State Developments 2014

Missouri Preemption Litigation

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.

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.