Mar 25, 2019 | Blog Entry, NCC News, News, Spotlight City
We’d like to wish a warm welcome to one of our newest members: Rancho Cucamonga, California! Rancho Cucamonga joined Next Century Cities in February 2019. The city is currently implementing their Fiber Optic Master Plan, a six-year, $13 million investment plan to...
Mar 22, 2019 | Blog Entry, News, Outside Resources, Policies and Ordinances, Resources, Rights of Way Management
Originally printed in PA TIMES Online, a media outlet of the American Society for Public Administration Under the American federal system, local governments are creatures of the state with no constitutional identity. In many respects, local governments exist only as...
Mar 18, 2019 | Blog Entry, NCC News, News
Last month, Next Century Cities staff members visited the University of Virginia to host a master class on municipal broadband. They were invited by Dr. Christopher Ali, an Assistant Professor of Media Studies, and his undergraduate internet policy students. Deb...
Mar 11, 2019 | NCC News, News
It’s A familiar scene in rural Vermont: Cars cluster after hours outside libraries or cafés that offer Wi-Fi – residents sponging internet service that they can’t get at home. A mom brings her middle-schooler, who finishes his homework with notebooks and a...
Mar 5, 2019 | NCC News, News
As the need for equitable internet access becomes increasingly important to leaders, some cities are taking matters into their own hands and setting up municipally owned and operated networks.
