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Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits is a weekly audio show hosted by Community Broadband Networks Initiative Director Christopher Mitchell featuring interviews with people building community networks or otherwise involved with Internet policy. You can listen to episodes below or download via Apple, Google, or Spotify. Alternatively if you know what to do with it, copy the feed here.
We also produce a semi-regular video show called Connect This! that has its own site. Find other podcasts from ILSR here.
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Connecting Arlington, From Anchors to Businesses - Community Broadband Bits Podcast #97
Peering: Then and Now on Community Broadband Bits Podcast #96
Montrose Moves Toward Muni Network -Community Broadband Bits Podcast #95
Benefits of Increased Broadband Utilization - Community Broadband Bits Podcast #93
Understanding the Georgia Communications Cooperative - Community Broadband Bits Podcast #92
To Overbuild or Underbuild? A Rural Policy Conundrum - Community Broadband Bits Podcast #91
Lisa Gonzalez and I, Christopher Mitchell, are back in studio for a short conversation about the implications of a municipal network or a coop receiving subsidies from government to engage in overbuilding, where it builds a fiber network in an area already served by slow DSL and cable networks. This has become an important issue as Minnesota considers a fund that would encourage networks in areas currently unserved and possibly underserved.