Illinois Munis Partner with Local ISP for Gigabit Network Community Broadband Bits Episode 160
b'The southern Illinois cities of Urbana and Champaign joined the University of Illinois in seeking and winning a broadband stimulus award to build an open access urban FTTH network. After connecting some of the most underserved neighborhoods, the Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband (UC2B) network looked for a partner to expand the network to the entire community.\\n\\nIn this week\'s Community Broadband [no-glossary]Bits[/no-glossary] podcast, we talk with UC2B Board Chair Brandon Bowersox Johnson and the private partner iTV-3\'s VP and Chief Operating Officer Levi Dinkla. The local firm, iTV-3, already had a strong reputation as an Internet Service Provider as well as operating other lines of business as well. \\n\\nIn our conversation, we talk about iTV-3\'s commitment to customer service, their expansion plan, and how the network remains open access. Read our continuing coverage of UC2B here. See the neighborhood signups here.\\n\\nRead the transcript from this show here.\\n\\nWe want your feedback and suggestions for the show - please e-mail us or leave a comment below. \\n\\nThis show is 20 minutes long and can be played below on this page or via iTunes or via the tool of your choice using this feed. \\n\\nListen to other episodes here or view all episodes in our index. You can can download this Mp3 file directly from here.\\n\\nThanks to bkfm-b-side for the music, licensed using Creative Commons. The song is "Raise Your Hands."'