Information About Other Fiber projects
Municipal Broadband Policy Brief
Christopher Mitchell, Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative, January 2008
Burlington Telecom Case Study
Christopher Mitchell, Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative, August 2007
Links
ValleyNet Homepage
East Central Fiber Network
(ECFiberNet)
Burlington Telecom
Documents
ECFiber issues a press release on February 8, 2008 about ECFiber receiving the support of selectboards in 24 Vermont towns.
http://www.valleyfiber.net/documents/ECFiber-release-2-8-08.pdf
ValleyNet issues a press release on October 26, 2007 about the ValleyFiber project.
http://www.valleyfiber.net/documents/ValleyNet-Press-Release-10-26-07.pdf
The Valley News published a front page story on October 11, 2007 on the work ECFiberNet and ValleyNet are doing to bring fiber to the region.
http://www.vnews.com/10112007/4281597.htm
In September 2007, The Randolph Herald published a front-page article about ValleyNet and ECFiberNet working to bring fiber to the region.
http://www.rherald.com/News/2007/0927/Front_page/f03.html
The Vermont Telecom Bill, H.248, as passed in Vermont
http://www.valleyfiber.net/draftupdate/documents/H-248-vt-telecom-bill.pdf
The BackTalk editorial page in the Valley News featured an essay in May 2007 by Stan Williams about ValleyNet's lnitiative to help towns create fiber networks. Stan Williams is the board chair of ValleyNet
http://www.vnews.com/backtalk/2007-0520/3987669.htm
The Valley News in Lebanon NH published an editorial in May 2007 on Vermont's new telecommunications authority, encouraging the construction of fiber networks in the Upper Valley based upon the Burlington Telecom model.
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Vermont's Department of Public Service released a report in February 2007 pursuant to Act 172 of the 2005-2006 Session of the Vermont General Assembly
http://publicservice.vermont.gov/Broadband/Act172FinalReport.pdf
In his January 2007 Inaugural Address, Vermont Governor Jim Douglas calls for Vermont to become "the nation's first true "e-state" - the first state to provide universal cellular and broadband coverage everywhere and anywhere within its borders".
http://governor.vermont.gov/speeches/Inauguaral-Address-2007.pdf
Michael J. Copps wrote an article titled "America's Internet Disconnect" for the Washington Post, published November 8, 2006
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/07/AR2006110701230_pf.html
