Prior to June 2007, a Vermont town that wanted to create a community broadband network would have to amend the town charter and get it...
Some networks are purely open access, as in UTOPIA, where the network owner provides no services (leaving the provision of services to multiple third parties). ...
The Wired Road has begun operations, bringing an open services, fiber to the home and wireless network to the community. The network is owned by...
As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Congress set aside $7.2 billion to be used for expanding broadband availability and demand....
ILSR submitted comments to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (in the Department of Commerce) and the Rural Utilities Service regarding the Broadband Technology Opportunies...
Public entities are increasingly recognized as important to expanding broadband access. A panel from the Freedom to Connect conference discussd the changing nature of broadband...
The stimulus bill prioritizes public entities and nonprofits for grants to build broadband networks. When Congress passed the stimulus package (ARRA), it included $7.2billion to...
App-rising.com‘s Geoff Daily interviews Christopher Mitchell about who should receive grants from the broadband stimulus funds and what technologies should be prioritized. 15 minutes long.…...
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...
Nebraska is the only state in the union served entirely by public power utilities. In 2005, the Nebraska Legislature passed a law prohibiting public power...
CorpusChristi did not set out to create a citywide wireless network. Theproject arose as a logical extension of the upgrade to wirelessautomated meter reading for...