Connect This! https://connectthisshow.com Connect This! offers an irreverent and inside look at broadband tech and policy. Each week features people with direct experience building networks or working on policy to improve broadband access. We talk about current events and focus on a big topic for half of each episode. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:39:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://connectthisshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cropped-Connect-This-Show-32x32.png Connect This! https://connectthisshow.com 32 32 Institute for Local Self-Reliance yes Copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license Copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license podcast Connect This! https://connectthisshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/ConnectThisFinal-02.png https://connectthisshow.com 4790a23b-e1de-5354-8fa3-19374de9c957 240083669 broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadbandConnect This! offers an irreverent and inside look at broadband tech and policy. Each week features people with direct experience building networks or working on policy to improve broadband access. We talk about current events and focus on a big topic for half of each episode.In-Depth Broadband Tech and Policybroadband@muninetworks.orgInstitute for Local Self-Reliance Farewell to Connect This! https://connectthisshow.com/2026/04/farewell-to-connect-this/ Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:37:13 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=841 https://connectthisshow.com/2026/04/farewell-to-connect-this/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2026/04/farewell-to-connect-this/feed/ 0 After five and a half years, dozens of guests, two emergency episodes, and 124 shows, we’re saying goodbye to Connect This!. We want to thank you all, from the bottom of our collective heart, for joining us on this journey. Across the live stream and audio versions of this show, we’ve been delighted and surprised each year to get nearly 10,000 listens as we’ve talked about building and managing networks, competition in the marketplace, creating clear and effective marketing campaigns, state and federal infrastructure grant programs, dark money campaigns, local broadband champions, affordability, digital skills, and more. Thank you to all of the guests who have lent their time and expertise to the show. We couldn’t have done it without you.

We’re taking the energy you all have given us and the lessons we’ve learned over to Unbuffered, our new show at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, which talks about all the ways that communications and data technology shapes our lives and our communties – from Internet access, to devices, to privacy and surveillance, and more. Unbuffered combines the format and ethos of both Connect This! and the Community Broadband Bits podcast, where we recorded almot 700 episodes over a ten-year run. Community broadband will remain at the core of what we do here, but the world is a bigger, more complicated place than it was a decade ago, and new challenges call for new approaches to meet them.

Special thanks for Travis Carter, co-founder of the show, and Doug Dawson and Kim McKinley, for sharing their experience and knowledge as we continue to move the needle towards fast, affordable Internet access for every household that wants it.

]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 2:51 841 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)After five and a half years, dozens of guests, two emergency episodes, and 124 shows, we’re saying goodbye to Connect This!. We want to thank you all, from the bottom of our collective heart, for joining us on this journey. Across the live stream and audio versions of this show, we’ve been delighted and surprised each year to get nearly 10,000 listens as we’ve talked about building and managing networks, competition in the marketplace, creating clear and effective marketing campaigns, state and federal infrastructure grant programs, dark money campaigns, local broadband champions, affordability, digital skills, and more. Thank you to all of the guests who have lent their time and expertise to the show. We couldn’t have done it without you. We’re taking the energy you all have given us and the lessons we’ve learned over to Unbuffered, our new show at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, which talks about all the ways that communications and data technology shapes our lives and our communties – from Internet access, to devices, to privacy and surveillance, and more. Unbuffered combines the format and ethos of both Connect This! and the Community Broadband Bits podcast, where we recorded almot 700 episodes over a ten-year run. Community broadband will remain at the core of what we do here, but the world is a bigger, more complicated place than it was a decade ago, and new challenges call for new approaches to meet them. Special thanks for Travis Carter, co-founder of the show, and Doug Dawson and Kim McKinley, for sharing their experience and knowledge as we continue to move the needle towards fast, affordable Internet access for every household that wants it.After five and a half years, dozens of guests, two emergency episodes, and 124 shows, we’re saying goodbye to Connect This!. We want to thank you all, from the bottom of our collective heart, for joining us on this journey. Across the live stream and audio versions of this show, we’ve been delighted and surprised each year to get nearly 10,000 listens as we’ve talked about building and managing networks, competition in the marketplace, creating clear and effective marketing campaigns, state and federal infrastructure grant programs, dark money campaigns, local broadband champions, affordability, digital skills, and more. Thank you to all of the guests who have lent their time and expertise to the show. We couldn’t have done it without you. We’re taking the energy you all have given us and the lessons we’ve learned over to Unbuffered, our new show at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, which talks about all the ways that communications and data technology shapes our lives and our communties – from Internet access, to devices, to privacy and surveillance, and more. Unbuffered combines the format and ethos of both Connect This! and the Community Broadband Bits podcast, where we recorded almot 700 episodes over a ten-year run. Community broadband will remain at the core of what we do here, but the world is a bigger, more complicated place than it was a decade ago, and new challenges call for new approaches to meet them. Special thanks for Travis Carter, co-founder of the show, and Doug Dawson and Kim McKinley, for sharing their experience and knowledge as we continue to move the needle towards fast, affordable Internet access for every household that wants it.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Small Towns Building Broadband, Broadband Usage, and the Continued Retreat from Fiber | Episode 124 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2025/12/small-towns-building-broadband-broadband-usage-and-the-continued-retreat-from-fiber-episode-124-of-the-connect-this-show/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:42:32 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=835 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/12/small-towns-building-broadband-broadband-usage-and-the-continued-retreat-from-fiber-episode-124-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2025/12/small-towns-building-broadband-broadband-usage-and-the-continued-retreat-from-fiber-episode-124-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (Tak Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print.

Topics include:

Join us live on November 20th at 3pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

Email us at broadband@communitynetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:17:01 835 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (Tak Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Topics include: A new report from ILSR on 19 small towns in Massachusetts building public partnerships and new fiber networks. Massive AWS and Cloudflare outages impacting large parts of the Internet The new broadband usage report from OpenVault 18 states so far have finally gotten NTIA approval after redoing most of the work from last summer, with the result being fewer homes will be passed by the BEAD program and, of those, a smaller proportion will get fiber than under Biden. The latest attempt to hamstring any state regulation of AI by tying BEAD approval to the measure Join us live on November 20th at 3pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (Tak Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Topics include: A new report from ILSR on 19 small towns in Massachusetts building public partnerships and new fiber networks. Massive AWS and Cloudflare outages impacting large parts of the Internet The new broadband usage report from OpenVault 18 states so far have finally gotten NTIA approval after redoing most of the work from last summer, with the result being fewer homes will be passed by the BEAD program and, of those, a smaller proportion will get fiber than under Biden. The latest attempt to hamstring any state regulation of AI by tying BEAD approval to the measure Join us live on November 20th at 3pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband The Retreat from Fiber, Local Government Inaction, and 8 Million Americans Offline | Episode 123 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2025/10/the-retreat-from-fiber-local-government-inaction-and-8-million-americans-offline-episode-123-of-the-connect-this-show/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:59:39 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=829 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/10/the-retreat-from-fiber-local-government-inaction-and-8-million-americans-offline-episode-123-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2025/10/the-retreat-from-fiber-local-government-inaction-and-8-million-americans-offline-episode-123-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (Tak Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Topics include:

Join us live on October 24th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.

]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:10:08 829 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (Tak Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Topics include: Now that final Benefit of the Bargain numbers are in on the BEAD program, the trend is clear: tens of thousands of locations will no longer see any federal solution, and nearly a million more will get worse and more expensive satellite service rather the fiber. With BEAD now a shadow of what it could be, it’s never been more apparent that local governments need to step into the gap. Where are they all? A new report claiming just 8 million Americans remain offline as of 2025 shows the trouble of asking too simple of questions and accepting too simple of answers in describing the problem of the digital divide. Join us live on October 24th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (Tak Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Topics include: Now that final Benefit of the Bargain numbers are in on the BEAD program, the trend is clear: tens of thousands of locations will no longer see any federal solution, and nearly a million more will get worse and more expensive satellite service rather the fiber. With BEAD now a shadow of what it could be, it’s never been more apparent that local governments need to step into the gap. Where are they all? A new report claiming just 8 million Americans remain offline as of 2025 shows the trouble of asking too simple of questions and accepting too simple of answers in describing the problem of the digital divide. Join us live on October 24th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Big Apple Connect, Pole Attachments, and DEA Lawsuits | Episode 122 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2025/10/recent-broadband-news-episode-122-of-the-connect-this-show/ Fri, 03 Oct 2025 22:16:20 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=823 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/10/recent-broadband-news-episode-122-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2025/10/recent-broadband-news-episode-122-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Edit: We encountered a technical issue with the streaming platform for the show; it resolves around 1:20.

Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (Tak Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Angela Siefer to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. On the docket today:

Join us live on October 10th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.

Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.

]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:10:29 823 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Edit: We encountered a technical issue with the streaming platform for the show; it resolves around 1:20. Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (Tak Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Angela Siefer to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. On the docket today: Cedar Falls Utilities in Iowa shuts down its cable TV offerings Big Apple Connect in New York City continues to give public dollars to broadband monopolies instead of implementing a structural solution A new report says SpaceX has foreign investors in China West Virginia wants to build a pole attachment database, but investor-owned utilities are pushing back The National Digital Inclusion Alliance has filed its lawsuit against the Trump Administration for cancelling the Digital Equity Act Join us live on October 10th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Edit: We encountered a technical issue with the streaming platform for the show; it resolves around 1:20. Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (Tak Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Angela Siefer to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. On the docket today: Cedar Falls Utilities in Iowa shuts down its cable TV offerings Big Apple Connect in New York City continues to give public dollars to broadband monopolies instead of implementing a structural solution A new report says SpaceX has foreign investors in China West Virginia wants to build a pole attachment database, but investor-owned utilities are pushing back The National Digital Inclusion Alliance has filed its lawsuit against the Trump Administration for cancelling the Digital Equity Act Join us live on October 10th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Secret Fiber Caps and Fiber Platforms | Episode 121 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2025/09/recent-broadband-news-episode-121-of-the-connect-this-show/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:31:52 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=813 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/09/recent-broadband-news-episode-121-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2025/09/recent-broadband-news-episode-121-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Josh Johnson and Donny Smith, from Fibersmith –  an OSS/BSS design and management firm for operators around the country. Topics of discussion  include:

Join us live on September 26th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.

Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.

]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:11:30 813 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Josh Johnson and Donny Smith, from Fibersmith –  an OSS/BSS design and management firm for operators around the country. Topics of discussion  include: Secret fiber caps from NTIA to push BEAD funds toward LEO. A foiled cell attack in New York City. A deep dive on Fibersmith, and the things small and medium-sized operators need to think about long before they put their first shovel in the ground. Join us live on September 26th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Josh Johnson and Donny Smith, from Fibersmith –  an OSS/BSS design and management firm for operators around the country. Topics of discussion  include: Secret fiber caps from NTIA to push BEAD funds toward LEO. A foiled cell attack in New York City. A deep dive on Fibersmith, and the things small and medium-sized operators need to think about long before they put their first shovel in the ground. Join us live on September 26th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Fiber Acquisitions and the New BEAD Numbers Are In | Episode 120 of the Connect This! https://connectthisshow.com/2025/09/recent-broadband-news-episode-120-of-the-connect-this-show/ Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:59:40 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=809 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/09/recent-broadband-news-episode-120-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2025/09/recent-broadband-news-episode-120-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Topics include:

Join us live on September 5th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:09:37 809 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Topics include: Starship launch success T-mobile buys USI Fiber in Minneapolis New BEAD numbers show a shifting of public dollars away from fiber and towards satellite AT&T buys Echostar spectrum; the 4th carrier is dead It’s ISPs versus the music industry, with your privacy and connection on the chopping block Join us live on September 5th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Topics include: Starship launch success T-mobile buys USI Fiber in Minneapolis New BEAD numbers show a shifting of public dollars away from fiber and towards satellite AT&T buys Echostar spectrum; the 4th carrier is dead It’s ISPs versus the music industry, with your privacy and connection on the chopping block Join us live on September 5th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Digital C Goes to Detroit and the Tech Spread Coming to BEAD | Episode 119 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2025/08/recent-broadband-news-episode-119-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:24:04 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=805 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/08/recent-broadband-news-episode-119-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2025/08/recent-broadband-news-episode-119-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) is joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Gigi Sohn (American Association for Public Broadband) and Josh Etheridge (EPC) to talk about Mountain Connect, T-Mobile continuing to buy up ISPs, Digital C going to Detroit, antitrust, and more.

Join us live on August 13th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:18:30 805 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) is joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Gigi Sohn (American Association for Public Broadband) and Josh Etheridge (EPC) to talk about Mountain Connect, T-Mobile continuing to buy up ISPs, Digital C going to Detroit, antitrust, and more. Join us live on August 13th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) is joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Gigi Sohn (American Association for Public Broadband) and Josh Etheridge (EPC) to talk about Mountain Connect, T-Mobile continuing to buy up ISPs, Digital C going to Detroit, antitrust, and more. Join us live on August 13th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Who Benefits from this Bargain? | Episode 118 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2025/07/who-benefits-from-this-bargain-episode-118-of-the-connect-this-show/ Wed, 30 Jul 2025 20:40:00 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=803 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/07/who-benefits-from-this-bargain-episode-118-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2025/07/who-benefits-from-this-bargain-episode-118-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Heather Mills (Tilson) to talk about the FCC giving out participation trophies to the monopoly providers, how state offices are responding to the BEAD guidance changes, disaster response and resilient Internet networks, and more. The full list of topics includes:

  • Charter Spectrum calling deliberate fiber cuts “domestic terrorism”
  • FCC Chair Brendan Carr further abdicating the commission’s responsibility to the American people
  • How states are responding to the Benefit of the Bargain BEAD changes
  • FEMA’s role in rebuilding our Internet networks
  • California’s affordable broadband bill getting pulled
  • Whether T-Mobile has enough fiber to support its plan for the future

Join us live on July 24th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:10:41 803 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Heather Mills (Tilson) to talk about the FCC giving out participation trophies to the monopoly providers, how state offices are responding to the BEAD guidance changes, disaster response and resilient Internet networks, and more. The full list of topics includes: Charter Spectrum calling deliberate fiber cuts “domestic terrorism” FCC Chair Brendan Carr further abdicating the commission’s responsibility to the American people How states are responding to the Benefit of the Bargain BEAD changes FEMA’s role in rebuilding our Internet networks California’s affordable broadband bill getting pulled Whether T-Mobile has enough fiber to support its plan for the future Join us live on July 24th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Heather Mills (Tilson) to talk about the FCC giving out participation trophies to the monopoly providers, how state offices are responding to the BEAD guidance changes, disaster response and resilient Internet networks, and more. The full list of topics includes: Charter Spectrum calling deliberate fiber cuts “domestic terrorism” FCC Chair Brendan Carr further abdicating the commission’s responsibility to the American people How states are responding to the Benefit of the Bargain BEAD changes FEMA’s role in rebuilding our Internet networks California’s affordable broadband bill getting pulled Whether T-Mobile has enough fiber to support its plan for the future Join us live on July 24th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband The Future of Active Ethernet | Episode 117 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2025/07/the-future-of-active-ethernet-episode-117-of-the-connect-this-show/ Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:17:23 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=800 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/07/the-future-of-active-ethernet-episode-117-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2025/07/the-future-of-active-ethernet-episode-117-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about right-of-way fees, electric cooperatives, and the future of active Ethernet networks in the United States.

Join us live on July 3rd at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:16:10 800 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about right-of-way fees, electric cooperatives, and the future of active Ethernet networks in the United States. Join us live on July 3rd at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about right-of-way fees, electric cooperatives, and the future of active Ethernet networks in the United States. Join us live on July 3rd at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband California’s Affordable Broadband Play and Wi-Fi Under Threat | Episode 116 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2025/06/californias-affordable-broadband-play-and-wi-fi-under-threat-episode-116-of-the-connect-this-show/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:50:45 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=797 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/06/californias-affordable-broadband-play-and-wi-fi-under-threat-episode-116-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2025/06/californias-affordable-broadband-play-and-wi-fi-under-threat-episode-116-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband), Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Shayna Englin (California Community Foundation) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Topics include:

Join us live on June 20th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:13:11 797 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband), Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Shayna Englin (California Community Foundation) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Topics include: California’s attempt to enshrine affordable broadband access principles for qualifying families into law The recent national DNS outage, and what it tells us about lack of investment by monopoly ISPs Wi-Fi under threat from lobby interests looking to cash in Technical questions from readers Join us live on June 20th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband), Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Shayna Englin (California Community Foundation) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Topics include: California’s attempt to enshrine affordable broadband access principles for qualifying families into law The recent national DNS outage, and what it tells us about lack of investment by monopoly ISPs Wi-Fi under threat from lobby interests looking to cash in Technical questions from readers Join us live on June 20th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband BEAD Overhauled | Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2025/06/bead-overhauled-connect-this-show/ Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:34:19 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=794 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/06/bead-overhauled-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2025/06/bead-overhauled-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch an emergency episode of the Connect This! Show, with host Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) joined by Lori Adams (Nokia), Heather Mills (Tilson), and Blair Levin (Brookings) to talk about the raft of fundamental changes to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Act (BEAD) announced by NTIA last Friday. States are required to rebuild and resubmit their proposals to the federal agency on a 90-day sprint after making core changes just as money for construction was about to go out the door.

Join us live on June 9th at 4pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:06:29 794 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch an emergency episode of the Connect This! Show, with host Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) joined by Lori Adams (Nokia), Heather Mills (Tilson), and Blair Levin (Brookings) to talk about the raft of fundamental changes to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Act (BEAD) announced by NTIA last Friday. States are required to rebuild and resubmit their proposals to the federal agency on a 90-day sprint after making core changes just as money for construction was about to go out the door. Join us live on June 9th at 4pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch an emergency episode of the Connect This! Show, with host Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) joined by Lori Adams (Nokia), Heather Mills (Tilson), and Blair Levin (Brookings) to talk about the raft of fundamental changes to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Act (BEAD) announced by NTIA last Friday. States are required to rebuild and resubmit their proposals to the federal agency on a 90-day sprint after making core changes just as money for construction was about to go out the door. Join us live on June 9th at 4pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband BEAD Falls Apart | Episode 115 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2025/06/bead-falls-apart-episode-115-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:26:41 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=792 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/06/bead-falls-apart-episode-115-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2025/06/bead-falls-apart-episode-115-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting), and special guest Josh Etheridge to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Bountiful, Utah and Oakland, California announce newsworthy milestones to improve connectivity for households, but the big news is looming structural changes to the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program. And wouldn’t you know it, but NTIA releases them just ten minutes into the live show. 

Join us live on June 7th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:21:02 792 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting), and special guest Josh Etheridge to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Bountiful, Utah and Oakland, California announce newsworthy milestones to improve connectivity for households, but the big news is looming structural changes to the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program. And wouldn’t you know it, but NTIA releases them just ten minutes into the live show.  Join us live on June 7th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting), and special guest Josh Etheridge to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Bountiful, Utah and Oakland, California announce newsworthy milestones to improve connectivity for households, but the big news is looming structural changes to the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program. And wouldn’t you know it, but NTIA releases them just ten minutes into the live show.  Join us live on June 7th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Charter and Cox Merge, Hotspots Under Threat, and the End of the Digital Equity Act | Episode 114 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2025/05/recent-broadband-news-episode-114-of-the-connect-this-show/ Thu, 08 May 2025 20:08:16 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=785 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/05/recent-broadband-news-episode-114-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2025/05/recent-broadband-news-episode-114-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Angela Siefer (National Digital Inclusion Alliance) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Topics include:

Join us live on May 16th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:20:10 785 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Angela Siefer (National Digital Inclusion Alliance) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Topics include: Charter and Cox announce agreement to merge, unseating Comcast as the largest cable provider in the United States What the public-funds match for Starlink should be, when BEAD moves forward. Funding for hot spots – a core digital equity tool that grew to new importance under the pandemic – is under threat. Trump’s announcement that he was ending the Digital Equity Act, and the significant impact it will have if the order holds. Join us live on May 16th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Angela Siefer (National Digital Inclusion Alliance) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Topics include: Charter and Cox announce agreement to merge, unseating Comcast as the largest cable provider in the United States What the public-funds match for Starlink should be, when BEAD moves forward. Funding for hot spots – a core digital equity tool that grew to new importance under the pandemic – is under threat. Trump’s announcement that he was ending the Digital Equity Act, and the significant impact it will have if the order holds. Join us live on May 16th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Project Kuiper, Fixing Urban Mobile, and Kentucky Wired | Episode 113 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2025/04/recent-broadband-news-episode-113-of-the-connect-this-show/ Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:56:31 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=780 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/04/recent-broadband-news-episode-113-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2025/04/recent-broadband-news-episode-113-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Topics include:

Join us live on May 2nd at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:10:33 780 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Topics include: The first launch of Amazon’s Project Kuiper Low-Earth Orbit Internet access satellite constellation The FCC losing (or maybe not?) its ability to levy fines The importance of getting construction right Fixing urban cell phone coverage Kentucky Wired lawsuit between state-owned network and its operational partner Join us live on May 2nd at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Topics include: The first launch of Amazon’s Project Kuiper Low-Earth Orbit Internet access satellite constellation The FCC losing (or maybe not?) its ability to levy fines The importance of getting construction right Fixing urban cell phone coverage Kentucky Wired lawsuit between state-owned network and its operational partner Join us live on May 2nd at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband The Future of Passive Optical Networks | Episode 112 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2025/04/the-future-of-passive-optical-networks-episode-112-of-the-connect-this-show/ Fri, 18 Apr 2025 20:39:59 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=777 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/04/the-future-of-passive-optical-networks-episode-112-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2025/04/the-future-of-passive-optical-networks-episode-112-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Shane Eleniak (Calix) to talk about:

Join us live on April 18th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:15:06 777 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Shane Eleniak (Calix) to talk about: Comcast’s new five-year price lock A CNET pricing study that looks at the rising cost of access that hasn’t improved most household’s reliability The milestones that Utah-based municipal network UTOPIA Fiber hit in 2024 The future of Passive Optical Networks, and where we go after XGS PON Join us live on April 18th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Shane Eleniak (Calix) to talk about: Comcast’s new five-year price lock A CNET pricing study that looks at the rising cost of access that hasn’t improved most household’s reliability The milestones that Utah-based municipal network UTOPIA Fiber hit in 2024 The future of Passive Optical Networks, and where we go after XGS PON Join us live on April 18th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband The Most Consequential Year in Telecom History Since 1996 | Episode 111 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2025/03/recent-broadband-news-episode-111-of-the-connect-this-show/ Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:51:25 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=767 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/03/recent-broadband-news-episode-111-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2025/03/recent-broadband-news-episode-111-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) with special guest Blair Levin (New Street Research) to talk about states asking the federal government for defaulted RDOF funds back, the Arielle Roth hearing, the future of the USF, and more. Topics include:

