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Women’s History Month: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Rural Broadband Association

Jeannette and her husband Mike purchased Albion Telephone Company (now ATC Communications; Albion, Idaho) in 1929. Jumping forward a few years, we have Mildred Foster , the matriarch of Twin Valley Telephone (Miltonvale, Kan.). De Lamb and her husband Bill purchased Dubois Telephone Exchange in 1958, when it only had 140 subscribers.

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Anchorage Update: Lessons from the Frontier State

Broadband Breakfast

At the Fiber Broadband Association’s (FBA) Regional Fiber Connect Workshop in Anchorage last week, local broadband executives, tribal leaders, and policymakers came together to share best practices and lessons learned in a state that has unique challenges and opportunities connecting communities and people to fiber broadband.  

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Playing the long game in the fiber gold rush: Large investor owned provider overbuilding publicly owned network in small town that didn't initially pencil for private investment.

EldoTelecom

Fidium’s arrival has flummoxed local officials, partly because its parent company, Consolidated Communications, declined to build broadband infrastructure in Arrowsic years earlier, said Don Hudson, another commissioner. “It Consolidated Communications, Fidium’s parent, owns many of the telephone poles in town.

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Mobile Bundling Built For Rural Providers

Rural Broadband Association

I marvel at how well and how often community-based broadband providers work together to address challenges, seize opportunities and improve the services they provide to their communities. With more cable companies and other broadband providers adding/bundling mobile, it is becoming an imperative offering to stay relevant in the marketplace.

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Digital Defenses Raised as Global Tensions Raise Threat of Cyberwarfare

Broadband Breakfast

Get Broadband Breakfast's free daily newsletter every morning, Mon.-Fri. ” Digital life means more targets for hackers Vulnerabilities have grown as people and businesses use  connected devices  to count steps, manage finances and operate facilities such as water plants and ports. Subscribe Email sent!

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Chris Scharrer: Why Would SpaceX Need $20B from BEAD?

Broadband Breakfast

He said, “If Elon Musk had decided to be a ginormous Democratic donor , I have no doubt that the Biden administration would have pulled out a piñata and celebrated Starlink providing broadband.”   I understand why the new administration wants to speed up Broadband Deployment across the country. Is the U.S.

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Update on bills SF0883 and SF0735: taxation exemption for broadband providers

Blandin on Broadband

The Senate Committee on Taxes heard two bills that talked about tax exemptions for broadband equipment. If its TV or telephone, they provider are exemption for taxes (for some equipment). As of Jan 2025, 395,000 households dont have broadband. Represents a wide range of broadband provides, We are for the bill.