The Open Technology Institute (OTI) at the New America Foundation recently released its report on bandwidth caps. “Artificial Scarcity: How Data Caps Harm Consumers and Innovation” is the latest warning about an issue with grave implications. The PDF is now available to download. Last November, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) released a report [PDF] with serious … Read More
Westminster recently officially lit up the new fiber network with its partner Ting. They create several videos to record the event, including this montage of interviews with movers and shakers in the municipal network industry. The two partners announced their agreement earlier this year: the city will own the infrastructure and Ting will provide retail services … Read More
Community leaders in the city of Biloxi want to expand massive water and sewer infrastructure improvements to include broadband infrastructure. The City Attorney Gerald Blessey recently addressed members from the Leadership Gulf Coast group and during the speech he shared the idea to spread fiber throughout Biloxi. Mayor FoFo Gilich has already spoken with the Governor … Read More
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. Listen to this episode here. 00:06: Brandon Bowersox Johnson: It was just a natural fit. And we’ve been thrilled to … Read More
The City of Ammon just took first place in the National Institute of Justice’s (NIJ) Ultra-High Speed Apps: Using Current Technology to Improve Criminal Justice Operations Challenge with the “School Emergency Screencast Application”. The challenge encourages software developers and public safety professionals to utilize public domain data and ultra-high speed systems to create applications to improve … Read More
Thanks to Jeff Hoel for providing the transcript for Episode 32 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast with Harold Feld from Public Knowledge on the five fundamentals for telecommunication systems. Listen to this episode here. 00:15: Lisa Gonzalez: Welcome to the 32nd episode of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast, from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. … Read More
For some five years now, many have been talking about gigabit Internet access speeds. After arguing for years that no one needed higher capacity connections, Comcast has finally unveiled its new fiber optic option. And as Tech Dirt notes, it is marketed as being twice as fast but costs 4x as much (even more in the … Read More
In April, Chris spoke at the Broadband Communities Summit in Austin. If you were not able to attend, Saul Tannenbaum’s Readfold.com article gives you a taste of what it was like. Tannenbaum is a member of the Cambridge Broadband Task Force, recently set up by the city’s City Manager to investigate the possibility of municipal broadband connectivity. … Read More
The southern Illinois cities of Urbana and Champaign joined the University of Illinois in seeking and winning a broadband stimulus award to build an open access urban FTTH network. After connecting some of the most underserved neighborhoods, the Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband (UC2B) network looked for a partner to expand the network to the entire community. In … Read More
