CTC Technology & Energy’s President Joanne Hovis, was featured as a guest blogger for Google on the Google Fiber blog. Joanne outlined the recommendations of our Gigabit Communities report for facilitating broadband development for local communities, seen below and at googlefiberblog.blogspot.com. “In 2009, city leaders and residents in Chattanooga made a bold decision — they built […]
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CTC Technology & Energy joined a coalition of private sector companies in urging the Kansas legislature to reject an industry-authored bill that would prohibit community broadband projects, including those in partnership with private companies. The bill would preclude almost any local broadband initiative, including those like the partnership between Kansas City and Google. This kind […]
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Last month, we published our report for Google, in which we layout the fundaments in a “How-to” strategy guide for facilitating a Gigabit Community. Since, we have received great feedback from the community including tweets from the Head of Community Affairs for Google and other industry pundits whom are promoting our work. This month, we […]
CTC Technology & Energy has helped hundreds of cities nationwide to evaluate and build the business case for municipal broadband networks. Albuquerque is the latest City to tap CTC Technology & Energy’s expertise and we are proud to work with the City. We will develop a strategy for providing a network connecting the City’s key […]
CTC Technology & Energy would like to congratulate the Kansas Hospital Education and Research Foundation (KHERF), on receiving approval from the Universal Services Administration Company to move forward with their vision of the Kansas Health-e Broadband Consortium. The Kansas Health-e Broadband Consortium is a collaboration of healthcare related organizations in Kansas developing and maintaining a dedicated broadband network […]
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The Consortium for ITS Training and Education (CITE) will once again offer Matthew DeHaven’s courses for ITS professionals in their curriculum. The two courses are managed by the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology (CATT) and are offered at the University of Maryland. Matthew DeHaven is CTC Technology & Energy’s lead network engineer and subject-matter expert […]
Local governments have long pioneered efforts to expand broadband availability and competition; for more than a decade, they have tested public projects and public–private partnerships to deliver new broadband to their citizens. As they look to the future, communities can choose to build their own broadband networks or can work toward new partnerships with private […]
The current public switched telephone network (PSTN) provides a reliable voice connection to nearly every American. Considering how important those connections are, the move by communications carriers to replace circuit-switched technology with IP technology in their wire centers raises some important issues. The option of using IP technology in the telephone network is not a […]
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Today Public Knowledge filed CTC Technology & Energy’s report on IP Transition Trials with the FCC. Read more on Jodie Griffin’s Public Knowledge Policy Blog posting, “Drilling Down the Details for Pilot Programs,” here. Follow Public Knowledge on Twitter. […]