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...
Nov 19, 2018 | Blog Entry, News
The Federal Communications Commission claims to be focused intently on improving mobile internet access by incenting the big wireless companies to invest in 5G. To that end, the FCC has shifted billions of dollars from local governments to the big companies –...
Nov 14, 2018 | Blog Entry, NCC Events, News
Last week, Next Century Cities partnered with the State of Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel – working with Elin Swanson Katz, Consumer Counsel for the State of Connecticut, and Bill Vallée, Broadband Policy Coordinator for the State’s Broadband...
Nov 12, 2018 | Blog Entry, News
London. Visiting a city so very old, one that holds so much history, is awe-inspiring. Standing in front of the London Tower and Buckingham Palace, crossing the London Bridge and the Tower Bridge, and viewing construction that has survived since the 12th century...
Oct 25, 2018 | Blog Entry, News
In my role as Executive Director of Next Century Cities, I have had the amazing opportunity to travel across the country, talking to difference makers, innovative leaders, and creative problem solvers. Local communities are used to, and good at, finding ways to...
Oct 18, 2018 | Blog Entry, News, Spotlight City
. At the Boulder County Fair, a little girl proudly donned a green cape any superhero would be proud of, proclaiming a speed worthy of the Flash. “Fastest internet in the nation!” read the cape, along with the logo of the superspeed service – the...
Oct 16, 2018 | Blog Entry, News, Resources
Next Century Cities joined 20 other organizations, together representing the Public Interest Spectrum Coalition, in sending a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai urging him to maintain small license areas with short terms and...
Oct 8, 2018 | Blog Entry, News, Spotlight City
Downtown Fayetteville (via Wikimedia) The City of Fayetteville, Arkansas and Mayor Lioneld Jordan believe in ensuring equitable access to all resources. Now more than ever, that includes access to high-speed internet. Fayetteville launched our ongoing Digital...
Oct 5, 2018 | Blog Entry, News, Spotlight City
Downtown Westminster (via Wikimedia) Much like there’s no correct way to eat an Oreo, there is no one-size-fits all connectivity model for a community. Westminster, Maryland’s public-private partnership with Ting provides an instructive example of how to match a...
