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Council votes 7-0 to approve the interim Broadband Master Plan tonight.

Charter Spectrum offers programs to reduce internet costs for low-income households.

The plan outlines the steps and costs for building an open-access fiber optic network that would allow internet service providers to compete for customers over the city-owned network. Users who opt in would pay the cost of building and maintaining the network that would provide users with upload and download speeds of 1,000 megabits per second for a cost ranging from $46 to $55 per month, depending on how the network is installed and how many people participate. The revised proposal includes summaries of public and private meetings and information about recently available federal funding opt...

Mayor Jim Paine plans to make fiber-optic network a priority in 2022. 11:00 am, May 6, 2021 × (Getty Images) Faster, cheaper internet for everyone is the goal behind Connect Superior, an initiative to create a publicly owned fiber-optic network across the city to connect to the world. And with the help of American Rescue Plan Act funds, that could happen sooner than city officials were thinking. Mayor Jim Paine announced plans to begin socking away seed money for the project with his 2022 budget proposal during a virtual listening session Monday, May 3. More than a dozen people...

As the percentage of take rate goes up, it dramatically reduces the cost, said Devin Cox of Entry Point Networks. “I love all the work that everyone’s put into this; don’t get me wrong,” said councilor Craig Sutherland. “I was just kind of sticker-shocked at $31 million as the price for this … if we’re going to go down this route. What’s stopping Spectrum from seeing these numbers and lowering their cost to us.” Sutherland questioned whether a scenario like that has occurred in other markets where community-owned networks were being built. Cox said it has happened before, ...