CLIC is thrilled to announce that Gigi Sohn, Counselor to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, will be keynoting our local Internet choice awards luncheon during CLIC Day on October 18th in Minneapolis, MN. In recognition of the high stakes that the coming year represents for local Internet choice, CLIC is holding a full day event focused […]
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Dear Friends of Local Internet Choice, We are writing to you with a request for help and for action. As you know, last month the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that the FCC did not have the authority to grant relief to communities that are stymied in their efforts to […]
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In recognition of the high stakes that the coming year represents for local Internet choice, CLIC is holding a full day event on October 18th in Minneapolis, MN, focused on an Action Plan for Local Internet Choice in 2017 and Beyond. This event will be a preconference to the Broadband Communities Fiber for the New […]
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The New York Times yesterday spotlighted the battle for local Internet choice in North Carolina, with a heartrending account of the families and businesses that may lose access to gigabit services from the city of Wilson’s renowned Greenlight network. Wilson may be forced to stop providing services to some customers under the decision of the […]
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In a show of deep support, more than forty Mayors and community leaders today sent a letter to the mayors of Chattanooga, TN and Wilson, NC expressing their support and solidarity with those communities’ efforts to expand their successful community broadband networks to unserved areas. The signatories to the letter are all members of Next […]
Read More… from 42 Next Century City Mayors & Leaders Speak up for Local Internet Choice
by Joanne Hovis In a recent blog prompted by AT&T’s suit against the City of Louisville, Kentucky, challenging the City’s ordinance imposing “One Touch Make Ready” requirements, CLIC noted our support for local decision making with respect to the “one touch” make ready processes as a way to mitigate the following common problem: “One of […]
Read More… from CLIC REITERATES ITS SUPPORT FOR LOCAL CHOICE AND THE PRINCIPLE OF ‘ONE TOUCH’
CuriosiTees is a screen printing and custom t-shirt store in a tiny rural town called Pinetops, NC (population ~1300). But it’s more than that. It’s a testament to the economic impact of finally getting access to fiber to the home speeds and internet choice in North Carolina’s rural homelands. It’s evidence that community-run fiber networks […]
Read More… from For Rural Pinetops, Being a Gigabit City is More than A CuriosiTees
On February 26, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) preempted North Carolina and Tennessee laws that prevented the cities of Wilson, NC, and Chattanooga, TN, from expanding their broadband networks to serve their unserved and underserved neighboring communities. Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit overturned the FCC’s Order, finding that the […]
Many people would think that a blog about a small rural town becoming a Gigabit city would be about the miracles of speed. But the real story is much deeper. It is about what it feels like to finally have internet choice, to have reliable internet service in an information dependent economy, to be treated […]
Read More… from For Rural Pinetops, being a Gigabit City Means Business
“For them, it’s the Internet or food.” That’s the way Richard Beadles, Technical Services Manager in Madison, Wisconsin, described the dire broadband circumstances of residents in four low income multiple dwelling units now targeted by the City to benefit from its new digital divide effort. Over the next two years, the City will invest $500,000 […]
Read More… from Madison, WI Tests Public-Private Partnerships to Reduce its Digital Divide