The Institute for Local Self-Reliance hopes to “go...
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance hopes to “go on offense” in making its telecom priorities known, said Telecom Director Chris Mitchell Wednesday in a podcast the institute recorded. “Now we're reaching out to a larger segment of the public.” The…
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institute has prioritized communities’ ability to build their own networks and focused on many consumer issues, recording these accounts in blog posts and case studies, as Mitchell said. State and federal regulators should “roll back barriers” and make sure communities have the freedom to decide whether to build their own networks, he said. This year has featured a concerted effort to make these concerns known to “a broader public,” which Mitchell said he has tried to do in the form of op-eds and working with established nonprofits and organizations. His current projects have focused more on conduits and pole attachments, so cities can make it easier for networks to be deployed, he said. Mitchell criticized when “massive, out-of-state corporations” control a community’s broadband network. He focused not just on traditional incumbents but pointed to aspects of Google’s fiber rollouts as “still concerning.”