Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
Publication Date: August 10, 2006Author(s): Common CauseCable, telephone and Internet industry giants are fiercely lobbying, using every tool at their disposal to gain a competitive advantage in...
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As we continue to report on depressing campaigns to deny people fast, affordable, and reliable access to the Internet (as Time Warner Cable is doing in North Carolina), we are also making an attempt to...
View ArticleVenturing Into the Rights-of-Way: I Own What???
This is the first in a series of posts by Rita Stull -- her bio is available here. The short version is that Rita has a unique perspective shaped by decades of experience in this space. Her first post...
View ArticleCartoonist Turns Attention to Telco Domination of Wisconsin Leg
A cartoonist turns his attention to AT&T and its allies in the Wisconsin Legislature, which is currently slated to kill a telecommunications network essential for schools, libraries, and local...
View ArticleCommunity Broadband Bits 28 - Bruce Kushnick
If you think the United States cannot afford to take a fiber optic cable to just about every home in the country, you might be surprised to find out that we have already paid for it. We just haven't...
View ArticleRural Electric Co-ops as Reluctant Warriors for Broadband - Community...
As we continue to cover the growing movement of rural electric cooperatives to bring high quality Internet networks to their members, we wanted to bring Alyssa Clemsen-Roberts back on the show. Alyssa...
View ArticleCase Study Shows How Local Providers Built World-Class Broadband in Rural...
A recent case study from the Community Broadband Networks initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) finds that rural North Dakotans are more likely to have access to fiber connectivity...
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