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How many people are trying to connect America’s cities?
Mar 8

America’s Broadband Market Needs More Competition

World-class fiber-based internet service is available in less than a quarter of Los Angeles County. By contrast, it's almost ubiquitous in Stockholm and Paris.
By Annette M. Kim,  François Bar,  and Hernán Galperin
Employees of ERDF (Electricity Network Distribution France) and Louis Dreyfus company install an electric submarine cable and optical fiber between Quiberon and Belle-Ile-en-mer, western France, on March 11, 2015. The underwatered power line of 15km is installed by ERDF to connect the Brittany island of Belle-Ile-en-mer inhabited by 5000 people. AFP PHOTO / JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD (Photo credit should read JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD/AFP/Getty Images)
Aug 24

Google Fiber and AT&T Like Cities That Lay Fiber, Public IT Veteran Says

This public IT veteran has one piece of advice for city leaders: whenever an infrastructure project calls for opening up a street, go ahead and build fiber alongside whatever else you're doing.
By Brady Dale
Nov 8

Inside New York’s Hidden Internet Infrastructure (VIDEO)

How do the zetabytes of data (mostly LOL Cats) move from city to city and across the world? A lot of it moves through New York's 60 Hudson street, which Ben Mendelsohn explored in Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors, a short documentary he created for his masters thesis in media studies at the New School.
By Ben Popper

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