Lessons From the Nation's Oldest Open Access Fiber Network Community Broadband Bits Podcast 279
b"Grant County's Public Utility District was, along with some nearby PUDs, among the very first deployers of Fiber-to-the-Home networks shortly after the turn of the millennium. And per Washington's law, they built an open access network that today has more than twenty service providers.Grant County PUD Project Specialist Russ Brethrower joins us for Community Broadband Bits podcast 279, a live interview from the Broadband Communities Economic Development Conference in Atlanta.\\xa0We discuss the history of the network and other observations from Russ, who has more direct experience in these networks than the vast majority of us that regularly speculate on them. We also talk about the experiences of open access over 16 years and how they financed the network.\\xa0Read the transcript for this show here.We want your feedback and suggestions for the show-please\\xa0e-mail us\\xa0or leave a comment below. This show is 23 minutes long and can be played on this page or\\xa0via iTunes\\xa0or the tool of your choice\\xa0using this feed.You can download this mp3 file directly from here. Listen to other episodes here or view all episodes\\xa0in our index.Thanks to Arne Huseby for the music. The song is\\xa0Warm Duck Shuffle\\xa0and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.Image of Deep Lake in Grant County \\xa9 Steven Pavlov\\xa0/\\xa0http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Senapa, via Wikimedia Commons."