Join us live on March 28th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:18:00 767 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) with special guest Blair Levin (New Street Research) to talk about states asking the federal government for defaulted RDOF funds back, the Arielle Roth hearing, the future of the USF, and more. Topics include: Achieving Internet for All takes time What we learned from the Arielle Roth hearing The future of the Universal Service Fund in an LEO World States want their defaulted Rural Digital Opportunity Fund back AT&T to buy Lumen? Dig-Once Challenges Join us live on March 28th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) with special guest Blair Levin (New Street Research) to talk about states asking the federal government for defaulted RDOF funds back, the Arielle Roth hearing, the future of the USF, and more. Topics include: Achieving Internet for All takes time What we learned from the Arielle Roth hearing The future of the Universal Service Fund in an LEO World States want their defaulted Rural Digital Opportunity Fund back AT&T to buy Lumen? Dig-Once Challenges Join us live on March 28th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband The Revolving Door, the Limit of Public Dollars, and Whether the Maps Will Matter After BEAD | Episode 110 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2025/03/the-revolving-door-the-limit-of-public-dollars-and-whether-the-maps-will-matter-after-bead-episode-110-of-the-connect-this-show/ Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:54:04 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=769 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/03/the-revolving-door-the-limit-of-public-dollars-and-whether-the-maps-will-matter-after-bead-episode-110-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2025/03/the-revolving-door-the-limit-of-public-dollars-and-whether-the-maps-will-matter-after-bead-episode-110-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about a grab-bag of topics including:

Join us live on March 14th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:15:27 769 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about a grab-bag of topics including: The revolving door of government BEAD’s grant tax Ted Cruz going after hotspots Minnesota’s broadband workforce law Who will care about the federal broadband maps after BEAD? Join us live on March 14th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about a grab-bag of topics including: The revolving door of government BEAD’s grant tax Ted Cruz going after hotspots Minnesota’s broadband workforce law Who will care about the federal broadband maps after BEAD? Join us live on March 14th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband BEAD: The Metamorphosis | Episode 109 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2025/03/bead-the-metamorphosis-episode-109-of-the-connect-this-show/ Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:55:11 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=771 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/03/bead-the-metamorphosis-episode-109-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2025/03/bead-the-metamorphosis-episode-109-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about major changes coming to the BEAD program and a grab-bag of other topics, including:

Join us live on March 7th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:16:05 771 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about major changes coming to the BEAD program and a grab-bag of other topics, including: Amazon drone delivery pauses in College Station, Texas A new report shows the Affordable Connectivity Program saved the federal government more than it cost The coming transformation of the BEAD program, and the likely minor and major changes to come: including removing the preference for fiber, eliminating planning requirements pertaining to climate change and service addenda like data caps, and much more. The announcement of Starlink Residential Lite Takeaways from the new OpenVault broadband usage report If some recent fiber provider news is revealing of the first provider closures Join us live on March 7th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about major changes coming to the BEAD program and a grab-bag of other topics, including: Amazon drone delivery pauses in College Station, Texas A new report shows the Affordable Connectivity Program saved the federal government more than it cost The coming transformation of the BEAD program, and the likely minor and major changes to come: including removing the preference for fiber, eliminating planning requirements pertaining to climate change and service addenda like data caps, and much more. The announcement of Starlink Residential Lite Takeaways from the new OpenVault broadband usage report If some recent fiber provider news is revealing of the first provider closures Join us live on March 7th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Advancements in Cable Networks – Connect This! Show Episode 108Coming up: Connect This! Show Episode 108 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/02/coming-up-connect-this-show-episode-108/ Wed, 12 Feb 2025 23:08:13 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=757 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/02/coming-up-connect-this-show-episode-108/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2025/02/coming-up-connect-this-show-episode-108/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Jason Livingood (Comcast) to talk how cable network operators are innovating to reduce latency, combat buffer bloat, and improve their networks around the county. Join us live on February 21 at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

Join us live on February 21 at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:14:02 757 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Jason Livingood (Comcast) to talk how cable network operators are innovating to reduce latency, combat buffer bloat, and improve their networks around the county. Join us live on February 21 at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Join us live on February 21 at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Jason Livingood (Comcast) to talk how cable network operators are innovating to reduce latency, combat buffer bloat, and improve their networks around the county. Join us live on February 21 at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Join us live on February 21 at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Frontiers in Fiber Optic Sensing | Episode 107 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2025/01/recent-broadband-news-episode-107-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:13:07 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=752 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/01/recent-broadband-news-episode-107-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2025/01/recent-broadband-news-episode-107-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) along with special guest Paul Dickinson (Dura-line, Fiber Optic Sensing Association, and Aii) to talk about the future of fiber optic sensing to do everything from avoid fiber cuts from construction equipment to monitor traffic to detect pipeline leakages. They also hit a grab-bag of other topics, including:

Who owns the Internet?

Arielle Roth’s nomination to NTIA

The AI bubble hitting middle-mile builders

The FCC reversing course on its efforts to protect renters’ access to a competitive broadband market

FWA providers going in on serving those living in mobile home parks

Join us live on February 7th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:14:17 752 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) along with special guest Paul Dickinson (Dura-line, Fiber Optic Sensing Association, and Aii) to talk about the future of fiber optic sensing to do everything from avoid fiber cuts from construction equipment to monitor traffic to detect pipeline leakages. They also hit a grab-bag of other topics, including: Who owns the Internet? Arielle Roth’s nomination to NTIA The AI bubble hitting middle-mile builders The FCC reversing course on its efforts to protect renters’ access to a competitive broadband market FWA providers going in on serving those living in mobile home parks Join us live on February 7th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Broadband) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) along with special guest Paul Dickinson (Dura-line, Fiber Optic Sensing Association, and Aii) to talk about the future of fiber optic sensing to do everything from avoid fiber cuts from construction equipment to monitor traffic to detect pipeline leakages. They also hit a grab-bag of other topics, including: Who owns the Internet? Arielle Roth’s nomination to NTIA The AI bubble hitting middle-mile builders The FCC reversing course on its efforts to protect renters’ access to a competitive broadband market FWA providers going in on serving those living in mobile home parks Join us live on February 7th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband What We Expect in 2025 | Episode 105 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2025/01/recent-broadband-news-episode-105-of-the-connect-this-show/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:41:31 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=743 https://connectthisshow.com/2025/01/recent-broadband-news-episode-105-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2025/01/recent-broadband-news-episode-105-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Communications) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print.

Join us live on January 10th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:15:42 743 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Communications) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Join us live on January 10th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Communications) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Join us live on January 10th at 2pm ET, or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband 2024 in Review | Episode 104 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2024/12/recent-broadband-news-episode-104-of-the-connect-this-show/ Fri, 13 Dec 2024 19:42:31 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=733 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/12/recent-broadband-news-episode-104-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/12/recent-broadband-news-episode-104-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Communications) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Jade Piros de Carvalho (Bonfire). Topics include:

Join us live on December 19th, at 2pm ET or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:10:45 733 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Communications) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Jade Piros de Carvalho (Bonfire). Topics include: New York state can require a low-income plan option for ISPs after the Supreme Court declines to hear arguments Looking back on the legacy of the Biden FCC after four years Revisiting our predictions about how the year would go to see how we did Join us live on December 19th, at 2pm ET or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Communications) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Jade Piros de Carvalho (Bonfire). Topics include: New York state can require a low-income plan option for ISPs after the Supreme Court declines to hear arguments Looking back on the legacy of the Biden FCC after four years Revisiting our predictions about how the year would go to see how we did Join us live on December 19th, at 2pm ET or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband What Comes Next | Episode 103 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2024/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-103-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:17:45 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=730 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-103-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-103-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-host Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Communications) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Heather Mills (Tilson) and Lori Adams (Nokia) to talk about what comes next as we approach a new year. Topics include:

Join us live on December 6, at 2pm ET or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

We return on December 19th at 2pm ET.

Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:08:43 730 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-host Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Communications) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Heather Mills (Tilson) and Lori Adams (Nokia) to talk about what comes next as we approach a new year. Topics include: A new anti-municipal network “study” that recently came out Connecting the last and most-expensive 10 percent of households with BEAD Federal telecom policy in a post-Biden world Join us live on December 6, at 2pm ET or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. We return on December 19th at 2pm ET. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-host Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (TAK Communications) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Heather Mills (Tilson) and Lori Adams (Nokia) to talk about what comes next as we approach a new year. Topics include: A new anti-municipal network “study” that recently came out Connecting the last and most-expensive 10 percent of households with BEAD Federal telecom policy in a post-Biden world Join us live on December 6, at 2pm ET or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. We return on December 19th at 2pm ET. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Dear Rural America: Starlink and Mobile Wireless Are Not Coming to Save You | Episode 102 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2024/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-102-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:46:24 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=725 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-102-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-102-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. 

Topics include:

Join us live on November 22, at 2pm ET or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:13:39 725 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print.  Topics include: Verizon and AT&T claiming that the FCC can’t stop them from selling your data Starlink introduces a wait list and finally adds a customer help line The startling decline in spectrum value for mmWave Funding announcements in New York and California that favor public networks The Dish/Direct TV deal looks kaput How we would redesign the Affordable Connectivity Program, and why Join us live on November 22, at 2pm ET or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print.  Topics include: Verizon and AT&T claiming that the FCC can’t stop them from selling your data Starlink introduces a wait list and finally adds a customer help line The startling decline in spectrum value for mmWave Funding announcements in New York and California that favor public networks The Dish/Direct TV deal looks kaput How we would redesign the Affordable Connectivity Program, and why Join us live on November 22, at 2pm ET or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Nice Knowing You, BEAD, and Building Better Middle Mile Networks | Episode 101 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2024/10/recent-broadband-news-episode-101-of-the-connect-this-show/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:02:28 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=721 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/10/recent-broadband-news-episode-101-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/10/recent-broadband-news-episode-101-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Matt Peterson (SFMIX). They talk about some of the sea changes we expect to see with the change in federal administrations with relation to BEAD before a long conversation with California-based IX builder Matt Peterson about whether we need more middle mile in this country and how we might best build it.

Join us live on November 8, at 2pm ET or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:16:04 721 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Matt Peterson (SFMIX). They talk about some of the sea changes we expect to see with the change in federal administrations with relation to BEAD before a long conversation with California-based IX builder Matt Peterson about whether we need more middle mile in this country and how we might best build it. Join us live on November 8, at 2pm ET or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Matt Peterson (SFMIX). They talk about some of the sea changes we expect to see with the change in federal administrations with relation to BEAD before a long conversation with California-based IX builder Matt Peterson about whether we need more middle mile in this country and how we might best build it. Join us live on November 8, at 2pm ET or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Resilient Networks, BEAD Hypocrisy, and the 2024 Election | Episode 100 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2024/10/celebrating-100-episodes-of-the-connect-this-show/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:01:20 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=716 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/10/celebrating-100-episodes-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/10/celebrating-100-episodes-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Gigi Sohn (American Association for Public Broadband) and Blair Levin (New Street Research) to celebrate 100 episodes of the show. They talk about a new survey showing average broadband pricing hitting more than $100/month for the first time in some states, communications networks in the wake of Hurricane Helene, the hypocrisy of attacks on BEAD by a certain segment of lawmakers and regulators, T-Mobile getting in some hot water after reneging on its lifetime price lock  for subscribers, and what we can expect from the aftermath of the 2024 election.

Join us live on October 24, at 2pm ET or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:15:22 716 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Gigi Sohn (American Association for Public Broadband) and Blair Levin (New Street Research) to celebrate 100 episodes of the show. They talk about a new survey showing average broadband pricing hitting more than $100/month for the first time in some states, communications networks in the wake of Hurricane Helene, the hypocrisy of attacks on BEAD by a certain segment of lawmakers and regulators, T-Mobile getting in some hot water after reneging on its lifetime price lock  for subscribers, and what we can expect from the aftermath of the 2024 election. Join us live on October 24, at 2pm ET or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Catch the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, with co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Gigi Sohn (American Association for Public Broadband) and Blair Levin (New Street Research) to celebrate 100 episodes of the show. They talk about a new survey showing average broadband pricing hitting more than $100/month for the first time in some states, communications networks in the wake of Hurricane Helene, the hypocrisy of attacks on BEAD by a certain segment of lawmakers and regulators, T-Mobile getting in some hot water after reneging on its lifetime price lock  for subscribers, and what we can expect from the aftermath of the 2024 election. Join us live on October 24, at 2pm ET or listen afterwards wherever you get your podcasts. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Cox v. Rhode Island and FWA Advancements | Episode 99.4 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2024/09/recent-broadband-news-episode-99-4/ Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:30:25 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=710 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/09/recent-broadband-news-episode-99-4/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/09/recent-broadband-news-episode-99-4/feed/ 0 Join us Friday, September 27th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guests Matt Larsen (Vistabeam) and Sascha Meinrath (X-Lab) to talk about the Cox v. Rhode Island case and hear about some recent wireless deployments in the fixed wireless space that dramatically reduce the cost per passing while still delivering multi-gigabit speeds.

Will we finally hit 100 episodes in 2024? You’ll have to join us to find out.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:15:37 710 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Friday, September 27th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guests Matt Larsen (Vistabeam) and Sascha Meinrath (X-Lab) to talk about the Cox v. Rhode Island case and hear about some recent wireless deployments in the fixed wireless space that dramatically reduce the cost per passing while still delivering multi-gigabit speeds. Will we finally hit 100 episodes in 2024? You’ll have to join us to find out. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Friday, September 27th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guests Matt Larsen (Vistabeam) and Sascha Meinrath (X-Lab) to talk about the Cox v. Rhode Island case and hear about some recent wireless deployments in the fixed wireless space that dramatically reduce the cost per passing while still delivering multi-gigabit speeds. Will we finally hit 100 episodes in 2024? You’ll have to join us to find out. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Convergence is Here | Episode 99.3 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2024/08/recent-broadband-news-episode-99-3-of-the-connect-this-show/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:45:45 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=704 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/08/recent-broadband-news-episode-99-3-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/08/recent-broadband-news-episode-99-3-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Thursday, September 12th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about Verizon buying Frontier, AT&T working with Gigapower on open access efforts, Charter still not deploying CBRS, and more.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:15:45 704 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Thursday, September 12th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about Verizon buying Frontier, AT&T working with Gigapower on open access efforts, Charter still not deploying CBRS, and more. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Thursday, September 12th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about Verizon buying Frontier, AT&T working with Gigapower on open access efforts, Charter still not deploying CBRS, and more. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband FWA vs. Wired Connections, Spectrum Sharing Rules, and Satellite Service | Episode 99.2 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2024/08/recent-broadband-news-episode-99-2-of-the-connect-this-show/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:35:18 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=701 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/08/recent-broadband-news-episode-99-2-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/08/recent-broadband-news-episode-99-2-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Thursday, August 29 at 4:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about the growth of the Fixed Wireless Access service marketplace by the large mobile carriers, proposed changes to CBRS spectrum sharing rules that could prove to be a boon for innovation and low-cost deployment, the bundling problem with TV and sports, and where to get your telecom news in a world where good journalism is getting gutted.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:05:18 701 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Thursday, August 29 at 4:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about the growth of the Fixed Wireless Access service marketplace by the large mobile carriers, proposed changes to CBRS spectrum sharing rules that could prove to be a boon for innovation and low-cost deployment, the bundling problem with TV and sports, and where to get your telecom news in a world where good journalism is getting gutted. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Thursday, August 29 at 4:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about the growth of the Fixed Wireless Access service marketplace by the large mobile carriers, proposed changes to CBRS spectrum sharing rules that could prove to be a boon for innovation and low-cost deployment, the bundling problem with TV and sports, and where to get your telecom news in a world where good journalism is getting gutted. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Brownsville is Lit, SpaceX and BEAD, and SiFi and T-Mobile | Episode 99.1 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2024/08/brownsville-is-lit-spacex-and-bead-and-sifi-and-t-mobile-episode-99-1-of-the-connect-this-show/ Mon, 19 Aug 2024 14:38:18 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=698 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/08/brownsville-is-lit-spacex-and-bead-and-sifi-and-t-mobile-episode-99-1-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/08/brownsville-is-lit-spacex-and-bead-and-sifi-and-t-mobile-episode-99-1-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us on Thursday, August 15th at 2:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Alexis Shrubbe (University of Chicago) and Sean Gonsalves (ILSR) to talk about Brownsville, Texas lighting up its first subscriber, SpaceX’s claim to be a good fit for BEAD dollars, and SiFi partnering with T-Mobile.

Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:04:43 698 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us on Thursday, August 15th at 2:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Alexis Shrubbe (University of Chicago) and Sean Gonsalves (ILSR) to talk about Brownsville, Texas lighting up its first subscriber, SpaceX’s claim to be a good fit for BEAD dollars, and SiFi partnering with T-Mobile. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us on Thursday, August 15th at 2:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Alexis Shrubbe (University of Chicago) and Sean Gonsalves (ILSR) to talk about Brownsville, Texas lighting up its first subscriber, SpaceX’s claim to be a good fit for BEAD dollars, and SiFi partnering with T-Mobile. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband USF Reform and the Start of the Big Fiber Rollup | Episode 99 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2024/08/usf-reform-and-the-start-of-the-big-fiber-rollup-episode-99-of-the-connect-this-show/ Fri, 02 Aug 2024 16:22:52 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=693 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/08/usf-reform-and-the-start-of-the-big-fiber-rollup-episode-99-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/08/usf-reform-and-the-start-of-the-big-fiber-rollup-episode-99-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Wednesday, July 31st at 3pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) along with special guest Case Lide (Keller and Heckman) to talk about T-Mobile buying Metronet, USF being cancelled by the Fifth Circuit, free municipal fiber in North Kansas City, Charter and Comcast losing more subscribers, and more.

Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:06:48 693 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Wednesday, July 31st at 3pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) along with special guest Case Lide (Keller and Heckman) to talk about T-Mobile buying Metronet, USF being cancelled by the Fifth Circuit, free municipal fiber in North Kansas City, Charter and Comcast losing more subscribers, and more. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Wednesday, July 31st at 3pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) along with special guest Case Lide (Keller and Heckman) to talk about T-Mobile buying Metronet, USF being cancelled by the Fifth Circuit, free municipal fiber in North Kansas City, Charter and Comcast losing more subscribers, and more. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Net Neutrality, Chevron Deference, and The Hotspot Problem | Episode 98 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2024/07/net-neutrality-chevron-deference-and-the-hotspot-problem-episode-98-of-the-connect-this-show/ Fri, 19 Jul 2024 21:32:27 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=685 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/07/net-neutrality-chevron-deference-and-the-hotspot-problem-episode-98-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/07/net-neutrality-chevron-deference-and-the-hotspot-problem-episode-98-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Friday, July 19th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and recurring guest Gigi Sohn (American Association for Public Broadband) to talk about net neutrality, the consequences we expect to see as a result of the recent striking down of chevron deference, and updates to the e-rate program to privilege hot-spot solutions for poor connectivity. 

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:15:51 685 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Friday, July 19th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and recurring guest Gigi Sohn (American Association for Public Broadband) to talk about net neutrality, the consequences we expect to see as a result of the recent striking down of chevron deference, and updates to the e-rate program to privilege hot-spot solutions for poor connectivity.  Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Friday, July 19th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and recurring guest Gigi Sohn (American Association for Public Broadband) to talk about net neutrality, the consequences we expect to see as a result of the recent striking down of chevron deference, and updates to the e-rate program to privilege hot-spot solutions for poor connectivity.  Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Texas Maps and Plans, Starlink and the Ozone, Sony Lawsuit, and Colorado MDU Laws | Episode 97 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2024/06/texas-maps-and-plans-starlink-and-the-ozone-sony-lawsuit-and-colorado-mdu-laws-episode-97-of-the-connect-this-show/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 21:02:36 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=684 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/06/texas-maps-and-plans-starlink-and-the-ozone-sony-lawsuit-and-colorado-mdu-laws-episode-97-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/06/texas-maps-and-plans-starlink-and-the-ozone-sony-lawsuit-and-colorado-mdu-laws-episode-97-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Friday, June 28th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about library speed test maps in Texas and broadband plans in San Antonio, whether Starlink will mess with the ozone layer, music giant Sony trying to bully Cox into disconnecting users who engage in IP infringement, and the recent Colorado law aimed at improving competition in MDUs.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:12:27 684 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Friday, June 28th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about library speed test maps in Texas and broadband plans in San Antonio, whether Starlink will mess with the ozone layer, music giant Sony trying to bully Cox into disconnecting users who engage in IP infringement, and the recent Colorado law aimed at improving competition in MDUs. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Friday, June 28th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about library speed test maps in Texas and broadband plans in San Antonio, whether Starlink will mess with the ozone layer, music giant Sony trying to bully Cox into disconnecting users who engage in IP infringement, and the recent Colorado law aimed at improving competition in MDUs. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband State Broadband Offices, BEAD and the Unserved, the Legacy of the ACP | Episode 96 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2024/06/state-broadband-offices-bead-and-the-unserved-the-legacy-of-the-acp-episode-96-of-the-connect-this-show/ Fri, 07 Jun 2024 21:45:29 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=688 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/06/state-broadband-offices-bead-and-the-unserved-the-legacy-of-the-acp-episode-96-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/06/state-broadband-offices-bead-and-the-unserved-the-legacy-of-the-acp-episode-96-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Friday, June 7th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Robert Boyle (Planet Networks) as well as special guest Blair Levin to talk about how state broadband offices are faring under the pressure of BEAD (some not so well), the conundrum of reaching every unserved home with insufficient funds, how medium providers are continuing the spirit of ACP while elected leaders like Ted Cruz attack straw-man versions of the program, and more.

