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Co-ops Connect FYI Newsletters
Newsletters will appear here each week as new issues release.
- Happy Birthday, Conexon - August 11, 2023
- AT&T's Fixed Wireless Play - August 4th, 2023
- Know Your Numbers - July 14, 2023
- Don't Be a Goldfish - July 7, 2023
- Shades of Blue - June 30th, 2023
- One Question That Could Save The BEAD Program - June 23rd, 2023
- Where Did The Money Go? - June 16, 2023
- The New National Broadband Map: It's All About the Reported Speed - June 9, 2023
- I Get Email - June 2, 2023
- Privilege - May 26, 2023
- This is What Leadership Looks Like - May 19, 2023
- The Largest Broadband Providers in America - May 12, 2023
- The Newest Face of Community Broadband Ownership - May 5, 2023
- AT&T Should Changes Its Name to UST&T (The Urban Suburban Telephone & Telegraph Company) - April 28, 2023
- Selling Belief, Not Broadband - April 21, 2023
- A Personal Thanks - April 14, 2023
- In Memory of My Wife, Dana Joy Hyde - March 17, 2023
- Fiber to Every Rural Home Requires Innovation - March 3, 2023
- A Simple Question for Congress: What Did You Mean By Offered? - February 24, 2023
- Is Fixed Wireless Reliable? - February 17, 2023
- More Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: Charter Takes Public Funds to Build 10 Mbps Networks - February 10, 2023
- Know Your Numbers: Unserved and Underserved Locations in Electric Co-op Service Territories - February 3, 2023
- Rural Homes Count - January 27, 2023
- Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Rural Broadband Programs - January 20, 2023
- What to Expect of the Service Level Challenges to the National Broadband Map - January 13, 2023
- Two New Year's Intentions for Rural Broadband - January 6, 2023
- Thank You for Reading - December 30, 2022
- Do You Believe in Miracles? - December 23, 2022
- Could New Rural Broadband Cooperatives Work? - December 16, 2022
- Updates and insights for electric cooperatives considering or operating rural broadband networks – December 9, 2022
- The Map Has Problems (But It's Good Enough for the BEAD Allocation) - December 2, 2022
- Happy Thanksgiving from Our Family to Yours - November 25, 2022
- Happy Broadband Map Day! - November 18, 2022
- Top Takeaways from Conexon Co-ops Connect 2022 - November 11, 2022
- Happy One-Year Anniversary, Infrastructure Act - November 4, 2022
- An Election Day Memory: Tu Voto Es Secreto - October 28, 2022
- Shocker: AT&T Fined $23M for Bribing a Government Official - October 21, 2022
- Fiber to Every Rural Home: BEAD is More Than Enough - October 14, 2022
- Electric Cooperatives, A Uniquely American Institution - October 7, 2022
- False Flags and the FCC’s Broadband Map – September 29, 2022
- How to Manage the Challenge of Challenges - September 23, 2022
- Our Broadband Future Lies Not in Starlink, But in Ourselves - September 16, 2022
- Enough Secrecy: Make the Data Public - September 9, 2022
- Building An Efficient State Broadband Program: Florida - September 2, 2022
- Avoiding the Train Wreck of Broadband Mapping - August 26, 2022
- The Challenge Process, Phase 2 – August 19, 2022
- A Comparison Between the FCC’s Location Fabric and Actual Broadband Serviceable Locations – August 12, 2022
- Preparing to Challenge the FCC's Broadband Location Fabric – August 5, 2022
- A Public Service Announcement from NTIA (and My Interpretation) – July 29, 2022
- Protect Your Service Territory: A Brief History of Federal Broadband Funding – July 22, 2022
- Shalom From Jerusalem – July 15, 2022
- Long-Term Inflation Remedy: Build a Fiber Network, Cut the Cord – July 8, 2022
- Washington, DC: My Hometown - July 1, 2022
- The Ownership Difference! – June 24, 2022
- Before the Broadband Gap, There’s a Mapping Gap to Be Addressed – June 17, 2022
- Right Hand, Meet Left Hand: The FCC, NTIA, and Broadband Funding – June 10, 2022
- No Broadband at Home? Your State’s Broadband Office May Choose Not to Believe You – June 3, 2022
- Will T-Mobile Distort the Broadband Funding Allocation to States? – May 27, 2022
- The NTIA NOFO: We’re in Campaign Mode – May 20, 2022
- Poor Service for Poor People: The White House’s New Broadband Plan – May 13, 2022
- State Challenge Regimes That Will Kill Rural Broadband: The Bienville Story Continues – May 6, 2022
- Must Broadband Funding Be Fought for Block by Block, Street by Street, House by House? – April 29, 2022
- Persistent Poverty Counties and Broadband: A Deeper Dive – April 22, 2022
- A Simple Proposal to Help Rural Persistent Poverty Counties – April 15, 2022
- TV, or Not TV – That Is the Question – April 8, 2022
- How to Prevent Being Duped, Bamboozled, Hoodwinked, Hornswoggled or Pettifogged - April 1st, 2022
- High-Cost vs. Unserved: Two Different Ways to Fund Broadband in Rural America - March 25, 2022
- The American Covenant: Two Conversations From My Time at the FCC – March 18, 2022
- The Best Approach to Rural Broadband that No State or Federal Agency Will Adopt – March 11, 2022
- A Pause from Broadband to Honor the People of Ukraine – March 4, 2022
- ReForm ReConnect: A Proven Approach – February 25, 2022
- Eligibility Criteria: Unfunded and Unserved Is Unworkable – February 18, 2022
- 10 Steps to Set Up and Administer an Efficient State Broadband Program – February 11, 2022
- Reasonably Comparable’: The Root Cause of the Digital Divide – February 4, 2022
- The Federal Communications Commission and the Death of Expertise - January 27, 2022
- Infrastructure Act Rural Broadband Funding: Disincentive to Build in 2022? - January 21, 2022
- Defining Broadband: The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations - January 13, 2022
- Broadband billions are at stake - January 7, 2022

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