Minneapolis will soon vote to shift nearly 180 privately owned bus shelters to public ownership following numerous complaints about the lack of maintenance and upkeep. ...
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...
For years, the only effective way to go solar was to have tens of thousands of dollars and a sunny roof. Investing in solar was...
This presentation presents the key findings of the 2014 Independent Business Survey. It includes new data on the impact of “buy local” campaigns; a ranking...
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...
When Walmart’s top executives organized a live broadcast event to present what they claimed was progress in greening the company’s operations, ILSR joined with leaders...
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...