Table of Contents:
  • Household financing of the first 100 feet? / David Gabel and Milton Mueller
  • Delivering on the promise : scenarios for deploying local access / Braanko J. Gerovac and David C. Carver
  • First 100 feet for households : consumer adoption patterns / John Carey
  • Local wireless option / David R. Hughes
  • Rooftop community network : free, high-speed network access for communities / David A. Beyer, Mark D. Vestrich, and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
  • Use of existing electrical power lines for high-speed communications to the home / Michael Propp
  • Will satellite broadband services fulfill their promise? / Bryan Vu
  • City guide : developing, using, and regulating regional telecommunicatons networks under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 / Andrea L. Johnson
  • Power on both sides now : the critical role of electric utilities in Internet development / Steven R. Rivkin
  • Utilities unleashed : an answer to customers' Internet and broadband service needs / Bernice K. McIntyre
  • Emerging municipal information infrastructure : the Austin experience / Lon Berquist and August E. Grant.