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The Data Buffet Is Open
We Americans are well known for our love of conspicuous consumption: be it food we eat, the fossil fuels that we pump into our SUVs, or the jumbo-sized McMansions we build and squeeze into lots...
View ArticleWilkes Communications: Committed to Keeping Rural Communities Connected
In a recent episode of the “Community Broadband Bits Podcast” hosted by the Institute of Local Self-Reliance, NTCA member Eric Cramer, president and chief executive officer of Wilkes Communications...
View Article'Spitter' (Sports Twitter)
Last week, more than 10 million fewer Americans settled in to watch the NCAA men’s basketball championship. That’s a shame, because the final minutes of the game featured an impressive, stubborn effort...
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Paying It Forward
Over the years, All West Communications (Kamas, Utah) has built a reputation for being a pillar in the community. Like most community-based rural broadband providers, the company is a contributor to...
View ArticleI Want My Download, And I Want It Now!
The recently released results of a Limelight Networks survey show that not only are we consumers downloading more than ever before, but we become agitated when our downloads aren’t completed quickly...
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I Still Dream About Columbus
I have a favorite set of photographs at home. One is of my sister and I on a neighbor’s porch swing; the other is of my kids on the same swing, in the same spots, about 35 years later. Not much...
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NTCA Hosts Legislative & Policy Conference
The 2016 NTCA Legislative & Policy Conference kicked off April 18, as more than 450 RLEC representatives convened at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C....
View ArticleNTCA Members Participate in White House Telehealth Event
Representatives from NTCA member companies, as well as officials from the Obama administration, leaders from state and local government, academia and the practitioner community, gathered March 30 at...
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How Rolls Royce and Digital Books Can Illustrate Rural Broadband Needs
A recent report from Wired describes the “totally unnecessary” convertible roof on the new Rolls Royce Dawn. The six-layer top to the $340,000 car retracts and reappears almost silently, relying on a...
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FRS Hosts Event at Hudson Institute on Economic Impact of Rural Broadband
The Foundation for Rural Service (FRS) hosted an event April 20 to unveil findings of an economic impact of rural broadband report. FRS Executive Director Jessica Golden set the tone for the event with...
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Rural Broadband Caucus Explores Rural Economies
Strengthening rural economies through broadband deployment was the focus of the second bipartisan Rural Broadband Caucus briefing. Held April 27, the event centered on rural broadband deployment and...
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Waxed Mustache Cord Cutter
My first cellphone was about the size of four Snickers bars (bundled together, not end-to-end). It was not quite a brick, but it certainly might have been eligible for its own pint-sized Baby Bjorn. My...
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2016 TeleChoice Awards Winners Recognized
The best and brightest rural telco public relations and marketing pros were recognized as 2016 TeleChoice Awards Winners during the NTCA PR & Marketing Conference, May 1–3, in Charleston,...
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Merrily As I Stream …
It’s official: If you are a millennial, you are far more likely to stream video than to watch traditional, live television.This is according to Horowitz Research’s “State of Cable & Digital Media...
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NTCA Rural Broadband PAC Names Director of the Year
John Brown, president and chief executive officer of CSSA, received the Director of the Year Award from NTCA Rural Broadband PAC, the association’s political action committee, during the Rural Telecom...
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Video Rears Its Head in Disney Decline, But Might a Solution be in the Wings?
Disney stock values fell recently in response to declines in the entertainment giant’s video business. Analysts attributed the decline to turbulence in traditional video models that bundle hundreds of...
View ArticleSen. Heitkamp, FCC Commissioner Rosenworcel Meet With North Dakota Telcos
Writing letters and holding congressional hearings are effective ways to engage policymakers, but sometimes you just have to get them out in rural America to speak directly with the people who rely on...
View ArticleNTCA CEO Shirley Bloomfield’s First Facebook Live
NTCA CEO Shirley Bloomfield discusses industry and association happenings in her first Facebook Live from her office with the Foundation for Rural Service Executive Director Jessica Golden....
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NTCA Fly-In Event Focuses on Video
NTCA hosted a grassroots advocacy fly-in May 19 focused exclusively on video issues. Category: Other
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(Excessive) Burden of Proof
NTCA member companies are truly amazing. Our members provide state-of-the-art telecommunications services to some of the most difficult to serve portions of the nation. Doing so often requires them to...
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