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Community Broadband Networks, an ongoing web log of news and comments on utility broadband
technology including topics such as broadband over powerline, fiber to the home and last mile
wireless broadband. The 'blog' also covers utility fiber optic technologies such as ADSS
(all-dielectric, self-supporting fiber cable) and OPGW (optical groundwire).
See the blog itself for the most current headlines. Here's an index of industry news headlines from late March 2003 through April 15, 2004, provided courtesy of Community
Broadband Networks (from newest to oldest):
- Ecuador: Transelectric's 1000 km fiber network is transforming the economy
- CNET interview with Jim Baller -- "Broadband for the masses?"
- Utah: Salt Lake City Council votes 4-2 against financial backing for UTOPIA
- Bloglet e-mail summary missed some items
- "Powerline communications - Electrifying the broadband"
- North Carolina: Property owners sue Blue Ridge Electric, questioning use of fiber on transmission lines
- Japan: "Broad strokes from FTTH"
- Maryland: Eastern shore leaders partnering with Old Dominion Electric to improve broadand access in area
- Washington state: "Wi-Fi program links Sauk-Suiattle to high-speed access, wealth of opportunities"
- Colorado: Denver uses fiber-linked traffic management system
- "Broadband Over Power Line Gets FCC Boost"
- Bulgaria: Gas utility's fiber network forms backbone for first major competitive telecom
- Alabama: Childersburg may offer wireless broadband to housing project residents
- Rush County, Indiana: "Fiber-versus-wireless debate continues"
- Georgia: "A network of one's own"
- Colorado: Niwot Telecommunications Cooperative formed to bring FTTH to a small town
- Queensland, Australia: More information on Telstra's FTTH trials near Brisbane
- Reality check for satellite broadband
- Iowa: Waterloo school links into state's fiber network
- California: Oceanside building municipal wireless network for internal communications
- BPL vendor Mitsubishi names new CEO
- "Faults Still Plague Electric System As Peak Summertime Use Nears"
- South Korea: Government relaxes regulations to encourage BPL deployment
- Tennessee: JEA to move from FTTH trial to full deployment in late April
- Utah: Salt Lake City makes UTOPIA decision tonight
- Tennessee: Charter and Jackson Energy Authority in dispute over cable damage
- New Zealand: Project PROBE missing deadlines to connect schools with broadband
- Wisconsin: Oakdale Electric Cooperative providing wireless broadband in Mauston
- Nicaragua: More info on ENTRESA's OPGW link to the Atlantic coast
- Massachusetts: Veroxity partners with utility NSTAR to serve businesses with fiber
- Minnesota: Anoka-Hennepin School Board has long-term plans for fiber network
- Pennsylvania: Allegheny Power uses web services, smart thermostats for demand-side management
- Utah: UTOPIA advocates respond to anti-FTTH report by KSL
- New Jersey: Verizon threatens to punish state by withholding fiber
- Tennessee: Jackson Energy Authority first VoIP provider in state
- Street lamp mesh in the U.K.
- Illinois: "Despite Initial Defeat, Tri-Cities Broadband Initiative Plots Second Go"
- Michigan: Wireless spreading in Detroit; SBC testing FTTP in Canton
- BelAir Networks supplies wireless gear to cities in Arizona, Iowa, and Nebraska
- "Senators urge Rural Utilities Service to boost broadband program"
- Washington state: Spokane building municipal wireless system downtown
- Cell phone jammers also jam power utility wireless systems
- Nicaragua: ABB building cross-country fiber link for ENTRESA
- Israeli test confirms data transfer by pigeons is faster than DSL
- Last minute private sector offer to shoulder much of Salt Lake City's UTOPIA risk
- Utah: "Payson signs on to UTOPIA; Cedar City says no, again"
- "World Wide Packets looks overseas"
- Korea: Korea Electric Power negotiating BPL deal
- New York State: Penn Yan delays OK'ing BPL contract
- Missouri: Big River plans commercial BPL roll-out on Ameren system
- Solomon Islands linked by narrowband radio e-mail
- Utah: Cedar City Council declines to back UTOPIA financially -- even with local contributions
- Utah: Qwest promises Salt Lake City it will deploy DSL if it can keep monopoly
- Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson waffles on UTOPIA
- Utah: Roy votes to stay in UTOPIA
- Australia: More information on Telstra's FTTH trial in Queensland
- Idaho: Pocatello views Idaho Falls' municipal fiber network with envy
- ARRL: "Utility Encounters Mixed Success in Avoiding Amateur Spectrum with BPL"
- Japan FTTH update
- Ontario and Michigan link fiber networks
- Spain: Power utility Union Fenosa offering satellite broadband
- Utah: "Risk and Fiber"
- Ontario: Power utility links rural Wawa to Sault Ste. Marie with fibre
- Washington state: Grant County PUD fiber users remain committed to FTTH
- Washington: Donors supply PCs, wireless broadband to Sauk-Suiattle Indian reservation
- Vendor offers free wireless broadband grant for one lucky small town
- Utah: Payson pledges funds to back UTOPIA FTTH project
- Utah: Four UTOPIA hearings to go
- Wisconsin: Village of Jackson commissions FTTH feasibility study
- More BPL (broadband over power line) articles
- Salt Lake Tribune suggests BPL as an alternative to UTOPIA FTTH project
- Another article on Central Virginia Electric Cooperative BPL project
- Virginia: LENOWISCO selects World Wide Packets for fiber network
- New York State: CLEC captures 62% of Plattsburgh commercial market with FTTP
- India: Tata Power expands carriers' carrier business to new regions
- Australia: Incumbent Telstra getting serious about FTTH as it deals with copper deterioration
- Utah: "Give UTOPIA a chance"
- AT&T finds last mile quality of service issues affect VoIP
- Washington Times: "Electric companies begin offering broadband service"
- Michigan: Battle Creek considers using municipal fiber network to create "Downtown Learning District"
- Fast Net Futures
- "NetCentrex and Wave7 Optics Enter Joint Marketing and Sales Agreement"
- Motorola Acquires Quantum Bridge
- Former Iowa governor opposes selling state's fiber network
- "NTT share of Japan fiber-optic Internet access market soars to 58 pct - report"
- BroadbandReports.com: "Tri-Cities Try Again -- Illinois Munis vs. Industry round 2"
- Colorado: La Plata Electric Association returns to profitability
- Utah: "Riverton backs UTOPIA, but not with city bonds"
- New York: Village of Canton will use DANC's fiber for free wireless broadband
- Broadbandreports.com: "Rural Broadband Loans -- Industry protests budget trimming"
- Nevada: "Keeping the lights on in Pahrump Valley"
- California: Loma Linda requires real estate developers to include FTTH in new developments
- Pennsylvania: Competition from Kutztown's municipal FTTH forces incumbent cable TV company to cut rates
- Ohio: Butler County commissioners fire fiber optic project manager in political fight
- Florida: Lakeland Electric's fiber network to be used for ITS (Intelligent Transportation System)
- Wireless truck stops
- Is AFC for sale?
- Central Virginia Electric Cooperative to offer BPL (broadband over power lines)
- Bill Gates on U.S. broadband competition
- "Plugged in may take on a whole new meaning"
- U.K.: Southern Electric's BPL offering in Winchester fails to win many customers
- Bloglet's daily e-mail summaries of this blog's new posts have stopped for now
- Utah: Local paper backs Cedar City group's efforts to revive city's participation in UTOPIA FTTH project
- Washington State: Franklin PUD offers wireless broadband in Pasco
- FCC clarifies procedure for filing BPL-related comments
- Michigan: Muskegon County governments and schools to benefit from the Shoreline Fiber Network
- Missouri: Independence Power & Light investigating option of offering broadband service
- North Carolina: BalsamWest FiberNET secures additional rights-of-way
- U.S. Supreme Court upholds state's right to ban municipal broadband projects
- "One-third of utilities interested in broadband over power lines (BPL)"
- NTIA's BPL study still missing in action
- FEMA takes much meeker stance on BPL
- "Hams Lobbying Against Power-Line Networking"
- Illinois: Village of North Aurora commissions broadband access study
- Earthlink increases investment in BPL vendor Ambient
- Florida: Extensive Sarasota-Manatee ITS delayed by high construction costs
- "Taking Broadband Internet Access to the Last 'Last Mile' -- to Rural America"
- Utah: Cedar City group seeking to rescue city's participation in UTOPIA FTTH project
- FCC's chief engineer dismisses BPL concerns
- Cable TV operator's probable NESC violation causes accident, interrupts power
- Shanghai, China: "Surfing via power network"
- New Zealand: City of Wellington considers fibre optic network expansion
- California: More information on FTTH studies in Fontana and Moreno Valley
- Officials consider Homeland Security fiber optic network for south Texas
- Om Malik: "Revenge of the WiMAX"
- Broadbandreports.com: 'The Broadband Utility -- America continues to wire itself for speed'
- United Kingdom: "Power line telecoms: Data over the mains"
- Illinois: Chicago's CivicNet deemed vital -- but will it ever get built?
- Holland: Dutch real estate developer deploying FTTH
- Iowa: Hawarden profits from its' municipal broadband system
- Viriginia: Lenowisco Planning District's combined fiber/water project
- Daily Wireless: "Wireless Broadband in Ireland"
- Europe: "Is broadband wireless access back from the dead?"
- Tennessee: Morristown mayor wants to extend FTTH system outside city limits
- Virginia: World Wide Packets supplies gear for Danville Power & Light's municipal backbone system
- Oregon: Optical Solutions provides FTTH gear for SMTA (Scio Mutual Telephone Association)
- "ARRL Urges 'Thoughtful, Considered Comments' on Proposed BPL Rules"
- California: Marin County leaders looking to expand broadband access
- Blue Ridge Mountain EMC brings broadband access to its' members
- Washington: Rural high school leads state in video production, thanks to Grant County PUD's fiber
- Follow-up on Atrica's FTTH deal in Pau, France
- Community Broadband Networks celebrates the 2000-entry milestone
- Kentucky: Consultant warns Hardin County and Elizabethtown against running fiber cable ...
- Virginia utility giant Dominion sells its' telecom subsidiary
- The cable TV industry's assessment of FTTH
- European Union funds broadband access for 100 rural areas
- California: Palo Alto's Utilities Advisory Commission recommends FTTH project
- Spain: "Endesa's power line broadband coup"
- Marconi announces FTTH product
- California: City of Fontana wins CENIC award for proposed fiber network
- Washington: Chelan PUD conducting BPL trial
- France: Atrica supplies point-to-point Ethernet equipment for Pau's municipal FTTH system
- North Carolina: $2 million grant for rural broadband
- Esme Vos: "Hermosa Beach goes wireless"
- California: the City of Fontana funds study of municipal FTTH network
- Australia: the Broadband for Rural Tasmania Project
- Western Maryland emergency communications at mercy of preservationists, cell phones, hikers and an old tower
- Virginia: Dickenson County's wireless broadband network seeking funding
- Illinois: Chicago Transit Authority upgrading to fiber
- BPL vendor Ambient raises $3.5 million
- Russia: Moscow-based service provider taps Terawave for FTTP equipment
- Illinois: Lake County deploying extensive fiber-linked intelligent transportation system
- Utah: UTOPIA FTTH update
- California: San Marcos building fiber-linked traffic control system
- New Zealand: Power utility considers offering residential broadband in Auckland and Wellington
- City of Oxford, Mississippi DOT and Ole Miss collaborate to build fiber-linked ITS
- Utah: West Valley City's mayor speaks out on behalf of UTOPIA
- Forbes: "Utilities scramble over Internet via a power plug"
- UTOPIA update
- "Idaho Falls, Idaho, fiber optic network gives businesses fast Internet access"
- ITU Strategy and Policy Unit: "Is WiMax being hyped?"
- Utah: Cedar Hills Council holds hearing on UTOPIA
- Utah: Cedar City City Council tables vote on UTOPIA
- Utah: Orem votes unanimously to back UTOPIA
- Utah: Centerville gives thumbs-up to UTOPIA
- Edison Electric Institute article on broadband over power lines (BPL)
- Wisconsin: Sturgeon Bay authorizes formation of municipal broadband utility
- Australia: Incumbent Telstra begins FTTH trial with Alcatel
- Vendor delays may slow Verizon's FTTP roll-out
- Utah: CeriStar to deploy FTTH in planned community near St. George
- California: Optical Solutions wins FTTH project in Lincoln
- Competing vendors claim new BPL orders in China
- FCC Chairman Powell visits BPL project in North Carolina
- "Powernet plan has a few bugs"
- "Ameren seems ahead of its time with broadband over power lines"
- Mitsubishi Electric Power enters U.S. BPL market
- "Swift surfing over power sockets"
- "Rural Oregon goes Wi-Fi, blazing trails in technology"
- Florida: Tallahassee's municipal utility deploys wireless digital canopy
- Denmark: Dansk Bredbaand deploying FTTH
- Furukawa Electric takes big financial hit from U.S. losses
- Illinois: Lake County to building extensive fiber-linked traffic control system
- "Plug and Play" -- Slate looks at BPL
- Siemens invests in PON transceiver maker BroadLight
- Indiana: Crawfordsville Electric Light and Power building municipal FTTH system
- Qwest sends employees to pack public hearings on UTOPIA project
- Two Bells that 'can't afford' to offer FTTH are paying AT&T $1850 per wireless customer
- More on UTOPIA's survival in the Utah legislature
- UTOPIA survives Qwest attack in Utah legislature; details to follow
- Virginia: State and federal governments funding $12 million Southside network
- Posts will be sporadic this week ...
- Illinois: Limited interference between new wireless ISP and Murphysboro's municipal wireless network
- Japan: Another article on NTT's FTTH spending plans
- Holland, Michigan BPW reviews fiber optic system
- "FOBs Go to War"
- "With UTOPIA, we're broadband leaders. Without UTOPIA, we're broadband also-rans."
- Qwest -- the company some Utah politicians want to protect
- Utah's UTOPIA FTTH project has leaders in rival Denver paying attention
- Utah: Qwest bypassing 18 city councils to kill UTOPIA in legislature
- Ohio, Kentucky: Cinergy plans major BPL deployment in Cincinnati area
- Tennessee: Cleveland building ITS (intelligent transportation system)
- WiMAX: "Miles ahead of WiFi"
- Washington state: Vancouver installing fiber for upgraded traffic control system
- AT&T conducting BPL trial
- Australia: Incumbent Telstra moving to FTTH from copper
- Designing practical BPL deployments in light of the FCC's proposed rules
- What does the FCC's BPL ruling really mean?
- Light Reading: "Fiber Makers Perk Up"
- Light Reading's: "Supremes Mull Municipal Broadband"
- Where are the engineers?
- "Filling cellular holes with power line technology"
- Netherlands: "Fibre project refits Dutch 'ground zero'"
- ZDnet: "Why broadband over power lines is a bad idea"
- Japan: Tokyo Electric to merge telecom operations with Fusion Communications
- Japan: NTT to have 2 million FTTH subscribers by March 2005
- Esme Vos: "Wireless for developing nations gets Soros Foundation grant"
- Utah: American Fork's municipal broadband hookups ahead of schedule
- Korea Telecom chief calls for more fiber in access network
- California: "Elk Grove center of telecom battle"
- Texas: Optical Solutions wins rural FTTH project
- In the year of the Wood Monkey, optical groundwire links Bhutanese towns
- Irish power utility provides fibre backhaul for Dublin area wireless broadband
- California: City of Corona installing fiber optic traffic monitoring and control system
- Salira updates PON offerings, announces China deployments
- Michigan: Oakland County School Board officials resign
- New York: Ithaca City Schools tap into Cornell University's network to enrich local education
- Canada: "Fibre firm takes telecom out of the trenches"
- Alabama: Baldwin County building a fiber optic WAN
- Utilities, fiber optics, telecommunications and broadband over power lines
- Community Broadband Networks' one year anniversary
- FCC issues "Notice of Proposed Rule Making" for BPL systems
- Recent BPL (broadband over power line) news:
- Virginia: Pulaski County officials trying to catch up with other areas' broadband availability
- Spain: Endesa offering BPL in Barcelona, Saragossa
- North Carolina: Progress Energy, EarthLink partner for BPL pilot
- "Lafayette, Louisiana Deploys World's Largest Rural Public Wi-Fi Network and Brings Mobile Broadband Connectivity to Mardi Gras"
- Qwest may kill UTOPIA with just $50,000 and a powerful son-in-law
- Colorado: La Plata Electric Association links schools with fiber
- France: profile of the "Pau Project"
- Washington, D.C. selects Cisco Systems for DC-Net
- "California district goes broadband"
- Progress Telecom expands presence in Washington, D.C.
