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LeverettNet Subject of Case Study: Bringing Municipal High-Speed Internet...
Authored by Susan Crawford and Robyn Mohr; Published by The Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University From the Executive Summary: This report provides a detailed account of the...
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LeverettNet featured in White House Report on Community-Based Broadband –...
From the Executive Office of the President: Leverett, MA saw the opportunity to build its own broadband system. In 2012, Leverett voters approved a modest property tax increase and a $3.6 million bond...
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LeverettNet featured in the Business section of The Boston Globe – June 13, 2015
In the “Beta/Boston” section: When people think of the Massachusetts tech economy, they probably don’t think of this town of 1,900 built into the woods about 10 miles north of Amherst. That could...
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LeverettNet Gets International Attention – July 22, 2015
As reported in the Greenfield Recorder and Daily Hampshire Gazette: Now that LeverettNet has been online for nearly four months — with 82 percent of the town’s 800 or so households reportedly connected...
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Broadband Communities – News & Views / Leverettnet Municipal Fiber Network...
Leverett, Mass., celebrated the launch of its new LeverettNet municipal fiber-optic broadband network, a new infrastructure project that offers gigabit-level Internet connectivity to every home and...
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Leverett celebrates fast broadband Internet – October 2, 2015
As reported in the Greenfield Recorder and Daily Hampshire Gazette: …dozens of residents … came to the Leverett Elementary School gym Friday afternoon for an event, featuring local, state and federal...
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‘Last mile’ of Internet lit up in Leverett – October 2, 2015
In the “Beta/Boston” section: Leverett has connected its citizens to MassBroadband 123, a 1,200-mile fiber-optic backbone network jointly funded by the state and the federal government. Completed early...
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MA Town Gives Itself Gigabit Fiber – October 5, 2015
From DSL Reports: Way back in 2005 we profiled the Massachusetts towns of Shutesbury and Leverett, two shining examples of the kinds of U.S. towns that have fallen into broadband connectivity black...
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LeverettNet Meets Demand for Better Connectivity in MA | community broadband...
On October 2nd, a group of residents, business owners, and educators met with elected officials to celebrate the early success of LeverettNet. The municipal gigabit fiber network now serves 650 of 800...
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Nicole LaChapelle: Launching of high-speed Internet a success story for region |
The ability for residents to access high-speed Internet these days is just as critical as it was to access phone lines or paved roads in the mid-1900s. But many rural towns in western Massachusetts...
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Broadband for the people, built by the people
On November 14, 2015, Engadget, a source of technology news, advice, and features, included Leverett in a report on municipal broadband projects around the world: …people across the world are beginning...
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Leverett municipal broadband network topic of State Department tour |...
A foreign journalist from China was among those touring this small Franklin County community Wednesday to learn about the town’s innovative municipal broadband network, a fiber optic service which...
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Leverett to reduce prices for Internet, phone service in January
LEVERETT — Already viewed as a model for how a small town can build and operate a high-speed Internet system for its residents, the Leverett Municipal Light Plant announced this week that prices for...
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Gigabit Internet Prices in This Small Town May One Day Beat Google Fiber |...
Municipal internet is alive and kicking. Access to broadband has become something of a perennial problem for far-flung rural Americans, especially poorer ones that may have been displaced from...
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Gigabites: Massachusetts Town Proves Gigabit Demand | Light Reading
Since municipal provider LeverettNet started offering gigabit broadband in April, more than four out of five households in the town have signed up for the high-speed service. Granted, the town boasts...
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After A Decade Of Waiting For Verizon, Town Builds Itself Gigabit Fiber For...
…in twenty states, your town or city wouldn’t be able to do this, since incumbent providers have quite literally paid state legislatures to write laws banning this kind of effort, even if incumbent...
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LeverettNet Launches Fiber-to-the-Home Service | BROADBAND COMMUNITIES
For a decade, while fiber to the home and high-speed cable were rolled out in the heavily populated eastern half of Massachusetts, residents of Western Massachusetts watched and waited for their turn....
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Leverett broadband setup wins innovation award | The Recorder
LEVERETT — With its 1-gigabit-per-second fiber-optic LeverettNet up and running as other towns struggle to build their last-mile connections, Leverett has received recognition from the Massachusetts...
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DHInfrastructure Produces LeverettNet Overview
In March 2016, DHInfrastructure LLC, an economic consulting firm that specializes in regulated network infrastructure, in cooperation with the Leverett Municipal Light Plant (LMLP) and the Town of...
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How Big Telecom Gets Away With Rewriting America’s Laws | Motherboard
… not every municipal broadband project has succeeded—there have been some catastrophic failures beset with scandal that have undermined the movement in general—there are many examples (Chattanooga,...
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