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New Braunfels Takes Next Step In Texas
At a recent City Council meeting, New Braunfels council members approved $57,000 in funding for Phase II of a study to explore the feasibility of constructing a city-owned fiber network. The city's...
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Open Access
A key problem in improving Internet access has been ensuring residents and local businesses have high quality services. One means of ensuring high quality is via competition – if people can switch away...
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Our "Open Access Networks" Resources Page Now Available
When communities decide to proceed with publicly owned infrastructure, they often aim for open access models. Open access allows more than one service provider to offer services via the same...
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Update on Utah's Open Access UTOPIA - Community Broadband Bits Podcast 223
In the north central region of Utah, eleven communities are now served by a regional open access fiber-optic network operated by the Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency or UTOPIA....
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Kitsap Residents Demand Fiber - And Get it - Community Broadband Bits Podcast...
When we first learned of the Lookout Lane fiber-optic project in the Kitsap Public Utility District in Washington, we knew we wanted to learn more. Kitsap PUD General Manager Bob Hunter and...
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Bills To Allow PUDs to Offer Retail Broadband In WA Legislative Committees
Two Washington state bills in separate committees would allow public utility districts (PUDs) to offer retail communications services. HB 1938 and SB 5139 are the kind of legislation that would allow...
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WA Bills Can't Bust Through Committee
While people in rural Washington State continue to limp long on DSL, satellite, and even dial-up, two bills in the state legislature that would have allowed public utility districts (PUDs) to offer...
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Susan Crawford's Road Trip - Community Broadband Bits Podcast 242
Susan Crawford has come back to the podcast to tell us about her recent travels in North Carolina and Tennessee, talking to people on the ground that have already built fiber-optic networks or are in...
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UTOPIA Expanding To Non-Member Towns
The Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency’s (UTOPIA) regional fiber network serves communities in the north central region of the state. Without the publicly owned network, it’s doubtful...
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Mason PUD 3 Responds to Muni Fiber Demand with Fiberhoods - Community...
Mason PUD 3 Telecommunications & Community Relations Manager Justin Holzgrove and Public Information & Government Relations Manager Joel Myer join us for episode 274 of the Community Broadband...
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Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 274
This is the transcript for episode 274 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Justin Holzgrove and Joel Myer join the show from Mason County, Washington, to discuss how a publicly-owned network...
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Oconee County, South Carolina: Achieving Goals Beyond AT&T Obstruction
Most residents and businesses in Oconee County, South Carolina, used dial-up connections when county officials applied for stimulus funding in 2010; there were still people in the county with no...
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UTOPIA Reaches Milestone
Thing’s have been looking up for the Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency’s fiber optic network (UTOPIA) in recent years and in December network officials reported they’ve reached a...
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SiFi Network’s First FiberCity Goes Live in Fullerton, CA
In the city of Fullerton, California (pop. 140,000), SiFi Networks has turned on the first section of what will be a city-wide, open access Fiber-to-the-Home network. The project makes Fullerton SiFi’s...
View ArticlePalmdale, California Considers Proposal to Become SiFi Fiber City
Palmdale, California is considering a proposal from SiFi Networks to become a FiberCity. The project would see $600 million from the private infrastructure builder to construct 800 miles of fiber and...
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