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<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:14px">San Francisco multi-occupancy building tenants will no longer be stuck with the Internet Service Provider most friendly with the landlord. On December 13th, the Board of Supervisors <a href="https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=2863893&GUID=E010FDC6-4024-4BA7-B282-C0F9DE32D9F4&utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=d2f0a33dc7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-d2f0a33dc7-82753625" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">unanimously passed</a> an ordinance to ensure that competing ISPs have reasonable access to buildings to offer competing services and give tenants a choice.<br>
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<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:14px">A northern Minnesota county has been approved for federal funding to bring high-quality Internet access to some of the community's most rural residents. Lake County (population: about 11,000) has been building <a href="http://www.lakeconnections.com/?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=d2f0a33dc7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-d2f0a33dc7-82753625" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">Lake Connections</a>, a county-owned community network, for the past few years.<br>
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<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:14px">For more than a century, electric cooperatives have ensured rural communities’ electricity needs are met. Now, many electric co-ops have made strides to ensure their communities have access to today’s newest necessity, Internet service.<br>
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<span style="font-size:14px"><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/osage-and-iowa-legislature-community-broadband-bits-podcast-232?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=d2f0a33dc7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-d2f0a33dc7-82753625" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">...Listen to the podcast...</a></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.sfexaminer.com/broadband-choice-bay-area/?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=d2f0a33dc7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-d2f0a33dc7-82753625" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">Broadband choice for the Bay Area</a> by Emma Peck, San Francisco Examiner</span></p>
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<strong>Georgia</strong><br>
<a href="http://www.lightreading.com/gigabit/gigabit-cities/atlanta-wraps-up-rfis-for-fiber-wireless/d/d-id/728992?mc_cid=0e011c3894&mc_eid=2910c7b52b&utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=d2f0a33dc7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-d2f0a33dc7-82753625" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">Atlanta wraps up RFIs for fiber, wireless</a> by Mari Silbey, LightReading<br>
<a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/community-broadband-media-roundup-december-19-0?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=d2f0a33dc7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-d2f0a33dc7-82753625" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">...</a><a href="https://muninetworks.org/content/community-broadband-media-roundup-december-19-0?utm_source=Community+Broadband+Networks+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=d2f0a33dc7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_171bbbcade-d2f0a33dc7-82753625" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #2BAADF;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">Read the article...</a></span></p>
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