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Community Broadband Bits 25 - Dewayne Hendricks Returns
Dewayne Hendricks has returned for his second appearance on the Community Broadband Bits Podcast, continuing our discussion about the potential for wireless technologies to improve how we access the...
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Community Broadband Bits 26 - Josh Wallace, Palo Alto
This week, Josh Wallace from the City of Palo Alto Utilities joins us to talk about the City's dark fiber network for episode 26 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Josh describes how the dark...
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Community Broadband Bits 28 - Bruce Kushnick
If you think the United States cannot afford to take a fiber optic cable to just about every home in the country, you might be surprised to find out that we have already paid for it. We just haven't...
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Susan Crawford, Captive Audience, and How to Kill the Cable Monopoly
Susan Crawford, author of the just-released Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, is our guest for the 29th episode of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. A...
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Jason Bird Explains how Princeton Kept Jobs in Community with Publicly Owned...
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...
View ArticleSusan Crawford on Bloomberg TV
Six minute interview from Susan talking about the failure of policy in America to expand access to fast, affordable, and reliable networks.
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Scarlett McGrady Explains Virginia's Wired Road
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...
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The Five Fundamentals for Future Telecommunications - Community Broadband...
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...
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Streets.mn Interview With Christopher
We received a visit in the Institute for Local Self-Reliance offices last week from Bill Lindeke from streets.mn. Bill came to interview our own Christopher Mitchell so he could learn more about our...
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Billy Ray, Community Broadband Pioneer, Joins us For Community Broadband Bits...
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...
View ArticleSusan Crawford and Bill Moyers Discuss Internet Access in America
Susan Crawford sat down with Bill Moyers to talk about Internet access in America. The two touch on net neutrality, the digital divide, and how access is now a critical component to our economic...
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Dewayne Hendricks Explains the Forgotton National Information Infrastructure...
Have you heard of the National Information Infrastructure, or the NII? Most of us either haven't, or have forgotten we once knew what it could be. Dewayne Hendricks joins us to remind us what it was...
View ArticleNew to Internet Policy? Listen to Vint Cerf
This is a good resource for those still trying to wrap their heads around Internet policy. Vint Cerf of Decoding DC.
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Georgia Mayor: "I Hate to Think What Our Community Would Be Like Without Our...
Recently on Gigabit Nation, host Craig Settles visited with Mayor Max Beverly from Thomasville, Georgia. As our readers know, the Georgia General Assembly is again considering a bill to limit municipal...
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Morristown Explains Why it Built a Fiber Network for Itself - Community...
Morristown, Tennessee, is one of very few communities where anyone in town can immediately get a gigabit delivered to their home and business. General Manager and CEO Jody Wigington of the municipal...
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Carole Monroe Explains New Hampshire's Fast Roads Initiative - Community...
The New Hampshire Fast Roads Initiative is bringing great Internet access to rural New Hampshire. Project CEO Carole Monroe joined us for this week's Community Broadband Bits podcast.Fast Roads is the...
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Blair Levin Discusses Gig.U and More for Community Broadband Bits Episode #37
Blair Levin is Executive Director of Gig.U. Prior to that, he was in charge of developing the National Broadband Plan and long before that was Chief of Staff for the FCC during the Clinton Presidency....
View ArticleDemocracy Now! Segment on Community Owned Networks
Last week, Catharine Rice and I were guests on a Democracy Now! segment filmed at the Freedom to Connect conference. We discussed what community broadband is, how it has benefited communities, and how...
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In Washington, Mt. Vernon Attracts Businesses with Open Access Network -...
Nearly 20 years ago, a small community between Seattle and Bellingham, Washington, began building a fiber optic network to connect key municipal facilities. In the years since, Mt Vernon has expanded...
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Moultrie City Manager Discusses Origins of CNS Network in Georgia for...
Mike Scott, City Manager of Moultrie in Georgia, joins us for Episode #39 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast to share the origins of the Community Network Services (CNS) network that joins four...
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