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

Blandin on Broadband

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. But in our world, we need to provide telephone service but what people ask for is broadband.

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Conexon Connect Completes First Major Florida Fiber Deployment

Broadband Breakfast

” Conexon’s Alexis Madison told ILSR that the EREC project will be financed with approximately $21.8 million in grants, including an Escambia County grant of $6.3 million, two Broadband Opportunity Program grants totaling $5.9 million, and a Broadband Infrastructure Program grant of $9.6

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Bill introduced in MN House: HF844 getting more data on broadband deployment from providers

Blandin on Broadband

The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy. From the Minnesota House Schultz and Baker introduced: F. 395, subdivision 9; 216B.17, 17, subdivision 9; 326B.198, 198, subdivisions 1, 2, 3. 2.42.52.62.72.82.92.102.112.122.132.142.152.162.172.18 52 to 216B.61

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Consortium to bring fiber to every American doorstep

EldoTelecom

The consortium will finance fiber construction and operations with cash contributions and long term bonds backed by the consortium members along with participation private equity firms. State and local governments and railroads will be offered fiber connectivity at no cost in exchange for right of way access and waiver of all permitting. “We

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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

Stankey however raises a broader policy issue of how universal service is to be attained and specifically the high cost of the ownership, financing, and operation of its infrastructure in the digital IP era as it was for copper cable delivered analog voice telephone service in the previous century.

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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. 974, A bill for an act relating to broadband; establishing the Equal Access to Broadband Act; modifying provisions governing broadband services and broadband infrastructure; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 116J.39, is prohibited.