Following the FCC’s funding cuts for its Rural Health Care (RHC) program within the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), health care providers are relying more on consortia as a source of administrative and financial reprieve. We did some research and talked to Matt Chandler — the Director of Customer Relations at HealthConnect Networks — and David […]
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Big telecommunications providers are not making it easy for communities to step up and offer robust broadband service, even in low-density areas that the private sector has declined to serve for years, according to experts speaking at a July 23 Next Century Cities conference here.
We at the Monmouth Independence Network (MINET) are utilizing public-private partnerships to expand our broadband network into Dallas, Ore., following our success in Monmouth and Independence. The cities of Monmouth and Independence — both in Oregon — began building out MINET over 12 years ago. As part of the buildout, the cities established a high-capacity,
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What’s your marketing mission? What? You mean “take-rate,” right? No. Take-rate is another way of saying “sales goals.” The marketing mission has a different kind of value than sales targets. In the 20 years I did marketing for high-tech companies, a lot of us in that role had a marketing mission to establish for products’
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Rural electric cooperatives and not “small cell” deployment powered by 5G networks, may be the solution to closing the digital divide, according to Jonathan Chambers, former chief of the Federal Communications Commission’s Office of Strategic Planning.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s Mobility Fund Phase II (MF-II) aims to incentivize LTE/4G deployment in rural areas through reverse auction by making available up to $4.53 billion over the next ten years. However, some find the data that the FCC uses to make these funding decisions to be unreliable or incomplete. To combat this,
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Thank you to the Internet Society for making the recording of this event possible. Remarks of Blair Levin Brookings Metropolitan Project at the Next Century Cities Conference Pittsburgh, PA July 25, 2018 The full text of this speech was first published by the Benton Foundation, here. I want to
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Many broadband experts speaking at the Next Century Cities regional summit here said last week that city jurisdiction should take precedence over federal rules in ensuring impactful broadband deployment.
Running a T-shirt printing business on the main street of Pinetops, a North Carolina town with a population of less than 1,500 people, Suzanne Craig depends on the Internet.
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Patchwork broadband service in urban centers often goes overlooked, given the pervasive lack of access in many rural counties, but affects “virtually equal numbers of people” in states like Ohio, said one digital equity advocate.
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