Community Broadband Media Roundup - January 2

California

Oroville may adopt 'dig once' broadband policy by Risa Johnson, Oroville Mercury

New ordinance gives SF apartment dwellers more Internet options by Dominic Fracassa, San Francisco Chronicle

Thanks to a groundbreaking ordinance passed this month by the Board of Supervisors, owners of multiple-occupancy buildings will no longer be able to block their tenants’ access to the Internet providers of their choosing under most circumstances.

The ordinance, which passed unanimously, appears to be the first of its kind enacted by a U.S. city. It applies to both commercial and residential properties.

Colorado

Fort Collins might vote on broadband by Kevin Duggan, The Coloradoan

Fort Collins Internet effort mired in uncertainty by Kevin Duggan, The Coloradoan

CML's 7 legislative areas of interest for upcoming session by Mike McKibbin, Colorado Statesman

How Rio Blanco shows that a 'shared network' can make sense in rural Colorado by Broadband Breakfast

Rio Blanco County, a rural county in northwestern Colorado with a population of less than 7,000, held an override vote in 2014 and is now connecting customers to Rio Blanco Broadband, a network that will deliver fiber or wireless broadband access to nearly all premises.

New Hampshire

City of Portsmouth explores providing community broadband by Jeff McMenemy, SeaCoast Online

New York

New York state could set new rural broadband funding model by Lydia Beyoud, Bloomberg Bureau of National Affairs

The state has asked the Federal Communications Commission to allow it to combine $170.4 million in federal funds that were declined by Verizon Communications Inc. with a $500 million state program to foster rural broadband deployment. An order related to New York’s petition for an expedited waiver was circulated Dec. 15 within the five-member commission, an FCC spokesman confirmed to Bloomberg BNA Dec. 27.

North Carolina

Jones County surveys residents about Internet by Michelle Taylor, The Free Press

Oregon

Portland says Google decision won't hinder Internet access agenda by Alice Williams, NextCity

The majority of U.S. cities had electricity by the 1930s, but that wasn't the case in rural parts of the country. Nowadays, many rural areas in America are still waiting for high-speed internet. Christopher Mitchell, director of Community Broadband Networks at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in Minneapolis, Minnesota, explains what it’ll take to spread fiber optic cables across rural parts of the nation.

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