State leaders are working to bring broadband access to the many rural areas of Virginia that still don’t have it. “It is most definitely a challenge,” said Virginia Systems for MetroCast Communications General Manager Bill Newborg. Due to logistical and financial challenges, it can be a struggle for isolated neighborhoods to convince...
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Rural Broadband: Opportunities in the Digital Divide
April 30, 2015 – Bob Nichols, Declaration Networks CEO, is a panelist at “Rural Broadband: Opportunities in the Digital Divide”. The event was organized by The HUB, a leading networking organization. Barry Toser, DNG’s EVP of Sales & CMO, is the President and Co-founder of The HUB. Having access to the...
FCC votes to adopt new 3.5 GHz spectrum sharing plan for ‘Innovation Band’
Fierce Wireless has a new article about how the FCC voted today to adopt new spectrum sharing tools and policies to make 150 MHz of spectrum available for mobile broadband and other commercial uses. The radio waves sit in the 3.5 GHz band that previously was locked up by the U.S....
Watch Keith Montgomery in the 2015 Broadband Communities Summit
Keith Montgomery, Declaration Networks’ CFO, is Vice President of the Rural Telecom Congress and he participated in the 2015 Broadband Communities Summit in Austin, Texas
The Rural Broadband Digital Divide
There is a high degree of awareness of how differences in Internet connectivity contribute to the “digital divide” experienced by many, if not most, rural areas. Less is understood about a very real divide that exists from (a lack of) utilization. That’s right, just as important as “speed” is how...
Broadband and the Farm
by Keith Montgomery, Rural Telecom Congress Vice President & CFO of Declaration Networks Group. Broadband technology is an essential tool to those who are linked to the land – modern farmers and ranchers, landowners, builders, and loggers that feed and supply the nation. Their efforts and success drive a significant...
FCC Gets it Right on Community Broadband
On an historic day at the Federal Communications Commission, the agency preempted laws in North Carolina and Tennessee that restrict the ability of communities to provide broadband service to their residents. The action came in response to petitions filed last year by community broadband providers in Chattanooga, Tenn., and Wilson,...
Digital Divide in Texas Highlighted by New Maps
Today, over four million mostly rural Texas households cannot access broadband with speeds that meet the FCC’s updated goal for connectivity across the country (25 Mbps download/3 Mbps upload). Recently published maps highlight the vast and primarily rural areas of the state that lack access to the new benchmark for high-speed Internet. Read...
FCC Raises the Bar for Broadband
Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took important steps to improve the consumer broadband market in the United States. At its monthly Open Meeting, the FCC changed the definition of broadband that it uses to assess whether broadband is being deployed in a timely fashion throughout the country. The Commission...
Connect Iowa Applauds Gov. Branstad
Connect Iowa applauds Gov. Terry Branstad’s commitment to make broadband a policy priority in the 2015 legislative session. In today’s Condition of the State address, Branstad reinforced the state’s efforts to pass comprehensive broadband legislation and support communities that will promote greater broadband access, adoption, and use across the state....