In 2016, the California Public Utilities Commission recommended Inyo Networks, a telecomunications company based in California, to help initiate a project to build Nicasio’s broadband service. The commission also granted to city $1.5 million, 60 percent of the total cost for the project, stating that Nicasio landowners had to raise the other 40 percent. Since then, over 50 percent of landowners contributed to the project, which has a scope of 220 customers. As the project has taken off, there are now 80 customers in Nicasio that have broadband service, and that number is expected to double by early spring. The Nicasio project is the first collaborative broadband project in the county, where nearly 4,000 locations had inadequate broadband connections in 2014.
Senate hearing on high-speed broadband internet access highlights infrastructural challenges ahead
The Senate Communications & Technology Committee hearing highlighted the many obstacles Pennsylvania faces as it seeks to improve access to high-speed broadband internet. Crown Castle representative Tom Musgrove attended the hearing to discuss the regulations hindering efforts tow...
Cell service in American Fork Canyon will be a reality by 2020
Crown Castle is partnering with the Utah Department of Transportation, the U.S. Forest Service and the National Parks Service to extend fiber optics from the base of American Fork Canyon in Utah to Tibble Fork. The fiber optic network would provide capabilities for technology like...
Santa Clarita looks to expand high-speed internet options
Santa Clarita City Council members "helped the city take a huge step forward for internet service recently with the decision to invest approximately $217,000 for ‘dark fiber,’ which has the potential to make download speed exponentially faster." The contract was awarde...
The story behind Verizon's 5G secret weapon
Light Reading published an article about Verizon’s fiber network, FiOS. The article noted that Verizon "historically has rented access to fiber from the likes of…Crown Castle…" However, Verizon’s One Fiber program "threatens to upend some of those relatio...
Crown Castle seeks FCC intervention in pole attachment beef
Insider Towers reported on Crown Castle’s complaint with the FCC against Illinois’ ComEd, saying "the utility denied it access to poles." The article specified that at issue are "red tagged" poles that ComEd asserts Crown Castle replace or reinforce. Crown Castle is ar...
City approves high-speed internet agreement
Several local outlets around the Santa Clairta, CA area reported on the City Council’s decision to award a contact to Crown Castle Fiber for more than $217K for the city to lease two dark fiber strands from its network. Nancy Starczyk, Chair of the Board of the SCV Chamber o...