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Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 179
This is Episode 179 of the Community Broadband Podcasts. Julia Griffin of Hanover, New Hampshire, joins the show to discuss how open access networks encourage economic development and special assessment districts can fund needed infrastructure.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 211
This is Episode 211 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Fort Collins, Colorado, has opted out of a state law preventing community from building networks. Mayor Troxell joins the show to talk about what's happening now.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 261
This is the transcript for episode 261 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Dane Jasper of Sonic joins the show to discuss how the company, publicly-owned infrastructure, and public-private partnerships. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 292
This is the transcript for episode 292 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Ernie Staten of FairlawnGig in Fairlawn, Ohio, joins the show to discuss what the city's learned from running its own municipal fiber network.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 326
This is the transcript for episode 326 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. In this episode, Christopher talks with representatives from the City of Mont Belvieu, Texas, about their community fiber network MB Link.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 166
This is Episode 166 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Chris interviews Jason Grey, Interim Director of Utilities for Danville, Virginia, about the incremental build out of the nDanville open access network. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 182
This is the transcript for Episode 182 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Chris interviews Mike Lang, David Young, and Steve Huggenberger from Lincoln, Nebraska, on conduit policy as a way to encourage competition. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 214
This is episode 214 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. The CEO of GWI joins Christopher Mitchell to discuss last mile and middle mile networks. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 264
This is the transcript for episode 264 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Mason Carroll and Preston Rhea join Christopher Mitchell on the show to talk about their work at Monkeybrains, an urban wireless Internet Service Provider.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 295
This is the transcript for episode 295 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 329
This is the transcript for Community Broadband Bits episode 329. In this episode, recorded at the 2018 Broadband Communities Economic Development Conference in Ontario, California, Christopher talks with Deb Socia of Next Century Cities and Bob Knight of Harrison Edwards about political will and community broadband projects.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 130
This is Episode 130 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Christopher Mitchell and Lisa Gonzalez perform a skit on customer service. Listen to this episode here.
Chris: Oh, we're recording, what do you know?
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 185
This is Episode 185 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Chris debates Ryan Radia, Associate Director of Technology Studies at the Competitive Enterpise Institute, on local governments, Internet access, and bandwidth caps.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 217
This is episode 217 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Christopher Mitchell and Lisa Gonzalez discuss the recent case of Tennessee and North Carolina versus the FCC. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 267
This is the transcript for episode 267 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Michael Anderson from Spiral Internet joins the show to explain how this small ISP is building next-generation networks in rural California.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 298
This is the transcript for episode 298 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Christopher Mitchell interviews Jeremy Hansen from Berlin, Vermont, on how he organized for a Communications Union District in Central Vermont.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 332
This is the transcript for episode 332 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Dalton, Georgia, has been offering high-speed connectivity to residents and businesses for over a decade, and for this episode, Christopher finally gets a chance to speak with Hank Blackwood from Dalton Utilities about their fiber network OptiLink.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 17
This is Episode 17 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Joe Knapp, IT director for Sandy, Oregon, describes a unique idea for fiber deployment for SandyNet. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 187
This is Episode 187 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Andrew Blum, author of Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet published in 2012, joins the show to describe his tour of the infrastructure of the Internet.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 220
This is episode 220 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. CEO David Corrado of Medina County Fiber Network in Ohio joins the show to discuss the role of the county's fiber infrastructure and their work with Internet service providers.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 270
This is the transcript for episode 270 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Professor Barbara Cherry goes into detail on the history of common carriage and telecommunications law. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 301
This is the transcript for Episode 301 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. US Internet serves much of Minneapolis with fiber and wireless services. Travis Carter joins the show to discuss how the company does it.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 335
This is the transcript for episode 335 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. In this episode Christopher speaks with Councilor Joel McAuliffee about efforts to establish a municipal fiber network in Chicopee, Massachusetts.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 3
This is Episode 3 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Todd Marriott and Pete Ashdown join the show to discuss the benefits of the network UTOPIA and how an open access model actually works. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 14
This is Episode 14 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. In this show, Bob Frankston describes the essence of the Internet and the importance of community-owned broadband network. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 191
This is the transcript for Episode 191 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Huntsville, Alabama, recently announced the deployment of Dark Fiber on which Google will offer services.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 238
This is the transcript for episode 238 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. David Young, joins the show from Lincoln, Nebraska, to explain how the community is using small cell technology. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 273
This is the transcript for episode 273 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Grace Simrall and Chris Seidt of Louisville, Kentucky, join the show to discuss how their community is taking advantage of the statewide network KentuckyWired.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 304
This is the transcript for episode 304 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Saul Tannenbaum of Cambridge, Massachusetts, joins the show to discuss the citizens organization Upgrade Cambridge.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 339
This is the transcript for episode 339 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. In this episode, Christopher Mitchell speaks with Nancy DiGidio and Glenn Fishbine from NEO Partners LLC about the Community Networks Quickstart program, which is a collaborative project of the Community Broadband Networks Initiative and NEO Partners.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 159
Thanks to Jeff Hoel for providing the transcript for Episode 159 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast with Dave Spencer from NoaNet, the Northwest Open Access Network. Listen to this episode here.
