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    • Citizens Take Charge: Concord, Massachusetts, Builds a Fiber Network 

      Talbot, David A.; Warner, Waide; Crawford, Susan Patricia; White, Jacob (The Municipal Fiber Project. Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2017)
      This report describes a multi-year effort by the town of Concord, Massachusetts, to establish a robust and versatile communications infrastructure to better serve its citizens. The town’s municipal utility, Concord Municipal ...
    • Holyoke: A Massachusetts Municipal Light Plant Seizes Internet Access Business Opportunities 

      Talbot, David A.; Warner, Waide; Anderson, Carolyn; Hessekiel, Kira H.; Jones, Daniel (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2015)
      This case study documents the success of a municipally-owned electric utility in providing Internet access services. Massachusetts has 41 such “munis” –- serving more than 900,000 people and thousands of businesses -– but ...
    • WiredWest: a Cooperative of Municipalities Forms to Build a Fiber Optic Network 

      Talbot, David A.; Warner, Waide; Crawford, Susan Patricia (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2016)
      This report describes WiredWest, a cooperative formed by towns in rural western Massachusetts. WiredWest has put forward a detailed proposal to provide “last-mile” high-speed Internet access connections to homes and ...