Upgrade Cambridge

Upgrade Cambridge is a grassroots organization seeking equitable digital access in Cambridge through municipal broadband.

[Upgrade Cambridge @UpgradeCambMA]

Cambridge City Council Broadband roundtable is about to start!

[Upgrade Cambridge @UpgradeCambMA]

The FY23 #CambMA proposed budget includes a line item for a “Digital Equity / Broadband Project Manager” which is a significant step forward towards both Digital Equity and municipal broadband.

[Cambridge Day @CambridgeDay]

Opinion from from Upgrade Cambridge (@UpgradeCambMA): A municipal broadband “feasibility study” is tilted against the success of the project it’s set up to assess

Read the essay at https://t.co/j7niwk4YN1. #CambMA #cambpoli (Photo: Dugg Simpson via Flickr)

[Upgrade Cambridge @UpgradeCambMA]

#CambMA has, without any public statement, launched a municipal broadband feasibility study, but one that seems tilted against actually deciding to do municipal broadband. And the City’s lack of preparation will land in the lap of the next Manager.

https://t.co/ZfNJBJOV4k

[Upgrade Cambridge @UpgradeCambMA]

Five years ago today, the #CambMA City Manager’s Broadband Task Force submitted its report to then City Manager Rossi, and Manager Designee Louis DiPasquale. We unanimously called for a broadband feasibility study an a plan to mitigate digital inquiry. We’re still waiting.

[Upgrade Cambridge @UpgradeCambMA]

When #CambMA is to the right of Charlie Baker.

[Chuck Sherwood @ChuckSherwood1]

MA Gov. Baker Visits Becket To Laud Municipal Broadband Network https://t.co/Qf3twL1STK

[Upgrade Cambridge @UpgradeCambMA]

Yes, yes we do.

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

"We need to level the playing field and make broadband affordable for everyone.

An infrastructure bill that ignores civil rights' leaders' call for a permanent broadband benefit will fail to meet the vision of equity and inclusion which President Biden has laid out."

[Upgrade Cambridge @UpgradeCambMA]

In his opposition to municipal broadband, the #CambMA City Manager takes the position of Congressional Republicans while @UpgradeCambMA sounds like Joe Biden’s Whitehouse.

Why is Republican telecommunications policy good enough for Cambridge?

https://t.co/Aamd8lJ7mr

[Upgrade Cambridge @UpgradeCambMA]

In his opposition to municipal broadband, the #CambMA City Manager takes the position of Congressional Republicans while @UpgradeCambMA sounds like Joe Biden’s Whitehouse.

Why is Republican telecommunications policy good enough for Cambridge?

https://t.co/Aamd8lJ7mr

[Upgrade Cambridge @UpgradeCambMA]

This is our complete lack of surprise.

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

NEW (via NY AG Letitia James): “After a multi-year investigation, we found the nation's largest broadband companies funded a secret campaign to influence the FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules — resulting in millions of fake public comments impersonating Americans...”

[Upgrade Cambridge @UpgradeCambMA]

The revised press release links to the City’s RFP for “21st Century Broadband” which does not actually include a municipal broadband feasibility study. No word on whether the RFP will be withdrawn and “corrected” as well. #CambMA

[Upgrade Cambridge @UpgradeCambMA]

#CambMA silently corrects its misrepresentations of its Digital Equity Study. The study calls for what @UpgradeCambMA has been calling for: a municipal broadband feasibility study. The City press release misrepresented that as an exploration of options. 1/2

[Upgrade Cambridge @UpgradeCambMA]

The revised press release links to the City’s RFP for “21st Century Broadband” which does not actually include a municipal broadband feasibility study. No word on whether the RFP will be withdrawn and “corrected” as well. #CambMA

[Upgrade Cambridge @UpgradeCambMA]

#CambMA silently corrects its misrepresentations of its Digital Equity Study. The study calls for what @UpgradeCambMA has been calling for: a municipal broadband feasibility study. The City press release misrepresented that as an exploration of options. 1/2

[Upgrade Cambridge @UpgradeCambMA]

#CambMA releases 280-page digital equity study, calling for a broad initiative to combat digital inequality and a municipal broadband feasibility study

https://t.co/BYi8mss6u4

[John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson]

After months of delay, @cambma's PIO tells me that they will be releasing the much-promised Digital Equity Report on Tuesday April 20.

I wonder what the significance of that date is.

cc @UpgradeCambMA

[Patricia Nolan @PattyNolan1]

Let’s go @CambMA @UpgradeCambMA @NextCentCit we should be leaders and innovative.

[Patricia Nolan @PattyNolan1]

Let’s go @CambMA @UpgradeCambMA

[Upgrade Cambridge @UpgradeCambMA]

The @bostonglobe & @hannaskrueger on economic disparities & digital equity in #CambMA

Sadly, it’s worse. Cambridge had free wifi in apartments there that it abandoned, replaced, abandoned again, then removed. Then it held a party celebrating Google/MIT.

https://t.co/m6X3sVvGgX

[Upgrade Cambridge @UpgradeCambMA]

“When Local Governments Invest in Community Broadband, We All Win”

In #CambaMA, our local government invests in creating obstacles to even understanding the feasibility of this option.

https://t.co/wr2g2UWHbR