Mar 27, 2019 | Blog Entry, Events, NCC Events, NCC News, News
On Tuesday, March 26 in Washington DC, Next Century Cities partnered with the Coalition for Local Internet Choice, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, the National Association of Regional Councils, and National League of Cities to host a screening of the film Do...
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...
Feb 8, 2019 | Blog Entry, News, Outside Resources, Pole Attachments, Policies and Ordinances, Resources, Rights of Way Management, Small Cells
Originally printed in PA TIMES Online, a media outlet of the American Society for Public Administration Our 21st Century media-consumption appetite is creating strange new chimeras. AT&T merging with Time-Warner, Comcast merging with NBC Universal, and a...
Jan 28, 2019 | Blog Entry, News
On a snowy Tuesday morning during the federal government shutdown, 140 people came together from across the political spectrum in search of solutions to improve Internet access for everyone. Coordinated by Next Century Cities, Public Knowledge, and the American Action...
Jan 24, 2019 | Blog Entry, News, Spotlight City
Mark Boxer facilitates an in-class interview with Dr. Schultz, a co-inventor of fiber optics Wilson not only is North Carolina’s first gigabit city, now it is the state’s first gigabit city that has started a “Fiber Optics Basics” training...
Jan 23, 2019 | Blog Entry, News
Trying to spark a conversation about municipal broadband in your community? Host a screening of the short film Do Not Pass Go! The documentary follows filmmaker Cullen Hoback’s visit to Pinetops, North Carolina, to investigate the battle between municipal networks and...
Jan 16, 2019 | Blog Entry, NCC Events, NCC News, News
Today, Next Century Cities launched a new resource: Becoming Broadband Ready: A Toolkit for Communities. The toolkit is a one-stop resource for community leaders seeking to connect residents to broadband. Becoming Broadband Ready was publicly released at an event in...
Jan 16, 2019 | Blog Entry, NCC Events, NCC News, News
Next Century Cities, Public Knowledge, and the American Action Forum hosted Opportunities for Bipartisan Tech Policy yesterday, January 15, 2019, in Washington DC. Elected officials, policy leaders, and industry experts gathered, along with more than 200 attendees, to...
Dec 10, 2018 | Blog Entry, News
City leaders in Arlington, Texas are always working to be on the cutting edge of technology. As they were researching how to integrate voice recognition and artificial intelligence with a new city website, they decided to branch out into smart speaker functionality....
Nov 21, 2018 | Blog Entry, News
EPB President and CEO David Wade cut the ceremonial cake to open the Big Gig Community Festival, in celebration of the 100,000th fiber customer, on October 20, 2018. Starting a little more than a decade ago, Chattanooga’s municipal electric utility, EPB, began...
