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Craig Settles, president of CJ Speaks (www.cjspeaks.com), and guests discuss business strategies for putting broadband networks and telehealth into place, as well as policy issues that affect community broadband and telehealth. Gigabit Nation’s mission is threefold: 1) inform listeners how to get meaningful broadband and telehealth into communities everywhere, 2) help communities increase broadband and telehealth adoption and 3) provide a vehicle for people to work together – and with organizations – to advance digital technologies.

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The Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition (SHLB) Annual Conference has become a yearly confab that draws many of the key players in broadband stimulus-funded projects. Our listeners hear from four of those who... more

Is this the other shoe dropping that incumbents fear and advocates cheer? Austin is the second major city selected to receive Google fiber. Are we about to see a trickle turn into a cascade of inspired cities and towns answering the FCC's... more

Want to see local economies grow nationwide? Get the giant telecom and cable companies out of the way! David Cay Johnston, nationally acclaimed investigative journalist and author of THE FINE PRINT, lays out in stark detail how... more

Though it requires dedicated effort to track and report on the economic impact of community broadband networks, there are plenty of ways in which these networks directly and indirectly produce economic benefits for constituents. Cedar Falls... more

Delaware, the second smallest state in the union, is rated #1 in the U.S. in Internet connection speed by the Akamai's State of the Internet Report. The state is ranked third by the TechNet State Broadband Index based on broadband... more

MDUs - Multi Dwelling Units. Apartments, office buildings, incubators and the like. They don't attract much attention in mainstream media coverage of broadband, but advocates for these networks are taking a greater interest in MDUs.... more

A Georgia town used its city-run broadband net to help eliminate property taxes. Yet some state legislators are tying to eliminate communities' ability to create similar successes. Luckily, community net supporters refuse to cede the battle to... more

Practically everyone involved with broadband projects is aware of those constituents who, for various reasons, don't or won't use broadband technology. Though it may be tempting to write them off, the public good is best served by... more

Casting around for effective strategies to help meet (or exceed) the FCC's Gigabit City Challenge, we wonder: how do we focus the myriad of broadband projects and stakeholders into one unified charge for better networks that produce great... more

Economic fundraising is a proven practice that could net a community several million dollars for its broadband buildout if executed properly. Tom DiFiore, who has helped communities nationwide raise over $1.7 billion for economic... more

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