In the News: Christopher Mitchell January 12th, 2018 Media Outlet: Telecompetitor Recently, Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society released a study detailing the pricing in municipal broadband networks versus large-scale Internet service providers. Joan Engebretson of Telecompetitor took up the story to dig into the findings of the study that munis are more competitive on … Read More
In the News: Stacy Mitchell January 12th, 2018 Media Outlet: The New York Times As the power of Amazon grows, so grows the power of the worlds richest person (or second richest person depending the stock surges), Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Nick Wingfield and Nellie Bowles’ profile of Bezos in the New York Times details how Bezos … Read More
In the News: Christopher Mitchell January 11th, 2018 Media Outlet: KETR 88.9 – Northeast Texas Public Radio On January 8th, President Trump released executive orders aimed at improving rural broadband, however, these orders are largely ceremonial, not effective for improving rural broadband access. KETR — or Northeast Texas Public Radio — was interested in covering this issue … Read More
In the News: Stacy Mitchell January 9th, 2018 Media Outlet: The New Republic David Dayen, a prominent anti-monopoly thinker and reporter, has taken on a number of different industries in his reporting. In this piece for The New Republic, Dayen delves into Amazon’s history of public subsidies to build its prominent infrastructure network. As our comprehensive Amazon’s Stranglehold report methodically … Read More
In the News: Christopher Mitchell January 5th, 2018 Media Outlet: ArsTechnica Recently, Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society released a study detailing the pricing in municipal broadband networks versus large-scale Internet service providers. ArsTechnica technology reporter Jon Brodkin covered the study and its outcomes that municipal broadband networks often have more transparent and are cheaper. Here’s ILSR’s contribution: … Read More
WLOS News 13 – December 21st, 2017 Local investigative news shows often earn a reputation for digging into scams and rip-offs that pick consumers’ pockets. In a recent WLOS News 13 Investigates segment, Western North Carolina’s ABC affiliate started asking some tough questions about Frontier’s Internet access service in rural parts of the state. A Comedy Of … Read More
This Week in Enterprise Tech (TWiET) – December 15th, 2017 It wasn’t long after FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and the other Republicans on the Commission rescinded network neutrality protections that murmurs began to rise about the future role of municipal networks. Soon, journalists reporting on tech issues began contacting us for comment about the intersection between network neutrality and … Read More
American Public Media’s Marketplace – December 12, 2017 As the FCC’s vote on whether or not to remove network neutrality draws near, an increasing number of people are beginning to wonder how Internet access will change for them. Journalists have reached out to us to ask about the role of publicly owned Internet networks and the future … Read More
In November, ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell and Olivia LaVecchia traveled to Vermont for two events looking at the threat that Amazon poses to Vermont’s local economies. Here’s a roundup of stories in which state and local outlets cited ILSR’s work and provided information about the events in Vermont.… Read More