- "Verizon Leads the Charge to Deploy Fiber To Customer Premises, But Regulatory Challenges Loom, Says Yankee Group"
- Ontario, Canada: Telecom Ottawa launches municipal Wi-Fi trial
- Scotland: Wireless broadband coverage across all of Orkney Islands by 2005
- Oregon: "Airports, coffee shops and McDonald's were just the start. Now even toxic-waste dumps offer Wi-Fi access"
- FTTH vendor Allied Telesyn ships new product
- Ireland: Streaming video profile of Cork Wireless
- Italy: September's nationwide blackout took out FTTH systems
- "Study finds broadband boost is feasible for Southern Indiana"
- "Corning patriarch to remain at helm"
- Wireless Bassboats in Texas, Wi-Fi Yachts in Australia
- Broadbandreports.com: "Canadian Broadband: What is the U.S. doing differently?"
- BroadbandReports.com: "Stuffing Fiber -- In rather odd places..."
- Oregon: "Airports, coffee shops and McDonald's were just the start. Now even toxic-waste dumps offer Wi-Fi access"
- FCC meeting February 12 will consider BPL
- New Zealand: "Vector winds down data over power line trial"
- Germany: Technology leaders unimpressed with BPL's future
- Australia: "Wait and see not an option for PLC"
- British Virgin Islands government deploying wireless broadband
- Bloglet e-mail summaries not going out; Google search ineffective
- Posts will be sporadic this week ...
- Georgia: "Can't get no competition"
- Utah: recent UTOPIA-related items
- Ontario, Canada: Follow up on Sault Ste. Marie's municipal BPL system
- Minnesota: Rochester Public Utilities partners with cable TV company to offer BPL
- Virginia Tech's eCorridors program
- Alberta, Canada: Okotoks plans municipal fibre network
- Red Herring article: "Hidden tech"
- New Jersey: Montclair Township's fiber network links schools, local government facilities
- European research on FTTH provider roles
- U.K. minister's comments on broadband policy
- Wisconsin: "Planners seek role in telecommunications"
- Illinois: Grayslake Village to link schools with wireless broadband
- Colorado: Glenwood Springs building fiber-linked traffic system
- Washington: "Bellevue, Kirkland team up to create wired cities"
- "Wireless tower siting: the local government perspective"
- North Carolina: Bladen County Schools linking schools with wireless broadband
- Texas: TXU selling its Texas Telecom business
- Upcoming utility telecom meetings sponsored by the UTC:
- Department of Homeland Security budgets 8% increase for information technology
- Texas: Fort Stockton links schools, government facilities with fiber
- Chicago, Illinois: "Mayor Daley’s Grand CivicNet May Actually Be 'CivicNot' "
- Minnesota: Windom City Council votes to take out federal loan for municipal telecom project
- Pennsylvania: Perkasie Borough to study municipal broadband project
- Verizon and AFC finalize FTTP (fiber to the premises) equipment contract
- Morrison & Foerster's "Communications Law Bulletin"
- FTTH vendor Alloptic adds senior marketing and sales executives
- "Is Broadband Broad Enough? Telcos betting on "broadband lite" are sure to lose"
- EETimes 'In Focus' series on metro optical networks
- United Kingdom: BPL users in Winchester describe their experience with the technology
- California: "McKibben Consulting to oversee $26.5 million wireless and FTTH project in Lompoc"
- Ohio: the alleged municipal broadband scandal that never existed
- Ontario: Sault Ste. Marie's municipal utility deploys BPL
- Michigan: Grand Haven gets wireless broadband through public/private partnership
- U.K.: The other "Community Broadband Networks"
- United Kingdom: Update on fibre deployments in Scottish and London sewers
- India: Tata Power's owners looking for additional telecom investments
- Louisiana: Combined sewer upgrades/fiber deployment in New Orleans hits snags
- Florida: City of Leesburg to provide Lake County schools with fiber
- New Mexico: Clovis voters approve funds for schools' fiber network
- California: Palo Alto Utilities' FTTH study almost ready for release
- Connecticut: Norwalk fiber network to link schools, municipal facilities
- Utah: Lindon backs bond for fiber-optic network
- Corning licenses key OFS fiber patent
- U.K.: Scottish Water to deploy Fiber to the Throne in Rosyth
- Wisconsin: State and University of Wisconsin debate future of state's fiber network
- North Carolina: "e-N.C. Authority delivers to rural areas in the state"
- Pennsylvania: Teletruth Files 'Broadband Fraud' Complaint
- Study: Ethernet cheaper way to deliver last mile
- Two good articles about the OSMINE millstone hanging around the Bells' necks as they look at FTTP
- Wisconsin: "State bill would stifle public broadband"
- President's proposed federal budget would cut rural broadband loans
- Exfo secures $40 million in equity funding
- New Zealand: "Community-based broadband site goes live"
- ARRL editorial: "'It Seems to Us . . .' BPL Update"
- Australia: mixed reports on the near-term future of BPL
- Washington: City of Oak Harbor working with schools to build fiber network
- Utah: "UTOPIA full of promise"
- Algeria: More information on SONELGAZ's upcoming 4000 km fiber build-out on power transmission lines
- Georgia: "Losses mount for Fort Valley telecommunications project"
- Pennsylvania: Profile of Kutztown's FTTH system
- Wisconsin: SBC's FTTP trial at the Pabst Farms development in Oconomowoc
- MuniWireless.com: "Wi-Fi Now, WiMax Later?"
- Bahamas: More info on Cable Bahamas' FTTH roll-out
- Hamilton County, Ohio: "Fiber optics project could pave way for more jobs in county"
- Karl Bode's Municipal Report: 'Trouble in Utah's Utopia'
- Michigan: City leaders of Holland see municipal fiber network as key to attracting and retaining jobs
- Canada: School board in Quebec saves $12 million using own fibre network
- Washington: Power company donates fiber link to two cities
- Wireless broadband access from the village Coke machine
- Infoworld: "EU launches power line Net initiative"
- Remote Arctic island of Svalbard gets undersea fiber link to Norway and broadband access for local residents
- UtahPolitics.org: "Senate Bill 66 Crafted By Qwest to Kill UTOPIA"
- Nexans wants to acquire Alcatel's fiber optic cable business
- Ireland: Power utility completes National Fibre Optic Network
- Utah: The Spectrum reports on legislative attempts to kill UTOPIA FTTH project
- Profile of Hawaiian Electric's BPL champion
- The Supreme Court to consider -- can 'any entity' include a fish?
- California: Pasadena City Council votes to stay out of the cable TV business for now
- Utah: Brigham City City Council votes unanimously to financially back UTOPIA FTTH project
- BPL trials in Fiji, New Zealand
- David Isenberg: "Dean Campaign Hires Bellhead"
- European Union sponsors 20 million euro BPL (broadband over power line) project
- Missouri: Rolla Municipal Utilities deploys municipal fiber network for utility data acquisition
- Oklahoma: City of Sallisaw to build municipal FTTH system
- New York: Village of Wellsville to link municipal facilities with fiber
- Washington, D.C. power utility PEPCO selling its' cable TV and telecom interests
- Indiana: Crawfordsville Electric Light considering municipal FTTH (fiber to the home) system
- Profile of Chicago's proposed CivicNet municipal broadband network
- America's Network: "Fueling the fiber"
- "Japan's broadband brawl"
- Alberta, Canada: City of Red Deer sells most of its' fiber network for inclusion in Alberta SuperNet
- A Fifth Of U.S. Households Have Broadband
- Michigan: City of Sault Ste. Marie signs deal to link facilities with wireless broadband
- Utah: Tech industry executives endorse UTOPIA
- Good article on data center planning is also relevant to utility telecom operations
- Wisconsin Public Service expands AMR to Menominee, Michigan
- Utah: Senator introduces bill to try to scuttle UTOPIA
- Salt Lake Tribune article on the West Valley City vote in favor of UTOPIA
- Estonia: Broadband to every farm
- Pennsylvania: PPL takes BPL from trial to commercial deployment in Hanover Township
- Colorado: Fort Morgan fiber network costs under budget
- Bristol, Virginia: 'City looks to broadband to grow economy'
- Colorado: ISP to offer FTTH to new residential development in Longmont
- Cable Bahamas launches FTTP technology using C-COR equipment
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial: 'Brouhaha over broadband'
- Norway: Kvinnherad Energi to invests in broadband company to serve Kvinnherad area
- No more blog posts for a day or so ...
- Ontario, Canada: Telecom Ottawa evaluating BPL
- Ohio: City of Clyde evaluating BPL
- Utah: West Valley City Council unanimously approves backing for UTOPIA FTTH project
- "Last Mile Networks" and Whatcom County PUD
- "A visit from the FBI"
- "Hey Michael Powell, you're too late!"
- "New Wireless Standard to Carry Cable TV Signal"
- "Netflix: the fly in the ointment of VoD"
- North Carolina: Cherokee Indians help fund 6-county fiber network in the mountains
- Alberta, Canada: Strathcona County may get wireless broadband
- Missouri: Governor commits state funds to broadband network development
- Maryland: Carroll County leaders push for better broadband access
- Florida: FPL FiberNet reports $2 million loss for 2003
- Scotland: High speed access a "must-have" for commercial real estate
- Oregon: Time-Warner snaps up old Portland General Electric's fiber network
- Indiana Broadband Summit
- IEEE releases two standards for power utility communications
- Michigan Governor calls for broadband access everywhere in state by 2007
- Virginia: Manassas Utilities uses FTTH products for BPL backhaul
- Missouri: Marshall schools to communications system using Marshall Municipal Utilities' fiber backbone
- Municipal broadband seminar
- "The Duct Squatters of London"
- "Could Broadband Over Power Lines be Dangerous?" -- No!
- Profile of the NTIA's administrator
- Ohio: City of Hamilton signs contract for construction of a 50 mile municipal backbone
- New Zealand: "Councils move to set up own broadband network"
- The Oregon Telecommunications Atlas
- New Zealand: Profile of Wired Country's FTTH service in Pukekohe
- U.S. Congress funds Rural Broadband Access Loans Program
- Oregon: City of Roseburg ties into the NoaNet regional fiber system
- Florida: City of Winter Park divorcing Progress Energy, forming municipal power utility
- Wireless broadband's new standard: WiMAX
- Japan's Furukawa Elec, Fujikura negotiate to merge power conductor businesses
- "Cities, states spend millions on wireless"
- Algeria: Pirelli to supply 4000 km of fiber optic cable for installation on energized 220 kV power lines
- MuniWireless: "Another UK village deploys its own broadband network"
- Arizona: Non-profit brings free wireless to downtown Tucson
- California: City of Murrieta to evaluate forming municipal broadband utility
- Barbados: ISP morphs into competitive telco
- Utah: UTOPIA update
- Utah: Follow-up on last Tuesday's decision to deploy iProvo FTTH network
- Vendors announce new products for FTTH applications
- Maryland: UCN partners with Alleghany County to offer services over the county's ALLCONET system
- Corning reports small 4Q loss
- New Mexico: Kit Carson including telecom link to service area
- Virginia: Dickenson County economic recruiters emphasize county's wireless broadband system
- Nigerian ISP offers BPL
- "New Louisiana digital highway can take us to the future"
- Survey: Small business turning to broadband
- Overland Park, Kansas: "City keeps electronic eye on traffic"
- Oregon: Tillamook Lightwave receives federal broadband grant
- "Optical Solutions Awarded FTTP Contact From Iowa CLEC"
- "Southern LINC Provides Communication Solution to State of Georgia"
- Kentucky/Ohio: Fiber-linked ARTIMIS traffic system expands
- Wisconsin: Bill introduced to 'regulate' (stifle?) municipal broadband initiatives
- Canada: Metro Ethernet deployments over fiber on the increase; power utilities big users
- Washington: Settlement of suit against Grant County PUD delayed
- Blog posts will be sporadic for several days ...
- Utah: City Council overwhelmingly approves iProvo FTTH project
- "ANALYSIS: Powerline broadband could win on price"
- North Carolina: Amperion, Progress Energy and amateur radio operators meet at BPL trial
- Broadband blimps over Britain?
- Washington legislators seek to limit PUD telecom activities after Grant county troubles
- Rumors circulating that Alcatel may take over JDS Uniphase
- Tennessee: Winchester Board of Public Utilities evaluating BPL
- Utah: Provo residents debate iProvo project in advance of City Council decision
- Ontario, Canada: More on Telecom Ottawa's partnership with Ottawa schools
- Colorado: Pueblo School District to link schools with fiber
- Virginia: New River Valley planners seek input into telecom issues
- Ohio: Galion Electric Line Division builds small fiber optic system
- North Carolina: Newspaper criticizes e-NC Authority, gets technology facts wrong
- Iceland: Profile of Lina.net's BPL (broadband over power line) system
- Fiber Futures Association posts links to fiber projects and resources
- Competitive Enterprise Institute speaks out against municipal broadband
- UTC Welcomes New Research Analyst
- Vietnam: Power utility EVN building service centers to serve 100,000 telecom customers
- Pennsylvania: NuNet building FTTH overbuild project in Hazleton
- Oregon: Rogue River area leaders working to expand broadband access in southern Oregon
- Pennsylvania: Borough of Chambersburg to deploy broadband over power line (BPL) system
- Virginia: Coalfield area legislator proposes laying fiber cable along with water lines
- Tennessee: Construction underway on Jackson's E Plus Broadband FTTH network
- Butler County, Ohio: "Fiberoptic expansion hits snag"
- Municipal broadband in Japan: public access channels and 'fiber to the barn'
- Power line broadband patent applications
- Power line broadband patents
- No more posts for a day or two
- The NTIA and BPL, continued
- Utah: Group seeks to place iProvo bond on ballot
- NTIA presentation on BPL
- Florida: Kissimmee Utility Authority to sell telecom services
- Wyoming: Sweetwater County may link offices with fiber
- Florida: City of Orlando offering free Wi-Fi downtown
- NBC4.com: "BPL for Manassas"
- FCC Chairman Powell's comments today on BPL
- FTTH vendor Optical Solutions appoints new CEO
- Pennsylvania: Municipal broadband not quite banned, but threatened
- BPL trials and regulation in South Korea
- Note for subscribers to the Bloglet e-mail summary service
- North Carolina: e-NC Authority promotes broadband access in underserved areas
- Michigan: Battle Creek aggressively marketing municipal fiber conduit system
- New Mexico: Fiber network to link Clovis schools
- California: Loma Linda requires developer to provide fiber to development
- Philippines: FTTH projects planned for Manila, other cities
- Japanese FTTH subscribers nearing 1 million
- India: more on Tata Power's spin-off of its' telecom unit
- Utah: Centerville and Layton leaders support their cities' backing UTOPIA project
- Ontario, Canada: Telecom Ottawa providing broadband to 154 school facilities
- L.A. Times: "Technology gets in its own way"
- BroadbandReports.com: "First BPL City -- Broadband-via power-line in Manassas"
- Radio operators fight powerline broadband
- Wyoming: Free Wi-Fi to nonprofit institutions in Cheyenne
- OTDR Dynamic Range
- Recent articles by Esme Vos at MuniWireless.com
- "IPv6: Slow and Insecure? ... MIT researchers take jabs"
- "Making Telework More at Home"
- Oregon: City of McMinnville studying municipal broadband options
- Pennsylvania: Meadville's attempt to recruit 60 jobs fails due to lack of fiber
- L.A. Times: "Tired of Slow Speeds, Some Cities Build Their Own Net, Cable Firms"
- Virginia: Manassas Utilities activating new BPL customers next week
- Brazil: Power utility Eletrobras selling Eletronet telecom unit
- United Kingdom: "The town that turned off BT"
- India: Tata Power spins off telecom unit
- FTTH vendor Wave7 Optics hires new VP
- Tennessee: Pulaski's economic development director wants to expand fiber network
- Supreme Court hears municipal broadband case from Missouri
- Pennsylvania: Erie School District building fiber network
- Thailand: EGA plans 381 km. OPGW project
- "A very unsettling 'aha' moment"
- Utah: "Group calls fiber-optic plan unwise"
- FTTH vendor World Wide Packets raises $15.7 in new capital
- Idaho: Idaho Falls expects to complete municipal fiber network this year
- Maryland: Improved broadband access proposed for economic development -- and reduced traffic
- Louisiana: St. Landry Parish School Board picks BellSouth for broadband
- Kentucky: Governor cites improved broadband access as critical to state's economic development
- Florida: New St. Cloud residential and commercial development to feature neighborhood-wide Wi-Fi access
- Virginia: Danville City Council reluctantly approves Adelphia contract, hints it may build own system
- Washington: Attorney General issues opinion on municipal broadband
- Utah: "Utopia and The Meaning of 'Any'"
- BroadbandReports.com: "Wi-Fi Booms -- But mainstream interest still tepid"
- Utah: Incumbent-backed group campaigning against iProvo
- Austria: Government shuts down Linz Power's BPL trial
- North Carolina: Kinston's fiber-linked traffic control system delayed
- No blog posts for a few days
- Tennessee: Candidate for top utility post criticizes Memphis Networx investment
- Vietnamese power utility undertakes major telecom role
- South Africa: "Grintek Telecom provides City of Tshwane with improved services using PLC technology"
- Utah: "Provo mayor wants city to go high-tech"
- Kentucky: Broadband critical to racehorse industry
- "SBC Highlights 2004 Growth Opportunities"
- Colorado: Fort Morgan adding redundancy to municipal fiber backbone
- BroadbandReports.com: "New BPL Trials -- Boise only latest U.S. trial"
- California: "Do-It-Yourself Broadband"
- Corridor Systems' improved G-line technology
- Power-searching the world with Google News + Babelfish
- Europe: 6Power -- IPv6, QoS & Power Line Integration
- Hawaii: More on Hawaiian Electric BPL trial
- Washington Chelan County PUD deploying FTTH, trialing BPL
- Idaho: Amperion and IDACOMM launch BPL pilot in Boise
- BPL vendor Cybercom signs Grintek Telecom as strategic partner for Africa
- Yankee Group report on municipal access to broadband
- Sioux City area governments building multi-state communications system
- Tennessee: Jackson Energy Authority gets final FTTH approval
- New Jersey: Vineland's municipal utility to consider offering broadband
- Georgia: City to get a bigger cut of Dalton Utilities FTTH revenues
- Oregon: "For sale: Enron's fiber network"
- ITOCHU buys stake in DS2
- Advanced Fibre Communications buys Marconi's North American access business
- Tampa Tribune article on BPL
- Kansas: Columbus Telephone deploys FTTP system
- Cox Communications demos Wave7 FTTH gear at Consumer Electronics Show
- Washington: Tacoma's municipal Click! network elects to wait on any wireless deployment
- Wisconsin: "State proposal would crash some Internet services"
- Alabama: Decision on Fairhope's proposed municipal FTTH system due early this year
- United Kingdom: The other "Community Broadband Networks"
- Wisconsin editorial: "Let locals wire state"
- Telkonet deploys test system onboard U.S. Naval Research Vessel
- Thailand: EGA plans 560 km. OPGW project
- Some posts were left out of last night's e-mail update
- Excellent report on BPL's legal status in the U.S.
