Latest Fiberoptics Podcast Episodes
Powering Up With BrightRidge in Johnson City, Tennessee - Episode 542 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - March 07, 2023 21:32 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the show, Christopher is joined by Stacy Evans, Chief Broadband and Technology Officer at BrightRidge, the municipal network for Johnson City, Tennessee. They talk an accelerating build timeline, returning millions to local government, keeping electric prices low, and work...
Developments in Iowa and a Fresh New Look for CommunityNets.org - Episode 541 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - February 28, 2023 19:35 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsShort interviews with people doing interesting things to expand broadband networks that put community needs first.
The Signal and the Noise in Broadband Reporting - Episode 540 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - February 21, 2023 22:55 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by Joan Engebretson, Managing Editor at Telecompetitor. They chat about writing for different kinds of audiences, separating hype from fact, and what the confusion that reigned over the mapping challenge process this past winter. ★ Supp...
Innovative Services and Trailblazing Low-Income Programs in Chattanooga – Episode 539 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - February 14, 2023 22:55 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast and on the most Valentines-iest of days, Christopher is joined by Katie Espeseth, Vice President of New Products EPB Fiber, at the municipal network in Chattanooga, Tennessee. After catching up on the release of the network’s 25 gigabit service and the latest pr...
HiLighting Hillsboro, Oregon – Episode 538 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - February 07, 2023 22:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by General Manager Brad Nosler and Senior Customer Support specialist Elizabeth Pereira, both from the city of Hillsboro, Oregon. The city’s municipal broadband network, HiLight, is new, having begun signing up subscribers in the spring of...
Training to Build the Networks We Want at Broadband Bootcamps – Episode 537 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - February 01, 2023 20:22 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by ILSR Communications Team Lead Sean Gonsalves to talk about the most recent Tribal Broadband Bootcamp, in Gila River. Tribal attendees from across North America came together – some experienced, and others tackling structural broadband i...
Market Dynamics, Regulations, and Historic Fiber Investments in Europe – Episode 536 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - January 24, 2023 17:02 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by Rudolf van der Berg, Partner at Stratix Consulting, a Dutch consulting firm that does work in telecommunications and has been deeply involved in the historic level of new infrastructure deployment projects in northern Europe. Rudolf bre...
Predictions for 2023 – Episode 535 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - January 18, 2023 17:40 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the show, the staff get together to bend their collective imaginations to what we expect to see as the biggest news stories of 2023. Returning to join Christopher are Sean Gonsalves, Christine Parker, Emma Gautier, and Ry Marcattilio to discuss the BEAD funding rollout, map...
What Can We Expect to See in 2023? – Episode 534 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - January 10, 2023 17:28 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by returning guest Blair Levin. Levin has served as former chief of staff to FCC Chair Reed Hundt as well as executive director of the National Broadband Plan (2009-2010). Nowadays, he’s a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings, and joins ...
Christopher Mitchell’s Ask Me Anything – Episode 533 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - January 03, 2023 21:57 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher Mitchell join’s Drew Clark on Broadband.Money’s Ask Me Anything series, and in true fashion, he never ducks the hard questions. With audience questions, Drew and Christopher cover wide ground, including why the national broadband marketplace needs p...
Year in Review 2022 – Episode 532 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - December 20, 2022 16:18 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsIt’s December, which means it’s time to pull the staff together and get a handle on what happened in the broadband landscape in 2022. Joining Christopher is GIS and Data Visualization Specialist Christine Parker, Associate Researcher Emma Gautier, Outreach Team Lead DeAnne Cuellar, Seni...
Data-Driven Policy Solutions – Episode 531 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - December 14, 2022 22:47 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by Senior Reporter, Editor and Communications Team Lead Sean Gonsalves and GIS and Data Visualization Specialist Christine Parker to talk about how bad data can blind us and good data can drive positive policy solutions. First, they talk a...
A Layered Approach to Universal Access in Virginia – Episode 530 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - November 28, 2022 22:47 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by Tamarah Holmes, Director at the Office of Broadband at Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development. Virginia is ahead of the game compared to a lot of the states in terms of its planning and proactive work with providers to...
Crazy Talk on Fiber Deployments – Episode 529 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - November 21, 2022 22:28 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, ILSR Senior Reporter and Editor Sean Gonsalves joins the show for another installment of Crazy Talk. Today’s topic is fiber, with the two breaking down a recent op-ed in The Hill by Technology Policy Institute President Scott Wallsten. Christopher and Sean injec...
Maps, Maps Everywhere – Episode 528 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - November 16, 2022 16:03 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by Dustin Loup, Project Manager of the National Broadband Mapping Coalition, housed at the Marconi Society. Dustin joins us to talk about the new national Federal Communications Commission broadband maps, currently under construction and in...
