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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

Consolidated Communications, Fidium’s parent, owns many of the telephone poles in town. We are going to make a strong case that community cyber connectivity is an important asset for the community … because we return a percentage of our fees to the customer, back to the town.” If it wasn’t actually happening, it would be laughable.”

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What is Fax over IP (FoIP)?

VoIP MS

For industries such as finance, legal, insurance and manufacturing, faxing remains a crucial method for ensuring secure and efficient real-time document transmission. FoIP works by converting scanned fax documents into digital data and transmitting them over an Internet connection. Connect your fax machine to the ATA.

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How to send a fax online

VoIP MS

If you work in finance, you know what we mean! Options include using an Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) connected to a VoIP system or a dedicated internet-based fax service, allowing businesses to fax without needing a traditional machine. In todays digital world, faxing remains a necessity in many industries.

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Digital Defenses Raised as Global Tensions Raise Threat of Cyberwarfare

Broadband Breakfast

” 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. in an effort  to gain access to an unknown number of critical systems.

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

Broadband Breakfast

Starlink can get immediate acceptable connectivity to a lot of locations. They take about 90 minutes to travel about 34,000 miles to circumnavigate the entire globe, all following their own paths, each providing internet connectivity over the United States for less than 2 minutes an hour. It’s the one advantage Starlink has.