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Conexon’s widely read Co-ops Connect FYI newsletter by Partner Jonathan Chambers provides the latest industry updates, news and views for electric cooperatives and other community organizations operating or considering rural broadband networks.
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Why Not 100 Percent?
April 26, 2024
Several weeks ago, I celebrated in this column a number of electric co-ops that have built fiber networks to 100 percent of their members.
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Playing Politics with the Poor: The Affordable Connectivity Program
January 12, 2024
Read newsletterAT&T Should Change Its Name to UST&T (The Urban Suburban Telephone & Telegraph Company)
April 28, 2023
Read newsletterMore Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: Charter Takes Public Funds to Build 10 Mbps Network
February 10, 2023
Read newsletterKnow Your Numbers: Unserved and Underserved Locations in Electric Co-op Service Territories
February 3, 2023
Read newsletterWhat to Expect of the Service Level Challenges to the National Broadband Map
January 13, 2023
Read newsletterThe Map Has Problems (But It’s Good Enough for the BEAD Allocation)
December 2, 2022
Read newsletterA Comparison Between the FCC’s Location Fabric and Actual Broadband Serviceable Locations
August 12, 2022
Read newsletterProtect Your Service Territory: A Brief History of Federal Broadband Funding
July 22, 2022
Read newsletterNo Broadband at Home? Your State’s Broadband Office May Choose Not to Believe You
June 3, 2022
Read newsletterState Challenge Regimes That Will Kill Rural Broadband: The Bienville Story Continues
May 6, 2022
Read newsletterMust Broadband Funding Be Fought for Block by Block, Street by Street, House by House?
April 29, 2022
Read newsletterHow to Prevent Being Duped, Bamboozled, Hoodwinked, Hornswoggled or Pettifogged
April 1, 2022
Read newsletterHigh-Cost vs. Unserved: Two Different Ways to Fund Broadband in Rural America
March 25, 2022
Read newsletterThe Best Approach to Rural Broadband that No State or Federal Agency Will Adopt
March 11, 2022
Read newsletter10 Steps to Set Up and Administer an Efficient State Broadband Program
February 11, 2022
Read newsletterInfrastructure Act Rural Broadband Funding: Disincentive to Build in 2022?
January 21, 2022
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