Collaborate Disseminate
The Comcast-backed law was enacted in 2005, but allows for towns and counties to exempt their district through a local vote. Continue reading 18 Colorado Local Governments Are Voting on City-Run Internet Tuesday
The agency is expected to make this change in February, which will make America’s broadband situation look better than it actually is. Continue reading The FCC’s Next Stunt: Reclassifying Cell Phone Data Service as ‘Broadband Internet’
“One option is to reject corporate internet service providers altogether, and control the internet ourselves.” Continue reading A Hawaiian Politician Is Introducing a Bill That Would Encourage Creation of Locally Owned Broadband Networks
Fort Collins, Colorado is set to vote on a ballot measure that would open the door for municipal broadband, and Big Telecom is fighting mad. Continue reading Big Telecom Spent $200,000 to Try to Prevent a Colorado Town From Even Talking About a City-Run Internet
One candidate is big on municipal broadband, the other thinks it’s not feasible due to the cost. Guess which one Big Telecom supports? Continue reading Comcast and CenturyLink Spent $50K in Seattle to Support a Mayoral Candidate Who Opposes Community-Owned Internet
What normal people can do to stop the concerted effort by Republicans and big telecom to destroy the open internet. Continue reading How to Protect the Internet
Trump’s FCC has vowed to dismantle the open internet. Here’s what normal people can do to save net neutrality and destroy big telecom’s stranglehold on the industry. Continue reading Local Activism Is the Best Way to Preserve Net Neutrality
After court defeat, municipal broadband fight shifts to Congress and the states. Continue reading FCC Won’t Appeal Municipal Broadband Defeat to Supreme Court
A court has killed an FCC challenge to anticompetitive telecom laws all over the country. Continue reading US Appeals Court Protects State Broadband Laws Literally Written By Big Telecom