]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:07:30 688 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Friday, June 7th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Robert Boyle (Planet Networks) as well as special guest Blair Levin to talk about how state broadband offices are faring under the pressure of BEAD (some not so well), the conundrum of reaching every unserved home with insufficient funds, how medium providers are continuing the spirit of ACP while elected leaders like Ted Cruz attack straw-man versions of the program, and more.Join us Friday, June 7th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Robert Boyle (Planet Networks) as well as special guest Blair Levin to talk about how state broadband offices are faring under the pressure of BEAD (some not so well), the conundrum of reaching every unserved home with insufficient funds, how medium providers are continuing the spirit of ACP while elected leaders like Ted Cruz attack straw-man versions of the program, and more.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Untangling BEAD, Minnesota Repeals Preemption Law, and Open Access is Hard | Episode 95 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2024/05/recent-broadband-news-episode-95-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 21 May 2024 18:15:56 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=677 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/05/recent-broadband-news-episode-95-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/05/recent-broadband-news-episode-95-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Friday, May 24th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) along with special guests Alexis Schrubbe (University of Chicago) and Brian Snider. They’ll talk about how the devil’s in the details with the BEAD program, movement in California surrounding digital discrimination, and Minnesota repealing its state preemption law.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:15:10 677 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Friday, May 24th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) along with special guests Alexis Schrubbe (University of Chicago) and Brian Snider. They’ll talk about how the devil’s in the details with the BEAD program, movement in California surrounding digital discrimination, and Minnesota repealing its state preemption law. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Friday, May 24th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) along with special guests Alexis Schrubbe (University of Chicago) and Brian Snider. They’ll talk about how the devil’s in the details with the BEAD program, movement in California surrounding digital discrimination, and Minnesota repealing its state preemption law. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Net Neutrality Returns, New York’s Affordable Broadband Law Upheld, and the ACP Looks Done | Episode 94 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2024/05/net-neutrality-returns-new-yorks-affordable-broadband-law-upheld-and-the-acp-looks-done-episode-94-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 21 May 2024 16:59:16 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=675 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/05/net-neutrality-returns-new-yorks-affordable-broadband-law-upheld-and-the-acp-looks-done-episode-94-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/05/net-neutrality-returns-new-yorks-affordable-broadband-law-upheld-and-the-acp-looks-done-episode-94-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Friday, May 3rd at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) with special guests Sean Stokes (Partner, Keller and Heckman) and Roger Timmerman (UTOPIA Fiber). On the docket: the return of net neutrality (and whether it matters), the appeals court decision upholding New York state’s affordable broadband law, and our first takeaway from the new broadband nutrition labels.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:17:57 675 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Friday, May 3rd at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) with special guests Sean Stokes (Partner, Keller and Heckman) and Roger Timmerman (UTOPIA Fiber). On the docket: the return of net neutrality (and whether it matters), the appeals court decision upholding New York state’s affordable broadband law, and our first takeaway from the new broadband nutrition labels. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Friday, May 3rd at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) with special guests Sean Stokes (Partner, Keller and Heckman) and Roger Timmerman (UTOPIA Fiber). On the docket: the return of net neutrality (and whether it matters), the appeals court decision upholding New York state’s affordable broadband law, and our first takeaway from the new broadband nutrition labels. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Middle-Mile Madness | Episode 93 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2024/04/middle-mile-madness-episode-93-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 02 Apr 2024 19:23:53 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=670 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/04/middle-mile-madness-episode-93-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/04/middle-mile-madness-episode-93-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program represents a generational investment in new infrastructure, and will no doubt bring new fiber connections to millions of households around the country. Is the current state of middle mile in the United States ready? Join us Friday, April 12th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and a special guest to tackle the often-neglected pathways that connects our cities and towns back to the core networks that make up the Internet.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:16:08 670 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program represents a generational investment in new infrastructure, and will no doubt bring new fiber connections to millions of households around the country. Is the current state of middle mile in the United States ready? Join us Friday, April 12th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and a special guest to tackle the often-neglected pathways that connects our cities and towns back to the core networks that make up the Internet. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program represents a generational investment in new infrastructure, and will no doubt bring new fiber connections to millions of households around the country. Is the current state of middle mile in the United States ready? Join us Friday, April 12th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and a special guest to tackle the often-neglected pathways that connects our cities and towns back to the core networks that make up the Internet. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Gaming the Data, a Trojan Horse in New York, and Punishing Bad Actors | Episode 92 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2024/03/recent-broadband-news-episode-92-of-the-connect-this-show/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:52:23 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=664 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/03/recent-broadband-news-episode-92-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/03/recent-broadband-news-episode-92-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Friday, March 29th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guest Gigi Sohn (American Association for Public Broadband) to talk about whether a recent punishment by the FCC against an ISP for overreporting coverage signals an appetite for meaningful change in the challenge process, a bill amendment that would hamstring New York’s Municipal Infrastructure Program, and much more.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:16:34 664 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Friday, March 29th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guest Gigi Sohn (American Association for Public Broadband) to talk about whether a recent punishment by the FCC against an ISP for overreporting coverage signals an appetite for meaningful change in the challenge process, a bill amendment that would hamstring New York’s Municipal Infrastructure Program, and much more. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Friday, March 29th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guest Gigi Sohn (American Association for Public Broadband) to talk about whether a recent punishment by the FCC against an ISP for overreporting coverage signals an appetite for meaningful change in the challenge process, a bill amendment that would hamstring New York’s Municipal Infrastructure Program, and much more. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband A New Broadband Definition, Rural Tribal Priority Window, and Feasibility Studies | Connect This! Show Episode 91 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/03/a-new-broadband-definition-rural-tribal-priority-window-and-feasibility-studies-connect-this-show-episode-91/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:32:56 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=660 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/03/a-new-broadband-definition-rural-tribal-priority-window-and-feasibility-studies-connect-this-show-episode-91/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/03/a-new-broadband-definition-rural-tribal-priority-window-and-feasibility-studies-connect-this-show-episode-91/feed/ 0 Join us Friday, March 15th at 1:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guests Brian Snider (formerly Lit Communities) and Matthew Rantanen (Waskawiwin) to talk about finally getting a new federal definition of broadband, where the Rural Tribal Priority Window stands today, the value of feasibility studies in 2024, and bulk billing practices in multi-dwelling units (MDUs) around the country.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:13:22 660 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Friday, March 15th at 1:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guests Brian Snider (formerly Lit Communities) and Matthew Rantanen (Waskawiwin) to talk about finally getting a new federal definition of broadband, where the Rural Tribal Priority Window stands today, the value of feasibility studies in 2024, and bulk billing practices in multi-dwelling units (MDUs) around the country. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Friday, March 15th at 1:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guests Brian Snider (formerly Lit Communities) and Matthew Rantanen (Waskawiwin) to talk about finally getting a new federal definition of broadband, where the Rural Tribal Priority Window stands today, the value of feasibility studies in 2024, and bulk billing practices in multi-dwelling units (MDUs) around the country. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Metro Connect, AT&T FWA, MDUs, and RDOF | Connect This! Show Episode 90 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/03/recent-broadband-news-connect-this-show-episode-90/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:31:49 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=658 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/03/recent-broadband-news-connect-this-show-episode-90/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/03/recent-broadband-news-connect-this-show-episode-90/feed/ 0 Join us Friday, March 1st at 3pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guest Gigi Sohn (American Association or Public Broadband) to talk about the 2024 Metro Connect conference, multi-dwelling units, AT&T’s fixed wireless dreams, and municipal network developments in Fort Pierce, Florida and elsewhere before ending the show with the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF).

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:18:30 658 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Friday, March 1st at 3pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guest Gigi Sohn (American Association or Public Broadband) to talk about the 2024 Metro Connect conference, multi-dwelling units, AT&T’s fixed wireless dreams, and municipal network developments in Fort Pierce, Florida and elsewhere before ending the show with the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF). Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Friday, March 1st at 3pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guest Gigi Sohn (American Association or Public Broadband) to talk about the 2024 Metro Connect conference, multi-dwelling units, AT&T’s fixed wireless dreams, and municipal network developments in Fort Pierce, Florida and elsewhere before ending the show with the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF). Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Are We Doing Digital Equity Wrong? Lessons from the FCC| Connect This! Show Episode 89 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/02/are-we-doing-digital-equity-wrong-lessons-from-the-fcc-connect-this-show-episode-89/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:08:08 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=655 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/02/are-we-doing-digital-equity-wrong-lessons-from-the-fcc-connect-this-show-episode-89/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/02/are-we-doing-digital-equity-wrong-lessons-from-the-fcc-connect-this-show-episode-89/feed/ 0 On the most recent episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) were joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) tackle the hard questions in digital equity work now that the ACP is going away. Among the discussion: FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel’s recent appearance at the national Net Inclusion conference, and what we can learn from her remarks about how to move ahead productively while avoiding easy mistakes and making sure we stay committed to the course.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:16:37 655 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)On the most recent episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) were joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) tackle the hard questions in digital equity work now that the ACP is going away. Among the discussion: FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel’s recent appearance at the national Net Inclusion conference, and what we can learn from her remarks about how to move ahead productively while avoiding easy mistakes and making sure we stay committed to the course. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.On the most recent episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) were joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) tackle the hard questions in digital equity work now that the ACP is going away. Among the discussion: FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel’s recent appearance at the national Net Inclusion conference, and what we can learn from her remarks about how to move ahead productively while avoiding easy mistakes and making sure we stay committed to the course. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband A Surge in Municipal Networks and the Real Margins for ISPs | Episode 88 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2024/02/recent-broadband-news-episode-88-of-the-connect-this-show/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 23:56:34 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=653 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/02/recent-broadband-news-episode-88-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/02/recent-broadband-news-episode-88-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Friday, February 2nd at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to talk a new report from ILSR on the surge of community owned networks we saw spring up over the last two years, whether the FCC has forever abrogated its power to fine bad actors, and the tension between margins for ISPs and public policy efforts to incent affordable services for those households in need.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:15:19 653 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Friday, February 2nd at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to talk a new report from ILSR on the surge of community owned networks we saw spring up over the last two years, whether the FCC has forever abrogated its power to fine bad actors, and the tension between margins for ISPs and public policy efforts to incent affordable services for those households in need. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Friday, February 2nd at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to talk a new report from ILSR on the surge of community owned networks we saw spring up over the last two years, whether the FCC has forever abrogated its power to fine bad actors, and the tension between margins for ISPs and public policy efforts to incent affordable services for those households in need. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband The 2024 Prediction Show | Episode 87 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2024/01/the-2024-prediction-show-episode-87-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 22:33:41 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=649 https://connectthisshow.com/2024/01/the-2024-prediction-show-episode-87-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2024/01/the-2024-prediction-show-episode-87-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Tuesday, January 16th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting), Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), and special guest Roger Timmerman (Executive Director UTOPIA Fiber) to prognosticate all of the broadband things for 2024: will ACP get renewed? Which states will get BEAD right, and which are showing signs of cracking under the pressure? What did we see at CES that will impact the broadband market? Is the fiber market going to pause? Tune in for titillating discussion on these topics and many more.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:13:28 649 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Tuesday, January 16th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting), Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), and special guest Roger Timmerman (Executive Director UTOPIA Fiber) to prognosticate all of the broadband things for 2024: will ACP get renewed? Which states will get BEAD right, and which are showing signs of cracking under the pressure? What did we see at CES that will impact the broadband market? Is the fiber market going to pause? Tune in for titillating discussion on these topics and many more. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Tuesday, January 16th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting), Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), and special guest Roger Timmerman (Executive Director UTOPIA Fiber) to prognosticate all of the broadband things for 2024: will ACP get renewed? Which states will get BEAD right, and which are showing signs of cracking under the pressure? What did we see at CES that will impact the broadband market? Is the fiber market going to pause? Tune in for titillating discussion on these topics and many more. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Reflecting on 2023, Unused Capacity in Government-Only Fiber Networks, and the Return of Dark Money with Gigi Sohn | Episode 86 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/12/reflecting-on-2023-unused-capacity-in-government-only-fiber-networks-and-the-return-of-dark-money-with-gigi-sohn-episode-86-of-the-connect-this-show/ Thu, 14 Dec 2023 21:51:48 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=646 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/12/reflecting-on-2023-unused-capacity-in-government-only-fiber-networks-and-the-return-of-dark-money-with-gigi-sohn-episode-86-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/12/reflecting-on-2023-unused-capacity-in-government-only-fiber-networks-and-the-return-of-dark-money-with-gigi-sohn-episode-86-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Wednesday, December 13th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber). They’ll talk about what we saw in 2023, whether there’s hope for an ACP renewal (it doesn’t look good), why there’s so much unused capacity in government-built fiber networks today, and special guest Gigi Sohn (American Association for Public Broadband) joins to talk some more about the reanti-municipal network dark money campaign that has inexplicably come out of the woodwork.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:20:25 646 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Wednesday, December 13th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber). They’ll talk about what we saw in 2023, whether there’s hope for an ACP renewal (it doesn’t look good), why there’s so much unused capacity in government-built fiber networks today, and special guest Gigi Sohn (American Association for Public Broadband) joins to talk some more about the reanti-municipal network dark money campaign that has inexplicably come out of the woodwork. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Wednesday, December 13th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber). They’ll talk about what we saw in 2023, whether there’s hope for an ACP renewal (it doesn’t look good), why there’s so much unused capacity in government-built fiber networks today, and special guest Gigi Sohn (American Association for Public Broadband) joins to talk some more about the reanti-municipal network dark money campaign that has inexplicably come out of the woodwork. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband The Future of LTE Networks | Episode 85 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-85-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 21 Nov 2023 18:09:13 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=636 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-85-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-85-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Friday, December 1st at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guest Mike Dano (Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, Light Reading) to tackle the future of LTE networks – how did we get here, and where are we going? They’ll talk about what happened to the 5G hype train, rural mobile wireless, market dynamics, and more. Go back and watch The Only History of LTE You’ll Ever Need to catch up on part one of the discussion.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:19:04 636 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Friday, December 1st at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guest Mike Dano (Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, Light Reading) to tackle the future of LTE networks – how did we get here, and where are we going? They’ll talk about what happened to the 5G hype train, rural mobile wireless, market dynamics, and more. Go back and watch The Only History of LTE You’ll Ever Need to catch up on part one of the discussion. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Friday, December 1st at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guest Mike Dano (Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, Light Reading) to tackle the future of LTE networks – how did we get here, and where are we going? They’ll talk about what happened to the 5G hype train, rural mobile wireless, market dynamics, and more. Go back and watch The Only History of LTE You’ll Ever Need to catch up on part one of the discussion. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Digital Discrimination, Canada Mandates Open Access, and Progress in Washington State | Episode 84 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-84-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 21 Nov 2023 18:08:58 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=634 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-84-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-84-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Wednesday, November 15th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to talk about the FCC’s digital discrimination docket, open access fiber in Canada, progress on community broadband in Chelan, Washington, and a couple bonus topics to boot.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:15:35 634 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Wednesday, November 15th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to talk about the FCC’s digital discrimination docket, open access fiber in Canada, progress on community broadband in Chelan, Washington, and a couple bonus topics to boot. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Wednesday, November 15th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to talk about the FCC’s digital discrimination docket, open access fiber in Canada, progress on community broadband in Chelan, Washington, and a couple bonus topics to boot. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband A Call to Fund ACP, MDU Solutions, and Did NTIA Solve the Letter of Credit Problem? | Episode 83 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/10/recent-broadband-news-episode-83-of-the-connect-this-show/ Mon, 30 Oct 2023 21:19:45 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=630 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/10/recent-broadband-news-episode-83-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/10/recent-broadband-news-episode-83-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Wednesday, November 1st at 3pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to talk about the White House asking for $6 billion to keep the Affordable Connectivity Program alive through 2024, solutions for multi-dwelling units (MDUs), and NTIA relaxing the Letter of Credit rules for upcoming BEAD grant applications.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:15:12 630 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Wednesday, November 1st at 3pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to talk about the White House asking for $6 billion to keep the Affordable Connectivity Program alive through 2024, solutions for multi-dwelling units (MDUs), and NTIA relaxing the Letter of Credit rules for upcoming BEAD grant applications. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Wednesday, November 1st at 3pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to talk about the White House asking for $6 billion to keep the Affordable Connectivity Program alive through 2024, solutions for multi-dwelling units (MDUs), and NTIA relaxing the Letter of Credit rules for upcoming BEAD grant applications. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Recent Broadband News | Episode 82 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/10/recent-broadband-news-episode-82-of-the-connect-this-show/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 20:09:22 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=626 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/10/recent-broadband-news-episode-82-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/10/recent-broadband-news-episode-82-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Wednesday, October 11th at 3pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), with special guest Matt Larsen (Vistabeam) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:21:13 626 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Wednesday, October 11th at 3pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), with special guest Matt Larsen (Vistabeam) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Wednesday, October 11th at 3pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), with special guest Matt Larsen (Vistabeam) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Net Neutrality, Spectrum Sharing, and the Mystery of the Missing Monopolies | Episode 81 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/09/recent-broadband-news-episode-81-of-the-connect-this-show/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:53:48 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=616 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/09/recent-broadband-news-episode-81-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/09/recent-broadband-news-episode-81-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Thursday, September 28th at 3pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), with special guest Sean Gonsalves (ILSR) to tackle the promised return of net neutrality rules by the FCC, Google Fiber’s recently announced ACP plans, why the word “monopoly” seems in such short supply in the BEAD plans states have begun to file, and the future of spectrum sharing in the United States.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:18:44 616 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Thursday, September 28th at 3pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), with special guest Sean Gonsalves (ILSR) to tackle the promised return of net neutrality rules by the FCC, Google Fiber’s recently announced ACP plans, why the word “monopoly” seems in such short supply in the BEAD plans states have begun to file, and the future of spectrum sharing in the United States. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Thursday, September 28th at 3pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), with special guest Sean Gonsalves (ILSR) to tackle the promised return of net neutrality rules by the FCC, Google Fiber’s recently announced ACP plans, why the word “monopoly” seems in such short supply in the BEAD plans states have begun to file, and the future of spectrum sharing in the United States. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Municipal Partnerships, a (Finally) Complete FCC, and Low-Income Plans for BEAD | Episode 80 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/09/municipal-partnerships-a-finally-complete-fcc-and-low-income-plans-for-bead-episode-80-of-the-connect-this-show/ Mon, 18 Sep 2023 14:57:03 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=613 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/09/municipal-partnerships-a-finally-complete-fcc-and-low-income-plans-for-bead-episode-80-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/09/municipal-partnerships-a-finally-complete-fcc-and-low-income-plans-for-bead-episode-80-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 On the most recent episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) were joined by regular guest Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and industry veteran and returning guest Heather Gold (HBG Strategies) to talk about why we don’t see more cities doing deals with entities like Google Fiber, what we can expect now that Anna Gomez has been confirmed to the FCC, and what it means for BEAD grantees if the Affordable Connectivity Program goes away.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:19:00 613 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)On the most recent episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) were joined by regular guest Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and industry veteran and returning guest Heather Gold (HBG Strategies) to talk about why we don’t see more cities doing deals with entities like Google Fiber, what we can expect now that Anna Gomez has been confirmed to the FCC, and what it means for BEAD grantees if the Affordable Connectivity Program goes away. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.On the most recent episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) were joined by regular guest Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and industry veteran and returning guest Heather Gold (HBG Strategies) to talk about why we don’t see more cities doing deals with entities like Google Fiber, what we can expect now that Anna Gomez has been confirmed to the FCC, and what it means for BEAD grantees if the Affordable Connectivity Program goes away. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband The Only History of LTE You’ll Ever Need | Episode 79 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/09/the-only-history-of-lte-youll-ever-need-episode-79-of-the-connect-this-show/ Mon, 18 Sep 2023 14:56:37 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=611 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/09/the-only-history-of-lte-youll-ever-need-episode-79-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/09/the-only-history-of-lte-youll-ever-need-episode-79-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Thursday, September 7th at 2pm ET for a very special episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Spencer Sevilla (University of Washington, ICDT Lab) to talk about how the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) standard for wireless networks came into being, from its inception in 2004 to its widespread adoption by 2010. They’ll cover everything from how a new communication standard is negotiated, to the development of OEM hardware, to deployment at scale. 

If you like this episode, stay tuned for LTE Networks: Part II, where we’ll aim to tackle where LTE networks are going next.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:15:48 611 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Thursday, September 7th at 2pm ET for a very special episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Spencer Sevilla (University of Washington, ICDT Lab) to talk about how the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) standard for wireless networks came into being, from its inception in 2004 to its widespread adoption by 2010. They’ll cover everything from how a new communication standard is negotiated, to the development of OEM hardware, to deployment at scale.  If you like this episode, stay tuned for LTE Networks: Part II, where we’ll aim to tackle where LTE networks are going next. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Thursday, September 7th at 2pm ET for a very special episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guest Spencer Sevilla (University of Washington, ICDT Lab) to talk about how the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) standard for wireless networks came into being, from its inception in 2004 to its widespread adoption by 2010. They’ll cover everything from how a new communication standard is negotiated, to the development of OEM hardware, to deployment at scale.  If you like this episode, stay tuned for LTE Networks: Part II, where we’ll aim to tackle where LTE networks are going next. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband The One Where We’re Supposed to Be Nice to the FCC | Episode 77 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/07/the-one-where-were-supposed-to-be-nice-to-the-fcc-episode-77-of-the-connect-this-show/ Fri, 28 Jul 2023 21:38:06 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=605 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/07/the-one-where-were-supposed-to-be-nice-to-the-fcc-episode-77-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/07/the-one-where-were-supposed-to-be-nice-to-the-fcc-episode-77-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Tuesday, August 8th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guest Robert Wack (Carroll County, Maryland Health Department) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print, including progress on the Westminster Fiber Network and what’s looking like Anna Gomez’s speedy confirmation to the FCC.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:14:46 605 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Tuesday, August 8th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guest Robert Wack (Carroll County, Maryland Health Department) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print, including progress on the Westminster Fiber Network and what’s looking like Anna Gomez’s speedy confirmation to the FCC. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Tuesday, August 8th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guest Robert Wack (Carroll County, Maryland Health Department) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print, including progress on the Westminster Fiber Network and what’s looking like Anna Gomez’s speedy confirmation to the FCC. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Gaming the FCC’s 10-day Rule, Competition on Open Access Networks, and Letters of Credit | Episode 76 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/07/recent-broadband-news-episode-76-of-the-connect-this-show/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:02:25 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=602 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/07/recent-broadband-news-episode-76-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/07/recent-broadband-news-episode-76-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Tuesday, July 25th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. 

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:14:36 602 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Tuesday, July 25th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print.  Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Tuesday, July 25th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print.  Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Astroturf Campaigns in Utah and Fixed Wireless, Mapping, and Maine – Episode 75 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/07/recent-broadband-news-episode-75-of-the-connect-this-show/ Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:56:06 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=597 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/07/recent-broadband-news-episode-75-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/07/recent-broadband-news-episode-75-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Wednesday, July 12th at 4pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. 

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:14:47 597 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Wednesday, July 12th at 4pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print.  Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Wednesday, July 12th at 4pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print.  Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband The Promise of BEAD, FCC Investigates Data Caps, and Capacity | Episode 74 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/07/the-promise-of-bead-fcc-investigates-data-caps-and-capacity-episode-74-of-the-connect-this-show/ Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:47:05 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=595 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/07/the-promise-of-bead-fcc-investigates-data-caps-and-capacity-episode-74-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/07/the-promise-of-bead-fcc-investigates-data-caps-and-capacity-episode-74-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Thursday, June 22nd at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) will be joined by Drew Clark (Broadband Breakfast) and Angela Bennink (Kitsap PUD) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Stay tuned for more!

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:17:47 595 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Thursday, June 22nd at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) will be joined by Drew Clark (Broadband Breakfast) and Angela Bennink (Kitsap PUD) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Stay tuned for more! Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Thursday, June 22nd at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) will be joined by Drew Clark (Broadband Breakfast) and Angela Bennink (Kitsap PUD) to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Stay tuned for more! Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Recent Broadband News | Episode 71 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/05/recent-broadband-news-episode-71-of-the-connect-this-show-2/ Fri, 12 May 2023 14:46:55 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=585 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/05/recent-broadband-news-episode-71-of-the-connect-this-show-2/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/05/recent-broadband-news-episode-71-of-the-connect-this-show-2/feed/ 0 Join us Friday, May 12, at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guests from the city of Longmont, Colorado to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print.

Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:05:30 585 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Friday, May 12, at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guests from the city of Longmont, Colorado to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Friday, May 12, at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and special guests from the city of Longmont, Colorado to talk about all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Live From the Broadband Communities Summit | Episode 70 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/04/live-from-the-broadband-communities-summit-episode-70-of-the-connect-this-show/ Fri, 28 Apr 2023 21:26:13 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=566 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/04/live-from-the-broadband-communities-summit-episode-70-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/04/live-from-the-broadband-communities-summit-episode-70-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Monday, May 1st at 8pm ET for another special live episode of the Connect This! Show, from Broadband Communities Summit in The Woodlands, Texas. Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) will be joined by Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), Heather Gold (HBG Strategies) and Bob Knight (Harrison Edwards) at the conference’s welcome reception. They’ll tackle the question of how we can actually get affordable, reliable, fast Internet for all to every household in America, from the perspective of the American Association for Public Broadband. They’ll also discuss the latest news in municipal broadband, with a spotlight on Yellowstone Fiber in Bozeman, Montana, and how it could serve as a model for communities in states with preemption laws or which face financial challenges.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:03:46 566 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Monday, May 1st at 8pm ET for another special live episode of the Connect This! Show, from Broadband Communities Summit in The Woodlands, Texas. Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) will be joined by Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), Heather Gold (HBG Strategies) and Bob Knight (Harrison Edwards) at the conference’s welcome reception. They’ll tackle the question of how we can actually get affordable, reliable, fast Internet for all to every household in America, from the perspective of the American Association for Public Broadband. They’ll also discuss the latest news in municipal broadband, with a spotlight on Yellowstone Fiber in Bozeman, Montana, and how it could serve as a model for communities in states with preemption laws or which face financial challenges. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Monday, May 1st at 8pm ET for another special live episode of the Connect This! Show, from Broadband Communities Summit in The Woodlands, Texas. Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) will be joined by Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), Heather Gold (HBG Strategies) and Bob Knight (Harrison Edwards) at the conference’s welcome reception. They’ll tackle the question of how we can actually get affordable, reliable, fast Internet for all to every household in America, from the perspective of the American Association for Public Broadband. They’ll also discuss the latest news in municipal broadband, with a spotlight on Yellowstone Fiber in Bozeman, Montana, and how it could serve as a model for communities in states with preemption laws or which face financial challenges. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Ookla Speed Test Report and Data Privacy | Episode 69 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/04/recent-broadband-news-episode-69-of-the-connect-this-show/ Thu, 20 Apr 2023 15:10:25 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=563 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/04/recent-broadband-news-episode-69-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/04/recent-broadband-news-episode-69-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Thursday, April 20th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to catch up on all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print.

Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:21:12 563 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Thursday, April 20th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to catch up on all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Thursday, April 20th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to catch up on all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Longmont, Baltimore, OpEx on Fiber Deployments | Episode 68 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/03/recent-broadband-news-episode-68-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:46:22 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=558 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/03/recent-broadband-news-episode-68-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/03/recent-broadband-news-episode-68-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Tuesday, April 4th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to catch up on all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:16:09 558 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Tuesday, April 4th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to catch up on all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Tuesday, April 4th at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to catch up on all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband When Fixed Wireless Makes Sense, Supply Chain Woes, and the FCC’s Bad Data Practices | Episode 67 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/03/recent-broadband-news-episode-67-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:41:55 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=556 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/03/recent-broadband-news-episode-67-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/03/recent-broadband-news-episode-67-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Thursday, March 23rd at 4pm ET, for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to catch up on all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:24:22 556 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Thursday, March 23rd at 4pm ET, for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to catch up on all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Thursday, March 23rd at 4pm ET, for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to catch up on all the recent broadband news that’s fit to print. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Gigi Sohn, the Future of the FCC, and Federal Reserve Banks | Episode 66 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/03/recent-broadband-news-episode-66-of-the-connect-this-show/ Mon, 06 Mar 2023 20:12:44 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=552 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/03/recent-broadband-news-episode-66-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/03/recent-broadband-news-episode-66-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us Thursday, March 9th at 2pm ET, for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), to catch up on all things Net Inclusion 2023, as well as all the other broadband news that’s fit to print.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:14:01 552 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us Thursday, March 9th at 2pm ET, for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), to catch up on all things Net Inclusion 2023, as well as all the other broadband news that’s fit to print. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us Thursday, March 9th at 2pm ET, for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), to catch up on all things Net Inclusion 2023, as well as all the other broadband news that’s fit to print. Email us at broadband@communitynets.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband A Very Special Connect This! Show | Episode 65 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/02/live-from-net-inclusion-2023-episode-65-of-the-connect-this-show/ Thu, 23 Feb 2023 22:57:22 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=539 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/02/live-from-net-inclusion-2023-episode-65-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/02/live-from-net-inclusion-2023-episode-65-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us on Wednesday, March 1st at 7:30pm ET for a very special episode of the show, live from Net Inclusion 2023 in San Antonio, Texas. Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) will be joined by Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), Angela Siefer (National Digital Inclusion Alliance), Autumn Evans (City of Detroit), and ILSR’s DeAnne Cuellar, and in front of a live audience at The Friendly Spot Icehouse. They’ll talk pilot projects to reach neighborhoods long left behind by the monopoly marketplace, how to overcome stubborn digital equity and inclusion challenges, what it takes for cities to make forward-thinking, bold choices for better local Internet infrastructure, mobilizing local elected officials as an interested citizen, and much more. We expect a large audience and have a revolving seat for questions, comments, and jokes at Chris’ expense. Join us!

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:05:26 539 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us on Wednesday, March 1st at 7:30pm ET for a very special episode of the show, live from Net Inclusion 2023 in San Antonio, Texas. Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) will be joined by Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), Angela Siefer (National Digital Inclusion Alliance), Autumn Evans (City of Detroit), and ILSR’s DeAnne Cuellar, and in front of a live audience at The Friendly Spot Icehouse. They’ll talk pilot projects to reach neighborhoods long left behind by the monopoly marketplace, how to overcome stubborn digital equity and inclusion challenges, what it takes for cities to make forward-thinking, bold choices for better local Internet infrastructure, mobilizing local elected officials as an interested citizen, and much more. We expect a large audience and have a revolving seat for questions, comments, and jokes at Chris’ expense. Join us! Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us on Wednesday, March 1st at 7:30pm ET for a very special episode of the show, live from Net Inclusion 2023 in San Antonio, Texas. Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) will be joined by Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber), Angela Siefer (National Digital Inclusion Alliance), Autumn Evans (City of Detroit), and ILSR’s DeAnne Cuellar, and in front of a live audience at The Friendly Spot Icehouse. They’ll talk pilot projects to reach neighborhoods long left behind by the monopoly marketplace, how to overcome stubborn digital equity and inclusion challenges, what it takes for cities to make forward-thinking, bold choices for better local Internet infrastructure, mobilizing local elected officials as an interested citizen, and much more. We expect a large audience and have a revolving seat for questions, comments, and jokes at Chris’ expense. Join us! Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Grant Tax Relief, Misreporting Coverage, and Line Extension Programs | Episode 64 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/02/recent-broadband-news-episode-64-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 17:03:54 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=536 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/02/recent-broadband-news-episode-64-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/02/recent-broadband-news-episode-64-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us live on Thursday, February 16th, at 3:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about recent efforts to remove the tax burden on broadband grants, the litany of ISPs that have abused the new reporting process to overstate their coverage, when line extension programs are a good (and bad) idea, and much more. 

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:18:28 536 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Thursday, February 16th, at 3:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about recent efforts to remove the tax burden on broadband grants, the litany of ISPs that have abused the new reporting process to overstate their coverage, when line extension programs are a good (and bad) idea, and much more.  Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below. Remote video URL https://communitynets.org/media/oembed?url=https%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DFD84LJoo_w4&max_width=0&max_height=0&hash=ZCywcCRzN1tbSC1nNWmfFhdm3MHMpXKZEIz2t-hv8csJoin us live on Thursday, February 16th, at 3:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about recent efforts to remove the tax burden on broadband grants, the litany of ISPs that have abused the new reporting process to overstate their coverage, when line extension programs are a good (and bad) idea, and much more.  Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below. Remote video URL https://communitynets.org/media/oembed?url=https%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DFD84LJoo_w4&max_width=0&max_height=0&hash=ZCywcCRzN1tbSC1nNWmfFhdm3MHMpXKZEIz2t-hv8csbroadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Charter Spectrum’s Lawsuit, Railroads and Crossings, and Covid-19 | Episode 63 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/02/charter-spectrums-lawsuit-railroads-and-crossings-and-covid-19-episode-63-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 17:03:32 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=533 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/02/charter-spectrums-lawsuit-railroads-and-crossings-and-covid-19-episode-63-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/02/charter-spectrums-lawsuit-railroads-and-crossings-and-covid-19-episode-63-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us live on Thursday, February 2nd, at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about the resolution to Charter Spectrum’s contractor lawsuit, the location challenge process, railroads and other crossings, and how much progress we’ve made three years into the Covid-19 pandemic.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:12:15 533 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Thursday, February 2nd, at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about the resolution to Charter Spectrum’s contractor lawsuit, the location challenge process, railroads and other crossings, and how much progress we’ve made three years into the Covid-19 pandemic. Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, on Twitch, or below.Join us live on Thursday, February 2nd, at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about the resolution to Charter Spectrum’s contractor lawsuit, the location challenge process, railroads and other crossings, and how much progress we’ve made three years into the Covid-19 pandemic. Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, on Twitch, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Mapping Deadlines, LA County, and Stuck in the Middle | Episode 62 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/01/mapping-deadlines-la-county-and-stuck-in-the-middle-episode-62-of-the-connect-this-show/ Fri, 20 Jan 2023 22:19:45 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=529 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/01/mapping-deadlines-la-county-and-stuck-in-the-middle-episode-62-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/01/mapping-deadlines-la-county-and-stuck-in-the-middle-episode-62-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us live on Friday, January 19th, at 2:00pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Shayna Englin (California Community Foundation) and Geoff Wiggin to talk about the January 13th location challenge deadline, what’s going on in LA County and with the California Public Utilities Commission, and what it’s like to buy a house in Ohio and find yourself stuck in the middle of the area’s Internet service providers.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:23:42 529 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Friday, January 19th, at 2:00pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Shayna Englin (California Community Foundation) and Geoff Wiggin to talk about the January 13th location challenge deadline, what’s going on in LA County and with the California Public Utilities Commission, and what it’s like to buy a house in Ohio and find yourself stuck in the middle of the area’s Internet service providers. Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us live on Friday, January 19th, at 2:00pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and special guests Shayna Englin (California Community Foundation) and Geoff Wiggin to talk about the January 13th location challenge deadline, what’s going on in LA County and with the California Public Utilities Commission, and what it’s like to buy a house in Ohio and find yourself stuck in the middle of the area’s Internet service providers. Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Location Challenges Won’t Impact BEAD, Gigi Sohn Renominated, AT&T’s “Open Access” Fiber Deal, and What’s New From CES | Episode 61 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2023/01/location-challenges-wont-impact-bead-gigi-sohn-renominated-atts-open-access-fiber-deal-and-whats-new-from-ces-episode-61-of-the-connect-this-show/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 16:30:25 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=521 https://connectthisshow.com/2023/01/location-challenges-wont-impact-bead-gigi-sohn-renominated-atts-open-access-fiber-deal-and-whats-new-from-ces-episode-61-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2023/01/location-challenges-wont-impact-bead-gigi-sohn-renominated-atts-open-access-fiber-deal-and-whats-new-from-ces-episode-61-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 It’s a new year, which means there’s plenty to talk about in the broadband space. Join us live on Friday, January 6th, at 2:00pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about the recent renomination of Gigi Sohn to the FCC, why location challenges won’t matter for state BEAD allocations (and why that’s a big deal), and what the planning funds will do for states preparing for infrastructure money. Later, Dane Jasper (Sonic) joins the show to talk about the recent announcement by AT&T and BlackRock private equity of a joint venture to help the monopoly provider enter markets outside of states where it has traditionally operated. Finally, Roger Timmerman (UTOPIA Fiber) joins live from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to share the trends making household bandwidth demands continue to rise.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:18:49 521 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)It’s a new year, which means there’s plenty to talk about in the broadband space. Join us live on Friday, January 6th, at 2:00pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about the recent renomination of Gigi Sohn to the FCC, why location challenges won’t matter for state BEAD allocations (and why that’s a big deal), and what the planning funds will do for states preparing for infrastructure money. Later, Dane Jasper (Sonic) joins the show to talk about the recent announcement by AT&T and BlackRock private equity of a joint venture to help the monopoly provider enter markets outside of states where it has traditionally operated. Finally, Roger Timmerman (UTOPIA Fiber) joins live from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to share the trends making household bandwidth demands continue to rise. Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.It’s a new year, which means there’s plenty to talk about in the broadband space. Join us live on Friday, January 6th, at 2:00pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about the recent renomination of Gigi Sohn to the FCC, why location challenges won’t matter for state BEAD allocations (and why that’s a big deal), and what the planning funds will do for states preparing for infrastructure money. Later, Dane Jasper (Sonic) joins the show to talk about the recent announcement by AT&T and BlackRock private equity of a joint venture to help the monopoly provider enter markets outside of states where it has traditionally operated. Finally, Roger Timmerman (UTOPIA Fiber) joins live from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to share the trends making household bandwidth demands continue to rise. Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, and watch on LinkedIn, on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband A Look Back at 2022 | Episode 60 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/12/recent-broadband-news-episode-60-of-the-connect-this-show/ Fri, 09 Dec 2022 22:15:29 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=516 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/12/recent-broadband-news-episode-60-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/12/recent-broadband-news-episode-60-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 On the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to step back and remember the ups and downs as well as twists and turns in 2022. Did the supply chain fears that dominated news cycles ever really materialize? Will we ever have a functioning FCC? Is Congress completely out of touch with regard to the cost of broadband? Is fixing the urban broadband problem fundamentally different from fixing the rural broadband problem? The panel weighs in, and Christopher gets a little hot under the collar.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:25:12 516 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)On the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to step back and remember the ups and downs as well as twists and turns in 2022. Did the supply chain fears that dominated news cycles ever really materialize? Will we ever have a functioning FCC? Is Congress completely out of touch with regard to the cost of broadband? Is fixing the urban broadband problem fundamentally different from fixing the rural broadband problem? The panel weighs in, and Christopher gets a little hot under the collar. Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, watch on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.On the latest episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to step back and remember the ups and downs as well as twists and turns in 2022. Did the supply chain fears that dominated news cycles ever really materialize? Will we ever have a functioning FCC? Is Congress completely out of touch with regard to the cost of broadband? Is fixing the urban broadband problem fundamentally different from fixing the rural broadband problem? The panel weighs in, and Christopher gets a little hot under the collar. Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, watch on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband The Mapping Challenge Process, PON vs. Active Ethernet, and Market Pricing| Episode 59 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-59-of-the-connect-this-show/ Mon, 28 Nov 2022 19:33:48 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=508 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-59-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-59-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us live on Friday, December 2nd, at 2:00pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting). 

They start the show by talking about early sticking points in the FCC’s new mapping fabric, and what kinds of troubles providers are having in submitting data sets. The panel then talks about types of fiber deployments (GPON vs. XGSPON vs. Active Ethernet) and their longevity, scalability, and marketplace economics as compared to cable networks, fixed wireless networks, and Low-Earth Orbit satellite networks. They close the show by talking about the fundamental role of government in delivering essential services and innovation.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:09:00 508 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Friday, December 2nd, at 2:00pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting).  They start the show by talking about early sticking points in the FCC’s new mapping fabric, and what kinds of troubles providers are having in submitting data sets. The panel then talks about types of fiber deployments (GPON vs. XGSPON vs. Active Ethernet) and their longevity, scalability, and marketplace economics as compared to cable networks, fixed wireless networks, and Low-Earth Orbit satellite networks. They close the show by talking about the fundamental role of government in delivering essential services and innovation. Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, watch on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us live on Friday, December 2nd, at 2:00pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting).  They start the show by talking about early sticking points in the FCC’s new mapping fabric, and what kinds of troubles providers are having in submitting data sets. The panel then talks about types of fiber deployments (GPON vs. XGSPON vs. Active Ethernet) and their longevity, scalability, and marketplace economics as compared to cable networks, fixed wireless networks, and Low-Earth Orbit satellite networks. They close the show by talking about the fundamental role of government in delivering essential services and innovation. Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, watch on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband One Map to Rule Them All, Challenge Abuses, and the End of the Fiber Boom | Episode 58 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-58-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 15 Nov 2022 23:12:23 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=493 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-58-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-58-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us live on Tuesday, November 22nd, at 1:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting). They’ll talk about the first version of the brand-new FCC broadband maps, released last Friday, internal Cable One emails admitting the company’s misuse of the challenge process to block competition from publicly funded providers, updates on the broadband nutrition label, and whether rising interest rates will spell an end to the fiber boom. 

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:15:14 493 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Tuesday, November 22nd, at 1:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting). They’ll talk about the first version of the brand-new FCC broadband maps, released last Friday, internal Cable One emails admitting the company’s misuse of the challenge process to block competition from publicly funded providers, updates on the broadband nutrition label, and whether rising interest rates will spell an end to the fiber boom.  Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, watch on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us live on Tuesday, November 22nd, at 1:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting). They’ll talk about the first version of the brand-new FCC broadband maps, released last Friday, internal Cable One emails admitting the company’s misuse of the challenge process to block competition from publicly funded providers, updates on the broadband nutrition label, and whether rising interest rates will spell an end to the fiber boom.  Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, watch on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Comcast Pricing, Starlink Data Caps, Starry’s Future, and ACP Usage| Episode 57 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-57-of-the-connect-this-show/ Fri, 04 Nov 2022 20:29:48 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=488 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-57-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/11/recent-broadband-news-episode-57-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us live on Tuesday, November 8th, at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about the new pricing moves announced by Comcast, the institution of data caps in off-hours by Starlink, the future of Starry Fixed Wireless, and Affordable Connectivity Program usage around the country.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:13:46 488 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Tuesday, November 8th, at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about the new pricing moves announced by Comcast, the institution of data caps in off-hours by Starlink, the future of Starry Fixed Wireless, and Affordable Connectivity Program usage around the country. Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, watch on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us live on Tuesday, November 8th, at 2pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about the new pricing moves announced by Comcast, the institution of data caps in off-hours by Starlink, the future of Starry Fixed Wireless, and Affordable Connectivity Program usage around the country. Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, watch on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Pricing Disparities by Monopolies, CostQuest, and Starry Abandoning RDOF Bids | Episode 56 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/10/recent-broadband-news-episode-56-of-the-connect-this-show/ Wed, 19 Oct 2022 18:11:35 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=483 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/10/recent-broadband-news-episode-56-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/10/recent-broadband-news-episode-56-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us live on Thursday, October 20, at 11am ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting). They’ll dig into the chase for gigabit Tarana by Travis, a new LA County report which finds significant pricing disparities by Charter Spectrum in low-income neighborhoods, and Starry’s recent decent to abandon all of its Rrural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) bids. Special guest Dustin Loup (Marconi Society, National Broadband Mapping Coalition) will join later in the show to talk about the recently announced FCC contract with Cost Quest for the new national broadband availability maps.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:22:45 483 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Thursday, October 20, at 11am ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting). They’ll dig into the chase for gigabit Tarana by Travis, a new LA County report which finds significant pricing disparities by Charter Spectrum in low-income neighborhoods, and Starry’s recent decent to abandon all of its Rrural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) bids. Special guest Dustin Loup (Marconi Society, National Broadband Mapping Coalition) will join later in the show to talk about the recently announced FCC contract with Cost Quest for the new national broadband availability maps. Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, watch on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us live on Thursday, October 20, at 11am ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting). They’ll dig into the chase for gigabit Tarana by Travis, a new LA County report which finds significant pricing disparities by Charter Spectrum in low-income neighborhoods, and Starry’s recent decent to abandon all of its Rrural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) bids. Special guest Dustin Loup (Marconi Society, National Broadband Mapping Coalition) will join later in the show to talk about the recently announced FCC contract with Cost Quest for the new national broadband availability maps. Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, watch on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Infrastructure Economics | Episode 55 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/10/recent-broadband-news-episode-55-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 04 Oct 2022 15:30:29 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=478 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/10/recent-broadband-news-episode-55-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/10/recent-broadband-news-episode-55-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us live on Thursday, October 6, at 5pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and industry veteran Heather (HBG Strategies). They talk about the economics of broadband deployment, from the effect of taxes, to rural fixed wireless, to whether fiber is ever “too expensive” to build.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:16:17 478 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Thursday, October 6, at 5pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and industry veteran Heather (HBG Strategies). They talk about the economics of broadband deployment, from the effect of taxes, to rural fixed wireless, to whether fiber is ever “too expensive” to build. Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, watch on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us live on Thursday, October 6, at 5pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and industry veteran Heather (HBG Strategies). They talk about the economics of broadband deployment, from the effect of taxes, to rural fixed wireless, to whether fiber is ever “too expensive” to build. Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, watch on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband New York Public Housing Solutions, Cable Speed Increases, and the Effects of Inflation | Episode 54 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/09/recent-broadband-news-episode-54-of-the-connect-this-show/ Wed, 21 Sep 2022 15:20:42 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=470 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/09/recent-broadband-news-episode-54-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/09/recent-broadband-news-episode-54-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us live on Thursday, September 22, at 4pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting). They’ll dig into the recent New York City announcement that it would subsidize connection costs for hundreds of thousands in public housing, Tennessee’s recent grant announcements, upcoming and dramatic speed increases announced by Comcast, and how the increasing cost of labor, materials, and now capital is affecting new fiber builds.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:14:47 470 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Thursday, September 22, at 4pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting). They’ll dig into the recent New York City announcement that it would subsidize connection costs for hundreds of thousands in public housing, Tennessee’s recent grant announcements, upcoming and dramatic speed increases announced by Comcast, and how the increasing cost of labor, materials, and now capital is affecting new fiber builds. Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, watch on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us live on Thursday, September 22, at 4pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting). They’ll dig into the recent New York City announcement that it would subsidize connection costs for hundreds of thousands in public housing, Tennessee’s recent grant announcements, upcoming and dramatic speed increases announced by Comcast, and how the increasing cost of labor, materials, and now capital is affecting new fiber builds. Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, watch on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband The Future of Community Networks and Fixed Wireless | Episode 53 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/09/the-future-of-community-networks-and-fixed-wireless-episode-53-of-the-connect-this-show/ Mon, 12 Sep 2022 16:03:36 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=465 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/09/the-future-of-community-networks-and-fixed-wireless-episode-53-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/09/the-future-of-community-networks-and-fixed-wireless-episode-53-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us live on Friday, September 16, at 1pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Deborah Simpier (Co-founder at Althea Networks, Sommelier Finance, and Gravity Bridge) and Sascha Meinrath (Palmer Chair in Telecommunications at Penn State University, Founder of X-Lab). They’ll discuss the advantages of different wireless deployments (LTE vs. licensed spectrum vs. unlicensed spectrum) as compared to fiber, the present and future of distributed, member-owned networks, and more.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:12:28 465 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Friday, September 16, at 1pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Deborah Simpier (Co-founder at Althea Networks, Sommelier Finance, and Gravity Bridge) and Sascha Meinrath (Palmer Chair in Telecommunications at Penn State University, Founder of X-Lab). They’ll discuss the advantages of different wireless deployments (LTE vs. licensed spectrum vs. unlicensed spectrum) as compared to fiber, the present and future of distributed, member-owned networks, and more. Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, watch on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us live on Friday, September 16, at 1pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Deborah Simpier (Co-founder at Althea Networks, Sommelier Finance, and Gravity Bridge) and Sascha Meinrath (Palmer Chair in Telecommunications at Penn State University, Founder of X-Lab). They’ll discuss the advantages of different wireless deployments (LTE vs. licensed spectrum vs. unlicensed spectrum) as compared to fiber, the present and future of distributed, member-owned networks, and more. Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, watch on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Grant Challenges in Louisiana, 25 Gbps service in Chattanooga, and the Future of Video | Episode 51 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/08/recent-broadband-news-episode-51-of-the-connect-this-show/ Thu, 25 Aug 2022 14:53:24 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=451 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/08/recent-broadband-news-episode-51-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/08/recent-broadband-news-episode-51-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us live on Thursday, August 25th, at 5pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting. They’ll dig into recent news – from big cable companies and telcos going after BEAD grants, to the announcement of 25 Gigabit per second service across the footprint of Chattanooga’s municipal network, to the future of streaming video, to a reflective look on how well (or not) we did with the broadband stimulus.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:15:43 451 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Thursday, August 25th, at 5pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting. They’ll dig into recent news – from big cable companies and telcos going after BEAD grants, to the announcement of 25 Gigabit per second service across the footprint of Chattanooga’s municipal network, to the future of streaming video, to a reflective look on how well (or not) we did with the broadband stimulus. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, watch on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.Join us live on Thursday, August 25th, at 5pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting. They’ll dig into recent news – from big cable companies and telcos going after BEAD grants, to the announcement of 25 Gigabit per second service across the footprint of Chattanooga’s municipal network, to the future of streaming video, to a reflective look on how well (or not) we did with the broadband stimulus. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed or find it on the Connect This! page, watch on YouTube Live, on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband RDOF, Universal Service Fund, and the Future of Video | Episode 50 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/08/rdof-universal-service-fund-and-the-future-of-video-episode-50-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 16 Aug 2022 16:24:00 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=460 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/08/rdof-universal-service-fund-and-the-future-of-video-episode-50-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/08/rdof-universal-service-fund-and-the-future-of-video-episode-50-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us live on Thursday, August 18th, at 3:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Casey Lide, Partner at Keller and Heckman.

