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CLIC Supports the Principle of “One Touch”
Some troubling news affecting local Internet choice arrived last week from Louisville, Kentucky -- AT&T has sued the City of Louisville for enacting an ordinance that sought to reduce costs and delays during the process of readying utility poles for new attachments by competitive fiber builders. One of the most costly, risky, and time-consuming parts of fiber optic construction is preparing…
read moreGOOGLE Fiber Partners with Huntsville Alabama
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 opportunity to reach business and residential consumers in Rocket City.…
read moreCLIC & Benton Foundation Release New Paper: “The Emerging World of Broadband Public-Private Partnerships: A Business Strategy and Legal Guide”
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 the is…
read moreCLIC Speaks Out Against Missouri’s HB 2078 as a Barrier to Local Net Choice
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 serv…
read moreGoogle Fiber’s Yiaway Yeh to Keynote CLIC’s April 4 Event at BBC in Austin
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 moreStanly County Feels NC’s Urban-Rural Broadband Divide
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 officials worry that without Gigabit broadband, its young people and its businesses wil…
read moreSanta Cruz, CA Unleashes Innovative Public-Private Broadband Partnership
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 that will pass every home and busines…
read moreWilson Greenlight Stretches its Gigabit to its Rural Neighbors
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 short 20 miles away, but worlds away in terms of gaining access to modern fiber broad…
read moreNorth Carolina Attorney General Calls H129 a “Bad Law”
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 state law commonly known as “H129.” In late May, Attorne…
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