<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><i style="font-size:13px">Recent Stories from MuniNetworks.org - a project of the </i><i style="font-size:13px">Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Instructions for unsubscribing appear at bottom.  Send feedback.  Forward Widely.</i></div><div><br></div><div><i style="font-size:13px"><br></i></div><div><h2 class="gmail-title" style="line-height:1.3em;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;font-family:tahoma,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/wilson-forced-turn-service-pinetops" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);text-decoration:none">Wilson Forced to Turn Off Service to Pinetops</a></h2><div class="gmail-meta" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:14px;font-style:italic;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:verdana,tahoma,"dejavu sans",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-submitted" style="font-size:0.9em">Fri, September 16, 2016 | Posted by <a href="https://muninetworks.org/users/lgonzalez" title="View user profile." style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">lgonzalez</a></span></div><div class="gmail-content" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,tahoma,"dejavu sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-type-filefield gmail-field-field-image" style="float:left;margin:0px 10px 1em 0px"><div class="gmail-field-items"><div class="gmail-field-item gmail-odd"><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/wilson-forced-turn-service-pinetops" class="gmail-imagecache gmail-imagecache-teaser gmail-imagecache-linked gmail-imagecache-teaser_linked" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none"><img src="https://muninetworks.org/sites/www.muninetworks.org/files/imagecache/teaser/logo-pinetops-nc.png" alt="" title="" width="114" height="125" class="gmail-imagecache gmail-imagecache-teaser" style="border: 0px;"></a></div></div></div><p style="margin:1em 0px">Last night, Wilson’s City Council voted to halt Greenlight Internet service to the<a href="http://pinetopsnc.publishpath.com/" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">community of Pinetops</a>, North Carolina. City leaders, faced with the unfortunate<a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/sixth-circuit-court-appeals-reverses-fcc-disappointing-ruling" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">reversal of the FCC’s preemption</a> of harmful state anti-muni laws, felt the move was necessary to protect the utility. Service will stop at the end of October.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px"><strong>No Other Solution</strong></p><p style="margin:1em 0px">Before the vote City Manager Grant Goings <a href="http://wilsontimes.com/stories/Greenlight-likely-to-disconnect-Pinetops,72844" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">told the Wilson Times</a>:</p><blockquote style="margin:1em 2em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:0.9em;line-height:1.5em;font-style:italic"><p style="margin:1em 0px">“Unfortunately, there is a very real possibility that we will have to disconnect any customer outside our county. That is the cold, hard truth,” Goings said. “Without getting into the legal options that our city attorney will discuss with the council, I’ll summarize it like this: we have not identified a solution where Greenlight can serve customers outside of our county.</p></blockquote><p style="margin:1em 0px"><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/wilson-forced-turn-service-pinetops">... More Details on This INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING Story Here ...</a><br><br></p></div></div>
<div><h2 class="gmail-title" style="line-height:1.3em;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;font-family:tahoma,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/saint-louis-park-prepared-fiber-future-community-broadband-bits-podcast-219" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);text-decoration:none">Saint Louis Park is Prepared for the Fiber Future - Community Broadband Bits Podcast 219</a></h2><div class="gmail-meta" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:14px;font-style:italic;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:verdana,tahoma,"dejavu sans",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-submitted" style="font-size:0.9em">Tue, September 13, 2016 | Posted by <a href="https://muninetworks.org/users/christopher" title="View user profile." style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">christopher</a></span></div><div class="gmail-content" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,tahoma,"dejavu sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-type-filefield gmail-field-field-image" style="float:left;margin:0px 10px 1em 0px"><div class="gmail-field-items"><div class="gmail-field-item gmail-odd"><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/saint-louis-park-prepared-fiber-future-community-broadband-bits-podcast-219" class="gmail-imagecache gmail-imagecache-teaser gmail-imagecache-linked gmail-imagecache-teaser_linked" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none"><img src="https://muninetworks.org/sites/www.muninetworks.org/files/imagecache/teaser/logo-community-bb-bits_0.png" alt="" title="" width="125" height="125" class="gmail-imagecache gmail-imagecache-teaser" style="border: 0px;"></a></div></div></div><p style="margin:1em 0px">Saint Louis Park, a compact community along the west side of Minneapolis, has built an impressive fiber network, a <a class="gmail-glossary-term" href="https://muninetworks.org/glossary/1#term305" style="text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px dotted rgb(0,136,0);color:rgb(121,80,37)"><cite title="A reinforced tube through which cabling runs. Conduit is useful both to protect fiber-optic cables in the ground and because one can place the conduit underground when convenient and later">conduit</cite></a> system, and several deals with developers to ensure new apartment buildings will allow their tenants to choose among high speed Internet access providers. Chief Information Office Clint Pires joins me for Community Broadband Bits podcast 219.