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NC Legislators Should Encourage, not Disconnect, Modern Rural Internet

April 21, 2017

Background: A tiny, rural town in North Carolina has gigabit internet from a community-owned fiber provider, Wilson Greenlight, and the big cable and telephone companies want it disconnected. Today a local newspaper printed an editorial from an industry front group (just like the one these monopolies used in 2010 and 2011). Titled “City-Owned Broadband Squeezes […]

Pew Study Says 70% of Americans Support Municipal Broadband

April 11, 2017

“A majority of Americans across a wide range of demographic groups are in favor of local governments being able to build their own high-speed networks,” according to a new Pew study conducted between March 13-27, 2017. Seventy percent (70%) of the public believe “local governments should be able to build their own broadband networks if […]

CLIC CEO Testifies on Capital Hill in Support of Broadband Opportunity for Localities and Public-Private Partnerships

March 23, 2017

On March 21, CLIC CEO Joanne Hovis testified before the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology in strong support of inclusion of broadband in federal infrastructure funding. Joanne also advocated for federal policy to support broadband public-private partnerships as a mechanism to enable and expand broadband deployment, particularly in rural areas. We have provided excerpts […]

CLIC Announces Strong Support for Two TN Bills to Remove Restrictions on Municipal and Co-operative Broadband Networks

March 7, 2017

On March 6, 2017, CLIC and 14 prominent public and private-sector companies and organizations announced strong support for two Tennessee bills, HB970 (SB1058) and HB1410 (SB1045) that will authorize municipal electric utilities and cooperatives to finally serve many currently unserved or underserved rural businesses and citizens. According to the CLIC letters of support, these bills […]

CLIC Members Get Discount Rate at Broadband Communities Summit in Dallas: May 1-4, 2017

February 10, 2017

Attention CLIC members! Broadband Communities is offering a significant registration discount for CLIC members who are attending the “Fiber: Get in the Game of Gigs” Summit in Dallas this year, scheduled for May1-4, 2017. Join us for CLIC’s pre-conference event on May 1st, then stay a few more days for one of the most instructive […]

Make America First in Broadband Again

January 31, 2017

On Monday, Adrianne Benton Furniss, Executive Director, the Benton Foundation (and a member of CLIC’s Board of Advisors) sent the following letter to President Trump, leaders in Congress, and at the FCC. The letter calls for federal leadership to create a Make America First in Broadband Again Plan, including by deregulating local broadband and respecting […]

CLIC Organizes Opposition to Missouri’s SB186 As a Barrier to Local Net Choice

January 24, 2017

On January 23, 2017, CLIC and 14 prominent public and private-sector companies and associations opposed (again) a Missouri anti-community broadband bill, SB 186, that amounts to a virtual ban on local Internet choice. SB186 would impose additional restrictions on Missouri’s existing limitations on municipal provisioning of broadband service and would also impair the ability of […]

CLIC Organizes Letter Opposing Virginia HB 2108

January 19, 2017

On January 19, 2017, CLIC distributed a letter to Virginia lawmakers opposing House Bill (HB) 2108. The letter was co-signed by: Atlantic Engineering, Coalition for Local Internet Choice, CTC Energy & Technology, Fiber to the Home Council, Google, Indeed, Internet Association, National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors, Netflix, Next Century Cities, Nokia, OnTrac, Telecommunications […]

CLIC Commends Outgoing FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler for his Unwavering Support for Local Internet Choice

December 15, 2016

On the day that FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced his resignation from the Commission, the Coalition for Local Internet Choice thanks him for his unwavering support for local Internet choice and for his efforts to remove barriers that prevent rural, urban, and tribal communities from enabling new broadband deployment. As FCC Chairman, Mr. Wheeler gave […]

Blair Levin Keynote in Wilson, NC “Make America Great — with Great Broadband”

November 15, 2016

CLIC is delighted to share this guest blog posting from Blair Levin, one of the members of CLIC’s board of advisors, which is based on a speech he delivered on November 4, 2016, in Wilson, NC, for Wilson’s first GigEast event: “Growing the Gigabit Ecosystem.” In his keynote, Mr. Levin notes North Carolina’s urban/rural broadband […]

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