Christopher Mitchell

Municipal Broadband Policy Brief: Demystifying Wireless and Fiber-Optic Options
Christopher Mitchell, Institute for Local Self Reliance (ILSR). January 2008. www.newrules.org/info/munibb.html

This document clearly explains the relative advantages of fiber and wireless technologies, briefly, "wireless offers mobility, but only fiber solves speed and capacity concerns."

by Becca Vargo Daggett & Christopher Mitchell Telecommunications As Commons Initiative Institute for Local Self Reliance May 2007 This brief article takes a welcoming, but critical look at attorneys Jim Baller and Casey Lide's national proposal, "Eight Bold Steps to a National Broadband Strategy." This proposal encourages national discussion of the U.S. broadband problem, by suggesting the installment of a national task force that would develop national goals and the strategies to make these goals possible.