CLIC-NC

CLIC-NC supports the three central pillars of CLIC: That the Internet is essential 21st century infrastructure, that  local communities are the  lifeblood of America, and that local communities must be able to make their own broadband choices. These principles are particularly critical in North Carolina, where half of the population live in rural areas, because […]

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Hillary Clinton Endorses Local Net Choice

In a recent article in Quartz magazine, Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton penned a strong endorsement of local net choice. Here is how she put it: “Three-quarters of US households have at most one option for purchasing the Internet service families now depend on for shopping, streaming, and doing homework. When alternatives do emerge, however, as […]

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A Small Island in North Carolina Exercises Local Internet Choice

The Village of Bald Head Island is exercising local internet choice with the goal to ensure that its businesses and residents can fully engage in the global economy, even while vacationing on a remote and beautiful island. Nestled off the Atlantic shoreline in southeastern North Carolina, and only reachable by ferry, Bald Head Island swells […]

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Why Local Net Choice? It Enables Local Creativity

“If Mayors Ruled the World Today…They Would Launch Digital Cities Tomorrow.” So wrote legendary communications thinker Professor John Eger earlier this year, summing up the argument that creativity often happens locally first. Innovative ideas that benefit the community rise up from local communities and their leaders who are responding directly to the needs expressed by […]

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New York Times Editorial Board Endorses Local Net Choice and Links to CLIC Filing on Substance of Issue

Last Friday, the New York Times published an editorial containing an explicit endorsement of local Internet choice. To make its case, the NYT editorial focused on a CLIC submission to the Federal Communications Commission in a proceeding in which the City of Wilson, NC, and the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga, TN, successfully challenged the […]

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A Letter to Our Members and Board of Advisors

Dear Members and Advisors of CLIC: A little over a year ago, CLIC was formed with a singular goal: to unite a wide array of individuals, government entities, private companies, and organizations around the idea that our nation’s interests are best served when communities are free to identify their broadband infrastructure needs and determine the […]

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CLIC Welcomes Jane Smith Patterson to our Board of Advisors!

CLIC warmly welcomes Jane Smith Patterson, President of the View Forward – Go Forward, to our Board of Advisors. Jane is nationally renowned for serving as the Executive Director of the e-NC Authority and establishing the vanguard, decades-long, effort in North Carolina to improve broadband access for rural areas, not only to improve technology, its […]

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Another Victory for Local Internet Choice: Missouri bills fail

CLIC is pleased to report that the proposed new state barriers to community broadband in Missouri – HB 437/SB266 – did not pass this year. CLIC and several other national organizations and high-tech companies had joined together to oppose these bills and had advised the Missouri legislature that these bills were bad for Missouri’s communities, […]

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