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Competing on a Two-Way Basis
Jeff Leslie of ITS Fiber and ITS Telecom, a last-mile provider of broadband and data center services in south central Florida, explains the importance of the just enacted modification to NECA Tariff #5...
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Stepping Into the GigaZone – A Committment to Local Economic Development
Helping with economic development for the communities they serve is part of Paul Bunyan Communications’ mission statement. Economic development is one of the motivations for PBC’s restructuring of its...
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Dish Soap Enabling Deeper Fiber
Imagine if cable companies had put in micro-ducts years ago when they installed coaxial cable. Instead of waiting for sometimes months or years for permits and extensive engineering, cable providers...
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Moving the Cheese to a Smart Rural Community
Who moved the cheese? It was Cabot Cheese as they recently moved their administration and marketing office to the service territory of Waitsfield Champlain Vermont Telephone. WCVT’s fiber...
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Impact of a Gigabit Network
What is the impact on the mid-mile when an operator turn s up a gigabit network in the last mile? That’s a question that Vince Tyson, COO of Plateau in […] Related posts: Gigabit in the Cowboy State...
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Gigabit Broadband – Better than Indoor Plumbing
“We were asked whether we had indoor plumbing,” said Wyoming State Representative Marti Halverson in the above video. She was reflecting on a conversation she had with a reporter at the […] Related...
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The Road to FTTH Success Begins With….
Even before the first fiber is pulled and equipment selected, the road to Fiber to the Home success begins with cost accounting. In the above interview, filmed at the 2015 […] Related posts: Technology...
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16 Million Reasons to Challenge CAF
With this headline, “Connect America Fund Offers Carriers Nearly $1.7 Billion to Expand Broadband to Over 8.5 Million Rural Americans,” a dispute over $16M would seem like a rounding error. It […]...
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Technology Facilitates Outside Plant Construction – Part 1
It is the construction of the network that is sometimes the biggest barrier to realizing FTTH. Fortunately, technology, such as GPS, is helping outside plant engineers be more efficient in […] Related...
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Making the Community Smart and Attractive
One of the bigger challenges for rural communities is creating career opportunities for young people; particularly those who leave for college, as many times never come back to their hometown. Clint...
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Distributed Heating or Computing Solution?
Imagine using the heat generated by a data center to warm homes. The team behind France-based, Qarnot Computing had such an idea and created a distributed data center solution that provides homeowners...
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Vermont as a Brand
With the rise of communications behemoths, it is easy to forget that the acronym CATV stands for Community Antenna Television and that the roots of CATV can still be seen in […] Related posts: A Ground...
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Faster Fiber Deployment
Twenty to thirty percent decrease in construction management costs is what Dave Fridley suggests his clients are saving through process improvements implemented the past couple of years (see this...
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A Fiber Reality – Working from Home in Rural Michigan’s UP
Normally, ViodiTV travels across the fruited plain to help tell the stories of how robust broadband can transform rural communities. In the above interview, rural America traveled to Silicon Valley […]...
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Fiber as a Fundamental Ingredient of the Modern World
The question that entities with older fiber have to ask, is will it support the higher bit rates that are increasingly demanded? Speaking at the SmartGig Bay Area conference, the […] Related posts:...
View ArticleCrowd Source Announcing #CES2017
Producing high-quality video of high school sporting events has become easier and more widespread, thanks to the continued drop in prices for low-cost, high-quality camcorders. Generating “color”...
View ArticleContinual Broadband Investment Is Necessary – #TIS17
“You have to keep reinvesting in your network to assure performance,” says Bryan Lynch, Senior Vice President of Cable for Schurz Communications. For Schurz Communications, this has meant four major...
View ArticleFiber, 5G and Beyond
“They are actually going to be providing the access technology that enables a lot of this 5G network,” explains Teresa McGaughey, Sr. Director, Product Marketing for Calix. Speaking at the […] Related...
View ArticleCable Expansion by Serving the Underserved #TIS19
“They are kind of the new cable cowboys,” exclaims Kathrine Gessner, president of MCTV, in the above interview. Gessner is referring to the excitement of the MCTV crews in rebuilding […]
View ArticleBigger, Better Broadband in Bemidji & Beyond
A number 8 ranking by PCMag as one of the best places for remote work in 2021 should be no surprise to those familiar with the Bemidji, MN region. Its […]
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