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Rural Telecom Carriers Urge Congress to Raise NBP Rural Broadband Standards
5/6/10 at 2:19 PM by Bernie Arnason
When discussing broadband speeds, the recently released national broadband plan could be perceived to be setting two separate bars. Beyond the so called ‘100 Squared’ initiative, which calls for 100 Mbp/s to 100 million homes, the plan also discusses the new Connect America Fund ...
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NTCA: 1/3 of Rural ILEC Members Offer Mobile Broadband Services
4/16/10 at 8:24 AM by Bernie Arnason
The National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA) published their annual NTCA Wireless Survey, revealing stepped up activity for rural carriers in the wireless space. NTCA represents the interests of 580 small rural ILECs, both cooperative and commercial. Nearly 50% of their members ...
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NTCA, OPASTCO to Merge
4/1/10 at 6:47 AM by Telecompetitor
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NTCA Reports Strong Broadband Activity Among Telco Members
11/24/09 at 5:12 PM by Andrew Burger
NTCA members continue to deploy high speed broadband in their service areas and offer customers an increasingly broad range of telecommunications services, according to the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association's "2009 Broadband/Internet Availability Survey Report".
The expanding reach of providers' fiber networks has ...
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NTCA Catches Netbook Fever
9/15/09 at 10:46 AM by Bernie Arnason
NTCA, the trade association representing rural telecom interests, outlined its Rural PC Project at their NTCA Fall Conference in New York City. The Rural PC Project is a joint effort between NTCA and ...
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New Independent National Network Brewing
2/9/09 at 5:16 PM by Telecompetitor  A 40,000+ route mile national fiber network made up from independent telcos may be on the horizon. Such a network could compete with the Level 3’s, AT&T’s, and Qwest’s of the world with wholesale bandwidth, VPNs, interstate/intercity private lines, and maybe even establish an independent content delivery network. Such was the talk on the NTCA Annual Meeting's ‘Perfecting Partnerships’ panel, led by Kevin McGuire, NTCA’s vice president of business ...
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NTCA Tells Members They Can Compete Today
2/11/08 at 9:00 AM by Telecompetitor  In a very engaging session entitled Competitive Threats and Opportunities at the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association Annual Meeting, NTCA’s vice president of business and technology, Kevin McGuire argued that NTCA members are in a good position to compete in today’s evolving competitive environment. McGuire demonstrated a variety of technologies including VoIP, Internet video, call management portals, and wireless convergence, while urging the audience to embrace and leverage these ...
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Primetime for IP Prime
9/18/07 at 12:00 AM by Telecompetitor 
NRTC and NTCA formally unveiled their SES AMERICOM powered IP Prime product today at the NTCA Fall Conference. IP Prime is a centralized end to end IPTV network, targeting small telcos with a managed IPTV network. North Central Telephone Cooperative of Lafayette, TN was named as the first IP Prime non-beta customer. IP Prime ...
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