MuniNetworks

Thanks to Jeff Hoel for providing the transcript for the episode 44 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast with Mimi Pickering and Tom Fitzgerald regarding telephone service deregulation. Listen to this episode here.   00:16: Lisa Gonzalez:  Hi, again.  And welcome to the Community Broadband Bits Podcast, a production of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.  I’m … Read More

Burlingtonians love their municipal network. We have reported in the past that, prior to the sale of the network to Blue Water LLC, a group of locals organized to create the KeepBTLocal cooperative. Recently, the organization reaffirmed its commitment to purchase the network when it goes up for sale, a condition of the Blue Water LLC … Read More

Thanks to Jeff Hoel for providing the transcript for the episode 57 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast with Jim Baller on the history of municipal broadband. Listen to this episode here.   00:16: Lisa Gonzalez:  Hi, and welcome again to the Community Broadband Bits Podcast, from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.  I’m Lisa Gonzalez. This … Read More

Thanks to Jeff Hoel for providing the transcript for the episode 59 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast with Danna Bailey on Chattanooga’s EPB Fiber. Listen to this episode here.   00:15: Lisa Gonzalez:  Hi, again, and welcome to the Community Broadband Bits Podcast, from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.  I’m Lisa Gonzalez. Today, Chris visits … Read More

Thanks to Jeff Hoel for providing the transcript for the episode 76 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast with Matthew Rantanen on the Tribal Digital Village wireless network. Listen to this episode here.   00:09: Matthew Rantanen:  The network is basically designed to provide broadband services to an otherwise overlooked rural community. 00:17: Lisa Gonzalez:  Hi … Read More

Thanks to Jeff Hoel for providing the transcript to for the episode 84 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast with Harold Feld to talk about network neutrality and Section 706 of the ’96 Telecommunications Act. Listen to this episode here.   00:07: Harold Feld:  Something got delegated to the state commissions under 706.  The scope of … Read More

Every now and then, we stumble across something, read it twice, and then decide we need to verify it. In North Kansas City, a municipal fiber network operating in partnership with KC Fiber, is delivering a gig to residents at no ongoing charge after a reasonable one-time fee. To get the story, our interview this week … Read More

Thanks to Jeff Hoel for providing the transcript to the episode 87 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast with Joanne Hovis on strategies for community network development and partnerships. Listen to this episode here.   00:10: Joanne Hovis:  Communities can enable deployment of their own networks.  They can build critical mass and infrastructure.  They can build … Read More

Thanks to Jeff Hoel for providing the transcript for the episode 127 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast on European broadband. Listen to this episode here.   00:04: Lisa Gonzalez:  Hello everybody.  It’s the Community Broadband Bits Podcast, from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.  And again, it’s Chris and Lisa. 00:12: Chris Mitchell:  Bonjour. 00:13: Lisa:  … Read More