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Uniting by Fiber – #TIS2022
What started as a vision to build broadband to serve its extremely rural (think one or two homes per mile) electric cooperative territory has morphed into something bigger. United Fiber, the broadband business started by Missouri-based United Electric Cooperative, now has approximately three times as many customers as does their traditional electrical business. They have…
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Detect with Pee Tech – #CES2022
“We designed this for a 74-year-old woman,” states Olive Sensing co-founder and CEO, Guy Goldman. Speaking at CES2022, Goldman is describing a smart toilet that promises to detect health issues before they become a problem. Early detection of urinary tract infections (UTI) is the initial target of this passive approach of monitoring one’s health. Other…
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Reunion of the Work Family – #TIS22
“It is great to be back here,” says ACA Connects EVP & COO, John Higginbotham. Likening the Independent Show 2022 to a work family reunion, he describes the magic of being with and catching up with colleagues and friends from all parts of the country. Having been an attendee from the operator side of the…
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XGS PON & More at the Broadband Forum’s BASe Event at Fiber Connect 22
“GPON may be good enough, but you really have to think about 2026,” recommends Teresa McGaughey, AVP, Access and Field Marketing for Calix. Speaking at the end of the Broadband Forum’s BASe Event at Fiber Connect 22, McGaughey indicates that the steady growth in bandwidth will cause peak usage demand challenges for GPON around that…
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Doing It Her Way – A Conversation with the Chairman of the Board, Patty Boyers
Whether it is at the Independent Show or the ACA Connects Summit, a highlight of these conferences is catching up with Boycom president and ACA Connects Chairman, Patty Boyers. In the above interview, filmed at TIS22, Boyers explains why she chose the moniker, Chairman. It has been a particularly busy time for Boyers as she…
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Be the Local Broadband Professor – #TIS2022 Recap with ACA Connects’ Grant Spellmeyer
Be the local broadband professor summarizes the advice given by Rhod Shaw, Principal & Chairman of the Alpine Group, at the State and Federal update session at the 2022 Independent Show (TIS). Moderated by ACA Connects President and CEO, Grant Spellmeyer, with Shaw and Tom Cohen, Partner at Kelley Drye, serving as panelists, this panel…
