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
Holyoke Success Spurs Interest in Mass Muni Networks – Community Broadband Bits Episode 162
A few weeks back, we noted an excellent new report on Holyoke Municipal Light Plant in Massachusetts published by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. This week, we discuss the report and les…
00:20:05 |
Tue 04 Aug 2015
Longmont Gig Finds Many Takers – Community Broadband Bits Episode 161
The community reaction to Longmont's NextLight gigabit municipal fiber network in Colorado has been dramatic. They are seeing major take rates in the initial neighborhoods, driven in part by the oppo…
00:24:20 |
Tue 28 Jul 2015
Illinois Munis Partner with Local ISP for Gigabit Network – Community Broadband Bits Episode 160
The southern Illinois cities of Urbana and Champaign joined the University of Illinois in seeking and winning a broadband stimulus award to build an open access urban FTTH network. After connecting s…
00:21:32 |
Tue 21 Jul 2015
NoaNet Touches Every County in Washington State – Community Broadband Bits Episode 159
The Northwest Open Access Network in Washington has a long history of expanding high quality Internet access into rural areas and now reaches into every county in the state. NoaNet is a nonprofit org…
00:21:07 |
Tue 14 Jul 2015
Rural Rio Blanco County Builds Open Access Fiber, Wireless – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 158
Rio Blanco County is a large, rural county in northwestern Colorado that has two population centers. The county has a sharp plan for building FTTH to the population centers and wireless across most o…
00:23:42 |
Tue 07 Jul 2015
KC Fiber Innovates in North Kansas City – Community Broadband Bits Episode 157
Every now and then, we stumble across something, read it twice, and then decide we need to verify it. In North Kansas City, a municipal fiber network operating in partnership with KC Fiber, is delive…
00:16:48 |
Tue 30 Jun 2015
Connecting Georgia's Munis – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 156
For years, we have urged municipal networks to cooperate in various ways to lower costs. For instance, by building a shared middle mile network to aggregate their bandwidth and get a better deal due …
00:18:05 |
Tue 23 Jun 2015
Maine Island Stranded Without Fiber – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 155
Many communities feel like they are an island without proper connectivity but Islesboro, Maine, is literally an island… without proper connectivity. This week, we talk with Page Clason, Manager of th…
00:19:05 |
Tue 16 Jun 2015
Recent Advances in the Wireless Future – Community Broadband Bits Episode 154
After reading “Amtrak's Lessons for Access to the Airwaves,” I knew we wanted to talk to Michael Calabrese and Patrick Lucey of the Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation to discuss …
00:25:18 |
Tue 09 Jun 2015
Upgrade Seattle on Need For Better Access – Community Broadband Bits Episode 153
We were excited to begin writing about the Upgrade Seattle campaign back in January and this week we are presenting a discussion with several people behind the campaign for episode 153 of the Communi…
00:24:10 |
Tue 02 Jun 2015
Santa Fe's Targeted Fiber Investment – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 152
After Santa Fe found its residents and businesses were often paying the same rates for connections at half the speed of peers in Albuquerque, the City began investigating the local broadband market. …
00:25:20 |
Tue 26 May 2015
Small ISPs and Paperwork – Community Broadband Bits Episode 151
Back in March, I spoke at the Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities Telecom conference, which is always an event with interesting people. While there, I met Doug Hammer and Krista Allen of Harlan U…
00:22:06 |
Tue 19 May 2015
Ensuring Security on Community Networks – Community Broadband Bits Episode 150
This week, we are focusing on security concerns for community networks. Community networks tend to be small, with limited staff to keep track of the many challenges of running a network. Our guest th…
00:16:41 |
Tue 12 May 2015
The Latest on Wired West Rural Fiber – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 149
Our second episode of Community Broadband Bits featured an interview with Monica Webb, Chair of the Wired West Board and Spokesperson. Three years later, we are excited to have Monica on the show aga…
00:28:16 |
Tue 05 May 2015
Comcast Merger Wrap-up and Anti-Monopoly Policy – Community Broadband Bits Episode 148
In the aftermath of the Comcast/TWC merger being effectively denied by the Department of Justice and Federal Communications Commission, we thought it was a key moment to focus on antitrust/anti-monop…
00:24:20 |
Tue 28 Apr 2015
In Reedsburg, Expansion Weighed After Muni Fiber Success – Community Broadband Bits Episode 147
The first gigabit city in Wisconsin, Reedsburg, has a municipal fiber network operated by the city-owned electric utility. This week, we talk with General Manager of the Utility Commission, Brett Sch…
00:13:39 |
Tue 21 Apr 2015
Improving Mid-Atlantic Internet Access – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 146
When we last wrote about the Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative, it was a coop focused on open access middle mile connections. Now it has become the Mid-Atlantic Broadband Communities Corporation and…
00:22:16 |
Tue 14 Apr 2015
Muni Networks, Digital Liberty, and Surveillance – Community Broadband Bits Episode 145
As more communities become service providers in order to provide a needed service to local businesses and residents, they are taking on an important responsibility to safeguard the data and privacy o…
00:18:24 |
Wed 08 Apr 2015
Opportunities and Challenges as Lafayette Considers Muni Fiber Expansion – Community Broadband Bits Episode 144
After we heard that Lafayette's LUS Fiber was considering expanding to some nearby communities, we knew we had to set up an interview with Terry Huval, Director of the Lafayette Utilities System in L…
00:28:20 |
Tue 31 Mar 2015
Explaining the FCC Muni Order Removing State Barriers – Community Broadband Bits Episode 143
After anticipating this moment for many months, we have a ruling from the FCC that has restored local authority to build and expand networks in North Carolina and Tennessee. Though we have already pu…
00:31:25 |
Tue 24 Mar 2015
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