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 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...
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 26, 2018 | Blog Entry, News, Policies and Ordinances, Policy Agenda, Resources
Next Century Cities signed comments submitted to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) along with New America’s Open Technology Institute and others. The comments were in response to a request by the NTIA for comments on their efforts...
Jul 26, 2018 | Blog Entry, NCC Events, News, Telling Your Story
This week, Next Century Cities hosted Making Connections: A Regional Broadband Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The summit brought together national and local leaders and included panel conversations about today’s pressing broadband issues, including broadband...
Jul 19, 2018 | Additional Resources, Blog Entry, Digital Inclusion, Financing, Models 101, Policies and Ordinances
What is an Unbundled Network Element (UNE)? Think of a UNE as a “broadband bridge.” This bridge allows network builders to supplement their networks by leasing (at a favorable rate) network elements — telecommunications infrastructure such as copper wire and fiber —...
Jun 28, 2018 | 5G, Additional Resources, Blog Entry, NCC, News, Outside Resources, Small Cells
With 5G technology quickly approaching, we’d like to give communities a refresher on the resources that Next Century Cities has available on 5G and small cell deployment. Blog Posts We published a guide to help municipalities navigate the FCC’s September 2018...
Jun 6, 2018 | 5G, Blog Entry, News
Next Century Cities signed on to a letter that was sent to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week to reiterate the importance of retaining small license areas with short terms and competitive renewal for Priority Access Licenses (PALs) in the 3.5 GHz...
May 17, 2018 | Blog Entry, News, Spotlight City
The Capture the Flag, hosted by the Mid-Atlantic Gigabit Innovation Collaboratory (MAGIC) in Westminster, Maryland, is a biannual ethical hacking cybersecurity competition designed to foster students’ interest in cybersecurity, provide them with a platform to develop...
May 8, 2018 | 5G, Blog Entry, Getting Started, Models 101, News, Resources
Yesterday, Next Century Cities hosted a masterclass at Smart Cities Week Silicon Valley in Santa Clara, California. The masterclass, entitled “Broadband 101: Infrastructure for the Next Century City,” focused on the building blocks a city must have in place in order...
