Vidalia, a Louisiana town with 4,300 residents, is a small town with a big idea. Vidalia one of the poorest regions in the country with...
Writing for the American Express Open Forum, author Jack Shultz helped to compile a list of what he considers the best small towns for business...
As we celebrate our Independence Day, we are supporting the Declaration of Internet Freedom, a new campaign that was launched this morning. Preamble: We believe...
We have followed Seattle’s on-again, off-again consideration of a community broadband network for years and have occasionally noted the successful cable network in nearby Tacoma....
Monticello faced a number of key decision moments throughout the history of its FiberNet. Given the recent changes in management and decision not to make...
Arlington County, Virginia is taking advantage of a series of planned projects to create their own fiber optic network, ConnectArlington. The County is moving into...
Tahlequah, Oklahoma, far on the eastern side of the state, recently decided to investigate the possibility of building a new network. On June 15th, the...
In our second podcast, we have interviewed Monica Webb with the Wired West Initiative in rural western Massachusetts. Like our first podcast, this should be...
Far too many people seem to think that when they go to Speedtest.net to test their connection, they get a number that has any bearing...
Michael Zwerling, of Santa Cruz’s KSCO 1080 AM, was looking for an expert on broadband so he contacted our own Christopher Mitchell. The June 2...
Sean McLaughlin from the New America Foundation and Access Humbolt alerted us to HB 1161, an AT&T and ALEC driven bill to scale back state...
Farmington, New Mexico, currently has 80 miles of fiber and has decided to consider the best way to get the most out of the investment....
Martin County, Florida, is saving millions of dollars because it built a county-owned fiber optic network rather than continuing to lease connections from Comcast. ILSR’s...
Yesterday, we released our first podcast – a short discussion with Linda Kramer of the Sibley-Renville Fiber project in rural Minnesota. When I happened across...
MuniNetworks.org just launched its new podcast series – Community Broadband Bits. Listeners can use smartphones, iPods, computers, the web, etc. to hear the recurring audio...