Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This bill is tangential to broadband but could relate directly to cable franchising, which does connect it to broadband. Minnesota House reports Nadeau, Norris and Carroll introduced: HF. 1740, A bill for an act relating to arts and cultural heritage; appropriating money for community cable television programming.

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Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

653, A bill for an act relating to agriculture; transferring money into the agriculture research, education, extension, and technology transfer (AGREETT) account; appropriating money for the agriculture research, education, extension, and technology transfer grant program and farm business management challenge grants; requiring reports.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program was poised to be a major force in closing the digital divide in the United States. billion allocated to expand broadband infrastructure in underserved regions, the initiative held great promise for connecting millions of Americans to high-speed internet.

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Blandin on Broadband

JANUARY 24, 2025

The National Conference of State Legislatures has a slick Broadband Policy Toolkit … This NCSL toolkit covers the state policy landscape and considerations to address broadband deployment, adoption and affordability, and provides a wide variety of resources for policymakers, including legislative tracking, issue briefs and podcasts.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 27, 2025

A world without broadband internet. Whether it’s accessing education, telehealth, government services or economic opportunity, the internet is an integral part of our lives. The Office of Broadband Access and Expansion is asking the legislature to appropriate $70 million to expedite satellite connections across New Mexico.

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Rural Broadband Association

MARCH 11, 2025

In 1947, she encouraged her husband Joe to pursue ownership of the Miltonvale Telephone Company, helped secure financing for the acquisition, and then managed the office, handled billing, recordkeeping, service orders and customer payments all by hand. Elizabeth Luanne Silkwood , the granddaughter of Ponderosa (ONeals, Calif.)

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Though Northampton, Massachusetts residents still broadly support the construction of a city-owned municipal fiber broadband network, city officials are celebrating the arrival of Gateway Fiber, which will soon be delivering a more affordable fiber option, and more broadband competition, to the traditionally underserved city.

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Blandin on Broadband

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Miller: The IT field in Minnesota is thriving, with strong demand across various sectors, including healthcare, finance, manufacturing and retail. Miller: Investing in robust digital infrastructure, such as high-speed internet, is critical for rural communities from supporting remote work and digital education to telehealth services.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Frustrated by years of substandard broadband service from regional telecom incumbents, Kendall County, Illinois residents have joined the growing chorus of Americans that are tackling the problem head on by building their own better, faster, more affordable fiber networks.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Under this model, multiple ISPs can offer services over the same broadband infrastructure. The Fiber Broadband Association is the voice of fiber. Using an active ethernet infrastructure and operating at the wholesale level, UTOPIA Fiber supports open access and promotes competition in all broadband and telecommunications services.

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US Telecom

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

That’s why the broadband industry is committed to investing billions of dollars every year to provide connectivity across the education, government, health, finance, energy, transportation, and public safety sectors and to millions of households. communications infrastructure is integral to every facet of American life.

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Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

in healthcare, education, and the labor market. According to the website The Brattle Group answers complex economic, finance, and regulatory questions for corporations, law firms, and governments around the world. However, the program expired in May 2024 due to a lack of funding. Who are the Brattle Group?

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Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Finance & Commerce reports St. Its going to be a pipeline for the educational-industrial skill base. We want this to be kind of the latest and greatest, the premier aerospace testing complex site, Meier said. We see this creating jobs, creating other businesses around us.

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Blandin on Broadband

AUGUST 28, 2024

Domenech, Executive Director, American Association of School Administrators) [2] [1] 47 CFR § 54.703(c). [2] 2] Pursuant to section 54.703(c)(2) of the Commission’s rules, each nomination must be captioned: “In the Matter of: Nomination for Universal Service Administrative Company Board of Directors, CC Docket Nos. 97-21 and 96-45.” [3]

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 31, 2025

White Paper Protecting The Nation's Critical Communications Infrastructure From Theft & Vandalism Learn More White Paper Provided by NCTA, CTIA, USTelecom, The Rural Broadband Association: The U.S. Education: The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of internet connectivity for remote learning.

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ersi

MARCH 4, 2020

Before GIS, our company was slow to tell a prospective customer their max broadband speeds or what services we could offer. With a simple polygon query, each customer service rep now knows immediately up front what technology will be used to serve the customer and therefore the max broadband speed and additional services.

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 5, 2025

The MN House Ag, Finance and Policy committee heard about HF47 : Provisions governing the certification of underground telecommunications installers modified. Agriculture Finance and Policy Chair: Rep. We want to keep people safe and have broadband. Q: The bigger question is can we meet the broadband building deadline?

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Blandin on Broadband

AUGUST 7, 2024

On the finance side, Walz has signed into law state loan forgiveness programs and has worked on increased funding for education.

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 11, 2025

The League of MN Cities reports… Building on last sessions momentum to update Minnesotas cable act, lawmakers have reintroduced the Equal Access to Broadband Act in both the House and Senate. Funding bill for PEG stations introduced In addition to the Equal Access to Broadband Act, HF 1740 , authored by Rep.

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 20, 2025

Today, the MN House Health Finance and Policy Committee talked about HF1289: HF1289 (Stephenson); Social media platforms required to post a mental health warning label and timer notifications. The bill was sent to the House Health Finance and Policy Committee. Minnesota House reports Rep. Stephenson said the average teenager spends 4.8

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 13, 2025

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Agriculture Finance and Policy. Office of Broadband Development and Digital Equity ; deployment data. Disclosure of deployment data provided by a broadband provider to the Office of Broadband Development and Digital Equity is governed by section 116J.397.

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Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 12, 2025

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Human Services Finance and Policy. 2172, A bill for an act relating to human services; extending medical assistance coverage of audio-only telehealth; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 256B.0625, 0625, subdivision 3b. 0625, subdivision 3b. (e)

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Blandin on Broadband

APRIL 17, 2025

Standford Social Innovation Review looks at why broadband has not reached some rural areas Broadband deserts exist largely because traditional finance and big-name ISPs do not build for communities too rural or too poor to hit their profit targets. Broadband is no different.

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Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

MN Broadband Task Force Meeting February 2024 The MN Broabdand Task Force got a quick update on what is happening with the Office of Broadband Development and Legislature. Then a panel of broadband and power providers talked about their experience with pole attachments.

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 9, 2024

will deliver keynote addresses at the upcoming "Broadband in the Trump Administration," conference, a timely gathering examining the future of telecommunications policy following the 2024 presidential election. Visit Broadband in the Trump Administration for complete information. WASHINGTON, Dec. Can't attend in person?

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 10, 2024

We are looking forward to seeing many of you in Washington at "Broadband in the Trump Administration" on Thursday, Dec. The year 2024 has been a big one for broadband policy. Incoming President Donald Trump will certainly have much to say about the shape of broadband policy. What 2025 looks like is rather cloudy.

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