Election Day 2015 sent a resounding message in favor of local Internet choice in Colorado. After more than 40 Colorado communities voted overwhelmingly to reclaim local authority over broadband, the Denver Post editorialized that Colorado’s anti local choice law should be “retired.” The Post noted that the “misguided legislation from a decade ago prohibited cities and counties from …
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CLIC Files Amicus Brief in Sixth Circuit
Last Thursday, CLIC filed an amicus brief with the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, supporting many of the key findings of fact that the FCC made in its February 26, 2015 order in support of Wilson, North Carolina and Chattanooga EPB. Among other things, CLIC noted the substantial data that supports the FCC’s findings that unhindered local choice in Internet and broadband…
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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 of the deepening urban-rural di…
read moreHillary 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 they have in places like Kansas City,…
read moreA 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 from a community of 200 to well over 7,000 residen…
read moreWhy 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 their citizens and b…
read moreNew 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 barriers that their states imposed on local Internet…
read moreCLIC Tribute to Scott DeGarmo
On Saturday, August 15, 2015, Scott DeGarmo died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Riverdale, NY, after exchanging goodbyes with his wife and daughters. Scott was a giant in our field and a dear friend for many years. When Scott acquired Broadband Properties a little more than a decade ago, its activities consisted primarily of publishing a trade magazine for owners and managers of mult…
read moreA 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 best path by which their community can meet tho…
read moreWhy Local Net Choice? So Every Community Can Provide Equal Opportunity in this Type of Economy:
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