The panel will talk about LTD Broadband and Starlink recently getting removed from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) by the FCC, the most recent Universal Service Fund report sent to Congress, and whether the new streaming video landscape is materially different from the old cable TV model (and if we should care). 

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:20:37 460 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Thursday, August 18th, at 3:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Casey Lide, Partner at Keller and Heckman. The panel will talk about LTD Broadband and Starlink recently getting removed from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) by the FCC, the most recent Universal Service Fund report sent to Congress, and whether the new streaming video landscape is materially different from the old cable TV model (and if we should care).  Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live, on find it on the Connect This! page. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.Join us live on Thursday, August 18th, at 3:30pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guest Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Casey Lide, Partner at Keller and Heckman. The panel will talk about LTD Broadband and Starlink recently getting removed from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) by the FCC, the most recent Universal Service Fund report sent to Congress, and whether the new streaming video landscape is materially different from the old cable TV model (and if we should care).  Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live, on find it on the Connect This! page. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Community Wins and Monopoly Missteps | Episode 49 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/08/recent-broadband-news-episode-49-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:48:20 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=443 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/08/recent-broadband-news-episode-49-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/08/recent-broadband-news-episode-49-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us live on Thursday, August 4th, at 4pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news fit to print.

They discuss recent wins by communities in Holland, Michigan, Lancaster County, Nebraska, and Bozeman, Montana and recent fines levied against Charter Spectrum and Frontier. They also talk about churn in the Affordable Connectivity Program, the cost of grant requirements in BEAD, and the difficulties of faithfully mapping and reporting fixed wireless deployments.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:18:33 443 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Thursday, August 4th, at 4pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news fit to print. They discuss recent wins by communities in Holland, Michigan, Lancaster County, Nebraska, and Bozeman, Montana and recent fines levied against Charter Spectrum and Frontier. They also talk about churn in the Affordable Connectivity Program, the cost of grant requirements in BEAD, and the difficulties of faithfully mapping and reporting fixed wireless deployments. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live, on find it on the Connect This! page. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.Join us live on Thursday, August 4th, at 4pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news fit to print. They discuss recent wins by communities in Holland, Michigan, Lancaster County, Nebraska, and Bozeman, Montana and recent fines levied against Charter Spectrum and Frontier. They also talk about churn in the Affordable Connectivity Program, the cost of grant requirements in BEAD, and the difficulties of faithfully mapping and reporting fixed wireless deployments. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live, on find it on the Connect This! page. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Anti-Municipal Broadband Campaigns and Lessons from Maine | Episode 48 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/07/anti-municipal-broadband-campaigns-and-lessons-from-maine-episode-48-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 26 Jul 2022 19:12:41 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=438 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/07/anti-municipal-broadband-campaigns-and-lessons-from-maine-episode-48-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/07/anti-municipal-broadband-campaigns-and-lessons-from-maine-episode-48-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us live on Thursday, July 28th, at 4pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Peggy Schaffer (Director, ConnectME), Andrew Butcher (President, Maine Connectivity Authority), and Christa Thorpe (Community Development Officer, Island Institute).

The panel will dig into recent anti-municipal propaganda in the New England area, with an emphasis on Maine. They’ll talk about the astroturf campaign being waged by groups like the Alliance for Quality Broadband (a front organization for Charter Spectrum) and recent blows to municipal broadband they’ve fueled in places like Southport and Readfield. The panel will talk who really loses out when the monopoly providers persuade voters and local officials to defer leadership on imrpoving community connectivity. Christa Thorpe will join halfway through the show to share her experiences and perspective.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:28:26 438 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Thursday, July 28th, at 4pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Peggy Schaffer (Director, ConnectME), Andrew Butcher (President, Maine Connectivity Authority), and Christa Thorpe (Community Development Officer, Island Institute). The panel will dig into recent anti-municipal propaganda in the New England area, with an emphasis on Maine. They’ll talk about the astroturf campaign being waged by groups like the Alliance for Quality Broadband (a front organization for Charter Spectrum) and recent blows to municipal broadband they’ve fueled in places like Southport and Readfield. The panel will talk who really loses out when the monopoly providers persuade voters and local officials to defer leadership on imrpoving community connectivity. Christa Thorpe will join halfway through the show to share her experiences and perspective. Subscribe to the show using this feed, view the show on YouTube Live or on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.Join us live on Thursday, July 28th, at 4pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Peggy Schaffer (Director, ConnectME), Andrew Butcher (President, Maine Connectivity Authority), and Christa Thorpe (Community Development Officer, Island Institute). The panel will dig into recent anti-municipal propaganda in the New England area, with an emphasis on Maine. They’ll talk about the astroturf campaign being waged by groups like the Alliance for Quality Broadband (a front organization for Charter Spectrum) and recent blows to municipal broadband they’ve fueled in places like Southport and Readfield. The panel will talk who really loses out when the monopoly providers persuade voters and local officials to defer leadership on imrpoving community connectivity. Christa Thorpe will join halfway through the show to share her experiences and perspective. Subscribe to the show using this feed, view the show on YouTube Live or on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband A New Broadband Definition, National ISPs Going for State Subsidies, and Buy America Rules | Episode 47 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/07/a-new-broadband-definition-national-isps-going-for-state-subsidies-and-buy-america-rules-episode-47-of-the-connect-this-show/ Mon, 25 Jul 2022 15:24:17 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=434 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/07/a-new-broadband-definition-national-isps-going-for-state-subsidies-and-buy-america-rules-episode-47-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/07/a-new-broadband-definition-national-isps-going-for-state-subsidies-and-buy-america-rules-episode-47-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us live on Thursday, July 21st, at 5pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news fit to print.

This includes everything from the Notice of Inquiry on updating the definition of broadband to 100/20 Megabits per second (Mbps) by Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, to recent announcements of public/private partnerships, to what will happen with some of the national ISPs getting more subsidies to expand Internet access, to expectations around the Buy America provisions of key broadband subsidies.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:19:16 434 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Thursday, July 21st, at 5pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news fit to print. This includes everything from the Notice of Inquiry on updating the definition of broadband to 100/20 Megabits per second (Mbps) by Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, to recent announcements of public/private partnerships, to what will happen with some of the national ISPs getting more subsidies to expand Internet access, to expectations around the Buy America provisions of key broadband subsidies. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live, on find it on the Connect This! page. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.Join us live on Thursday, July 21st, at 5pm ET for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all the recent broadband news fit to print. This includes everything from the Notice of Inquiry on updating the definition of broadband to 100/20 Megabits per second (Mbps) by Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, to recent announcements of public/private partnerships, to what will happen with some of the national ISPs getting more subsidies to expand Internet access, to expectations around the Buy America provisions of key broadband subsidies. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live, on find it on the Connect This! page. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband The Wireless Show, Part 2 | Episode 46 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/06/recent-broadband-news-episode-46-of-the-connect-this-show/ Wed, 22 Jun 2022 14:51:40 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=420 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/06/recent-broadband-news-episode-46-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/06/recent-broadband-news-episode-46-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us live on Thursday, June 23rd, at 4pm ET in the chat for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting).

The panel will discuss the most recent events in the broadband space, including new developments on the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, what Maine is doing right, state movement on submitting plans to NTIA, and whether we’re likely to see a fifth FCC commissioner confirmed before the end of the decade. 

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:17:31 420 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Thursday, June 23rd, at 4pm ET in the chat for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting). The panel will discuss the most recent events in the broadband space, including new developments on the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, what Maine is doing right, state movement on submitting plans to NTIA, and whether we’re likely to see a fifth FCC commissioner confirmed before the end of the decade.  Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live, on find it on the Connect This! page. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.Join us live on Thursday, June 23rd, at 4pm ET in the chat for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting). The panel will discuss the most recent events in the broadband space, including new developments on the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, what Maine is doing right, state movement on submitting plans to NTIA, and whether we’re likely to see a fifth FCC commissioner confirmed before the end of the decade.  Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live, on find it on the Connect This! page. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband The Wireless Show | Episode 45 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/06/the-wireless-show-episode-45-of-the-connect-this-show/ Wed, 15 Jun 2022 18:54:13 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=415 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/06/the-wireless-show-episode-45-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/06/the-wireless-show-episode-45-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us live on Thursday, June 9, at 5pm ET in the chat for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Alan Fitzpatrick (Co-Founder and CEO of Open Broadband in North Carolina) and Matt Larsen (CEO of Vistabeam).

The panel will discuss the range of wireless approaches used in rural and urban areas to reach subscribers, how it competes with fixed broadband deployments using various technologies, and the advantages and challenges of it brings to the tool chest. They’ll also talk about unlicensed versus licensed spectrum, Tarana, and how the federal broadband funding programs will change the landscape for fixed wireless in the near and long term.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:14:08 415 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Thursday, June 9, at 5pm ET in the chat for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Alan Fitzpatrick (Co-Founder and CEO of Open Broadband in North Carolina) and Matt Larsen (CEO of Vistabeam). The panel will discuss the range of wireless approaches used in rural and urban areas to reach subscribers, how it competes with fixed broadband deployments using various technologies, and the advantages and challenges of it brings to the tool chest. They’ll also talk about unlicensed versus licensed spectrum, Tarana, and how the federal broadband funding programs will change the landscape for fixed wireless in the near and long term. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live, on find it on the Connect This! page. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.Join us live on Thursday, June 9, at 5pm ET in the chat for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Alan Fitzpatrick (Co-Founder and CEO of Open Broadband in North Carolina) and Matt Larsen (CEO of Vistabeam). The panel will discuss the range of wireless approaches used in rural and urban areas to reach subscribers, how it competes with fixed broadband deployments using various technologies, and the advantages and challenges of it brings to the tool chest. They’ll also talk about unlicensed versus licensed spectrum, Tarana, and how the federal broadband funding programs will change the landscape for fixed wireless in the near and long term. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live, on find it on the Connect This! page. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband BEAD, the NYC Master Broadband Plan, and Co-op Consortia | Episode 44 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/06/bead-the-nyc-master-broadband-plan-and-co-op-consortia-episode-44-of-the-connect-this-show/ Thu, 02 Jun 2022 16:18:46 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=411 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/06/bead-the-nyc-master-broadband-plan-and-co-op-consortia-episode-44-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/06/bead-the-nyc-master-broadband-plan-and-co-op-consortia-episode-44-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us today, June 2, at 5pm ET in the chat for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting). 

The panel will dig into recent news on the BEAD program (including Alan Davidson’s remarks at the Mountain Connect conference last week) and what we’re likely to see with states that continue to maintain restrictions on municipal solutions. They’ll also talk about the New York City Master Broadband Plan, and end with thoughts on Arkansas and Indiana creating middle mile consortia with co-ops.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:12:37 411 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us today, June 2, at 5pm ET in the chat for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting).  The panel will dig into recent news on the BEAD program (including Alan Davidson’s remarks at the Mountain Connect conference last week) and what we’re likely to see with states that continue to maintain restrictions on municipal solutions. They’ll also talk about the New York City Master Broadband Plan, and end with thoughts on Arkansas and Indiana creating middle mile consortia with co-ops. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live, on find it on the Connect This! page. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.Join us today, June 2, at 5pm ET in the chat for the latest episode of the Connect This! Show. Co-hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting).  The panel will dig into recent news on the BEAD program (including Alan Davidson’s remarks at the Mountain Connect conference last week) and what we’re likely to see with states that continue to maintain restrictions on municipal solutions. They’ll also talk about the New York City Master Broadband Plan, and end with thoughts on Arkansas and Indiana creating middle mile consortia with co-ops. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live, on find it on the Connect This! page. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Breaking Down the BEAD NOFO | Connect This! Episode 43 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/05/breaking-down-the-bead-nofo-connect-this-episode-43/ Wed, 18 May 2022 18:53:42 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=403 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/05/breaking-down-the-bead-nofo-connect-this-episode-43/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/05/breaking-down-the-bead-nofo-connect-this-episode-43/feed/ 0 On this special emergency episode of Connect This!, our hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting). The four will be breaking down the BEAD NOFO (Notice of Funding Opportunity).

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:12:03 403 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)On this special emergency episode of Connect This!, our hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting). The four will be breaking down the BEAD NOFO (Notice of Funding Opportunity). Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.On this special emergency episode of Connect This!, our hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting). The four will be breaking down the BEAD NOFO (Notice of Funding Opportunity). Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Mapping & Data Collection | Connect This! Episode 42 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/05/mapping-data-collection-connect-this-episode-42/ Thu, 12 May 2022 15:27:37 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=400 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/05/mapping-data-collection-connect-this-episode-42/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/05/mapping-data-collection-connect-this-episode-42/feed/ 0 In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by guests Brian Mefford (VETRO FiberMap) and Lori Adams (Nokia) to talk about the FCC’s Fabric initiative, and the latest in data collection and mapping.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:20:26 400 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by guests Brian Mefford (VETRO FiberMap) and Lori Adams (Nokia) to talk about the FCC’s Fabric initiative, and the latest in data collection and mapping. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by guests Brian Mefford (VETRO FiberMap) and Lori Adams (Nokia) to talk about the FCC’s Fabric initiative, and the latest in data collection and mapping. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband A New Public Broadband Association Is Born, Burdensome ACP Rules, and FCC Fining LTD | Connect This! Show Episode 41 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/05/current-events-in-broadband-connect-this-episode-41/ Wed, 04 May 2022 20:11:50 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=396 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/05/current-events-in-broadband-connect-this-episode-41/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/05/current-events-in-broadband-connect-this-episode-41/feed/ 0 Hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about the formation of the American Association of Public Broadband and its vision and goals, whether BEAD funds should be paired with low-income plan requirements, small- and medium-sized ISPs finding that ACP rules are hindering signups, and the recent announcement by the FCC that it was fining LTD Broadband. Alan Fitzpatrick from Open Broadband joins later in the show.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:21:41 396 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about the formation of the American Association of Public Broadband and its vision and goals, whether BEAD funds should be paired with low-income plan requirements, small- and medium-sized ISPs finding that ACP rules are hindering signups, and the recent announcement by the FCC that it was fining LTD Broadband. Alan Fitzpatrick from Open Broadband joins later in the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.Hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about the formation of the American Association of Public Broadband and its vision and goals, whether BEAD funds should be paired with low-income plan requirements, small- and medium-sized ISPs finding that ACP rules are hindering signups, and the recent announcement by the FCC that it was fining LTD Broadband. Alan Fitzpatrick from Open Broadband joins later in the show. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband State Spending on Broadband | Connect This! Episode 40 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/04/state-spending-on-broadband-connect-this-episode-40/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:37:46 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=391 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/04/state-spending-on-broadband-connect-this-episode-40/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/04/state-spending-on-broadband-connect-this-episode-40/feed/ 0 In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Peggy Schaffer (Connect Maine) to talk about the latest in state spending, and other broadband news.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:10:54 391 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Peggy Schaffer (Connect Maine) to talk about the latest in state spending, and other broadband news. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Peggy Schaffer (Connect Maine) to talk about the latest in state spending, and other broadband news. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband What’s New in Broadband? | Connect This! Episode 39 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/04/whats-new-in-broadband-connect-this-episode-39/ Wed, 13 Apr 2022 14:31:41 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=384 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/04/whats-new-in-broadband-connect-this-episode-39/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/04/whats-new-in-broadband-connect-this-episode-39/feed/ 0 It’s been too long! We’re back with another episode of Connect This! Our hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to roundup the latest news in community broadband. Later in the show, we’ll be joined by Jeff Reiman (The Broadband Group) to get his perspective on the Huntsville model.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:15:51 384 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)It’s been too long! We’re back with another episode of Connect This! Our hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to roundup the latest news in community broadband. Later in the show, we’ll be joined by Jeff Reiman (The Broadband Group) to get his perspective on the Huntsville model. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.It’s been too long! We’re back with another episode of Connect This! Our hosts Christopher Mitchell (ILSR) and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to roundup the latest news in community broadband. Later in the show, we’ll be joined by Jeff Reiman (The Broadband Group) to get his perspective on the Huntsville model. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Cities Taking on Digital Equity – Episode 38 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/03/cities-taking-on-digital-equity-episode-38-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 22 Mar 2022 18:48:29 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=380 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/03/cities-taking-on-digital-equity-episode-38-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/03/cities-taking-on-digital-equity-episode-38-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by guests Joshua Edmonds (City of Detroit) and Jason Hardebeck (Baltimore City) to talk about large cities prioritizing equity in building community broadband.

The panel will talk current events in broadband, what digital equity problems affect their cities, solutions to these problems, and the biggest challenges to implementing those solutions.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:23:18 380 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by guests Joshua Edmonds (City of Detroit) and Jason Hardebeck (Baltimore City) to talk about large cities prioritizing equity in building community broadband. The panel will talk current events in broadband, what digital equity problems affect their cities, solutions to these problems, and the biggest challenges to implementing those solutions. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by guests Joshua Edmonds (City of Detroit) and Jason Hardebeck (Baltimore City) to talk about large cities prioritizing equity in building community broadband. The panel will talk current events in broadband, what digital equity problems affect their cities, solutions to these problems, and the biggest challenges to implementing those solutions. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband What Are Cities Doing Right ? | Connect This! Episode 37 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/03/what-are-cities-doing-right-connect-this-episode-37/ Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:50:56 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=375 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/03/what-are-cities-doing-right-connect-this-episode-37/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/03/what-are-cities-doing-right-connect-this-episode-37/feed/ 0 In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about cities building broadband. Later, the panel will be joined by special guest Sascha Meinrath.

The panel will reflect on the good, the bad and the ugly of urban broadband projects around the country. What are cities doing right? What are cities doing wrong? We’re taking a look at the big picture, and asking what ISPs, municipalities and others can do to get creative in addressing digital equity concerns head on.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:15:34 375 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about cities building broadband. Later, the panel will be joined by special guest Sascha Meinrath. The panel will reflect on the good, the bad and the ugly of urban broadband projects around the country. What are cities doing right? What are cities doing wrong? We’re taking a look at the big picture, and asking what ISPs, municipalities and others can do to get creative in addressing digital equity concerns head on. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about cities building broadband. Later, the panel will be joined by special guest Sascha Meinrath. The panel will reflect on the good, the bad and the ugly of urban broadband projects around the country. What are cities doing right? What are cities doing wrong? We’re taking a look at the big picture, and asking what ISPs, municipalities and others can do to get creative in addressing digital equity concerns head on. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Let’s Get Technical: Serving MDUs & More! | Connect This! Episode 36 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/03/lets-get-technical-serving-mdus-more-connect-this-episode-36/ Tue, 08 Mar 2022 20:50:21 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=372 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/03/lets-get-technical-serving-mdus-more-connect-this-episode-36/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/03/lets-get-technical-serving-mdus-more-connect-this-episode-36/feed/ 0 In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Christy Batts (CDE Lightband) and Robert Boyle (Planet Networks) for an exciting technical conversation.

The panel will dig into serving MDUs, building Passive vs Active Networks and more!

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:20:09 372 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Christy Batts (CDE Lightband) and Robert Boyle (Planet Networks) for an exciting technical conversation. The panel will dig into serving MDUs, building Passive vs Active Networks and more! Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Christy Batts (CDE Lightband) and Robert Boyle (Planet Networks) for an exciting technical conversation. The panel will dig into serving MDUs, building Passive vs Active Networks and more! Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband How’s that Definition of Broadband, Chris? – Episode 35 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/03/hows-that-definition-of-broadband-chris-episode-35-of-the-connect-this-show%ef%bf%bc/ Tue, 01 Mar 2022 22:52:49 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=367 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/03/hows-that-definition-of-broadband-chris-episode-35-of-the-connect-this-show%ef%bf%bc/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/03/hows-that-definition-of-broadband-chris-episode-35-of-the-connect-this-show%ef%bf%bc/feed/ 0 It’s been one long year since Chris took a bet with Travis over the FCC updating the definition of broadband, and this week we’ll find out who won (not looking good, Chris). In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about current events in broadband.

The panel will talk about the FCC definition of broadband, MDUs, other recent news and will continue their conversation about redlining and digital discrimination.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:10:54 367 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)It’s been one long year since Chris took a bet with Travis over the FCC updating the definition of broadband, and this week we’ll find out who won (not looking good, Chris). In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about current events in broadband. The panel will talk about the FCC definition of broadband, MDUs, other recent news and will continue their conversation about redlining and digital discrimination. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.It’s been one long year since Chris took a bet with Travis over the FCC updating the definition of broadband, and this week we’ll find out who won (not looking good, Chris). In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about current events in broadband. The panel will talk about the FCC definition of broadband, MDUs, other recent news and will continue their conversation about redlining and digital discrimination. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Inside State Broadband Offices – Episode 34 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/02/inside-state-broadband-offices-episode-34-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 23:54:49 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=361 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/02/inside-state-broadband-offices-episode-34-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/02/inside-state-broadband-offices-episode-34-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Peggy Schaffer (ConnectME) and Matt Schmit (Connect Illinois) for a closer look at state broadband offices.

