric has been connecting community anchor institutions and local businesses in Western Massachusetts with fiber networks for years. Rather than using exception...
We were glad to hear our friend, Curtis Dean of the Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities join Craig Settles on his Gigabit Nation Internet Radio...
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a nonprofit organization in Minneapolis, seeks an intern for September-January. Focus is on providing preliminary research and support to our...
Monticello Minnesota may be located 40 miles outside Minneapolis, but it is the center of the planet when it comes to FTTH competition. We have...
Chattanooga’s EPB Fiber, a municipal FTTH system owned by the city’s electric power board, has dramatically lowered its prices for the gigabit connection and increased...
The small town of Windom in southwest Minnesota has long been one of the smallest FTTH networks in the nation. I have long wanted to...
Jim Baller is back again for the second show in our series on the history of municipal broadband networks. He is the President of the...
The Internet Must Go is a fun look at a serious topic: how big cable and telephone companies are trying to make us pay more...