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Roundup: Chattanooga, Seattle, Portland, and More
A couple of short interesting stories this week:
The Chattanoogan.com published a "Declaration of Independence from Comcast", written by a "fi-oneer" or person who is testing the new publicly owned FTTH services.
NOFA Reactions: a Mini Round Up to Broadband Stimulus Rules
Op-Ed: Support Publicly Owned Broadband
The Charleston Gazette published this opinion piece encouraging publicly owned broadband on July 5, 2009:
Geoff Daily Vidchat about MuniNetworks.org
Geoff Daily, from App-Rising.com, and I recently did a vidchat about muninetworks.org and its purpose. App-Rising.com pulled some key points from it, but you can view the entire 9 minute segment below.
Reclaim the Media Report: Seattle Needs Public Broadband
Fairpoint May Declare Bankrupty
UTOPIA's Roller Coaster Ride Continues
Spring Issue of NATOA Journal
Video on the Economics of Open Access
Benoît Felton of Fiber Evolution says that Open Access makes Economic Sense - in four parts:
Short Shots
Some shorter news items from this weeks' news:
nDanville Network Helps Police, Economic Development
Though Danville, Virginia, was hit hard by the simultaneously decline of tobacco and textile industries, the community has responded: Danville Utilities has been building a state of the art all fiber network. Like many communities, they built a backbone and connected the schools and government buildings first. They then started to connect businesses.
Nation's Largest Citywide FTTH Network to be Completed Next Year
Salisbury Starts Building FTTH Network
Salisbury, a city of nearly 30,000 in North Carolina, has started building its full fiber-to-the-home network. Salisbury had some difficulty in funding the network at first due to the collapsing economy last year. However, they securing financing in November 2008 and have now started building the network.
Community Broadband - High Capacity, Low Cost
Salisbury, NC, Fends Off Comical Attack on Community Broadband
Welcome
Tim Nulty Interviewed at 2009 Freedom to Connect Conference
Benoit Felten of FiberEvolution.com interviews Tim Nulty (former GM of Burlington Telecom, currently working on massive rural FTTH network in Vermont) at the Freedom to Connect Conference. Covers many topics, especially the economics of FTTH and why the public sector should invest in these networks.