New Community Network Map Shows the Explosion of Publicly Owned Networks

In 2011, Community Networks built our first map showing where community-owned networks were around the United States. At the time, it aimed to illustrate what we knew to be true: that more than a hundred communities were choosing to fill the local broadband marketplace by building and/or operating their own networks. Now we're releasing a new version of our Community Networks Map, showing where municipal networks operate across the United States and how they are acting to bring new service and competition to places around the country. From 130 networks covering a similar number of communities in 2011, the new map shows that municipally owned Internet service providers now total more than 400 networks covering more than 700 communities.