Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Construction is done in the Forbes Area SW of Eveleth and the city of Buhl. Once the network is operational this winter, those who have signed up will be contacted to schedule services to be installed. The cooperative will return to bring the network up to locations with no construction fee when feasible. Louis County.

Communication

Blandin on Broadband

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Institute of Local Self Reliance (ILSR) has been tracking Indigenous Broadband Networks in the US. The Blandin Foundation has supported Native networks in Minnesota.) The partnership calls for CTC Communications to manage the operations of the network for a period of time before handing off management to the Tribe.

Broadband

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.

Broadband

Blandin on Broadband

MAY 30, 2025

Iron Range Resources reports on a new broadband grant for future deployment in St Louis County… Broadband Infrastructure Grant: $383,000 Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative Grant Amount: $383,000 to construct fiber optics to serve 35 unserved households in unorganized township T62N-R21W in rural Saint Louis County.

Broadband

Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

million and will see Wessex Internet expanding its existing network in the Wylye Valley, going across the Salisbury Plain, connecting villages surrounding Amesbury, and going as far north as Chisbury and Little Bedwyn. The contract is worth £18.8

Cable

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 16, 2025

Conexon Connect  has completed its first fiber to the home project in Florida, a 2,000-mile network launched in partnership with  Escambia River Electric Cooperative. The company wouldn't provide information on whether Conexon or EREC would own the finished fiber network, calling the information “proprietary.”

Connectivity

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. The grant of $4.8

Telephone

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. They say that you can’t get people to temporarily work and live in these remote areas to build this network. What do construction crews do?

Entertainment

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

TELCO

APRIL 22, 2024

NYSE: CX), a leading global construction materials company, for Edgility, the company’s virtualized edge management and orchestration platform. Edgility’s high-performance capabilities, ease of use, and advanced automation features have demonstrably improved CEMEX’s network management and reduced operational costs.

Platform

Blandin on Broadband

JANUARY 22, 2025

A Tribally owned entity, Mille Lacs Corporate Venture, began a partnership that year with cooperative Consolidated Telephone Company (CTC). In 2023, the Tribe was awarded a Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program grant to help support the construction of a Tribally-owned fiber-to-the-home network that will be operated by CTC.

Broadband

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 2, 2024

Green Hills Telephone Corporation (Breckenridge, Mo.) GRM Networks (Princeton, Mo.) Kingdom Telephone Company (Auxvasse, Mo.) Northeast Missouri Rural Telephone Company (Green City, Mo). Steelville Telephone Exchange, Inc. Participating Providers Chariton Valley Broadband, LLC (Macon, Mo.) Steelville, Mo.)

Connectivity

Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The new, Tribally-owned broadband network will help the Tribe achieve universal access. According to the announcement, the Tribe has elected to work with Ponderosa Telephone Company on the project. Map of where Cold Springs Rancheria is located in CA courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons CC0 1.0

Broadband

VoIP Insider

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

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. VoIP Supply offers IP Paging solutions, providing SIP-enabled IP speakers and intercoms for mass notifications via your VoIP network.

Education

EldoTelecom

APRIL 1, 2024

EMBARGOED UNTIL 4/1/2024 A consortium of fiber network and edge providers has announced a massive deal to rapidly build fiber to every American doorstep and acquire all existing fiber transmission and distribution infrastructure in the United States.

Telecommunication

Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

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Telecommunication

US Telecom

AUGUST 26, 2024

Counting every box of crayons, markers and sleeve of construction paper can be a bit time-consuming, but it’s a task that the crew does not take lightly as it needs to be tallied correctly to help children all around the parish. Contributions are collected, counted, and divided as equally between the primary and secondary schools in the area.

Distribution

Rural Broadband Association

JULY 18, 2024

And third, that USF provides the best possible voice and broadband networks for every American, regardless of your income level, regardless of where you live. Imagine that you are a network provider, and every year you are thinking, “Will I have this money appropriated? First of all, ensuring that the Universal Service Fund is stable.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 31, 2025

The resulting damage and resources necessary to repair the affected networks harmed by criminal conduct imposes millions of dollars of direct and indirect costs on communications network providers, consumers and the economy. Disruptions in these networks can then have cascading effects on other essential services.

Communication

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 9, 2025

Recipients of the Community Connect program can use the funds for constructing or leasing broadband infrastructure, delivering free Internet service to public institutions for two years, or creating community centers with public Internet access. Applications open on Feb. 20, with a submission deadline of Apr.

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. Excerpted from Service Unavailable: America’s Telecommunications Infrastructure Crisis U.S A generation later, it is painfully apparent that it didn’t play out that way.

Telephone

Blandin on Broadband

OCTOBER 9, 2024

County: Morrison Representative Isaac Schultz, Senator Nathan Wesenberg Benton Cooperative Telephone Company Buckman Township Grant: $1,248,430 Local Match: $2,318,518 Total Budget: $3,566,948 The Benton Cooperative Telephone Company project will provide high-speed Broadband services to Buckman Township in Morrison County.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Officials in Carver County Minnesota continue to make great progress expanding affordable fiber access to the county of 111,000 residents, thanks largely to their publicly-owned open access fiber network CarverLink  and their partnership with Metronet. In 2022 the project scope expanded after Carver County provided $6.5

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

The court ruled that broadband communications, including broadband delivered via mobile networks, is classified as an “information” service rather than a more heavily regulated “telecommunications” service. “Accordingly, the FCC’s contrary conclusion is unlawful.”

Internet

Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 6, 2024

Tim Walz , selected by Vice President Kamala Harris as her running mate for the upcoming November election, took decisive action in May by signing a law that dismantled barriers to local government ownership of broadband networks in Minnesota. Walz’s signature repealed two laws to promote the rollout of government-owned networks.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 2, 2025

Including with its widespread neighborhood STEAM skill building networks.  The Quantum Park is slated for construction in 2025 and 2026, along with recruitment of other businesses. For Telehealth resources, see December 2024 awards for excellence by networks originating in Partnership for Connected Illinois over a decade ago.

Broadband

Blandin on Broadband

MARCH 4, 2025

c) “Broadband infrastructure” means networks of deployed telecommunications equipment and technologies necessary to provide high-speed Internet access and other advanced telecommunications services for broadband to end users. (e) (b) “Broadband” or “broadband service” has the meaning given in section 116J.39

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