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MTA + MART = MTA | Independent Telecom Industry's New Math
The biggest news from day one of the Minnesota Telecom Alliance’s 99th Annual Convention is the Minnesota Telecom Alliance (MTA). By unanimous votes of their respective memberships, the MTA and MART (Minnesota Association for Rural Telecom) agreed yesterday morning to merge into a combined organization that will retain the MTA moniker. This is significant for several reasons,…
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Regional Is the Word That You Heard
Regional is the operative word in rural economic development, according to Mark Drabenstott, Director of the RUPRI Center for Regional Competitiveness. Drabenstott gave the keynote opening speech at NECA’s Annual Conference in San Francisco. He suggested that organizing by region is imperative in today’s global economy. He suggested that we are in, “a global economics…