- Georgia: DeKalb County schools building extensive fiber network
- Indian power utility building fiber system for neighboring Kingdom of Bhutan
- Ontario: City of Windsor installing fiber-linked traffic surveillance
- FCC to conduct 900 MHz. spectrum auction over objections of power utilities
- Michigan: Waterford Township building wireless broadband network
- Bangladesh: Power Grid Company building 1450 km. fibre system
- Georgia: Glynn County schools building fiber network
- Indiana: "Shelby County Fiber Optics Board opts out of non-profit status"
- "Indian Soybean Farmers Join the Global Village"
- 5 major studios combine to provide video on demand for telcos
- Utah: Cedar City councilmen discuss their views of UTOPIA project
- Utah: American Fork's mayor see's city's broadband system as bright spot in city's future
- Ohio: Monroe County looks forward to wireless broadband
- Iowa: Huxley Communications Cooperative's FTTH project
- "The Alberta SuperNet is a model for the broadband future -- everywhere"
- Red Herring: "Top 10 trends: Making the triple play"
- Michigan: Grand Haven claims to be first U.S. city with complete wireless coverage
- Disaster response group files BPL comments with FCC
- "Communication breakdown threatens VoIP"
- FCC Chairman Powell: "We want to get more platforms"
- Wisconsin broadband update:
- "Cable industry is ripe for deals in the new year"
- BBC: "What the net did next"
- "Grant listings hit Internet"
- BellSouth to conduct FTTP field trials in second half of 2004
- Ascom BPL gear deployed in Norway
- Newly added "Blog Headlines" section makes it faster to skim this blog
- Arkansas: Siloam Springs Electric Department linking schools with fiber
- In other fiber news:
- Lots of wireless broadband news from Esme Vos' Muniwireless.com
- Some rural telcos offering wireless broadband
- South Carolina: Bluffton gets 20,000 acre planned community with FTTH
- "Lighting Up the Network" -- a dark fiber tutorial
- Washington: Vancouver deploys fiber-linked intelligent traffic system.
- China Launches FTTH Forum
- Washington: Yakima's public safety Wi-Fi network
- "Fiber Optics Takes the Long Way Home"
- Alabama: City of Madison official proposes special "technology zone"
- Small towns see broadband critical to attracting jobs
- Verizon intends to reposition itself as a broadband company
- Tennessee: Knoxville to get fiber-linked traffic control system
- Oregon: Federal government funds wireless broadband network in Umatilla
- Taiwan: Government commits $880 million to 102,000 km last mile fiber network
- Illinois: Northbrook's municipal fiber network may also support local school district
- Wisconsin: "Fed-up municipalities go into telecom biz"
- Massachusetts: Nantucket Electric affiliate deploys fiber network
- Utility telecom: "Progress Telecom To Kick Off 2004 With New Products, Presence"
- Netherlands: City of Tilburg contracts with ViaEuropa to manage municipal fiber network
- Utah fiber update
- Light Reading's 2003 Top Ten: Technology Trends
- California: Truckee Donner PUD's FTTH project on schedule
- Merry Christmas!
- So what's a "blog" and how does this one work?
- Press coverage of Verizon's FTTP announcement earlier today
- Search engine logic
- Japan: FTTH subscribers reach 1 million
- Municipal broadband networks pay taxes, too.
- California: "Truckee Leads Way for Small Town Hi-Tech Communications"
- Russia: Golden Line deploys Terawave PON gear in Moscow FTTP project
- North Carolina: "Cable worker electrocuted in Lumberton"
- Washington: "Qwest blasted for outages"
- Washington: State Senate holds hearing on BPL
- Japan: KDDI adds new video on demand to FTTH offerings
- Verizon picks 4 more FTTP vendors: Corning, Tyco, PLP and ADC
- Australia: PowerTel acquires Request
- Florida: City of Leesburg may expand fiber system to nearby Clermont
- Philippines: National grid operator to upgrade telecommunications with fiber
- Utah: "Utopian dreams"
- Illinois: Village of Matteson may consider building broadband network
- Utah: "Utopia a big step forward for Cedar City"
- Netherlands: City officials accelerate Groningen FTTH project
- Utah: "UTOPIA courts Lindon residents during Mayor's open house"
- "FibrLINK Networks to offer broadband services via Beijing's electric power grid"
- Light Reading: "Hype Is Back"
- Posts will be intermittent and delayed for several days
- Community Broadband Networks reaches the 1500 posts milestone
- Oregon: Amateur radio operators oppose Eugene's proposed BPL system
- Utah broadband update
- New York: Town of Waterloo to help fund Seneca County broadband study
- New York: Greenwood mayor wants to develop wireless broadband network
- California: City of Lompoc approves municipal broadband network
- "European FFTH developments and the role of Public Private Partnerships"
- Karl Bode: "Future Proof? Fiber and the regulation blockade"
- Norfolk Southern railroad writes down value of its telecom business
- California: Palo Alto selects Quantum Bridge/Motorola team for FTTH project
- Washington: Grant County PUD officials questioning costs of FTTH project
- Tennessee: Chattanooga's EPB Telecom "Ready With All-Fiber Internet Solution"
- Verizon to spend $600 to $800 million on FTTP next year
- Canada: Federal government to provide satellite broadband access to remote communities
- Florida: Planned communities in Tampa and St. Augustine to offer FTTH
- Italy: "Milan jumps ahead in broadband content offering"
- Japan: Regulators order NTT-East to open FTTH system
- Arizona: City of Mesa deploys fiber-linked traffic monitoring system
- Ontario: "Telecom Ottawa expands to Cornwall area"
- Light Reading: "Utilities Key to Euro FTTH"
- Are open access requirements a poison pill for municipal FTTH projects?
- Iceland: "Fiber To Every Home In Reykjavik"
- Washington: Grant County PUD general manager resigns, 2 subordinates face disciplinary proceedings
- Panama to build national fiber backbone on high voltage transmission system
- California: More information on Lompoc's proposed broadband network
- Washington: Will Tacoma put competitor's name on the Tacoma Dome?
- Minnesota: Right of way acquisition issues hindering Lakeville Schools' fiber network
- Ohio: "Butler homes could save with fiber optic network"
- "Optimizing Fiber for FTTP"
- Pennsylvania: York County connecting 40 government facilities with wireless broadband
- More on SBC's choice of Alcatel
- Finland: Town of Narpio adding wireless broadband to existing fiber network
- Ireland: Electricity Supply Board partners with government to link 26 cities with fiber
- "Lucent and Salira partner to deliver EPON equipment in Asia-Pacific"
- SBC selects Alcatel for FTTP equipment
- Utah: "Cities dream of high-speed digital link called Utopia"
- South Dakota: Black Hills FiberComm names new manager
- Wisconsin legislators considering whether to kill or encourage municipal broadband projects
- "Fiber to the Home Spreads Slowly Across Western Europe According to Yankee Group Report"
- California: City of Lompoc considering municipal broadband network
- "Full speed ahead for Japan's broadband"
- Power line broadband: FEMA objects strongly to BPL deployment
- UTOPIA update
- PON gear sales rise while overall optical networking gear sales drop
- Utah: More information from this week's Provo City Council meeting
- North Carolina: Garner to deploy fiber-linked traffic control system
- "RBOC Threesome Provides More Details on FTTP Activities"
- Yahoo list started for BPL opponents in the ham radio community
- Connecticut: City of Shelton starts work on municipal fiber network
- Cable telephony subscribers to top 10 million by year end
- Massachusetts: Town of Weymouth to link facilities with fiber
- BT settles blown fiber patent infringement case against Cincinnati Bell and Broadwing
- Canada: "Utilities shake up telecom market"
- More on last night's City Council meeting in Provo, Utah
- More powerline broadband news and links
- Power line broadband update
- Texas: Port of Corpus Christi deploying fiber-linked security system
- Massachusetts: North Attleborough selects Quantum Bridge for fiber project
- Utah: Provo City Council approves next step in financing FTTH project
- Florida: City of Gainesville wins legal right to enter telecommunications business
- Former Siecor CEO running for Congress
- DailyWireless.org: "Citywide Mesh, Roaming & Security"
- Iceland: Digital Reykjavik Conference proceedings available on line soon
- Vermont: Governor vows to upgrade telecommunications within the state
- Australia: ACT to build large fiber network
- Washington: Port Angeles police may deploy fiber-linked video cameras
- "Nosy Wi-Fi Neighbors"
- Mexico: FTTH planned for golf course development near Mexico City
- Washington: FTTH opponents want to recall Grant County PUD commissioners
- Malaysia: FTTH to be offered in Cyberjaya development
- Italy: FastWeb deploying FTTH in Venice
- Utah: Provo moving ahead with FTTH
- Family collects $20 million after electrocution during pole replacement
- Alloptic to partner with Ericsson for Asia pacific FTTH projects
- Grant County PUD update
- Cooperative will allow CLECs to share fiber
- Vermont: Burlington to deploy municipal fiber?
- Hydro-Quebec's power line broadband trial
- Posts will be sporadic until December 1
- South Africa: Broadcast distributor Sentech enters wireless broadband business
- U.S. high tech jobs decline by 12%
- Washington: More witch hunting at Grant County PUD
- New Mexico: Rural telco selects Optical Solutions for the states first FTTH project
- California: Truckee Donner PUD selects Wave7 Optics equipment for FTTH project
- Georgia: Dalton Utilities' FTTH project already hitting over 25% penetration rate
- No blog posts today
- Profile of another successful regional CLEC
- Australian incumbent telco vows to eliminate all copper within 15 years
- Power line broadband update
- Light Reading: "DSL Fuels Second Thoughts on FTTP"
- "The Fix is in on VoIP Regulation" or is it?
- South Africa: Municipal utility's BPL service dependent on new telecom rule
- New York Times on the Energy Department's blackout report
- Esme Vos on the pending big municipal wireless project near Los Angeles
- Good turnout expected for FTTH conference late this month
- "Powering economic development: utilities service the community"
- Quanta Joins Muni Consortium
- Utility telecom: More on the Progress Telecom/EPIK merger
- Oregon: CLEC growing by focusing on underserved small towns
- Ohio: Monroe County to deploy wireless broadband network
- Denmark: NVE's FTH Bredbånd
- Telework/telecommuting update
- New York: Cornell University links to local schools with fiber
- "BroadLight Releases PON Transceiver"
- South Australia: Airnet works with state government to fill in broadband "black-spots"
- Tennessee: "JEA to be high speed in spring"
- "Where Your Job Is Going"
- Definition: "utility, public"
- U.S. Senate partially restores rural broadband loan funding
- Tennessee: "In Memphis, Metro is King"
- Declining investment in U.S. cable TV networks
- Network Magazine: "Fiber Goes Deep But DSL Finishes The Job"
- "Zhone Moves into Fiber Access"
- Pennsylvania pushing fiber and broadband as part of economic development efforts
- Incumbent telco trying to spoil Scottish BPL roll-out?
- Fiber optics industry: "Long Haul Has a Pulse"
- Fiber connections a must-have to attract new industry
- Michigan: Upper Peninsula town offers wireless broadband as a utility
- Virginia: Telework Consortium may offer free broadband in downtown Winchester
- California: Truckee Donner PUD selects Eagle Broadband for FTTH
- What wireless broadband providers need to know about getting tower space
- Scotland: "Move to increase access to remotest inhabitants"
- Ontario: "High-speed Internet service set for rural Elgin residents"
- "Rural Net provider tells FCC of growth"
- Indiana: Rush County considering wireless broadband with fiber backbone
- India: Kerala state government rolling out rural wireless broadband
- Pennsylvania: Perkasie Borough cancels broadband feasibility study
- New CWDM standard approved
- Karl Bode: "Municipal Report -- San Francisco Municipal Broadband?"
- Milestone: 1450 blog posts to date
- California: Los Angeles' municipal power utility deploys optical Ethernet
- "Public WLANs slowly taking shape, Cometa CEO says"
- "Vermont Electric Power Company Deploys Optical Ethernet Solution from Nortel Networks"
- Alberta, Canada: Calgary's municipal power utility completes optical Ethernet network
- Utility telecom: "Progress Telecom and EPIK Communications to Merge Operations; The New Progress Telecom Will Provide Extended Reach"
- Australia, New Zealand: FTTH networks studied for Brisbane, Auckland
- California: $245 million fiber-linked security system proposed for Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach
- South Africa: Municipal power utility introduces BPL (broadband over power line)
- Japan: IIJ expands FTTH services
- Ireland: Electricity Supply Board to enter wholesale broadband business
- Posts will be delayed for a day or two
- San Francisco: If you're digging up streets for sewers, why not add broadband?
- Australia: State seeks fiber link to mainland for Tasmanian universities
- Ars Technica: "Fiber-DSL wars in Italy heat up"
- Wisconsin: Marshfield approves small municipal fiber network extension
- Florida: Brevard County School District cut corners to fund telecommunications?
