Next Generation Broadband in Montana

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Feds approve Montana’s plan to expand broadband access

Montana’s Digital Opportunity Plan listed barriers to digital access, which include broadband availability, service affordability, device access, and digital skills – with access and affordability being the top two.

The FCC Now Says Broadband Speed Should Be at Least 100 Mbps

The old broadband standard of 25 Mbps wasn’t cutting it anymore.

Why not in Montana? – AAPB and Benton Publish New Handbook: ‘How To Build A Public Broadband Network’ –

More cities and towns across the U.S. are exploring municipal broadband as an increasingly attractive and effective approach to bring ubiquitous, and affordable, high-speed Internet to its residents and businesses.

Documentary: The Municipal Broadband Wave and Monopoly Response

A new short documentary by Light Reading does a great job of outlining the stakes for local governments, residents stuck on poor connections, and the incumbents as the wave of municipal networks grows. Featuring the network in Loveland, Colorado and context by advocates like the American Association for Public Broadband (AAPB) Executive Director Gigi Sohn and Washington State Representative Drew Hansen, it’s well worth watching.

Change the Conversation: Strong Towns are built incrementally

In this excerpt from “Where Did All the Small Developers Go,” housing expert Daniel Herriges describes why incremental development is so hard to do these days, and why we need to open the door to it once again for the sake of our cities.

Los Angeles Becomes First U.S. City to Outlaw Digital Discrimination

A Markup investigation in 2022 found households in L.A.’s poorest neighborhoods were disproportionately asked to pay high prices for slow internet service

TDS® Fiber Is on Its Way to Missoula – Late 2024

Soon, ultrafast Internet, intelligent TV, and incredibly reliable phone services will be available.

New Municipal Broadband Networks Skyrocket in Post-Pandemic America As Alternative To Private Monopoly Model

As the new year begins, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) announced today its latest tally of municipal broadband networks which shows a dramatic surge in the number of communities building publicly-owned, locally controlled high-speed Internet infrastructure over the last three years.

Montana begins broadband challenge process – 1/26 – Webinar

Montanans may take the speed test and survey as many times and in as many locations as they’d like at mtspeedsurvey.com. 

Montana’s Challenge Process has begun! Webinar 1/12 2pm. The challenge phase will last from January 16th – February 15th

The entire challenge process, but especially this first phase, is about identifying BSLs that are listed incorrectly on Montana’s map. We want the map to be as accurate as possible, so that we can accomplish our goal of providing reliable, high quality Internet to every Montanan. We need your help to do this! The more participation we have, the better the map will be. 

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