Light Reading — #MobileOnly Movement Targets FCC’s Broadband Plans
#MobileOnly Movement Targets FCC’s Broadband Plans
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Next Century Cities Hosts Digital Southwest– A Regional Broadband Summit in Mesa, AZ
Next Century Cities hosted Digital Southwest — A Regional Broadband Summit to discuss stories of local broadband deployment success, digital inclusion initiatives, financing opportunities, and more. This full day event brought together broadband champions from federal, state, and local government, as well as community leaders and broadband policy experts from the Southwest and across the
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Federal and Local Leaders Offer Plans for Increasing Broadband Access at Digital Southwest Summit, Hosted by Next Century Cities
For Immediate Release Contact: Deb Socia 617-251-8358; deb@nextcenturycities.org Federal and Local Leaders Offer Plans for Increasing Broadband Access at Digital Southwest Summit, Hosted by Next Century Cities Regional Broadband Summit in Mesa, Arizona Features FCC Commissioner Clyburn, Congressman Biggs (AZ-05), and Local Mayor Giles Mesa, AZ (April 18, 2017) — Federal and regional broadband
Next Century Cities Executive Director Deb Socia Speaks at Hometown Summit during Tom Tom Founders Festival
Executive Director Deb Socia spoke on a panel, “Innovating Public School: What Makes Good Ideas Grow,” and moderated another, “What Can the Gig Do For Your City,” at Hometown Summit during Tom Tom Founders Festival in Charlottesville, VA. “What Can the Gig Do For Your City” Deb Socia (Executive Director, Next Century Cities), Mayor Andy
Broadband Breakfast — Next Century City Hosts FCC Commissioner Clyburn, Republican Congressman Biggs, and Local Leaders at Broadband Summit in Arizona
Mesa, AZ — Next Century Cities will host a regional broadband summit, Digital Southwest, in Mesa, Arizona from 9:00am to 5:00pm MST next Tuesday, April 18, 2017 in partnership with the City of Mesa.To watch the full event live, go to: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/digitalsw/.
POTs and PANs — The Vision of Next Century Cities
Next Century Cities is an organization comprised of 166 mayors of cities that have the mission statement to make sure that all of their citizens have access to fast, affordable and reliable Internet access. The members range from small towns to NFL cities. They recently published their 2017 Policy Agenda that highlights the issues that
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Opelika AL Mayor Fuller Touts City’s Broadband Network
Next Century Cities member Opelika, AL’s Mayor Gary Fuller has written an exceptional op-ed to defend the city’s broadband network from fact-free smears. Industry-backed opponents of community broadband investments used inaccurate information to create a distorted representation of Opelika Power Services’ OPS ONE fiber broadband network. In addition to his op-ed, Mayor Fuller also published
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State Scoop — 166 city leaders sign off on pro-competition broadband agenda
Mayors and city leaders from around the nation are calling for new broadband policies that restore local authority and prevent Big Telecom from hoarding access to the nation’s digital infrastructure.
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Government Technology — Next Century Cities Releases Policy Agenda for Strategies to Expand Broadband Access
An Op-Ed by Executive Director Deb Socia on Next Century Cities’ Emerging Issues Policy Agenda. Communities across the country are often the drivers of innovation when it comes to bringing fast, affordable and competitive broadband to their residents and businesses. By creating innovative partnerships with broadband providers — or by delivering service themselves — they
Route Fifty — Many States Remain Stumbling Blocks for Improving Local Broadband Access
Next Century Cities details its policy priorities in its 2017 Emerging Issues Policy Agenda. In the group’s recently released 2017 Emerging Issues Policy Agenda, few states have crafted policies to increase investment and improve access to next-generation internet, yet at least 20 limit localities’ ability to build networks with requirements like voter referendums.
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