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July 1, 2011

Syracuse Community Broadband Initiative is the new name of the project. This was done because the use of "municipal" seemed to create a number of misconceptions in the minds of some institutional leaders. We used the term "municipal" generically to mean community-owned, and community ownership and control is what we wish to emphasize.

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July 1, 2010

Clearwire today announced the launch of its 4G mobile broadband service for businesses and consumers in Rochester and Syracuse, New York. Designed to deliver the Internet at speeds four times faster than 3G, CLEAR is priced comparably to many wireless broadband plans, but has no usage caps.

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May 6, 2010

According to The Syracuse Post-Standard, Clearwire, in partnership with Sprint and Time Warner Cable, will begin offering 4G (WIMAX) mobile broadband service in Syracuse later this summer. Judging from Clearwire's website, www.clear.com, the service is expected to provide 1.5Mbps download and 0.5Mbps upload speeds starting at around $30/mo.

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April 6, 2010

Today, the Syracuse Post-Standard reported that Syracuse will not get Verizon FiOS service. Verizon may provide FiOS Internet service to parts of Syracuse's eastside where the buildout is apparently more complete. But it won't pursue a Video Franchise with the city, so TV service will not be available.

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March 27, 2010

Syracuse is the latest Time Warner Cable city getting the benefits of increased speed from Time Warner Cable’s DOCSIS 3 Wideband upgrade. Rochester is not, apparently because Verizon FiOS has not entered Rochester, thus not creating the need for Time Warner Cable to upgrade it's network to remain competitive---as it had to do in Syracuse.

See the full article: http://stopthecap.com

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February 16, 2010

On February 16 in the Common Council Chambers, Sue Buske presented the Community Needs Assessment Report prepared by The Buske Group in conjunction with the City's Cable Franchise Agreement.

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November 21, 2009

An article on municipal ownership of cable, franchise renewal, and SMBI from The City Eagle.

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November 16, 2009

To prepare for negotiating a cable franchise renewal with Time Warner Cable (TWC), the city of Syracuse hired Sue Buske of The Buske Group, Inc. to perform a needs assessment for community broadband services. A large component of this was a series of six public workshops in which participants expressed their views,concerns, and desires regarding the cultural and economic development of Syracuse, and how public access to our local broadband infrastructure can strengthen the community.

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July 18, 2009

A common description of Net Neutrality goes something like this one from Google...

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May 22, 2009

We have created a rationale and proposal document describing the Syracuse Community Broadband Initiative in greater detail. You will find the HTML and PDF versions here. This will probably be a "living" document, updated over time as the project evolves.

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