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An Informed Citizens View of the Current Broadband Fiber Kerfuffle

Broadband Breakfast

Rural broadband Internet in this country for the most part remains monopolized, overpriced, insufficiently fast, hampering economic growth and resilience, as well as educational and healthcare  opportunities.  They attract businesses,  creating jobs, and support education. They just did what it took and got it done.

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FCC Defends Bus Wi-Fi Before 5th Circuit

Broadband Breakfast

FCC , brought by Texas residents Maureen and Matthew Molak , challenged whether federal money contained in the FCC’s E-Rate program, meant to support educational access within school buildings, can legally extend to buses. ” The case, Molak v. Representing the Molaks, attorney David K.

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How Reliable is Our Nation's – and the World's – Broadband Infrastructure?

Broadband Breakfast

Land-based examples of infrastructure damage include trenchers and tractors that inadvertently slice through underground wiring, or Acts of God such as hurricanes and tornadoes that tear apart wireline telephone poles or telecom towers everywhere.    David W.

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

Broadband Breakfast

Jenny Miller , Director of Government Affairs, Education Superhighway Drew Clark  (moderator), Editor and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast Over his 27-year career,  Chris Bailey  has worked for both supplier and distribution companies of various sizes.

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Updated, interactive map Community Network Map from ILSR

Blandin on Broadband

Communities invest in telecommunications networks for a variety of reasons – economic development, improving access to education and health care, price stabilization, etc. We continue to expand this map with other forms of publicly owned networks, including Indigenously owned networks and telephone and electric cooperatives.

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FCC Urged to Improve Approach to Collecting Broadband Data

Broadband Breakfast

Introduced in 2000, Form 477 was originally intended to track broadband deployment and local telephone competition through self-reported data from service providers. Comments from NRECA and Public Knowledge argued that the current benchmark of 100/20 Megabits per second (Mbps) was outdated.

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CentraCom Partners with Spectrum Academy to Help Students Reach Full Potential

USTELECOM

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. And promoting education has been a key part of that outreach.