Wally Bowen has again penned an op-ed that we gained permission to reprint. The original ran in North Carolina’s Durham News Observer. President Barack Obama...
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance joined many other groups in signing a letter calling on Congress to cease considering the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA)...
A group of rural residents living east of Madison, Wisconsin, gathered near Portage of Columbia County to discuss their lack of affordable high speed access...
A local government in southeast North Carolina is the first entity to deploy a “Super Wi-Fi” white-spaces broadband network. New Hanover County, North Carolina, owns...
With AT&T continuing to push H.3508, a bill to further erode local authority over broadband and ensure AT&T faces no competition in areas of the...
The USA Today occasionally covered the Lafayette muni fiber network fight as Cox and Bellsouth used every dirty trick conceivable against the community to shut...
Local governments are often looking for low-risk options for expanding broadband access to residents and local businesses. There are not many. Seattle put some extra...
As Australia rolls out its National Broadband Network (NBN), an open access mostly FTTH network that will connect 90% of the population (with most of...
As Georgia’s Senate considers revoking local authority over whether or not to build a community network, the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisers has...
We have long been arguing that the telephone and cable companies are not sufficiently investing in the connections needed by communities. Quarter after quarter, companies...
In the wake of a bill in Georgia to revoke local authority and substitute it with state say-so over whether a community can build a...
Chattanooga’s community owned EPB Fiber Network continues to get positive reviews from subscribers in the local paper. And Comcast’s customers continue to complain. The Times...
A rural Fiber-to-the-Farm project that started in Sibley County has added three new towns to its potential territory due to the extremely high interest in...
I recently stumbled across a great point regarding the spectacular failure of the US (mostly the FCC, but Congress should certainly share some of the...
The SouthEast Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors has its annual conference in Chattanooga this year – March 12 and 13th. The conference includes a...