Community Broadband Media Roundup - July 3

California

California's digital divide closing but new 'under-connected' class emerges by Seung Lee, The Mercury News

Nebraska

There's a real digital divide in rural Nebraska by Nicholas Bergin, Lincoln Journal Star

Internet access crucial for rural areas by Lincoln Journal Star editorial board

Tennessee

The surprising city that rates highest for TV, broadband services by Adam Buckman, MediaPost

Texas

Did Comcast sabotage this independent ISP that spurned it? by Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics

The former owner of a small internet service provider in South Texas is suing Comcast, accusing the cable giant of systematically and deliberately severing all of its cables, essentially sabotaging the small business and running it into the ground.

General

New report swings and misses on communities and next generation broadband by Blair Levin, Brookings Institution

“By relying strictly on limited financial accounting to judge economy-shaping infrastructure, the report overlooks the long-range problems municipal leaders are trying to address, the options they consider, or the wider benefits they hope to achieve.”

Rural broadband will be included in $1 trillion infrastructure plan, Trump says by Colin Wood, StateScoop

FCC chief to attend Ohio-West Virginia broadband summit by Associated Press, The Washington Times

50 million US homes have only one 25 Mbps Internet provider or none at all by Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica

Small broadband providers urge FCC to preserve net neutrality by Wendy Davis, MediaPost

"As direct competitors to the biggest cable and telephone companies, we have reservations about any plan at the FCC that seeks to enhance their market power without any meaningful restraints on their ability to monopolize large swaths of the Internet," the companies write.