Telecom
Co-ops Back FCC Outage Reporting BidPublished: November 29th, 2011
Citing electric cooperatives’ increasing reliance on broadband communications and on technology that allows telephone calls to be made over the Internet, NRECA has backed a proposal to extend outage... Read more
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Broadband by Popular DemandPublished: November 15th, 2011
Broadband is coming to some rural Missouri homes because members asked their electric cooperative for it and the co-op listened. Co-Mo Electric Cooperative is just weeks away from bringing the first... Read more
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CRN Focuses on Co-op Telecom NeedsPublished: November 11th, 2011
For current and future telecom needs, electric cooperatives must design a system “you can build, you can maintain, and that scales with the utility,” noted John Hewa, NRECA vice president for... Read more
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Step Ahead on New Mexico BroadbandPublished: August 19th, 2011
A $64 million broadband project at a New Mexico co-op is one step closer to reality. Federal, state and local officials joined representatives of Kit Carson Electric Co-op to break ground on a... Read more
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Rural Missouri Welcomes BroadbandPublished: May 23rd, 2011
A Missouri co-op is the first in the Show Me State and among the first in the nation to deploy a “fiber-to-the-home” Internet technology using a federal stimulus grant and loan as... Read more
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Ga. Co-ops to Expand BroadbandPublished: March 29th, 2011
Ultra high-speed Internet is starting to become a reality in heavily rural northeast Georgia. Two co-ops recently began installing a $42 million regional fiber optic network that will cross a 260-mile... Read more
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Feds Help Co-op Broadband EffortsPublished: November 22nd, 2010
Twelve electric co-ops from around the country have received some $280 million in federal grants and loans to assist in their efforts to upgrade communications infrastructure in rural areas. Two... Read more