In most states, telephone companies are required to serve everyone and when there are problems with the service, the state can mandate that the company...
We have re-launched the interactive community broadband map! The new version allows you to hide or show layers and now incorporates our other map showing...
Christopher Mitchell spoke with Gavin Dahl about community broadband on KYRS, a community radio station in Spokane, Washington, on April 11. The discussion touched on...
LUS Fiber has released a new ad promoting its HDTV services – probably the best ad I have seen from a community broadband network promoting...
For people in St Paul and the surrounding communities, I will be presenting at an event about the digital divide sponsored by the Alliance for...
The fastest networks in the nation are built by local governments, a new report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and Benton Foundation reveals Chattanooga,...
Siloam Springs, sporting 15,000 people in the northwestern corner of Arkansas, could be the next community to build its own community fiber network. But first...
When a tornado rips your town apart and destroys your home, should you have to pay extra fees to your cable provider? Of course not....
Alcatel-Lucent, one of the key vendors behind the Chattanooga community fiber network, has produced a video highlighting life in a “smart” city.
Open standards and open source are essential to local self-reliance. Citizens and communities should have the right to modify the technology they use in order...
The Open Technology Initiative’s Dispatches from the Digital Frontier blog originally published this story by Preston Rhea about his experience working with some neighbors to...
Given the high profile network neutrality and even higher profile SOPA/PIPA fights, we are starting to see more interest from filmmakers and documentarians to explore...
In past reporting, we have briefly discussed Pend Orielle PUD’s efforts at filling the broadband service gap in rural areas. People living in rural areas, while...
Less than a year after North Carolina became the 19th state to create barriers to community networks, effectively outlawing them, the non-partisan organization Follow the...
A recent article by Chloe Morrison on Nooga.com, highlighted the inquiries and envy from all over the globe about Chattanooga’s awesome community fiber network. According...