Back in July, Next Century Cities released a short report, Connecting 21st Century Communities: A Policy Agenda for Broadband Stakeholders, exploring various policies and approaches...
Santa Cruz, California, and its 62,000 people with poor Internet connectivity near Silicon Valley, could be one of the larger municipalities to develop a citywide...
Is your community considering a public private partnership to improve connectivity for businesses and residents? Will you be attending the Broadband Communities Economic Development Conference...
We were saddened to learn of Scott DeGarmo’s passing this past week and, like many others who knew him and his work, want to pay...
“Every person ought to have the awareness that purchasing is always a moral – and not simply an economic – act,” Pope Francis announced early...
“Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never harm me.” A fine sentiment, but any child subjected to cyber bullying knows that...
Windstream has the distinction of being one of the worst providers we have ever covered from consumers’ perspective, but in rural areas many people have little...
After searching for a suitable partner, the Village of Bald Head Island in North Carolina has reopened its RFP for a gigabit fiber network. Apparently,...
Mary Lou Van Deventer, Urban Ore, Berkeley, CA reports: The city of Orillia, Ontario, is making financially sensible Zero Waste resource system choices, and it...
In 2016, ILSR released a new report on solar and wind economies of scale, updating this data. While utilities continue to imply that large-scale solar...
In the center of Tennessee sits Murfeesboro, the fastest growing city in the state with 108,000 people and one of the fastest growing cities in...
On July 27 an important op-ed appeared in the Baltimore Sun to argue for the creation of a Baltimore Broadband Authority (BBA). Written by a...
The University of Wisconsin-Extension recently released Broadband Policies and Regulations for Wisconsin Stakeholders, a good addition to your digital library, especially if you have in...
Winston-Salem struck up a smart deal with the North Carolina Department of Transportation in 2011. Four years later, that agreement allows the city to move...
Just a few short weeks ago, we interviewed Dave Spencer, the Chief Operating Officer for the Northwest Open Access Network (NoaNet) in Washington. We offered...