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Community Broadband Media Roundup - February 23
Alabama
Montgomery launches first city-owned Internet exchange point in Alabama by Colin Wood, GovTech
Kentucky
Muni Network in Huntsville Draws Google Fiber
Huntsville Utilities and Google Fiber announced today that the utility will construct a dark fiber network and that Google Fiber will offer services to the community via the city's new fiber infrastructure investment.
MN Coop to Rural Schools: Have A Gig, No Extra Charge
Minnesota's Paul Bunyan Communications' is bringing better connectivity to homes and businesses across northern rural Minnesota via fiber. The cooperative is also helping local school districts save precious dollars while obtaining the Internet access kids need for a 21st century education.
Durango's Dark Fiber Fosters Wi-Fi Freebie
Last fall, Durango joined a number of other Colorado communities that voted to reclaim local telecommunications authority. This January, the city began using its fiber resources to partner with a private provider and offer free Wi-Fi along the downtown corridor.
New Report, Webinars, on Public-Private Partnerships From CLIC and Benton Foundation
As communities across the country realize the big corporate providers may never bring the kind of connectivity they need, public-private partnerships (PPPs) are sprouting up everywhere. A new report by Joanne Hovis, Marc Schulhof, Jim Baller, and Ashley Stelfox, takes a look at the issues facing local governments and their private sector partners.
Boston Globe: Build A Muni
The Editorial Board from the Boston Globe recently kicked off a series titled "The Cutting Edge of the Common Good." The editors intend to offer suggestions for how to create a prosperous city through ideas to benefit Boston's 4.7 million residents.
Hudson's Velocity: Fiber For Local Businesses
In Hudson, Ohio, local businesses prepare for the expansion of the municipal fiber network, Velocity Broadband, and a large business relocates its headquarters to take better advantage of the fiber connectivity.
Excitement from Local Businesses
Fact Sheet On Rural Connectivity In North Carolina
The Coalition for Local Internet Choice North Carolina chapter (CLIC-NC) and the Community Broadband Networks Team here at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) have teamed up to create a new fact sheet: Fast, Affordable, Modern Broadband: Critical for
Community Broadband Media Roundup - February 15
Colorado
Councilers to review broadband options by Saja Hindi, Loveland Reporter Herald
South Central Communications Bringing Fiber to Members in Utah, Arizona
Another rural communications cooperative is upgrading its current system to a Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) network. South Central Communications (SCC), is in the process of deploying fiber to all of its 23 member communities in Utah and the few it serves just across the Arizonia border.
Davenport Stepping Closer To Muni
Davenport, Iowa, is more committed than ever to bringing Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) to its residents and businesses.
Local Communities Appeal to State Leaders: Change State Anti-Muni Law
Some of us remember it - not so fondly - as a discarded relic of an early era of the Internet. But it’s not a relic for people in some parts of rural Tennessee: the awful sound of a dial-up modem.