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Digital 395 fiber draws a last mile crowd in eastern California

Faster residential and business broadband service – including gigabit-class fiber-to-the-home service in some communities – is following in the wake of the Digital 395 project, an open access middle...

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Chattanooga forces Wheeler’s hand: tear down muni broadband barriers

The City of Chattanooga formally asked the FCC yesterday to throw out a Tennessee state law that prevents it from extending its fiber-to-the-home network to surrounding areas. In doing so, the city is...

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Muni advocates need to be careful what they wish for at the FCC

If you like the idea of cities and other local agencies encouraging broadband development and deciding to go into the business themselves – as I do – then FCC chair Tom Wheeler’s talk about sweeping...

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Google’s bootprint in Austin won’t be Texas-sized

Click for a somewhat bigger version. Google Fiber plans to start offering gigabit service in a handful of Austin neighborhoods in December. That’s the word from a press conference held by Google...

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Enthusiasm builds for Nevada County FTTH project, hope is money will follow

A standing room only crowd turned out in Nevada City on Thursday evening to celebrate the kick-off of a $28 million fiber-to-the-home project. As proposed, it would bring a full gigabit – up and down...

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FCC squeezes the AT&T GigaWeasel

Sneak peak at AT&T’s response. The FCC slapped back at AT&T on Friday, demanding it turn over information describing exactly what it means when it says it’s going to build fiber to 2 million...

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Google’s small business gigabit enables e-commerce for a few dollars more

Click for a bigger version. An extra $30 or so gets you a commercially usable gigabit connection from Google. That’s the deal being rolled out to small businesses in a few districts of the Kansas City...

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Google Fiber sticks to $70 for a gig in Austin, TV costs more

Google Fiber is taking sign-ups in limited areas in the Austin, Texas area. Following the same path it took in the Kansas City area, Google says it’ll pick which neighborhoods – fiberhoods as it calls...

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Decision time nears for Google Fiber expansion

With Austin done and dusted, the next big decision point on Google’s fiber-to-the-home odyssey is: which cities will make the short list for the next round of builds? Back in May, after the deadline...

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No Google Fiber in Christmas stockings for hopeful cities

Naughty or nice? Google won’t say. The 34 communities across the U.S. that were hoping Google would come down the chimney yesterday and leave a fiber-to-the-home project under the tree will have to...

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