Blandin on Broadband

DECEMBER 30, 2024

62 Kandiyohi County: bumped up to yellow ranking Kandiyohi Countys rank has bumped up from 74 to 60 for broadband access out of 87 counties. Kandiyohi is creating partnerships that should help them get better broadband, especially when federal (BEAD) funding becomes available. million to get ubiquitous broadband in the county. (I

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Their concerns involve not only video but also broadband. NCTA also asserted the importance of the C-Band in critical areas such as telephone and internet services for remote areas. Telecommunications Service Sector. WASHINGTON, Oct. billion purchase of Intelsat.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 8, 2024

8, 2024 – A fair distribution of broadband subsidies might not be possible if federal regulators fail to understand who needs assistance – particularly when broadband availability data, especially for fixed wireless coverage, is often overstated in rural and underserved areas. WASHINGTON, Oct.   The $42.5

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Blandin on Broadband

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Department of Agriculture is sending more than $44 million in grants to Minnesota to help people in rural communities access high-speed broadband. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, is expected to give more than 5,000 Minnesotans, especially in rural areas, high-speed broadband access across the state.

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Blandin on Broadband

JANUARY 10, 2025

In the telecommunications industry at the time, it was common to hear of promising innovations, even if they didnt all live up to the hype. based company, Its a milestone marked by a transformation from a small, rural telephone company to one of the nations largest independent broadband providers.

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TechAdvance

MARCH 10, 2025

By January 2027, the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) will be completely switched off. Broadband Connections ADSL and FTTC (Fibre-to-the-Cabinet) connections rely on PSTN. If your internet connection still depends on these, an upgrade to a full-fibre service will be necessary.

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Mark Goldberg

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

A couple of weeks ago, I saw two articles by academics writing in the Hill Times, each looking at rural broadband solutions. ” “Towards a new Canadian broadband future? ” “Towards a new Canadian broadband future?” Each presented a different perspective.

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Rural Broadband Association

MARCH 19, 2025

Currently led by Chair Roxie Jorgenson , board secretary of MTA (Palmer, Alaska), the board also includes Central Region Cooperative Director Tonya Mayer , general manager/CEO of Hemingford Cooperative Telephone Company and Mobius Communications (Hemingford, Neb.), in 1995 as a part-time employee in the repair services department.

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TELCO

APRIL 23, 2024

MANSFIELD, MA April 5, 2024– Mountain Telephone, a leading telecommunications provider serving communities in Kentucky for nearly 75 years, announces the deployment of Telco Systems’ multi-100G solution to upgrade its network infrastructure.

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Blandin on Broadband

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Institute of Local Self Reliance (ILSR) has been tracking Indigenous Broadband Networks in the US. They provide a great history and analysis of broadband in tribal areas. The Tribe had been working for nearly two years on the plans of the network and has convened a broadband task force to guide the initiative.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 12, 2024

12, 2024 – The communications arm of an Arkansas electric cooperative is offering thousands of its Internet customers free broadband and streaming services for a month as compensation for the loss of linear video service caused by a recent "cyber incident." WASHINGTON, Oct. " OzarksGo in Fayetteville, Ark., said the Oct.

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Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Senate Committee on Taxes heard two bills that talked about tax exemptions for broadband equipment. If its TV or telephone, they provider are exemption for taxes (for some equipment). As of Jan 2025, 395,000 households dont have broadband. Represents a wide range of broadband provides, We are for the bill.

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Blandin on Broadband

OCTOBER 10, 2024

From the MN Office of Broadband Development… Broadband Matters: Office of Broadband Development Updates Border-to-Border and Low Population Density Round 10 State-funded Grants awarded BEAD Challenge, resources + updates Digital Opportunity Update OBD, out of office!

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EldoTelecom

MAY 18, 2024

In the case of an area served by a rural telephone company, “service area” means such company’s “study area” unless and until the Commission and the States, after taking into account recommendations of a Federal-State Joint Board instituted under section 410(c) of this title , establish a different definition of service area for such company.

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Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

844, A bill for an act relating to telecommunications; modifying provisions governing broadband workforce plan data; modifying investigative authority; modifying provisions governing underground telecommunications infrastructure; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 116J.395, 395, subdivision 9; 216B.17, 52 to 216B.61

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Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

From the Office of Broadband Development… Broadband Matters: Office of Broadband Development Updates Governor’s Task Force on Broadband, September meeting recap Updates from NTIA on available funds for Native Entities Digital Opportunity Update Register for final BEAD Challenge office hours, Thursday Sept.

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Rural Broadband Association

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The tournament, whose February 23 championship finals will be streamed live at RTIME in San Antonio, represents more than just a gaming event it is proof of concept for rural broadband's role in the $1.8 Jaylen Bryant (Bulloch Telephone Services, Statesboro, Ga.) billion esports industry. Menomonie, Wis).

