The Federal Government is currently taking public comments on how to distribute the $7.2 billion in the stimulus package allocated to improve broadband access and...
Fiber opportunity is worth the risk in North St. Paul By Christopher Mitchell, originally published in St. Paul Pioneer Press, February 20, 2009 Come Tuesday,...
Come Tuesday, North St. Paul residents have the opportunity to become the first metro-area community with a nextgeneration network connecting every home and business. This...
In a misguided column entitled "Congress Approves Broadband to Nowhere," L. Gordon Crovitz suggests other countries have been more successful than the U.S. in expanding...
Christopher Mitchell is the Director of the Telecommunications as Commons Initiative. He has worked as a server administrator, web geek, and in automated software quality...
The U.S. has fallen behind other countries both in the percentage of our population that has access to high-speed Internet connections, and in what we...
One year after FCC Chair William Kennard introduced a tentative plan to legalize low power FM stations, the FCC finally enacted rules for microradio on...
Fiber-to-the-home is essential infrastructure. Communities know they need better broadband networks. DSL is already too slow, especially on the upload side. DOCSIS3 cable networks may...
For Immediate Release PRESS RELEASE CONTACT: 612-276-3456 COURT VICTORY PAVES WAY FOR PUBLICLY OWNED BROADBAND Institute celebrates Minnesota city’s milestone in community-owned fiber optic...
ILSR launches NetworkStPaul.com. This new web site will serve as a clearinghouse and resource for the push to build a community-owned fiber-to-the-home network in St....
At a time when most of the United States has slower, more expensive Internet connections than our overseas competitors, communities across the country have responded...
City on solid ground in lawsuit By Christopher Mitchell, originally published in the Monticello Times, July 31, 2008 At a time when most of...
For Immediate Release PRESS RELEASE CONTACT: 612-276-3456 MONTICELLO, MINN. FIGHTS TDS LAWSUIT Minneapolis, Minn.— (July 23, 2008). Monticello has filed a motion to dismiss...
Christopher Mitchell appeared on the Mark Heaney Show on Air America Radio to discuss the Monticello Fiber Net lawsuit and the importance of publicly owned...
Minneapolis, Minn.— (July 23, 2008). Monticello has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit preventing it from building the fiber optic network 74% of voters...