Our focus tends to be at the most local — how do people in local communities access the Internet? But we do worry about how...
Provo built a city owned FTTH network after its public power utility started connecting its substations with fiber-optic cables in the early 2000’s. iProvo ultimately...
The following news report suggests that some in Knoxville, Tennessee, are starting to get a little jealous of the incredible FTTH network built by Chattanooga’s...
It’s a new year, but most of us are still stuck with the same old DSL and cable monopolies. Though many communities have built their...
Smithsonian magazine provides some background on Samuel Morse, inventor of Morse Code and credited with inventing the telegraph. It is interesting background, but not particularly...
We have been trying to keep close track of the recent group of communities building incremental, publicly owned, open access fiber networks — which often...
The muni FTTH network owned by the city of Salisbury, North Carolina, is finishing the calendar year with over 1600 subscribers. The network just began...
A new documentary from California explores the failure of the private sector and competition more generally to sufficiently invest in fast, affordable, and reliable access...
I recently stumbled across some interesting pieces of information between Monticello and telephone-incumbent TDS when the Minnesota City decided to build a city-owned next-generation FTTH...
One of our kindred spirits across the pond reached out to me after I wrote about Vermont’s self-funded community network. The B4RN initiative, Broadband for...
In little more than a year, Burlington Telecom went from being a hopeful star of the community fiber network movement to an albatross around its...
Christopher Mitchell is one of several voices discussing the importance of funding rural broadband throughout the U.S. WMMT is a radio station in Kentucky, frequently...
ILSR has continued working to preserve local authority to build broadband networks in both North Carolina and South Carolina. Massive companies like AT&T and Time...
ILSR has released the Community Broadband Map, showing the location of over one hundred communities that have rejected the tyranny of existing carriers and built...
Quietly, virtually unreported on, a new player has emerged in the United States telecommunications sector: publicly owned networks. Today over 54 cities, big and small,...