Small Business Owner Testifies on Internet Access in Congress, Drama Ensues
23 Jul 2018

Small Business Owner Testifies on Internet Access in Congress, Drama Ensues

by | Date: 23 Jul 2018 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

In North Carolina, no other rural community embodies the rural struggle for high-quality Internet access as well as Pinetops. At a recent hearing in D.C., one of the leading voices in Pinetops, Suzanne Coker Craig, testified before a legislative committee assembled to delve into the issue. During her short five minutes at the Communications and Technology Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Coker Craig described her town’s rescue by the local municipal network and subsequent betrayal by their state legislature.… Read More

Fiber Internet Provider Lights Up Communities in Idaho and North Carolina
5 Jul 2018

Fiber Internet Provider Lights Up Communities in Idaho and North Carolina

by | Date: 5 Jul 2018 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Ting Fiber has continued its expansion into two more U.S. metropolitan areas, lighting fiber up in a northern Idaho town and planting a flag in a city south of the research triangle in North Carolina. Residents of the region of greater Sandpoint, Idaho (a service area of nearly 10,000 residents), and Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina (population of around 25,000), will soon see the benefits of fiber Internet access with Ting’s Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) service.… Read More

North Carolina Legislature Sides with Big Cable Providers, Foreshadowing Future Fights
12 Jun 2018

North Carolina Legislature Sides with Big Cable Providers, Foreshadowing Future Fights

by | Date: 12 Jun 2018 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Rural Pinetop residents are getting a glimpse of  the treatment they are going to receive from Suddenlink, even before the ISP has started offering service in the small North Carolina community.  According to locals, Suddenlink subcontractors are busting water mains, connecting fiber without homeowner permission, and spreading lies about the Town’s favored community-broadband provider, Wilson’s municipal network, Greenlight Community Broadband.… Read More

Screening Guide: Learn About Municipal Networks, Connect With Neighbors, Share This Film in Your Community
12 Apr 2018

Screening Guide: Learn About Municipal Networks, Connect With Neighbors, Share This Film in Your Community

by | Date: 12 Apr 2018 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Generate conversation about broadband access in your community with a screening of the short film, “Do Not Pass Go.” We have created a helpful guide on how to host a screening of the film in your community. Spend some time connecting with others who share your questions about local options and want to learn more. Documentary filmmaker Cullen Hoback traveled to Pinetops, North Carolina, to experience firsthand the battle between municipal networks and private providers. Pinetops is a rural small town that receives high-speed Internet service from the nearby City of Wilson, North Carolina. The large ISPs have tried to put a stop to this with a state law, and all the red tape might kill the small town.… Read More

North Carolina Cities Group Releases Report Advocating for Community-Based Internet Access
3 Apr 2018

North Carolina Cities Group Releases Report Advocating for Community-Based Internet Access

by | Date: 3 Apr 2018 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

The North Carolina League of Municipalities (NCLM) released a report in March with several recommendations designed to help the state boost connectivity for residents, businesses, and organizations. The report dedicates time describing different public-private partnership models and the elements that make them distinct. In recent years, the term has been used to describe a broad spectrum of arrangements. We’ve highlighted partnerships in places like Westminster, Maryland, and Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, where both partners invest and share in risk and reward.… Read More

Community Broadband Pushed Out of Pinetops, N.C.
30 Jan 2018

Community Broadband Pushed Out of Pinetops, N.C.

by | Date: 30 Jan 2018 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

After the North Carolina legislature has pulled out all the stops in keeping rural Pinetops from gaining and keeping municipal broadband connectivity by nearby Wilson’s Greenlight network for-profit ISP Suddenlink is stepping in to connect this community. This overview explains how the situation got to this point and the disparate power at play.… Read More

Pedal-Powered Composters Support The Local Food Movement — Episode 2 of the Composting for Community Podcast
1 Dec 2017

Pedal-Powered Composters Support The Local Food Movement — Episode 2 of the Composting for Community Podcast

by | Date: 1 Dec 2017 | posted in: Composting, Podcast, waste - composting, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Welcome to the Composting for Community podcast! We’re kicking things off with a special promotional mini-series for the upcoming 5th National Cultivating Community Composting (CCC) Forum and Workshop in Atlanta. In each episode of this mini-series, you will meet a new, inspiring community … Read More

Wilson, North Carolina’s Fiber Network Headlines Economic Development Plan
20 Nov 2017

Wilson, North Carolina’s Fiber Network Headlines Economic Development Plan

by | Date: 20 Nov 2017 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Wilson has made their community-owned Greenlight fiber network central to their economic development plan, a move that may forge a new approach for other communities with similar assets. Revitalization Efforts In 2008, when Wilson’s Greenlight community network first launched, the Federal Communications … Read More

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