If you live in Bountiful and want to learn more about the Bountiful Fiber project, join the city for an open house on July 11 at 6:00 pm! For more details visit: bountifulutah.gov/Bountiful-Fiber

Big monopoly ISPs have been telling “misinformation” about community owned broadband for years. Community ownership bring competition, higher quality at a lower price. Probably why they don’t like it. ⁦AAPB (American Association for Public Broadband)⁩ bbcmag.com/breaking-news/…

When a community gets together to decide they want universal service that is owned by the community, that is a mighty force that dark money from large telcos and cable companies won’t stop! Yeah Bountiful!

🌐 From Chaos to Control: How VETRO's Fiber Management Platform Saves Time and Money for Department of Transportations and Municipalities 🌐 👉Read full article here: hubs.ly/Q01Y_syN0 #DOT #fibermanagement #municipalbroadband #statebroadband

Building locally owned networks, and creating competition in monopoly providers (Charter, Comcast, AT&T and the others) is where all action is anyway. Join us to be part of this movement! aapb.us ⁦AAPB (American Association for Public Broadband)⁩ techdirt.com/2023/07/26/aft…

This. The LoC is going to knock small ISPs and community owned broadband out of the running for BEAD grants. And these are the very organizations that are solving the digital divide.

“data consistently shows that community-owned broadband ….provide better, faster, cheaper service than regional monopolies.” = Public ownership works . ⁦AAPB (American Association for Public Broadband)⁩ techdirt.com/2023/08/04/com…

Publicly owned networks are connecting people in rural Vermont quicker than the private sector has, with a much faster connection. AAPB (American Association for Public Broadband)

Great video starring Christopher Ali by More Perfect Union on why public broadband is needed now more than ever & why states should ensure that public networks get a fair opportunity to access the $42.5B for broadband deployment.

Reminder. Their candidate was on the next plane to Florida when he lost. Mike Michaud is working diligently every day to make his community a better place. (And, not for nothing, remember Cate Street and the $16m the Lepage administration gave them for nothing? )

The inevitable march towards community-owned broadband grew enormously in 2023, documented by Christopher Mitchell, Sean Gonsalves & Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Of course, the attacks on local choice grew too. 2024 will be a fun year for friends of public broadband! communitynets.org/content/new-mu… #ownyourfuture

This week, the American Association for Public Broadband sent a letter to the Kentucky General Assembly opposing a draft bill that would force the Frankfort Plant Board to sell its popular, successful broadband network. Here's the letter & press release. linkedin.com/posts/gigisohn…

I find it bewildering why a Kentucky State Senator would make such a bill a high priority, especially since local officials and residents are completely against the sale. Might it be related to this? nelsoncountygazette.com/?p=62581

Notices like this from ISPs notifiying their subscribers that they could lose the $30 a month subsidy provided under the ACP are landing in the inboxes of nearly 23 million US households. Time is running out for Congress to extend the program! Stay tuned for ways you can help.

Seems a shame that UTOPIA Fiber has to spend a lot of time and money on an ad campaign because incumbent cable operators, hiding behind dark money groups, refuse to compete. AAPB (American Association for Public Broadband) sltrib.com/news/2024/02/0…

Here's another about Utah's "battle for broadband." Not sure why it needs to be a "battle." Public open access networks like UTOPIA Fiber & private broadband networks can co-exist and compete. Isn't that better for consumers? utahbusiness.com/utopia-fiber-b…