Aug 17, 2018 | Blog Entry, Financing, News
Following the FCC’s funding cuts for its Rural Health Care (RHC) program within the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), health care providers are relying more on consortia as a source of administrative and financial reprieve. We did some research and...
Aug 17, 2018 | NCC News, News, Spotlight Cities, Telling Your Story
Big telecommunications providers are not making it easy for communities to step up and offer robust broadband service, even in low-density areas that the private sector has declined to serve for years, according to experts speaking at a July 23 Next Century Cities...
Aug 13, 2018 | Blog Entry, Getting Started, Models 101, News, PPP, Spotlight Cities, Spotlight City, Telling Your Story
We at the Monmouth Independence Network (MINET) are utilizing public-private partnerships to expand our broadband network into Dallas, Ore., following our success in Monmouth and Independence. The cities of Monmouth and Independence — both in Oregon — began building...
Aug 2, 2018 | Additional Resources, Blog Entry, PPP, Telling Your Story
What’s your marketing mission? What? You mean “take-rate,” right? No. Take-rate is another way of saying “sales goals.” The marketing mission has a different kind of value than sales targets. In the 20 years I did marketing for high-tech companies, a lot of us in that...
Aug 1, 2018 | Co-Ops, Models 101, NCC News, News
Rural electric cooperatives and not “small cell” deployment powered by 5G networks, may be the solution to closing the digital divide, according to Jonathan Chambers, former chief of the Federal Communications Commission’s Office of Strategic Planning.
Jul 31, 2018 | Additional Resources, Blog Entry, Digital Inclusion, Financing
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s Mobility Fund Phase II (MF-II) aims to incentivize LTE/4G deployment in rural areas through reverse auction by making available up to $4.53 billion over the next ten years. However, some find the data that the FCC uses to...
Jul 31, 2018 | 5G, Blog Entry, News, Outside Resources, Resources
Thank you to the Internet Society for making the recording of this event possible. Remarks of Blair Levin Brookings Metropolitan Project at the Next Century Cities Conference Pittsburgh, PA July 25, 2018 The full text of this speech was first published by...
Jul 31, 2018 | NCC News, News
Many broadband experts speaking at the Next Century Cities regional summit here said last week that city jurisdiction should take precedence over federal rules in ensuring impactful broadband deployment.
Jul 31, 2018 | NCC News, News
Running a T-shirt printing business on the main street of Pinetops, a North Carolina town with a population of less than 1,500 people, Suzanne Craig depends on the Internet.
Jul 26, 2018 | NCC Events, NCC News, News
Patchwork broadband service in urban centers often goes overlooked, given the pervasive lack of access in many rural counties, but affects “virtually equal numbers of people” in states like Ohio, said one digital equity advocate.
Jul 26, 2018 | NCC Events, NCC News, News
Blair Levin had harsh words for the FCC and Congress yesterday in an address about the role of cities in broadband deployment in an address about “The Secret to Smart Policies About Smart Cities” at a Next Century Cities broadband event in Pittsburgh.
Jul 26, 2018 | NCC Events, NCC News, News
Next Century Cities hosted Making Connections: A Regional Broadband Summit Monday and Tuesday to discuss models of successful broadband deployment.
