Brendan Greeley on Why We Need a Pro-Competition Political Party (Episode 40)

Date: 23 Feb 2018 | posted in: Building Local Power, MuniNetworks, Podcast, Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Economics writer Brendan Greeley joins Stacy Mitchell and Christopher Mitchell to discuss what we all get wrong when we talk about economic indicators and how he’s working to change that.… Read More

The Other Side of Network Neutrality – Content Neutrality

Date: 20 Mar 2015 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

We are pleased to bring you a guest post from Levi C. Maaia, president of Full Channel Labs and a graduate research fellow at the Center for Education Research on Literacies, Learning & Inquiry in Networking Communities (LINC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Levi is a strong advocate for local, family owned businesses and … Read More

With Liberty and Solar for All

Date: 1 Aug 2014 | posted in: Energy, Energy Self Reliant States | 1 Facebooktwitterredditmail

For over 100 years, the American economy has been fueled by enormous expansion of fossil fuel energy. It has emitted a disproportionate share of its environmental impact (too much) and economic rewards (too few) on those less fortunate. More than any 21st century energy source, solar can power an equitable and environmentally sound energy future.  Solar … Read More

Early Lessons from Longmont – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 106

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

Longmont is about to break ground on the citywide FTTH gigabit network but it is already offering services to local businesses and a few neighborhoods that started as pilot projects. Vince Jordan, previously a guest two years ago, is back to update us on their progress. Until recently, Vince was the Telecom Manager for Longmont Power … Read More

Wireless Commons Part 1: Interference Is a Myth, but the FCC Hasn’t Caught on Yet

Date: 2 Jul 2014 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

This is the first in two-part series on spectrum basics and how we could better manage the spectrum to encourage innovation and prevent either large corporations or government from interfering with our right to communicate. Part 2 is available here. We often think of all our wireless communications as traveling separate on paths: television, radio, Wi-Fi, … Read More

Krugman Calls out the Barons of Broadband

Date: 2 Mar 2014 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

We should probably be thanking Comcast for its attempt to take over Time Warner Cable. It has inspired a shocking amount of vitriol against the cable monopolies, including an entertaining but NSFW video with strong language from Funny or Die. Whereas people were largely content to mostly silently hate Comcast and Time Warner Cable separately, the … Read More

The Real Threats from Monopoly – Community Broadband Bits Podcast #83

Date: 28 Jan 2014 | posted in: MuniNetworks, Podcast | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

When we think about the threat of monopoly, we almost always focus on how monopolies can raise prices beyond what is reasonable. But there are many threats from monopolies and many are much more dangerous to a free society than higher prices. This week, monopoly expert Barry Lynn joins us for the Community Broadband Bits podcast. … Read More

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