Municipal Networks

According to Steve Reneker, CIO of Riverside (CA), AT&T wants to give the citywide Wi-Fi network that AT&T and MetroFi deployed in May 2007 back to the city, but the city council must decide on 16 March 2010 whether to agree.

NATOA is sharing examples of innovative, replicable community projects with the Federal Communications Commission.

The broadband networks of the 21st century frequently depend upon the policies that government has for infrastructure that is decidedly 20th century -- wooden utility poles, conduits underneath bridges, and easements alongside America's roads and highways. The draft National Broadband Plan makes several recommendations that build upon successful efforts undertaken by state and local governments with regard to these important assets.

Qwest has scored quite the little victory in its efforts to keep itself from the evil socialist menace known as "local government providing broadband when the incumbent does a lousy job."

Incumbents will spend millions of dollars, as they always have, to block Google fiber.

Wilmington, North Carolina was the first spot in the country to transition from analog to digital TV. Now, more than a year later, the city is again serving as a testbed, this time for unlicensed broadband operating in the empty channels ("white spaces") of the TV band.

Palo Alto's city council has decide to drop the city's bid for broadband stimulus funds and instead apply to partner on a Google infrastructure project.

Cities and rural communities across the United States are lining up with requests for information (RFI) and dreams of being chosen.

The Federal Communications Commission will hold an Open Meeting on Thursday, February, 11. The agenda includes...

The idea of free Internet for all Americans looks good on screen, but the concept also raises crucial questions. And for the past few years, as cities across the country jumped on the broadband wagon, many government IT leaders kept getting stuck on the first and most important one: How?