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Getting People to Work Together
“The thing that really pleased me is that those two mayors were willing to put aside their geographic boundaries their voting constituent boundaries and to say, ‘if we collaborate, then this entire area will benefit,’” said Hilda Legg Vice Chair of the 2013 Broadband Communities Summit and former Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service. Legg…
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Bootstrapping an All Fiber Network – Part 1
“You can’t conduct your life with dial-up; this [broadband] isn’t a luxury question,” said Dr. Tim Nulty of ecFiber.net. In part one of this two-part interview, he explains how one community is bootstrapping the creation of an all fiber network in a very rural part of Vermont. His comments, made in April 2012, were prescient…
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A Different Way of Thinking
One of the comments made by independent operators at the 2012 Broadband Communities Summit is that it was refreshing to hear different points of view. This point is touched upon in this interview with Hilda Legg, who was Co-Chair of the 2012 Broadband Communities Summit. Legg also talks about the formation of various entities to…
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The Rural Banker
For 75 years, the RUS has jump started rural water, electricity and telecom infrastructure projects. In this video interview at the 2021 Broadband Communities Summit, RUS Deputy Administrator, Jessica Zufolo, talks about the role of the RUS, the changing business environment and the importance of having advanced technology infrastructure in rural areas.
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Ensuring a Level Playing Field
How do you evaluate loan applications when as much as 25% cashflow is at risk? Hilda Legg, former RUS Administrator, asks this question with regards to the transition of USF to the Connect America Fund. In this interview Legg discusses USF, particularly from the perspective of the issues it raises for the RUS. She also…
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Funding Unserved Broadband – A Brief Interview with Mr. Adelstein
Federal government interagency cooperation and interaction is one benefit to having a Chief Technology Officer of the United States, according to Jonathan Adelstein, Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service. When we first spoke to Adelstein at the 2008 OPASTCO Summer Convention, when he was still an FCC Commissioner, he suggested that the CTO role would…
