June 2015

In response to President Obama’s broadband initiative, 25 federal agencies came together to form the Broadband Opportunity Council, charged with examining how the federal government can reform existing regulations to make the adoption of broadband Internet easier for communities across the country. To help guide the Council’s work, the Rural Utility Service (RUS) of the […]

Next Century Cities member Centennial, CO recently announced that the city has entered the second phase of its municipal fiber plan. As the community’s work enters the next stage of development, the city will build off the first phase’s successful mapping of fiber assets in order to build a fiber backbone for municipal assets and

In March, we shared news with you about the newly-formed Broadband Opportunity Council, consisting of representatives from 25 federal agencies. This group, initially announced as part of President Obama’s January broadband agenda, is charged with identifying ways in which the federal government can better assist the development of broadband networks and remove impediments to these