- New York: Cornell University linking to local schools with fiber
- Maryland: Verizon finally starting to offer DSL in some Eastern Maryland towns
- "Wanadoo could be interested in E.Biscom"
- More info on DVI, the BPL operator in Penn Yan, New York
- Canada: "March Networks teams with Telesat for telehealth trial"
- "Broadband to the boonies"
- India: Bringing the Internet to rural villages with a mix of fiber and wireless
- Alcatel denies infringing OFS/Fitel patent
- Karl Bode: "'Bell Cartel'? Bell competitors cry foul"
- Bells trying to shakedown vendors for millions to fund massive lobbying campaign
- Italy: "In Milan, Working to Unfurl a High-Tech Blanket of Fiber"
- "Major MSOs Prepare For Full-Scale Rollouts of VoIP Service"
- New York: Penn Yan Municipal Utilities Board conducting BPL trial
- Powerline broadband: Ambient raises $4.6 million
- Vermont: Digital divide narrows in Vermont
- Ohio: Some candidate in Hamilton municipal elections running on pro-fiber platform
- Wisconsin: City of Oconomowoc trying get improved broadband for local industry
- "Skype Spooks Operators"
- "RBOCs See Three Ways to FTTP"
- "The Final PSTN Call"
- "Italian PSTN on Way Out"
- "The wide impact of Bell fiber plans"
- "Scientists debate solar flare-Halloween connection"
- Karl Bode: "Municipal Report -- Illinois citizens pay the price"
- Michigan: State loans helping fund broadband expansions in several cities
- Light Reading: "OFS & Alcatel in Fiber Flap"
- California: "Legal issues dog Palo Alto fiber-optic venture"
- "Broadband Political Platforms? Deployment becomes hot campaign issue"
- "FTTH Council Defends RUS Loans"
- U.K.: "Community broadband network project to be launched soon"
- Florida: Homestead starts work on its' municipal fiber network
- "UTOPIA: A Public Network based on FTTP, Layer 2 Ethernet Access and the 'OSPN' Model"
- Karl Bode: "Fiber Fueled Salvation? Community projects see large returns"
- "FTTP Booty Tough to Peg"
- Illinois: After defeating muni broadband initiative, Comcast cuts service, raises prices
- England: Overlooked villages develop their own broadband systems
- Daily Wireless: Wildfires put San Diego's homeland security net to the test
- Posts will be delayed for another day or two
- "Rural Skirmishes - Rural broadband funding in jeopardy?"
- Illinois: City of Paris to install fiber, upgrade city's phone system
- "Report: Bandwidth Glut to End in 2005"
- "OFS Files Patent Infringement Suit against Alcatel"
- Posts will be delayed this week
- Using multimode fiber for FTTH -- not a promising idea
- "Bright Telecommunications Brings 'Triple Play' Services to Western Australia Residents Using Alloptic FTTH Solution"
- Sometimes broadband's just not enough ...
- Esme Vos: "Urban Wi-Fi gridlock in 2004?"
- Esme Vos: "Cambodian schools and clinics get unwired"
- California: "Squaw Valley goes wireless"
- South Dundas, Ontario: "Jobs follow broadband to Canadian town"
- Iowa: Cedar Falls builds new data center for Internet routing
- Correction: Waterloo, NY -- not Waterloo, Iowa -- looking at fiber
- Michigan: Coldwater launches Voice over IP (VoIP) service
- Michigan: Gladstone's new wireless network
- Alberta, Canada: "SuperNet set for rural push"
- BroadbandReports.com: "Wireless Gridlock"
- Virginia: Telemedicine comes to rural Haysi
- Ohio: Hamilton considering municipal fiber backbone
- New York: "Waterloo town board may help fund cable study"
- Ontario: Pwi-di-goo-zing Ne-yaa-zhing wins federal rural broadband grant
- Karl Bode: "Municipal Report -- Legislative hammer comes down"
- California: "Lodi Electric Utility eyes fiber-optic lines as way to improve service, communication"
- Australia: "NSW maps state broadband plans"
- Last hurrah for municipal HFC cable systems?
- New Zealand: Hutt City considering building fiber network
- Washington: Olympia candidates support continued municipal fiber deployment
- Minnesota: Developer plans another development with FTTH
- Indiana: ""If you wire it, they will come"
- "Report Tracks Broadband Boom"
- Powerline broadband news:
- New Zealand: "$80 deal for Counties customers"
- "Battle Creek: Small Midwest City, Big on Bandwidth"
- Wireless broadband news
- Redundant posts
- Search engine logic?
- Daily Wireless: "Wi-Fi Gridlock 2004?"
- Karl Bode: "D-Day for Municipals -- A new unified front against state muni-bans"
- "CACS Has a Banner Week"
- Georgia: Fort Valley candidate alleges municipal utility wasting money on fiber optics
- Electric utility news
- Recent FTTH (fiber to the home) news
- Wireless networking news
- Corning Reports Third Quarter Net Income
- Recent solar storm expected to disrupt wireless data communications
- "Broadband: The new threat to voice"
- Powerline broadband news from this past week
- Posts will be delayed this week
- Ontario: 8200 kilometer public fiber network
- Low prices for Bells' FTTP gear and implications for municipal broadband
- FCC approves commercialization of millimeter wave wireless technology
- "The ghost that haunts Wi-Fi"
- "BPL Gets Less Static"
- Italy: FastWeb's FTTH system, partnership with power utility
- IP video versus broadcast video
- Michigan: Holland municipal utility to connect schools with fiber
- Illinois: "North Aurora to conduct survey on high-speed Internet interest"
- "FTTH Council Presents the `President's Star Performer Award' to Wesley R. Rosenbalm of Bristol Virginia Utilities"
- India: Connecting rural villagers to fiber links via wireless
- Australia: 1000-home FTTH trial in Ballarat, Victoria
- Massachusetts: Hamilton's broadband network boosts economic development
- "Good News and Bad News For BPL Community"
- "Coming Soon to a Wall Outlet Near You: Internet Over Power Lines"
- Powerline broadband: Responses to European Union inquiry now available online
- Powerline broadband: Technical and economic analysis
- "Study: Price matters for broadband"
- "The brewing war over broadband"
- New articles on Telework
- Michael Powell and the FCC
- Ireland: local broadband initiatives blamed for broadband delays
- Fiber cable: OFS layoffs
- Powerline broadband: Current Technologies plans to hire 400
- Louisiana: "The City That Would Become a Supercomputer"
- Alabama: "Courtland utility worker recovering from severe burns"
- New market research report on last mile wireless released
- North Dakota: East Grand Forks may tie into state fiber network
- Missouri: North Kansas City approves municipal broadband system funding
- Zhone Technologies 3Q 2003 financial results
- Illinois: Evanston police install fiber-linked video cameras in rough neighborhoods
- North Carolina: "Downtown Mount Airy, NC Offering Free Wi-Fi Access"
- Australia: "TransACT set to expand front line"
- Light Reading: "Carriers Give FTTP Update"
- Power utilities: "About 17% of meters in North America read remotely, says new AMR report"
- Ohio: Butler County's fiber network affords big advantages in industrial recruiting
- Japan: KDDI launches new FTTP service
- New Hampshire: Surprisingly tepid response to proposed FTTH network in Milford
- "RBOCs Outline Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) Plans"
- Powerline broadband: "Powerline Interview No.2"
- Utah: Cable TV company safety violations lead to widespread outage?
- "SBC testing water for fiber build-out"
- Powerline broadband: "New Outlet For Broadband"
- "Appalachian Regional Commission conference on telecommunications in Abingdon this week"
- Esme Vos: "Citywide wireless broadband in Finland"
- Esme Vos: "Wi-Fi hotzone helps San Mateo police"
- "Fujitsu names FTTP partner"
- Karl Bode: "Fraudband? BellSouth works to redefine fiber"
- Indiana: Shelby County commissioners consider funding for county fiber network
- Minnesota: City of Orr seeking broadband grant
- Canada: Ottawa commits $115 million for broadband in Nunavut, other Arctic areas
- Australia: $40m fibre-optic bid by IT consortium for State of Tasmania's system
- Iowa: Wireless broadband provider wants free use of City of Clive's towers
- More FTTH in Holland
- "Lucent: time is right to deploy fiber to the home in The Netherlands"
- Wyoming: Sweetwater County finally gets Qwest to upgrade 911
- "Nuera Communications and Wave7 Optics Team to Deliver Fiber to the Home for Chariton Valley"
- DSL Prime this week -- burning bridges at the FCC
- DSL Prime: Insightful inside news and analysis from the telco world
- Powerline broadband: "Schneider Electric buys Ilevo"
- ZDNet: "Broadband from the electric company? No thanks"
- Broadband over power lines (BPL) in the South Pacific
- Business Week: "The Wireless Challenge"
- ITU: "Passive Optical Networks Empower The Triple Play Telco"
- Powerline broadband: "World's Broadcasters Join Anti-BPL Chorus"
- The war on spam: "Filters that fight back"
- Microsoft TV Announces Plans for Complete IP-Based Television Solution for Broadband Operators
- Washington Post: "Intel Chairman Says U.S. Is Losing Edge"
- Fujitsu and Entrisphere team to offer FTTH system
- Slashdot on the power grid: "Electric Grid is a Vast Machine"
- "Fiber to the curb" is a misnomer
- Colorado: Fort Morgan City Council approves fiber network construction contract
- New Zealand: "South clicks into big net gain"
- Vendors under pressure to back Bells in pushing FCC to treat FTTC like FTTH?
- "Asia plays with hi-tech visions"
- Wired Magazine: "Parents Sue School Over Wi-Fi"
- "ED: Tech is key to rural school success"
- "Wi-Fi for favelas (slums) in Rio de Janeiro"
- Denmark: FTTH-pioneering power utility NESA acquired by Elsam
- Washington: Olympic Peninsula receives $5.8 million emergency radio grant
- North Carolina: 11 mile fiber-linked traffic monitoring system for Burlington area
- Discover Magazine: "Talk Over the Power Lines"
- Virginia: "Lenowisco hires broadband manager"
- Italy: "eBiscom Records Record Growth"
- Pennsylvania: Fulton County to link facilities with fiber
- Utility telecommunications: "Progress Telecom Celebrates Fifth Anniversary"
- Tennessee: Chattanooga mayor sees fiber connectivity critical to area's growth
- Virginia: "New River Valley planners seek broadband connectivity"
- Powerline broadband: Spanish utility launches systems in two cities
- FTTH conference news
- "School District Sued over WLAN Planning"
- Posts will be sporadic this week...
- Pennsylvania: "Grant will fund high-speed access in Forest County"
- Ooops -- search engines do have a logic
- More commentary on today's cable modem court ruling
- "Grass Roots Fiber Booms"
- Federal appeals court rules that cable TV companies must open their systems to ISPs
- Tennessee: "Wave7 Wins in Jackson"
- California: "2004 On the Road to a Gigabit Awards"
- "FTTH Keeps Growing"
- "Utah's UTOPIA Project Plans Widescale FTTH Deployment"
- "Alcatel's FTTU Drives Communications for Louisiana Golf Course Community"
- England: "Community broadband effort chalks up a win"
- Norway: Power utility Ella picks Allied Telesyn for FTTH
- BroadbandReports.com: "Canadian Broadband Expansion"
- Search engine logic?
- Indiana: Elkhart candidate running on municipal broadband platform
- TIME Magazine: "What's Always Next?"
- Esme Vos: "Baltimore goes wireless"
- Utah: Allied Telesyn selected to supply FTTH gear for UTOPIA project
- New York City: "Keeping the City Running"
- Washington: State senators hold hearing on public utility districts' fiber systems
- Colorado: Grand Junction linking traffic cameras, public facilities
- Iceland: Reykjavik Energy Company's Lina.net
- "Korea leads in making homes more intelligent"
- Iceland: Digital Reykjavik Conference to showcase and discuss city's FTTH plans
- Virginia: Danville closer to building municipal fiber network
- Australia: Tasmania evaluating combined fiber/natural gas roll-out across state
- Boston: Mobile phone use enabled on subways
- "Triple Play" over DSL? It's difficult, expensive and lower in quality than alternatives
- Maryland: Oakland receives rural broadband grant
- Esme Vos looks at municipal Wi-Fi in Adelaide and Wellington
- Gas utility telecom: State approves Sempra Fiber Links deployment in gas pipelines
- Georgia: Dalton Utilities picks voice operator for FTTH network
- North Carolina: rural Person County receives state broadband grant
- Karl Bode: Train Track Trickery -- Landowners and the right of way debate
- Bell Canada CEO describes FTTH as a "daunting prospect" economically
- Verizon Vice Chairman reaffirms FTTP commitment
- Atlanta airport to offer Wi-Fi
- "Telcos wary of profit-less wireless"
- Early Bell fiber to the home (FTTH) trials in the 1990s
- Iowa: Harlan Municipal Utilities' telecom revenues better than expected
- Korea: Cable TV providers to provide 100 Mbps to the home by 2007
- "Researchers work to improve Internet access in rural towns"
- Oregon: "Portland sees wireless as good for businesses"
- Carnegie Mellon professor launches project to bring broadband to Appalachia
- Wyoming: "JPTB looking for new Sweetnet funding"
- America's Network story on the impact of the Bell FTTP RFP
- Missouri: North Kansas City considering municipal broadband system
- "Blueprint: Telco Triple Play: series of articles
- Vermont: Montpelier may get wireless broadband
- Michigan: Unionville and Port Hope receive federal broadband grants
- Connecticut: "Groton Cable Plan Takes A Step Forward"
- Governor: "Telecom key to Vermont's future"
- Iowa: Woodbury County receives $6 million homeland security grant
- Iowa: Ocheyedan to receive $137,000 grant
- Illinois: FTTH activist Annie Collins running for Batavia City Council
- "Competitive Conundrum: County PUD accused of price fixing"
- Oregon: "Co-op owes $7.3 million in back taxes"
- "Compacts Boost Small Town Broadband Access"
- "Eagle Broadband Implements Major Restructuring Plan"
- Ontario: "Timmins Smart Community Network issues phase one RFP"
- Broadband Power Line Tutorial
- List of last week's USDA Broadband Technology Grants
- USDA distance learning and telemedicine grants
- Ohio: "Grant brings broadband to Monroe County areas"
- "Salira Gets New CEO"
- Red Herring: "Triple play"
- Scotland: "Broadband is a major asset"
- Washington: "Firms say Grant PUD broke law"
- Power line broadband: Opponents compare BPL advocates to Saddam's "Baghdad Bob"
- Mississippi: "JPD chief step closer on video surveillance"
- Alaska:"State, local leaders consider fiber optic plans"
- "Blueprint: Telco Triple Play" -- Part 2
- Missouri: Carthage's municipal power utility offering Internet access
- "Backup Power Reemerges As Issue for Cable VoIP Service"
- Karl Bode: Fiber Fueled Hope -- FTTH community list grows...
- "Blueprint: Telco Triple Play" -- Part 2
- "Numbers don't add up for Telcos"
- "Long-Awaited Stability Seen In Fiber Optical Market"
- Fiber to the Home must be gaining momentum -- it's even got spammers' attention
- Powerline broadband: The BBC analyzes competing systems for radio interference
- Singapore: Wi-Fi access with special content at all libraries
- Mississippi: Jackson police to deploy fiber-linked video camera system
- Utility telecom: "Telergy's network for sale - again"
- "e-BIRD, The First Satellite Designed for Internet Broadband Lofted into Orbit"
- Oregon: Electric power coop posts loss after foray into satellite business
- Indiana: Purdue and IU use state fiber link to tie into supercomputer grid
- Alabama: City of Greensboro will deploy Fiber to the Home (FTTH) system
- Egypt: Power utility building 1000 km aerial fiber link
- Power utilities: Now Europe is suffering nationwide blackouts
- "USDA Nudges Rural America: Issues millions in grants to broadband have-nots"
- "Southern Telecom Deploys the Amperion Connect Powerline Solution"
- "FTTH Council and Telecommunications Industry Association release updated 'U.S. Optical Fiber Communities' list"
- Broadband over powerlines: "Short wave, power line Net at odds"
- "Internet service via power lines poses risks"
- "Uganda: Wireless Network to Bring Health Info to Isolated Areas"
- Pennsylvania: PPL to trial powerline broadband in Hanover Township
- Texas: Collin County to share local college's fiber network
- Michigan: Counties unite to form West Michigan Broadband Coalition
- "USDA Announces Grants for Broadband Technology"
- Salira wins FTTP order from Chinese cable TV operator
- Washington: Grant County PUD faces possible lawsuit from one of its' ISPs
- Powerline broadband: FCC Commissioner lauds technology, predicts it has a bright future
- Pennsylvania: "Broadband access coming to Schuylkill"
- Ohio: Optical Solutions to supply rural telco with FTTP gear
- "A Sizzling 216Mbps: Powerline tech speeds up"
- Yankee Group's assessment of powerline broadband
- Utility telecom: Yankee group's profile of Dominion Telecom
- Georgia: City of Adel to offer wireless broadband using municipal fiber as backbone
- Karl Bode: "BBR Municipal Report -- Munis in the UK, Wyoming muni-dispute"
- "Lehman: Telecom Downturn Is Over"
- Massachusetts: Braintree Electric selects new General Manager
- Community Broadband Networks now ranked 66th among 5518 weblogs ...
