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Rachel Maddow: Public Investment in Broadband is Important
Rachel Maddow reminds us that many areas of America still do not have broadband in her coverage of the broadband stimulus funds prior to an interview with USDA Secretary Vilsack on October 5...
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Community Broadband Media Roundup - December 12, 2014
This week in Community Broadband networks... partnerships, cooperatives, and going-it-alone. For a background in muni networks, check out this recent article from FiscalNote. The article highlights...
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Want FTTH? Move to North Dakota, Reports USDA
A recent USDA report reveals that fossil fuels are not the only thing booming in North Dakota. The state ranked 47 for population is ranked number 1 as having the highest percentage of people with...
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Benton Foundation Article Dives Into Upcoming FCC Decision and Section 706
Kevin Taglang, recently published an excellent explanatory post for the Benton Foundation entitled What Section 706 Means for Net Neutrality, Municipal Networks, and Universal Broadband. He provides...
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Montana Coop Turns Up the Speed: 16 Counties, 23,000 Square Miles
Montana may have high speed limits on roads, but this Montana coop’s network will let you surf the web even faster. Triangle Communications received an almost $30 million loan from the USDA to provide...
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The Importance of Data and Cooperation: Tribal Lands
As of now, 41% of tribal lands do not have high-speed Internet access according to the FCC Broadband Report of 2016 released on January 29, 2016. That same day, the Government Accountability...
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Rachel Maddow: Public Investment in Broadband is Important
Rachel Maddow reminds us that many areas of America still do not have broadband in her coverage of the broadband stimulus funds prior to an interview with USDA Secretary Vilsack on October 5...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Community Broadband Media Roundup - December 12, 2014
This week in Community Broadband networks... partnerships, cooperatives, and going-it-alone. For a background in muni networks, check out this recent article from FiscalNote. The article highlights...
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Want FTTH? Move to North Dakota, Reports USDA
A recent USDA report reveals that fossil fuels are not the only thing booming in North Dakota. The state ranked 47 for population is ranked number 1 as having the highest percentage of people with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Benton Foundation Article Dives Into Upcoming FCC Decision and Section 706
Kevin Taglang, recently published an excellent explanatory post for the Benton Foundation entitled What Section 706 Means for Net Neutrality, Municipal Networks, and Universal Broadband. He provides...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Montana Coop Turns Up the Speed: 16 Counties, 23,000 Square Miles
Montana may have high speed limits on roads, but this Montana coop’s network will let you surf the web even faster. Triangle Communications received an almost $30 million loan from the USDA to provide...
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The Importance of Data and Cooperation: Tribal Lands
As of now, 41% of tribal lands do not have high-speed Internet access according to the FCC Broadband Report of 2016 released on January 29, 2016. That same day, the Government Accountability...
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NC Rural Electric Cooperatives Teach Model Collaboration
Throughout the October Broadband Communities Magazine conference, folks kept repeating this sentiment: some partnerships are smooth and others have rough patches. At the conference, we heard from...
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United Fiber Tackles Missouri's Most Rural - Community Broadband Bits Podcast...
The most rural area of Missouri is getting a Fiber-to-the-Home network from the United Electric Cooperative, which has created United Fiber and is expanding across its footprint and to adjacent areas...
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Federal Funding Available: Department of Agriculture Growing Internet Service
Get your applications ready! The United States Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service (USDA RUS) is accepting applications for another round of loans for the Rural Broadband Access Loan and...
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Visualization: Fiber In The Blue Grass State
From the rolling Appalachian Mountains to bustling city streets, Kentucky has it all, including gigabit (1,000 Mbps) service from Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) networks. That’s right, Kentucky - the state...
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Federal Grants Available for Rural Broadband Projects
Federal broadband grant programs start accepting applications in the spring. 2018 is an especially exciting year because the Connect America Fund (CAF) II Auction is finally open. This program has been...
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This Small Missouri Town Wants to Pair Wine With Fiber
People and businesses in the small town of Hermann, Missouri, primarily rely on slow DSL for Internet access. There are also a few areas with cable connections available, and even a few parts of town...
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ReConnect Funding Applicants: More Than Half Community Broadband Networks
Applicants in the first round of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) ReConnect Loan and Grant Program requested over $1.4 billion to finance rural broadband expansion, exceeding available...
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North Carolina Co-op Awarded $24 Million ReConnect Grant for Rural Fiber
As we reported back in September, the bulk of applicants to the USDA's ReConnect Loan and Grant Program came from publicly owned projects. Cooperatives, local governments, and tribal government...
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