by Mark Ansboury, VP & CTO OneCommunity and Knight Center of Digital Excellence

1:00

Tim Nulty of EC Fiber in Vermont just finished sharing his thoughts on why laying fiber is cheaper than copper was 80 years ago.  He also spoke about the fact that rural communities cannot find funding and do not have the capacity to build business cases and financing.  His solution: We should reconsider business models to create an open network.

1:10

Gary Evans from Hiawatha Broadband in rural Minnesota has created a sustainable network like the network created in Cleveland by OneCommunity Hiawatha has fiber access across more than 600 square miles and are doing fiber to the premises in rural cities and expanding middle mile to connect rural communities.

1:20

Donny Smith of Jaguar Communications definition of community based broadband: build as capital is available and achievable and take the rates penetration rates up to 90%.