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px">In one of our longest episodes, we discuss how Saint Louis Park started by partnering with other key entities to start its own fiber network, connecting key anchor institutions. Years later, it partnered with a firm for citywide solar-powered <a class="gmail-glossary-term" href="https://muninetworks.org/glossary/1#term29" style="text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px dotted rgb(0,136,0);color:rgb(121,80,37)"><cite title="This is a suite of protocols that allow wireless devices to exchange information using unlicensed frequencies.  Equipment carrying the Wi-Fi brand is interoperable.  Recently, a number of cities and some private companies attempted to blanket their cities with Wi-Fi but the technology is not well suited to such large scale efforts.  Wi-Fi has proved tremendously successful in homes and businesses on small cities.">Wi-Fi</cite></a> but that partner failed to perform, leaving the community a bit disheartened, but in no way cowed.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px">They continued to place conduit in the ground wherever possible and began striking deals with ISPs and landlords that began using the fiber and conduit to improve access for local businesses and residents. And they so impressed our previous podcast guest Travis Carter of US Internet, that he suggested we interview them for this show.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px">... <a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/saint-louis-park-prepared-fiber-future-community-broadband-bits-podcast-219">Listen to the Show Here</a> ... <a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/transcript-community-broadband-bits-episode-219" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">Read the transcript of the episode here</a> ...<br></p></div></div><div><br></div><div><h2 class="gmail-title" style="line-height:1.3em;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;font-family:tahoma,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/chesterton-indiana-dark-fiber-investment-seeks-operator" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);text-decoration:none">Chesterton, Indiana: Dark Fiber Investment, Seeks Operator</a></h2><div class="gmail-meta" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:14px;font-style:italic;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:verdana,tahoma,"dejavu sans",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-submitted" style="font-size:0.9em">Mon, September 12, 2016 | Posted by <a href="https://muninetworks.org/users/lgonzalez" title="View user profile." style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">lgonzalez</a></span></div><div class="gmail-content" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,tahoma,"dejavu sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-type-filefield gmail-field-field-image" style="float:left;margin:0px 10px 1em 0px"><div class="gmail-field-items"><div class="gmail-field-item gmail-odd"><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/chesterton-indiana-dark-fiber-investment-seeks-operator" class="gmail-imagecache gmail-imagecache-teaser gmail-imagecache-linked gmail-imagecache-teaser_linked" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none"><img src="https://muninetworks.org/sites/www.muninetworks.org/files/imagecache/teaser/seal-indiana.jpg" alt="" title="" width="125" height="124" class="gmail-imagecache gmail-imagecache-teaser" style="border: 0px;"></a></div></div></div><p style="margin:1em 0px"><a href="http://www.chestertonin.org/" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">Chesterton, Indiana</a>, plans to deploy a dark fiber network to serve municipal facilities, anchor institutions, and local businesses. Like their neighbor to the south, Valparaiso, they hope to boost economic development, improve local services, and help the community compete in the race to draw in new industries. “We learned if we didn’t have that in the ground ready to go, we couldn’t compete,” <a href="http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/chesterton-aims-high-with-second-fiber-optic-project/article_c09dc7f1-09a4-5f05-b045-72445e4132b6.html" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">said Town Manager Bernie Doyle.</a></p><p style="margin:1em 0px"><strong>Taking It One Step At A Time</strong></p><p style="margin:1em 0px">The Chesterton Redevelopment Commission released <a href="http://www.chestertonin.org/DocumentCenter/View/1161" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">a Request for Proposals</a> (RFP) in late July as part of Phase II of the project christened the Chesterton Fiber Optic Network (CFON). The community is looking for an entity to operate and maintain, provide <a class="gmail-glossary-term" href="https://muninetworks.org/glossary/1#term17" style="text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px dotted rgb(0,136,0);color:rgb(121,80,37)"><cite title="Describes the final leg of a connection between a service provider and the customer. In DSL and cable systems, this is the most frequent bottleneck and the most expensive to resolve.  The service provider may run a faster fiber-optic network into the neighborhood but deliver the last mile (which could be considerably less than a mile -">last mile</cite></a> connectivity, and perform other services typical of an Operator. Late last year, the community released the <a href="http://www.chestertonin.org/documentcenter/view/982" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">Phase I Request for Information (RFI)</a>, for a firm to design the fiber backbone of approximately 15 miles. They chose a company in March. The final phase will seek out a firm to construct the network.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px"><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/chesterton-indiana-dark-fiber-investment-seeks-operator">... Get the Rest of the Story Here ...