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Gigabit in the Cowboy State
Reinvesting in their community is what differentiates independent operators from their competition. Silver Star Communications, which serves northwestern Wyoming and eastern Idaho, exemplifies the difference a local operator can make. It was an honor to spend the day with Silver Star Communications as they launched the first Gigabit communities in Wyoming. In the above interview,…
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Real Facts About Broadband Are Needed
Jane Patterson of Jane Patterson and Associates discusses the recently released research report from the NC Broadband’s organized Broadband Research Roundtable. One of the conclusions of this report is that there needs to be: A shared repository of case study-based and other impact evaluation studies would help accelerate the collective understanding of impacts, innovation in…
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Bootstrapping an All Fiber Network – Part 1
“You can’t conduct your life with dial-up; this [broadband] isn’t a luxury question,” said Dr. Tim Nulty of ecFiber.net. In part one of this two-part interview, he explains how one community is bootstrapping the creation of an all fiber network in a very rural part of Vermont. His comments, made in April 2012, were prescient…
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Days of the Fiber Future Are Past
Congratulations to Diane Kruse of NEO fiber for her appointment as the chairperson for the 2013 Broadband Communities Summit. Kruse is well qualified for this role, as she was chairperson of the FTTH Council and has formed several start-ups associated with and been involved in multiple fiber deployments. ViodiTV has covered the BBC Summit for Broadband…
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Sustainable Broadband
In this interview, filmed at the 2012 Broadband Communities Summit, we caught up with Lawrence Strickling, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information NTIA United States Department of Commerce, Lawrence Strickling. Strickling faced Congressional critics Congress today as he discussed the progress and effectiveness of the NTIA’s stimulus efforts. In this brief interview, he discusses the next phase, which is…
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Ensuring a Level Playing Field
How do you evaluate loan applications when as much as 25% cashflow is at risk? Hilda Legg, former RUS Administrator, asks this question with regards to the transition of USF to the Connect America Fund. In this interview Legg discusses USF, particularly from the perspective of the issues it raises for the RUS. She also…
