Iowa
MediaCom is suing Iowa City to prevent broadband competition by Karl Bode, DSL Reports
Massachusetts
Holyoke Innovation District looks to take advantage of valley broadband Internet capacity by Jim Kinney, MassLive
Massachusetts government stymies WiredWest municipal broadband initiative, report says by Samantha Bookman, FierceTelecom
Minnesota
Report: The cooperative is a good model for publicly-owned broadband networks by Joan Engrebretson, TeleCompetitor
General
The broadband industry is now officially blaming Google (Alphabet) for...everything by Karl Bode, TechDirt
Read moreFrom net neutrality to municipal broadband, to new broadband privacy rules and a quest to open up the cable set top box to competition, we've noted repeatedly that the FCC under Tom Wheeler isn't the same FCC we've learned to grumble about over the years. For a twenty-year stretch, regardless of party control, the agency was utterly, dismally apathetic to the lack of competition in the broadband space. But under Wheeler, the FCC has not only made broadband...