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Women’s History Month: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Rural Broadband Association

And we will continue tell their stories throughout the year through the Women in Telecom program. Jeannette and her husband Mike purchased Albion Telephone Company (now ATC Communications; Albion, Idaho) in 1929. Jumping forward a few years, we have Mildred Foster , the matriarch of Twin Valley Telephone (Miltonvale, Kan.).

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

Total Telecom

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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California's Broadband Program Awards Funds to Tribes and Public Entities

Broadband Breakfast

According to the announcement, the Tribe has elected to work with Ponderosa Telephone Company on the project. Cold Springs Rancheria also anticipates partnering with Ponderosa to construct and operate the network until Tribal staff are prepared to take on day-to-day management of the network. billion in grants.

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End of ACP illustrates need for omnibus reform

EldoTelecom

[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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Solving the Universal Service Challenge

Rural Broadband Association

It was a great chance to speak before representatives from various media outlets, communications industry executives and a few NTCA members in town for the Women in Telecom Fly-In about NTCA and to highlight some of our important advocacy goals for this year and beyond. In 1996, these beneficiaries were telecom providers, right?

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

Broadband Breakfast

While these high-bandwidth communications and data lines consist of glass optical fibers typically encased by plastic sheaths and do not contain copper, fiber components are often mistaken for the copper wires in telephone networks. Threats to communications infrastructure are not limited to acts of thieves in search of copper.

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

EldoTelecom

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.