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Florida County Saves Millions by Building its own Broadband Network
Publication Date: June 20, 2012 Author(s): Lisa Gonzalez Author(s): Christopher Mitchell We have just released a paper revealing how Martin County saved millions of dollars by building its own fiber...
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Chanute's Gig: Rural Kansas Network Built Without Borrowing
Publication Date: October 2, 2012 Author(s): Lisa Gonzalez Author(s): Christopher Mitchell The Institute for Local Self-Reliance has just released a new case study on community broadband -- this one...
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Wilson's Greenlight Leads North Carolina in Fast Internet
Publication Date: December 5, 2012 Author(s): Todd O'Boyle, Common Cause Author(s): Christopher Mitchell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance Following the collapse of key industries, a town of 50,000...
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The Empire Lobbies Back: How National Cable and DSL Companies Banned The...
Publication Date: January 3, 2013 Author(s): Todd O'Boyle, Common Cause Author(s): Christopher Mitchell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance In late 2006, Wilson, North Carolina, voted to build a...
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Santa Monica City Net Case Study
Publication Date: March 5, 2014 Author(s): Eric Lampland Author(s): Christopher Mitchell Santa Monica has built a fiber network called City Net that has lowered its own costs for telecommunications,...
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Minnesota Local Governments Advance Super Fast Internet Networks
Publication Date: March 19, 2014 Author(s): Christopher Mitchell Author(s): Lisa Gonzalez Local governments in Minnesota have been at the forefront of expanding fast, affordable, and reliable...
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Open Technology Institute Report Offers Overview of Public Broadband Options
Publication Date: May 6, 2014 Author(s): Ben Lennett, Open Technology Institute Author(s): Patrick Lucey, Open Technology Institute Author(s): Joanne Hovis, CTC Technology and Energy The Open...
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All Hands on Deck: Minnesota Local Government Models for Expanding Fiber...
Publication Date: September 23, 2014 Author(s): Lisa Gonzalez Author(s): Christopher Mitchell Minneapolis, MN —In 2010 the Minnesota legislature set a goal: universal access to high speed broadband...
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Correcting Community Fiber Fallacies: The Reality of Lafayette's Gigabit Network
Publication Date: October 13, 2014 Author(s): Christopher Mitchell In just the last year the Lafayette Utility System (LUS) gigabit network has attracted 1,300 high-tech jobs. Chairman Wheeler...
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FACT SHEET: Broadband That Works: Promoting Competition & Local Choice In...
Publication Date: January 13, 2015 Author(s): White House Office of the Press Secretary In January 2015, President Barak Obama appeared in Cedar Falls, Iowa, to present his administration's plan to...
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Community-Based Broadband Solutions: The Benefits of Competition and Choice...
Publication Date: January 13, 2015 Author(s): National Economic Council and Council of Economic Advisors Affordable, reliable access to high speed broadband is critical to U.S. economic growth and...
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Artificial Scarcity: How Data Caps Harm Consumers and Innovation
Publication Date: June 1, 2015 Author(s): Danielle Kehl Author(s): Patrick Lucey This report by Danielle Kehl and Patrick Lucey examines how bandwidth caps, in increasingly popular profit grabbing...
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Holyoke: A Massachusetts Municipal Light Plant Seizes Internet Access...
Publication Date: July 8, 2015 Author(s): David Talbot Author(s): Waide Warner Author(s): Carolyn Anderson Author(s): Kira Hessekiel Author(s): Daniel Dennis Jones Fifteen years ago, Holyoke Gas...
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Connecting 21st Century Cities: A Policy Agenda For Broadband Stakeholders
Publication Date: July 8, 2015 Author(s): Next Century Cities Next Century Cities, a nonpartisan coalition of 100 communities working to expand Internet access, recently published "Connecting 21st...
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The Next Generation Connectivity Handbook: A Guide For Community Leaders...
Publication Date: July 21, 2015 Author(s): Blair Levin Author(s): Denise Linn Gig.U, a collaboration of more than 30 universities across the country has just released The Next Generation Network...
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SandyNet Goes Gig: A Model for Anytown, USA
Publication Date: November 9, 2015 Author(s): Hannah Trostle Author(s): Christopher Mitchell Many of the most beautiful communities in the United States are in remote areas where incumbent cable and...
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The Emerging World of Broadband Public-Private Partnerships: A Business...
Publication Date: February 1, 2016 Author(s): Joanne Hovis Author(s): Marc Schulhof Author(s): Jim Baller Author(s): Ashley Stelfox As communities across the country realize the big corporate...
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RS Fiber: Fertile Fields for New Rural Internet Cooperative
Publication Date: April 18, 2016 Author(s): Scott Carlson Author(s): Christopher Mitchell A new trend is emerging in rural communities throughout the United States: Fiber-to-the-Farm. Tired of...
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WiredWest: a Cooperative of Municipalities Forms to Build a Fiber Optic Network
Publication Date: April 20, 2016 Author(s): David Talbot Author(s): Waide Warner Author(s): Susan Crawford In 2010, communities in rural western Massachusetts began a group that would evolve into...
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Minnesota's Broadband Grant Program: Getting the Rules Right
Publication Date: May 12, 2016 Author(s): Scott Carlson Author(s): Christopher Mitchell In its first two years of implementation, the Minnesota Border-to-Border program distributed $30 million to 31...
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