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Local Communities Still Committed to RS Fiber Cooperative
Green Isle and nine other communities have reaffirmed their commitment to the RS Fiber Cooperative, reports the Belle Plain Herald. The project began in 2010 as a collaboration between a number of...
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Yolo County, California Ready for Better Broadband
The Yolo County Board of Supervisors in California voted unanimously recently to accept consultants' recommendations to take steps improve broadband in the county. Some of those recommendations...
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Minnesota Public Officials at Home and In D.C.: Funding Rural High-Speed...
It’s getting to be a sad, repetitive tale: crappy Internet for rural populations. Minnesota public officials hope to change that. At both state and federal levels, they’re advocating for greater...
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Fact Sheet On Rural Connectivity In North Carolina
The Coalition for Local Internet Choice North Carolina chapter (CLIC-NC) and the Community Broadband Networks Team here at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) have teamed up to create a new...
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A New Cooperative Model for Fiber to the Farm - Community Broadband Bits...
When we launched this podcast in 2012, we kicked it off with an interview from Minnesota's farm country, Sibley County. We were excited at their passion for making sure every farm was connected with...
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Osage and the Iowa Legislature - Community Broadband Bits Podcast 232
Located in northwest Iowa, Osage has been an innovative utility leader with forward-looking investments in both telecommunications and clean energy with wind and solar. Osage Municipal Utilites General...
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Transcript: Community Broadband Bits Episode 232
This is the transcript for episode 232 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast. In this episode, General Manager Josh Byrnes of Osage Municipal Utilities joins the show to share how fiber connectivity...
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RS Fiber Co-op Brings High-Tech Business to Laid-Back Lifestyles in Rural...
Minnesota’s RS Fiber Cooperative has brought gigabit connectivity to households and businesses in small, rural towns in Renville and Sibley Counties. Within the next few years, they plan to transition...
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Berrien County Makes Broadband A Priority
On April 4th, 2019, the Board of Commissioners of Berrien County, Michigan approved a resolution that formally acknowledges that achieving countywide access to high-speed Internet is crucial to the...
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From Pigs to Power, North Carolina Ag Needs Broadband Not Barriers
When rural broadband advocates talk about the connectivity needs of farmers, they often discuss real-time crop prices, monitoring the status of fields, or the ability to submit data-intensive reports....
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High Tech for Farms Highlights Need for High Speed
Thanks to the Blandin on Broadband blog for bringing our attention to this story!Farming has gone high tech with feathers, high-speed Internet access, and cutting-edge robots. Jack Kilian a University...
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United Soybean Board: Poor Farm Connectivity Threatens Productivity,...
Farmers depend on Internet connectivity like any other businesses for daily office tasks such as record keeping, reporting, banking, and marketing. This dependency stretches further as daily farming...
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Eight Pennsylvania Counties Join Forces to Improve Regional Connectivity
Local officials in eight mostly-rural counties in southwest Pennsylvania are combining efforts to determine first, what connectivity is available and, second, what can be done to improve it.Tags:...
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Farmers in “Little Egypt” Look Forward to Growing Fiber Network
In a part of the Prairie State referred to as “Little Egypt,” a small county in southeastern Illinois recently received a big infusion of federal funds to expand its broadband network into neighboring...
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Chirping Soil and Autonomous Tractors: Connecting Agriculture in Nebraska -...
This week on the podcast, Christopher speaks with Julie Bushell, President of Paige Wireless and Co-chair of Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) Precision Ag Connectivity Task Force.Tags:...
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