</a><br><br></p></div></div><div><h2 class="gmail-title" style="line-height:1.3em;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;font-family:tahoma,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/examining-connectivity-alternatives-op-ed-rochester" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);text-decoration:none">Examining Connectivity Alternatives: Op-Ed In Rochester</a></h2><div class="gmail-meta" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:14px;font-style:italic;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:verdana,tahoma,"dejavu sans",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-submitted" style="font-size:0.9em">Tue, September 13, 2016 | Posted by <a href="https://muninetworks.org/users/lgonzalez" title="View user profile." style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">lgonzalez</a></span></div><div class="gmail-content" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,tahoma,"dejavu sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-type-filefield gmail-field-field-image" style="float:left;margin:0px 10px 1em 0px"><div class="gmail-field-items"><div class="gmail-field-item gmail-odd"><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/examining-connectivity-alternatives-op-ed-rochester" class="gmail-imagecache gmail-imagecache-teaser gmail-imagecache-linked gmail-imagecache-teaser_linked" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none"><img src="https://muninetworks.org/sites/www.muninetworks.org/files/imagecache/teaser/logo-postbulletin_0.jpg" alt="" title="" width="125" height="25" class="gmail-imagecache gmail-imagecache-teaser" style="border: 0px;"></a></div></div></div><p style="margin:1em 0px">When the <a href="http://www.postbulletin.com/opinion/christopher-mitchell-rochester-makes-smart-move-by-evaulating-internet-options/article_bc30a369-e194-5fff-97e2-cf1e61fe812b.html" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">Rochester Post-Bulletin published Christopher Mitchell’s opinion piece</a>in August, it wasn’t only because he is an expert on municipal networks. Christopher’s interest in all things geeky started in Rochester - he went to Rochester Mayo High School.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px"><strong>A Budding Idea</strong></p><p style="margin:1em 0px">For the past few years, various elected officials, and member of the community-at-large <a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/rochester-pursues-business-case-study-muni-network-minnesota" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">have expressed dissatisfaction</a> for services offered by incumbent Charter Communications. In addition to poor services, City Council members have faced complaints from constituents about awful customer service. Over the past year, the community began showing that they will not abandon the idea of publicly owned Internet infrastructure.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px"><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/examining-connectivity-alternatives-op-ed-rochester">... Get the Rest of the Story Here ...</a><br><br></p><h2 class="gmail-title" style="line-height:1.3em;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;font-family:tahoma,arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/cool-connected-little-gig-city" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);text-decoration:none">Cool & Connected in "Little Gig City"</a></h2><div class="gmail-meta" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-style:italic;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:verdana,tahoma,"dejavu sans",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-submitted" style="font-size:0.9em">Sat, September 17, 2016 | Posted by <a href="https://muninetworks.org/users/hannah" title="View user profile." style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">hannah</a></span></div><div class="gmail-content" style="font-family:verdana,tahoma,"dejavu sans",sans-serif"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-type-filefield gmail-field-field-image" style="float:left;margin:0px 10px 1em 0px"><div class="gmail-field-items"><div class="gmail-field-item gmail-odd"><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/cool-connected-little-gig-city" class="gmail-imagecache gmail-imagecache-teaser gmail-imagecache-linked gmail-imagecache-teaser_linked" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none"><img src="https://muninetworks.org/sites/www.muninetworks.org/files/imagecache/teaser/logo-erwin-tn_2.png" alt="" title="" width="111" height="125" class="gmail-imagecache gmail-imagecache-teaser" style="border: 0px;"></a></div></div></div><p style="margin:1em 0px">Few communities in Tennessee have next-generation, high-speed connectivity, but the city of <a href="http://www.erwintn.org/" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">Erwin</a> built its own network despite Tennessee’s restrictions. Now through a collaboration of federal and regional agencies, this “Little Gig City” will get assistance showing off their fiber network.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px">The planning assistance program, called <a href="https://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/cool-connected" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">Cool & Connected</a>, will provide direct assistance to <a href="http://www.newsroomamerica.com/story/592475/obama_administration_to_help_appalachian_communities_revitalize_downtowns_through_broadband_service.html" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">Erwin to develop a marketing plan for the fiber network</a>. Cool & Connected looks to promote the Appalachian communities by using connectivity to revitalize small-town neighborhoods and encourage vibrant main streets with economic development.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px"><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/cool-connected-little-gig-city">... A Little Click To Read the Rest of this Story ...