Wednesday, February 25, 2015

These Cities Built Cheap, Fast, Community-Owned Broadband

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29295-these-cities-built-cheap-fast-community-owned-broadband
"Just before his State of the Union address last month, President Obama showed up in the small city of Cedar Falls, Iowa, to highlight the work of Cedar Falls Utilities, a publicly owned utility that operates an Internet network in the city. Cedar Falls has one of the oldest community-owned networks in the country and, with recent upgrades, is now one of the fastest. In addition to having higher-speed connections than neighboring communities in Iowa, the publicly owned network's more than 11,000 subscribers pay around $200 less per year."