Hope and Change – Episode 527 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - November 08, 2022 22:05 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by Harold Feld, Senior Vice President at Public Knowledge. Feld is a staple of the field, and has been a consistent voice not only for consumers but broadband advocates of all types for more than two decades. The show takes on a reflective...
Teaching Through Gaming in Baltimore – Episode 526 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - November 04, 2022 20:19 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsIn this episode of the podcast, Christopher is joined by William Sullivan, a resident of the city of Baltimore who works as part of the Digital Equity Leadership Lab. He shares his work in the city in recent years in getting students engaged in building digital skills and computer litera...
Learning from New York City’s Master Internet Plan – Episode 525 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - November 02, 2022 21:48 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by Aaron Meyerson, former Deputy CTO for the city of New York. Christopher and Aaron dig into New York City’s Internet Master Plan, which launched in the spring of 2021 and gained steam before being put on hold by the Adam’s administration ...
Financing Mechanisms and Governance Models – Episode 524 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - October 26, 2022 14:01 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by Ben Matranga, co-founder and managing partner of Connectivity Capital, and Jane Coffin, chief community officer at Connect Humanity. The conversation this week takes on a bit of international flavor as the three of them discuss a recent ...
Monopoly Pricing Disparities in LA County – Episode 523 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - October 18, 2022 19:06 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by Shayna Englin, Director of the Digital Equity Initiative at the California Community Foundation (CCF) to talk about a new report by CCF and its partners that reveals the systematic broadband cost inequities perpetuated in LA County by Ch...
Bottlenecks in the Affordable Connectivity Program – Episode 522 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - October 12, 2022 16:58 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by Jessica Engle, Director of Community Outreach at Althea to talk about the Affordable Connectivity Program, the $14-billion fund that provides a $30 monthly service benefit ($75 on Tribal lands) to help defray the cost of Internet access ...
A Tribal Wireless Network in Northern California – Episode 521 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - October 06, 2022 14:59 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by Matthew Douglas, Broadband Manager at the Hoopa Valley Public Utility District. At the start of the pandemic, HVPUD launched a wireless network initiative using $2 million in CARES Act funds to benefit Tribal members who had poor or no c...
A Foundation for the Future of Digital Equity Work – Episode 520 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - September 27, 2022 18:58 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by Pamela Rosales (Training and Community Engagement Manager, National Digital Inclusion Alliance) and Davida Delmar (Digital Inclusion Manager, Amerind). Pamela and Davida talk about their digital inclusion work and how it differs across T...
Cities Doing Work – Episode 519 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - September 13, 2022 14:25 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by ILSR colleagues Sean Gonsalves (Senior Editor and Communications Team Lead) and DeAnne Cuellar (Outreach Team Lead) for a roundup of recent news. They talk about the release of our new tracking and advocacy tool, the Affordable Connectiv...
Building at the Speed of Light in Pharr, Texas – Episode 518 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - September 06, 2022 21:51 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by two people from Pharr, Texas (pop. 80,000), which has embarked on a citywide fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network build that is seeing strong local support and fast progress in recent months. Jose Pena is the IT Director for the city, and an...
The Straight Talk About Rural Fiber Deployments – Episode 517 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - August 30, 2022 21:48 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by Joseph Franell, President of Blue Mountain Networks (which serves more than 30 rural communities west of Portland) in Oregon. Joe joined the team at Ashland Fiber Network (AFN) before moving on to do work in rural parts of the state. Dur...
Short Update – Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - August 23, 2022 18:04 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsA quick update from Christopher on upcoming episodes of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. Transcript coming soon. We want your feedback and suggestions for the show-please e-mail us or leave a comment below. Listen to other episodes here or view all episodes in our index. Subscribe t...
Mapping, BEAD, and the Future of Broadband – Episode 516 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - August 16, 2022 21:19 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by Jon Chambers, industry veteran and partner at Conexon. The two begin by talking about the work electric cooperatives are doing in rural areas to convert subscribers from DSL connections reluctantly maintained by monopoly providers to mem...
The Birth of the Texas State Broadband Development Office – Episode 515 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - August 09, 2022 13:23 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by Greg Conte, Director of the Texas Broadband Development Office, and ILSR Outreach Team Lead DeAnne Cuellar. The state of Texas finds itself in a common position these days: last year it created a small office that, today, is suddenly fac...
Campaigns to Keep Monopolies We Don’t Love – Episode 514 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast
Community Broadband Bits - August 02, 2022 14:40 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by Sean Gonsalves, Senior Reporter and Editor at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. During the converstion, they talk about the value and concrete results of going small and stacking up targeted wins as a path for cities facing less of ...
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