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Citizens Take Charge: Concord, Massachusetts, Builds a Fiber Network
(The Municipal Fiber Project. Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2017)
This report describes a multi-year effort by the town of Concord, Massachusetts, to establish a robust and versatile communications infrastructure to better serve its citizens. The town’s municipal utility, Concord Municipal ...
Smart Grid Paybacks: The Chattanooga Example
(The Municipal Fiber Project. Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Research Publication., 2017)
After building a fiber optic network throughout its service territory, the city-owned electric utility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, became the first U.S. company to offer Internet access speeds of 1 gigabit per second to ...
Maximizing K-12 Fiber Connectivity Through E-Rate: An Overview
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2016)
The federal E-rate program provides up to $3.9 billion annually to subsidize the provision of high-speed Internet access to schools and libraries. Recent revisions to the program greatly expand the options for how such ...
Holyoke: A Massachusetts Municipal Light Plant Seizes Internet Access Business Opportunities
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2015)
This case study documents the success of a municipally-owned electric utility in providing Internet access services. Massachusetts has 41 such “munis” –- serving more than 900,000 people and thousands of businesses -– but ...
WiredWest: a Cooperative of Municipalities Forms to Build a Fiber Optic Network
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2016)
This report describes WiredWest, a cooperative formed by towns in rural western Massachusetts. WiredWest has put forward a detailed proposal to provide “last-mile” high-speed Internet access connections to homes and ...
Enabling Competition & Innovation on a City Fiber Network
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2017)
This report describes how the municipally owned fiber-optic network in Ammon, Idaho, uses a technology known as network virtualization to inexpensively allow retail service providers to compete for users and provide ...
Community-Owned Fiber Networks: Value Leaders in America
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2017)
We collected advertised prices for residential data plans offered by 40 community-owned (typically municipally owned) Internet service providers (ISPs) that offer fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) service. We then identified the ...