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Cooperatives Essential to Bringing High-Quality Fiber Internet Access to Rural America
An updated report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) illustrates the remarkable progress cooperatives have made in deploying fiber optic Internet access across the country. … Read More
Case Study Shows How Local Providers Built World-Class Broadband in Rural North Dakota
A recent case study from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) finds that rural North Dakotans are more likely to have access to fiber connectivity and gigabit-speed Internet than those living in urban areas.… Read More
Updated Policy Brief: Cooperatives Bring Fiber Internet Access to Rural America
Originally published in 2017, our report, Cooperatives Fiberize Rural America: A Trusted Model for the Internet Era, focuses on cooperatives as a proven model for deploying fiber optic Internet access across the country. An update in the spring of 2019 … Read More
Updated Report Shows How Cooperatives Are Bridging the Digital Divide
Decades after bringing electricity and telephone services to America’s rural households, cooperatives are tackling a new challenge: the rural digital divide. … Read More
A Public Housing Digital Inclusion Blueprint
Our new report details a model developed by Monkeybrains, a local ISP, and the city of San Francisco that successfully bridges the digital divide for public housing residents. … Read More
Broadband Competition in the Rochester Region: Reality vs. Federal Statistics
This report from the Community Broadband Networks team explores broadband coverage and competition in Rochester, Minn. … Read More
Profiles of Monopoly: Big Cable & Telecom
In this policy brief from our Community Broadband Networks team, we crunched the numbers to determine the extent to which the largest cable and telecom companies are underinvesting in rural broadband they’re being paid to provide. Explore the brief… Read More
ILSR’s 2017 Annual Report: Building Local Power
In each of our wide-ranging initiatives, we work alongside community leaders to provide the hard data, detailed policy expertise, and compelling narratives needed to support effective advocacy, organizing, and real-life projects. ILSR was busy in 2017, check out the progress we’ve made this year.… Read More
The Fiber Future is Cooperative: Policy Brief On Rural Cooperative Fiber Deployment
Rural communities across the United States are already building the Internet infrastructure of the future. Using a 20th century model, rural America is finding a way to tap into high-speed Internet service: electric and telephone cooperatives are bringing next-generation, Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) networks to their service territories. This policy brief provides an overview of the work that cooperatives have already done, including a map of the cooperatives’ fiber service territories. We also offer recommendations on ways to help cooperatives continue their important strides.
Download the policy brief, Cooperatives Fiberize Rural America: A Trusted Model For The Internet Era here.… Read More
Comcast’s Election Investment: Policy Brief On Seattle, Fort Collins, & Broadband Ballots
Comcast is doing its best to buy elections in Seattle and Fort Collins and this new report from the Community Broadband Networks team found out why: the telecom giant stands to lose millions in customer’s service if their preferred option loses at the ballot.… Read More
Addressing UPenn Report on Municipal Broadband: Dud Data, Unsuitable Approach
For the second week in row, our staff has felt compelled to address a misleading report about municipal networks. In order to correct the errors and incorrect assumptions in yet another anti-muni publication, we’ve worked with Next Century Cities to … Read More
Report: Correcting Community Fiber Fallacies
Usually, we ignore the misinformation released by the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) but their latest efforts are so shady, we felt it was our responsibility to shine a light on its lack of validity and the organization’s credibility. Our report, Correcting Community Fiber Fallacies: Taxpayers Protection Alliance Edition, takes a deeper look at the TAP’s most recent attempt, which is filled with errors and a blatant disregard for the truth.… Read More
Decentralizing Economic Power, Reinvigorating Democracy: ILSR’s Impact in 2016
ILSR’s forward-thinking, bottom-up solutions have never been more needed. Please help us expand our impact in 2017 by making a donation to ILSR. As we head into a turbulent era of government, the values and goals of the Institute for … Read More
Report: North Carolina Connectivity – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
North Carolina’s digital divide between urban and rural communities is increasing dangerously in a time when high quality Internet access is more important than ever. Rural and urban areas of North Carolina are essentially living in different realities, based on … Read More
The Secrets Behind Partnerships to Improve Internet Access
A growing number of US cities have broken up monopoly control of the Internet marketplace locally. They’re promoting entrepreneurship, and giving residents and businesses real choice in how they connect and reach new audiences. They’ve brought a new wrinkle to an … Read More