web theory Traverse City, MI braves the wrath of telcoms lobbyists, pushes ahead with municipal fiber network Cory Doctorow

happy mutants America's Fiber Future: Susan Crawford on how America's wired future is slipping away Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Small Massachusetts town decides to spend $1.4m building its own fiber, rather than paying Comcast $500K for shitty broadband Cory Doctorow

videos Cable operator Fidelity Communications admits it that secretly created the fake-grassroots "Stop City-Funded Internet" campaign to kill Missouri municipal net Cory Doctorow

web theory San Francisco may finally get decent internet access, thanks to municipal fiber Cory Doctorow

Business Frontier, a terrible company, is going bankrupt Cory Doctorow

Business Charter/Spectrum sold customers expensive home security systems, then killed the program and left them high and dry Cory Doctorow

kentucky One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism AT&T disconnects whole families from the internet because someone in their house is accused of copyright infringement Cory Doctorow

trumpism Trump FCC official publicly lying about censorship on municipal broadband Cory Doctorow

gop After killing disaster-recovery rules, Ajit Pai can't understand why carriers aren't helping hurricane-hit Florida Cory Doctorow

cable company fuckery Everybody hates their cable company, unless the company is Google, or the city, or a tiny mom-and-pop Cory Doctorow

corruption Despite the FCC, more than 750 predominantly conservative US communities have built their own publicly owned ISPs Cory Doctorow

roll your own Study finds municipal broadband is up to 50% cheaper than telcos Clive Thompson

cable company fuckery Cities want to opportunistically lay fiber lines during big digs, but Koch dark money is trying to stop them Cory Doctorow

web theory Net Neutrality is just for starters: municipal networks are the path to paradise Cory Doctorow

gop After North Carolina Republicans banned cities selling internet, a town decided to give it away instead Cory Doctorow

canada Toronto's mayor demands an end to competition for fast, affordable broadband Cory Doctorow