Community Broadband Media Roundup - November 28

Alabama

Here's why Huntsville Internet customers should soon see lower prices by Travis Leder, TechAlabama

California

As Google Fiber scales down its broadband business, San Francisco moves ahead on its own by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times

Google’s strategic shift shouldn’t have come as a surprise, says Christopher Mitchell, a broadband expert at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Signs abounded that the company, now called Alphabet, didn’t see broadband service as a core business and was becoming more interested in other ventures, including self-driving cars. Its insistence on building on its own terms should have been a warning for companies that thought it would be the answer to their digital dreams.

“When you’re begging for something from a big company like Google,” Mitchell says, “you take what you can get.”

Colorado

Superior, Lafayette to probe potential of municipal broadband by Anthony Hahn, Longmont Times-Call [Republished in Boulder Daily Camera & Government Technology]

Indiana

Fiber connectivity coming to Goshen departments by John Kline, Goshen News

Virginia

County seeking state funds in bid to improve Internet by Gabe Cavallaro, Augusta News Leader

General

Analysis: After election, broadband proponents need to go local by Craig Settles, The Daily Yonder

Americans may be split in national politics, but when the topic is broadband, voters of all persuasions are supporting fewer restrictions on community-sponsored networks. The future of federal funding is uncertain, but that doesn't have to stop communities from moving forward with municipal, cooperative, and public-private broadband initiatives.

When a city has gigabit Internet, prices for slower speed tiers drop by Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica

Trump, GOP prepare to gut FCC boss Tom Wheeler's populist reforms...under the false banner of populist reform by Karl Bode, TechDirt

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