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- Federal Developments 2009
- Federal Developments 2007-08
- Federal Developments 2005-2006
State Barriers to Public Broadband Initiatives
State Developments 2009
State Developments 2007-08
Statements of Support for Municipal Broadband
Studies and Reports
Responses to Cable/Telco Industry Claims about Public Broadband
- Jim Baller testimony to the Utah State Legislature's Committee on Government
Competition and Privatization, September 26, 2007
- Fiona Morgan: "Touch that Dial: What happens when telecom companies
write state legislation? Check your wallets"
- Provo responds to attack by Reason Foundation
- Verizon admits that Pennsylvania barrier to municipal entry was a "debacle"
- Amateur category
winner of Lafayette's fiber film festival: Slick Sam Slade explains
the term "functionally equivalent" service
- Jim Baller: "Deceptive
Myths About Municipal Broadband: Disinformation About
Public Ownership
Is Impeding Progress"
- Dianah Neff
and Jim Baller support municipal broadband in U.S. Chamber
of Commerce
debate (video)
- APPA
responds to common industry myths
- Texas industry group refutes common
myths about municipal broadband
- Economist
John Kelly responds to Rizzutto and Wirth
- MAP/Free
Press/CFA White Paper on Municipal Broadband
- John Kelly responds to Progress
& Freedom Foundation's 2001 "study"
- Jim Baller responds to Progress
& Freedom Foundation's 2004 "study"
- Lafayette responds
to first Heartland Institute paper
- Lafayette responds
to second Heartland Institute paper
- Carol
Wilson: "Munis Hit Back at Heartland"
- Push Poll in Lafayette,
LA - Hear it live! (last half particularly noteworthy)
- Billy
Ray sets the record straight on Glasgow, KY
- Jim Baller responds to SBC's examples
of supposed municipal failures
- Freedom For Our Future
responds to alleged municipal failures
- Free Press responds
to alleged municipal failures
- Muniwireless responds
to alleged municipal failures
- WiFiNetNews responds
to alleged municipal failures
- Jim Baller, Keynote Address
to FTTH Conference, Las Vegas, NV, October 6, 2005
- Jim Baller, MuniWireless Conference,
San Francisco, CA, September 29, 2005
- Jim Baller, Keynote Address
to FTTH Conference, Orlando, FL, October 5, 2004
Important Articles and Other Information
- FTTH Council: "Municipal Fiber to the Home Deployments: Next
Generation Broadband as a Municipal Utility" (updated October 2009)
- Broadband Properties Magazine: Snapshots of Municipal Broadband Projects
(Sallisaw, OK; Bristol, VA; Jackson, TN; Morristown, TN; and Kutztown, PA)
- Virginia Office of Telework Promotion and Broadband Assistance: "Community
Broadband Tool-kit" (September 2008)
- David Chaffee and Mitchell Shapiro, "Municipal & Utility Guidebook to Bringing Broadband Fiber
Optics to Your Community" (September 2008)
- Blandin Foundation: "Increasing Economic Vitality: Community Guide to Broadband
Development" (undated)
- Geoff Daily videocast with Chris Mitchell (June 2008)
- Fiona Morgan: "Mighty, Mighty Broadband" (in Wilson, NC) (June 2008)
- FTTH Council: "Municipal Fiber to the Home Deployments: Next Generation Broadband as a Municipal Utility" (April 2008)
- FTTH Council: "FTTH Primer" (January 2008)
- Chris Mitchell: "Municipal Broadband: Demystifying Wireless and Fiber-optic Options" (January 2008)
- Washington Post, "Japan's Warp-Speed Ride" (August 2007)
- FCC Commissioner Michael Copps interview on Bill Moyers Journal (August 2007)
- FTTH Prism's Dave Chaffee on US fiber needs (August 2007)
- Comptroller General David Walker compares the US to Rome during its decline from greatness (August 2007)
- Business Week: France's superior approach to broadband deployment (July 2007)
- Michael Copps: "America's Internet Disconnect"
- Seattle's Bill Schrier: "Bustin' the Myths"
- Baller-Lide, "America Needs a Fiber-Based National Broadband Policy Now, If Not Sooner" (pdf)
- Baller-Lide, "America Needs a Fiber-Based National Broadband Policy Now, If Not Sooner" (video)
- FTTH Prism January 2007 (more excellent articles)
- FTTH Prism October 2006 (several excellent articles)
- Bristol Virginia Utilities fiber network is revitalizing SW Virginia -- attracting
hundreds of new high-paying jobs
- APPA article: "Financing Community Broadband"
- DeKalb High School video on Auburn (IN)'s fiber system
- USA
Today feature on Lafayette fiber project
- USA
Today editorial supports Lafayette fiber project
- USA
Today again supports Lafayette fiber project
- Newsweek: "You
might check out whether your local rep supported the telcos -- or
you."
- Foreign
Affairs article: Why Japan is leaving the US behind in broadband
- Brookings
Institution: "The U.S. Broadband Problem"
- Tool for comparing bandwidth speeds
- Broadband
Properties Magazine feature issue on municipal broadband
- Wall
Street Journal article supports "well thought out city [broadband]
plans"
- Washington Post editorial
supports Alexandria wireless initiative
- Intel
supports municipal broadband
- Bill
Gurley: SBC throws 160 lobbyists into Texas municipal broadband fight
-- and loses
- Prof. Larry Lessig
wishes Lafayette success in referendum
- Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy
raves about proposed Lafayette fiber system
- Senator
Lautenberg: Open the door to community broadband
- NPR
"All Things Considered" segment on Lafayette fiber project
- "Lafayette
Voters Overwhelmingly OK Fiber Network"
- TelephonyOnline
Editorial "The Fallout From Lafayette"
- LightReading
Poll: 61% favor tax-funded municipal networks
- Washington Post: "Communications
companies rankle customers"
- Washington Post: "Broadband
Is Too Important to be Left to the Cable-Phone Duopoly"
- eWeek: FCC
has the cart before the horse -- competition should precede deregulation
- Business
Week: U.S. still the broadband laggard
- Business
Week: Private sector sees substantial benefits in municipal broadband
- Wall Street Journal
Op-Ed: "If municipalities across the U.S. are willing to lose
$1 million
a year to save $2 million, this is going to spread like
wildfire."
- Light
Reading: Congressman Chris Cannon (R-UT) blasts incumbents for trying
to thwart
municipal broadband"
- Free Press
map of rapidly growing number of community broadband systems
- Philadelphia Inquirer: City of Philadelphia
is a "WiFi Winner"
- "Why towns have built their own broadband"
-- great economic development story
- Salon: Why American
broadband is so bad compared to broadband in the leading nations
- Municipal
broadband and economic development: Princeton, IL, answers its "wake
up call"
- NYC Council passes bill to create broadband
commission - statement
- NYC Council passes bill to create broadband
commission -- text of bill
- Robert
McChesney and John Podesta, "Let There Be WiFi"
- WSJ: "Companies That Fought Cities on WiFi,
Now Rush to Join In"
- New York Times: "WiFi and the Cities""
Direct and indirect industry spending to influence
government and public opinion
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