Community Broadband Bits
Short interviews with people doing interesting things to expand broadband networks that put community needs first.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 682
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Wireless And Wired; US Internet Knows Both – Community Broadband Bits 301
Deploying, maintaining, and operating a wireless network is easy, right? You just put up your equipment, sign up subscribers, and start raking in the dough, right? Not even close, says Travis Carter,…
00:34:12 |
Tue 10 Apr 2018
Neighbors Helping Neighbors For Fiber In Rural Tennessee: Newport And Morristown Join Forces – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 300
An increasing interest in publicly owned network projects has also spurred an increase in creative collaborations as communities work together to facilitate deployment, especially in rural areas. Thi…
00:29:24 |
Tue 03 Apr 2018
Straight Talk About 5G; Potential, Limitations, Hype – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 299
If we want to talk technical stuff on the Community Broadband Bits podcast, we know Eric Lampland is one of the best guys to call. Eric is Founder and Principal of Lookout Point Communications. Earli…
00:32:56 |
Tue 27 Mar 2018
Central Vermont Internet: Communities Commit To Communications Union District – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 298
Earlier this month, twelve towns in central Vermont chose Town Meeting Day to ask local voters whether or not they want to band together to improve connectivity. Each community chose to participate i…
00:23:50 |
Tue 20 Mar 2018
Hiawatha Broadband Communications: One Of The Small Players That Helped Shape The Internet – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 297
Before the days when Comcast, AT&T, and CenturyLink were some of only a few ISPs for subscribers to choose from, much of the country received Internet access from small Internet access companies. In …
01:05:50 |
Wed 14 Mar 2018
Fibering Up Emmett, Idaho – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 296
Emmett, Idaho’s Systems Administrator Mike Knittel joins Christopher for episode 296 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast this week. Mike explains how the city of about 7,000 has taken a similar a…
00:28:52 |
Tue 06 Mar 2018
Santa Cruz County Moving Beyond Incumbent Inaction – Community Broadband Bits 295
When community leaders in Santa Cruz County, California, decided to take steps to spur economic development, they knew they needed to improve local connectivity. For episode 295 of the Community Broa…
00:22:41 |
Tue 27 Feb 2018
Virginia’s Eastern Shore Broadband Authority Steadily Expands Fiber Network – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 294
When the Eastern Shore of Virginia needed better Internet access, in part to ensure NASA could achieve its mission, Accomack and Northampton counties created the Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband A…
00:22:41 |
Tue 20 Feb 2018
Arlington Expands Internet Access for Low-Income Households – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 293
In Virginia, Arlington has found new ways to use its municipal network to reduce the digital divide. Katie Cristol, Chair of the Arlington County Board, and Jack Belcher, County Chief Information Off…
00:26:37 |
Tue 13 Feb 2018
FairlawnGig Keeps Businesses in Town, Attracts More – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 292
We are checking back in with Ernie Staten, Deputy Director of Public Service in Fairlawn, Ohio now that their muncipal Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) network – FairlawnGig – is built out and they are still…
00:24:30 |
Wed 07 Feb 2018
Wilson Tackles Digital Divide with Pay Ahead Option – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 291
It was just a year ago that we highlighted a nation-leading digital inclusion effort from Wilson’s Greenlight municipal fiber network in North Carolina. That was their fourth time on the podcast, owi…
00:15:04 |
Wed 31 Jan 2018
Wrestling With Redlining in Cleveland, Lessons For All
Early last year, Connect Your Community and the National Digital Inclusion Alliance released a well-researched and compelling case that AT&T had engaged in digital redlining of Cleveland, refusing to…
00:34:40 |
Wed 24 Jan 2018
Retail Muni Fiber Networks Charge Less – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 289
Do municipal fiber networks offer lower prices than the their competitors? Yes, almost always, according to a study from Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center called Community-Owned Fiber Networks: Value Le…
00:19:04 |
Wed 17 Jan 2018
North Dakota’s Exceptional Fiber Networks – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 288
With only about 757,000 residents and more than 710,000 square miles North Dakota is ranked 53rd in population density among U.S. states, territories, and Washington DC. There may not be many people …
00:27:23 |
Tue 09 Jan 2018
The Challenge of Mobile Only – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 287
With the Federal Communications Comission Republicans poised to redefine broadband to include slow, unreliable, and often bandwidth-capped mobile service, we talk with two high school students from s…
00:25:07 |
Wed 03 Jan 2018
2017 in Review and a Preview of 2018 – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 286
It is that time of year – as 2017 draws to a close, we pulled Nick, Hannah, Lisa, and myself back into a podcast to talk about the predictions we made one year ago on episode 234. And despite having …
00:39:12 |
Tue 26 Dec 2017
Catching up with Lincoln on Fiber, 5G, and US IGNITE – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 285
David Young is a veteran of our Community Broadband Bits podcast, having been interviewed in episodes 182, 228, and 238. For reasons that are beyond this interviewer, he still has a job in Lincoln as…
00:16:20 |
Tue 19 Dec 2017
Discussing the Digital Divides On Road to Digital Equity – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 284
If everyone subscribed to Internet access, the business models for supplying it would be much easier. But there are strong reasons for why many are locked out of Internet access today, a subject we e…
00:25:34 |
Tue 12 Dec 2017
Reinventing Burlington Telecom – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 283
We're continuing the interviews Christopher conducted while at the November Broadband Communities Economic Development Conference in Atlanta; this week, he's talking with Stephen Barraclough, General…
00:22:50 |
Wed 06 Dec 2017
Organizing For a Community Network, Against Big Cable – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 282
Fort Collins, like more than 100 communities in Colorado, had already opted out of the state law that requires a referendum prior to a city or county investing in an Internet network, even with a par…
00:26:24 |
Thu 30 Nov 2017
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