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

is a small, family-owned telecommunications company that provide residential, small business and enterprise consumers with fiber-optic Internet, telephone and television services across 14 rural Vermont villages. VTel, based in Springfield, Vt.,

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Blandin on Broadband

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Communities invest in telecommunications networks for a variety of reasons – economic development, improving access to education and health care, price stabilization, etc. This map tracks a variety of ways in which local governments have invested in wired telecommunications networks as well as state laws that discourage such approaches.

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Telefrieden

MARCH 26, 2025

Today, the Supreme Court will consider a challenge to the universal service subsidy program established soon after the introduction of telephone service by the AT&T Bell System and later officially adopted by the FCC as mandated by a 1996 law. See [link] ; [link]. Over time the program has grown into an $8.1 8, 595-613 (Sept. 2005.06.002.

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Broadband Breakfast

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

26, 2024 – Kinetic Ventures, a growth capital provider to telecommunications companies announced last week a minority investment in RiverStreet to help close the digital divide. Kinetic Ventures, based in Atlanta, provides growth capital to broadband providers in rural and unserved communities. WASHINGTON, Nov.

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Blandin on Broadband

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Lifeline provides subsidized telephone and broadband services to low-income individuals. E-Rate provides discounts for telecommunications, internet access, and internal connections to schools and libraries. Lifeline and E-Rate are the ones most akin to the ACP.

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Rural Broadband Association

AUGUST 21, 2024

Another Wildly Successful Congressional Broadband Tour Send to all affiliates Off user_1153020 Wed, 08/21/2024 - 11:06 Byline By Pam Becker, Executive Director, Foundation for Rural Service Associated Date Wed, 08/21/2024 - 12:00 Advanced Content Section Power, permits and PDX.

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EldoTelecom

AUGUST 29, 2024

billion in construction subsidies appropriated in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 appears insufficient to bring fiber connections to most every American doorstep as with copper telephone lines in the previous century.

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VoIP Review

MARCH 4, 2025

UK telecommunications giant BT is calling on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the nation to transition from analogue to digital networks by the end of 2025. The countdown is due to the impending retirement of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), which has been key but is now outdated technology.

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AT&T Connects

JUNE 18, 2024

For most of the 20 th century, this meant access to landline telephones. We need to update what’s broken and, except for one-time capital funding projects like the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program, centralize ongoing broadband funding programs to maximize resources and reduce waste.

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Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

974, A bill for an act relating to broadband; establishing the Equal Access to Broadband Act; modifying provisions governing broadband services and broadband infrastructure; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 116J.39, From the Minnesota House … Freiberg; Lee, F.; Carroll; Koegel and Clardy introduced: H.

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Blandin on Broadband

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

1860 :A bill for an act relating to telecommunications; prohibiting false caller identification information; providing for criminal penalties; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 325E.26, I am unlikely to follow this very closely but it’s more broadband adjacent that directly related but I thought folks might have an interest.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

11, 2025 – The Hawaii Supreme Court, in a win for telecommunications companies, ruled unanimously on Monday to allow a $4 billion settlement between Maui fire victims and responsible parties to move forward, according to Gov. WASHINGTON, Feb. Josh Green.

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TELCO

APRIL 22, 2024

About Mountain Telephone: Mountain Telephone is a member-owned cooperative established in 1950, providing telecommunications services to residents and businesses in Elliott, Menifee, Morgan, Wolfe, and a portion of Bath County, Kentucky.

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Telefrieden

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Here’s the Abstract: Nearly every nation in the world has a government mandated program aiming to make telecommunications service more widely available and affordable. surcharge on telecommunications services, but incurred no contribution obligation when providing broadband Internet access and other data services.

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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? Congress should give the FCC a bright green light to proceed.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

21, 2025 – Pennsylvania broadband advocates pressed the state’s Public Utility Commission on Thursday to require state-specific consumer protections before approving Verizon’s proposed acquisition of Frontier Communications.   “Part of the question is, will there be public benefits?,”

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EldoTelecom

APRIL 1, 2024

Doing so is consistent with the public policy intent of 1996 Telecommunications Act to timely bring advanced telecommunications capability to all Americans.” That’s why we’re buying all the pipes and will bring long overdue fiber connections to most every American doorstep,” the consortium said in a statement.

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Mark Goldberg

JANUARY 29, 2025

Is it time to modernize Canada’s outdated telecommunications rules? ” The courts ruling confirms that broadband internet must be classified as an information service under Title I because it enables users to store, retrieve, and manipulate datanot just transmit it. Consider how we communicate today. Only a quarter of U.S.

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Mark Goldberg

OCTOBER 30, 2024

More importantly, the idea of fixed telephone services is absent. Under that first heading, it is interesting that the CRTC only refers to “internet and cellphone services” Personally, I prefer to refer to “mobile services” in order to better capture the breadth of devices.

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Telefrieden

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Lacking humility and common sense, the Court appears hellbent to outlaw statutory interpretation like what kinds of services fit within the following ambiguous words Congress crafted, circa 1996: “advanced telecommunications capability.” 1302(a), codified by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Pub. 104-104, 110 Stat.

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