Community Broadband Networks and and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance just released a massive white paper 
explaining how three communities (Bristol, VA, Chattanooga, TN and Lafayette, LA) built some of the best networks in the nation.
“It may surprise people that these cities in Virginia, Tennessee, and Louisiana have faster and lower cost access to the Internet than anyone in San Francisco, Seattle, or any other major city,” says Christopher Mitchell, Director of ILSR’s Telecommunications as Commons Initiative. “These publicly owned networks have each created hundreds of jobs and saved millions of dollars.”
Mitchell believes these networks are all the more important given the slow pace of investment from major carriers. According to Mitchell, “As AT&T and Verizon have ended the expansion of U-Verse and FiOS respectively, communities that need better networks for economic development should consider how they can invest in themselves.”
Read “Broadband at the Speed of Light”
Download the PDF “Broadband at the Speed of Light
