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MN’s WCTA celebrates 75 years in business

Blandin on Broadband

The Wadena Pioneer Journal reports Since 1950, West Central Telephone Association (WCTA) has been a foundation for communication in rural communities, bridging the gap between neighbors and businesses. Today, WCTA expanded upon that same vision, solidifying its commitment to members by connecting them to not only each other but the world.

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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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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.

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NCTA Urges Caution in SES, Intelsat Transaction

Broadband Breakfast

Their concerns involve not only video but also broadband. NCTA also asserted the importance of the C-Band in critical areas such as telephone and internet services for remote areas. ” GCI, based in Anchorage, ended the second quarter with 158,000 broadband and 201,900 wireless subscribers. WASHINGTON, Oct.

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Bill introduced in MN House: HF844 getting more data on broadband deployment from providers

Blandin on Broadband

844, A bill for an act relating to telecommunications; modifying provisions governing broadband workforce plan data; modifying investigative authority; modifying provisions governing underground telecommunications infrastructure; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 116J.395, 395, subdivision 9; 216B.17, 52 to 216B.61

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Former FCC Chair Pai urges states to direct BEAD funds to sparsely populated counties as countywide projects

EldoTelecom

A “project” may constitute a single unserved or underserved broadband-serviceable location, or a grouping of broadband-serviceable locations in which not less than 80 percent of broadband-serviceable locations served by the project are unserved locations or underserved locations.

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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.