Category: Community Broadband
State Developments 2014
- Indiana SB 118 (negative) (problematic language not enacted)
- Kansas SB 304 (negative) (not reported out of committee)
- Tennessee HB 2242 / SB 2140 (favorable) (failed)
- Tennessee HB 2364 / SB 2428 (favorable) (failed)
- Tennessee HB 2482 / SB 2562 (favorable) (failed)
- Utah HB 60 (negative) (failed)
- Utah SB 190 (negative) (failed)
UTOPIA Litigation
Truckee-Donner PUD Litigation
North Kansas City Litigation
Missouri Preemption Litigation
- MML’s Opening Brief
- MML’s Reply Brief
- Eighth Circuit Decision
- Missouri Petitioners’ Opposition to Reconsideration
- Missouri Attorney General’s Petition for Supreme Court Review
- FCC’s Petition for Supreme Court Review
- Southwestern Bell’s Petition for Supreme Court Review
- Missouri Municipals’ Opposition to Supreme Court Review
- Missouri Attorney General’s Opening Brief
- FCC’s Opening Brief
- SW Bell’s Opening Brief
- Sprint’s Amicus Brief
- USTA’s Amicus Brief
- MML’s Responding Brief
- High Tech Broadband Coalition’s Amius Brief
- Consumer Federation of America’s Amicus Brief
- EDUCAUSE’s Amicus Brief
- Local Government Associations’ Amicus Brief
- Virginia Municipalities’ Amicus Brief
- Texas Municipalities’ Amicus Brief
- Lincoln Electric System’s Amicus Brief
- United Telecom Council’s Amicus Brief
- Knology Inc.’s Amicus Brief
- Congressman Rick Boucher’s Amicus Brief
Lafayette, Louisiana, Litigation before the Louisiana Supreme Court
Florida Barrier to Entry Case
Bristol Virginia Utilities Cable Television Litigation
Bridgewater Telecommunications Co. v. City of Monticello
Texas industry group refutes common myths about municipal broadband
Texas has an opportunity to take advantage of vast new broadband-driven digital transformations that promise to unleash a wave of innovations that can transform the way we learn, work, and live as well as bridge the digital divide. Cities across the state are hoping to accelerate this opportunity and are stepping forward with creative solutions for extending the benefits of ubiquitous broadband access to city residents. Like their counterparts in other States,the municipalities of Texas also want to do their part to help America shed its embarrassingly low – 13th in the world — global ranking for broadband Internet access. This isn’t the time to be erecting new barriers to broadband when we have communities throughout the state that are ready, willing and able to extend the reach of the Internet through advanced broadband networks. Rather than embracing this future, some opponents of municipal broadband projects are hiding behind a set of unfounded myths in order to pass legislation that would stall, stifle or stop these innovative community-based efforts.
Technical Strategies for Facilitating Public or Private Broadband Construction in Your Community
Commissioned by Google, prepared by CTC Technology & Energy
State Developments 2013
A Gigabit Garden Begins to Grow: Lessons from the First Planting
Is the wireline network that serves your community good enough to meet your needs 10 years from now? If the answer is “yes”, you’re in luck. Because we can guarantee you will be able to have that network. If the answer is “no”, then the question is: what are you going to do about it? Because if current trends continue, what your community has today might well be what it has a decade hence.
An approach to forecasting requirements for the period 2013-2023
This paper sets out the methodology and results of a model that seeks to forecast UK domestic demand for broadband capacity. As far as we are aware, it is the first such model to be put into the public domain. It has been developed by Communications Chambers, and commissioned by the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG) with support from BSkyB, BT, Ofcom, TalkTalk, Three and Vodafone.