Trust between partners is critical to successful public/private broadband partnerships, said James Baller, a partner with Keller & Heckman, a law firm with a specialty in telecom. A good public/private partnership agreement addresses dozens of variables, Baller told attendees on…
Republicans in the House of Representatives have introduced 28 bills that aim to boost public and private broadband investment. Collectively, the bills are to be known as the Boosting Broadband Connectivity Agenda. “The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the challenges faced…
EPB of Chattanooga’s gigabit broadband infrastructure has generated $2.69 billion in economic benefits to the community during its first decade of operation, according to a gigabit economic benefits report from the Rollins College of Business at the University of Tennessee…
MCC Iowa LLC, a subsidiary of Mediacom Communications Corporation, a long-time cable and broadband provider in the area, has sued the City of West Des Moines and the West Des Moines City Council, alleging that they are improperly using taxpayer-backed…
Just under 2,000 residents and business customers in Traverse City, MI can now receive gigabit fiber-based broadband service from the newly launched TCLPfiber from Traverse City Light & Power (TCL&P). The TCL&P Michigan gigabit service is available to many of…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a ReConnect CARES Act grant of $13.1 million to Easton Utilities Commission in Maryland for the deployment of an FTTP network. The grant was part of the second phase of the ReConnect Pilot…
Eight percent of U.S. markets that are “well served” with broadband are “municipally enabled,” according to a new municipal broadband report from non-profit broadband advocacy organization US Ignite and consulting firm Altman Solon. The other 92% of well served municipalities…
The current COVID-19 pandemic has confirmed the critical nature and essential need for broadband everywhere. There are now calls for universal broadband to ensure no child, frontline worker, small business, or community is ever left behind without broadband connectivity again….
The Utah Infrastructure Agency (UIA) has received $48 million in funding, money it will use for the expansion of the UTOPIA/UIA Network. Though they are legally separate entities, UTOPIA and UIA functionally operate as one integrated system and both are…
New Hampshire legislators last year passed a law allowing municipalities to fund broadband networks through bond offerings – and that action already is spurring broadband deployment in sparsely populated areas of the state. One of the biggest beneficiaries of this…
Consolidated Communications is pursuing public-private broadband opportunities in five more communities, said Consolidated President and CEO Bob Udell on the company’s third-quarter earnings call today. The partnership opportunities would involve making broadband available to 10,000 more locations in total. Udell…
Consolidated Communications is partnering with the town of Chesterfield, New Hampshire to build and operate an all FTTP broadband network. The network will reach every home and business of the Northeastern town through a public-private broadband partnership. According to an…
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