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Three Counties in New York Building Southern Tier Network
Steuben, Chemung, and Schuyler counties have joined with fiber-optic cable manufacturer Corning to announce a middle-mile network connecting community anchor institutions, wireless towers, etc. Corning...
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Wally Bowen, Tim Karr: Block the Broadband Power Grab
Wally Bowen, the Founder and Executive Director for the Mountain Area Information Network in Asheville, North Carolina, wrote the following op-ed with Tim Karr of Free Press. Wally gave us permission...
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Vermont Town First to Get Universal Access to ECFiber Community Network
The East Central Vermont Community Fiber Network has announced it will connect an entire town as its second phase. Barnard, Vermont, will be the first town to have universal access to ECFiber's...
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NonProfit MCNC Builds Middle Mile in North Carolina
The Salisbury Postdiscusses MCNC's new middle-mile networks that are being built with stimulus funds. MCNC, an independent nonprofit so old that few remember what it stands for (Microelectronics Center...
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DC-Net Provides Access to Community of Hope
A story from Washington, DC, seems appropriate for Thanksgiving. DC's Community of Hope provides healthcare and housing to people in difficult situations. It needs Internet access for its medical work...
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Local, Nonprofit Broadband Infrastructure Essential for Sustainability
Wally Bowen, of North Carolina's Mountain Area Information Network, recently gave an excellent presentation that explained the importance of broadband and media infrastructure that puts community needs...
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Personal Telco Project Video in Portland
A few years ago, I had the opportunity to meet some of the folks from the Personal Telco Project in Portland, Oregon. They have been around for a long time and do excellent work. This is how they...
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Nonprofit Approaches Solve The Rural Broadband Problem
Wally Bowen has again penned an op-ed that we gained permission to reprint. The original ran in North Carolina's Durham News Observer. President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address that...
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Highland Schools in Ohio First to Connect to Medina County Fiber Network
Quite some time ago, we let you know about the plans and funding for the Medina County Fiber Network (MFCN). The network, owned by the Medina County Port Authority (MCPA) began construction in March,...
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Community Broadband Bits 8 - Jim Moorehead of Mendocino County, California
The eighth podcast in our Community Broadband Bits series is a discussion with Jim Moorehead, the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Broadband Alliance of Mendocino County in California. Mendocino...
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Community Broadband Bits 15 - Geoff Daily - FiberCorps
Geoff Daily is an old friend of ours at Community Broadband Networks and he joins us for our 15th installment of the Community Broadband Bits audio show. He created a nonprofit organization, FiberCorps...
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UTOPIA Makes Red Cross More Efficient, Cost Effective
In 1881, Clara Barton started the American Red Cross as a way to offer relief to victims of disaster. Coordinating relief in the face of crisis will always be challenging, but now UTOPIA, the publicly...
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Canadian Community Brings Fiber to All in Alberta Town
Back in 2010, we reported on SuperNet in Alberta, Canada. We noted how, even though it resulted in significant middle-mile infrastructure expansion, there were still many, many Canadians along the...
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OneCommunity Helps More Ohio Towns Take Advantage of Fiber
In Cuyahoga County, OneCommunity is leading the effort of upgrade the County's networking ability. With a special focus on improving pubic safety, the project is estimated to save the county $10...
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Vermont's ECFiber to Expand This Summer
Good news for Vermonters who want connectivity from the East Central Vermont Fiber Optic Network (ECFiber). The community owned network recently raised another $430,000 from local investors who...
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"Olds" is First Gigabit Town in Canada
We introduced you to Olds, Alberta and their community network O-Net in 2012. Now this community of 8,500 will be the first Canadian "gig town" where residents will have access to a gig at incredibly...
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ECFiber: Significant Expansion in the Vermont Crowd-Funded Network
The East Central Vermont Community Fiber Network (ECFiber) continues to grow, tripling in size in just the past year. We reported last summer that the community owned network had raised the funding for...
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"It Opens Up Our World," Dark Fiber Coming to Marshall County Indiana
Marshall County Council recently approved a motion to join several other entities to bring Indiana's dark fiber Metronet to the area. WNDU reports St. Joseph County and the city of Plymouth are also...
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OnLight Aurora Partners with the City for Better Connectivity in Illinois
Nine years ago, Aurora officials decided it was time to reduce telecommunications costs and upgrade to a faster, more reliable network. The local government built a fiber network to service municipal...
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ECFiber Welcomes 600th Subscriber
The East Central Vermont Community Fiber-Optic Network (ECFiber) recently connected its 600th customer. The network continues to connect to additional homes and businesses, recently reaching Royalton....
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