An interview with Coalition for Local Internet Choice president Jim Baller about the strategies used to navigate the myriad legal and regulatory barriers involved with broadband expansion projects. Baller discusses what localities need to know to benefit from federal funding programs, engage in public-private partnerships, and avoid costly and disruptive mistakes in the early stages.

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This conversation centers on how public-private partnerships allow municipalities to combine their resources with grant money to deploy broadband during the Covid-19 pandemic. The panelists come from the public and private sectors and discuss their approaches, lessons learned, and predictions.

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This conversation focuses on how municipalities are working with private partners to deploy broadband infrastructure in the era of Covid-19. Panelists include representatives from Google Fiber, TING, C-Spire, and Fresno, California, discussing successful broadband partnerships.

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A discussion from September 2020 about how municipalities are partnering with private entities to deploy broadband infrastructure. The panelists tackle the topic from several angles, including a nonprofit that built a fiber network and sold it to a private company, providers looking for communities in which to build, and Facebook leasing its excess fiber to nonprofits and municipalities.

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This blog post examines emergency legislation passed in Arkansas in February 2021 to give local governments greater powers in speeding up the deployment and adoption of broadband. The author hopes that the bill, passed unanimously in both state houses, reflects a larger change to remove restrictions on local internet choice.

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CLIC lists summaries of laws in many states that have substantial barriers to public communications initiatives and public-private broadband partnerships. These measures include explicit prohibitions on telecommunications, cable, broadband, or combinations of these services. It argues restrictions that might appear benign can be discriminatory and prohibitory in practice.

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The City of Lincoln, Nebraska outlines a Conduit System Lease Agreement between itself and Allo Communications, LLC to occupy space in the City's Lincoln Technology Improvement District conduit system for a twenty five year term.

CLIC provides a compilation of documents about public-private partnerships (P3s) intended to add to the body of knowledge about broadband public-private partnerships. The documents are not necessarily endorsed by CLIC and may or may not reflect the views of the organization.