Community Broadband Media Roundup - June 26

California

The time is now for San Francisco municipal fiber, says report by Ryan McCauley, GovTech

San Francisco considers municipal broadband by Bailey McCann, CivSource

 

Mississippi

Supes move to attract fiber Internet providers to county by Ryan Phillips, Starkville Daily News

"Big telecom companies should either lead, follow or get out of the way trying to provide these services," Presley said. "It's high time they plan to serve every customer in Mississippi and we will be introducing plans in the coming months to get that done."

 

North Dakota

Affordable broadband vital to development by Sean Cleary, Grand Forks Herald

 

Texas

Comcast accused of cutting competitor's wires to put it out of business by Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica

Telecom Cable LLC had "229 satisfied customers" in Weston Lakes and Corrigan, Texas when Comcast and its contractors sabotaged its network, the lawsuit filed last week in Harris County District Court said.

Comcast had tried to buy Telecom Cable's Weston Lakes operations in 2013 "but refused to pay what they were worth," the complaint says. Starting in June 2015, Comcast and two contractors it hired "systematically destroyed Telecom’s business by cutting its lines and running off its customers," the lawsuit says. Comcast destroyed or damaged the lines serving all Telecom Cable customers in Weston Lakes and never repaired them, the lawsuit claims.

 

General

What living with modern rural Internet is really like by Leif Johnson, Motherboard

Are city-owned municipal broadband networks better? by James k. Wilcox, Consumer Reports

How fast is your Internet? Net Neutrality rules bar state investigations, cable companies say by AJ Dellinger, International Business Times

Cable lobby tries to stop state investigations into slow broadband speeds by Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica

Nearly 25% of city-dwelling Americans aren't connect to broadband Internet by Jeff Dunn, Business Insider