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Your Broadband Education Straight from the Source
Nowhere else on the Web can you find such a complete source of first-hand broadband project management and policy experience. And this knowledgebase grows weekly. Last August I launched Gigabit Nation,...
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Kansas City, Google Fiber and Economic Development
All eyes seem to be on Kansas City after Google’s announcement last Thursday with important details on their fiber network. A lot of those details address consumer-side issues. Google promises to...
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Sneak Peek at Broadband and Economic Development Data
Over the years, I’ve heard some rather impressive claims about the economic healing power of broadband. Talking to people in the trenches, though, I get a different sense of what we should expect and...
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Moving the Needle Forward on Broadband & Economic Development
August and September, in partnership with the International Economic Development Council (IEDC), I conducted a national survey of IEDC members and others affiliated with IEDC. The primary goal was to...
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Incumbents Try [Again] to Get Georgia State Legies to Kill Muni Broadband!
EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it! FCC Chair calls for a gigabit network in every state! Big telcos tell Georgia businesses and students 1.5 Mbps is plenty. Wow. You have to give it ALEC (American...
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Stemming Anti-Muni Network Tide with Economic Development Wins
Last Thursday, the forces for truth, justice and the community broadband way scored a major victory, rallying a <gasp!> bi-partisan coalition of Georgia state legislators to defeat the anti-muni...
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Building the Gigabit City – My Latest Book Launches
Last week I released my first e-book, Building the Gigabit City. Enthusiasm for building broadband networks on their own or in public private partnerships is growing rapidly in communities across the...
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The Gigabit City and Economic Development
Those of you who’ve followed my writings regularly know that I conduct a survey every year to get a snapshot of how broadband impacts economic development. Usually I work with the International...
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It Takes a Village and Broadband to Raise a Startup
I’m in Kansas City this week for the Fiber to the Home Council conference “From Gigabit Envy to Gigabit Deployed.” Gigabit Nation will be broadcast live from here each day this week. There are some...
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14 Gigabit Success Stories. But Wait, There’s More!
Too often we see the incumbent propaganda that proclaims all community broadband networks to be failures. But nothing could be further from the truth as there are over 340 such networks, some having...
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What Would You Ask Econ Dev Professionals about Broadband?
Last year, I conducted my annual survey of International Economic Development Council (IEDC) members to get econ dev professionals’ take on how broadband impacts local economies. Here’s the final...
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Six Steps for Moving Your Broadband Project Forward
Getting faster better is increasingly becoming an imperative. However, as much as stakeholders can see the value of the a highspeed network, the question of how to get from here to there stymies...
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Building the Gigabit City Demands the Right Foundation
Using broadband to impact local economic development is not an exact science and it may never be. However, there are some threads of commonality that run through many of the community broadband success...
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Will Your 2014 Broadband Strategy Embrace Multi-Dweling Units? (pt 1)
As economic development pros and others develop strategies for using broadband to boost their local economies, here’s one strategy you should consider that can achieve this goal PLUS increase the...
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The Gigabit Nation Top 10 for 2013
Gigabit Nation started in 2011 as a radio talk show to give listeners valuable news and instruction on how to bring faster, better broadband to communities nationwide. The show is now also a repository...
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How to Prep for the Upcoming FCC Pilot Funding Program
Got a call the other day with an inside scoop about an upcoming FCC funding opportunity that’s a promising way to distribute money from the oft maligned Connect America Fund (CAF). This likely will...
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