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Fast, affordable Internet access for all.
Our most recent joint effort with the Benton Foundation, Broadband At the Speed of Light: How Three Communities Built Next-Generation Networks, is now available for your e-reader:
You can even find it for your iPad in the App Store
Each format is priced in the neighborhood of $2.99. As always, you can also find the report in PDF at no charge here.
We encourage you to support our work here at Muninetworks.org, save a tree, and get a copy of this compelling report.
Becca joined ILSR to work on American Voice 2004, then stayed on to develop the telecommunications initiative. After a detour into motherhood, eldercare, and financial services (she passed the coursework and exam for the CFP designation), she is delighted to be back and focused on the financial and economic considerations behind municipal broadband efforts.Without's Becca's work, MuniNetworks.org would not be here. We are lucky to have her back!
In the last few years local communities, governments, non-profit organizations and neighborhood residents from across the U.S. have successfully launched community broadband initiatives. 54 U.S. cities own citywide fiber networks and another 79 own citywide cable networks. These local initiatives, in rural and urban areas alike, have served as community scale infrastructures that are sustainable and allow participation and decisionmaking on the most local level.