Surviving on Subsidies
Critics also charge that municipalities only succeed due to tax exemptions and subsidies -- but Florida municipalities return as much, if not more, funds to public treasuries that private telecom...
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Is Lafayettte Community Broadband Doing OK or Great?
Lafayette Doing OK, Doubles Capacity for PromotionJohn at Lafayette Pro Fiber recently updated us all on LUS Fiber's financials. According to John, LUS Fiber is doing OK, not great, in its FTTH...
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"Level Playing Field" Padded With Public Dollars to Private Providers
Municipal broadband networks have been gaining traction across the country. It's easy to see why: In many rural and low-income communities, privately offered broadband services are nonexistent. In its...
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Franklin County, Alabama, Task Force Investigates Internet Options
In a reminder of just how poor telecommunications can be in this country, Franklin County in rural northwest Alabama has formed a Task Force to investigate how it can get something better than...
View ArticleSurviving on Subsidies
Critics also charge that municipalities only succeed due to tax exemptions and subsidies -- but Florida municipalities return as much, if not more, funds to public treasuries that private telecom...
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Is Lafayettte Community Broadband Doing OK or Great?
Lafayette Doing OK, Doubles Capacity for PromotionJohn at Lafayette Pro Fiber recently updated us all on LUS Fiber's financials. According to John, LUS Fiber is doing OK, not great, in its FTTH...
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"Level Playing Field" Padded With Public Dollars to Private Providers
Municipal broadband networks have been gaining traction across the country. It's easy to see why: In many rural and low-income communities, privately offered broadband services are nonexistent. In its...
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Franklin County, Alabama, Task Force Investigates Internet Options
In a reminder of just how poor telecommunications can be in this country, Franklin County in rural northwest Alabama has formed a Task Force to investigate how it can get something better than...
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Middle Mile vs Last Mile - Community Broadband Bits Podcast 214
As the next President considers how to improve rural Internet access, the administration will have to decide where to focus policy. Some at NTIA - the National Telecommunications Information...
View ArticlePublic Networks are not Subsidized by the Government
I’m very familiar with many government owned telecom operations throughout the world, over many years, and across many different forms of government, and I can tell you that governments generally do...
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To Overbuild or Underbuild? A Rural Policy Conundrum - Community Broadband...
Lisa Gonzalez and I, Christopher Mitchell, are back in studio for a short conversation about the implications of a municipal network or a coop receiving subsidies from government to engage in...
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Federal Lifeline Modernization Order: NCC Webinar Hashes Out The Details
Internet access for low-income households is becoming more affordable, thanks to an FCC modernization order that brings the Lifeline program into the 21st Century. Tags:...
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United Fiber Tackles Missouri's Most Rural - Community Broadband Bits Podcast...
The most rural area of Missouri is getting a Fiber-to-the-Home network from the United Electric Cooperative, which has created United Fiber and is expanding across its footprint and to adjacent areas...
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Subsidies For Big Boys? Knoxville News Sentinel Op-Ed
In January, Governor Bill Haslam announced that he and Senator Mark Norris would introduce legislation to provide grant funding and tax credits to private companies in order to expand rural...
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Jon Chambers On The $100K Trumpfone
Jonathan Chambers from Conexon works with rural electric cooperatives as they bring high-quality Internet access to rural America. When he spoke with Christopher for episode 229 of the Community...
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TN Broadband Bill Hits Local And National Media
When state legislators in Tennessee recently passed the Broadband Accessibility Act of 2017, tech writers quoted our Christopher Mitchell, who pointed out that the proposal has some serious...
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Rural Electric Co-ops as Reluctant Warriors for Broadband - Community...
As we continue to cover the growing movement of rural electric cooperatives to bring high quality Internet networks to their members, we wanted to bring Alyssa Clemsen-Roberts back on the show. Alyssa...
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ECFiber Connecting Rural Vermonters To The Speed They Need - Community...
We’ve been covering the East-Central Vermont Community Fiber-Optic Network (ECFiber) since 2009; it has come a long way from inception. ECFiber is a group of rural Vermont towns that are working...
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Video To Share: Rural America, Broadband Help is Not on the Way
If you live in rural America, chances are you know what it’s like to have inadequate Internet access. If you've heard about the Connect America Fund, however, you probably think help is on the way and...
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Spiral Investing in Rural California While AT&T Invests in Sacramento -...
With the right policies and local investment, Spiral Internet could bring high quality Internet access to much of northern California. Spiral is a small private company and its CIO, Michael Anderson,...
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