Top Stories

Latest Podcast

NEK Broadband’s Big Merger and Bold Vision - Episode 627 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast

Boulder Strikes $9 Million Broadband Deal With ALLO

Connect This! Show

Add to Google Calendar

Latest Stories

Federal Municipal Network Support Declining, Warns Experts

Experts express concern that federal support for municipal broadband is limited, prompting uncertainty about future funding and operational sustainability. At a Fiber for Breakfast event Wednesday, Tyler Cooper, editor-in-chief of Broadband Now, said that Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) grants are less promising for municipal broadband deployments despite initial promises.

Lancaster, PA Shutters ‘Free’ Muni-Network In Pivot To Shentel Fiber Partnership

Lancaster, Pennsylvania is in the final steps of shutting down the city’s fledgling municipal broadband network as it pivots to a new public private fiber deployment partnership with Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel). Late last year city officials announced they’d selected Shentel with an eye on ensuring uniform broadband availability to the city of 57,000.

Tennessee Munis, Electric Cooperatives Get Major Chunk Of Latest State Broadband Grants

Cooperatives and Tennessee municipal broadband projects have nabbed a respectable chunk of Tennessee's latest round of middle and last mile broadband grants. Tennessee’s Department of Economic and Community Development (TNECD) recently announced the state had awarded more than $162.7 million in broadband and digital opportunity grants, funded primarily via federal COVID relief legislation.

CBRS Spectrum: A Potential Boon To Community Broadband

Recent federal government efforts to expand use of public Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum could be of significant help to municipalities and local communities looking to bridge the digital divide with the increasingly popular wireless technology. For municipalities, the spectrum has already proven to be a valuable way to deploy wireless access to the public, though not all community deployments of CRBS have delivered satisfactory results.

San Francisco Wins National Award For Providing Free High Speed Internet Service To Affordable Housing Residents

With the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) now bankrupt, the City of San Francisco is being honored by the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA) for its Fiber to Housing (FTH) program that offers free high-speed Internet service to affordable housing residents. Built on the back of the city’s municipally-owned fiber optic network, California’s fourth most populous city is well on its way to extending the city's fiber network to 30,000 affordable housing units across the city.

Colorado Passes New Broadband Laws, Takes Aim At Landlord Monopolies

The Colorado legislature has passed several new broadband bills that should aid affordable broadband deployment in the state. The new bills do everything from expanding the leeway the state has in spending broadband funding, to providing some tax breaks to providers heavily invested in rural deployment.

Somerville And Washington Maine Begin Fiber Network Construction

The towns of Somerville and Washington Maine have kickstarted their long-percolating efforts to deliver fiber broadband to both long-neglected rural municipalities. Local officials say that the municipalities’ partner, Axiom Technologies, has begun construction on a dual-town fiber deployment funded by state and federal grants.