Surveying the Scene

As our collective fiscal belts tighten, it's ever more important to find ways to rejuvenate economic development in our communities. Improved communications infrastructures will help municipalities and businesses compete in the global marketplace.

As we near the end of 2008, we at Last Mile thought it was time to take stock of broadband deployments throughout the United States. In so doing, my colleagues and I have developed a Municipal Broadband Survey that we hope will give us a good reading of the state of broadband network design and deployments.

If your community is in the midst of planning and/or deploying a broadband network, please click on the link above. In addition, if you know of any community that is considering broadband, please let us know or send them our way.

The results of this survey, which we'll compile for the November/December issue, will be helpful to municipalities and industry experts alike as we close 2008 and prepare for 2009.

Take the Last Mile Municipal Broadband Survey and then let us know your thoughts on the state of broadband deployment in the comments.