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
Carrier-Grade Fiber in Centennial, Colorado – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 222
Located in the Denver metro region and shaped like a barbell, Centennial has effectively used dig once policies to build conduit and fiber assets that have attracted Ting to the community. Tim Scott …
00:28:52 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
Virginia's Roanoke Valley Opens Fiber Access – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 221
Having few options for high-quality telecommunications service, Virginia's Roanoke Valley formed a broadband authority and is building an open access fiber-optic network with different options for IS…
00:29:23 |
Tue 27 Sep 2016
Medina County Aims to Be Mecca of Fiber – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 220
Medina County has built a fiber network to connect its core facilities and leases its fiber to multiple ISPs to improve connectivity in its communities. David Corrado, CEO of the Medina County Fiber …
00:30:30 |
Tue 20 Sep 2016
Saint Louis Park is Prepared for the Fiber Future – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 219
Saint Louis Park, a compact community along the west side of Minneapolis, has built an impressive fiber network, a conduit system, and several deals with developers to ensure new apartment buildings …
00:40:09 |
Tue 13 Sep 2016
Eliminate the Digital Divide – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 218
After his daughter asked how her classmates could do their school homework if they did not have a computer or Internet access at home, Pat Millen's family formed E2D – a nonprofit organization called…
00:29:41 |
Tue 06 Sep 2016
North Carolina and Tennessee Lose in 6th Circuit – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 217
It has been several weeks, but Lisa and I wanted to answer any lingering questions people may have about the results of the Sixth Circuit case reviewing the FCC's action to remove state-created barri…
00:19:33 |
Wed 31 Aug 2016
Just What is the Internet? Community Broadband Bits Podcast 216
The Internet is one of those things that is right there in front of our face but can be hard to define exactly. Community Broadband [no-glossary]Bits[/no-glossary] Episode 216 answers that question a…
00:40:10 |
Wed 24 Aug 2016
Open Cape Works With Communities for Last Mile – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 215
Cape Cod's OpenCape is the latest of the stimulus-funded middle mile broadband projects to focus on expanding to connect businesses and residents. We talk to OpenCape Executive Director Steve Johnsto…
00:25:56 |
Tue 16 Aug 2016
Middle Mile vs Last Mile – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 214
As the next President considers how to improve rural Internet access, the administration will have to decide where to focus policy. Some at NTIA – the National Telecommunications Information Administ…
00:29:23 |
Wed 10 Aug 2016
Smart FCC Decisions Helped Create the Internet – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 213
We originally planned this episode of the Community Broadband [no-glossary]Bits[/no-glossary] podcast to answer the question of “What is the Internet?” But as we started talking to our guest, Princip…
00:34:26 |
Tue 02 Aug 2016
Tiny Mt Washington Builds Fiber-to-the-Home – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 212
Overlooked by the incumbent telephone company, Mount Washington in the southwest corner of Massachusetts is becoming one of the smallest FTTH communities in the country by investing in a municipal fi…
00:21:20 |
Wed 27 Jul 2016
Fort Collins Mayor on Fort Collins Fiber Future – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 211
Fort Collins is a thriving community of over 150,000 and the home of Colorado State University. Despite gorgeous vistas and many high tech jobs, Fort Collins basically has the same cable and DSL duop…
00:24:04 |
Tue 19 Jul 2016
In Minnesota, Alexandria Connects Businesses – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 210
When the cable and telephone companies refused to offer dial-up Internet service 20 years ago in Alexandria, Minnesota, the municipal utility stepped up and made it available. For years, most everyon…
00:18:12 |
Wed 13 Jul 2016
Discussing (Ranting) Consolidation – Community Broadband Bits Episode 209
In celebration of Independence Day, we are focused this week on consolidation and dependence. At the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, we are very focused on independence and believe that the consol…
00:22:47 |
Tue 05 Jul 2016
CityLink Telecommunications in Albuquerque Prefers Open Access – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 208
A small telecommunications company in Albuquerque embodies much of the philosophy that has powered the Internet. And CityLink Telecommunications President John Brown credits Vint Cerf for some of tha…
00:35:54 |
Tue 28 Jun 2016
Ammon's Network of the Future – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 207
On the heels of releasing our video on Ammon, Idaho, we wanted to go a little more in-depth with Bruce Patterson. Bruce is Ammon's Technology Director and has joined us on the show before (episodes 1…
00:27:09 |
Tue 21 Jun 2016
Glenwood Springs Shares Lessons Learned – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 206
Last week, while at my favorite regional broadband conference – Mountain Connect, I was asked to moderate a panel on municipal fiber projects in Colorado. You can watch it via the periscope video str…
00:21:27 |
Tue 14 Jun 2016
Whip City Fiber Expanding – Community Broadband Bits Podcast Episode 205
Last month we wrote wrote about the Whip City Fiber Pilot project in Westfield, Massachusetts expanding and this week we interview two people from Westfield Gas & Electric about the effort. Aaron Bea…
00:18:31 |
Tue 07 Jun 2016
Over 100 Years of Muni Telecom in Churchill County – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 204
For more than 100 years, Nevada's Churchill County has been operating its own telecommunications system, Churchill Communications. In recent years, they upgraded the vast majority of the county from …
00:18:00 |
Tue 31 May 2016
Tennessee Potential Partnership Between Morristown Muni and AEC Co-op – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 203
In Tennessee, this month marks 10 years of Morristown Utility Systems delivering fiber-optic triple-play service to the community, including great Internet access. But those living just outside the c…
00:23:55 |
Wed 25 May 2016
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