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Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 209
This is Episode 209 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Christopher Mitchell sits down with Lisa Gonzalez, Senior Researcher at MuniNetworks, to discuss crushing consolidation. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 256
This is the transcript for episode 255 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Doug Seacat from Clearnetworx joins Christopher Mitchell to discuss small private providers and big Telecom. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 288
This is the transcript for episode 288 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Robin Anderson of National Information Solutions Cooperative describes how telephone cooperatives brought high-speed Internet service to much of North Dakota.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 319
This is the transcript for episode 319 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. In this episode, Christopher Mitchell speaks with our former public policy intern Hannah Rank about Monkeybrains, a San Francisco ISP that has figured out a way to bring high-quality Internet access to residents of the city's low-income housing.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 168
This is Episode 168 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Chris interviews Kent Winrich, Director of Broadband and Infrastructure in Salisbury, North Carolina. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 180
This is Episode 180 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Chris interviews Norm Higgins who is the representative of District 120 in Maine's House of Representatives.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 212
This is episode 212 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Gail Garrett Select Board member of the Mount Washington, Massachusetts, discusses local connectivity and state grants. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 259
This is the transcript for episode 259 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Christopher Mitchell discusses Ammon, Idaho, with Ammon Technology Director Bruce Patterson and Strategic Networks Group's Michael Curri. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 290
This is the transcript for episode 290 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Bill Callahan and Angela Siefer join the show to discuss the report on redlining and digital inclusion in Cleveland. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 324
This is the transcript for episode 324 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. In this episode, Christopher discusses the new Fiber-to-the-Home project from Great Lakes Energy, Michigan's largest electric cooperative, with Shari Culver, the co-op's Vice President of Communications, Marketing, and Energy Optimization.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 165
This is Episode 165 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Lisa Gonzalez interviews Deb Socia, Executive Director of Next Century Cities, and our own Chris Mitchell, Policy Director of Next Century Cities. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 183
This is Episode 183 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Rebecca Toews and Nick Stumo-Langer join Chris on the show for a rapid-fire discussion of the past year and future predictions. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 215
This is episode 215 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Steve Johnston, Executive Director of Open Cape, describes the future possibilities of the open access, middle mile network on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 262
This is the transcript for Community Broadband Bits Episode 262. Harold Feld and Christopher Mitchell discuss Microsoft's announcement on TV White Spaces and what it means for rural areas. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 293
This is the transcript for episode 293 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Katie Cristol and Jack Belcher join the show from Arlington, Virginia, to explain the community's approach to bridging the digital divide.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 327
This is the transcript for episode 327 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. In this episode, Christopher talks with Brett Schuppner, General Manager of Reedsburg Utilities Commission, about how the municipal fiber network has decided to go all gig and their expansion plans.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 27
This is Episode 27 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Lisa Gonzalez presents highlights from the first 25 episodes. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 186
This is Episode 186 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. All the way from Colorado, St Vrain Valley School District Chief Technology Officer Joe McBreen joins the show to explain why schools need so much bandwidth. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 218
This is episode 218 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Pat Millen joins the show to describe how the North Carolina community organization Eliminate the Digital Divide (E2D) provides low-income families with laptops and Internet access. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 265
This is the transcript of episode 265 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. In this episode, Lori Sandoval the telecom and regulatory administrator of Pasadena, California, joins the show to discuss the city's fiber network and business climate.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 296
This is the transcript for episode 296 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Emmett, Idaho, built a community network to connect public facilities and community anchor institutions. Mike Knittel, the Systems Administrator, joins the show to explain how the small city did it and what's next.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 330
This is the transcript for episode 330 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. While at the 2018 Broadband Communities Economic Development Conference in Ontario, California, Christopher spoke with broadband consultant and practitioner Jory Wolf about various projects happening in California.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 16
This is Episode 16 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. JD Lester and Larry Gates of Chanute, Kansas describe how the gigabit network contributes to the economy and the quality of life. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 188
This is Episode 188 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Eric Cramer, President and CEO of Wilkes Communications and RiverStreet Networks, describes this North Carolina's approach to providing Internet service in rural areas.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 221
This is episode 221 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. President and CEO of the Roanoke Valley Broadband Authority joins the show to discuss the award-winning open access fiber-optic project.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 268
This is the transcript for episode 268 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Jon Chambers of Conexon once again joins the show. This time Jon dives into the details of the Connect America Fund program and discusses the upcoming Connect America Fund auction.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 299
This is the transcript for episode 299 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Eric Lampland of Lookout Point Communications discusses 5G and the latest technology. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 333
This is the transcript for episode 333 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. In this episode, Christopher speaks with Will Mitchell and Sean Myers of VETRO FiberMap about how communities have been using their mapping platform to design, build, and manage their broadband networks and about the importance of GIS data.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 157
Thanks to Jeff Hoel for providing the transcript for the episode 157 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Brooks Brown, Managing Partner from KC Fiber, joins us to discuss North Kansas City's municipal network. Listen to this episode here.
