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After launching its joint initiative with 32 U.S. cities last month in Santa Monica, California, the Next Century Cities coalition, which aims to improve local high-speed Internet connectivity through next-generation broadband, co-hosted a “field hearing” in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Tuesday with the Southeast Tennessee Development District…

Without gigabit connectivity, small towns will suffer economic hardships in the coming years, according to elected officials speaking at a rally on high-speed broadband expansion on Tuesday, Nov. 18, in Chattanooga, Tenn…

On the November 17th edition of Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about the United States’ Internet infrastructure. It ranks 29th in speed worldwide and we pay 38 times what the Japanese pay. Why is the Internet in the US so slow? What is the cost of creating a fast Internet infrastructure, and what benefits

CityTV 16 Santa Monica on Next Century Cities…

SOUTH PORTLAND – Parts of the city are about to gain access to super-fast Internet. Biddeford-based Internet service provider, Great Works Internet (GWI), has partnered with the city to offer service that is 100 times faster than traditional broadband to certain areas of South Portland. The company is constructing the fiber-optic network, named Gigabit Main

In the US, the median price for an internet connection is about $55 a month. The median speed for downloads is about 18 megabits per second (MBps) and a paltry 4 MBps for uploading…