Too many rural areas in America still have slow broadband service. San Juan Islands (Washington State) used to have only DSL (1 Mbps) service provided by CenturyLink, and spotty cellular phone coverage from AT&T and Verizon. Recently, however, Orcas Power and Light (OPALCO), a rural electric cooperative, created a wholly owned private subsidiary called Rock […]
Summit County, Colorado FTTP RFI and wireless RFI
November 23, 2016 by
There are two Requests for Information from Summit County, Colorado pertaining to their plan to deploy fiber to the premises and wireless broadband. (1) Request for Information for Partnership for Deployment of Fiber-to-the-Premises Description: Request for Information for Partnership for Deployment of Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) in Summit County, Colorado This Request for Information (RFI) to convey […]
Google to deploy large-scale Wi-Fi in Kansas City
April 18, 2016 by
The Kansas City Council has approved Google’s request to deploy a large-scale Wi-Fi network in Kansas City to fill in the gaps of its fiber-to-the-home service. In 2011, Google chose Kansas City for its first fiber project in the United States after a much-publicized competition among American cities. Wireless technology has been used by many […]
Is it better to spend taxpayer money on stadiums or fiber broadband?
February 3, 2016 by
St. Louis is stuck with $144 million in debt and maintenance costs, after the Rams departed for Los Angeles (oddly enough it was once the LA Rams until they pulled a switcheroo and did it again to the detriment of the poor taxpayer). I remember not too long ago the chorus of anti-municipal broadband types […]
City-owned fiber plus private sector service providers: a better public broadband model for cities?
February 3, 2016 by
Two U.S. cities, Santa Cruz (California) and Westminster (Maryland) have chosen a different model for public broadband deployment: one that separates the ownership of the underlying fiber infrastructure from the service layer and that does not place all of the risk and costs on the private service provider. This is not the model that most […]
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