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Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 13
This is Episode 13 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Curtis Dean the telecommunication services coordinator of the Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities, joins the show to explain the importance of rural broadband. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 192
This is Episode 192 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Chris speaks about national public policy with Gigi Sohn, a co-founder of Public Knowledge and current Counselor to Chairman Wheeler of the Federal Communications Commission.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 239
Duffy Newman: The reason the carriers are using this type of technology is because they're trying to improve coverage but they're also looking at capacity.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 271
This is the transcript for Episode 271 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Research Associate Hannah Trostle takes over as host in order to quiz Christopher Mitchell on the latest developments in community networks. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 302
This is the transcript for episode 302 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 336
This is the transcript for episode 336 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. In this episode, Christopher speaks with industry analyst and podcast host Craig Settles about telehealth. The audio version of this episode is available here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 160
Thanks to Jeff Hoel for providing the transcript to Episode 160 of Community Broadband Bits Episode with Brandon Bowersox Johnson and Levi Dinkla on the Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband network, open access, and their partnership with iTV-3.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 9
This is Episode 9 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Chris interviews Leslie Nulty on how rural Vermont organized and bootstrapped its own network. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 195
This is Episode 195 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Ben Venable, Project Manager of Montgomery's Cyber Connection, joins the show to discuss Alabama's first Carrier Neutral Location. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 242
This is the transcript for episode 242 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Our Christopher Mitchell invites Professor Susan Crawford to reflect on her recent travels through North Carolina and Tennessee. Both states have restricted communities from building new municipal networks.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 274
This is the transcript for episode 274 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Justin Holzgrove and Joel Myer join the show from Mason County, Washington, to discuss how a publicly-owned network delivers high-speed Internet service throughout the county.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 305
This is the transcript for episode 305 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Michael Render from RVA Market Research and Consulting discusses his work and the state of Fiber-to-the-Home. Listen to this episode here.
Announcing the Digital Health Story Collection - Share Your Telehealth Experience With Us
Today we launch the Digital Health Story Collection, an opportunity for health care providers and health care users to share experiences with or difficulties accessing telehealth care across the country.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 29
Thanks to Jeff Hoel for the transcript of Episode 29 of Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Susan Crawford discusses her new book, Captive Audience, and the importance of telecommunication policy. Listen to this episode here.
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Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 6
This is Episode 6 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Cheryl Leanza, a broadband consultant with the Progressive States Network, joins the show to discuss telecommunication policy. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 198
This is episode 198 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Mark Erickson and Jake Rieke join the show to discuss the new cooperative model of RS Fiber. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 245
This is the transcript for episode 245 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Brough Turner of Netblazr joins the show to explain point-to-point wireless service. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 276
This is the transcript for episode 276 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Allband Communications Cooperative is the story of large corporations, government bureaucracy, and intrepid individuals. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 308
This is the transcript for episode 308 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Mayor Marian Orr of Cheyenne, Wyoming, joins the show to discuss broadband access in the state. Listen to this episode here.