We’re less than two weeks into 2021 and two telco electric broadband partnerships already have been announced. The latest one comes from Comporium and York Electric Cooperative for a deployment in rural South Carolina. Last week, Indiana-based telco Smithville and…
Regional broadband provider Smithville and electric cooperative Utilities District of Western Indiana REMC have formed a limited partnership to deploy broadband to a rural area in Indiana. It is the latest in a recent string of telecom electric broadband partnerships,…
In what they say is a first, five electric cooperatives in three states have formed an association of broadband co-ops aimed at bolstering services in underserved rural areas. The Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Broadband Cooperatives (VMDABC) is structurally…
The Georgia Public Service Commission yesterday approved new pole attachment pricing designed to spur rural broadband deployment in unserved areas. The new pricing includes the One Buck Deal proposed by rural electric membership cooperatives (EMCs) in the state that establishes…
The USDA ReConnect Program has continued its string of rural broadband investments with a grant award to The Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative to deploy a FTTP network to connect rural Brunswick and Halifax counties in Virginia. The USDA ReConnect Virginia award…
Electric cooperatives in Georgia have proposed policies aimed at spurring rural broadband deployments. The cooperatives call the proposed policies the Georgia Solution. Although some Georgia electric cooperatives have proposed to build broadband networks in the rural communities they serve, those…
October 09, 2020 — SAN JOSE, Calif.–Calix, Inc.(NYSE: CALX) today announced a formal partnership with full-service broadband consulting firm, Conexon, which it has named an Elite Consulting Engineering Partner, the founding member of the consulting category of the Calix Partner…
Pleasant Grove, Utah — October 8, 2020 — Alianza, Inc., the leading cloud communications platform for service providers, announced today an integration with NISC’s iVUE Connect platform. Building on a multi-year technology partnership that has helped cooperatives deploy rural broadband,…
In our second Broadband Industry Innovator series interview with Finley Engineering, I talk with Sean Middleton, Director of Strategy and Operations, about the utility broadband trend. More rural electric cooperatives are entering the broadband business and Sean has a unique…
Fifteen Mississippi rural electric cooperatives have won a combined total of $65 million in rural broadband funding through the CARES Act passed earlier this year in response to the COVID-19 crisis. The money came indirectly through the state, which carved…
Windstream said today that it will partner with rural electric co-op Colquitt Electric Membership Corp. on a broadband buildout in rural Georgia. In an interview with Telecompetitor, Jeff Small, president of Windstream’s Kinetic business unit, shared details about the partners’…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ReConnect Pilot Program has invested $3.2 million to promote broadband services to unserved and underserved rural areas of North Carolina. The USDA ReConnect CARES Act grant goes to French Broad Electric Membership Corporation, which will…
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