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States and Communities Key to Unlocking New Federal Broadband Funding
The crucial role of collaboration between service providers and states in the distribution of federal broadband funding was a topic of discussion at the 2023 ACA Connects Summit. In the above interview, Greg Bathrick, AVP of Broadband Commercial Development, built on this theme stressing the need for broadband service providers (BSPs) to engage with local…
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Pollution Funding & More
Bill Ablondi of Parks Associates provides an overview of some of the key take-aways from the 2011 CONNECTIONS™ conference in Santa Clara, CA. From “Funding Pollution”, to the idea of shifting a product or service from a “nice to have” to a “must-to-have”, Ablondi provides kernels of the knowledge shared at this year’s event. ViodiTV coverage…
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Funding Unserved Broadband – A Brief Interview with Mr. Adelstein
Federal government interagency cooperation and interaction is one benefit to having a Chief Technology Officer of the United States, according to Jonathan Adelstein, Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service. When we first spoke to Adelstein at the 2008 OPASTCO Summer Convention, when he was still an FCC Commissioner, he suggested that the CTO role would…