</a><br><br></p></div><h2 class="gmail-title" style="line-height:1.3em;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;font-family:tahoma,arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/big-easy-wants-i-net-design-releases-rfp-proposals-due-oct-24" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);text-decoration:none">"The Big Easy" Wants I-Net Design, Releases RFP: Proposals Due Oct. 24</a></h2><div class="gmail-meta" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-style:italic;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:verdana,tahoma,"dejavu sans",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-submitted" style="font-size:0.9em">Thu, September 15, 2016 | Posted by <a href="https://muninetworks.org/users/lgonzalez" title="View user profile." style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">lgonzalez</a></span></div><div class="gmail-content" style="font-family:verdana,tahoma,"dejavu sans",sans-serif"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-type-filefield gmail-field-field-image" style="float:left;margin:0px 10px 1em 0px"><div class="gmail-field-items"><div class="gmail-field-item gmail-odd"><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/big-easy-wants-i-net-design-releases-rfp-proposals-due-oct-24" class="gmail-imagecache gmail-imagecache-teaser gmail-imagecache-linked gmail-imagecache-teaser_linked" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none"><img src="https://muninetworks.org/sites/www.muninetworks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;text-decoration:none">Davis, CA, Issues RFP For Feasibility Study: Responses Due Oct. 31</a></h2><div class="gmail-meta" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-size:14px;font-style:italic;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:verdana,tahoma,"dejavu sans",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-submitted" style="font-size:0.9em">Sun, September 18, 2016 | Posted by <a href="https://muninetworks.org/users/lgonzalez" title="View user profile." style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">lgonzalez</a></span></div><div class="gmail-content" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,tahoma,"dejavu sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-type-filefield gmail-field-field-image" style="float:left;margin:0px 10px 1em 0px"><div class="gmail-field-items"><div class="gmail-field-item gmail-odd"><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/davis-ca-issues-rfp-feasibility-study-responses-due-oct-31" class="gmail-imagecache gmail-imagecache-teaser gmail-imagecache-linked gmail-imagecache-teaser_linked" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none"><img src="https://muninetworks.org/sites/www.muninetworks.org/files/imagecache/teaser/logo-davis-ca.jpg" alt="" title="" width="125" height="125" class="gmail-imagecache gmail-imagecache-teaser" style="border: 0px;"></a></div></div></div><p style="margin:1em 0px">The city of <a href="http://cityofdavis.org/" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">Davis, California</a>, recently released a <a href="http://documents.cityofdavis.org/Media/CityCouncil/Documents/PDF/CityCouncil/Broadband-Advisory-Task-Force/Documents/Citywide-Fiber-Optic-Network-RFP-Due-2016-10-31.pdf" style="color:rgb(121,80,37);text-decoration:none">Request for Proposals</a> (RFP) for a citywide fiber-optic feasibility study report. The community wants to consider the options for a Fiber-to-the-Home (<a class="gmail-glossary-term" href="https://muninetworks.org/glossary/1#term13" style="text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px dotted rgb(0,136,0);color:rgb(121,80,37)"><cite title="Fiber-to-the-home.  As most telecommunications networks use fiber in some part of it, FTTH is used to specify those that use fiber to connect the subscriber.  Some claim they have a fiber-optic network because they use fiber to the node even when they use phone lines or a cable network over the last mile.  FTTH may be more expensive to install currently, but offers significant savings in terms of maintenance when compared to copper alternatives.">FTTH</cite></a>) network. <strong>Responses are due October 31</strong>.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px">The scope of the work includes:</p><blockquote style="margin:1em 2em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:0.9em;line-height:1.5em;font-style:italic"><p style="margin:1em 0px">The study should provide an analysis of options for engineering, constructing, provisioning and operating a high speed citywide FTTP network. It should feature both physical and network transport layer components required to pass and potentially connect every home, business, apartment complex, and institutional building within the City of Davis. The analysis should also consider future use at strategic infill and edge points around the City in order to support network growth through the coming decades. </p></blockquote><p style="margin:1em 0px">Davis wants firms to consider public private partnerships, the city’s network as an <cite title="An arrangement in which the network is open to independent service providers to offer services.  In many cases, the network owner only sells wholesale access to the service providers who offer all retail services (ie: triple play of internet, phone, tv).  Open access provides much more competition from which potential subscribers can choose." style="text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px dotted rgb(0,136,0);color:rgb(121,80,37)"><a class="gmail-glossary-term" href="https://muninetworks.org/glossary/1#term625" style="text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px dotted rgb(0,136,0);color:rgb(121,80,37)">open access</a> </cite>infrastructure, and Davis is only an infrastructure provider.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px"><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/davis-ca-issues-rfp-feasibility-study-responses-due-oct-31">... More Information Here ...</a></p><p style="margin:1em 0px"><br></p></div></div><div><br></div></div>

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