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It’s All About the Information Economy #TIS17
“It is all about the information economy and we have got to make sure that everyone in this country has access to the Internet,” states Representative Susan Brooks (R-IN). Speaking at The Independent Show, Brooks describes the diverse nature of her district which ranges from rural to suburban to urban and covers eight Indiana counties.…
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Google – “Talk to Us”
What is Google’s motivation for discontinuing its Google Apps Partners Edition™ program? In this video interview, filmed at the 2014 NTCA Fall Conference, WCVT’s Kurt Gruendling asks that question of Google. Many operators want to know the answer to that question, as none that I have spoken to regarding this topic want to disrupt their customers’…
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Act Together to Generate Supply and Demand
“We are teaching our rural regions to help themselves,” said Galen Updike, past-president of the Rural Telecommunications Congress. He suggests that rural communities need to work together regionally to aggregate demand to attract broadband. He points out that there is no cookie-cutter approach, but one commonality is the feet on the street in the community…
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Fiber Network Powering Broadband & Now Video
The juxtaposition of a fiber optic cable on a dirt road paints the picture of many parts of rural America and glimpses of the stark contrast in infrastructures can be seen in the above video. With 1,300 miles of recently deployed fiber and an average of 2.5 customers per mile, United Electric Cooperative is providing broadband…
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3 Tips for Building Community Broadband – Part 2
In part 2 of this two-part interview, Dr. Tim Nulty suggests that those wishing to replicate ecFiber.net‘s rural broadband network build-out should follow these three basic steps: Develop a lean business plan and and a lean network. Organize an institution that can implement the plan and maintain the network. He describes an interesting public-private partnership to…