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Comments on the National Broadband Plan
Bill Hegmann of NECA discusses the National Broadband Plan in this interview at the 2011 Minnesota Telecom Alliance Annual Convention. He points out that the majority of the un-served customers are located in price-cap areas, as opposed to the areas served by rate of return operators. He also provides details of their research, which indicates…
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Broadband Properties Playlist
Videos from the Broadband Properties Summit. Stay tuned for as we add videos to this list.
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Will the NBP Force Bankruptcies for Rural Last Mile Providers?
Although that sounds like an alarmist title, several people who work for rural operators expressed the concern that if the National Broadband Plan continues in its current direction, we may see bankruptcies of some rural telcos as early as 2012. These people also indicated that there will be significant lay-offs and continued consolidation among smaller…
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National Broadband Plan & Blocked Calls
In this video interview, Michael Romano, Senior Vice President of Policy for NTCA, discusses the broadband plan and the importance for independent communications service providers to make their voices heard in front of the FCC and Congress. He also explains the issue his members have been seeing and that NTCA is trying to document; incomplete…
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MTA 2011 Annual Convention Highlights
Highlights from the MTA 2011 Annual Convention include discussion of the broadband plan with Bill Hegmann of NECA, as well as suggestions from Mike Romano of NTCA and Randy Tyree of OPASTCO, as to what operators should be doing in Washington D.C to influence the implementation of the plan. . Brent Christensen, President of the MTA…
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Driving Demand for Broadband
You have got it; Fiber to the Home that is, now what do you do with it? In this video interview, recorded at the MTA 2011 Annual Convention, Bernadine Joselyn of the Blandin Foundation and Kevin Beyer, who wears two hats as General Manager of Federated Telephone Cooperative and Farmers Mutual Telephone Company in West…