- FTTH developer selects newcomer Allied Telesyn for 5,000 home buildout
- California: Truckee Donner PUD changes FTTH financing strategies
- Virginia: Rural Dickenson County to offer wireless broadband
- The archives for this weblog are temporarily off-line ...
- Illinois: City of Olney to provide broadband access to businesses
- Washington Post: "The High Cost Of Not Spending To Modernize"
- Utility telecom: NiSource sells its' telecom subsidiary to NEON
- Canada ranked 3rd in world for broadband penetration
- "Survey: Carriers Plan More Optical"
- England: "Northants villages set up own BB network"
- Wyoming: "Residents speak out against Sweetnet"
- "SBC cooling off on fiber-optic idea"
- "Bells near $100 billion fiber deal"
- Utility telecom: Dominion Resources to sell off its' telecom business
- Karl Bode: "Forcing Competition -- Munis bring balance to the under-served"
- Australia: Adelaide's downtown Wi-Fi network made possible by existing municipal fiber system
- Australian regulators evaluating powerline broadband
- Powerline broadband: Corridor Systems announces entry into market
- Powerline broadband: "Ambient Corporation Receives Key License from FCC"
- Pennsylvania: Wireless ISP partners with City of Pittsburgh to offer broadband downtown
- Australia: City of Adelaide to offer wireless broadband downtown
- If the fiber network's redundant, what is the real cost of a fiber cable cut?
- Cable and telco lobbyists craft federal bill to shaft cities out of billions
- Corning sells off venture capital unit
- Kansas: Pratt deploys wireless cops to monitor wireless surveillance cameras
- Alabama: Municipal public access cable channel serves up special show
- Michigan: Holland municipal utility hires contractor for ongoing fiber installation
- Alaska: Good overview of telemedicine in the state
- Pennsylvania: State senator proposes $50 million to accelerate broadband deployment
- Posts will be delayed for another day or two
- Karl Bode: "Fiber Dreams Dashed -- SBC chief's fiber comments leave some reeling"
- What we're reading tonight:
- "Reservations Required: American Indian Telcos Hook Up Tribal Members"
- Connecticut: Norwalk to build municipal wide area network
- SBC Ratchets Up PON Politics
- Optical Ethernet use in European FTTP projects
- More FTTP stories from NFOEC
- Europe: EU Commissioner includes powerline broadband in list of technologies to consider
- France: Chirac government looks to wireless and powerline broadband
- Utility automation: AMR Growth Continued in 2002, But 2003 is Not So Clear
- Power utilities: Winter Park votes to take over local power utility from Progress Energy
- Florida: Jacksonville to build municipal wide area network
- U.K.: Government may offer Wi-Fi in every public library
- Powerline broadband vendor Ambient secures additional capital
- Telecom veteran tells NFOEC audience telcos will never buy disruptive technology
- Massachusetts: Newton links city facilities with Comcast fiber while library goes wireless
- California: City of Moreno Valley deploys free-space-optics
- TelephonyOnline: "Pondering PON"
- "NFOEC: BellSouth CTO defends fiber-to-the-curb"
- More on Zhone Technologies' entry into the FTTP market
- Yesterday's e-mail summary incomplete
- Maryland: Date for launching of Allconet 2 system drawing closer
- Interesting follow-up on yesterday's post bout NTT's FTTH plans in Japan
- SBC's CEO kisses off any intention of doing FTTP
- FCC hosting Rural Wireless ISP Showcase and Workshop
- Florida: Cable TV worker electrocuted
- Light Reading: "PONs Push On"
- KMI's Newport Conference on Fiberoptics Markets
- Cox selects Terawave's PON equipment
- e-NC: North Carolina agency expands Internet mandate
- "NASCIO honors eight states"
- "Parking tickets go wireless"
- Fiber geek stuff: dealing with dispersion in high speed systems
- Ohio: "Case Western Unveils Free, Public Wireless Service"
- Australia: "Wi-Fi trial in Queensland"
- From the Financial Times: "Phone throwing"
- Karl Bode: "Click! -- the sound of competition""
- The latest issue of FTTX E-zine "In the Loop" is now on-line ...
- "Powerline coming of age"
- Karl Bode: "BPL Trials Continue..."
- FTTX vendor Wave7 Optics adds $15 million in funding, targets international expansion
- Japan: NTT to include digital television in FTTP offerings
- NFOEC news
- Light Reading: "Access Is Fiber-Starved"
- Alberta, Canada: provinical SuperNet press release
- Wyoming: "Green River postpones fiber optics decision"
- New Hampshire: Adelphia renews cable franchises as towns consider building their own municipal FTTH systems
- Maryland: Garrett County agencies to get broadband access
- North Carolina: Charlotte to build fiber-linked intelligent traffic system (ITS)
- Colorado: Denver's 650-mile municipal fiber network
- Michigan: More on Coldwater's VoIP offering
- Florida: Update on Jacksonville's JAXMAN municipal fiber system
- The latest from Dave Burstein
- Publications to recognize community broadband intitiatives with Network Community Impact awards
- "ANALYSIS: Optical Solutions claims FTTP one-upmanship"
- Tacoma, Washington: "Click! scrappy, happy underdog of cable"
- Got a minute?? Please do me a favor ...
- Light Reading discussion: "Top 2004 Telecom Trends?"
- Broadband over powerlines (BPL) vs. using fiber in sewer systems
- The redundant posts are a function of some glitch in Blogger's server.
- Hybrid fiber optic/wireless systems as an alternative to powerline broadband?
- "Broadband as a Utility: Power, Water, Phone....bandwidth?"
- Karl Bode's Municipal Report
- Sweden: Öresundskraft's municipal telecom network
- Tennessee: "ISP Recovers in 72 Hours After Leveling by Tornado"
- Light Reading: "NTT Calls for Ethernet PON"
- New Zealand: Grey District mayor says it's "Time to shed backwater image"
- Wisconsin: Stephenson to link schools together with fiber
- Washington State: Sabotaged fiber cable isolates 60,000 subscribers
- South Africa: Power utility Eskom's telecom subsidiary impatient with pace of regulatory changes
- Michigan: East Lansing offers free Wi-Fi downtown
- Wyoming: Cities of Green River and Rock Springs moving ahead with FTTH project
- Colorado: Fort Morgan City Council approves building fiber network
- Minnesota: "By the bootstraps / Windom enters the telecom business"
- FTTH Council's Tatarka speaks out on the FCC telecom ruling
- Powerline broadband news
- Viriginia: Bristol's municipal FTTH system is meeting or beating it original goals
- Washington: Rural power utility's fiber network combined with telemedicine saves child's life
- Georgia: Dalton Utilities selects Alcatel for municipal FTTH system
- Why are the Bells going with satellite TV?
- Muni systems spark interest as cable rates continue to climb
- Massachusetts: "Braintree Electric 'de-worms' customers quickly as virus hits"
- Georgia: Valdosta picks Uptown Services for municipal broadband study
- Argentina: Province of La Pampa building optical network
- Alaska: Kodiak Kenai Fiber Link LLC
- "DSL's dirty little secretrevisited"
- Pennsylvania: PP&L to trial powerline broadband in a third area
- Orlando to offer free Wi-fi downtown
- U.K.: "Broadband runs like water"
- "Download on the farm"
- Mississippi's MEGAPOP program
- South Africa: Power utility giant Eskom may become nation's second major phone company
- Optical Solutions financing round oversubscribed, raises $15 million
- Advanced Fibre Communications discusses FTTP products
- Ontario: Town of Wawa studies telecom options
- Colorado: Fort Morgan City Council to make fiber network decision tonight
- British Columbia: "Whistler Goes Wireless"
- Arizona: Cable TV worker hits power line, is badly burned
- Bitter disputes follow fiber fiasco at La Plata Electric Association
- "Rural Wireless Vermont: Smaller towns continue 'do-it-yourself' trend"
- FTTH news
- The subscription feature should be working again
- Powerline broadband news from last week
- Maryland: Rural counties banding together to improve broadband access
- Washington: Kirkland and Bellevue considering municipal Wi-Fi networks
- More posts coming
- How true: "A Lesson From the Blackout: Free Markets Often Need Rules"
- Virginia: Big Stone Gap's downtown fiber-optic still months away
- "Wireless broadband network for Scottish Borders"
- RSS feed for this blog now works; still working on e-mail subscriptions
- "Georgia Muni: City run fiber lights up region"
- California: Truckee Donner Public Utility District moves closer to FTTH project
- New vendor announces entry into fiber-to-the-home market
- California: "Humboldt schools to get connected to Digital California Project"
- Wyoming: "SweetNet sounding sweeter to county"
- Oklahoma: "Getting Connected -- Healdton awaits first cable TV/Internet utility in state"
- England: "Bright sparks offer broadband over power lines"
- Karl Bode on new wireless standards
- Credible rumors leaking as to who's made the Bells' FTTP shortlist
- "RBOCs & cable wage turf war"
- "Optical Solutions Debuts FTTP System"
- Australia: Powertel continues growing
- Key FCC broadband rules expected soon
- England: "Power cable broadband trial goes live today"
- "Can you hear me now?" --- FCC officials trapped in dangling gondola during mountain storm
- India: Internet connectivity for villages without phones
- BroadbandReports.com: "NTIA Weighs in on BPL"
- England: Southern Electric to build powerline broadband system in Winchester
- Amara's Law
- Elysian, Minnesota: "Wireless broadband can keep small companies -- and communities -- competitive"
- ARRLWeb: NTIA Expresses "Broad Concerns" in BPL Comments
- Florida: Daytona Beach builds a seriously survivable municipal fiber network
- Florida: "Quincy going high tech"
- Washington: City of Kirkland studying broadband options
- Blackout 2003: Visualizing the Internet as it adapted to the blackout
- In Washington State, different kind of public broadband network:
- "North Carolina Renews Commitment to Statewide Connectivity; Gov. Michael Easley Signs Bill to Create`e-NC Authority'"
- Blackout 2003: Utility telecommunications may get higher priority at FCC
- Good followup links on OSMINE and the Bells
- Blackout 2003: With the lights back on, the knives come out ...
- Dalton Utilities selects General Bandwidth for FTTH system
- Ireland: Government outsourcing management of fiber optic network
- Michigan: Battle Creek municipal fiber system to be on-line this winter
- Arizona: Glendale installing fiber-linked intelligent traffic system (ITS)
- Iowa: Bettendorf's new public-private fiber system to be activated in a few weeks
- New York: Hevesi slams state's telecom system
- Ireland: ESB to test broadband on power lines
- Blackout 2003: "When Wireless Phones Failed, Callers Turned to Land Lines"
- Status of the Bells' FTTP vendor selection still unknown
- Blackout 2003: "We need new transmission lines"
- Why lots of blackout links on a weblog devoted to broadband?
- Powerline broadband trial announced in Ireland
- "Wireless Growth Hinders Rescuers: FCC Vows to Fix Radio Interference"
- Blackout 2003: "Midwest Utilities Were Warned About Pushing Limits of System"
- Indiana: "Schools, town combine for high-tech connection"
- Wireless soaring but satellite makers struggle
- NY Times: "The Bits Are Willing, but the Batteries Are Weak"
- Telemedicine: Profile of Honolulu hospital's "fiber-optic eICU"
- Blackout 2003: What's this say about our critical power infrastructure?
- Blackout 2003: "Generator, Power-Line Makers Stand to Benefit From Blackout"
- Blackout 2003: Getting the grid back up
- Blackout 2003: "We dodged a bullet"
- Blackout 2003: What happened?
- Utah: "Tremonton Wants UTOPIA"
- The Bloglet weblog subscription program seems to be out of service again
- Virginia: Broadband 'backbone' to cross Smyth County
- Europe: Municipal wireless broadband projects
- Georgia: Dalton Utilities to activate first FTTH customers soon
- Georgia: City of Valdosta cable panel considers feasibility study
- Alaska: "High-speed Internet service bound for rural communities"
- Washington: More sniping at Grant County PUD's fiber team
- County fights loss of fiber optics jobs by appealing to Oprah for help
- Netherlands: "Government should not be involved in Fiber to the home projects"
- U.K.: "Energis to build £40m secure government broadband network"
- NSW, Australia: Hawkesbury city councillor proposes wireless broadband network
- Franklin County, Maine: "Survey to assess demand for high-speed Internet"
- Ft. Wayne, Indiana: Board of Zoning Appeals approves broadband towers
- Arizona: State to outsource telecom services in 2004
- Iowa:"Fiber-optic work in Bettendorf is almost complete"
- Colorado: Electric utility given OK to offer telecom service in Durango
- Grand Rapids, Michigan: "Itasca Technology Exchange is a potential partner in telecom project"
- Recent powerline broadband developments
- "Will RBOCs Undermine Osmine?"
- NY Times: "Power Failure Reveals a Creaky System, Energy Experts Believe"
- Virginia: Does an easement to run power lines across an owner's property also include fiber?
- "Wireless networks, Internet connections keep working during blackout"
- Alaska: power utility to link remote communities to outside world with power and fiber
- Fairhope, Alabama: "Cable system passes voter hurdle: Decision on municipal network now up to City Council"
- Sweden: Municipal power utility building fiber to the home network
- Getting access to existing towers can be hard for startup wireless ISPs
- Alcatel expands FTTX product line to include access equipment to serve small and medium-size businesses
- Arkansas: Siloam Springs' municipal power utility to link local schools with fiber
- Atlanta area: "Traffic expected to improve this fall"
- New Jersey: "Long Branch administration to update communication infrastructure"
- "We get by with a little help from our friends ..."
- Ontario: Rural politician criticizes province's broadband plans as inadequate
- Colorado: Fort Morgan's city plan incudes building municipal broadband telecommunications network
- North Carolina: "Carrboro slowly expands wireless Internet access to Carr Mill Mall"
- Weblog posts will be delayed for the next several days
- FCC announces initiatives for Rural America
- West Chicago: "Comcast gets static on public access TV"
- Alloptic's original EPON customers
- 'The RoboDoc Will See You Now'
- IBM's "Intelligent homes"
- Scotland: "Stay Home, Highland Laddie"
- Power utility Black Hills' broadband business nearing break-even
- Western Australia: State rolling out pilot fiber to the home project
- Profile of a successful regional CLEC
- "Loathing for the U.S. cable industry has not abated"
- Japan: FTTH subscribers increased by 60,000 in one month
- "'BPL is "Spectrum Pollution,' ARRL President Says"
- "Strategies & Issues: Baby Bells Think Globally, Act Regionally-For Now"
- Illinois: "Batavia joins study of broadband"
- Minnesota: Windom City Council approves FTTH system
- "Middletown, Ohio, Firm to Hook into Butler County Fiber Optic Network"
- This weblog now has a site search function
- Satellite wireless broadband
- "SNC-Lavalin wins Alberta SuperNet telecom contract"
- FTTH pioneer SureWest's quarterly profits increase
- Michigan: Ontonagon County surveying broadband availability, needs and options
- Karl Bode: "Virginia Gets a Pay Day"
- India: BSNL rolling out "fibre to the building"
- If satellite video scares cable operators, why don't cell phones scare landline telcos?
- Wyoming: Good news/bad news for proposed Green River/Rock Springs FTTH system
- Minnesota:
- Alaska: Remote town of Craig gets satellite broadband link
- Express yourself: Community Broadband Networks weblog adds comments feature
- Indiana: Fort Wayne building combination public/private broadband system
- "Confluence Sees US Broadband Boom"
- Florida: Story about a not-so intelligent traffic system
- Minnesota: Far northern town of Orr trying to get broadband
- "Wireless broadband to help cover gap in rural France"
- Somewhat off-topic: "Can you hear me now?"
