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Tag: Municipal Broadband

No Comcast Merger: No monopoly!

How Comcast and other telecoms scuttle rural WA broadband efforts

March 30th, 2022 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Public Planning

“The state Public Works Board is considering changes after private internet companies successfully objected to local government initiatives,” Crosscut’s Brandon Block reports.

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America's broadband problem

This is a map of America’s broadband problem

May 11th, 2021 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Public Planning

Check out this a county-by-county visualization of the exact percentage of households connected at broadband speed in the United States of America, based on anonymized data made available from Microsoft.

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Comcast van

Comcast outages anger thousands across the country

February 15th, 2016 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Public Planning, Technology

Media and telecommunications giant Comcast is having another bad day, with service outages being recorded across the country. Angry customers are complaining on social media, using their cellular data to shame the company for its shoddy service.

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T-shirt at a union rally against Verizon

CWA zings Verizon for putting profits ahead of its promises to workers and customers

September 3rd, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Public Planning, Technology

CWA zings Verizon for putting profits ahead of its promises to workers and customers The Communications Workers of America are once again taking Verizon to

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FCC chairman mocks industry claims that customers don’t need faster Internet

January 30th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Public Planning, Technology

FCC chairman mocks industry claims that customers don’t need faster Internet Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler had some fun with America’s major telecommunications firms

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Susan Crawford explains to Bill Moyers why U.S. internet access is slow, costly, and unfair

February 9th, 2013 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Public Planning, Technology

BILL MOYERS: So briefly describe the need. SUSAN CRAWFORD: All Americans need a fast, cheap connection to the internet. BILL MOYERS: And the problem? SUSAN

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