Broadband: Municipal

Gilberts, a small town of about 8,000 in north central Illinois, is at the very embryonic stages of examining a taxpayer-financed broadband buildout.

Despite Michigan’s dismal economic outlook, telecom giant AT&T has announced it has spent more than $80 million on its wireless network in the state during the first six months of 2010.

EPB Fiber Optics, the city of Chattanooga’s municipally owned fiber-to-the-premises broadband service, claims its newest iteration of free wireless service is the first in the nation to offer 1 gig