An Increasing Call for Community Owned Networks
While Comcast focuses on increasing its market power rather than improving services in the communities it monopolizes, no one should be surprised that we are seeing a surge in interest for building...
View ArticleChris to Speak in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 5th
On Tuesday, May 5th, Chris will speak at an open meeting to provide information on municipal fiber networks. The community is in the process of exploring the possibility of investing in infrastructure...
View ArticleCambridge Broadband Advocate at the Summit: "We Are the Perfect Testbed"
In April, Chris spoke at the Broadband Communities Summit in Austin. If you were not able to attend, Saul Tannenbaum's Readfold.com article gives you a taste of what it was like. Tannenbaum is a member...
View ArticleNew Video Series on Better Broadband in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts has established a Broadband Task Force and is looking for ways to better its local connectivity. In order to educate the public about the advantages of broadband, the local...
View ArticleCambridge Community Television Explores the Future of Community Broadband
Cambridge Community Television - February 8, 2017 Cambridge Broadband Matters: The Future of Community Broadband Hosted by Pat McCormick See the original story here.Tags: press...
View ArticleMunicipal Networks As Local Action From Cambridge To You
Depending on where you live, there may be more opportunities these days to participate in marches, demonstrations, or community political meetings. Regardless of whether your beliefs lean red or blue,...
View ArticleGrassroots Group Taking Action In Cambridge
We’ve reported on many communities where citizen grassroots groups mobilized to implement change for better connectivity which often resulted in publicly owned Internet networks. Each community is...
View ArticleGrassroots for Better Connectivity in Cambridge, Massachusetts - Community...
As Christopher rubbed elbows with other broadband advocates, policy wonks, and industry professionals at the Broadband Communities Summit in Austin, Texas, he had the opportunity to interview several...
View ArticleNeighborly Announces 35 Communities Joining Accelerator Program
Earlier this summer, we talked with Jase Wilson and Lindsey Brannon from Neighborly, the investment firm that uses online investing to allow individuals to invest in publicly owned infrastructure...
View ArticleCambridge City Manager is Case Study of Willful Muni Broadband Ignorance
I have been tracking from afar local grassroots efforts in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to start a municipal broadband network for years. I've visited them locally and spoken to various people from...
View ArticleCambridge, Massachusetts Still Deadlocked Over What To Do About Expanding...
The excellently named Wicked Local reports that the city council of Cambridge, Massachussetts remains deadlocked about what to do to expand broadband to those who need it.
View ArticleMuni Broadband Wave Washes Across Massachusetts
We have covered on numerous occasions the fiber-to-the-home boom underway in the rural hill towns of western Massachusetts. Now we are seeing a number of communities around the Boston metro area in the...
View ArticleCambridge Looks to Graduate into Muni Broadband
After years of discussing the possibility of building a city-wide municipal broadband network in the face of resistance from the city manager, the city of Cambridge, Boston’s next-door neighbor, is now...
View ArticleCampaigns to Keep Monopolies We Don't Love - Episode 514 of the Community...
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