- North Carolina: "City replacing old traffic light system"
- California: "Grassroots effort aims to connect wireless users"
- U.K.:"Broadband plan for rural towns"
- "Broadband Over Powerline - Call to Arms"
- OFS to cut workforce at New Jersey fiber lab
- India: Tata Power investing $8 million in broadband
- Sumitomo Electric Lightwave announces executive appointments
- New Zealand: Local government invests power system profits in district-wide wireless access
- Oakland County, Michigan: "Officials hope towers improve police, fire links"
- North Carolina: Charlotte and state may link traffic centers
- Tennessee: Tullahoma installs fiber network for power system
- India: Last-mile fiber network uses fiber-in-roadway technology
- South Pacific:
- Illinois: Batavia joins neighboring towns in studying fiber-to-the-business
- Bristol Virginia Utilities Board extending fiber service to other towns in region
- New York City:
- Wisconsin: Municipal broadband utilities "becoming digital pioneers"
- Oregon: City of Albany building municipal fiber link to NoaNet
- "Technology Grants Fuel Appalachia's Future"
- Once again, a cable company takes the low road in opposing a proposed municipal cable TV system
- South Carolina: City of Conway burying all utility lines downtown
- AT&T may finally be getting serious about competing with the Bells
- Quantum Bridge Completes OSMINE Process
- Alabama: Long article on the City of Fairhope's proposed FTTH system
- One slow Wi-Fi user slows down everyone else's connection
- Michigan: Portland Board of Light and Power burying fiber along with power lines
- New Zealand: "Centralines' $1m for broadband"
- Telecommuting into Seattle using Kitsap Public Utility District's fiber system
- But of course it's the backhaul ...
- "Cisco Systems to Target FTTH Market: Cisco Senior Manager"
- Alabama: Fairhope residents to vote on municipal broadband study in August 12 referendum
- "CLECs Remain in 'Tenuous' Financial Position"
- An interesting article by XCHANGE looking at the cable companies efforts to offer a 'triple play'
- An interesting pair of articles by XCHANGE on the Bells' FTTP (fiber to the premises) initiative
- "GigE Growth Strong, But Uptake to Desktop Slower than Fast Ethernet"
- Another article on Michigan's top ranking in support of statewide broadband access
- Jackson Energy selects Alpha to power its' FTTH equipment
- FCC extends period to submit replies in its powerline broadband inquiry
- BroadbandReports.com's follow-up on today's powerline broadband/amateur radio articles
- Michigan: Broadband survey underway across Upper Peninsula
- California: Merced County gets a $1.6 million telework center
- New Zealand: Another power utility rolling out broadband to its' customers
- Australia: "Broadband for free for remote and rural towns"
- Australia: State of Victoria funding wireless broadband system in Shepparton area
- State of New Mexico cancels plan to invest in powerline broadband vendor PowerWAN
- "Bells Join Forces To Speed Rollout Of All-Fiber Access Networks"
- Amateur radio operators raising money to fight powerline broadband
- ITU Strategy and Policy Unit Newslog
- Virginia: rural Orange County linking schools, agencies with wireless broadband network
- Update your Windows software now; massive hacker attack eminent
- United Kingdom: Government establishes 9 regional broadband authorities
- North Carolina: Fayetteville installing 90-mile fiber linked traffic control system
- South Dakota: Power utility Northwestern selling off telecom subsidiary
- Vermont: Montpelier considering municipal wireless network
- Ontario: "Northern communities are getting 'connected'"
- FastWeb names senior execs, reports financial results
- Grant County PUD separates fiber, electricity accounting
- Off-topic but you've got to love it: "Russian minister declares spam war"
- "Broadband network may be Marshfield's biggest secret"
- "Michigan Broadband Authority Preparing To Make Loans"
- How to search Community Broadband Networks' archives
- Optical Solutions wins independent telco FTTP business in Maine
- Polish power utility selling off telecom assets
- Power utility-backed Progress Telecom expands service offerings
- Singapore Power shelves powerline broadband roll-out for now
- Incumbent Telecom Italia invests in FTTP roll-out -- but not in Italy
- 2 Business Week articles on Verizon's FTTP plans
- The subscription signup process appears to be working again
- Posts will be delayed in the next day or so
- "FlexLight Gets GPON Grant"
- "USDA Says Nearly Half Of All Farmers Have Internet"
- Milwaukee mayor launches free downtown Wi-Fi service
- "Paris Wi-Fi experiment - not so hot after all"
- City of Lompoc, California investigating municipal broadband feasibility
- Coldwater, Michigan OKs expanding municipal cable service to township
- "Doubt Abounds Regarding FTTH RFP"
- "Singapore Power Telecom downsized"
- Urbandale, Iowa builds fiber-linked traffic control system
- College includes fiber links in new student apartments
- Tennessee landowners may appeal the big railroad right-of-way class action settlement
- iamba Networks launches FTTP products
- Business Week articles on Verizon's FTTP plans
- "Butler County signs first private fiber-optic user"
- Tacoma's Click! Network selects CheckPoint security's software
- Australian broadband operator partnering with local power, gas and water utility to offer bundled services, billing
- "World Wide Packets out of the Woods"
- State of New Mexico invests $4 million in powerline broadband vendor PowerWAN
- Pennsylvania county saves $200,000 annually with fiber link between jail and courthouse
- Windom, Minnesota to build municipal fiber to the home (FTTH) system
- "Study: Allconet 2 wireless network is 'brilliantly done'"
- Port Orchard last city to join fiber-optic 'highway'
- St. Louis to offer free wireless Internet network downtown
- Irish gas utility expands fiber network
- The Bloglet e-mail subscription service looks like it is not accepting new subscribers
- Communications Technology magazine article on munis and VoIP
- "Spectrum licensing and broadband"
- Profile of PEPCO's powerline broadband trial in Maryland
- "State, county centers use technology to battle traffic, keep motorists safe"
- "Magic of broadband: Gilmer is catapulted into the 21st century with high-speed Internet access"
- Merrimack, NH considering starting its' own broadband utility
- McMinnville Water & Light's search for a manager
- Powerline broadband meeting in Cincinnnati this week
- More information on CityNet's deal to lay fiber in Seattle sewers
- Pole replacement underway
- "Municipal Report: States ranked, Palo Alto considers expansion"
- "Alone and in groups, vendors line up for FTTP award"
- Kentucky gubernatorial candidate pledges to promote broadband across the state
- Two skeptical articles on powerline broadband
- "American Fork plugs in to broadband"
- "Fiber Deficit Hampers US Ethernet"
- Power utility's telecom subsidiary posts quarterly loss but expects to break even for the year as a whole
- CityNet to deploy fiber system in Seattle's sewers
- "Munis, Developers - Not Telcos -- Will Drive FTTH Market"
- TechNet pushes for state and local government help in rolling out broadband across the U.S.
- "FCC Meets with Tribes on broadening Internet and Phone service"
- New Zealand government selects broadband providers for 3 more regions
- Australia: "NSW South Coast gets broadband network"
- Canadian broadband news
- "Schlotzsky's enters Wi-Fi alliance"
- No more posts for a day or two
- Clarification on Western Australia FTTH project
- City of Hagerstown, Maryland linking police to county jail with fiber
- What really happened with Grant County PUD's fiber to the home 'scandal'
- Gaylord, Michigan: "Schools agree to deal for fiber optic cable"
- Fiber to the home -- but where's the U.S. mail?
- SW Virginia officials hope for telecom funding
- "First area of American Fork gets connected to broadband Internet"
- "House committee to hold hearings on FCC's broadband classification today"
- From the Illinois Tri-Cities:
- Pioneering municipal cable TV lowers rates
- Settlement likely in massive fiber right-of-way dispute
- City of Vienna, Austria expands fiber network through acquisition
- "Passave Demos EPON FTTH"
- "D.C. readies new telecom network"
- No postings today
- "Tri-Cities Try Again: Launch new business broadband plan"
- Wi-Fi set to take over the world?
- Another article on Winchester, VA's center for telecommuters
- Corning reports near break-even results; have happy times returned to the fiber industry?
- Australian broadband initiatives
- "Study: Wi-Fi users Still Don't Encrypt"
- FTTH briefing/tutorial scheduled for the FCC
- "Rural Canadian Broadband Project: Grants Being Awarded For First Steps"
- Tukwila, Washington mayoral candidate running on a fiber to the home platform
- Fiber network to link sophisticated traffic system in Atlanta area
- Municipal utility-backed Memphis Networx inks deal with UT Medical Group
- Butler County commissioners take heat for travel expenses while promoting their fiber system
- "Palo Alto considers expanding fiber-optic cable, Internet service"
- Ouch: "District balks at utility fees"
- Telecommuting center opens in Winchester, VA
- This is progress?? BellSouth proudly announces new slower DSL offering
- Is Wi-Fi a bubble?
- "Zap, Crackle, Pop: Power Line Broadband buzzes onward"
- Gainesville, Florida residents might get own public TV channel
- "Dark Fiber beneath Cleveland's streets"
- Geneva IL eyes broadband services for businesses
- Holland, Michigan BPW staff works on use policy for municpal utility's fiber-optic line
- State of Texas installing fiber system on bridge to detect ship collisions
- Layoffs at Virginia electric utility's telecom subsidiary
- In Japan, increasing FTTX deployment is spurring increased ADSL deployment and lower prices
- Ardmore mayor intends to continue expanding city's fiber network
- "Study: Internet fills info gap left by doctors"
- FTTX vendor Flexlight raises $17 million
- Mason County PUD 3 cutting over new VoIP switch
- Profile of a planned community in Utah for students using FTTX
- Fiber-networked computers in Norwalk housing project offer opportunities to young residents
- "Hamilton County, Ohio Goes Online with Next Phase of Motorola Public Safety Communications System"
- Australian power utility upgrading 1500 km network
- "Sales plunge despite Marconi restructure"
- Michigan and Florida lead the nation in policies to encourage broadband deployment
- Dalton Utilities starts sign-ups for fiber optics services
- From Australia: "Wi-Fi industry set for 'shakeout', operator failures"
- "China Netcom Picks Salira for FTTP"
- "Recovering CLECs Flirt with Profitability"
- Profile of the market for used fiber test equipment
- "Squaxin tribe prepares to embrace broadband"
- "Fiber Splicing and Termination Considerations for FTTH Networks"
- Federal Rural Utilities Service lists Alcatel's FTTH gear
- Cable TV operator Service Electric picks Quantum Bridge FTTP gear
- "Outlets promise to hold further Internet power"
- Comcast's response to Modesto's fines for poor grounding
- "Charter to combat utility offer"
- Interesting profile of FTTH vendor Alloptic
- "It's pay as you grow with last-mile fibre networks"
- "Falling costs stimulate optical access markets"
- "Chile's Enersis To Offer Internet Service Via Power Lines"
- Judge sides with city in BellSouth suit
- Bickering continues over FTTH project at Grant County PUD
- "Private firm seeks eminent domain, after laying cable"
- "Two Utilities May Branch Out: Sun Prairie Studies Cable; Reedsburg Works Out Bugs"
- "Municipal report: Georgia & Wisconsin put on their game face"
- "Mauritian cyber-city on the way"
- "Poles apart: Telecom case heats up"
- I'm back and I hope to catch up today and tomorrow with blog links
- "ANALYSIS: Which FTTP technology will RBOCs use?"
- "Users of Comcast's transition wizard may be exposing private information"
- Valdosta, Georgia considering municipal cable TV system
- Broken link to story on Comcast and the City of Modesto fixed
- Vectren writes down investment in broadband venture
- "Bringing Broadband To Rural America"
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- Alloptic wins Bellingham, Washington FTTP project
- Posts will be sporadic for the remainder of the week
- Wall Street financial analyst says Alcatel is favored to win the Bells' fiber to the home business
- New York City power utility Con Edison expands its telecom offerings
- Profile of Winston-Salem's WinstonNet
- "City Of Groton Wants To Take On The Big Guy"
- Investigator submits report on alleged Zipp network misdeeds
- "Municipal Report: First fully Wi-Fi city, Utah fiber push"
- Municipal broadband law seminar this week
- Alloptic announces patent award
- Dispute over railroad fiber rights-of-way may be near settlement
- Posts delayed until Wednesday
- Have a Happy 4th of July!
- Want a level playing field with the local municipal cable competitor? Sign this ...
- Comcast goes to federal court to block $1 million fine imposed by City of Modesto
- Marconi after the fall
- "Provo network plan praised"
- NJ Turnpike's fiber network feeds live video streams for motorists
- Polish Power Grid (PSE) selling telecom assets
- New links on the left margin of the page
- Bowling Green, KY continues adding wholesale fiber customers
- Grant County PUD raises FTTH network wholesale rates
- Coos-Curry Electric Coop considers joining NoaNET regional public utility fiber network
- "Phone service may be in line for Utilities Commission"
- Alberta's province-wide SuperNet continues expansion
- "Broadband access boon for remote areas"
- Does the USDA make it too hard to get grants for telemedicine and distance learning?
- State College, Pennsylvania's fiber-linked surveillance system delayed
- Consultants evaluating broadband outlook in Marietta, Ohio
- "WaveRider Communications agrees to buy Avendo Wireless for stock, warrants"
- "World Radiocommunications group OKs new spectrum for WLANs worldwide"
- Bristol, Virginia's FTTH system starts cable TV service with a huge backlog
- Feedback wanted!
- "What's Next: Power Surge"
- "'Tone Of Voice' Could Determine Muni Broadband Offerings"
- Powerline broadband technology and municipal broadband
- Eagle Broadband obtains $10 million to expand FTTH build-outs
- "Gartner: Many hotspots may never be profitable in own right"
- Videoconferencing system saves Delaware legal system money, reduces dangerous prisoner transports
- "Wireline: Is the rally over for Baby Bells?"
- "OFS Selected by Georgia School District to Provide Web and Network Connectivity"
- "Fiber network to link county"
- Power utility Aquila selling its' broadband business
- "Who's Growing a GPON?"
- Corning among the leading gainers among the first half's best performers
- Broadband truckstops
- City of Prague sells its' remaining interest in fiber network
- Utility giant Exelon sells telecommunications units as part of larger Infrasource divestiture
- Do power utilities have to allow pole attachments by dark-fiber providers?
- Some interesting articles from Cable Datacom News
- Public fiber network under construction in New York's North Country
- "RBOC Threesome Issues FTTP RFP"
- "Broadband Power Line Technology Continues Its Advance"
- Telcos moving to offer Ethernet services
- "Study: Worldwide use of optical fiber connectors is in recovery"
- Optical Component and Modules Market down 55%
- More powerline broadband links
- "'Nigerian' money scam: What happens when you reply?"
- "Evaluation of Different Frequency Bands Regarding their Qualification for Inhouse Powerline Communication"
- Powerline broadband trial of Ambient's gear at Alabama Power
- City of Dusseldorf, Germany building municipal Wi-Fi network
- What is the meaning of "any entity"?
- "City’s fiber-optic service leads to lawsuit"
- Trying to find the Cable Guy in Decatur? Here's his unlisted number.
- Conditions developing for another California power crisis
- What the local economy's like in small towns with FTTH
- "Consultant warns of fiber money pit"
- Links to IEEE statements on broadband in America
- "1st Town of 21st Century Rises Near SF"
- "Terawave succeeds despite slump"
- "Power Line Comms Groups Hold Summit"
- Inifineon introduces new triplexer for FTTH use
- "School gets an earful after security lapse"
- Jim Baller's presentation to the APPA this month
- "High Hopes for Electric Net"
- "The Bells Gang Up to Combat Cable"
- Fiber cable and cable installation prices going back up?
- "Electrical Access: Dream On?"
- United Power Line Council annual conference
- Ignore the National Electrical Safety Code and pay $22k per day in Modesto
- Alloptic Delivers FTTP to City of Mount Vernon, WA project
- "Rate increase coming for Grant County Internet providers ... debate over fiber spending continues at PUD meeting"
- Light Reading:
- City of Modesto may fine Comcast over $1 million for safety violations
- "DS2, Netergy Talk Over Powerline"
- Telemedicine improving health care in rural Scotland
- Is Marconi back in the FTTH (fiber to the home) game?
