[1st-mile-nm] How a new model can expand broadband access across communities

[Masha Zager]

It’s CenturyLink’s first major expansion outside its ILEC territory so will increase competition in Springfield. 

 

This is exactly the same model used in Huntsville, Alabama (where Google Fiber is the anchor tenant), and it seems to be working well there. 

 

For more details, see: https://www.bbcmag.com/community-broadband/springfield-missouri-and-centurylink-expand-fiber-network - and there will be a session on this project at the Broadband Communities Summit in April. 

 

 

 

Masha Zager

Editor-in-Chief, Broadband Communities

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From: 1st-mile-nm <1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org> On Behalf Of Christopher Mitchell
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2020 11:57 AM
To: David Breecker [dba] <david at breeckerassociates.com>
Cc: 1st-Mile-NM <1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org>
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] How a new model can expand broadband access across communities

 

Worth explaining that AT&T is the incumbent telephone company that CenturyLink is partnering with the city of Springfield to compete against other. This is an arrangement that CenturyLink lobbyists have previously tried to ban in Missouri and are still trying to ban arrangements like this in other states. 

 

I think this is nonetheless a sign of hope for more choice in urban areas and I hope it works well. 




Christopher Mitchell
Director, Community Broadband Networks
Institute for Local Self-Reliance


MuniNetworks.org <http://www.muninetworks.org/> 

@communitynets

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 6:30 PM David Breecker [dba] <david at breeckerassociates.com <mailto:david at breeckerassociates.com> > wrote:

I’m curious to know if folks have any reactions to this model:

 

City Utilities (CU), Springfield, Missouri’s city-owned electric utility, recently  <https://www.cityutilities.net/2019/08/13/20190813-network/> announced plans to expand its fiber optic network to every home in the city and lease excess fiber—on a nonexclusive basis—to the internet service provider (ISP) CenturyLink. CenturyLink, in turn, will offer high-speed fiber broadband services citywide and pay for marketing and customer service costs. 

 

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/02/13/how-a-new-model-can-expand-broadband-access-across-communities/?utm_campaign=Metropolitan Policy Program <https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/02/13/how-a-new-model-can-expand-broadband-access-across-communities/?utm_campaign=Metropolitan%20Policy%20Program&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=83662871> &utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=83662871 

David Breecker,

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