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

Rural Broadband Association

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.). De Lamb and her husband Bill purchased Dubois Telephone Exchange in 1958, when it only had 140 subscribers.

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Conexon Connect Completes First Major Florida Fiber Deployment

Broadband Breakfast

Conexon Connect  has completed its first fiber to the home project in Florida, a 2,000-mile network launched in partnership with  Escambia River Electric Cooperative. ” Conexon’s Alexis Madison told ILSR that the EREC project will be financed with approximately $21.8 EREC, first founded in 1939, is no exception.

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Update on bills SF0883 and SF0735: taxation exemption for broadband providers

Blandin on Broadband

Right now, the exemption relies on how people are using the network. If its TV or telephone, they provider are exemption for taxes (for some equipment). If you take out the work primarily, it would only cover telephone or television based services. (To Revenue thinks this has to do with finances. click to view video S.F.

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Consortium to bring fiber to every American doorstep

EldoTelecom

EMBARGOED UNTIL 4/1/2024 A consortium of fiber network and edge providers has announced a massive deal to rapidly build fiber to every American doorstep and acquire all existing fiber transmission and distribution infrastructure in the United States.

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AT&T’s suggestion that edge content providers contribute to funding universal service calls for new paradigm of U.S. advanced telecom

EldoTelecom

They stand to benefit handsomely from every home that is incrementally connected to our networks. Rather, it’s to generate relatively rapid return on investment and generous utility dividends shareholders have received for many decades from the assured revenue stream of voice telephone service.

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Bill introduced in MN House: HF974 related to definition of provider and role of franchise and permitting and more

Blandin on Broadband

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Agriculture Finance and Policy. e) “Last-mile infrastructure” means broadband infrastructure that serves as the final leg connecting the broadband service provider’s network to the end-use customer’s on-premises telecommunications equipment. (f)

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

Broadband Breakfast

Vital sectors of society and the nation’s economy, such as public safety, health care, energy, transportation, finance, information technology, and education increasingly rely on communications infrastructure. National Communications Infrastructure Is Essential The U.S.