By a vote of 6-1, with two councilors absent, the Loveland City Council approved the second reading of an ordinance allowing the city to issue the bonds. Loveland staff will now begin the three-year process to construct a city-wide fiber broadband network that is capable of offering up to gigabit speeds for any resident or business. The city and its consultants will immediately start the process of bonding for about $97 million (the exact amount depends on a number of factors, including the interest rate on the bonds, the term of the bonds and structure of the financing).
Report: Fiber-based broadband will power 59% of 1.2 billion connections by 2025
The Broadband Forum and Point Topic recently predicted that there will be 1.2 billion broadband subscribers worldwide by 2025, with fiber-based broadband playing an increasingly important role. The report further predicts that 89% of the expected 1.2 billion subscribers in 2025 wi...
Georgia Senate OKs rural broadband bill
Georgia senators voted 53-1 for a bill primarily aimed at increasing broadband deployment in rural Georgia and would allow the state’s 41 electric membership corporations (EMCs) to get into the broadband business. In a statement, Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan said that, "Broadband a...
PG&E faces pole attachment shot clock, as CPUC arbitrator hands Crown Castle a win
An administrative law judge "gave Crown Castle a victory of sorts in a dispute over terms for attaching fiber optic cable to utility poles that Pacific Gas and Electric owns." If the California Public Utilities Commission signs off on the finding, it will establish a 45-day "shot ...
Digital divide as City Commission considers utility-managed fiber optics
At a workshop with city commissioners in the city of Tallahassee, FL, commissioners discussed whether the city should get into the high-speed internet business. While several commissioners favored "wanting to issue a request for proposals on a feasibility study and continue talks,...
How dark fiber can support flexible networks for local government
StateScoop reported on the various ways that dark fiber gives counties the opportunity to use and manage their own, private broadband infrastructure. It highlighted that Dark Fiber offers counties greater network control and capacity and has the potential to support equal access t...
Making connections: State lawmakers introduce bills in attempt to bring better internet access to rural areas
Three Texas state lawmakers "have filed five bills this legislative session to help bring high-speed internet connectivity to those who live in rural areas." Senate Bill 1103 and House Bill 2423 "create a broadband office within the Public Utility Commission of Texas that would pr...