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

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MC Fiber is a collaborative effort between Meeker Cooperative Light and Power and Consolidated Telephone Company, based in Brainerd. Consolidated Telephone Company is a technology adviser and a full-service telecommunications company. The cooperative has been serving the area as a co-op for almost 90 years, starting in 1935.

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Small Texas City Losing Cable TV, Keeping Internet after Network Sale

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the parent company of Big Bend Telephone Co., while other systems in Seminole, Seagraves, and Denver City will be transferred to Poka Lambro Telecommunications Ltd.  "To my knowledge, the city was not made aware directly by either TDS or Big Bend Telephone Co." Both Poka Lambro and Big Bend Telephone Co.

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States must designate providers, service areas under FCC reclassification of Internet delivered services as telecommunications utility.

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In the case of an area served by a rural telephone company, “service area” means such company’s “study area” unless and until the Commission and the States, after taking into account recommendations of a Federal-State Joint Board instituted under section 410(c) of this title , establish a different definition of service area for such company.

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Mountain Telephone Upgrades Network with Telco Systems’ 100G Solution to Meet Growing Customer Demand and Prepare for Future Expansion

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MANSFIELD, MA April 5, 2024– Mountain Telephone, a leading telecommunications provider serving communities in Kentucky for nearly 75 years, announces the deployment of Telco Systems’ multi-100G solution to upgrade its network infrastructure.

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NCTA Urges Caution in SES, Intelsat Transaction

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NCTA, The Internet and Television Association filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission on Monday regarding the planned merger between the satellite operators. NCTA also asserted the importance of the C-Band in critical areas such as telephone and internet services for remote areas. WASHINGTON, Oct.

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'Cyber Incident' Forces Arkansas Fiber ISP to Shut Down Linear Video Service

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12, 2024 – The communications arm of an Arkansas electric cooperative is offering thousands of its Internet customers free broadband and streaming services for a month as compensation for the loss of linear video service caused by a recent "cyber incident." WASHINGTON, Oct. " OzarksGo in Fayetteville, Ark., said the Oct.

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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.

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Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said, “If we're going to connect every American, including the tens of millions of Americans who now don't have the internet, we're going to have to lay fiber all across this country.”