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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…
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Championing Economic Development
Jim Baller of the Baller Herbst Law Group points out that economic development is the key motivation for the creation of broadband networks. At the 2011 Broadband Properties Summit, Baller led a track on economic development as it relates to broadband. He also discusses the role of a champion in making broadband successful in a…
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The Fiber to the Home Bounce Back
Michael Render, President of RVA, explains the uptick in fiber deployments after a couple of years of general slowdown in this interview at the 2011 Broadband Properties Summit. He cites the stimulus as one of the factors in the growth. The normal actors, such as independent telcos, are deploying fiber to the home, as well…
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Highlights from the FTTH Track Program
Steve Ross discusses highlights from the FTTH track program at the 2011 Broadband Properties Summit.
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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…
