Madison Starts Muni Fiber Effort, Considers Citywide Effort Community Broadband Bits Podcast 227
The second-largest city in Wisconsin and the home of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is pursuing a path-breaking municipal Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) strategy. They have already started by deploying fiber to several low-income neighborhoods and working with local ISP\xa0ResTech\xa0to offer services.Madison CIO Paul Kronberger joins us for Community Broadband Bits episode 227 to discuss their plan. We start by discussing how they decided to deploy FTTH as a digital divide strategy. Like more and more of the communities considering this approach, Madison does not have a municipal electric utility.We also discuss how Madison plans to deal with the state law that limits municipal fiber network investments and why Madison has decided to work with a private provider even though the city will retain ownership of the network. Read more of\xa0Madison coverage here.Read the transcript of the show here.We want your feedback and suggestions for the show-please\xa0e-mail us\xa0or leave a comment below.This show is 18 minutes long and can be played below on this page or\xa0via iTunes\xa0or via the tool of your choice using\xa0this feed.You can\xa0download this mp3 file directly from here. Listen to\xa0other episodes here\xa0or\xa0view all episodes in our index.Thanks to\xa0mojo monkeys\xa0for the music, licensed using Creative Commons. The song is "Bodacious."