Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard’s comprehensive case study of WiredWest
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May 2016
The Hills Are Dead — Without the Sound of Internet Access: Susan Crawford Blog Post
Susan Crawford is one of the three authors of the WiredWest Case Study. What Elizabeth Warren is to the Financial Services Sector, Susan Crawford is to Telecommunications Industry and the Internet. In this personal blog she expresses her dismay over the Commonwealth’s handling of the now-stalled effort to bring modern internet infrastructure to rural Western Mass (and indirectly [...]
Gov. Baker, connect us now and release the funding to build our network!
Sign the Petition Now! Our towns are withering. Without broadband, the future of small Western Massachusetts towns is bleak... We've been living on wrong side of the digital divide for years, not able to fully participate in 21st century life and falling further behind year by year. But as last summer came into bloom, it looked like [...]
Gov. Charlie Baker and Town Leaders Talk Over Video Skype at Stan Rosenberg’s Municipal Conference. Watch and Listen as Town Leaders Tell the Governor What Life Without Broadband is Doing to Their Towns.
Governor Charlie Baker expresses his point of view on the Commonwealth's Broadband Project and his reasons for insusting on a delay, and then takes comments and questions from the audience at a meeting of municipal leaders from Hampshire & Franklin Counties sponsored by Senate President Stan Rosenberg on 4/9/16 at Greenfield Community College. Town Leaders answer back, expressing [...]
March 2016
February 2016
January 2016
Who Is Killing the Towns of Western Massachusetts?
by Susan Crawford. Reprinted from BackChannel. Read the original article. It may be the governor. In the State House. With the lobbyists. This is the story of a dramatic failure of imagination and vision at the state level: Governor Charlie Baker’s apparent insistence that Massachusetts relegate small towns to second-rate, high-priced, monopoly-controlled (and unregulated) communications [...]
December 2015
CTC Report supporting WiredWest Business Model
CTC Technology & Energy (Columbia Telecommunications Corporation) is an independent communications engineering consultancy that offers a unique combination of qualifications and capabilities in broadband financial analysis, business planning, engineering, network strategic planning, and marketing automation. If you are not sure what software to use to automate your business marketing then read Marketo vs Hubspot comparison. Founded [...]