No Scale Advantage in Netflix Speed Ranking

Date: 28 Apr 2014 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Netflix has continued to publish monthly rankings of ISPs average speed in delivering Netflix video content to subscribers. Though they first published data about the largest, national ISPs like Comcast, AT&T, and the link, they have an expanded list with many more ISPs. I recognize two municipal networks on the expanded list of 60 ISPs. For … Read More

CenturyLink Seeks Apartment Buildings for Gigabit in Portland

Date: 26 Apr 2014 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

In the wake of Google’s announcement that Portland could be one of the next communities for the Google Fiber network, CenturyLink is circulating an offer to select apartment buildings to apply for CenturyLink fiber. This appears to be more than the standard fiber-to-the-press-release responses we often see from the big telephone companies that prefer to lobby, … Read More

Paid Prioritization Threat Reinforces Value of Community Networks

Date: 24 Apr 2014 | posted in: information, MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Recent reports out of the FCC say that it will allow ISPs to create and sell “fast lanes” of Internet access to the companies with sufficiently deep pockets to afford them. While some people argue over whether this violates network neutrality principles or not, the more important point is that most communities have no control over how the … Read More

Montrose Moves Toward Muni Network -Community Broadband Bits Podcast #95

Date: 22 Apr 2014 | posted in: MuniNetworks, Podcast | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Nestled in a valley in the Colorado rockies, the city of Montrose has voted overwhelmingly to reestablish local authority over whether to build a municipal fiber network. With nearly 20,000 people, Montrose does have cable service from Charter and DSL from CenturyLink but neither service is meeting local needs. Virgil Turner, Director of Innovation and Citizen … Read More

DSL Described as “Obsolete” by the American Enterprise Institute

Date: 16 Apr 2014 | posted in: information, MuniNetworks | 1 Facebooktwitterredditmail

“The vast majority of Europeans still only have DSL service available, which we in the United States consider really almost an obsolete technology now.” – Jeffrey Eisenbach, Director of the Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy, American Enterprise Institute. For the second time this year, one of the major defenders of the cable and telephone … Read More

Advice for Starting a Community Network – Community Broadband Bits Episode #94

Date: 15 Apr 2014 | posted in: MuniNetworks, Podcast | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

The Community Broadband Bits podcast this week focuses on what people can do to start building a grassroots effort for a network in their community. John St Julien of Lafayette, Louisiana, returns to the show to discuss what they did and ideas for others to follow. John was last on the show for episode 19, where … Read More

Diffraction Analysis Offers Free Webinar on FTTH, April 24th, 9 AM ET

Date: 14 Apr 2014 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

On April 24th, Benoit Felten and his organization, Diffraction Analysis, will host a free webinar to discuss results from their latest study. The study, Why Consumers Love FTTH – The FTTH Consumer Experience Study, delves into the fiber experience in Sweden. Here are some preliminary findings from the report: In Sweden a huge majority FTTH users … Read More

Network Progressing in “Sugartown” Michigan

Date: 10 Apr 2014 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Last summer we reported on Sebewaing, the community of 1,700 in the tip of the “thumb” in Michigan. At the time, Sebewaing Light and Water (SLW) was exploring the possibilities of deploying its own FTTH network. Like other small communities, Sebewaing could not get the service it needed from large corporate providers. We recently caught up … Read More

Benefits of Increased Broadband Utilization – Community Broadband Bits Podcast #93

Date: 8 Apr 2014 | posted in: MuniNetworks, Podcast | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

While in Iowa for the Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities telecom conference, I had a chance to interview Michael Curri, the Founder and President of Strategic Networks Group – SNG. He and I have long had great discussions at events around the country and I attempted to recreate some of the key points in this interview. … Read More

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