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Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 11
This is Episode 11 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Steve Reneker explains the fiber network in Riverside, California and the non-profit organization SmartRiverside's digital inclusion program. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 194
This is Episode 194 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Chris speaks with Travis Carter of local Internet Service Provider US Internet in Minneapolis. Travis describes how this local ISP builds networks to serve the community.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 241
This is episode 241 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. John Bergmayer from Public Knowledge joins the show to talk about the "bundle" in the cable industry. Are cable bundles a bargain as advertised? What do customers want? Listen to this episode here.
Transcript for Ammon Fiber Launch Event: Christopher Mitchell
Christopher Mitchell, Director, Community Broadband Networks:
https://youtu.be/YvBTjaoPRuc?t=2h29m58s
Hello everyone. I'm Chris Mitchell.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 307
This is the transcript for episode 307 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Financing a municipal network project doesn't have to be a challenge. Tom Coverick of KeyBanc Capital Markets explains what Brigham City, Utah, did to expand the Utopia open access network.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 30
Thanks to Jeff Hoel for the transcript of Episode 30 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Jason Bird, the Electrical Superintendent of the City of Princeton, Illinois, explains how the city saved jobs and created a unique network that provides broadband over powerlines.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 7
This is Episode 7 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Mary Beth Henry joins the show to discuss efforts to improve broadband access in Portland, Oregon. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 197
This is Episode 197 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Charles Barr and Lauren Saine from Webpass join the show to describe their approach to competition and networking. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 244
This is the transcript for Episode 244 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 278
This is the transcript for Community Broadband Bits podcast episode 278.
Suddenlink's Bad Behavior in Pinetops May Indicate A Troubled Future: Legislature Sides With Big Cable
Rural Pinetop residents are getting a glimpse of the treatment they are going to receive from Suddenlink, even before the ISP has started offering service in the small North Carolina community. According to locals, Suddenlink subcontractors are busting water mains, connecting fiber without homeowner permission, and spreading lies about the Town’s favored community-broadband pr
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 28
Thanks to Jeff Hoel for providing the transcript for Episode 28 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Bruce Kushnick of the New Networks Institute on the history of big telecom. Listen to this episode here.
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Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 4
This is Episode 4 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Kevin Kryzda, the Chief Information Officer for Martin County, describes how the community created an institutional network. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 200
This is Episode 200 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Lisa returns to the show for another episode of Crazy Talk. Chris and Lisa skewer a recent report from a telco-funded think tank. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 247
This is the transcript for Community Broadband Bits Episode 247. Ken Demlow of Newcom Technologies chats with Christopher Mitchell about what happened in Nashville and why poles are important for fiber. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 249
This is the transcript for Episode 249 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. We have a returning guest, Alyssa Clemsen-Roberts of the Pedernales Electric Cooperative in Texas. She provides a first-hand perspective of the decisions and challenges facing electric cooperatives.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 281
This is the transcript for Episode 281 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Will Rinehart of the American Action Forum in Washington D.C. discusses telecommunications and economics with our host Christopher Mitchell.