This morning brings us the remarkable news that the municipal electric utility in Huntsville, Alabama is planning to build extensive fiber optics throughout the City and that Google Fiber will be the first major lessor and tenant for the fiber optics, likely to be followed by other providers who wish to take advantage of the […]
Read More… from GOOGLE Fiber Partners with Huntsville Alabama
In partnership with the Benton Foundation, CLIC is proud to announce the release of our new publication to assist local communities in evaluating the risk, benefit, control, and legal issues surrounding the deployment of public private partnership (P3) broadband networks. “The Emerging World of Broadband Public-Private Partnerships: A Business Strategy and Legal Guide” dives into […]
On February 3, 2016, at a hearing before the Missouri House Committee on Utilities Infrastructure, CLIC joined 12 prominent private-sector companies and national associations in delivering a strongly worded letter denouncing Missouri House Bill 2078. If passed into law, HB2078 would superimpose additional restrictions on Missouri’s existing limitations on municipal provisioning of broadband service and […]
Read More… from CLIC Speaks Out Against Missouri’s HB 2078 as a Barrier to Local Net Choice
CLIC is proud to announce that Yiaway Yeh, Strategic Initiatives Lead for Google Fiber’s national expansion team, will keynote our April 4 preconference lunch at the Broadband Communities Conference in Austin. Yiaway’s responsibilities include focusing on Google’s new partnership and program models and he will speak on Google Fiber’s vision for broadband public-private partnerships. Prior […]
Read More… from Google Fiber’s Yiaway Yeh to Keynote CLIC’s April 4 Event at BBC in Austin
Rural Stanly County is an attractive place. But in terms of broadband, it is between a rock and a hard place. It sits between two soon-to-be Google Gigabit communities, with Charlotte to its west and Raleigh to its east, but as a rural county, it basically knows that Google is never coming their way. County […]
Read More… from Stanly County Feels NC’s Urban-Rural Broadband Divide
Last week, Santa Cruz, California provided yet another example of the innovative public private broadband partnerships available when local Internet choice has free rein. The City of Santa Cruz will partner with a long-time, local Internet service provider, Cruzio Internet, in a broadband project where the City will build, own and maintain the fiber optics […]
Read More… from Santa Cruz, CA Unleashes Innovative Public-Private Broadband Partnership
For a small, seemingly overlooked, rural farming town in eastern North Carolina, there is now a Gigabit of hope to be part of the global knowledge economy. Last week the city council of Wilson, NC signed off on an interlocal agreement to bring its Gigabit service to the Town of Pinetops, a community located a […]
Read More… from Wilson Greenlight Stretches its Gigabit to its Rural Neighbors
The election season is bringing out the inherent value of local internet choice. The Attorney General for North Carolina, Roy Cooper, is running for the Governor’s seat in a state where half the population lives in rural areas, the same areas North Carolina municipalities, like Wilson, want to serve with Gigabit broadband but for a […]
Read More… from North Carolina Attorney General Calls H129 a “Bad Law”
Election Day 2015 sent a resounding message in favor of local Internet choice in Colorado. After more than 40 Colorado communities voted overwhelmingly to reclaim local authority over broadband, the Denver Post editorialized that Colorado’s anti local choice law should be “retired.” The Post noted that the “misguided legislation from a decade ago prohibited cities […]
Read More… from Denver Post (and Colorado Voters) Endorse Local Internet Choice
Last Thursday, CLIC filed an amicus brief with the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, supporting many of the key findings of fact that the FCC made in its February 26, 2015 order in support of Wilson, North Carolina and Chattanooga EPB. Among other things, CLIC noted the substantial data that supports […]