26 Nov 2008

Choice — and a Voice: Broadband Advice for the Obama Administration

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Fiber-to-the-home is essential infrastructure.  Communities know they need better broadband networks.  DSL is already too slow, especially on the upload side.  DOCSIS3 cable networks may promise fast speeds this year and next, but ever increasing numbers of users, each inevitably increasing bandwidth utilization, will soon overwhelm this legacy shared architecture.  

Our international competitors have invested in technologies that will bring very fast speeds all the way to the home.  In most areas of the U.S., this can only be achieved with fiber to the home.  And we can connect a fiber to every home if we make it a priority.  Our geography gives us a bigger challenge than others, but we are a nation that rises to challenges.
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5 Nov 2008

Information

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Welcome to the Information Sector.  This policy area deals most with telecommunications — broadband networks that move information across the planet at the speed of light.  These networks are becoming as important to communities as access to roads and electricity as education, health care, and businesses increasingly need faster speeds.

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9 Oct 2008

Court Victory Paves Way For Publicly Owned Broadband

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For Immediate Release PRESS RELEASE CONTACT: 612-276-3456 COURT VICTORY PAVES WAY FOR PUBLICLY OWNED BROADBAND   Institute celebrates Minnesota city’s milestone in community-owned fiber optic project Minneapolis, MN—(October 9, 2008). The Honorable Judge Jonathan Jasper, a judge of the 10th District District Court, has ruled that Minnesota cities have the authority to issue bonds to finance … Read More
31 Jul 2008

City on Solid Ground in Lawsuit

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At a time when most of the United States has slower, more expensive Internet connections than our overseas competitors, communities across the country have responded with initiatives to build the infrastructure of the 21st century. And then they have been sued.

Monticellois hardly the first community where an incumbent provider believes it alone should decide how that community connects to the world. Lafayette, a conservative city in Louisiana, spent several years in the courts before it could break ground on a publicly owned citywide network. Cajun culture did not allow for giving up on the project. Nice Minnesotans should do no less.

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31 Jul 2008

City on solid ground in lawsuit

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City on solid ground in lawsuit By Christopher Mitchell, originally published in the Monticello Times, July 31, 2008   At a time when most of the United States has slower, more expensive Internet connections than our overseas competitors, communities across the country have responded with initiatives to build the infrastructure of the 21st century. And then … Read More
23 Jul 2008

Monticello, Minn. Fights TDS Lawsuit

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For Immediate Release PRESS RELEASE CONTACT: 612-276-3456 MONTICELLO, MINN. FIGHTS TDS LAWSUIT   Minneapolis, Minn.— (July 23, 2008).  Monticello has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit preventing it from building the fiber optic network 74% of voters supported in a referendum last fall. TDS, the incumbent telephone provider in Monticello, rebuffed solicitations from the City … Read More
23 Jul 2008

Monticello Fights TDS Lawsuit

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Minneapolis, Minn.— (July 23, 2008).  Monticello has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit preventing it from building the fiber optic network 74% of voters supported in a referendum last fall. 

TDS,the incumbent telephone provider in Monticello, rebuffed solicitations from the City to build a fiber network before filing a complaint to prevent the City from building its own network.

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