Regulatory

Municipal Broadband

Many municipalities across the country are deploying next-generation, high-bandwidth telecommunications networks as a means of stimulating economic growth and development. The FTTH Council takes the position that any entity that wants to deploy FTTH should be permitted to do so, and so it opposes the efforts of some states to frustrate these efforts by local governments.

News

Dec 19, 2011 — Chattanooga today announced a new initiative to recruit the Nation’s top tech talent for the Gig... Read More >>
Jun 24, 2011 — (From Time magazine) Last year, when Google announced it wanted to build and test-drive a new hyper... Read More >>
Apr 25, 2011 — LAFAYETTE, LA – The successful deployment of the LUS Fiber city-wide Fiber-To-The-Home and Business... Read More >>

Resources

Dec 23, 2009 — The Fiber-to-the-Home Council commissioned the research firm RVA LLC to study all 57 municipal FTTH... Read More >>
Nov 9, 2009 — In these comments, the FTTH Council argues that the National Broadband Plan should specifically... Read More >>
Oct 21, 2009 — A growing number of municipal governments are taking it upon themselves to build FTTH networks... Read More >>