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Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 205
This is Episode 205 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Westfield, Massachusetts, now has its own community network Whip City Fiber. To learn more, Chris spoke with Operations Manager Aaron Bean and Key Accounts & Customer Service Manager Sean Fitzgerald.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 252
This is the transcript for Episode 252 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 283
This is the transcript for episode 283 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Stephen Barraclough joins the show to discuss lessons learned from Burlington, Vermont's network Burlington Telecom. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 314
This is the transcript for episode 314 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. John Gavan and Brad Harding from Colorado join the show to discuss economic development, electric cooperatives, and broadband service.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 163
Thanks to Jeff Hoel for this transcript of Episode 163 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Tim Miles, the Technology Director at Steamboat Springs and South Routt School Districts, explains the purpose of carrier-neutral locations and the savings to community anchor institutions.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 176
This is Episode 176 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Chris speaks with Fletcher Kittredge of GWI about the "Maine model" for community fiber networks. Listen to this episode here.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 208
This is episode 208 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. John Brown, the president of CityLink Telecommunications, joins the show to discuss the Internet of Things and public-private partnerships.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 255
This is the transcript for episode 255 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Christopher Mitchell speaks with Kyle Hollifield of Magellan Advisors, a consulting group that works on community networks, about the importance of marketing.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 286
This is the transcript for episode 286 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. The staff of the Community Broadband Networks Initiative sit down to discuss the good and the bad of 2017 and what they expect down the road in 2018.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 317
This is the transcript for episode 317 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. In this episode, Christopher Mitchell and Hannah Trostle discuss our recently released report Profiles of Monopoly: Big Cable and Telecom.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 170
This is Episode 170 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Chris interviews John Bowcut, director of information systems and network director for the Spanish Fork Community Network on how the 14-year-old municipal coax cable network is upgrading to fiber.
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 258
This is the transcript for episode 258 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. Researchers from the Roosevelt Institute join our host Christopher Mitchell to discuss antitrust policy and Internet access.
Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 289
This is the transcript for episode 289 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast. David Talbot from the Berkman Klein Center joins the show to discuss a report on consumer prices and municipal networks. Listen to this episode here.
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 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 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.
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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.