Central Access tells Chilton County commission grant-funded broadband work will finish this summer Connie Bainbridge of Central Access reported the cooperative is close to completing grant-funded broadband construction in Chilton County this summer, cited about 24,000 cooperative members across the service territory and take rates ranging roughly 38–70%.

Central Access is on the verge of transforming internet access in Chilton County, with grant-funded broadband construction wrapping up this summer for thousands of residents!

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#ChiltonCounty #AL #CommunityBroadband

County says 99.9% of locations will have broadband by fiscal year end; remaining households to be served via state program Albemarle County announced it is nearing universal broadband access, reporting that 99.9% of locations are expected to be connected by the end of the fiscal year and that the state's BEED program will serve the remaining 0.1% of households.

Albemarle County is on the brink of achieving universal broadband access, with an impressive 99.9% of locations set to be connected soon!

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#AlbemarleCounty #VA #CommunityBroadband #DigitalAccess #EquityInternet #CitizenPortal

A directional boring machine sits on a grassy lot near the edge of the road where the Northeast Oklahoma Electric Cooperative is expanding its fiber network

In northeast Okla., state broadband officials have partnered w/several providers on fiber expansion. That includes a $1.4 million grant for BOLT Fiber, a subsidiary the Northeast Oklahoma Electric Cooperative

#CommunityBroadband once again rises to occasion

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Red Billboard for the muncipally-owned MINET Fiber that uses a comic book like cover to advertise their offerings: "Flash Forward to the Future of the Internet" 500 MB $59.99 per month/1.0 Gig $84.99 per month: In the center of the billboard is "2.5 Gigs for $129.99 per month." At bottom is Minetfiber.com and the business phone number 503-831-0700

On our latest podcast @sportshotchris.bsky.social welcomes PJ Armstrong to discuss the innovative ways the municipal network MINET is expanding connectivity in Oregon

Tune in to hear how MINET is riding the rising #communitybroadband wave

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As big fans of publicly-owned open access networks, what
@karlbode.com reports here about Bell Canada/Ziply snatching up a sizable swath of the Pacific Northwest market is...how to put it?

Worth keeping 👀 on, maybe?

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#CommunityBroadband #OpenAccess #NextNetworks

Zotero | Your personal research assistant

New resources added to the community-centered #connectivity #Zotero Library: www.zotero.org/groups/24036...

PDFs and web snapshots can be accessed by joining the group.

Contributions welcome!

#communitynetworks #communitybroadband #internetaccess #meaningfulconnectivity #connectheunconnected

Big Telecom Is Once Again Using Fake Consumer Groups To Attack Community Owned Broadband Networks Annoyed by the kind of expensive, shitty, slow, and spotty broadband access caused by limited competition and monopoly power, hundreds of U.S. communities have been building their own broadband net…

Big Telecom Is Once Again Using Fake Consumer Groups To Attack Community Owned Broadband Networks | Techdirt

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#CommunityBroadband #DissolveBigTelecom #RenewACP #S4317 #HR6929