The panel will dig into state grant opportunities, what broadband offices look for in partnerships, and how states are getting creative to support ISPs that connect underserved communities.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:09:06 361 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Peggy Schaffer (ConnectME) and Matt Schmit (Connect Illinois) for a closer look at state broadband offices. The panel will dig into state grant opportunities, what broadband offices look for in partnerships, and how states are getting creative to support ISPs that connect underserved communities. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Peggy Schaffer (ConnectME) and Matt Schmit (Connect Illinois) for a closer look at state broadband offices. The panel will dig into state grant opportunities, what broadband offices look for in partnerships, and how states are getting creative to support ISPs that connect underserved communities. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband RDOF: One Year Later – Episode 33 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/02/rdof-one-year-later-episode-33-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 08 Feb 2022 14:56:52 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=312 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/02/rdof-one-year-later-episode-33-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/02/rdof-one-year-later-episode-33-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about current events in broadband.

The panel will reflect on RDOF: one year later, how demands for remote work are fueling the broadband boom, and the latest news in broadband.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:16:41 312 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about current events in broadband. The panel will reflect on RDOF: one year later, how demands for remote work are fueling the broadband boom, and the latest news in broadband. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by regular guests Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about current events in broadband. The panel will reflect on RDOF: one year later, how demands for remote work are fueling the broadband boom, and the latest news in broadband. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Reality Check: Scaling Networks in 2022 – Episode 32 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/02/reality-check-scaling-networks-in-2022-episode-32-of-the-connect-this-show/ Sat, 05 Feb 2022 21:12:00 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=350 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/02/reality-check-scaling-networks-in-2022-episode-32-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/02/reality-check-scaling-networks-in-2022-episode-32-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Monica Webb (Ting) and Robert Boyle (Planet Networks) to talk about the realities of expanding network infrastructure in 2022.

The panel will dig into supply chain issues, challenges faced in scaling up, and what type of partnerships help grow networks quickly.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:10:07 350 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Monica Webb (Ting) and Robert Boyle (Planet Networks) to talk about the realities of expanding network infrastructure in 2022. The panel will dig into supply chain issues, challenges faced in scaling up, and what type of partnerships help grow networks quickly. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live, or visit ConnectThisShow.com. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Monica Webb (Ting) and Robert Boyle (Planet Networks) to talk about the realities of expanding network infrastructure in 2022. The panel will dig into supply chain issues, challenges faced in scaling up, and what type of partnerships help grow networks quickly. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live, or visit ConnectThisShow.com. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband The Monopolies Strike Back! – Episode 31 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/01/join-us-thursday-january-27th-at-5pm-et-when-the-monopolies-strike-back-episode-31-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:30:18 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=307 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/01/join-us-thursday-january-27th-at-5pm-et-when-the-monopolies-strike-back-episode-31-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/01/join-us-thursday-january-27th-at-5pm-et-when-the-monopolies-strike-back-episode-31-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk current events in broadband.

The panel will dig into recent attacks munis, states that are providing outside plant materials as grant awards, and how partnerships can get creative with using milestones rather than upfront cash.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:14:43 307 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk current events in broadband. The panel will dig into recent attacks munis, states that are providing outside plant materials as grant awards, and how partnerships can get creative with using milestones rather than upfront cash. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show.Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk current events in broadband. The panel will dig into recent attacks munis, states that are providing outside plant materials as grant awards, and how partnerships can get creative with using milestones rather than upfront cash. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show.Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Fiber in 2022 – Episode 30 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/01/join-us-thursday-january-20th-at-5pm-et-to-talk-about-fiber-in-2022-episode-30-of-the-connect-this-show/ Tue, 18 Jan 2022 23:01:43 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=294 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/01/join-us-thursday-january-20th-at-5pm-et-to-talk-about-fiber-in-2022-episode-30-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/01/join-us-thursday-january-20th-at-5pm-et-to-talk-about-fiber-in-2022-episode-30-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Heather Gold (CEO, HBG Strategies LLC) and Milo Medin, an industry veteran who recently left Google as VP of wireless services.

The panel will tackle what we can expect to see in the broadband marketplace in 2022, with a special focus on fiber, including who is building it and why the capital markets are so hungry for it. What are we likely to see from builders big and small? What will competing against the national monopoly providers look like? Is fixed wireless a viable option ten years from now?

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:23:02 294 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Heather Gold (CEO, HBG Strategies LLC) and Milo Medin, an industry veteran who recently left Google as VP of wireless services. The panel will tackle what we can expect to see in the broadband marketplace in 2022, with a special focus on fiber, including who is building it and why the capital markets are so hungry for it. What are we likely to see from builders big and small? What will competing against the national monopoly providers look like? Is fixed wireless a viable option ten years from now? Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Heather Gold (CEO, HBG Strategies LLC) and Milo Medin, an industry veteran who recently left Google as VP of wireless services. The panel will tackle what we can expect to see in the broadband marketplace in 2022, with a special focus on fiber, including who is building it and why the capital markets are so hungry for it. What are we likely to see from builders big and small? What will competing against the national monopoly providers look like? Is fixed wireless a viable option ten years from now? Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here on YouTube Live, here on Facebook live, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband New Year, New Rules – Episode 29 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2022/01/episode-29-of-the-connect-this-new-year-new-rules/ Mon, 10 Jan 2022 22:46:10 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=290 https://connectthisshow.com/2022/01/episode-29-of-the-connect-this-new-year-new-rules/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2022/01/episode-29-of-the-connect-this-new-year-new-rules/feed/ 0 In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to kick off the new year.

Starting at 5pm ET, the panel will dig into the recently released Final Rules released by the Treasury on use of the Rescue Plan dollars, before diving into some regional developments in New York and Los Angeles. They’ll end by sharing some thoughts about how the broadband landscape is likely to shape up during the coming year.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance 1 1 full false 1:25:51 290 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to kick off the new year. Starting at 5pm ET, the panel will dig into the recently released Final Rules released by the Treasury on use of the Rescue Plan dollars, before diving into some regional developments in New York and Los Angeles. They’ll end by sharing some thoughts about how the broadband landscape is likely to shape up during the coming year. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here, or below.In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to kick off the new year. Starting at 5pm ET, the panel will dig into the recently released Final Rules released by the Treasury on use of the Rescue Plan dollars, before diving into some regional developments in New York and Los Angeles. They’ll end by sharing some thoughts about how the broadband landscape is likely to shape up during the coming year. Subscribe to the show using this feed on YouTube Live or here on Facebook Live. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Apartment Buildings and the NTIA – Episode 28 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/12/apartment-buildings-and-the-ntia-episode-28-of-the-connect-this-show/ Sat, 18 Dec 2021 09:02:00 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=321 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/12/apartment-buildings-and-the-ntia-episode-28-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/12/apartment-buildings-and-the-ntia-episode-28-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us live on Thursday, December 16th at 5pm ET for Episode 28 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by returning guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to catch up on the news of the week and check in on a number of issues.

The panel will discuss, among other things, the transition from the Emergency Broadband Benefit to the Affordable Connectivity Program, restrictive access and exclusive wiring agreements in apartment buildings, and where the NTIA is on administering the more than $42 billion in new broadband infrastructure.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:16:01 321 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Thursday, December 16th at 5pm ET for Episode 28 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by returning guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to catch up on the news of the week and check in on a number of issues. The panel will discuss, among other things, the transition from the Emergency Broadband Benefit to the Affordable Connectivity Program, restrictive access and exclusive wiring agreements in apartment buildings, and where the NTIA is on administering the more than $42 billion in new broadband infrastructure. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here or below on YouTube Live, via Facebook Live here, or follow Christopher on Twitter to watch there.Join us live on Thursday, December 16th at 5pm ET for Episode 28 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by returning guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to catch up on the news of the week and check in on a number of issues. The panel will discuss, among other things, the transition from the Emergency Broadband Benefit to the Affordable Connectivity Program, restrictive access and exclusive wiring agreements in apartment buildings, and where the NTIA is on administering the more than $42 billion in new broadband infrastructure. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here or below on YouTube Live, via Facebook Live here, or follow Christopher on Twitter to watch there.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband ISPs Working in Rural Areas – Episode 27 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/12/isps-working-in-rural-areas-episode-27-of-the-connect-this-show/ Thu, 09 Dec 2021 20:05:51 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=286 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/12/isps-working-in-rural-areas-episode-27-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/12/isps-working-in-rural-areas-episode-27-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us live on Thursday, December 9th at 6pm ET for Episode 27 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Russ Elliot, CEO at Siskiyou Telephone, and Casey Irving, Director Of Business Development at Deeply Digital, to talk about the challenges and opportunities of being a carrier that’s building rural areas.

The panel will discuss what they’re looking forward to or afraid of with the new infrastructure money. They’ll also share the conditions under which they see it as advantageous to work with local governments, and how communities can do work to facilitate projects that benefit both residents and locally based Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:11:42 286 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Thursday, December 9th at 6pm ET for Episode 27 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Russ Elliot, CEO at Siskiyou Telephone, and Casey Irving, Director Of Business Development at Deeply Digital, to talk about the challenges and opportunities of being a carrier that’s building rural areas. The panel will discuss what they’re looking forward to or afraid of with the new infrastructure money. They’ll also share the conditions under which they see it as advantageous to work with local governments, and how communities can do work to facilitate projects that benefit both residents and locally based Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here or below on YouTube Live, via Facebook Live here, or follow Christopher on Twitter to watch there.Join us live on Thursday, December 9th at 6pm ET for Episode 27 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Russ Elliot, CEO at Siskiyou Telephone, and Casey Irving, Director Of Business Development at Deeply Digital, to talk about the challenges and opportunities of being a carrier that’s building rural areas. The panel will discuss what they’re looking forward to or afraid of with the new infrastructure money. They’ll also share the conditions under which they see it as advantageous to work with local governments, and how communities can do work to facilitate projects that benefit both residents and locally based Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here or below on YouTube Live, via Facebook Live here, or follow Christopher on Twitter to watch there.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Billions in Broadband Infrastructure – Episode 26 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/11/billions-in-broadband-infrastructure-episode-26-of-the-connect-this-show/ Mon, 15 Nov 2021 23:00:13 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=280 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/11/billions-in-broadband-infrastructure-episode-26-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/11/billions-in-broadband-infrastructure-episode-26-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 Join us live on Thursday, November 18th at 5pm ET for Episode 26 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all things related to the recently passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, inside of which is more than $42 billion in broadband infrastructure money in the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program. 

The panel will tackle all the burning questions you have. How does this fit in with the other pots of infrastructure money? What’s the long-term outcome of such a large commitment likely to be? What’s the timeline for rulemaking? How can communities put themselves on a path to win grants? 

They’ll also talk about a new ILSR report, published last week, which analyzes price and billing transparency for Internet service between different types of providers.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:29:35 280 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Thursday, November 18th at 5pm ET for Episode 26 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all things related to the recently passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, inside of which is more than $42 billion in broadband infrastructure money in the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program.  The panel will tackle all the burning questions you have. How does this fit in with the other pots of infrastructure money? What’s the long-term outcome of such a large commitment likely to be? What’s the timeline for rulemaking? How can communities put themselves on a path to win grants?  They’ll also talk about a new ILSR report, published last week, which analyzes price and billing transparency for Internet service between different types of providers. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here or below on YouTube Live, via Facebook Live here, or follow Christopher on Twitter to watch there.Join us live on Thursday, November 18th at 5pm ET for Episode 26 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) to talk about all things related to the recently passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, inside of which is more than $42 billion in broadband infrastructure money in the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program.  The panel will tackle all the burning questions you have. How does this fit in with the other pots of infrastructure money? What’s the long-term outcome of such a large commitment likely to be? What’s the timeline for rulemaking? How can communities put themselves on a path to win grants?  They’ll also talk about a new ILSR report, published last week, which analyzes price and billing transparency for Internet service between different types of providers. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here or below on YouTube Live, via Facebook Live here, or follow Christopher on Twitter to watch there.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband The Future of Cable – Episode 25 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/11/join-us-live-on-thursday-november-11th-to-talk-about-the-future-of-cable-episode-25-of-connect-this/ Mon, 08 Nov 2021 22:30:09 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=276 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/11/join-us-live-on-thursday-november-11th-to-talk-about-the-future-of-cable-episode-25-of-connect-this/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/11/join-us-live-on-thursday-november-11th-to-talk-about-the-future-of-cable-episode-25-of-connect-this/feed/ 0 Join us live on Thursday, November 11th at 5pm ET for Episode 25 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Glen Atkins and Ron Hranac (former Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco) to talk about the future of hybrid fiber-coaxil (HFC) network infrastructure. 

Cable began as a one way video distribution system, but has enjoyed a long life as the result of new specification standards, encoding schemes, and the result of pushing fiber farther and farther into the network. The panel will talk about DOCSIS and the move from the 3.1 standard to 4.0, which will enable symmetrical gigabit speeds to users and more households served at the highest speed tiers. They’ll also dig into the pantheon of other hardware and system upgrades used by cable operators, from low latency DOCSIS to virtualized cable modem termination system (vCMTS). 

With so much fiber being built in 2021 and beyond, how much life is left in the cable plant? 

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:17:35 276 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Join us live on Thursday, November 11th at 5pm ET for Episode 25 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Glen Atkins and Ron Hranac (former Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco) to talk about the future of hybrid fiber-coaxil (HFC) network infrastructure.  Cable began as a one way video distribution system, but has enjoyed a long life as the result of new specification standards, encoding schemes, and the result of pushing fiber farther and farther into the network. The panel will talk about DOCSIS and the move from the 3.1 standard to 4.0, which will enable symmetrical gigabit speeds to users and more households served at the highest speed tiers. They’ll also dig into the pantheon of other hardware and system upgrades used by cable operators, from low latency DOCSIS to virtualized cable modem termination system (vCMTS).  With so much fiber being built in 2021 and beyond, how much life is left in the cable plant?  Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here or below on YouTube Live, via Facebook Live here, or follow Christopher on Twitter to watch there.Join us live on Thursday, November 11th at 5pm ET for Episode 25 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Glen Atkins and Ron Hranac (former Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco) to talk about the future of hybrid fiber-coaxil (HFC) network infrastructure.  Cable began as a one way video distribution system, but has enjoyed a long life as the result of new specification standards, encoding schemes, and the result of pushing fiber farther and farther into the network. The panel will talk about DOCSIS and the move from the 3.1 standard to 4.0, which will enable symmetrical gigabit speeds to users and more households served at the highest speed tiers. They’ll also dig into the pantheon of other hardware and system upgrades used by cable operators, from low latency DOCSIS to virtualized cable modem termination system (vCMTS).  With so much fiber being built in 2021 and beyond, how much life is left in the cable plant?  Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here or below on YouTube Live, via Facebook Live here, or follow Christopher on Twitter to watch there.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Northern New England – Episode 24 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/11/northern-new-england-episode-24-of-connect-this/ Tue, 02 Nov 2021 16:12:39 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=248 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/11/northern-new-england-episode-24-of-connect-this/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/11/northern-new-england-episode-24-of-connect-this/feed/ 0 This episode streamed live on November 4, 2021.

Join us live on Thursday, November 4th at 5pm ET for Episode 24 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Peggy Schaffer (Executive Director, ConnectMaine) and Carole Monroe (CEO of ValleyNet) to catch up on what’s been happening in northern New England. They’ll talk state and local developments, share their thoughts on the likely impact of the imminent broadband infrastructure money, and talk about the recent nominations by the Biden administration to the FCC.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:16:37 248 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)This episode streamed live on November 4, 2021. Join us live on Thursday, November 4th at 5pm ET for Episode 24 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Peggy Schaffer (Executive Director, ConnectMaine) and Carole Monroe (CEO of ValleyNet) to catch up on what’s been happening in northern New England. They’ll talk state and local developments, share their thoughts on the likely impact of the imminent broadband infrastructure money, and talk about the recent nominations by the Biden administration to the FCC. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here or below on YouTube Live, via Facebook Live here, or follow Christopher on Twitter to watch there.This episode streamed live on November 4, 2021. Join us live on Thursday, November 4th at 5pm ET for Episode 24 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Peggy Schaffer (Executive Director, ConnectMaine) and Carole Monroe (CEO of ValleyNet) to catch up on what’s been happening in northern New England. They’ll talk state and local developments, share their thoughts on the likely impact of the imminent broadband infrastructure money, and talk about the recent nominations by the Biden administration to the FCC. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here or below on YouTube Live, via Facebook Live here, or follow Christopher on Twitter to watch there.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Grassroots Networking – Episode 23 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/10/grassroots-networking-episode-23-of-the-connect-this-show/ Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:56:55 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=237 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/10/grassroots-networking-episode-23-of-the-connect-this-show/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/10/grassroots-networking-episode-23-of-the-connect-this-show/feed/ 0 This episode streamed live on October 25, 2021.

Join us live on Monday, October 25th at 5pm ET for Episode 23 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Neil Mylet and Deb Simpier (Althea Networks) to talk about grassroots networking. They’ll dive into into the hardware and software considerations made in building hyperlocal networks, and bringing together people passionate about returning knowledge and control to build more resilient communities.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:12:54 237 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)This episode streamed live on October 25, 2021. Join us live on Monday, October 25th at 5pm ET for Episode 23 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Neil Mylet and Deb Simpier (Althea Networks) to talk about grassroots networking. They’ll dive into into the hardware and software considerations made in building hyperlocal networks, and bringing together people passionate about returning knowledge and control to build more resilient communities. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here or below on YouTube Live, or via Facebook Live here.This episode streamed live on October 25, 2021. Join us live on Monday, October 25th at 5pm ET for Episode 23 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Neil Mylet and Deb Simpier (Althea Networks) to talk about grassroots networking. They’ll dive into into the hardware and software considerations made in building hyperlocal networks, and bringing together people passionate about returning knowledge and control to build more resilient communities. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here or below on YouTube Live, or via Facebook Live here.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Longmont, Colorado and Clarksville, Tennessee – Episode 22 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/10/episode-22-of-the-connect-this-show-longmont-colorado-and-clarksville-tennessee/ Wed, 13 Oct 2021 16:49:01 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=227 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/10/episode-22-of-the-connect-this-show-longmont-colorado-and-clarksville-tennessee/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/10/episode-22-of-the-connect-this-show-longmont-colorado-and-clarksville-tennessee/feed/ 0 This show streamed live on October 14, 2021.

Join us live this Thursday, October 14th at 5pm ET for Episode 22 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Dennis Pappas (Longmont, Colorado) and Christy Batts (Clarksville, Tennessee) to talk about large municipalities successfully deploying broadband infrastructure for an array of community benefits. 

Longmont, Colorado’s Nextlight has been wildly successful during its first five years of life in uncommon ways. Clarksville, Tennessee’s CDE Lightband has overcome early challenges to bring significant savings to the public, especially to members of the municipal electric utility. Christopher, Travis, Dennis, and Christy come together to unpack how they got there and what it means for the future.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:09:24 227 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)This show streamed live on October 14, 2021. Join us live this Thursday, October 14th at 5pm ET for Episode 22 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Dennis Pappas (Longmont, Colorado) and Christy Batts (Clarksville, Tennessee) to talk about large municipalities successfully deploying broadband infrastructure for an array of community benefits.  Longmont, Colorado’s Nextlight has been wildly successful during its first five years of life in uncommon ways. Clarksville, Tennessee’s CDE Lightband has overcome early challenges to bring significant savings to the public, especially to members of the municipal electric utility. Christopher, Travis, Dennis, and Christy come together to unpack how they got there and what it means for the future. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here or below on YouTube Live, or via Facebook Live here.This show streamed live on October 14, 2021. Join us live this Thursday, October 14th at 5pm ET for Episode 22 of the Connect This! Show, where co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Dennis Pappas (Longmont, Colorado) and Christy Batts (Clarksville, Tennessee) to talk about large municipalities successfully deploying broadband infrastructure for an array of community benefits.  Longmont, Colorado’s Nextlight has been wildly successful during its first five years of life in uncommon ways. Clarksville, Tennessee’s CDE Lightband has overcome early challenges to bring significant savings to the public, especially to members of the municipal electric utility. Christopher, Travis, Dennis, and Christy come together to unpack how they got there and what it means for the future. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here or below on YouTube Live, or via Facebook Live here.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Digging in the City LIVE! – Episode 21 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/10/join-us-thursday-at-5pm-et-for-episode-21-of-the-connect-this-show-digging-in-the-city-live/ Tue, 05 Oct 2021 18:55:59 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=223 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/10/join-us-thursday-at-5pm-et-for-episode-21-of-the-connect-this-show-digging-in-the-city-live/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/10/join-us-thursday-at-5pm-et-for-episode-21-of-the-connect-this-show-digging-in-the-city-live/feed/ 0 This show streamed live on October 7, 2021.

This week, don’t miss a very special episode of the Connect This! Show, streaming live from the Minneapolis headquarters of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance for the very first time! 

Co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be broadcasting with most of the Community Broadband Networks initiative team watching from the peanut gallery. They will be joined virtually by Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to dive into the nitty gritty of broadband infrastructure and talk about permitting, rights of way (ROW), and all the day-to-day minutae of turning a network design into physical reality. 

They’ll talk about building good relationships with local government, planning ahead, overcoming unanticipated challenges, and finding creative solutions to permitting and right of way issues. We’ll see some entities that have done it well, and others that have done it poorly. 

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:14:30 223 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)This show streamed live on October 7, 2021. This week, don’t miss a very special episode of the Connect This! Show, streaming live from the Minneapolis headquarters of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance for the very first time!  Co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be broadcasting with most of the Community Broadband Networks initiative team watching from the peanut gallery. They will be joined virtually by Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to dive into the nitty gritty of broadband infrastructure and talk about permitting, rights of way (ROW), and all the day-to-day minutae of turning a network design into physical reality.  They’ll talk about building good relationships with local government, planning ahead, overcoming unanticipated challenges, and finding creative solutions to permitting and right of way issues. We’ll see some entities that have done it well, and others that have done it poorly.  Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here or below on YouTube Live, or via Facebook Live here.This show streamed live on October 7, 2021. This week, don’t miss a very special episode of the Connect This! Show, streaming live from the Minneapolis headquarters of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance for the very first time!  Co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be broadcasting with most of the Community Broadband Networks initiative team watching from the peanut gallery. They will be joined virtually by Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to dive into the nitty gritty of broadband infrastructure and talk about permitting, rights of way (ROW), and all the day-to-day minutae of turning a network design into physical reality.  They’ll talk about building good relationships with local government, planning ahead, overcoming unanticipated challenges, and finding creative solutions to permitting and right of way issues. We’ll see some entities that have done it well, and others that have done it poorly.  Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here or below on YouTube Live, or via Facebook Live here.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Treasury Infrastructure Rules, Digital Redlining, and Microtrenching – Episode 20 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/09/join-us-live-on-thursday-at-5pm-et-to-talk-about-treasury-infrastructure-rules-digital-redlining-and-microtrenching-episode-20-of-connect-this/ Tue, 28 Sep 2021 15:33:04 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=216 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/09/join-us-live-on-thursday-at-5pm-et-to-talk-about-treasury-infrastructure-rules-digital-redlining-and-microtrenching-episode-20-of-connect-this/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/09/join-us-live-on-thursday-at-5pm-et-to-talk-about-treasury-infrastructure-rules-digital-redlining-and-microtrenching-episode-20-of-connect-this/feed/ 0

This show streamed lived on September 30th, 2021

On Episode 20 of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) live on both YouTube and Facebook to talk about a grab-bag of issues including the new Treasury rules for the $10 billion in broadband infrastructure funding, digital redlining, and microtrenching. 

