Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSpiral Investing in Rural California While AT&T Invests in Sacramento – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 267
Episode 268
With the right policies and local investment, Spiral Internet could bring high quality Internet access to much of northern California. Spiral is a sm…
8 years, 9 months ago
Benoit Felten of Diffraction Analysis Talks Global Strategies – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 266
Episode 267
When policy and decision makers discuss how to improve connectivity in the U.S., they often compare Internet access in other parts of the world to co…
8 years, 9 months ago
Pasadena Benefits From Municipal Fiber – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 265
Episode 266
It shouldn't be surprising that the city that is home to CalTech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory needs high-quality connectivity. Those institut…
8 years, 10 months ago
Connecting San Francisco Low-Income Housing with Monkey Brains – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 264
Episode 265
After we saw April Glaser's article on a local San Francisco ISP connecting low-income housing to high-quality Internet access, we knew we wanted to …
8 years, 10 months ago
Dark Fiber Brightens Downtown Business Climate in Eugene – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 263
Episode 264
Eugene is a good example of recent public-public partnerships developing to expand fiber optic Internet access. The city of 166,000 in Oregon helped …
8 years, 10 months ago
Microsoft Supercharges TV White Spaces – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 262
Episode 263
After a recent announcement from Microsoft committing to building rural networks using TV white spaces [NYT, Ars Technica stories], we asked Public K…
8 years, 10 months ago
Sonic Suggests Dark Fiber for Munis – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 261
Episode 262
Sonic is one of the best ISPs in the nation – well beloved by its California subscribers and policy geeks like us in part because of its CEO and Co-F…
8 years, 10 months ago
Broadband Planning and How Government Creates Markets – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 260
Episode 261
Just what does it take to have a market? It may be more complicated than you think — and in large part because of the things most of us don't notice …
8 years, 11 months ago
Ammon Examines Muni Fiber Impact – Community Broadband Bits 259
Episode 260
For episode 259 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast, we are going back to the well in Ammon, Idaho – one of the most creative and forward-thinkin…
8 years, 11 months ago
Roosevelt Institute Argues for Better Broadband Policy – Community Broadband Bits Podcast 258
Episode 259
As the telecommunications and broadband market has become more and more consolidated, it has drawn more attention, leading to more attention from peo…
8 years, 11 months ago