Route FIfty — Farm Bill Expands Rural Broadband Funding
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.
read moreMunicipal Broadband Networks are an Opportunity, Not a Threat
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...
read moreArlington and Alexa Team Up to Answer Resident Questions
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....
read moreGuest Blog: Chattanooga Harnesses Broadband to Improve Education, Health, and City Life
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...
read more5G Investment Unaffected Despite FCC’s Industry Giveaway
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 - but the...
read moreSmart Cities Dive — 35 communities join Neighborly accelerator for community broadband
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.
read moreNext Century Cities Hosts Broadband Convening in Hartford, Conn. Nov. 8, 2018
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 Office - to...
read moreThe #MobileOnly Challenge Goes to MozFest
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...
read moreBroadband Breakfast — Regional Broadband Conference in Connecticut on Thursday, November 8
Consumer Counsel Elin Swanson Katz is pleased to announce a broadband conference entitled, Connected New England: A Regional Broadband Convening at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Connecticut, (300 Capitol Ave.), Room 2C, on November 8, 2018, from 9:00 am...
read moreLos Angeles Times — An FCC commissioner attacks municipal broadband systems by falsely claiming they’re a threat to free speech
The Republican-dominated Federal Communications Commission has set new standards in delivering favors to the big businesses under its jurisdiction at the expense of consumer protection. But FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly may have established his own high-water mark...
read moreCommon Threads: Resilience and Innovation in the Arctic
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...
read moreGuest Blog: Longmont Seizes “Super” Opportunities to Build Top-Notch Internet Service
. 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...
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