Jan 16, 2019 | News, Press Releases
A PDF of this release may be found here. For Immediate Release Contact: Jessica Del Fiacco jessica@nextcenturycities.org Next Century Cities, Public Knowledge, and the American Action Forum Host Tech Policy Event, Encourage Bipartisan Action Elected Officials, Policy...
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...
Jan 16, 2019 | NCC News, News
Perhaps policymakers should consider allowing property owners to build their own connections to a service provider, suggested Harold Feld, senior vice president for Public Knowledge, at a tech policy event today.
Jan 16, 2019 | NCC News, News
A Democratic member of the Federal Communications Commission made a case Tuesday for consolidating and auctioning off dormant spectrum licenses held by educational institutions, saying the revenue generated by a sale…
Dec 14, 2018 | NCC News, News
The farm bill passed by Congress this week would grant the U.S. Department of Agriculture more authority to create grants and provide loans for local rural broadband projects.
Dec 13, 2018 | News, Press Releases
A PDF of this release may be found here. For Immediate Release Contact: Jessica Del Fiacco 612-540-5997, jessica@nextcenturycities.org Municipal Broadband Networks are an Opportunity, Not a Threat A Response to Commissioner O’Rielly’s Blog Post For the second...
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 19, 2018 | NCC News, News
Seeking to expand broadband access to the 19 million Americans that lack sufficient connections, 35 communities across 18 states have joined the Neighborly Community Broadband Accelerator.
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...