- Older singlemode fiber cable in local exchange faces threat of obsolescence, according to a new report
- Should wireless broadband be free to all?
- "Troops in Afghanistan Stay Connected"
- "Kasenna Powers Total Vision FTTH project"
- "City tries new path to fiber network"
- "World's First WiFi Nation"
- Free public Wi-Fi in downtown Portsmouth, NH
- "Tech companies push home networking"
- "Glenville chosen for wireless broadband pilot project"
- The real reasons Internet users upgrade to broadband
- "Bright idea is rapidly losing shine" -- more on FTTH in Western Australia
- "Report Explores Internet Growth Puzzle"
- Powerline broadband developments in the South Pacific
- State of Arkansas bungles video testimony cost savings opportunity
- Arris sells HFC gear to two Kentucky municipal utilities
- Supreme Court intervenes in Missouri municipal telecommunications case
- Malaysian power utility may exploit its extensive fiber network and enter telecom business
- Australian utility Western Power building fiber to the home network
- St. Clair County surveys interest in high-speed Internet access
- Kansas cable TV operator deploying fiber to the business network
- "Wi-Fi blanket could soon envelop Paris"
- "A Wireless Waste: Is Wi-FI a bubble ripe for popping?"
- "Understanding the FCC's Broadband Over Power Line (BPL) Notice of Inquiry"
- "Multifunction fiber-optic lines: Ready, willing and cable"
- "A Plan for NYC Telecommunications"
- "Wi-fi will be 'next dot.com crash'"
- "RBOCs release FTTP RFP"
- "Quincy looks at broadband"
- Stealing cable
- "PLC Interference Worries" debate on BroadbandReports.com
- Sorry for the redundant postings
- "Brain In St. Pete Keeps Eye On Progress Telecom Cables"
- "Proudly South African powerline comms"
- Links to previous municipal broadband articles and discussions on BroadbandReports.com
- South Waikato District in NZ considers some hybrid of district and cooperative ownership for the broadband network it's building
- Links to previous municipal broadband articles and discussions on BroadbandReports.com
- Dalton Utilities demos its' proposed FTTH system to local residents
- Dalton Utilities demos its' proposed FTTH system to local residents
- Dalton Utilities demonstrates FTTH system for local residents
- "Around the UK, small communities are banding together to get access to fast net services."
- "Telcos finally serious about high speed"
- "Fiber-To-Anywhere Will Happen, With Or Without LEC Troika"
- City of Rushville joins with Rush County, Indiana to evaluate local telecommunications
- "Homes about to get wired for speed"
- Cary, NC building fiber network to link all its' traffic signals
- Public-private MEGAPOP intitiative to bring fiber to Northeast Mississippi
- "Homes about to get wired for speed"
- Interesting interview with Bruce Kushnick, Chairman of TeleTruth
- "Analysts Say Wi-Fi Complementary to Telecoms"
- Technology Trader Article on FTTP/FTTX
- "Electricity Companies Plan To Offer Internet"
- "Quantum Bridge FTTP Equipment RUS Listed"
- "New electric code complicating lease deals"
- "Warm Springs tribes get Internet grant"
- "Bainbridge moves forward on broadband"
- FTTH vendor Alloptic pledging $3 million investment in Wyoming FTTH project
- "802.11g Demonstrates White Lies of Wi-Fi"
- "Chip Startups Bank on EPON"
- "Chicago Strives to Get Wi-Fi Right, Not First"
- City of Quincy, Florida to offer broadband services
- "Verizon exec talks up FTTP"
- "At Last, the Web Hits 100 MPH "
- I'm away on vacation June 14 to June 21
- "Future coming fast for NK tribe"
- Tri-Cities Broadband
- St. Joseph, MO city council to receive laptops, free broadband access
- "Federal grants give tribes on-ramp to Internet highway"
- Large South African municipal utility may deploy powerline broadband city-wide
- Optical Solutions wins Pennsylvania project
- Wyoming cities mull $31 million FTTH system
- Morganton, NC's municipal cable TV system to offer advanced video on demand
- "Municipal Wi-Fi: No More Free Ride"
- Kitsap Public Utility District may develop telecommuting centers in conjunction with its' fiber optic network
- $300,000 federal grant will cover broadband access, 10 computers for village of Angoon, Alaska
- "The Wireless LANscape"
- UTOPIA presents feasibility study to Cedar Hills for FTTH network
- "Beyond WiFi: Airwaves used in creative, lucrative — and unregulated — ways"
- A new type of carrier emerges to provide fiber backhaul for broadband wireless networks
- Michigan school district saves $400,000 annually with new phone system, fiber network
- Grant County Public Utility District considering rate hike on FTTH network
- Japan Times article on increasing FTTH use in Japan
- NZ farmers wary of Telecom's broadband advances
- "Electric Companies Plug Homes Into the Internet"
- "OFS prepares to layoff more of workforce "
- Hammond, IN recruiting jobs to downtown with municipal fiber network
- Overview of rural broadband in New Zealand
- "Passave Announces Availability of Low Cost FTTH Chips"
- Huntsville, AL installing fiber-linked intelligent traffic system
- "BWE Targets Homeowner Associations to Bring Broadband Internet Services to Residential Customers"
- Access to fast Internet jumps by 50 percent in Iowa rural communities
- Interview with the head of Bell Labs
- Squaxin Island Tribe wins tech grant
- Two interesting Light Reading message board threads on FTTH
- Will Asia be the next broadband access battleground?
- Two wireless broadband articles worth reading:
- FTTH vendor Wave7 Optics granted RUS acceptance status
- Alcatel announces FTTH win in Canada
- Extending Kitsap PUD's fiber network to Bainbridge Island
- Poll of Lightwave readers reveals skepticism about Bells' fiber plans
- Wireless ISP wants Indiana town to lease it access to all city ROWs and structures for $1/year
- What the Bells said at SuperComm about FTTH
- Canadian government's "Smart Communities" web site
- "Do PON economics add up?"
- Tampa Electric finances continued expansion of its' Litestream fiber subsidiary
- CLEC market weak but not dead yet
- What does the Bells' FTTH initiative mean for Worldwide Packets?
- Very interesting analysis of the Bells' FTTH initiative
- Distance learning in the Arctic: Kangiqsualujjuaq students learn via satellite broadband
- "Mr. Peabody and Sherman try to save future of telecom"
- "Zip! Bang! Cheney fiber network could sizzle"
- FTTH vendor Wave7 Optics picked as one of Telecommunications magazine's "10 Hottest Startups"
- In Northern Ontario: "Rainy River studies broadband connectivity"
- Southern Phone up for a Telco award
- More information on the 3 largest Bells' intention to move ahead with FTTH (fiber to the home)
- Milwaukee offering free Wi-FI in 2 city parks
- Yankee Group issues a report analyzing FTTx prospects in Europe
- "Internet via power lines works, but years away"
- "Broadband through power lines may be a possibility for GRPUC customers"
- "Medford considers installing remote surveillance system"
- Selected Supercomm press releases:
- Motorola and Quantum Bridge teaming to offer FTTH technology
- Morristown Utility Systems considering entering cable TV business
- 300,000 video-conferencing customers linked by fiber in Milan, Italy
- Dalton, Georgia's City Council unanimously approves cable franchise for Dalton Utilities
- Profile of Corning's CEO
- Fiber test equipment vendor EXFO pares workforce
- Another article on the City of San Francisco's fiber-in-sewer trial
- ISP backed by power utility offering wireless broadband in Iowa cities
- Tasmanian fiber cable project cost increases
- No postings today -- I'm on the road
- ARRL concerned FCC may try to push powerline broadband at the expense of licensed spectrum holders
- Rural Texas county to install public-access computers around county
- "CableRunner launches pilot project to build San Francisco's city-owned Fiber-in-the-Sewer infrastructure"
- New Zealand ISP Wave announces further extensions to its' rural broadband wireless network
- "Broadband by Power Lines: Coming Soon?"
- City of Homestead, Florida extending municipal fiber system to new developments, hoping to spur FTTH development
- Sumitomo offers new generation of pigtails and patch cords
- City of Ottawa, Ontario to go-ahead with city-wide broadband network construction despite staff cut
- Bells now pledge to roll out fiber to the home ... over the next 20 to 30 years.
- $500 million federally-backed project to link rural Hawaiian Homeland communities with fiber
- Comcast battling City of San Jose's attempts to get access to its' fiber
- Dalton, Georgia to proceed with municipal cable system despite complaints from Charter
- Councils question cost over-runs on fiber system construction in New Zealand
- Southern Utah leaders discuss economic development and the importance of good fiber links
- Legal battle continues in Brazil over ownership of power utility and its' extensive fiber business
- Merrimack, NH asks AG to investigate Adelphia; may build competing municipal system
- Nashua, NH planning municipal fiber network
- Bristol Virginia Utilities Board to bring fiber to other SW Virginia counties
- Most broken links for the last several days should be fixed now.
- Scotland County, NC finishing up broadband access plan
- “Memphis Networx signs major carrier”
- “BellSouth, SBC, and Verizon to adopt common technical requirements for Fiber-to-the premises technology, formal RFPs on the horizon”
- Merrimack, NH residents fed up with Adelphia service; considering building municipal FTTH system
- More quibbling over Tasmanian government’s fiber project
- Silicon Investers’ discussions on investing in last mile access, FTTH
- Comcast gets interested in upgrading Glenwood Springs system -- now that it competes with the city.
- Lafayette, LA telco to remarket some of local municipal utility's fiber capacity
- “Joe Estrella: Cable attacks on munis a bust in state legislatures”
- Grant County PUD to apply for federal loan to continue FTTH expansion
- "Haysi, other localities to receive CDBG funds"
- Slashdot discussions on several community broadband network topics
- More on Greensboro, AL FTTH plans
- Profile of Newnan Utilities’ municipal broadband business
- Washington’s DC Net linking 400 city facilities with fiber
- “Broadband Over Power Lines?”
- Greensboro, AL FTTH network to be operational by December
- "Broadband Comes to Coffman Cove, Alaska"
- Storm Lake, Iowa School Board plans to go wireless
- Wave7 Wins Euro FTTH Deal
- "First-Mile Ethernet Enters Home Stretch"
- Another article on the City of Paris' planned city-wide Wi-Fi network
- Owensboro Municipal Utilities chooses Alvarion wireless products for its' broadband access business
- Coldwater Board of Public Utilities offering broadband access in neighboring towns
- Polish power utilities' telecommunications venture Tel-Energo grows
- "World Summit of PLC Associations on June 10 in Brussels"
- Coos-Curry Electric Coop considering fiber link with NoaNet
- "Broadband scarcity hurts economic development" in Northeast Florida
- La Plata County, Colorado linking facilities with fiber
- Telehealth may reduce Nunavut suicide rate
- Netherlands utility NUON cancels powerline broadband trials
- Network bonanza if Tasmania acts now
- Princeton, MA voters want connection to cable/Internet service
- Link to NY City Council’s telecom intitiative
- Optical Solutions wins FTTH project for planned community in Rosemount, MN
- No more posts until mid-day Monday, May 26, 2003
- Study details broadband in states
- “Eves government to provide affordable high-speed Internet to Kenora Region”
- It could be the Mother of all municipal broadband networks ...
- Municipal utility Sudbury Hydro’s fiber initiatives to lure high paying jobs
- St. George, Utah attracts a second fiber line into the area
- Broadband use high in Colorado; more capacity needed
- Enoch, Utah Mayor looks for UTOPIA funding
- Punta Gorda, Florida considers using sales tax dollars to fund city-county fiber links
- FTTH Google search statistics by month
- Four more articles on powerline broadband
- Must-read interview with Jim Baller
- More controversy on Tasmania's statewide fiber network
- A few small-town cable operators do more than just skim the cash and stonewall new technology
- City of Dalton, Georgia considers municipal utility's request for a franchise agreement to enter cable TV business
- Every town considering FTTH needs an Annie
- Fiber access critical in recruiting corporate HQ to Waverly, Iowa
- "SARS sends stay-at-home Chinese online"
- The U.K. government will not subsidize rural broadband networks
- "Instead of you calling 911, police may be calling you."
- Vandals attack electric coop's fiber line in New Mexico twice
- A textbook case of successful economic development in rural southwestern Virginia
- Florida using a fiber-networked surveillance and traffic signaling system to implement variable speed limits on I-4
- "Cities should join effort to bring Utopia to S. Utah"
- State of Maryland seeks to bring broadband to the under-served Eastern Shore
- "To put it in a very succinct manner, we're getting spanked by these people."
- Brief description of two USDA rural broadband projects in Alaska
- Henderson Municipal Power and Light expanding broadband network
- News from Down Under
- "Shock tactics" may enable broadband access via powerlines in rural U.K.
- Town of Haysi, VA receives grant for municipal fiber network
- Wireless Broadband described in Malaysia as a Yankee plot to dominate Asia
- Small fiber manufacturer FiberCore near bankruptcy
- "Forrester Research Media Alert: Who Will Network The Home?"
- Holland BPW's water, electric meters going reader-free
- FTTH show scheduled for early October in New Orleans
- Massive Utopia FTTH project in Utah on track to start construction late in year
- IEEE approves new standard for communications networking within substations
- "Utilities Turn Up The Juice On Power Line Communications"
- Utilities Turn Up The Juice On Power Line Communications
- “Nortel returns to profit while others lose out”
- Tacoma Power’s municipal Click! Network expanding into the nearby city of University Place
- More on community broadband initiatives in New Zealand
- “Being tech savvy part of life for Silicon Valley youth”
- NetMap USA project
- Corning introduces a new family of passive fiber interconnection products
- Wave7 Optics introduces new versions of two products in their “Last Mile Link” product family
- Change in federal GSA rules may streamline state and local purchasing
- "Pirelli Intros Singlemode Fiber"
- Muncie, Indiana looking to develop community-wide broadband
- City of Austin, Texas to expand fiber-linked traffic control system
- 4 Wisconsin municipalities may invite in HBC to overbuild and compete with Charter
- Consultant recommends Lindon, Utah join the UTOPIA fiber to the home project
- Neenah, Wisconsin installing new city phone system
- More on the Dept. of Agriculture's rural broadband grants
- Corning still expects to be profitable by fall of this year
- Excellent powerline broadband articles and links
- Charter moves to block or at least hinder competition from the City of Coldwater, MI
- City of Chattanooga merges its’ Internet and telecom businesses into one organization
- U.S.D.A. awards rural broadband grants
- Local entrepreneurs filling broadband gap in rural Delaware with wireless Internet service
- Dutchess County, NY trying to encourage broadband development with "Digital Dutchess" program
- “BCL and Walker Wireless settle spectrum dispute”
- “Wi-Fi hits New York”
- “BT to install wireless laptop links in pubs”
- Furukawa Electric and CommScope facing losses and cutbacks at their OFS fiber cable business
- Tasmanian plan to bury fiber to every house with new natural gas lines is under fire
- A good overview of cable-lashing technology
- "Paris Becoming World Wireless Leader "
- Greenville, SC installing 17 mile fiber network to support improved traffic signaling
- "Reigniting Corning"
- Dalton Utilities to offer fiber services to local customers
- Proposed Pennsylvania legislation may block Chambersburg's power utility from offering telecom services
- New nonprofit fiber network under construction in New York City
- Another article on Paris' proposed city-wide WiFi network
- "Addressing the Digital Divide with IPv6-enabled Broadband Power Line Communications"
- More articles on companies in Asia's reliance on broadband and videoconferencing to ride out SARS
- City of Fontana, California considering city-wide fiber network
- "SARS drives up demand for teleconferencing equipment"
- Morristown, Indiana to fund fiber links to town and school facilities
- City of Lexington, Kentucky launches fiber-networked traffic control system
- SARS epidemic in Asia causing dramatic increase in telecommuting and videoconferencing around the Pacific
- Hooking Us Up: Internet access blossoming in N.C.'s rural counties
- Palm Desert, California votes to establish a municipal utility
- "Telecommuting can improve productivity, savings"
- "Eskom executive killed in crash"
- Australia uses broadband videoconferencing to provide psychiatric services to underserved rural areas
- Not every fiber-networked traffic signaling system works right
- More on tornado damage to Aeneas Internet in Jackson, TN
- Jackson, TN FTTH opponent drops his lawsuit against Jackson Energy
- Benton Public Utility District to offer broadband wireless in Kennewick, Washington area
- New Hampshire town urged to consider a public-private FTTH network
- ITU sets international standard for sealed fiber optic closures used outdoors
- Summit County, Colorado's rural wireless broadband project delayed
- "Broadband: Utilities are testing a potentially revolutionary new system that transmits high- speed data over power lines."
