Community Broadband Media Roundup - September 26

Colorado

Centennial's gigabit Internet service now taking pre-orders by Tamara Chuang, Denver Post

Centennial was one of the first communities in the state to opt out of a 2005 state law known as SB152, which restricts municipalities from using taxpayer money to build broadband networks. By the time Centennial voted in 2013, the city of Longmont was alreadygetting its gigabit Internet service up and running. In Colorado, 71 cities and counties passed a measure freeing them to look into municipal broadband. Another 14 will try on the Nov. 8 ballot, according to the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.

Iowa

Community gets broadband update by Brittany Bierle, New Hampton Tribune

Kentucky

Kentucky's statewide broadband network moves forward with build-out by Government Technology News Staff

Massachusetts

Municipal broadband for Harvard? by John Osborn, Harvard Press

North Carolina

Muni ISP forced to shut off fiber-to-the-home Internet after court ruling by Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica

Severed connection: Pinetops to lose broadband by Halloween by Brie Handgraaf, Wilson Times

Brave telco giants kill threat of decent Internet service in rural North Carolina by Shuan Nichols, The Register

How a telecom-backed law and a recent court decision conspired to give a small North Carolina city infintely worse Internet by Aaron Sankin, Daily Dot

Pinetops has found itself caught in the crossfire in a pitched battle between activists who advocate for the government to fill in gaps in the nation's broadband infrastructure and telecom industry-backed lawmakers intent on preventing municipal broadband efforts from competing with incumbent private providers.

Town loses gigabit connections after FCC municipal broadband court loss by Karl Bode, TechDirt

General

Google pursues both fiber and wireless broadband ambitions by David Jones, E-Commerce Times

Despite appeals court decision, municipal gigabit momentum continues by Joan Engrebretson, Telecompetitor

Code & Conduit Podcast: What's next for muni broadband? by Lydia Beyoud, Bloomberg Bureau of National Affairs

When judges pull the plug on rural America by Susan Crawford, BackChannel

Despite state barriers, cities push to expand high-speed Internet by Jen Fifield, Huffington Post & Stateline

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