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
Bozeman's Public-Private Approach In-Depth – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 142
In Montana, local businesses and the city of Bozeman have been working on a public-private partnership approach to expanding Internet access that is likely to involve the city building an open access…
00:21:58 |
Tue 17 Mar 2015
Reaction to the FCC Decisions, Dissent, and Next Steps – Community Broadband Bits Episode 141
After the FCC decisions to remove barriers to community networks and to reclassify Internet access as a Title II service to enforce network neutrality rules, Lisa and I spend some time discussing the…
00:15:39 |
Tue 10 Mar 2015
Rural Electric Co-Mo Coop Goes Gig – Community Broadband Bits Episode 140
As high quality Internet has become more essential for business and quality of life, those who realized that the existing telecom providers had no intention to invest in better connections in their r…
00:19:29 |
Tue 03 Mar 2015
Mesa's Focus on Dig Once and Fiber Leases Pays Off – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 139
Arizona's city of Mesa is one of the largest communities in the nation to benefit from the city taking role in ensuring conduit and fiber are available throughout the area. This week we talk with Ale…
00:19:26 |
Tue 24 Feb 2015
Answering Questions About Title II and Munis – Community Broadband Bits Episode 138
As we near the FCC open meeting at the end of next week, when it will decide on both the Chattanooga and Wilson petitions regarding their wish to expand as well as a proposal to reclassify Internet a…
00:21:32 |
Tue 17 Feb 2015
Rural Colorado Internet Access and Mountain Connect – Community Broadband Bits Episode 137
Last year was the first year I attended Mountain Connect, an event in the Rockies west of Denver that discusses approaches to improving Internet access. Historically, they focused on rural communitie…
00:17:57 |
Tue 10 Feb 2015
Greater Minnesota Partnership Focuses on Non-Metro Need – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 136
Like many states, Minnesota has a major metro area that generally has higher quality Internet access than non-metro communities. The Greater Minnesota Partnership, a coalition of businesses, chambers…
00:29:38 |
Tue 03 Feb 2015
OneCommunity's Middle Way – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 135
OneCommunity is a nonprofit organization in northeastern Ohio that has connected thousands of community anchor institutions with high capacity connections. Created as OneCleveland before expanding, i…
00:23:40 |
Tue 27 Jan 2015
Ting Delivering FTTH Is Great News for Community Fiber – Community Broadband Bits Episode 134
In recent weeks, we have been excited to see announcements from Ting, a company long known for being a great wireless provider (both Lisa and I are customers), that is now getting into FTTH deploymen…
00:26:58 |
Tue 20 Jan 2015
Howard County Fiber Encourages New Jobs, Competition in Maryland – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 133
While at the Broadband Communities Economic Development conference in Springfield last year, I had the good fortune to catch a panel with Chris Merdon, the CIO of Howard County, Maryland. Howard Coun…
00:18:12 |
Tue 13 Jan 2015
Public or Private Ownership? Community Broadband Bits Episode 132
Ever since the last time I spoke with Blair Levin on Episode 37, I have wanted to have him back for a friendly discussion about public or private ownership of next generation networks. Though Blair a…
00:37:30 |
Tue 06 Jan 2015
Year in Review, Expectations for 2015 – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 131
For our final Community Broadband [no-glossary]Bits[/no-glossary] episode of 2014, we review some of the notable events and news we covered and we discuss some predictions for 2015. Lisa Gonzalez and…
00:26:29 |
Tue 30 Dec 2014
Can you Satirize Poor Customer Service from Big Cable Companies – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 130
Given all the horrible experiences people have had over the telephone with massive cable companies, it isn't clear that one can design a skit to parody such a conversation. Each time someone calls on…
00:15:03 |
Tue 23 Dec 2014
Connecting For Good in Kansas City – Community Broadband Bits Podcast Episode 129
We have seen a lot of claims about Kansas City – whether Google Fiber's approach is increasing digital inclusion, having no impact, or possibly even increasing the digital divide. This week on our Co…
00:19:37 |
Tue 16 Dec 2014
Open Access and Incumbent Challenges – Community Broadband Bits Episode 128
The open access approach, which generally refers to multiple service providers offering services across the same physical network, remains a challenge for those who want to implement it. Though many …
00:30:17 |
Tue 09 Dec 2014
Reflections on European Broadband – Community Broadband Bits Episode 127
I was recently invited to speak in Brussels on the experience of U.S. cities and fiber optic investment. Videos from the seminar are available here. I took some extra time around the seminar to visit…
00:21:30 |
Tue 02 Dec 2014
Michigan's First Gigabit Village – Community Broadband Bits Episode 126
The small village of Sebewaing has become the first gigabit village in the state of Michigan. Superintendent of Sebewaing Light and Water utility Melanie McCoy joins us to discuss the project on epis…
00:14:28 |
Tue 25 Nov 2014
Susan Crawford on the Responsive City – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 125
Susan Crawford, author of Captive Audience and now co-author of The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance joins us for Community Broadband [no-glossary]Bits[/no-glossary…
00:14:59 |
Tue 18 Nov 2014
Using the Franchise to Organize Against Comcast – Community Broadband Bits Episode 124
We first became aware of the Media Mobilizing Project through our work with the
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00:22:19 |
Tue 11 Nov 2014
Aurora's Nonprofit Approach with Muni Fiber – Community Broadband Bits Episode 123
Aurora, Illinois, has been named one of the “Smart 21” most intelligent communities of 2015 according to the Intelligent Community Forum. We have been tracking Aurora for a few years and wrote about …
00:20:59 |
Tue 04 Nov 2014
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