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Navigating Rural Broadband Funding in a Sea of Uncertainty – #TIS22
“We actually saw a pretty sizable, almost 30% increase in prices for all of our equipment,” says Ross Petrick, GM & CEO of Garretson, South Dakota-based, Alliance Communications. Speaking at the 2022 Independent Show, Petrick explains some of the financial challenges of expanding broadband to unserved households in rural South Dakota. At almost $7,700 per…
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A Residential Gateway App Store & More
Containers – those packages of software that contain all of the necessary elements to run in any environment – are often associated with the rise of the cloud. In the above interview, filmed at Fiber Connect 2022, Craig Thomas discusses the Broadband Forum’s initiative to standardize software containerization on the residential gateway within the home.…
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Independents Fiber & More at The Independent Show – #TIS22
The first statewide fiber network that brings together the fiber of independent local exchange carriers and electric cooperatives is how Rob Shema, CEO of CNI, describes Hoosier Net. Independents Fiber Network, a wholly owned subsidiary of CNI, is one of the members. Hoosier Net is modeled on Ohio-based Independents Fiber Network in that it will…
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Inspiring Intrepreneurship at The Cable Center
Inspiring individuals to be entrepreneurs within an organization is one of the ways The Cable Center is helping move the telecom industry forward. Speaking at the 2022 Independent Show, The Cable Center President and CEO, Diane Christman introduces Camilla Formica, who is The Cable Center’s newly appointed Chief Program Officer. In that role, Formica is…
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Fiber Connect 2022 Insight from the Broadband Ambassadors’ Broadband Ambassador
“We consider our members as broadband ambassadors,” says Matt Polka, outgoing president and CEO of ACA Connects. Echoing comments he made earlier on a Fiber Connect 2022 panel with leaders of other trade associations, Polka emphasizes the importance of efforts by broadband service providers to help customers understand the value of and unlock the benefits…
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Behind the Bot at the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference
Building on the theme of the 2022 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, Joseph Wei describes how a bot with a voice and image synthesized from a human is serving up a promotional message for this year’s conference. Wei, who is the 2022 IEEE GHTC Sponsorship Chair, explains that this technique allows him to tailor the…
