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Open Access Networks
Allowing open access to the last mile network was one of the requirements placed upon winners of ARRA stimulus funding. In this interview, Andrew Cohill of Design Nine, Inc. talks about the track he helped assemble on the topic of “open access networks” for the 2012 Broadband Communities Summit.
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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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Donut Holes In The Land of Lincoln
After the dust settles on the transition from a POTS-centric, USF/Intercarrier Compensation to a broadband-centric/Connect America Fund approach for rural telecom, will the traditional definition of an incumbent still be valid? That is, if an entity other than the incumbent telco is already supplying broadband to a given area, should that entity be considered the…
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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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A Map that Saves $100M
Galen Updike describes the Arizona State mapping initiative to correlate the location of State highways, broadband and all the cities of 500 people or more. The idea is to make it easier to use the existing rights-of-ways to expand broadband throughout the state.
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Technology and Broadband Everywhere
Galen Updike talks about the program for the Rural Telecom Congress for the 2012. He relates a personal story of how technology and broadband are everywhere; even in the most remote and rural areas of the Philippines.
