Colorado communities continue to seek to restore local authority for telecommunications. In April’s election, elected officials of Montrose will ask voters to approve a measure...
Yet again, lobbyists from AT&T, Windstream, and Cincinnati Bell are lobbying state elected officials under the false guise of improving communications in Kentucky. In a...
We are supportive of the announcement today from the Federal Communications Commission. We salute the FCC for beginning to examine how state level barriers against...
Westminster’s FTTP pilot project continues to blossom. We recently heard from Dr. Robert Wack, one of the local leaders of the project. Engineering, the first...
Ammon, a town of 14,000 in southeast Idaho, has been incrementally building an open access, fiber optic network that has connected community anchor institutions and...
One of the main differentiator’s of community owned networks compared to the big cable and telephone companies is customer service. Being rooted in the community,...
“Unless somebody in the system has industrial policy in mind, a long-term picture of where the United States needs to be and has the political...
Vidalia’s plans to offer free Wi-Fi are becoming reality. The Natchez Democrat recently reported that the City launched its free Wi-Fi in its new municipal complex....
It is hard to say just how bad of an idea it is for us to allow Comcast to buy Time Warner Cable. This is...
On January 30, the FCC announced it will begin a process that makes Connect America funds available for pilot projects aimed at expanding broadband in...
EPB in Chattanooga offers a service to business clients that offers a good reminder that local service providers have to be able to offer a...
The Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency, which we have written about many times, is at a crossroads. An Australian corporation specializing in infrastructure is prepared...
On Friday, February 21, 2014, Christopher Mitchell will be speaking in Stockholm at the Stockholm Waterfront Congress Center. The event, titled Fibre: The key to...
The focus on community networks tends to linger on the technology – FTTH is much faster and more reliable than cable or DSL services. But...
This is the first in a series of posts examining a premier Gigabit Community – Wilson, North Carolina. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration,...