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New NTCA President Takes the Gavel at RTIME
The 2016 Rural Telecom Industry Meeting & EXPO (RTIME) from NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association continued Monday, as the Swing N’ Sisters kicked off the show’s Opening General Session at the Walt...
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Education, Exhibits Continue at RTIME
The Rural Telecom Industry Meeting & EXPO (RTIME) continued Tuesday with additional educational sessions, exhibitor presentations and special events. Tuesday started with presentations from...
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2016 RTIME Concludes With Awards Banquet
The final full day of the NTCA Rural Telecom Industry Meeting & EXPO (RTIME) featured a business session, the closing general session and banquet.The closing general session got underway with a...
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PRTC Hosts FCC Chairman Wheeler and Congressman Hal Rogers
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler visited McKee, Ky., on February 8 to highlight Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative’s success in creating a high-speed, fiber optic network in one of the most rugged and...
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‘I Can Feel It Coming in the Air Tonight …'
These are tumultuous times for satellite video providers. According to Dish Network’s year-end financial report for 2015, the company lost 12,000 pay-TV customers in the fourth quarter of 2015, and...
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A Growing Co-Dependency for Connectivity
A few weeks ago while overseas, I reached for my phone to check departure plans for the following day. Adverse weather conditions at home (the D.C. blizzard) and abroad warranted a careful review of...
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A New Look for TECO, FRS
NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association recently announced that the new name of its political action committee (PAC) is NTCA Rural Broadband PAC. The PAC was formerly called TECO, the...
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NTCA Unveils Interactive Map
NTCA has unveiled a new, interactive map that highlights telecommunications providers that have received acknowledgement through a variety of association recognition programs. The map identifies 32...
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ePaper: RLECs and Muni Broadband (Part 2 of 2)
The first installment of this e-paper proposed that opportunities for rural service providers can exist in areas where municipal leaders desire cutting-edge broadband services and provided a template...
View ArticleLatest Episode of 'Board Briefings'
In this episode of "Board Briefings," NTCA Chief Executive Officer Shirley Bloomfield offers updates on new board leadership, video issues and the Smart Rural Community interactive map. Category:...
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MIDTEL Hits a Homerun During Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
More than 45,000 baseball fans flocked to Cooperstown, N.Y., joined by thousands more tuning in on their televisions, for the 2015 Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. The four-day weekend, July...
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Just Because FCC Is Readying a Rulemaking on Broadband Privacy Does Not Mean...
The FCC is poised to release a notice of proposed rulemaking addressing the obligations of ISPs to protect their customers’ information. The process arises out of last year’s Open Internet order, which...
View ArticleAchieve Your Leadership Breakthrough
Michael Abrashoff, former U.S. Navy commander and author of "It's Your Ship," discusses how to achieve your breakthrough performance. He encourages leaders to reflect on their leadership story and...
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ASTAC Awarded USDA Funding
Point Hope, AlaskaGood things are happening in Point Hope (Tikigaq), Alaska, population 700. Through a $1.4 million grant made possible by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Community Connect Grants...
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It’s the End of the Moore as We Know It: What’s Next?
I usually do not read high-brow literature, but a note on the cover of The Economist caught my eye (it was on the desk of fellow New Edge writer and NTCA Manager, Economic Research and Analysis Rick...
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Not My Job …
Danger! Danger! According to survey results released this week by Pew Research Center, two-thirds of Americans surveyed believe that much of the work currently done by humans will be taken over by...
View ArticleWired Differently: A Cooperative Business Model, Servant Leadership and...
Check out the latest episode of "Broadband Beat With Shirley Bloomfield," featuring Vern Dosch, chief executive officer of National Information Solutions Cooperative and author of "Wired Differently."...
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Beep, Beep: Digital Media Academy Rolling Through
Surry Telephone Membership Corp. (Dobson, N.C.) partnered with its local county school system and funded a RV, which was turned into an amazing mobile studio. In exchange for this mobile studio, the...
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The Thrill Is Gone: Mobile Phones Approach Market Saturation
There was a time when Apple’s launch events would draw scores of spectators, analysts and journalists; when the events would not only be live-streamed but also live-blogged with studio color commentary...
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White House Rural Council Hosts Rural Telehealth Summit
Rural telehealth was the focus of the “White House Convening on Rural Telehealth” summit hosted March 30 by the White House Rural Council. The event featured NTCA members, officials from the Obama...
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