- February 2, 2021: City appoints members to new broadband advisory group
- August 27, 2020: City seeks members for Broadband Advisory Workgroup
- August 19, 2020: City Council to consider workgroup to study municipal broadband
- February 22, 2021: City Council Regular Meeting – Staff present a Broadband Advisory Workgroup Resolution Amendment to record meetings during COVID
- January 12, 2021: City Council Regular Meeting Action Summary – Mayor’s Appointments of Members of the Broadband Advisory Group
- January 11, 2021: Agenda Bill 22869 – Mayor’s appointments of members of the Broadband Advisory Group
- August 31, 2020: Resolution 2020-31 – Broadband Advisory Workgroup resolution, signed
- August 24, 2020: Agenda Bill 22007 – Broadband Advisory Workgroup resolution
- November 18, 2019: Agenda Bill 22007 – Community broadband update, draft RFP for business plan
- December 10, 2018: Agenda Bill 22154 – Bid award for Roeder Avenue project; bid alternate for City conduit was not funded; Port of Bellingham bid alternate for conduit was funded by the Port. Bid Cost was $120/ft.
- July 23, 2018: Agenda Bill 21937 – Dig Once Policy: Discussion on draft policy, cost estimate for conduit installation on Roeder Avenue, direction to secure bid for conduit on Roeder Avenue project
- April 23, 2018: Agenda Bill 21937 – Dig Once Policy: Discussion on draft policy
- November 13, 2017: Agenda Bill 21789 – Review of broadband initiatives by Chris Mitchell, Institute for Self Reliance
- March 27, 2017: Agenda Bill 21560 – Status of Bellingham Public Fiber network
- Emergency Broadband Benefit | Federal Communications Commission (fcc.gov)
- 2020 Broadband Deployment Report | Federal Communications Commission (fcc.gov)
- FCC Announces Start Date of May 12, 2021 for Emergency Broadband Benefit Program
- Emergency Broadband Benefit Application Page (GetEmergencyBroadband.org)
- Emergency Broadband Benefit Program Enrollments and Claims Tracker – Universal Service Administrative Company (usac.org)
- Washington Statewide Broadband Act – Washington State Department of Commerce – “Statewide Broadband – A collaborative Act”
- Washington State Broadband Office 2020 Report
- Washington State Senate: CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5511 Chapter 365, Laws of 2019 66th Legislature 2019 Regular Session BROADBAND INTERNET SERVICE ACCESS
- Voice and high-speed broadband support coming to rural Washington
- Port of Bellingham RFP – “Whatcom County Rural Broadband Dark Fiber Project” – issued Jan 2020
- City of Seattle Feasibility Study Final Report
- City of Decorah RFP – Fiber to the Premise Feasibility Study
- City of Stillwater Utilities Authority RFQ
- HR Green – City of Stillwater Broadband Network Utility Feasibility Study
- Magellan Advisors – City of Stillwater Feasibility Study
- Greene County Broadband RFP
- Pope County Broadband Feasibility Study
- City of Spring Hill Broadband Feasibility Study
- The New York City Internet Master Plan
- High Speed Fiber Optic Network Study – Falmouth EDIC
- Whatcom County Executive Memo re ARPA Funding Framework and Uses
Resources and Studies
- What is 10GbE and What Can You Do with It?
- Map of City of Bellingham Unused Dark Fiber Strand Counts
- Find Internet Providers in Your Area (broadbandnow.com)
- Community-Owned Fiber Networks: Value Leaders in America
- A Financial Assessment of Municipal Fiber in the U.S.
- Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act
- Municipal Fiber in the United States: An Empirical Assessment of Financial Performance
- US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has released a new interactive map as a reference tool. Visit https://broadbandusa.ntia.gov/indicatorsmap to see what the map shows for your community.
News Articles
- Prioritization of municipal broadband leaves unserved communities behind
- Comcast working toward 10Gbps to your home
- Apple hiring engineers to develop 6G wireless
- Municipal broadband offers hope for lagging US internet
- Nokia and Vodafone demonstrate 100-Gbps fiber broadband in new trial
- Chattanooga: The first 10-gigabit internet city
- Affordable, Accessible Internet for All (AAIA) Act sets positive standards by requiring local approval of federally funded projects
- Coosa Valley Electric Cooperative brings fiber to rural Alabama
- The best broadband in the U.S. is in Chattanooga, TN
- Knoxville knocking on door to be Tennessee’s next gig city
- Why cable hates Biden’s $100B internet plan
- Clallam County, Port of Port Angeles to form broadband authority
- When it comes to municipal broadband, this Washington state utility was way ahead of the game – GeekWire
- ISPs are using the Emergency Broadband Benefit to push Americans onto new data plans – The Washington Post
- Two South Carolina Cooperatives Bring Broadband to Blue Ridge
- A Wave (of Fiber) Crests Across Maryland’s Eastern Shore
- Wi-Fi 7 is Coming – key feature of Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon Connect premium brand
- ‘Quantum Internet’ Inches Closer with Advance in Data Teleportation
