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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Minneapolis, MN —In its first two years of implementation, the Minnesota Border-to-Border program distributed $30 million to 31 rural Minnesota communities. But the state has not...
Many of the most beautiful communities in the United States are in remote areas where incumbent cable and telephone companies have decided not to offer...
Gig.U, a collaboration of more than 30 universities across the country has just released The Next Generation Network Connectivity Handbook: A guide for Community Leaders...
Following the collapse of key industries, a town of 50,000 in eastern North Carolina had to make a hard choice. It wanted to support existing...
Chanute first built a vision, then a network. The fiber network connects schools and other community anchor institutions with gigabit networks. The wireless network serves...
The fastest networks in the nation are built by local governments, a new report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and Benton Foundation reveals Chattanooga,...
In little more than a year, Burlington Telecom went from being a hopeful star of the community fiber network movement to an albatross around its...
Quietly, virtually unreported on, a new player has emerged in the United States telecommunications sector: publicly owned networks. Today over 54 cities, big and small,...