- "Our concern is that if we don't get everybody on broadband Internet connections, we'll be the 'new Appalachia,' an eternal backwater."
- Princeton, Massachusetts residents to vote on FTTH at town meeting
- Wilkes-Barre entrepreneur's efforts to use abandoned municipal steam pipe for downtown fiber network may include suing the city
- Optical Solutions wins FTTH project with Ohio independent telco
- Fixed wireless broadband vendor WaveRider reports quarterly earnings
- "Power firm offers a bundle of broadband"
- "NTIA Administrator Lauds FCC for 'Broadband Over Power Line' Inquiry"
- Postings will continue to be sporadic until this weekend while I'm out in the field
- Wave7 Optics wins Illinois FTTx project
- A flurry of reports from Australia yesterday, courtesy of www.whirlpool.net.au:
- Train derailment cuts fiber cable, isolating nearby towns
- Two articles on fiber to the home in Grant County, Washington:
- I spoke to two powerline broadband vendors at the UTC Expo in Houston yesterday, getting two very different views:
- New ADSS drop cable targeted at fiber-to-the-home applications
- City of Lompoc, California conducting broadband feasibility study
- More information on Paris, France's plans to deploy a city wireless broadband system
- Corning to conduct big tender offer to cut debt
- Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to provide 10,000 field salespeople with home broadband connections
- Are FTTH and powerline broadband competitive or complementary technologies?
- Benton P.U.D. launching broadband wireless network with fiber backbone
- More information on Forrest County, Mississippi's fiber network connecting judicial facilities
- A voice from Batavia, IL
- Forrest County, Mississippi Makes Plans for New Fiber Optic Network
- Rural Oregon electric coop rolls out fixed wireless broadband to its' members
- State College Borough Council approves fiber-linked video surveillance network
- Fiber deployment forecast to level off in 2003 and rebound in 2004
- Power utility giant National Grid launching new U.S. telecom venture
- FTTH service provider and progressive telco Surewest testing VoIP
- Update on Southern Electric's powerline broadband trial in Winchester, England
- Project brings broadband access to rural Peru as a means of reducing poverty
- Further controversy stirred up by the loser in several NZ rural broadband projects
- CENIC's "On the Road to a Gigabit" award-winners announced in California
- Dutch telcos 'concerned' about local community broadband initiatives
- Mount Pleasant, Michigan building citywide Wi-FI network
- I'm still out of the office doing design work for a client, so expect delays in posting links this week.
- Ripley Power & Light building municipal backbone
- Divided local Republican opposition unlikely to derail Groton, CT's municipal cable efforts
- Lack of good broadband access blamed for stalled economy in parts of far northwest California
- More powerline broadband articles:
- Private group discusses building a fiber network for Hampton, NH
- Broadband in Korea
- Paris, France experimenting with municipal Wi-Fi
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama building fiber-linked video and traffic control system
- Traverse City, Michigan considering free downtown Wi-Fi access
- Fiber optic network comes online for Utah Valley cities
- "Amperion starts broadband over power line trial in N.C."
- City of St. George, Utah to partner with private company to build community fiber backbone using city's power system
- ARRL article on possible radio interference from powerline broadband
- Yesterday's demo of powerline broadband in Cape Girardeau, Missouri
- UTC Telecom Expo next week is a must-attend for utilities offering broadband services
- Borough of State College, Pennsylvania to install comprehensive video surveillance system linked with fiber
- GE Completes Acquisition of International Fiber Systems
- Tiny town on remote Alaskan island organizes to bring wireless broadband
- Wyandotte's municipal power utility to link schools with fiber
- E-NC working to bring Internet access to all
- Do DSL and broadband powerline cause radio interference?
- "PROBE Extends NZ Wireless Broadband "
- New Zealand power utility Vector adjusting fiber strategy
- "London's Soho to get blanket 802.11 cover for voice, data"
- Another article on the FCC's powerline broadband query
- City of Topeka and Shawnee County to share city's fiber network
- Fiber optics giant Corning sells $270 million in new stock
- Survey: Broadband Access Boosts Teleworker Productivity
- Chicago's massive CivicNet project may be trimmed
- Tiny Trion's municipal cable TV overbuild turns into a nightmare
- Expect posting delalys and gaps this week with this weblog
- Amsterdam FTTH project
- Clallam County Public Utility District Telecommunications project
- Sherman, Texas Council will eye paperless agendas
- Bloomington, Indiana's fiber network ties fire stations to city's GIS mapping system
- Profile of Counties Power's rural fiber/wireless broadband project in southern New Zealand
- Jackson, TN anti-fiber gadfly running for mayor
- Marconi emerges from bankruptcy, debt-free
- English municipal fiber network links 80 video cameras to secret command post
- Japanese satellite broadband company to start using fiber for some customers
- FTTH pioneer Grant County PUD's management catching some flak
- State of Indiana budgets $15 million for state fiber network
- Glenwood Springs, Colorado celebrates the startup of its' municipal broadband system
- The potential 'dark side' of powerline broadband
- "Firms call for open high-speed Net"
- UK city gets cheaper broadband via power lines
- Michigan municipal utility expands broadband offering to neighboring towns
- Provo's FTTH trial has gone very smoothly
- Good source of information on passive optical networks (PON)
- Truckee Donner Public Utility District obtains franchise to provide CATV service in Truckee
- Florida Power & Light's fiber optic network earns $5 million profit in 1st Quarter
- Senators introduce bill providing tax breaks to businesses offering broadband in rural areas
- Free Wi-Fi access in downtown Gainesville, Florida for now
- Bells continue investing less in their networks
- Commentary on the FCC's powerline broadband announcement today
- Nebraska college to link campuses with fiber
- Links to FCC statements today on powerline broadband
- Midland County, Michigan chools continue with plan to build countywide fiber network
- FCC moves formally and unanimously to pursue powerline broadband research
- "The battle over broadband"
- Economic TeleDevelopment Forum commentary on using wireless for municipal broadband systems
- NZ's Counties Power selects Remec for the wireless portion of its rural broadband system
- City of Windom, Minnesota deciding whether to deploy FTTH or a DSL system
- Fiber cable prices remain extraordinarily low and may creep back up a little -- buy now if you can
- Corning reports a first quarter loss; is their glass half empty or half full?
- Catch streaming audio of Corning's talk with Wall Street about it's outlook on the fiber market
- Collectivité ingénieuse de la Péninsule acadienne (CIPA) inc.
- Olympia, Washington studying local fiber needs
- Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant looking to fund FTTH roll-out
- Chelan County PUD's FTTH system
- Gainesville, Florida's fiber network
- Truckee Donner Public Utility District's FTTH project
- City of Winston-Salem offers free Wi-Fi service downtown
- Three rural broadband wireless projects in New Zealand may be held up by spectrum dispute
- Marietta Board of Light and Water's fiber subsidiary expanding into Atlanta
- Danish utility building FTTH network to serve 50,000 homes
- Another powerline broadband article
- Grundy, VA building FTTB system as it relocates entire downtown out of flood zone
- Springfield City Utilities delivering fiber services direct to local businesses
- Dalton Utilities considering entering cable TV business
- Louisiana legislature considering bills boosting rural broadband access
- Happy Easter -- we'll be back mid-day, Monday, April 21
- Morristown, Indiana still needs funds for fiber optic connection
- More on FTTx vendor Alloptic's plans
- Will Roy choose UTOPIA?
- State of Vermont orders Adelphia to honor broken commitments to extend service as previously agreed
- FCC assembles 'great minds' to ponder America's broadband lag
- Why municipal utilities usually use ADSS cable for their aerial fiber runs
- IEEE 1222 standard for ADSS cable on its' way to approval
- Will the FCC modify its' February 20 decision?
- Chicago Transit Authority building system wide wireless system for riders
- Broadband development efforts underway in Northern Canada
- Michigan: Midland, Bay and Saginaw Counties jointly developing a Regional Telecommunications Plan
- Fiber to the Dome ...
- Ugly tactics used to fight municipal broadband intiatives
- Small rural telcos are stable, profitable and innovative
- CIO Magazine note on Powerline Broadband
- Profile of Danville, Virginia's e-Dan project
- Easton Utilities' fiber system used to enhance healthcare in Eastern Maryland
- FTTH vendor Optical Solutions demonstrates interoprability with Taqua's Class 5 switch
- Business DSL rates likely to rise in wake of recent FCC ruling
- Powerline broadband discussion on Broadband Reports message board
- Dissecting Lancaster, Ohio's new franchise agreement with Time Warner
- Interesting Light reading posts on FTTH systems
- "Nonprofit nurtures ways to wire low-income areas"
- Talawanda School District approves fiber optic networking plan
- " 'Third' wire to bring broadband to rural areas"
- Obituary: Robert G. Berger, telecom attorney and CityNet founder
- Indiana to spend some of tobacco settlement money on fiber
- Another profile of Cinergy's powerline broadband trial
- Two more powerline broadband articles
- "Reedsburg Takes Telecom Matters Into Own Hands"
- So who is Jim Baller anyway?
- Links to an archive of PON (passive optical network) news
- SONET sales start to recover but DWDM growth will lag
- City of Calhoun, Georgia drops local telecom rates
- What's it like to be a FTTH (fiber to the home) user?
- Powerline Broadband vendor Ambient signs up Chilean utility for a trial
- City of Portland, OR may sue telecom carrier over unpaid franchise fees
- The big get bigger
- Profile of Cinergy's Powerline Broadband trial in Hyde Park
- Hanover, NH considering a FTTH (fiber to the home) network
- Furukawa introduces new fusion splicer for FTTH work
- CIR predicts steady but not dramatic growth in optical access market to $3 billion by 2007
- FTTH vendor Alloptic raises $35 million
- Profile of Amperion's powerline broadband system
- Butler County, Ohio avoids legislation that would have shut down its' fiber network
- New Smyrna Beach's municipally owned utility is offering broadband
- United Powerline Council (UPLC) links
- Morristown, Indiana Town Council tables fiber optic issue
- How to apply for a federal rural broadband grant
- Municipalities will drive 70% of FTTH builds in the U.S.
- Remote Northwestern Ontario communities need broadband access to remain viable economically
- State of Montana struggling with legal issues in aftermath of Touch America debacle
- City of Geneva, IL to push ahead with municipal fiber network
- More info on 'Fiber to the throne' builder CityNet's investment in Universal Access Global Holdings
- Tasmanian government's fiber backbone tied up in wrangling over a gas pipeline project
- The case for slow, 56k modems
- Fiber to the desktop a growing market
- Numerous articles in today's papers regarding powerline broadband
- 2 Shelbyville, IN area governments investing in joint fiber build with Hancock Telephone
- Broadband-over-Power Lines press release
- 'Fiber to the Throne' (FTTT) City Net branches out
- Broadband or 'fraudband'?
- Latest issue of Fiber to the Home E-zine available on-line
- "North Kansas City is building future on fiber optics"
- "The Network For Living In"
- IBM teaming with builder to offer fiber-networked homes in Roanoke
- Electric utility brings broadband to rural western Kansas
- "BroadLight unveils three-part PON solution priced at less than $70"
- More articles on broadband intiatives in New Zealand
- "The Comcast shakedown"
- "Why telecom rocks on the Island"
- Fiber networks link "dirty bomb" detectors
- "A Cold, Cold WISP"
- "Last-mile rivals pressure cable"
- Sprint to build FTTH system for resort in Orlando area
- "Is MPLS Trustworthy?"
- "Wireless vendors plan cheap, high-speed MANs"
- Gas utility AGL's telecom subsidiary appoints senior officer
- Tasmanian government may sell some business to fund fiber network
- ESMO Conference
- Bill in Texas legislature to eliminate regulatory oversight of Verizon, SBC broadband services
- New London, Wisconsin utility wants license for cable
- Dissatisfaction in Massachusetts with the cable license transfer process as Comcast takes over AT&T systems
- "Cow Valley Communications"
- VPI makes available comprehensive study of rural Virginia broadband needs and technology
- Norwood, MA government figuring out how to oversee 2 competing cable companies in one town
- Update on Alameda's new municipal broadband system
- "Ottawa to invest $2 million to get Nunavik online "
- Australian start-up to roll out fiber broadband access products and services
- Willacy County, Texas linking schools with wireless broadband using $250,000 Internet grant
- "Web sale: MasTec auctions off fiber optic equipment"
- State government in Malaysia to develop "smart community"
- FTTx vendor raises $14 million
- Telecom NZ promises to speed up broadband deployment ...
- Princeton, MA residents to consider municipal broadband network at town meeting
- Local government steps up to bring broadband in many parts of Britain
- Indiana leaders considering plans for statewide fiber network
- Modesto Bee endorses new city fiber network
- St. Charles, IL may still deploy limited fiber network after FTTH defeat in referendum
- Snoqualmie Valley School District to link schools with district-wide fiber network
- Australian government investigating power line broadband technology
- Rural Rainy River area of Ontario seeking federal funds for broadband project
- Japanese utility Kansai Electric Power serves 40,000 FTTH customers
- Former AT&T broadband customers upset by big Comcast price hikes
- British power company Scottish and Southern Energy buys Ethernet service provider Neosnetworks
- Optical Solutions wins FTTH project in Montana
- House bill introduced to fix the Universal Service Fund (USF)
- Rural Broadband on the Agenda at ISPCON event
- Warren County, Kentucky schools wiring up with fiber
- FTTH referendum fails in Illinois Tri-Cities
- Modesto City Council sticks with cable TV company but backs off of levying cable TV fee
- "Turin, LastMile Team on Access"
- More dissatisfied former AT&T/current Comcast customers
- "Home Networking Market Poised To Explode"
- Owners of big Brazilian utelco Electronet S.A. arguing over company's laibilities
- Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant Commission extending its' fiber network
- Bristol Virginia Utilities Board (BVUB) gets legal greenlight to offer cable TV over its' FTTH system
- Kane County voters voting today in referendum on FTTH project
- Two more articles on running fiber in gas pipelines
- Two publicly-owned rural utilities rolling out another broadband project in New Zealand
- Fayetteville [Tennessee] Public Utilities Telecommunications Division offering Internet service to customers
- "Charter Communications Posts Huge Loss, Restates Results "
- City of Modesto, California considering levying a fee on cable TV users to fund municipal fiber network
- Rejuventated Ricochet Wireless offering wireless "broadband" in selected markets
- Siloam Springs, Arkansas schools working with municipal utility to link schools
- Planned community in Issaquah, WA with fiber to every home
- Broadband prices declined in 2002
- SBC moving forward with IP telephony trials
- "Sempra builds first commercial fiber-in-gas link"
- More on 360network's purchase of Dynegy's telecom business
- Is Voice over IP (VoIP) ready to offer adequate quality?
- "Fiber to the Throne"
- FTTx vendor Alloptic signs deal with N.Y.-based carrier
- New municipal fiber optic network proposed for Jacksonville, Florida
- Three more reports on broadband projects in New Zealand
- SBC "taking it's football and going away" in rural Indiana
- "It's all about the Last Mile: Give us 100Mbps"
- 5 good articles from Fibre Systems magazine
- Another article on rural broadband in the Wairarapa and Tararua of New Zealand
- Dispute between SBC and Caltrans is hindering North California broadband expansion
- "Who will hook up your house?"
- Minnesota municipal power provider Grand Rapids Public Utilities moving to remote meter reading by radio.
- Onalaska, Holmen and West Salem fed up with Charter; trying to recruit a second cable TV company
- Holland Board of Public Works connecting Holland and Ottawa County, Michigan schools with fiber connectivity
- Remote Scottish islands Westray and Papa Westray building community wireless broadband networks
- Another roll-out of high-speed community broadband systems in Irish towns
- Riverstone Networks supporting NoaNet's regional public service fiber network
- Energy utility Dynegy selling telecom business
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