This report includes case studies from four Native Nations that created their own internet service providers. It includes a discussion of challenges to building internet infrastructure that are unique to Tribal communities, and includes best practices for Native Nations, lending institutions, and the federal government when it comes to Tribal connectivity.

This paper provides a case study of how the city of Ammon, Idaho leveraged its fiber network and network virtualization technology to create a competitive local broadband environment.

This collocation of resources focuses specifically on open access networks. It includes definitions, case studies, financing information, and many other resources.

This research uses federal broadband data to analyze the status of broadband competition throughout the U.S.

This blog from June 2020 argues for the creation of a broadband competition policy agenda and details how governments can specifically encourage competition. The author recommends five methods: focus federal dollars on higher speeds than 25/3 Mbps, encourage concepts like open-access and municipal experimentation, allow people living in multi-tenant buildings to choose providers, empower community institutions to allow private ISPs to use their buildings to branch out into neighborhoods, and gather pricing data to help consumers make better choices.

This report shows how the United States is behind other developed countries when it comes to gigabit speed broadband, both in terms of coverage and adoption. The piece examines why public intervention has not led to better results, with a focus on the need for the country to move from vertically integrated operators to wholesale fiber networks that lease capacity to service providers.

This tool from Pew Charitable Trust provides mapping showing how states have expanded access to broadband through legislation.

The Milken Institute’s Best-Performing Cities (BPC) Index provides a means to compare metropolitan areas’ performance in terms of investment and policy choices. This 2021 version emphasizes jobs, wages, and high-technology growth, while also measuring housing affordability and household broadband access.

Maryland’s Task Force on Rural Internet, Broadband, Wireless and Cellular Service provides this report of recommendations to address broadband access in unserved and underserved areas of the state. Chief recommendations focus on implementing legislation that allows electric utility easements and rights-of-way to be used for broadband, providing support for additional resources, and working with the state's congressional delegation to increase federal grant funding or matching funds.

This report explores state broadband policy in North Carolina and examines its effects on competition. The report finds that rural communities in North Carolina see less investment and less competition than their urban counterparts and that cooperatives are responsible for many of the rural broadband successes in the state.

This resource showcases the diverse range of approaches communities and local internet service providers (ISP) have taken to expand affordable, high-quality internet access in Minnesota. It includes a series of case studies that detail how communities are meeting the connectivity challenges of a broken marketplace shaped by large monopoly service providers.

This podcast episode explores the topic of competition in the context of telecommunications regulation. Specifically, state regulations and federal preemption of state actions are discussed.

An article that offers recommendations for a comprehensive, national broadband strategy to ensure everyone in America can access high-performance broadband as soon as possible. These recommendations highlight actions that can be taken by the Biden Administration, Congress, and the FCC.

This blog details examples of limited broadband competition and its impact on pricing for customers. People with only one or two broadband providers have no choice but to pay high monopoly or duopoly prices. Local communities should have the freedom to help their people fully participate in a broadband world, which cannot be accomplished with the lack of competition.

This blog offers seven ways for governments to tackle the broadband affordability challenge in America, as cost is a primary reason people do not subscribe to broadband. The author offers such recommendations as spurring competition, protecting and strengthening Lifeline, helping subsidize programs for low-income people, and educating and protecting consumers.