Expert Opinion
Open Access: Ensuring A Successful Public-Private Partnership
The risk with today’s most common partnerships is that once the private partner owns the last mile, the municipality loses control.
2022 Broadband Pricing Index Report
Broadband Prices Decline, AT&T’s Fiber Build in Texas, Conexon Partners for Build in Georgia
A USTelecom report finds that despite high inflation, broadband prices have been declining.
Broadband Mapping and Data
Connected Nation Exchange Launches North America Broadband Partnership with Macquarie Capital
Broadband Breakfast Insight: Connected Nation has taken its broadband mapping skills from the State Broadband Initiative and pivoted into translated that expertise into knowledge for infrastructure deployment on the local level.-> COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 11, 2016. /PRNewswire/ — Speaking at the 2016 Sm
BBC
Articles from the 2015 Broadband Communities Summit in Austin
Editor’s Note: Below are links to the articles published on BroadbandBreakfast.com about the Broadband Communities Summit in Austin, Texas, from April 13-16, 2015: April 27, 2015 – Financing Public-Private Fiber Networks Becoming a Reality, Say Experts at Broadband Communities Summit April 16, 2015
Infrastructure
Important But Overlooked NTIA Report Highlights Best-Practices for Public-Private Partnerships on Gigabit Networks
April 13, 2015 – Attention on the significance of community-based Gigabit Networks rose dramatically when President Obama included an announcement about the importance of community broadband networks in his State of the Union address in January, and in remarks in Cedar Falls, Iowa, one week before t
Christopher Mitchell
ITIF Panel Debates Government Intervention in Broadband Networks
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2011 – The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation assembled a panel Wednesday to debate the merits and minuses of government support of broadband networks. The Oxford-style debate, “Governments Should Neither Subsidize nor Operate Broadband Networks to Compete with Comme
states
Illinois Plants 'Johnny Appleseed' Projects Promoting Broadband in State
September 3 – In describing efforts to improve broadband in Illinois, Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn uses this analogy: “We have to be the modern-day, 21st century Johnny Appleseeds, planting good technology projects all over the state.”
