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Consolidated Telephone Company and Meeker Cooperative Light and Power launch MC Fiber

Blandin on Broadband

OCTOBER 19, 2024

West Central Tribune reports … A new utility services company specializing in underground fiber construction, MC Fiber launched in late September, according to a news release from Meeker Cooperative Light and Power and Vibrant Broadband in Litchfield.

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Telephone Television Construction Cable

First cables laid to bring fast, reliable broadband to South Wiltshire under government’s Project Gigabit

Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The infrastructure work that started this week follows six months of detailed planning to design the network route, liaison with landowners and communities in the areas that will be connected, and the opening of a new construction base in Codford, where civils operatives delivering the project are based.

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Conexon Connect Completes First Major Florida Fiber Deployment

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 16, 2025

Conexon was initially known for rural fiber-optic network design and construction, but launched its own last mile public facing retail ISP, Conexon Connect, in 2021. Glades Electric Cooperative and Conexon Connect announced the connection of their first fiber customer back in January of 2024.

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Connectivity Broadband Telephone Retail

Minnesota is home to 7 exciting, planned or prospective Native Nation owned broadband networks

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.

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October Hardware Roundup

VoIP Insider

OCTOBER 23, 2024

With durable construction, secure features, and over-the-air updates, this handset meets all your needs. Hot-Line Industrial Wall-Phone, No Dialer : This phone is programmable to dial a 1-32 digit telephone number each time the phone’s handset is lifted. CAT 5E LAN cable and reliable power from the NEMA 5-15 system.

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Coon Valley Delivers High Speed Access to Rural Customers

USTELECOM

AUGUST 26, 2024

That’s exactly what Coon Valley Farmer’s Telephone Co., Construction season officially kicked off at the end of March, as the company’s crews prepared to tackle “100 miles of territory in desperate need of bandwidth.” It wasn’t all smooth sailing, as construction was stopped by an April snowstorm!

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CentraCom Partners with Spectrum Academy to Help Students Reach Full Potential

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.

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Draft BEAD program update would give states more leeway to use LEO, FWA services using unlicensed spectrum when more economical than FTTP.

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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Telephone Landline Telecommunication Construction

How U.S. telecom policy derailed in early 1990s in slow motion train wreck

EldoTelecom

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It called for the construction of an “advanced National Information Infrastructure (NII),” described as “a seamless web of communications networks, computers, databases, and consumer electronics that will put vast amounts of information at users’ fingertips.” A generation later, it is painfully apparent that it didn’t play out that way.

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End of ACP illustrates need for omnibus reform

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?

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Former FCC Chair Pai urges states to direct BEAD funds to sparsely populated counties as countywide projects

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.

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Telephone Provisioning Construction Broadband

Showcasing the Endless Opportunities Through Connectivity

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. Participating Providers Chariton Valley Broadband, LLC (Macon, Mo.) GRM Networks (Princeton, Mo.) Steelville, Mo.)

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Connectivity Telephone Plug-in Broadband

Consortium to bring fiber to every American doorstep

EldoTelecom

APRIL 1, 2024

Cable companies, publicly owned and coop networks and smaller fiber network owner/operators will be offered buy outs of their existing footprints on highly favorable but time limited acquisition terms, according to sources close to the negotiations leading up to the deal.

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Details on MN Broadband Grant Awards Round 10 (Oct 2024)

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.

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Broadband Telephone Education Construction

Protecting The Nation's Critical Communications Infrastructure From Theft and Vandalism

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 31, 2025

They steal encased copper cables and cut them into short lengths before burning them to remove the sheathing to reveal the raw copper inside. A Fort Worth, TX, technician and contractor walking a job site witnessed theft of copper cable. The sheriff’s office searched the premises and identified an additional aerial copper cable.

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Telecommunications Trends

Consolidated Telephone Company and Meeker Cooperative Light and Power launch MC Fiber

First cables laid to bring fast, reliable broadband to South Wiltshire under government’s Project Gigabit

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Conexon Connect Completes First Major Florida Fiber Deployment

Minnesota is home to 7 exciting, planned or prospective Native Nation owned broadband networks

October Hardware Roundup

Coon Valley Delivers High Speed Access to Rural Customers

CentraCom Partners with Spectrum Academy to Help Students Reach Full Potential

Draft BEAD program update would give states more leeway to use LEO, FWA services using unlicensed spectrum when more economical than FTTP.

How U.S. telecom policy derailed in early 1990s in slow motion train wreck

End of ACP illustrates need for omnibus reform

Former FCC Chair Pai urges states to direct BEAD funds to sparsely populated counties as countywide projects

Showcasing the Endless Opportunities Through Connectivity

Consortium to bring fiber to every American doorstep

Details on MN Broadband Grant Awards Round 10 (Oct 2024)

Protecting The Nation's Critical Communications Infrastructure From Theft and Vandalism

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