Billy Ray, Community Broadband Pioneer, Joins us For Community Broadband Bits #33

Date: 12 Feb 2013 | posted in: MuniNetworks, Podcast | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Glasgow was a true pioneer in community owned broadband networks, starting with its own cable plant in the 1980s. Billy Ray, CEO of Glasgow Electric Plant Board, has been an inspiration for municipal broadband networks — one can’t dig into the early history of LUS Fiber in Louisiana without running into something from Billy Ray, for … Read More

The Five Fundamentals for Future Telecommunications – Community Broadband Bits Podcast #32

Date: 5 Feb 2013 | posted in: MuniNetworks, Podcast | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Harold Feld, Senior Vice President of Public Knowledge, is back on Community Broadband Bits to discuss five fundamental rules necessary to ensure we have a great telecommunications system that benefits everyone. Harold first appeared on our show in episode 23. Harold explains the Five Fundamentals here and includes a link to their full filing [pdf]. In … Read More

Discussing the FCC’s Gigabit Challenge

Date: 30 Jan 2013 | posted in: MuniNetworks, Podcast | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Last week, I joined Craig Settles on his Gigabit Nation show to discuss Chairman Genachowski’s Gigabit Challenge along with Jim Baller, Masha Zager of Broadband Communities Magazine, Gary Evans of Hiawatha Broadband Communications, and Arkansas Senator Linda Chesterfield. I take a more moderated stance in this discussion than I have previously, in part because we do … Read More

Scarlett McGrady Explains Virginia’s Wired Road

Date: 29 Jan 2013 | posted in: MuniNetworks, Podcast | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

The Wired Road is an ambitious fiber optic and wireless project offering Internet access to several underserved areas in rural Virginia. For the 31st episode of our Community Broadband Bits Bits podcast, Scarlett McGrady joins me to discuss its history and impact on the region. McGrady is the Director of the Grant Community Computing Center [link … Read More

Op-Ed: NC In Bottom of Broadband Barrel

Date: 29 Jan 2013 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Common Cause’s Todd O’Boyle and myself have just published an opinion piece in the North Carolina News & Observer to highlight the foolishness of the General Assembly revoking local authority to build broadband networks. Todd and I teamed up for a case study of North Carolina’s most impressive fiber network, Greenlight, owned by the city of … Read More

Lack of Competition Creates Capped Connections

Date: 28 Jan 2013 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

This post comes to us from Patrick Lucey of the Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation. The post was originally published there, but we are excited to feature it here as well. Last month my colleagues and I at the the Open Technology Institute released a paper titled “Capping the Nation’s Broadband Future?” The … Read More

Former Cable CEO on Competition and Wireless as Complement to Wired

Date: 24 Jan 2013 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Given the frequent claims of lobbyists for the cable companies regarding how incredibly competitive the broadband market is in the United States, I thought we might want to hear what John Malone, one of the most aggressive cable CEOs ever (TCI) has to say on the subject. He is now with Liberty, a media company among … Read More

Jason Bird Explains how Princeton Kept Jobs in Community with Publicly Owned Fiber Network

Date: 22 Jan 2013 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Jason Bird is the Electrical Superintendent at the city of Princeton Utilities in Illinois. He joins us for the 30th episode of our Community Broadband Bits Podcast to explain why Princeton built a rather unique network. Princeton has built a fiber network to connect some of the local businesses and uses broadband over power lines (BPL) … Read More

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