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ViodiTV Soundbites with Shirley Bloomfield on Rural Broadband Success
This collection of clips from ViodiTV interviews with @NTCA’s Shirley Bloomfield traces her prescient vision—from her 2012 predictions about the power of local providers to the 99.8% connectivity successes during the pandemic. Discover the strategic technical conviction (fiber, not ‘pixie dust’), the tactical problem-solving, and the personal leadership style—including her favorite four-legged coworker—that have shaped…
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Connecting and Collaborating at SRC Live and Beyond
Video Summary “What we are trying to do here at this meeting [SRC Live] is to connect all the dots,” explains NTCA CEO, Shirley Bloomfield, in the above video. SRC Live is about communications, collaboration, and sharing best practices between NTCA Smart Community members. It is about learning how to maximize the value of the…
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Local Makes the Difference
“Regardless of your corporate structure, whether you are cooperative, you’re a family held your locally held, the fact that you are local is really what makes the difference,” says Shirley Bloomfield, NTCA CEO. Speaking at Fiber Connect 2021, it is encouraging to Bloomfield that the White House is talking about the importance of local entities…
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Prospects of Long-Term Virtual Governance & More – A ViodiTV Real-Time Conversation
COVID-19 will change everything, including how society is governed. Shirley Bloomfield, NTCA CEO, saw a glimpse of how things might change with NTCA’s recent virtual legislative conference. Joining Shirley to discuss her impressions of how that event went, is communications and outreach expert, Tanya Sullivan, president and CEO of Plus One Strategic Communications. The upshot…
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Wireless Needs Fiber, Not Pixie Dust
“It’s very difficult for policy makers to keep up with what the industry is actually doing,” said Shirley Bloomfield, CEO of NTCA. The implication is that it is unclear how rules will change due to slow reaction of policy makers to fast-moving innovation. As a result, operators face uncertainty, which, to some extent, holds back…
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Comments on a Conversation with an FCC Commissioner
FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn made a virtual appearance at the 2013 MTA Annual Convention. In this interview, NTCA president and CEO Shirley Bloomfield recaps the conversation that she and MTA president/CEO, Brent Christensen, had with Commissioner Clyburn. Regulatory uncertainty caused by the FCC order, naked DSL, call completion, the importance of fiber to making wireless work, small…
