Editorial: The Plainfield advantage
In our last post, we posted that the town of Plainfield, Massachusetts, population under 1000, approved the construction of a municipal network. It should be finished in early 2020. Residents …
Category «Communications»
Shutesbury municipal network on the way!
Shutesbury, Massachusetts is still stuck in dialup/DSL-land. Comcast long ago decided it wasn’t profitable to wire up the town. But this is changing as the town wires up, thanks in …
Plainfield takes steps to build community network. Worthington works on complete coverage of Comcast-built network.
Both Plainfield and Worthington in the hilltowns have been passed over by the internet age. Internet connectivity required dialup modems over telephone lines … so 1990s and sizzling speeds up …
Daily Hampshire Gazette: Northampton and Easthampton should create municipal networks
We missed this editorial in the Daily Hampshire Gazette on March 2nd. The Gazette is all for Northampton and Easthampton’s efforts to create municipal (community) networks. Read the whole thing! …
Gazette: “Northampton eyes municipal broadband network”
The Daily Hampshire Gazette today has a front page story on the City Council’s approval in concept of a study of municipal broadband for Northampton. This is bundled in the …
Easthampton group estimates municipal network will cost of $10M – $12M
The lede story is today’s Daily Hampshire Gazette is an update on Easthampton’s consideration of building a community network. A committee looking into it for the city and provided an …
Next steps in a Northampton Community Network
Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz’s proposal adding $80,000 to the city’s capital improvement plan for two years starting July 1 to study a community network is great news. But what does …
Mayor Narkewicz proposes feasibility study for Northampton community network
Great news! After nearly a year of effort and much coalition building, Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz has added money to the city’s capital improvement plan to study the feasibility of …
Why we need a community network
Coalition founder Mark Hamill of Florence describes why Northampton needs a community network. Video editing provided courtesy of the students of Northampton High School.
Comcast increases prices
It should not be a surprise that being a monopoly, Comcast can raise prices at will. Most rate increases for 2019 affect their Cable TV offerings. One Internet plan price …