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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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Broadband Breakfast on August 7, 2024 - Live from Mountain Connect 2024

Broadband Breakfast

Join Broadband Breakfast Live Online and other guests attending Mountain Connect 2024 in Denver for a discussion about the themes raised at this year's conference. Chris has been involved in numerous deployments with telephone companies, cooperatives, municipalities, and other entities, launching fiber broadband networks.

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How To: Upgrade & Save Money on IP Paging in Educational Environments

VoIP Insider

Some environments utilize analog systems, and devices connected by hardwire, some use VoIP (IP), devices connected through ethernet/network, and some use a mixture of both, hybrid solutions. Department of Education – Safe & Supportive Schools Grants U.S. See below for just some of these options.

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What is an IP Phone and when to use it 

VoIP MS

As previously discussed, an IP phone is a business telephone that uses Voice over Internet Protocol technology to make phone calls over the internet. In essence, they convert voice into digital signals that are transmitted through your internet connection. Can I use an IP phone as a normal phone?

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How AT&T is Investing in Mississippi

AT&T Connects

billion in our network infrastructure from 2020-2024 to connect more people to greater possibility. It’s this connectivity that’s powering economic growth and supporting job creation across America. When public entities team up with trusted providers, more Americans are connected to greater opportunity. With more than 2.7

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Survey: About half of all households passed by fiber in 2024 -- with less than half of those connected.

EldoTelecom

Internet connectivity is regarded as a utility as was voice telephone service before it where most every address had service. With IP connectivity considered a utility, one might expect that figure to be much higher, around 90 percent or more. That allowed people to gain both mobile and home IP connectivity.

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Updated, interactive map Community Network Map from ILSR

Blandin on Broadband

The Institute for Local Self Reliance has released their new version of our Community Network Map , showing where municipal networks operate across the United States and how they are acting to bring new service, competition, and more affordable connectivity to places around the country.

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