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Fiber Through the Decades
What happens after the budget for a broadband fiber optic last mile network is shaved because of lack of access to capital? Instead of giving up the project, Millennium Communications Group CEO Ron Cassel explains that they found creative ways to achieve the goals of an upstart, community-based fiber network, ecFiber.net, when that entity lost its planned funding…
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Ways to Bring Broadband to Rural America
How do you continue to bring broadband and fiber to rural America post-stimulus? James Salter of AEG suggests three things that policy makers should consider as they look at the best way to continue extending fiber and broadband to rural areas. He points out that this isn’t a simple issue, but believes it is just…
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Fiber Design for the New Millennium
The high-level concepts for how to deploy Fiber to the Home have been around for decades. It is the process and incremental improvements in technology that has expanded the use of fiber from specialized to mass application. We caught up with Ron Cassel of Matrix Design Group who talks about a rural Vermont fiber project…
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A Primer on a Fiber Primer
Broadband can be a powerful tool for transforming a rural community. Educating the community as to the possible benefits of a fiber rollout is a challenge. In this exclusive interview at the 2012 Broadband Communities Summit, Mark Erikson, City Administrator and Economic Development Director for the city of Winthrop, MN, describes how the Broadband Communities’ Fiber…
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The Fiber Chair
Kyle Hollifield, Chairman of the FTTH Council talks about the direction of the FTTH Council and the progress its members are making in bringing fiber to the home. He speaks from his experience as Vice President of Marketing for the BVU Authority (formerly Bristol, Virginia Utilities). BVU Authority was a pioneer as a Municipal provider…
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Stimulating and Driving the Broadband Bus
Skin in the game differentiated Farmers Mutual Telephone Company from other providers and was a key to their partnership with their local county, so says Kevin Beyer, General Manager of Farmers Mutual Telephone. For years, Farmers Mutual Telephone Company served residences in one-half of rural Lac qui Parle County . He explains the process for how…
