Rural Colorado Internet Access and Mountain Connect – Community Broadband Bits Episode 137

Date: 10 Feb 2015 | posted in: MuniNetworks, Podcast | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Last year was the first year I attended Mountain Connect, an event in the Rockies west of Denver that discusses approaches to improving Internet access. Historically, they focused on rural communities but as co-chair of the event Jeff Gavlinski notes in our discussion this week, they are expanding it to include more urban issues as well. … Read More

Rural Colorado Internet Access and Mountain Connect – Community Broadband Bits Episode 137

Date: 10 Feb 2015 | posted in: MuniNetworks, Podcast | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Last year was the first year I attended Mountain Connect, an event in the Rockies west of Denver that discusses approaches to improving Internet access. Historically, they focused on rural communities but as co-chair of the event Jeff Gavlinski notes in our discussion this week, they are expanding it to include more urban issues as well. … Read More

Greater Minnesota Partnership Focuses on Non-Metro Need – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 136

Date: 3 Feb 2015 | posted in: MuniNetworks, Podcast | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Like many states, Minnesota has a major metro area that generally has higher quality Internet access than non-metro communities. The Greater Minnesota Partnership, a coalition of businesses, chambers, nonprofits, and cities from across the state, have made improving Internet access a major priority in their efforts to influence the state legislature. This week, we talk with … Read More

OneCommunity’s Middle Way – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 135

Date: 27 Jan 2015 | posted in: MuniNetworks, Podcast | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

OneCommunity is a nonprofit organization in northeastern Ohio that has connected thousands of community anchor institutions with high capacity connections. Created as OneCleveland before expanding, it has remained a rather unique approach to expanding high quality Internet access. This week, CEO Lev Gonick joins us to talk about OneCommunity and its contributions to the region. As … Read More

U.S. Senator Cory Booker Introduces Community Broadband Act

Date: 22 Jan 2015 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Senator Booker has taken the lead in introducing the Community Broadband Act to the U.S. Senate along with Senators McCaskill and Markey. We are thankful for their leadership on the issue. As part of their announcement, they included the following statements: “As Mayor of Newark, I saw firsthand the value of empowering local communities to invest … Read More

Most Municipal Networks Built in Conservative Cities

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

We’ve been curious about voting patterns from communities that have built their own networks so we took our community broadband networks map and analyzed some election data. A substantial majority of communities that have built their own networks vote Republican. We decided to stick with the citywide networks, where a community has taken the greatest risk … Read More

Ting Delivering FTTH Is Great News for Community Fiber – Community Broadband Bits Episode 134

Date: 20 Jan 2015 | posted in: MuniNetworks, Podcast | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

In recent weeks, we have been excited to see announcements from Ting, a company long known for being a great wireless provider (both Lisa and I are customers), that is now getting into FTTH deployments. The first announcement was from Charlottesville where it acquired another company. Last week they announced a partnership with Westminster, Maryland. This … Read More

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