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Tim Stelzig: Explaining BEAD, Trying to Bridge the Digital Divide

Broadband Breakfast

Primarily, these are rural markets, although some suburban, exurban, and even urban areas suffer from poor coverage economics as well. The FCC’s USF Fund was initially designed as a ratepayer cross-subsidy program to ensure all Americans had access to telephone service. in 1960, to 90.5% in 1970, to 92.9% in 1980, to 94.8%

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Industry Backs FCC’s Push to Eliminate ‘Outdated’ Regulations

Broadband Breakfast

households; and, local radio and TV station ownership rules, which limit how many stations a single company can own in a given market. Scrap TCPA (Telephone Consumer Protection Act) rules, which govern robocalls, with one commenter calling them “a complete mess of stitched together nonsense.”

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Techbuyer collaboration yields successful recovery of precious metals from printed circuit board

Total Telecom

We are also pleased with board yield rates in terms of metals recovered for achieving maximum market value. BT has been trialling the companys bioleaching technology for several years to recover copper and gold from decommissioned telephone exchanges as well as copper from cabling.

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Vermont’s Otter Creek CUD Finishes Fiber Expansion, Focuses On Customer Service

Broadband Breakfast

“As well, a portion of our area was peeled off to allow the ILEC in three of the towns in our District to be served by the existing small ILEC business – Shoreham Telephone – under their own grant funding program.” Enter CUDs.

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What is an Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)? 

VoIP MS

Surprisingly, it remains more relevant than you think hence the popularity of Analog Telephone Adapters (ATAs). If you don’t believe us, read this: The landline phone market is projected to reach 247.1 The market is even projected to grow by 1.0% What is an Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)? Impressive, right?

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Mobile Bundling Built For Rural Providers

Rural Broadband Association

Under this arrangement, NTCA members have exclusive access to special financing for devices, an activation credit for new mobile subscribers and marketing support to promote their bundled offering and help drive subscribers. Last year, we collaborated on a special mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) solution exclusively for NTCA members.

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Biden-Funded Maine Muni ISP Runs into a Problem – Competition

Broadband Breakfast

  Fidium Fiber,  owned by  Consolidated Communications , has entered the market offering one-year starter rates 40% below the monthly fees on the  Arrowsic Broadband Authority  rate card.  But now there’s a problem, and it’s called competition.