January 2016

NCC Mayors Advocate For Local Choice in Denver Post Op-Ed

In the Denver Post today, Colorado mayors Karen Sheek of Cortez, David Romero of Montrose, and Dennis Coombs of Longmont wrote an opinion piece about the opportunities that many more communities in the state now have to drive forward next-generation broadband after they voted in November to overturn a restrictive state law. The mayors, all […]

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“One Touch” Make-Ready Policies: The “Dig Once” of Pole Attachments

“Dig once” policies, which mandate laying conduit and/or fiber optic cables when undertaking capital projects such as road construction, have been hailed as no-brainer actions that could decrease the cost of broadband while increasing the speed of deployment. This idea has strong bipartisan support in Congress and at the White House and has been praised

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