Local Broadband/Broadband Choice
- Alabama Republican Speaks Out in favor of Local Authority (MuniNetworks)
- The Government Accountability Office (GAO) Needs Better Broadband Performance Information (Broadband Breakfast)
- EPB Fiber Keeps Electric Rates in Check (Community Broadband Networks/ILSR)
- EPB (Chattanooga) and CDE (Clarksville TN) become Revenue-Positive in 2015 with PILOT (payments in lieu of taxes)
- CLIC Files Comments with the Broadband Opportunity Council (Council for Local Internet Choice/CLIC)
- Farmers Rooting for Wilson NC’s Greenlight Network (Triangle Business Journal)
- Tennesseans for Fiber Optic Expansion (TN4Fiber)
- Connecting 21st Century Communities: A Policy Agenda for Broadband Stakeholders (Next Century Cities)
- Legal Resource Library: Federal & State Developments in Community Broadband (Baller, Herbst, Stokes & Lide PC)
- Utility Board of Athens TN to Work with EPB and VEC for Broadband Pilot to selected Businesses (MuniNetworks)
- Alabama Governor creates Broadband Office to Spread High Speed Internet in Alabama (AL.com)
- Cleveland Utilities CEO Ken Webb’s speech to the Cleveland/Bradley County Chamber of Commerce on 12/11/2015
Tennessee Political Processes
- Tennessee Attorney General Sues FCC Over February 2015 Ruling (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
- FCC’s Chairman Tom Wheeler’s Official Statement on Dockets 14-115 and 14-116 (FCC)
- Tennessee Code 7-52-103 (LawServer)
- Tennessee Code 7-52-601 (LawServer)
- House Bill 1303 (TN Legislature)
- Senate Bill 1134 (TN Legislature)
- EPB Hires Former Deputy Governor Claude Ramsey as Lobbyist (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
- TN Farm Bureau Backs EPB Expansion (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
The Big Telecommunication Companies (“Telecoms”)
- How Comcast Lost Friends and Influence (Fortune Magazine)
- Charter to Merge with Time Warner Cable and Acquiring Brighthouse Network (Florida Trend)
- Charter Customers Warned: Don’t Be Suckered by Promises of Better Service (Free Press)
- Big Telecom is private enterprise? How they accepted over $1.5 billion in taxpayer money despite FCC’s changing broadband definition
- AT&T accepts more than $3 billion in taxpayer money (Connect America funding) to deliver broadband to over 2.2 million people
- Taxpayers charged over $4000-$5000 per household over an 18 year period to help Big Telecom deliver world-class broadband speeds, for a total of over $400 billion. Results?
Contact Us
- Promoting Municipal Broadband in Tennessee (our Facebook page)
- Internet Seekers: Citizens Striving to be Part of the 21st Century (Bradley/Hamilton County Facebook group)
- Need for Speed: Bring Broadband to Coker Creek/Tellico Plains, TN (Coker Creek/Tellico Plains/Monroe County Facebook group)
- 21st Century Citizen (our Twitter page)
