[Davisgig] Recently in Community Networks... Week of 2/28

Tue Feb 28 08:01:48 PST 2017

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Fiber is the future for a number of communities across the U.S., including: Rock Falls, Illinois (https://muninetworks.org/content/rock-falls-future-fiber?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625) ; Houston, Missouri (https://muninetworks.org/content/sho-me-your-fixed-wireless-houston-mo?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625) ; Greenville, Tennessee (https://muninetworks.org/content/greeneville-tn-electric-utility-powers-school-connectivity?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625) , & Centennial, Colorado (https://muninetworks.org/content/commission-created-fiber-centennial?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625) . While they are all in different stages of the process (and some are using fiber as a fixed wireless backer), fiber infrastructure (https://muninetworks.org/content/fiber-optic-network?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625) is connecting Americans and boosting local ownership.
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Rock Falls: The Future Is In Fiber (https://muninetworks.org/content/rock-falls-future-fiber?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625)

The community of Rock Falls, Illinois, is well on its way to developing a gigabit municipal network to offer better connectivity to residents, businesses, and public facilities. Last week, the City Council adopted an ordinance that allows the city to issue general obligation bonds to fund citywide fiber-optic Internet infrastructure.
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https://muninetworks.org/content/cable-unbundling-challenge-community-broadband-bits-podcast-241-0?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625

The Cable UnBundling Challenge - Community Broadband Bits Podcast 241 (https://muninetworks.org/content/cable-unbundling-challenge-community-broadband-bits-podcast-241-0?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625)

One of the most recurring complaints about cable television is the bundles - people resent having to pay for channels that they do not watch. Especially when those cable prices go up consistently. The cable companies tend to absorb most of the blame and anger for this model, but they aren't entirely responsible.

To explain how the cable industry works, Public Knowledge Senior Counsel John Bergmayer joins us for Episode 241 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. We talk about overlapping monopolies, market power, and how the cable companies themselves are somewhat imprisoned by content owners.
..Listen to the podcast... (https://muninetworks.org/content/cable-unbundling-challenge-community-broadband-bits-podcast-241-0?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625)

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Sho-Me Your Fixed Wireless, Houston, MO! (https://muninetworks.org/content/sho-me-your-fixed-wireless-houston-mo?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625)

Electric cooperatives are increasingly creating local solutions to rural connectivity woes. Many have built networks that rival those in the best connected cities in the U.S. Rather than waiting for disinterested national providers, cooperatives and their members have found workable solutions.
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WA Bills Can't Bust Through Committee (https://muninetworks.org/content/wa-bills-cant-bust-through-committee?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625)

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 retail services stalled in committee.
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https://muninetworks.org/content/greeneville-tn-electric-utility-powers-school-connectivity?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625

Greeneville, TN: Electric Utility Powers Up School Connectivity (https://muninetworks.org/content/greeneville-tn-electric-utility-powers-school-connectivity?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625)

Schools in Greenville, Tennessee, are about to save on Internet connectivity to the tune of $50,000 per year, thanks to a partnership with the municipal electric utility.

Greenville City Schools (GCS), which obtains Internet access via the state’s Education Networks of America (ENA), used to obtain cable connections from big providers that worked with ENA. Comcast and CenturyLink are two of the local providers that lease lines to the schools with ENA as the entity that arranged the connections. Not anymore.
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https://muninetworks.org/content/commission-created-fiber-centennial?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625

Commission Created For Fiber In Centennial (https://muninetworks.org/content/commission-created-fiber-centennial?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625)

In December Centennial, Colorado’s City Council voted to establish Centennial FiberWorks, a program focused on making optimal use of the city’s fiber-optic backbone. In January, they took the next step by creating a Fiber Commission to manage the program.
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https://muninetworks.org/content/jon-chambers-100k-trumpfone?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625

Jon Chambers On The $100K Trumpfone (https://muninetworks.org/content/jon-chambers-100k-trumpfone?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625)

Jonathan Chambers from Conexon works with rural electric cooperatives as they bring high-quality Internet access to rural America. When he spoke with Christopher for episode 229 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast last November, he had some choice words to say about how the FCC chose to continue to subsidize big telcos for little return.

In a recent post on the Conexon blog, Chambers analyzes “The New Trumpfone Program,” (http://www.conexon.us/1/new-trumpfone-program/?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625)  and reveals how proposed Connect America Fund (CAF) subsidies, when applied to real world data, creates outrageous financial waste.
...Read the article... (https://muninetworks.org/content/jon-chambers-100k-trumpfone?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625)

https://muninetworks.org/content/community-broadband-media-roundup-february-27-0?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625

Community Broadband Media Roundup - February 27 (https://muninetworks.org/content/community-broadband-media-roundup-february-27-0?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625)

California
Why SF needs municipal broadband (http://48hills.org/2017/02/17/sf-needs-municipal-broadband/?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625)  by Tim Redmond, 48 Hills Blog

Minnesota
Northern Minnesota and the 'digital divide' (http://www.businessnorth.com/businessnorth_exclusives/northern-minnesota-and-the-digital-divide/article_2a98ea30-f855-11e6-8bed-bb2076aea8a4.html?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625)  by Beth Bily, Business North

Missouri
Bill could hinder city efforts to expand broadband (http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/local/bill-could-hinder-city-efforts-to-expand-broadband/article_72303a9f-c502-59df-a2fd-c59f4d62e691.html?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625)  by Brittany Ruess, Columbia Tribune
Missouri the latest state to let telecom monopolies write awful, protectionist state law (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170222/09123236763/missouri-latest-state-to-let-telecom-monopolies-write-awful-protectionist-state-law.shtml?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=6487094d32-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-6487094d32-82753625)  by Karl Bode, TechDirt
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