Archive
Everything on this site, in one list
Twenty-six pieces across four sections. The sections themselves are laid out properly; this page is the plain list.
The money, and where it stalled
- 01$42.45 Billion Appropriated, Ground Not Yet Broken
- 02Twenty-Three Million Households, Then the Funding Ran Out
- 03Every State Has a Plan. Not Every Plan Has Broken Ground.
- 04The FCC Moved the Bar to 100/20 in 2024
- 05What the Map Says an Address Has, and How to Dispute It
- 06E-Rate Has Been Wiring Schools Since 1997
Towns that built it themselves
- 07EPB Switched On a Citywide Fibre Utility in 2010, and the Argument Did Not Stop
- 08Wilson Built Greenlight, Then North Carolina Wrote a Law About It
- 09Lafayette's Power Company Became Its Internet Provider
- 10Fort Collins Put Broadband to a Vote in 2017
- 11Ammon Owns the Strand and Lets Providers Compete on It
- 12Roughly Twenty States Restrict What a Town Can Do With a Fibre Strand
- 13The Co-op Already Had the Poles
- 14Tribal Nations and the Separate Funding Track
Skokie and the North Shore
The technology underneath
- 20Three Ways to Wire a Block, and Why They Are Not Equivalent
- 21Cable Was Designed to Send Far More Than It Receives
- 22Starlink's Published Numbers, Against the FCC Definition
- 23T-Mobile and Verizon Arrived at the Fixed-Wireless Market From the Wrong Direction
- 24A Device and a Place to Use It Are a Separate Problem From the Line in the Street
- 25What the Speed-Test Data Actually Measures, and What It Misses
- 26The Institute for Local Self-Reliance Has Been Counting Since Before It Was Fashionable