Just like Comcast and Verizon went after #communityBroadband in the 2010s, the utility corporations aren't going to stand by and allow us to organize energy for ourselves https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/the-fight-over-california-community-solar-everyone-vs-the-utilities #communitySolar #solar

Can more cities do this please?
#CommunityBroadband

Break the #cable #oligarchy

https://newschannel9.com/news/local/cleveland-city-council-approves-72-million-broadband-plan-for-cleveland-utilities-monday

This young network engineer and the nonprofit org he works for - Project Waves - are doing amazing things in Baltimore

My story here on how Devin Weaver designed, built, and operates a #communitybroadband network that brings free gig speed #Internet service to low-income apartment buildings in one of the nation's most disconnected cities

#DigitalEquity #BlackMastodon #broadband #equity #DigitalInclusion

https://communitynets.org/content/making-waves-baltimore-community-driven-connectivity

LA County is accelerating its plan to deliver affordable broadband access to the city’s unserved and underserved, with an eye toward building one of the biggest municipal broadband networks in the nation.

Yet another example of community broadband advocates taking the bull by the horns and breaking the monopoly grip of Big Telecom

Good story here by my colleague @KarlBode

#MunicipalBroadband #broadband #digitaldivide #digitalequity #communitybroadband

https://muninetworks.org/content/la-county-selects-pilot-communities-major-broadband-expansion

Colorado Towns Keep Opting Out Of Dumb State Law Restricting Community Broadband
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/11/colorado-towns-keep-opting-out-of-dumb-state-law-restricting-community-broadband/

#CommunityBroadband #NetNeutrality #ConfirmGigiSohn #ConfirmSohnFCC
#MoneyOutOfPolitics #EndCorporateLobbying #OverturnCitizensUnited #AntitrustReform #VoteProgressive

@ghost it doesn’t surprise me that the AT&T rep didn’t care. That’s monopoly power for ya sadly but we can change that and communities are creating their own better solutions as we speak via the #communitybroadband approach