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Municipal Broadband in the States – French Telecommunications Commission – November 14, 2005
Presentation to the French Telecommunications Commission, the Autorite de Regulation des Communications Electroniques et Postales (ARCEP), Embassy of France, November 14, 2005.
Financing Community Broadband
By Cathy Swirlbul
Municipal utilities are expanding into offering broadband service for a variety of reasons. Some communities have a history of providing utility services through public ownership. Other areas pursue community broadband when the incumbent cable and telecommunications companies fail to provide the service. What these projects have in common is the need for financing. The reality of financing in today’s market, though, may be different from commonly held perceptions.
The Case for Municipal Broadband in Florida
By Florida Municipal Electric Association
Why barriers to entry stifle economic development, disadvantage school children, and worsen health care.
Why towns have built their own broadband
By Jeffrey R. Lee, Medill News Service
Two years ago Princeton, a town of about 7,500 two hours west of Chicago, was staring at a potentially grim future. One of the community’s largest employers had just moved its manufacturing facilities to Chattanooga, Tenn.
LCN, a division of Ingersoll Rand Co. Ltd., had just hired a new plant manager for its Princeton factory, and he had a wake-up call for the town’s industrial board.
“He said that if Ingersoll Rand was looking to relocate a new facility, Princeton would not be on the list,” recalled Jason Bird, superintendent of the town’s electric and telecommunications utility. The town simply did not have the communications capacity that modern companies need.
That conversation was enough to scare the town council and the mayor into action. Last October, the town started construction of a $400,000, 12-mile fiber optic network, and on Dec. 15, it announced it would take the fiber optic cable to any customer that wanted it.
Important study of FTTH usage patterns in Japan
As peer-to-peer applications become popular, an unprecedented increase in user-to-user traffic has been observed worldwide, particularly in Japan due to its high penetration rate of broadband access.
A Brief History of Public Power Utility Communications Initiatives – APPA Conference, Boston, MA, October 10, 2005
Keynote Address to FTTH Conference – Las Vegas, NV, October 6, 2005
Leadoff Address to MuniWireless Conference – San Francisco, CA, September 29, 2005
A Good Year for Birchrods and Yardsticks
In the decade since the enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, hundreds of localities, dissatisfied with the offerings of private cable and telephone companies, have deployed advanced telecommunications systems of their own.
Economic Development Through Bandwidth
Economic impacts and the business case for broadband by Strategic Networks Group
WiNOG Annual Conference – Park City, UT, August 16, 2005
FCC First Report & Order
USA Today again supports Lafayette fiber project
Lafayette, La., is on the leading edge of the broadband revolution. Or at least it could be if BellSouth would just step out of the way, says Joey Durel, president of the city-parish.
Carol Wilson: “Munis Hit Back at Heartland”
A Heartland Institute study challenging the financial viability of municipal broadband networks is rife with “mistakes, misinterpretations, unsupported and insupportable claims, irrelevancies, innuendos, key omissions and obvious untruths,” according to Jim Baller of The Baller Herbst Law Group, the attorney for both of the municipal networks profiled in the study.