An Untold Story of Connecting Communities
“It’s really been a success story, actually, an untold story of the pandemic about what our members have been able to do and accomplish to keep their customers and communities […]
View ArticleFrom 0 to 22k Subscribers in 2 Years
Kayla Wade details how OEC Fiber’s success in going from zero to 22,000 subscribers is directly related to following the Golden Rule.* That is, first and foremost, OEC Fiber staff […]
View ArticleMOTOR Sums Up Their Culture
“Our culture makes a difference,” is emblazoned on the Peak Internet Culture Coin. Speaking at the Fiber Broadband Association’s Fiber Connect 2021, Peak Internet’s president/CEO Rick Petersen explains...
View ArticleRural America Needs Fiber On-ramps and Fiber Off-ramps
“Think about on and off-ramps” is Joseph Franell’s advice to those building fiber networks that traverse rural areas. Franell, president of Blue Mountain Networks, a provider of high-speed Internet to […]
View ArticleOur Purpose – To Connect Communities
“That’s our purpose; to connect communities,” says Brad Moline president and CEO of Nebraska-based Broadband Service Provider, Allo Communications. Speaking at Calix’s ConneXions 2021, Moline explains...
View ArticleJumping at New Opportunities Thanks to a Fiber & WiFi Backbone
“What we did is a JumpStart Challenge. We gave people six weeks to figure out a new business and then we did a sponsorship and a little competition,” explains Allo […]
View ArticleFiber Deployment Hitting on All Cylinders
Michael C. Render is sort of the godfather of fiber deployment predictions. His consulting group, RVA, LLC, has been tracking fiber deployment trends since the early days of fiber to […]
View ArticleA New Horizon of Midwestern Connectivity via FTTH
With announcements about fiber expansion happening every day, it was refreshing to catch up with a local service provider that has been on the leading edge of technology deployments for […]
View ArticleAn Updated Perspective on Public-Private Broadband Partnerships
Public-private broadband partnerships can be a win-win for under and unserved communities and for incumbent providers wishing to extend their service beyond their existing footprint. This is one of the...
View ArticleFiber Connect 2022 Insight from the Broadband Ambassadors’ Broadband Ambassador
“We consider our members as broadband ambassadors,” says Matt Polka, outgoing president and CEO of ACA Connects. Echoing comments he made earlier on a Fiber Connect 2022 panel with leaders of other...
View ArticleNavigating Rural Broadband Funding in a Sea of Uncertainty – #TIS22
“We actually saw a pretty sizable, almost 30% increase in prices for all of our equipment,” says Ross Petrick, GM & CEO of Garretson, South Dakota-based, Alliance Communications. Speaking at the...
View ArticleXGS PON & More at the Broadband Forum’s BASe Event at Fiber Connect 22
“GPON may be good enough, but you really have to think about 2026,” recommends Teresa McGaughey, AVP, Access and Field Marketing for Calix. Speaking at the end of the Broadband Forum’s BASe Event at...
View ArticleReunion of the Work Family – #TIS22
“It is great to be back here,” says ACA Connects EVP & COO, John Higginbotham. Likening the Independent Show 2022 to a work family reunion, he describes the magic of being with and catching up with...
View ArticleUniting by Fiber – #TIS2022
What started as a vision to build broadband to serve its extremely rural (think one or two homes per mile) electric cooperative territory has morphed into something bigger. United Fiber, the broadband...
View ArticleBroadband Bogged Down by a Beetle
How do you move a beetle without harming it? According to Eric Rajchel of VantagePoint, a piece of raw chicken does the trick. In the above video, Rajchel, an engineer at this well-known broadband...
View ArticleListening to and Learning from Your Customers to Unleash Innovation – #Summit23
It is a fun time thanks to the many opportunities that a Fiber to the Home platform creates, so said Gary Johnson, GM/CEO of Paul Bunyan Communications in a February 2023 ViodiTV interview. For Calix,...
View Article21st Century Training for the Broadband Workforce
Northwood Technical College in Wisconsin is working to address broadband workforce development challenges in rural communities by developing an innovative online training program in partnership with...
View ArticleAn Opening Conversation about a New Kind of Open Access Network
Jackson, Wyoming will soon be home to an open-access, fiber-to-the-home network (OAN) with a twist. What makes this network, SilverLight, unique is that is privately owned and operated, allowing the...
View ArticleSilver Star Gains a Broadband Gem in the Treasure Valley
Customers in the Boise metropolitan area, also known as the Treasure Valley, will soon have another option for symmetric gigabit and higher-speed connections to the Internet. Silver Star...
View ArticleThe Invisible Factory Enabled by the PRTC FTTH Network – #SRCLIVE
Description: The focus of FOCUS is economic development in the five-county area that PRTC (The People’s Fiber Network) also serves with a state-of-the-art, all-fiber optic network. Thanks to that...
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