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Towards Technologically and Competitively Neutral Fiber to the Home Infrastructure
Case Study: Fredericton, NB, Canada
Case Study: Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
The Chronicle of e-Novations & Fred-eZone. The Fred e-Chronicles, No. 1. www.teamfredericton.ca/documents/Fred-eChronicles.pdf
The Case For Public Fiber-to-the-User Systems
Baller, J. and C. Lide (2006). The Case For Public Fiber-to-the-User
Systems. Baller Herbst Law Group, for the Tennessee Broadband
Coalition. March 4, 2006.
http://www.baller.com/pdfs/BHLG_White_Paper_Tenn_3-4-06.pdf
Get ready (finally) for faster Internet speeds at lower prices
Cringely, Robert (2007). When Elephants Dance: Get ready (finally) for faster Internet speeds at lower prices. Pulpit, PBS. July 20, 2007.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070720_002525.html
Hidden Interfaces to "Ownerless" Networks
Sandvig, Christian, David Young, and Sascha Meinrath (2004). Hidden Interfaces to "Ownerless" Networks. Presented to the 32nd Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy Washington, DC, USA – September 2004. www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/csandvig/research/Hidden_Interfaces.pdf This article is written by a group of academics and engineers on some of the technical and regulatory issues surrounding user-experimentation with wireless mesh networking and the resulting ownerless networks.
Lessons Learned in the US Municipal Wireless Market
Oram, Andy (2007). MuniWireless conference: city politicians need to
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Wireless Task Force Report: Broadband for Boston
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This detailed report by Boston’s Wireless Task Force investigates
options for a municipal broadband (wireless and fiber) network and
recommends that the city facilitate a carrier-neutral, open access,
wholesale-only broadband network, which will be run by a non-profit
organization. This model is important because, unlike the majority of
US municipal broadband projects, especially large-scale ones, it is not
Five Ways Public Ownership Solves the U.S. Broadband Problem
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Ownership Solves the U.S. Broadband Problem. Institute for Local
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