Lisa Gonzalez and I are back with another back and forth reaction to some of the crazy claims made by opponents of community owned Internet...
The Prometheus Radio Project is an impressive grassroots organization that has successfully opened the radio airwaves to communities after big corporations had effectively locked up...
Having just read the New York Times story “Most of U.S. is Wired, but Millions Aren’t Plugged In,” I was reminded that even the top...
The Spanish Fork Community Fiber Network (SFCN) is an incredibly successful HFC cable network in Utah. It delivers television, telephone, and Internet access at incredibly...
Chattanooga’s EPB Fiber is the highest profile community network in the U.S. It was the first network in the nation to offer a symmetrical gigabit...
You will soon start seeing some stories by David Collado, under the byline “dcollado.” David has been researching community owned networks with ILSR for the...
In Florida, Lakeland is one of several communities that has built a dark fiber network in a low-risk bid to expand connectivity for anchor institutions...
Jim Baller has been helping local governments to build community owned networks for as long as they have been building them. He is the President...
Last week, we discussed how Shafter’s plans in California for a community fiber network changed with the Great Recession. Today we have an interview with...
Rant Warning… Every state has at least one organization, often calling itself a think tank, that is funded by large corporations to advance their narrow...
Patrick Lucey of the Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation, posted this excellent story around the time we published our rant about the...
Following up on our first “Responding to Crazy Talk” episode last month, we decided to publish a second edition this week. Again, Lisa Gonzalez and...
For our 54th episode of the Community Broadband Bits podcast, we are back in Tennessee to interview Brian Skelton, General Manager of the Tullahoma Utilities...
On the day that celebrates our Independence as a nation, I encourage you to consider how we can declare independence as a people from the...
I was troubled to see Broadband Communities publish an odd and misleading story about Palo Alto in the May-June issue [pdf]. Authored by Stephen Blum...