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California’s new muni broadband law establishes rights, and net neutrality...
California governor Jerry Brown actually signed two network neutrality bills into law on Sunday. The Big Kahuna was senate bill 822, which establishes net neutrality rules for Internet service...
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California’s next governor talks the broadband talk, but will he walk the walk?
California governor-elect Gavin Newsom has a broadband development track record of sorts. Whether that will translate into sound telecoms infrastructure policy remains to be seen. When he was mayor of...
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Lobbyists ask FCC to hit cities with another taxpayer funded broadband mugging
The ravaging horde of (largely) telco and cable lobbyists known as the Federal Communications Commission’s broadband deployment advisory committee (BDAC) has drafted its latest letter to Santa advice...
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New year but old questions for technology and telecoms policymakers
Five major broadband issues will top the public policy charts in California and at the federal level in 2019. In no particular order… Net neutrality – The ball is in a federal appeals court in...
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Newsom’s budget plan lowers barriers to public broadband financing
Following up on one of the items in his campaign manifesto, California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, might make it easier to finance municipal broadband projects. One of the many, many ideas offered...
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Tacoma weighs risk and reward with list of muni broadband suitors down to two
The City of Tacoma has narrowed the list of possible buyers of its municipal cable system – aka Click – down to two local companies, Wave Broadband and Rainier Connect. A year ago, the city issued a...
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Tacoma moves from courtship to consumation of deal to sell muni broadband...
The Tacoma city council unanimously approved a plan to lease its municipal cable system, called Click, to a relatively small local Internet service provider. After years of study and negotiation, the...
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Study spots “third wave” of community broadband enthusiasm, but no swell of cash
A “third wave” of community broadband initiatives is developing in the United States, but before it’s surfable, state and federal policy changes are needed. That’s the conclusion of a paper written by...
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Salinas City Council approves contract to build municipal fiber network
A contract to build the first phase of a municipal dark fiber network was approved by the Salinas City Council earlier this month. This initial leg is a mile and a half long, and will run west along...
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Why traffic signals are lavishly lit but muni IT networks are frugal with fiber
The classic make versus buy question asks whether it’s cheaper or otherwise more advantageous for a company to manufacture a product or create a service, or to buy it from an outside source. When...
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