Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Construction is done in the Forbes Area SW of Eveleth and the city of Buhl. To check to see if a specific location is within an expansion area and learn more about the expansion construction process, visit [link] Anyone interested in getting connected to the all-fiber optic broadband network in these areas can still sign up for service.

Communication

Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 5, 2024

Panelists Chris Bailey , Director of Sales, Wesco Allen Meyer , VP of Strategy, Corridor Network Construction Inc. Chris has been involved in numerous deployments with telephone companies, cooperatives, municipalities, and other entities, launching fiber broadband networks. Chris currently is the Director of Broadband Sales for Wesco.

Broadband

Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Mole ploughs broke the ground in Stapleford last week, as Wessex Internet began its physical work to deliver full fibre internet to 14,500 homes and businesses in South Wiltshire. This delivers connection speeds of up to 10Gbps, with far superior speeds and reliability compared to old copper telephone lines.

Cable

Blandin on Broadband

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Morrison County Record reports … Residents of Buckman Township in Morrison County will soon have access to high-speed internet, thanks to an Oct. Once finished, residents and businesses in Buckman Township will have access to internet speeds of at least 100 Mbps download and 100 Mbps upload, meeting the states 2026 speed goals.

Broadband

Blandin on Broadband

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The construction project has been fueled by grants first from the Department of Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Community, and the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development before getting a significant infusion from the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program.

Broadband

Blandin on Broadband

AUGUST 19, 2024

The Cloquet Broadband Vision: To ensure access to affordable, reliable, high-speed fiber internet delivered by a committed capable community partner skilled in maintaining and operating a successful broadband network. This project will be instrumental for families and businesses as well as for future economic growth in these communities.

Telephone

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 16, 2025

In a public statement, Conexon noted that this was the sixth fiber project they’ve completed nationwide with fiber Internet access being delivered to 12,000 EREC members. "Over Glades Electric Cooperative and Conexon Connect announced the connection of their first fiber customer back in  January of 2024.

Connectivity

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 11, 2025

To all the persistently negative and noisy broadband fiber network naysayers, I want to follow up on my previous article on the deployment of a fiber broadband Internet infrastructure. What do construction crews do? My generation has built cellphone networks, personal computer networks and the Internet data highway system.

Entertainment

EldoTelecom

AUGUST 29, 2024

Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said, “If we're going to connect every American, including the tens of millions of Americans who now don't have the internet, we're going to have to lay fiber all across this country.”

Telephone

USTELECOM

AUGUST 26, 2024

That’s certainly the case with CentraCom, which has been delivering phone, Internet and cable TV to central, north and western Utah since it was founded in 1903 as the first independent rural telephone company in Fairview, Utah. The city expedited the excavation permits for our fiber install.

Construction

Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

As federal broadband funding sources face  continued uncertainty , California’s massive last-mile grant program continues to plow ahead, looking increasingly like a vital lifeline for communities hoping to ensure that every individual has access to robust, reliable, and affordable Internet access.

Broadband

EldoTelecom

AUGUST 7, 2024

In the larger scheme, Pai's suggested allocation of BEAD dollars may be to help ensure projects they fund don't infringe upon the service area "footprints" of large incumbent investor owned telephone and cable companies by steering them away from more densely populated counties.

Telephone

EldoTelecom

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

[link] Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Rather than trying to reform legacy subsidy mechanisms created for voice telephone service, wouldn’t public ownership of open access regional fiber to the premises (FTTP) provide a twin win of superior access and affordability? Follow on Twitter @eldotelecom

Telephone

TELCO

APRIL 22, 2024

NYSE: CX), a leading global construction materials company, for Edgility, the company’s virtualized edge management and orchestration platform. They offer a comprehensive range of services, including standard telephone, VoIP, high-speed broadband internet, security systems, and app-based TV content.

Platform

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 2, 2024

Green Hills Telephone Corporation (Breckenridge, Mo.) Kingdom Telephone Company (Auxvasse, Mo.) Northeast Missouri Rural Telephone Company (Green City, Mo). Steelville Telephone Exchange, Inc. All too often, the internet and broadband can seem like an abstract concept. GRM Networks (Princeton, Mo.) Steelville, Mo.)

Connectivity

Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

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Broadband

EldoTelecom

APRIL 1, 2024

The consortium will finance fiber construction and operations with cash contributions and long term bonds backed by the consortium members along with participation private equity firms. State and local governments and railroads will be offered fiber connectivity at no cost in exchange for right of way access and waiver of all permitting. “We

Telecommunication

Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

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Telecommunication

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 18, 2024

Long distance telephone carriers are a thing of the past, and now when we talk about this, we talk about last mile networks. We talk about middle mile networks, transit and peering networks, internet backbones, content providers, edge providers. And hopefully it’ll be a constructive outcome.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 31, 2025

Education: The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of internet connectivity for remote learning. Civic Engagement: The internet enables citizens to stay informed about public services, participate in community events, and engage in the democratic process.

Communication

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 9, 2025

The Community Connect program defines areas eligible for awards as those receiving Internet service below 10 Megabits per second (Mbps) * 1 Mbps.   The difference highlights ongoing debates within federal broadband policy over what constitutes "sufficient" internet access. Applications open on Feb.

Connectivity

EldoTelecom

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

policymaking on Internet infrastructure began shortly before the Internet was decommissioned as a government-run network in the mid-1990s. Everyone else was essentially left off the new telecommunications “grid” of the Internet. Excerpted from Service Unavailable: America’s Telecommunications Infrastructure Crisis U.S

Telephone

Blandin on Broadband

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Communities and internet service providers contributed over $48 million in matching funds for this grant round and over $400 million for all grant rounds to date. This project will bring reliable, fast fiber internet to this area for the first time, opening opportunities for 113 locations, including 46 unserved and 67 underserved locations.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The CUC, alongside “several parallel initiatives and programs,” constructed more than 360 miles of fiber to over 2000 rural locations in Carver County, wrapping up late last year. That expansion project consists of two aspects: the first being the construction of roughly 80 miles of rural fiber to over 440 locations.

Construction

Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

“When it reversed the Chevron precedent that gave broad discretion to regulatory agencies, the Supreme Court instructed lower courts to interpret the law according to its plain meaning, applying ordinary tools of statutory construction,” John Bergmayer , legal director at Public Knowledge, said in a statement.

Common Carrier

IEEE ComSoc

JANUARY 2, 2025

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit today struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s ( FCCs ) hard-fought and long-debated net neutrality/open internet rules. The 6th Circuit said the FCC did not have the statutory authority to change the classification of broadband internet to a telecommunications service.

Internet

Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 6, 2024

One bill repealed a law that required municipalities to secure a supermajority vote in a local referendum to buy or construct "telephone exchanges."   In 2022, Walz announced the largest-ever investment in high-speed internet in Minnesota’s history, nearly $100 million. "It's heartening that Gov.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 2, 2025

The Quantum Park is slated for construction in 2025 and 2026, along with recruitment of other businesses. Steel South Works site has attracted plans for $300 million for construction of a new 52 bed hospital by Advocate Healthcare, a well-established hospital and clinic network. The overall 567-acre former U.S.

Broadband

Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 4, 2025

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Provisioning

EldoTelecom

MAY 19, 2025

Each state and territory then must set up and administer its own broadband infrastructure grant program using the statutory framework to distribute the money to the internet service providers that will be building the networks. billion deployed over a five year period. Only half of all U.S.

Telecommunication