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Gigapower, Anna Gomez Nominated to the FCC, and Charter's ACP Shenanigans | Episode 72 of the Connect This! Show

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Join us Friday, May 26, at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news that's fit to print. They'll chat about Gigapower, Anna Gomez' nomination to the FCC, and more.

Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

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Recent Broadband News | Episode 71 of the Connect This! Show

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Join us Friday, May 12, at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guests from the city of Longmont, Colorado to talk about all the recent broadband news that's fit to print.

Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

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Live From the Broadband Communities Summit | Episode 70 of the Connect This! Show

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Join us Monday, May 1st at 8pm ET for another special live episode of the Connect This! Show, from Broadband Communities Summit in The Woodlands, Texas. Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) will be joined by Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), Heather Gold (HBG Strategies) and Bob Knight (Harrison Edwards) at the conference's welcome reception. They'll tackle the question of how we can actually get affordable, reliable, fast Internet for all to every household in America, from the perspective of the American Association for Public Broadband. They'll also discuss the latest news in municipal broadband, with a spotlight on Yellowstone Fiber in Bozeman, Montana, and how it could serve as a model for communities in states with preemption laws or which face financial challenges.

Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

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Recent Broadband News | Episode 69 of the Connect This! Show

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Join us Thursday, April 20th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to catch up on all the recent broadband news that's fit to print.

Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

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Recent Broadband News | Episode 68 of the Connect This! Show

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Join us Tuesday, April 4th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to catch up on all the recent broadband news that's fit to print.

Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

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Recent Broadband News | Episode 67 of the Connect This! Show

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Join us Thursday, March 23rd at 4pm ET, for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to catch up on all the recent broadband news that's fit to print.

Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

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A Dysfunctional FCC, Fiber Networks and Community Development, and Decentralized Solutions | Episode 66 of the Connect This! Show

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Join us Thursday, March 9th at 2pm ET, for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), to catch up on all things Net Inclusion 2023, as well as all the other broadband news that's fit to print.

Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

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A Very Special Connect This! Show | Episode 65 of the Connect This! Show

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Join us on Wednesday, March 1st at 7pm ET for a very special episode of the show, live from Net Inclusion 2023 in San Antonio, Texas. Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) will be joined by Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), Angela Siefer (National Digital Inclusion Alliance), Autumn Evans (City of Detroit), and ILSR's DeAnne Cuellar, and in front of a live audience at The Friendly Spot Icehouse. They'll talk pilot projects to reach neighborhoods long left behind by the monopoly marketplace, how to overcome stubborn digital equity and inclusion challenges, what it takes for cities to make forward-thinking, bold choices for better local Internet infrastructure, mobilizing local elected officials as an interested citizen, and much more. We expect a large audience and have a revolving seat for questions, comments, and jokes at Chris' expense. Join us!

Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

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Grant Tax Relief, Misreporting Coverage, and Line Extension Programs | Episode 64 of the Connect This! Show

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Join us live on Thursday, February 16th, at 3:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about recent efforts to remove the tax burden on broadband grants, the litany of ISPs that have abused the new reporting process to overstate their coverage, when line extension programs are a good (and bad) idea, and much more. 

Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

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Watch: What It's Like to Live in the Bermuda Triangle of Internet Access

Despite the release of the first draft of the new national broadband maps at the end of last year (and the first round of location-level and service availability corrections completed a couple of weeks ago), we're not holding our breath that 2023 will spell the end of the technology news cycle story trope of the family that buys a new house and learns that the monopoly ISPs don't actually know where they provide service in their territories across the United States.

How, more than three decades after we began rolling out national information infrastructure, does such a basic failure persist? Sometimes, it happens because network infrastructure has changed hands so many times (and with so many layoffs), that documentation has become tangled and gap-ridden. In many instances, however, it's purposeful: ISPs have for years claimed they just don't know where they offer service to, and that it would be too expensive to find out: all as part of a larger strategic plan to prevent competition. Meanwhile, the nation's premier telecommunications expert regulatory agency - the FCC - has bought this line with little pushback.

The problem is that when it happens, it's rarely the provider that gets punished. Instead, it's homeowners who assumed that moving to a suburb meant there would be Internet access nearby, only to discover that bad DSL or worse geostationary satellite service are the only options. Perhaps most frustratingly is when the provider itself - like Comcast did to a family closing on a new house in Buckley, Washington in 2021 - tells a family it services an address and completes a work order, only to cancel the install a couple of days before closing and demand $19,000 from the family for the pleasure of becoming a subscriber. Comcast seems to be a particularly bad offender, though of course Charter Spectrum, RCN, and others habiltually do it too. 

This is exactly what happened to Geoff Wiggins when his family moved to Ohio. On the most recent episode of the Connect This! Show, Geoff joins to share what happened when he moved to a house and discovered that it was in the Bermuda Triangle of broadband service, and what he's done to try and fix it.