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Consumer Groups Support EchoStar’s 5G Construction Extension

Broadband Breakfast

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

Blandin on Broadband

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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Broadband Breakfast on August 7, 2024 - Live from Mountain Connect 2024

Broadband Breakfast

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.

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OBD Updates Sep 25: Task Force Mtg notes, funds for Native Entities, Office Hours Sep 26

Blandin on Broadband

26th Governor’s Task Force on Broadband, September meeting recap Demonstration of broadband construction equipment and safety practices from TelCom Construction, LLC. The Governor’s Task Force met at the Gardonville Cooperative Telephone Association in Brandon, MN the morning of September 24th.

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

Blandin on Broadband

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

EldoTelecom

Excerpted from Service Unavailable: America’s Telecommunications Infrastructure Crisis U.S In addition to this policy document, the Clinton administration sponsored legislation championed by then Vice President Al Gore, who foresaw the coming role Internet-based telecommunications would play in the future.

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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

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.