Community Broadband Media Roundup – October 10

Date: 13 Oct 2014 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

If the 3 million public comments, the backing of the FCC Chairman, and the support of big tech companies all over the United States wasn’t enough, this week we heard more positive rumblings about Network Neutrality, this time from President Obama. “My appointee, [FCC Chairman] Tom Wheeler, knows my position. I can’t now, that he’s there, … Read More

Community Broadband Media Roundup – October 3, 2014

Date: 5 Oct 2014 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

“The Times, they are a-changin” quoted Chairman Wheeler this week in St. Paul. And with it, must come faster Internet speeds if the United States is going to keep up in the competitive economy. Multichannel’s John Eggerton reported on Wheeler’s visit to the National Association of Telecommunications Officer and Advisors (NATOA) conference this week, where Wheeler … Read More

Blackburn and Wheeler: Awkward Penpals

Date: 11 Sep 2014 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Back in June, some sixty House Republicans led by Tennessee’s Marsha Blackburn sent an open letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler expressing their “deep concern” with his support for community networks. They took issue with comments he made at a House Energy and Commerce hearing in May, indicating his willingness to preempt incumbent-sponsored anticompetitive state laws … Read More

National Journal Traces Growth of Partisanship in Municipal Broadband Debate

Date: 10 Sep 2014 | posted in: MuniNetworks | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

In an excellent piece titled “How Republicans Flip-Flopped on Government-Run Internet,” the National Journal outlines the disappointing political evolution of municipal broadband, from a bipartisan local choice issue to an anti-Obama Administration, pro-incumbent telecom, states’ rights issue.  It was not so long ago (2005, to be precise) that three Republican senators (John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and … Read More

Media Roundup: Blackburn Amendment Lights Up Newswires

Date: 22 Jul 2014 | posted in: information, MuniNetworks, Press Release | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance praises Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken of Minnesota for leading the growing list of organizations committed to defending the authority of communities to make their own decisions when it comes to build the Internet networks of tomorrow.… Read More