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Slick Sam and Bandwidth on the Bayou
As promised a few weeks ago, Ellen Perlman has written a piece on the story behind the Lafayette, Louisiana publicly owned FTTH network. This might just be the best network available in the U.S. in terms of offering the fastest speeds at the more affordable prices and offering the most benefit to the community.
Tacoma Click! Network 10 Year Anniversary
Congratulations to Click! on its ten years of service to the community.
This video is no longer available.Roundup: Lafayette, Syracuse, Incumbent Bailout, and MAIN
- Lafayette's groundbreaking network is exciting the folks at Governing.com - they say, "The Future of the Internet is in Lafayette, Louisiana." Ellen Perlman hints are future coverage of the network as well:
FTTH: Making That Business Model Work
A one hour slideshow discussing the economics of FTTH - unfortunately it seems to have rudimentary controls that do not allow fast fowarding or rewinding, so pay attention! You can also read the bullet points to get a sense of whether you will be interested or not.
Boston vs. Verizon
Many Cities Realize Stimulus Rules Slanted Against Them
Keep the Internet Free
It comes down to this: we have an unprecedented opportunity to finally create a national broadband plan in the U.S.
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.