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:19:47 216 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)This show streamed lived on September 30th, 2021 On Episode 20 of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) live on both YouTube and Facebook to talk about a grab-bag of issues including the new Treasury rules for the $10 billion in broadband infrastructure funding, digital redlining, and microtrenching.  Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here on YouTube (or below), or here on Facebook Live.This show streamed lived on September 30th, 2021 On Episode 20 of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) will be joined by Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) live on both YouTube and Facebook to talk about a grab-bag of issues including the new Treasury rules for the $10 billion in broadband infrastructure funding, digital redlining, and microtrenching.  Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here on YouTube (or below), or here on Facebook Live.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Mapping Broadband Access With Garbage Trucks, and Other Innovative Municipal Initiatives – Episode 19 of Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/09/mapping-broadband-access-with-garbage-trucks-and-other-innovative-municipal-initiatives-episode-19-of-connect-this/ Tue, 21 Sep 2021 21:53:37 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=209 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/09/mapping-broadband-access-with-garbage-trucks-and-other-innovative-municipal-initiatives-episode-19-of-connect-this/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/09/mapping-broadband-access-with-garbage-trucks-and-other-innovative-municipal-initiatives-episode-19-of-connect-this/feed/ 0 This show streamed live on September 23rd

On Episode 19 of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and (a partly there) Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Keith Hanson (Shreveport, Louisiana Chief Technology Officer) and Angelina Panettieri (National League of Cities) to talk about how some cities place themselves at the vanguard of innovation by undertaking projects designed to improve local conditions using existing infrastructure and know-how. Keith shares Shreveport’s efforts to map the digital divide by connecting low-power computing devices to GPS sensors and cell phone batteries on garbage trucks to map broadband access across the city. He also talks about other edge computing initiatives, like video for public safety. 

The group also discusses the newly released Treasury rules on the $10 billion in infrastructure funding coming down the pipeline, and how cities can position themselves to take advantage.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance 1 1 full false 1:12:33 209 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)This show streamed live on September 23rd On Episode 19 of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and (a partly there) Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Keith Hanson (Shreveport, Louisiana Chief Technology Officer) and Angelina Panettieri (National League of Cities) to talk about how some cities place themselves at the vanguard of innovation by undertaking projects designed to improve local conditions using existing infrastructure and know-how. Keith shares Shreveport’s efforts to map the digital divide by connecting low-power computing devices to GPS sensors and cell phone batteries on garbage trucks to map broadband access across the city. He also talks about other edge computing initiatives, like video for public safety.  The group also discusses the newly released Treasury rules on the $10 billion in infrastructure funding coming down the pipeline, and how cities can position themselves to take advantage. Subscribe to the show using this feed. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here, or below.This show streamed live on September 23rd On Episode 19 of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and (a partly there) Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Keith Hanson (Shreveport, Louisiana Chief Technology Officer) and Angelina Panettieri (National League of Cities) to talk about how some cities place themselves at the vanguard of innovation by undertaking projects designed to improve local conditions using existing infrastructure and know-how. Keith shares Shreveport’s efforts to map the digital divide by connecting low-power computing devices to GPS sensors and cell phone batteries on garbage trucks to map broadband access across the city. He also talks about other edge computing initiatives, like video for public safety.  The group also discusses the newly released Treasury rules on the $10 billion in infrastructure funding coming down the pipeline, and how cities can position themselves to take advantage. Subscribe to the show using this feed. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband A Summer Recap: What’s Going On With Broadband Projects? – Episode 18 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/09/a-summer-recap-whats-going-on-with-broadband-projects-episode-18-of-connect-this/ Wed, 08 Sep 2021 20:13:41 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=200 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/09/a-summer-recap-whats-going-on-with-broadband-projects-episode-18-of-connect-this/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/09/a-summer-recap-whats-going-on-with-broadband-projects-episode-18-of-connect-this/feed/ 0 This episode streamed live on September 9.

On Episode 18 of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to catch up after a frenzied summer. With all of the federal, state, and local broadband infrastructure funding programs and projects announced over the last three months, the panel breaks down what they’ve been seeing across the country. 

During the course of the conversation, they cover what’s been going on with the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (including ISPs turning funds back in and LTD failing to get its ETC status), more supply chain constraints, how communities can plan for current and future funding, and incumbents continuing to lock up MDUs.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance 1 1 full false 1:16:18 200 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)This episode streamed live on September 9. On Episode 18 of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to catch up after a frenzied summer. With all of the federal, state, and local broadband infrastructure funding programs and projects announced over the last three months, the panel breaks down what they’ve been seeing across the country.  During the course of the conversation, they cover what’s been going on with the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (including ISPs turning funds back in and LTD failing to get its ETC status), more supply chain constraints, how communities can plan for current and future funding, and incumbents continuing to lock up MDUs. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here, or below.This episode streamed live on September 9. On Episode 18 of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to catch up after a frenzied summer. With all of the federal, state, and local broadband infrastructure funding programs and projects announced over the last three months, the panel breaks down what they’ve been seeing across the country.  During the course of the conversation, they cover what’s been going on with the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (including ISPs turning funds back in and LTD failing to get its ETC status), more supply chain constraints, how communities can plan for current and future funding, and incumbents continuing to lock up MDUs. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Tribal Broadband – Episode 17 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/08/tribal-broadband-episode-17-of-connect-this/ Fri, 06 Aug 2021 18:59:54 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=195 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/08/tribal-broadband-episode-17-of-connect-this/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/08/tribal-broadband-episode-17-of-connect-this/feed/ 0 In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Jessica Engle (IT Director for the Yurok Tribe) and Matthew Rantanen (Director of Technology, Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association) to talk about broadband in Indian Country. 

The panel discusses the realities of deploying wired and wireless broadband infrastructure on tribal lands, and what the Yurok tribe has learned along the way in overcoming challenges and working with partners and vendors to expand access in efficient but sustainable ways.

During the hour, Matt, Jess, Travis, and Christopher also talk about the $1 billion Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program to be administered by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the long history of underinvestment by incumbent providers in Indian County, and how communities can position themselves to succeed in the context of local conditions in pursuing long-term solutions.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:18:16 195 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Jessica Engle (IT Director for the Yurok Tribe) and Matthew Rantanen (Director of Technology, Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association) to talk about broadband in Indian Country.  The panel discusses the realities of deploying wired and wireless broadband infrastructure on tribal lands, and what the Yurok tribe has learned along the way in overcoming challenges and working with partners and vendors to expand access in efficient but sustainable ways. During the hour, Matt, Jess, Travis, and Christopher also talk about the $1 billion Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program to be administered by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the long history of underinvestment by incumbent providers in Indian County, and how communities can position themselves to succeed in the context of local conditions in pursuing long-term solutions. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here, or below.In this episode of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Jessica Engle (IT Director for the Yurok Tribe) and Matthew Rantanen (Director of Technology, Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association) to talk about broadband in Indian Country.  The panel discusses the realities of deploying wired and wireless broadband infrastructure on tribal lands, and what the Yurok tribe has learned along the way in overcoming challenges and working with partners and vendors to expand access in efficient but sustainable ways. During the hour, Matt, Jess, Travis, and Christopher also talk about the $1 billion Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program to be administered by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the long history of underinvestment by incumbent providers in Indian County, and how communities can position themselves to succeed in the context of local conditions in pursuing long-term solutions. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband 5G and the Future of Cellular Networks – Episode 16 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/06/5g-and-the-future-of-cellular-networks-episode-16-of-connect-this/ Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:20:40 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=183 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/06/5g-and-the-future-of-cellular-networks-episode-16-of-connect-this/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/06/5g-and-the-future-of-cellular-networks-episode-16-of-connect-this/feed/ 0 On Episode 16 of the Connect This! show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Sascha Segan (lead mobile analyst at PCMag.com) and Virgilio Fiorese (formerly of Ericsson, currently Senior Sales Director, Mavenir) to dig into 5G and the next generation of cellular networks to try and divorce the hype from the current and coming reality. 

Chris, Travis, Sascha, and Virgilio talk about whether ordinary Americans should care about 5G today (for either their home or mobile connection), the regulatory and deployment components of a 5G rollout, how T-Mobile’s 5G Home Internet service is working for users right now, 5G marketing, and the difference between an intelligently designed Fiber-to-the-Premises build with Wi-Fi 6 for fixed-place users.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance 1 1 full false 1:13:19 183 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)On Episode 16 of the Connect This! show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Sascha Segan (lead mobile analyst at PCMag.com) and Virgilio Fiorese (formerly of Ericsson, currently Senior Sales Director, Mavenir) to dig into 5G and the next generation of cellular networks to try and divorce the hype from the current and coming reality.  Chris, Travis, Sascha, and Virgilio talk about whether ordinary Americans should care about 5G today (for either their home or mobile connection), the regulatory and deployment components of a 5G rollout, how T-Mobile’s 5G Home Internet service is working for users right now, 5G marketing, and the difference between an intelligently designed Fiber-to-the-Premises build with Wi-Fi 6 for fixed-place users. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here, or below.On Episode 16 of the Connect This! show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Sascha Segan (lead mobile analyst at PCMag.com) and Virgilio Fiorese (formerly of Ericsson, currently Senior Sales Director, Mavenir) to dig into 5G and the next generation of cellular networks to try and divorce the hype from the current and coming reality.  Chris, Travis, Sascha, and Virgilio talk about whether ordinary Americans should care about 5G today (for either their home or mobile connection), the regulatory and deployment components of a 5G rollout, how T-Mobile’s 5G Home Internet service is working for users right now, 5G marketing, and the difference between an intelligently designed Fiber-to-the-Premises build with Wi-Fi 6 for fixed-place users. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback, ideas for the show, or your pictures of weird wireless infrastructure to stump Travis. Watch here, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband How Equal Access Santa Cruz is Bridging the Digital Divide – Episode 15 of Connect This! https://connectthisshow.com/2021/06/how-equal-access-santa-cruz-is-bridging-the-digital-divide-episode-15-of-connect-this/ Thu, 03 Jun 2021 22:28:47 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=170 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/06/how-equal-access-santa-cruz-is-bridging-the-digital-divide-episode-15-of-connect-this/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/06/how-equal-access-santa-cruz-is-bridging-the-digital-divide-episode-15-of-connect-this/feed/ 0 On Episode 15 of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by two representatives from the Internet Service Provider Cruzio: James Hackett (Director of Business Operations & Development) and Chris Frost (Director of Technology and Infrastructure). 

The topic of the day is Equal Access Santa Cruz, and how Cruzio is expanding its network with philanthropy to serve low-income households. They talk about the organizing and technical efforts that got it started, challenges along the way, and the success they’ve seen as a result of their collective hard work. 

The secret sauce of equal access programs? There is none. Just put together a coalition of groups that can continue to do what they already do best, the result of which is bringing affordable, fast Internet access to more families. School districts can continue to serve kids, community foundations can continue to raise money and build relationships, and the ISP can continue to construct and operate Internet connections and infrastructure.

One particular success of the project: bringing in a point-to-multipoint gigabit connection to 140 homes, two laundry rooms, and an office in one farm worker community, funded by the local agricultural firm, to provide free service for three years.

Read more about the project here.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:17:18 170 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)On Episode 15 of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by two representatives from the Internet Service Provider Cruzio: James Hackett (Director of Business Operations & Development) and Chris Frost (Director of Technology and Infrastructure).  The topic of the day is Equal Access Santa Cruz, and how Cruzio is expanding its network with philanthropy to serve low-income households. They talk about the organizing and technical efforts that got it started, challenges along the way, and the success they’ve seen as a result of their collective hard work.  The secret sauce of equal access programs? There is none. Just put together a coalition of groups that can continue to do what they already do best, the result of which is bringing affordable, fast Internet access to more families. School districts can continue to serve kids, community foundations can continue to raise money and build relationships, and the ISP can continue to construct and operate Internet connections and infrastructure. One particular success of the project: bringing in a point-to-multipoint gigabit connection to 140 homes, two laundry rooms, and an office in one farm worker community, funded by the local agricultural firm, to provide free service for three years. Read more about the project here. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here, or below.On Episode 15 of the Connect This! Show, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by two representatives from the Internet Service Provider Cruzio: James Hackett (Director of Business Operations & Development) and Chris Frost (Director of Technology and Infrastructure).  The topic of the day is Equal Access Santa Cruz, and how Cruzio is expanding its network with philanthropy to serve low-income households. They talk about the organizing and technical efforts that got it started, challenges along the way, and the success they’ve seen as a result of their collective hard work.  The secret sauce of equal access programs? There is none. Just put together a coalition of groups that can continue to do what they already do best, the result of which is bringing affordable, fast Internet access to more families. School districts can continue to serve kids, community foundations can continue to raise money and build relationships, and the ISP can continue to construct and operate Internet connections and infrastructure. One particular success of the project: bringing in a point-to-multipoint gigabit connection to 140 homes, two laundry rooms, and an office in one farm worker community, funded by the local agricultural firm, to provide free service for three years. Read more about the project here. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband The Finance Edition – Episode 14 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/05/connect-this-episode-14-the-finance-edition/ Fri, 28 May 2021 15:51:20 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=165 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/05/connect-this-episode-14-the-finance-edition/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/05/connect-this-episode-14-the-finance-edition/feed/ 0 On Episode 14 of the Connect This! show co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Doug Dawson (President, CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (CMO, UTOPIA Fiber) to talk public and private financing models for building network infrastructure.

The group dives into the numbers and talk about the economics that make networks succeed, and how to put together a recipe for success that accounts for favorable term length, rates, collateral, and surety. They talk about the different models to broadband buildouts, types of financing available to municipalities and small private ISPs, grant programs and economies of scale.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:21:10 165 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)On Episode 14 of the Connect This! show co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Doug Dawson (President, CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (CMO, UTOPIA Fiber) to talk public and private financing models for building network infrastructure. The group dives into the numbers and talk about the economics that make networks succeed, and how to put together a recipe for success that accounts for favorable term length, rates, collateral, and surety. They talk about the different models to broadband buildouts, types of financing available to municipalities and small private ISPs, grant programs and economies of scale. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here, or below.On Episode 14 of the Connect This! show co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Doug Dawson (President, CCG Consulting) and Kim McKinley (CMO, UTOPIA Fiber) to talk public and private financing models for building network infrastructure. The group dives into the numbers and talk about the economics that make networks succeed, and how to put together a recipe for success that accounts for favorable term length, rates, collateral, and surety. They talk about the different models to broadband buildouts, types of financing available to municipalities and small private ISPs, grant programs and economies of scale. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Middle-Mile Challenges and Internet Exchange Points – Episode 13 of the Connect This! Episode Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/05/connect-this-episode-13-middle-mile-challenges-and-internet-exchange-points/ Fri, 21 May 2021 18:40:11 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=156 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/05/connect-this-episode-13-middle-mile-challenges-and-internet-exchange-points/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/05/connect-this-episode-13-middle-mile-challenges-and-internet-exchange-points/feed/ 0 On Episode 13 of Connect This!, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Cart (USI Fiber) are joined by Reid Fishler (Senior Director, Hurricane Electric) and Fletcher Kittredge (CEO, GWI) to talk about the issues that come up in building and maintaining backhaul routes and exchange points. During the show they discuss whether creating a small, rural ISP far from an exchange point is easier or harder now than it was 10 years ago. They talk how resiliency, competition, capacity, reliability, efficiency, cost, and innovation play into the topic, current middle-mile issues in California and Maine, and what the future of the space might look like.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:14:56 156 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)On Episode 13 of Connect This!, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Cart (USI Fiber) are joined by Reid Fishler (Senior Director, Hurricane Electric) and Fletcher Kittredge (CEO, GWI) to talk about the issues that come up in building and maintaining backhaul routes and exchange points. During the show they discuss whether creating a small, rural ISP far from an exchange point is easier or harder now than it was 10 years ago. They talk how resiliency, competition, capacity, reliability, efficiency, cost, and innovation play into the topic, current middle-mile issues in California and Maine, and what the future of the space might look like. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here, or below.On Episode 13 of Connect This!, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Cart (USI Fiber) are joined by Reid Fishler (Senior Director, Hurricane Electric) and Fletcher Kittredge (CEO, GWI) to talk about the issues that come up in building and maintaining backhaul routes and exchange points. During the show they discuss whether creating a small, rural ISP far from an exchange point is easier or harder now than it was 10 years ago. They talk how resiliency, competition, capacity, reliability, efficiency, cost, and innovation play into the topic, current middle-mile issues in California and Maine, and what the future of the space might look like. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Options Available to Cities Under the American Rescue Plan Broadband Rules – Episode 12 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/05/options-available-to-cities-under-the-american-rescue-plan-broadband-rules-episode-12-of-connect-this/ Wed, 12 May 2021 17:43:46 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=152 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/05/options-available-to-cities-under-the-american-rescue-plan-broadband-rules-episode-12-of-connect-this/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/05/options-available-to-cities-under-the-american-rescue-plan-broadband-rules-episode-12-of-connect-this/feed/ 0 On Episode 12 of Connect This!, hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by returning guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kimberly McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to talk about the recently released Treasury rules outlining the upcoming infrastructure funds going to states and local governments for critical infrastructure.

After talking for a few minutes about labor and materials shortages, the group dives into the language of the Treasury rules and to what extent they restrict the upcoming funds for cities and towns. They talk about the minimum speed requirements listed and what they mean for the underlying technologies the rules encourage, to what extent the rules represent the enaction of a bold vision for universal high-speed Internet access in the United States, and what kinds of outcomes we might see in the near and medium future.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance 1 1 full false 1:01:43 152 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)On Episode 12 of Connect This!, hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by returning guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kimberly McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to talk about the recently released Treasury rules outlining the upcoming infrastructure funds going to states and local governments for critical infrastructure. After talking for a few minutes about labor and materials shortages, the group dives into the language of the Treasury rules and to what extent they restrict the upcoming funds for cities and towns. They talk about the minimum speed requirements listed and what they mean for the underlying technologies the rules encourage, to what extent the rules represent the enaction of a bold vision for universal high-speed Internet access in the United States, and what kinds of outcomes we might see in the near and medium future. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here, or below.On Episode 12 of Connect This!, hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by returning guests Doug Dawson (CCG Consulting) and Kimberly McKinley (UTOPIA Fiber) to talk about the recently released Treasury rules outlining the upcoming infrastructure funds going to states and local governments for critical infrastructure. After talking for a few minutes about labor and materials shortages, the group dives into the language of the Treasury rules and to what extent they restrict the upcoming funds for cities and towns. They talk about the minimum speed requirements listed and what they mean for the underlying technologies the rules encourage, to what extent the rules represent the enaction of a bold vision for universal high-speed Internet access in the United States, and what kinds of outcomes we might see in the near and medium future. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch here, or below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband How Open Access Networks Impact ISPs – Episode 11 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/05/how-open-access-networks-impact-isps-episode-11-of-connect-this/ Fri, 07 May 2021 14:39:59 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=126 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/05/how-open-access-networks-impact-isps-episode-11-of-connect-this/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/05/how-open-access-networks-impact-isps-episode-11-of-connect-this/feed/ 0 In Episode 11 of the Connect This! Show, hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Kim McKinley (Chief Marketing Officer, UTOPIA Fiber), Pete Ashdown (Founder and CEO, XMission) and Cameron Francis (CEO, Beehive Broadband) to share their perspectives on open access networks.

The panel explore what open access is like for ISPs that use it and offer thoughts for those who are considering it. What’s in it for the ISPs?

Along the way they cover a lot of ground: the lower startup costs and fewer barriers to entry for new ISPs; how banks understand providers operating on those infrastructure models; the role, interests, and benefits of publicly owned open access networks; and the future of software-defined networks both on and as differentiated from open access systems.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance 1 1 full false 1:06:37 126 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)In Episode 11 of the Connect This! Show, hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Kim McKinley (Chief Marketing Officer, UTOPIA Fiber), Pete Ashdown (Founder and CEO, XMission) and Cameron Francis (CEO, Beehive Broadband) to share their perspectives on open access networks. The panel explore what open access is like for ISPs that use it and offer thoughts for those who are considering it. What’s in it for the ISPs? Along the way they cover a lot of ground: the lower startup costs and fewer barriers to entry for new ISPs; how banks understand providers operating on those infrastructure models; the role, interests, and benefits of publicly owned open access networks; and the future of software-defined networks both on and as differentiated from open access systems. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch below, or on YouTube here.In Episode 11 of the Connect This! Show, hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Kim McKinley (Chief Marketing Officer, UTOPIA Fiber), Pete Ashdown (Founder and CEO, XMission) and Cameron Francis (CEO, Beehive Broadband) to share their perspectives on open access networks. The panel explore what open access is like for ISPs that use it and offer thoughts for those who are considering it. What’s in it for the ISPs? Along the way they cover a lot of ground: the lower startup costs and fewer barriers to entry for new ISPs; how banks understand providers operating on those infrastructure models; the role, interests, and benefits of publicly owned open access networks; and the future of software-defined networks both on and as differentiated from open access systems. Subscribe to the show using this feed, or visit ConnectThisShow.com Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch below, or on YouTube here.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Preparing for Broadband Funding in the American Rescue Plan- Episode 10 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/05/connect-this-episode-10-preparing-for-broadband-funding-in-the-american-rescue-plan/ Mon, 03 May 2021 18:33:28 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=122 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/05/connect-this-episode-10-preparing-for-broadband-funding-in-the-american-rescue-plan/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/05/connect-this-episode-10-preparing-for-broadband-funding-in-the-american-rescue-plan/feed/ 0 On Episode 10 of Connect This!, hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) were joined by Joanne Hovis (President, CTC Energy and Technology) and Doug Dawson (President, CCG Consulting) to talk about how communities can prepare for the unprecedented money poised to flow from the federal government for Internet infrastructure.

The panel first gives an update on the upcoming Emergency Broadband Benefit and how cities and small ISPs can plan for a successful deployment. They then discuss the upcoming infrastructure funding, including what to consider when putting together a plan, how to use the funds effectively, balancing the needs of today with a long-term plan, and how to avoid getting taken advantage of by bad actors.

