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).
Internet providers want tax break to install broadband
Internet service providers "are asking the state Legislature to give them a decade-long property tax break on fiber optics they install" in Montana. Geoff Feiss, general manager of the Montana Telecommunications Association said that, "Making it more financially appealing to insta...
Our view: How to grow our rural economy
The Fayetteville Observer published an editorial highlighting that in small towns and across the countryside in North Carolina, internet service "too often is barely faster than it was in the early days of dial-up service." The editorial stated that lawmakers "have been unwilling ...
Shelley McKinley: Rural broadband key to Virginia's future
Shelley McKinley, general manager of technology and corporate responsibility at Microsoft in Redmond, WA, wrote an op-ed in The Virginian-Pilot highlighting the importance of broadband access in the state in order to "start or run a modern business, access telemedicine, take an on...
2019 broadband access market outlook: four-part series
Dell’Oro Group began a four-part series on broadband access market outlook. The series discusses the "high-level business and technology trends that will have an impact on network operators," as well as anticipated trends in broadband access and home networking. It noted tha...
New broadband network coming to Hot Springs
Ritter Communications, Arkansas’ leading broadband provider, announced Friday that it is bringing state of the art communications technology and advanced business services to Hot Springs. Ritter Communications is investing $7 million in infrastructure construction to give bu...
Microsoft: New York has less broadband than feds claim
According to a recent study by Microsoft, much fewer New Yorkers have access to high-speed internet than the federal government is reporting. Figures released last year by the Federal Communications Commission estimated that about 394,000 residents in a state of 19.8 million peopl...