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Alabama City Exploring Fiber Options for Local Business
The people of Huntsville recently decided to delve into the possibility of deploying a fiber network. According to AL.com, the City Council approved funding for a feasibility study to look at ways to...
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Huntsville Considers a Network Investment, as Its Businesses Consider...
We reported back in June on Huntsville, Alabama's decision to undertake feasibility study to evaluate its options for increasing next generation fiber optic internet access throughout the city.Tags:...
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Local Voices Show Support for Local Connectivity Options
Our readers have heard the media murmur around municipal networks steadily grow to a loud hum during the past year. An increasing number of local press outlets have taken the opportunity to express...
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Muni Network in Huntsville Draws Google Fiber
Huntsville Utilities and Google Fiber announced today that the utility will construct a dark fiber network and that Google Fiber will offer services to the community via the city's new fiber...
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Exploring the Huntsville Fiber Model - Community Broadband Bits Podcast 191
Last week, we were excited at the announcement from Huntsville Utilities in Alabama. Huntsville is building a municipal dark fiber network to every premise in its territory that will be open to...
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OK, Just What Does Open Access Mean Anymore?
In our experience, just about every community considering building a community network considers open access. They want to enable new choices for services and often would prefer the local government...
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Competition Expected To Drive Down Rates In Huntsville
The imminent arrival of Google Fiber and two other Internet Service Providers offering Gigabit speeds (1,000 Megabits per second) to Huntsville, Alabama is expected to be a boon to subscribers, reports...
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RFI For FTTP In Baton Rouge: Response Due Aug. 4
The City and Parish of Baton Rouge recently released a Request for Information (RFI) as a way to seek out partners interested in helping them improve local connectivity. Responses are due August...
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Madison, Wisconsin, Releases RFP: Responses Due Oct. 20th
Last year, Madison’s CIO Paul Kronberger spoke with Christopher about the city’s pilot project to bring better connectivity to several lower-income areas. They also discussed the community’s separate...
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Fiber For All and More - Community Broadband Bits Podcast 271
After a friendly coup in the offices of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Hannah has taken the podcast host chair from Christopher for episode 271 of the Community Broadband Bits. Hannah grills...
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Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 271
This is the transcript for Episode 271 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Research Associate Hannah Trostle takes over as host in order to quiz Christopher Mitchell on the latest developments in...
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Multichannel News Examines Munis and Economic Growth
Multichannel News recently published an informative and detailed look at municipal networks and the surge in interest that communities have exhibited as they've explored ways to improve local...
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Dark Fiber Will Bring Value to Huntsville for Decades to Come — Episode 433...
This week on the podcast Christopher talks with Stacy Cantrell, Vice President of Engineering at Huntsville Utilities in Alabama. Huntsville’s (pop. 197,000) municipal utility serves well beyond the...
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Report: Six Community Broadband Networks Demonstrate Diversity of Approaches...
In this report published by the Benton Institute for Broadband and Society, ILSR's Sean Gonsalves, Christopher Mitchell, and Jericho Casper profile how six community networks in a diverse range of...
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PCMag’s Fastest ISPs in America List Once Again Proves the Value of Cities...
After three years in a row with similar results, PCMag’s “Fastest ISPs in America” for 2021 analysis shows a clear trend: community owned and/or operated broadband infrastructure supports networks...
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