Resources mentioned during the show include the Blandin Foundation in Minnesota and the Michigan Moonshot Initiative.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 1:09:10 122 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)On Episode 10 of Connect This!, hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) were joined by Joanne Hovis (President, CTC Energy and Technology) and Doug Dawson (President, CCG Consulting) to talk about how communities can prepare for the unprecedented money poised to flow from the federal government for Internet infrastructure. The panel first gives an update on the upcoming Emergency Broadband Benefit and how cities and small ISPs can plan for a successful deployment. They then discuss the upcoming infrastructure funding, including what to consider when putting together a plan, how to use the funds effectively, balancing the needs of today with a long-term plan, and how to avoid getting taken advantage of by bad actors. Resources mentioned during the show include the Blandin Foundation in Minnesota and the Michigan Moonshot Initiative. Subscribe to the show using this feed.  Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch via this link, or watch below.On Episode 10 of Connect This!, hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) were joined by Joanne Hovis (President, CTC Energy and Technology) and Doug Dawson (President, CCG Consulting) to talk about how communities can prepare for the unprecedented money poised to flow from the federal government for Internet infrastructure. The panel first gives an update on the upcoming Emergency Broadband Benefit and how cities and small ISPs can plan for a successful deployment. They then discuss the upcoming infrastructure funding, including what to consider when putting together a plan, how to use the funds effectively, balancing the needs of today with a long-term plan, and how to avoid getting taken advantage of by bad actors. Resources mentioned during the show include the Blandin Foundation in Minnesota and the Michigan Moonshot Initiative. Subscribe to the show using this feed.  Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. Watch via this link, or watch below.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Broadband Infrastructure Funding in the American Rescue Plan – Episode 9 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/04/broadband-infrastructure-funding-in-the-american-rescue-plan-episode-9-of-connect-this/ Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:34:43 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=112 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/04/broadband-infrastructure-funding-in-the-american-rescue-plan-episode-9-of-connect-this/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/04/broadband-infrastructure-funding-in-the-american-rescue-plan-episode-9-of-connect-this/feed/ 0 On Episode 9 of Connect This!, hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Kim McKinley (Chief Marketing Officer, UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (President, CCG Consulting) to talk about the recently signed American Rescue Plan Act, which has the potential to funnel an unprecedented level of funding to communities which can be used for Internet infrastructure.

The group talks about the different buckets of money that will become available and how cities, counties, and states might use them. They discuss the ways that communities can use the federal funds to reduce risk for local projects and push them forward, create partnerships with public organizations and private firms, and what local officials need to do to ensure that they are ready when the money starts flowing to effect long-term positive change.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance 1 1 full false 1:14:21 112 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)On Episode 9 of Connect This!, hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Kim McKinley (Chief Marketing Officer, UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (President, CCG Consulting) to talk about the recently signed American Rescue Plan Act, which has the potential to funnel an unprecedented level of funding to communities which can be used for Internet infrastructure. The group talks about the different buckets of money that will become available and how cities, counties, and states might use them. They discuss the ways that communities can use the federal funds to reduce risk for local projects and push them forward, create partnerships with public organizations and private firms, and what local officials need to do to ensure that they are ready when the money starts flowing to effect long-term positive change. Watch via this link, or watch below. Subscribe to the show using this feed.  Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. On Episode 9 of Connect This!, hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Kim McKinley (Chief Marketing Officer, UTOPIA Fiber) and Doug Dawson (President, CCG Consulting) to talk about the recently signed American Rescue Plan Act, which has the potential to funnel an unprecedented level of funding to communities which can be used for Internet infrastructure. The group talks about the different buckets of money that will become available and how cities, counties, and states might use them. They discuss the ways that communities can use the federal funds to reduce risk for local projects and push them forward, create partnerships with public organizations and private firms, and what local officials need to do to ensure that they are ready when the money starts flowing to effect long-term positive change. Watch via this link, or watch below. Subscribe to the show using this feed.  Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Decoding the Emergency Broadband Benefit – Episode 8 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/03/decoding-the-emergency-broadband-benefit-episode-8-of-connect-this/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:42:30 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=108 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/03/decoding-the-emergency-broadband-benefit-episode-8-of-connect-this/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/03/decoding-the-emergency-broadband-benefit-episode-8-of-connect-this/feed/ 0 One component of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 was the Emergency Broadband Benefit, a $3.2 billion program designed to get families connected to available service that they otherwise might not be able to afford. The program provides a subsidy of up to $50/month for service (or $75 for tribal lands) as well as up to $100 for a device (with a household contribution) for as long as the money lasts.

On Episode 8 of Connect This!, hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Angela Siefer (National Digital Inclusion Alliance) and Olivia Wein (National Consumer Law Center) to talk about how it will work and what their expectations are, including who will be able to take advantage of the program and what problems there might be for both the people who need it and the small ISPs that would like to participate. 

During the course of the discussion the panel talks about: eligibility requirements; the challenge of standing up a program quickly and making it available to the widest number of people possible; USI Fiber’s experience so far in becoming an eligibile provider; the device benefit available, and how providers can forge partnerships with groups like PCs for People to get hardware into homes; the need for digital navigators to help guide community members navigate the process of getting and staying online; and the long-term prospects for renewal of the program.

Mentioned during the episode was a recent study by Professor Lloyd Levine from the School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside, California, on outreach programs (paywall).

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance 1 1 full false 1:06:04 108 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)One component of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 was the Emergency Broadband Benefit, a $3.2 billion program designed to get families connected to available service that they otherwise might not be able to afford. The program provides a subsidy of up to $50/month for service (or $75 for tribal lands) as well as up to $100 for a device (with a household contribution) for as long as the money lasts. On Episode 8 of Connect This!, hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Angela Siefer (National Digital Inclusion Alliance) and Olivia Wein (National Consumer Law Center) to talk about how it will work and what their expectations are, including who will be able to take advantage of the program and what problems there might be for both the people who need it and the small ISPs that would like to participate.  During the course of the discussion the panel talks about: eligibility requirements; the challenge of standing up a program quickly and making it available to the widest number of people possible; USI Fiber’s experience so far in becoming an eligibile provider; the device benefit available, and how providers can forge partnerships with groups like PCs for People to get hardware into homes; the need for digital navigators to help guide community members navigate the process of getting and staying online; and the long-term prospects for renewal of the program. Mentioned during the episode was a recent study by Professor Lloyd Levine from the School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside, California, on outreach programs (paywall). Watch via this link, or watch below. Subscribe to the show using this feed.  Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. One component of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 was the Emergency Broadband Benefit, a $3.2 billion program designed to get families connected to available service that they otherwise might not be able to afford. The program provides a subsidy of up to $50/month for service (or $75 for tribal lands) as well as up to $100 for a device (with a household contribution) for as long as the money lasts. On Episode 8 of Connect This!, hosts Christopher Mitchell and Travis Carter (USI Fiber) are joined by Angela Siefer (National Digital Inclusion Alliance) and Olivia Wein (National Consumer Law Center) to talk about how it will work and what their expectations are, including who will be able to take advantage of the program and what problems there might be for both the people who need it and the small ISPs that would like to participate.  During the course of the discussion the panel talks about: eligibility requirements; the challenge of standing up a program quickly and making it available to the widest number of people possible; USI Fiber’s experience so far in becoming an eligibile provider; the device benefit available, and how providers can forge partnerships with groups like PCs for People to get hardware into homes; the need for digital navigators to help guide community members navigate the process of getting and staying online; and the long-term prospects for renewal of the program. Mentioned during the episode was a recent study by Professor Lloyd Levine from the School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside, California, on outreach programs (paywall). Watch via this link, or watch below. Subscribe to the show using this feed.  Email us at broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show. broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Overbuilding and the Value of Real Competition – Episode 7 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/03/overbuilding-and-the-value-of-real-competition-episode-7-of-connect-this/ Fri, 05 Mar 2021 22:19:43 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=103 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/03/overbuilding-and-the-value-of-real-competition-episode-7-of-connect-this/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/03/overbuilding-and-the-value-of-real-competition-episode-7-of-connect-this/feed/ 0 This episode, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (CEO, US Internet) are joined by Deb Socia (President/CEO, The Enterprise Center), and Brian Worthen (President, Visionary Communications and CEO, Mammoth Networks) to talk about overbuilding. 

The group talks about the importance of reclaiming the term as what it really is: plain old competition. They discuss the economics of building competitive broadband infrastructure in rural and urban areas, pending and related Washington Public Utility District legislation, and why we don’t see more small, competitive fiber builders around the country.

We also get the first installment of a recurring segment during the episode, wherein Christopher asks Travis to identify a picture of random piece of wireless infrastructure from the area around his house.

Referenced during the discussion was Benton Institute for Broadband and Society Senior Fellow John Sallet’s recent paper “Broadband for America’s Future: A Vision for the 2020s.”

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance full false 57:06 103 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)This episode, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (CEO, US Internet) are joined by Deb Socia (President/CEO, The Enterprise Center), and Brian Worthen (President, Visionary Communications and CEO, Mammoth Networks) to talk about overbuilding.  The group talks about the importance of reclaiming the term as what it really is: plain old competition. They discuss the economics of building competitive broadband infrastructure in rural and urban areas, pending and related Washington Public Utility District legislation, and why we don’t see more small, competitive fiber builders around the country. We also get the first installment of a recurring segment during the episode, wherein Christopher asks Travis to identify a picture of random piece of wireless infrastructure from the area around his house. Referenced during the discussion was Benton Institute for Broadband and Society Senior Fellow John Sallet’s recent paper “Broadband for America’s Future: A Vision for the 2020s.” Subscribe to the show using this feed.  Email us with feedback and ideas at broadband@muninetworks.orgThis episode, co-hosts Christopher and Travis Carter (CEO, US Internet) are joined by Deb Socia (President/CEO, The Enterprise Center), and Brian Worthen (President, Visionary Communications and CEO, Mammoth Networks) to talk about overbuilding.  The group talks about the importance of reclaiming the term as what it really is: plain old competition. They discuss the economics of building competitive broadband infrastructure in rural and urban areas, pending and related Washington Public Utility District legislation, and why we don’t see more small, competitive fiber builders around the country. We also get the first installment of a recurring segment during the episode, wherein Christopher asks Travis to identify a picture of random piece of wireless infrastructure from the area around his house. Referenced during the discussion was Benton Institute for Broadband and Society Senior Fellow John Sallet’s recent paper “Broadband for America’s Future: A Vision for the 2020s.” Subscribe to the show using this feed.  Email us with feedback and ideas at broadband@muninetworks.orgbroadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Building Business and Community Goodwill Through Marketing – Episode 6 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2021/02/edit-story-building-business-and-community-goodwill-through-marketing-connect-this-episode-6/ Tue, 09 Feb 2021 21:15:27 +0000 https://connectthisshow.com/?p=90 https://connectthisshow.com/2021/02/edit-story-building-business-and-community-goodwill-through-marketing-connect-this-episode-6/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2021/02/edit-story-building-business-and-community-goodwill-through-marketing-connect-this-episode-6/feed/ 0 This week on Connect This! Christopher and Travis Carter (CEO, USI Fiber) are joined by Kim McKinley (Deputy Director and Chief Marketing Officer, UTOPIA Fiber) and Kyle Hollifield (VP of Business Development, Magellan Advisors), both veterans with years of experience.

Marketing means more that a logo with a snappy slogan, and it can be hard to quantify the value in taking precious dollars and applying them to tasks other than fiber in the ground and the supporting electronics.

The group emphasizes how important it is to get right from the start, and the impact it can have on take rates, positive word-of-mouth, and a sense of goodwill. They discuss why marketing should be both a budget priority and a central part of any business plan, and what it means for everyone from installation subcontractors to CEO to play a role. Travis, Kyle, and Kim share some of their favorite marketing success stories. 

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance 1 1 full false 1:02:01 90 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)This week on Connect This! Christopher and Travis Carter (CEO, USI Fiber) are joined by Kim McKinley (Deputy Director and Chief Marketing Officer, UTOPIA Fiber) and Kyle Hollifield (VP of Business Development, Magellan Advisors), both veterans with years of experience. Marketing means more that a logo with a snappy slogan, and it can be hard to quantify the value in taking precious dollars and applying them to tasks other than fiber in the ground and the supporting electronics. The group emphasizes how important it is to get right from the start, and the impact it can have on take rates, positive word-of-mouth, and a sense of goodwill. They discuss why marketing should be both a budget priority and a central part of any business plan, and what it means for everyone from installation subcontractors to CEO to play a role. Travis, Kyle, and Kim share some of their favorite marketing success stories.  Subscribe to the show using this feed.  Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show.This week on Connect This! Christopher and Travis Carter (CEO, USI Fiber) are joined by Kim McKinley (Deputy Director and Chief Marketing Officer, UTOPIA Fiber) and Kyle Hollifield (VP of Business Development, Magellan Advisors), both veterans with years of experience. Marketing means more that a logo with a snappy slogan, and it can be hard to quantify the value in taking precious dollars and applying them to tasks other than fiber in the ground and the supporting electronics. The group emphasizes how important it is to get right from the start, and the impact it can have on take rates, positive word-of-mouth, and a sense of goodwill. They discuss why marketing should be both a budget priority and a central part of any business plan, and what it means for everyone from installation subcontractors to CEO to play a role. Travis, Kyle, and Kim share some of their favorite marketing success stories.  Subscribe to the show using this feed.  Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Where to Next From the Federal Government on Broadband? – Episode 5 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2020/12/where-to-next-from-the-federal-government-on-broadband-episode-5-of-connect-this/ Mon, 14 Dec 2020 23:17:07 +0000 http://connectthisshow.com/?p=84 https://connectthisshow.com/2020/12/where-to-next-from-the-federal-government-on-broadband-episode-5-of-connect-this/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2020/12/where-to-next-from-the-federal-government-on-broadband-episode-5-of-connect-this/feed/ 0 On Episode 5 of Connect This! Christopher is joined by Travis Carter (CEO, US Internet), Sarah Morris (Director, New America’s Open Technology Institute), and Doug Dawson (President, CCG Consulting) to discuss what we might expect from the federal government on broadband next year.

The group talks about what a Biden administration might do, whether we’ll see federal legislation to overturn restrictive state laws which prohibit municipal broadband, and the prospective future of the Accessible, Affordable, Internet for All Act which passed the House in June and currently sits stalled in the Senate.

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]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance 1 1 full false 1:07:30 84 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)On Episode 5 of Connect This! Christopher is joined by Travis Carter (CEO, US Internet), Sarah Morris (Director, New America’s Open Technology Institute), and Doug Dawson (President, CCG Consulting) to discuss what we might expect from the federal government on broadband next year. The group talks about what a Biden administration might do, whether we’ll see federal legislation to overturn restrictive state laws which prohibit municipal broadband, and the prospective future of the Accessible, Affordable, Internet for All Act which passed the House in June and currently sits stalled in the Senate. Subscribe to the show using this feed. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show.On Episode 5 of Connect This! Christopher is joined by Travis Carter (CEO, US Internet), Sarah Morris (Director, New America’s Open Technology Institute), and Doug Dawson (President, CCG Consulting) to discuss what we might expect from the federal government on broadband next year. The group talks about what a Biden administration might do, whether we’ll see federal legislation to overturn restrictive state laws which prohibit municipal broadband, and the prospective future of the Accessible, Affordable, Internet for All Act which passed the House in June and currently sits stalled in the Senate. Subscribe to the show using this feed. Email us broadband@muninetworks.org with feedback and ideas for the show.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Open Access Networks – Episode 4 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2020/12/open-access-networks-episode-4-of-connect-this/ Thu, 03 Dec 2020 23:02:43 +0000 http://connectthisshow.com/?p=78 https://connectthisshow.com/2020/12/open-access-networks-episode-4-of-connect-this/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2020/12/open-access-networks-episode-4-of-connect-this/feed/ 0

On Episode 4 of Connect This! Christopher is joined by Jeff Christensen (President, EntryPoint Networks), Dane Jasper (CEO and Co-Founder, Sonic), and Travis Carter (CEO, US Internet) to talk about open access models, and the challenges and opportunities they present. During the discussion they discuss barriers to entry, differentiation, dark fiber, and why we don’t see more cities pursuing projects like this. They also have a little fun sharing what they think the FCC has gotten right and wrong over the last 4 years, and what Comcast’s recent announcement about bandwidth caps will mean for users and competing Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

Mentioned during the episode was Chris’ conversation with NetEquity Networks’ Isfandiyar Shaheen and Althea Networks’ Deborah Simpier about innovating financing models for expanding fiber networks.

Read the transcript for this episode.

]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance 1 1 full false 1:08:48 78 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)On Episode 4 of Connect This! Christopher is joined by Jeff Christensen (President, EntryPoint Networks), Dane Jasper (CEO and Co-Founder, Sonic), and Travis Carter (CEO, US Internet) to talk about open access models, and the challenges and opportunities they present. During the discussion they discuss barriers to entry, differentiation, dark fiber, and why we don’t see more cities pursuing projects like this. They also have a little fun sharing what they think the FCC has gotten right and wrong over the last 4 years, and what Comcast’s recent announcement about bandwidth caps will mean for users and competing Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Mentioned during the episode was Chris’ conversation with NetEquity Networks’ Isfandiyar Shaheen and Althea Networks’ Deborah Simpier about innovating financing models for expanding fiber networks. Read the transcript for this episode.On Episode 4 of Connect This! Christopher is joined by Jeff Christensen (President, EntryPoint Networks), Dane Jasper (CEO and Co-Founder, Sonic), and Travis Carter (CEO, US Internet) to talk about open access models, and the challenges and opportunities they present. During the discussion they discuss barriers to entry, differentiation, dark fiber, and why we don’t see more cities pursuing projects like this. They also have a little fun sharing what they think the FCC has gotten right and wrong over the last 4 years, and what Comcast’s recent announcement about bandwidth caps will mean for users and competing Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Mentioned during the episode was Chris’ conversation with NetEquity Networks’ Isfandiyar Shaheen and Althea Networks’ Deborah Simpier about innovating financing models for expanding fiber networks. Read the transcript for this episode.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Digital Inclusion – Episode 3 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2020/11/episode-3-of-connect-this/ Wed, 25 Nov 2020 21:45:41 +0000 http://connectthisshow.com/?p=68 https://connectthisshow.com/2020/11/episode-3-of-connect-this/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2020/11/episode-3-of-connect-this/feed/ 0

On Episode 3 of Connect This!, Christopher is joined by Angela Siefer, Executive Director of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance, Deb Socia, President of The Enterprise Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Travis Carter, CEO of US Internet to talk about digital inclusion and solving the broadband gap.

]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance 1 1 full false 1:01:35 68 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)On Episode 3 of Connect This!, Christopher is joined by Angela Siefer, Executive Director of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance, Deb Socia, President of The Enterprise Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Travis Carter, CEO of US Internet to talk about digital inclusion and solving the broadband gap.On Episode 3 of Connect This!, Christopher is joined by Angela Siefer, Executive Director of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance, Deb Socia, President of The Enterprise Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Travis Carter, CEO of US Internet to talk about digital inclusion and solving the broadband gap.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband 5G, CBRS, and Urban WISPs – Episode 2 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2020/11/episode-2-of-connect-this/ Thu, 12 Nov 2020 20:54:03 +0000 http://connectthisshow.com/?p=60 https://connectthisshow.com/2020/11/episode-2-of-connect-this/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2020/11/episode-2-of-connect-this/feed/ 0

Host Christopher Mitchell speaks with Mason Carroll (Monkeybrains), Deborah Simpier (Althea Networks), and Travis Carter (US Internet) about urban wireless solutions, including 5G, Citizens Broadband Radio Service, and how cities can help WISPS.

]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance 1 1 full false 1:09:20 60 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Host Christopher Mitchell speaks with Mason Carroll (Monkeybrains), Deborah Simpier (Althea Networks), and Travis Carter (US Internet) about urban wireless solutions, including 5G, Citizens Broadband Radio Service, and how cities can help WISPS.Host Christopher Mitchell speaks with Mason Carroll (Monkeybrains), Deborah Simpier (Althea Networks), and Travis Carter (US Internet) about urban wireless solutions, including 5G, Citizens Broadband Radio Service, and how cities can help WISPS.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Satellite Internet Access, the Future of Cable, and Small Fiber ISPs – Episode 1 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2020/11/episode-1-of-connect-this/ Wed, 04 Nov 2020 20:11:29 +0000 http://connectthisshow.com/?p=51 https://connectthisshow.com/2020/11/episode-1-of-connect-this/#respond https://connectthisshow.com/2020/11/episode-1-of-connect-this/feed/ 0

Host Christopher Mitchell speaks with Doug Dawson of CCG Consulting, Monica Webb of Ting, and Travis Carter of US Internet. Their conversation touches on LEO, Voting, Future of Cable, and Challenges for Small FISPs.

]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance 1 1 full false 1:00:43 51 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Host Christopher Mitchell speaks with Doug Dawson of CCG Consulting, Monica Webb of Ting, and Travis Carter of US Internet. Their conversation touches on LEO, Voting, Future of Cable, and Challenges for Small FISPs.Host Christopher Mitchell speaks with Doug Dawson of CCG Consulting, Monica Webb of Ting, and Travis Carter of US Internet. Their conversation touches on LEO, Voting, Future of Cable, and Challenges for Small FISPs.broadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband Pilot – Episode 0 of the Connect This! Show https://connectthisshow.com/2020/10/hello-world/ Fri, 30 Oct 2020 02:55:05 +0000 http:/?p=1 https://connectthisshow.com/2020/10/hello-world/#comments https://connectthisshow.com/2020/10/hello-world/feed/ 1

Despite repeated reminders from the rest of us that Hollywood will only ever give the late night slots to guys named James, Stephen, or Conan, Christopher is determined that if he just hosts enough things he’ll be able to break into the business and leave us all behind. In that spirit comes a new series here at the Community Broadband Networks initiative within the Institute for Local Self-Reliance: The Connect This! Show

]]> Institute for Local Self-Reliance 1 1 Pilot Episode full false 56:30 1 broadband@muninetworks.org (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)Despite repeated reminders from the rest of us that Hollywood will only ever give the late night slots to guys named James, Stephen, or Conan, Christopher is determined that if he just hosts enough things he’ll be able to break into the business and leave us all behind. In that spirit comes a new series here at the Community Broadband Networks initiative within the Institute for Local Self-Reliance: The Connect This! ShowDespite repeated reminders from the rest of us that Hollywood will only ever give the late night slots to guys named James, Stephen, or Conan, Christopher is determined that if he just hosts enough things he’ll be able to break into the business and leave us all behind. In that spirit comes a new series here at the Community Broadband Networks initiative within the Institute for Local Self-Reliance: The Connect This! Showbroadband,fiber,optics,dsl,telecom,Internet,access,community,networks,wireless,networks,policy,tech,networks,cable,Wi,Fi,ISPs,service,providers,Internet,service,providers,muni,broadband,municipal,broadband,rural,broadband