The award-winning municipal broadband network in Fort Collins, Colorado, Connexion, continues to grow.
And to celebrate signing up its 20,000th subscriber they are giving away a year of free Internet access to 20 randomly chosen subscribers
My colleague @KarlBode story at link below
#Internet #communitybroadband
https://communitynets.org/content/fort-collins-municipal-network-celebrates-20000-subscriber-milestone
Fort Collins Municipal Network Celebrates 20,000 Subscriber Milestone | Welcome to Community Networks
Fort Collins, Colorado's award-winning municipal fiber network is celebrating its growth by giving away a year of free Internet access to 20 randomly chosen subscribers. Buoyed by its successes, Fort Collins has since started striking intergovernmental agreements with unserved neighboring communities in Larimer County in a bid to further extend affordable access to locals long-neglected by regional monopolies.
Big Telecom Is Once Again Using Fake Consumer Groups To Attack Community Owned Broadband Networks
Annoyed by the kind of expensive, shitty, slow, and spotty broadband access caused by limited competition and monopoly power, hundreds of U.S. communities have been building their own broadband net…
Just like Comcast and Verizon went after
#communityBroadband in the 2010s, the utility corporations aren't going to stand by and allow us to organize energy for ourselves
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/the-fight-over-california-community-solar-everyone-vs-the-utilities #communitySolar #solar
The fight over California community solar: 'It's everyone vs. utilities'
Α broad and unlikely coalition has united behind a proposal that would finally let community solar flourish in California. Utilities are trying to stop it.
Ting Disrupting Mediocre U.S. Broadband By Partnering With Annoyed Cities Like Colorado Springs
Back in 2015 domain registrar Tucows announced it would hope to modestly kickstart stagnant broadband competition by buying a small Virginia ISP by the name of Blue Ridge InternetWorks (B…
Palo Alto Embraces A Community-Owned Multi-Gigabit Broadband Network After Decades Of Talk
For all of the hype Silicon Valley gets as the birthplace of American technological innovation, the broadband networks in cities like Palo Alto have never kept pace. Like most towns and cities acro…
New York City Is Dismantling Low-Cost Community Broadband https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/new-york-city-dismantling-low-cost-community-broadband-2
Now PCC is now being told to take down their infrastructure, while this low-cost community broadband program is being scrapped in favor of a deal that potentially lands Charter half of a 0 million dollar contract.
#NYC #CommunityBroadband #Cable
New York City Is Dismantling Low-Cost Community Broadband
New York City is in the process of dismantling low-cost community broadband infrastructure in public housing that, if supported, could provide quality access to the internet for hundreds of thousands of families. It’s being replaced by a $90 million, three-year government subsidy, called “Big Apple...
Cleveland City Council approves $72-million broadband plan for Cleveland Utilities Monday
It's now official: Broadband internet service is now coming to Cleveland Utilities customers.The $72 million plan was approved Monday by the Cleveland City Coun
This young network engineer at Project Waves is doing amazing things in Baltimore
My story here on how Devin Weaver designed, built, and operates a #communitybroadband network that brings free gig speed #Internet service to low-income apartment buildings in one of the nation's most disconnected cities
#DigitalEquity #BlackMastodon #broadband #equity #DigitalInclusion
https://communitynets.org/content/making-waves-baltimore-community-driven-connectivity
Making Waves in Baltimore with Community-Driven Connectivity | Welcome to Community Networks
Profile on the people behind Project Waves, a non-profit organization founded in 2018 to bring broadband to mostly low-income households in Baltimore City.
LA County is accelerating its plan to deliver affordable broadband access to the city’s unserved and underserved, with an eye toward building one of the biggest municipal broadband networks in the nation.
Yet another example of community broadband advocates taking the bull by the horns and breaking the monopoly grip of Big Telecom
Good story here that my colleague @KarlBode wrote for us
#MunicipalBroadband #broadband #digitaldivide #digitalequity #communitybroadband
https://muninetworks.org/content/la-county-selects-pilot-communities-major-broadband-expansion
LA County Selects Pilot Communities for Major Broadband Expansion
LA County is accelerating its plan to deliver affordable broadband access to the city’s unserved and underserved, with an eye toward building one of the biggest municipal broadband networks in the nation. But the county is first taking baby steps, recently announcing target communities prioritized in a pilot program aimed at bridging the digital divide.
Senators Say The FCC’s New Maps Still Suck, Overstate Coverage
We’ve noted more than a few times that U.S. taxpayers have spent nearly $400 million on mapping U.S. broadband, yet the FCC still somehow routinely produces maps that greatly overstate broadb…
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