Broadband surge is the result of Tribal Nations’ mission to establish "network sovereignty," says census researcher Jessica Auer.
A conversation about Longmont's NextLight network, community broadband, affordability, and what it takes to build one of the most successful ISPs in the country
In The American Prospect, Sean Gonsalves reports on a recently filed bill in California that aims to strip telecommunications oversight authority away from the CPUC.
What does it take to build a sustainable model for closing the digital divide? How DigitalC grew to nearly 10,000 subscriber households
What Vermont is getting right — and why Google’s AI search changes feel different
A conversation about digital equity, dark money, and the fight over Internet access
A conversation about competition, mergers, and how to make sure the lowest-income households have access to an Internet connection
A conversation about AI policy, emergent systems, distributed knowledge, and why the things that are easiest to measure “might not be the right things to...
BEAD delays, LEO satellites, permitting, affordability, and why mobile networks may be getting worse
A conversation about how we organize networks—and who they serve
With tax day as a backdrop, the ILSR Community Broadband Networks Initiative and the National Digital Inclusion Alliance convened its quarterly Building for Digital Equity...
An important conversation around what happened when federal agents came to Minnesota—and how communities responded
A deep dive into one of the most successful municipal fiber networks in the country—and what other communities can learn from it
Blair Levin returns to reflect on the decisions that built today’s Internet—and why we may not be ready for what comes next with AI
Unbuffered is here. Chris Mitchell introduces a new chapter that builds on Community Broadband Bits while expanding the conversation around power and local control