municipal broadband
Google Is Lighting Up Dormant 'Dark Fiber' All Over the Country
Google Fiber in San Francisco has been 15 years in the making.
Bandwidth: How First Nations Kids Built Their Own Internet Infrastructure
When you have no other choice, you've got to do it yourself.
101 US Cities Have Pledged to Secure High Speed Internet
Sticking it to the telecom giants, even if the cities need to build it themselves.
22 Towns in Massachusetts Are Building Their Own Gigabit Fiber Network
"For too long we’ve been making do with satellite, DSL or wireless internet. Fiber will render these as obsolete as a dial-up connection."
The FCC Says Your City Can Build a Public Internet, Even If Your State Says No
The FCC will approve two petitions to allow cities to ignore state laws restricting municipal broadband.
The 21 Laws States Use to Crush Broadband Competition
President Obama says he's going to help cities ignore these laws that restrict them from building their own high-speed networks.
A Startup Offering Gigabit Fiber Is Expanding to a Second Comcast-Dominated City
"We want to blow this thing up, and we want disruptive services at disruptive pricing," the city says.
20 More Cities Are Looking for Ways to Get Gigabit Internet Speeds
When finalized, more than 50 American cities will have joined a coalition dedicated to bringing fast, reliable internet to residents.
32 Cities Want to Challenge Big Telecom, Build Their Own Gigabit Networks
Cities in at least seven states hope to challenge laws restricting community-owned broadband.
Tech Giants Finally Abandon ALEC, the Group That Killed Broadband Competition
A look at the "charity" who writes some 200 American laws every year.
Switching Internet Providers Is Too Damn Hard, the FCC Chairman Says
Tom Wheeler longs for the days when consumers could switch phone companies every month if they wanted to.
AT&T: We Deserve Tax Breaks, Municipal Broadband Doesn't
The company argues that tax breaks for private broadband companies will "induce them to expand broadband deployment to unserved areas.”