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Using Fiber for Smart Grid and the Pole Problem in Nashville - Community...
While at the annual Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities Broadband Conference, I forced Ken Demlow to be our guest on Community Broadband Bits Podcast 247. Ken is the Sales Director for Newcom...
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Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 247
This is the transcript for Community Broadband Bits Episode 247. Ken Demlow of Newcom Technologies chats with Christopher Mitchell about what happened in Nashville and why poles are important for...
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Court Sides With Louisville: One Touch Make Ready Is A-Ok
Louisville has overcome a tall hurdle in its efforts to bring better connectivity and more competition to the community through local control. On August 16th the U.S. District Court for the Western...
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Another Perspective on Policy From American Action Forum - Community...
Christopher went to Atlanta for the Broadband Communities Economic Development Conference in early November, and while he was there, he touched base with this week’s guest Will Rinehart. Will is the...
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Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 281
This is the transcript for Episode 281 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Will Rinehart of the American Action Forum in Washington D.C. discusses telecommunications and economics with our host...
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West Des Moines to Build Citywide Conduit System with Google Fiber as First...
On July 6th, the City of West Des Moines, Iowa, announced an innovative public-private partnership with Google Fiber to bring gigabit internet to all 67,000 of its citizens over the next two and a half...
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West Des Moines is Building a Citywide Conduit System and Google Fiber is...
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SiFi Network’s First FiberCity Goes Live in Fullerton, CA
In the city of Fullerton, California (pop. 140,000), SiFi Networks has turned on the first section of what will be a city-wide, open access Fiber-to-the-Home network. The project makes Fullerton SiFi’s...
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Dark Fiber Will Bring Value to Huntsville for Decades to Come — Episode 433...
This week on the podcast Christopher talks with Stacy Cantrell, Vice President of Engineering at Huntsville Utilities in Alabama. Huntsville’s (pop. 197,000) municipal utility serves well beyond the...
View ArticlePalmdale, California Considers Proposal to Become SiFi Fiber City
Palmdale, California is considering a proposal from SiFi Networks to become a FiberCity. The project would see $600 million from the private infrastructure builder to construct 800 miles of fiber and...
View ArticleWest Des Moines Begins Construction on Conduit System
At the beginning of July 2020, the city of West Des Moines, Iowa announced that they were going to build a citywide, open access conduit system connecting every home, business, government building, and...
View ArticleWest Des Moines, Iowa Open Access Conduit Project On Schedule
The project, which will result in an open access conduit network with Google Fiber as the first ISP operating, has seen some equipment delays (handholds and vaults) recently but remains on schedule....
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Join Us Thursday, January 20th at 5pm ET to Talk About Fiber in 2022 -...
In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Heather Gold (CEO, HBG Strategies LLC) and Milo Medin, an industry veteran who recently...
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NDIA’s Digital Navigator Corps Goes Nationwide with $10M Grant
Two years after launching a community-based model to help residents overcome the digital skills challenges that keep so many offline, the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) announced in...
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Colorado Springs Embarks on Citywide Network with Ting as Anchor Tenant
Back in January, Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) announced it was going to begin building a city-wide, open access fiber network owned, and that Ting would be its first anchor tenant. Construction of...
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