Co-ops Connect FYI

The Aftermath of Hurricane Helene

October 4, 2024

A Leading Lights Award

September 27, 2024

The State of America’s Politics

September 13, 2024

Can We Learn?

September 6, 2024

The River

August 30, 2024

Just in Case...

August 16, 2024

Cassandra, Part II

August 9, 2024

More Lessons From Our Broadband Leaders

August 2, 2024

Joe Biden

July 26, 2024

And the Razzie Awards for Poor Broadband Choices Goes to…

July 19, 2024

More Lessons From Our Broadband Leaders

July 12, 2024

Yankee Doodle Dandy

July 5, 2024

Lessons From Our Broadband Leaders

June 21, 2024

Locates

June 14, 2024

How to Jump-Start BEAD: Replicate Kentucky’s Pole Replacement Program Nationwide

June 7, 2024

Cassandra

May 31, 2024

A Race to Build

May 17, 2024

To inspire builders to build while they waited for funds, I proposed that the Commerce Department tell the states to adopt a “look back” provision so anything built to BEAD-eligible locations before funds were available would be reimbursed.

Why the FCC Let the Affordable Connectivity Program Die

May 10, 2024

A Tax on Rural Broadband Construction

May 3, 2024

Why Not 100 Percent?

April 26, 2024

Star Wars

April 19, 2024

The Power of a Network of Co-op Networks

April 12, 2024

Electric Cooperative Broadband: Living History

April 5, 2024

Milestones: 100% Access

March 29, 2024

Should the FCC Grant Amnesty to RDOF Recipients?

March 22, 2024

Will NTIA’s Rate Regulation Derail or Merely Delay BEAD?

March 15, 2024

A Time to Build: Don’t Wait for BEAD

March 8, 2024

Is BEAD For You?

March 1, 2024

Remember Alexei Navalny

February 23, 2024

The Kansas City Chiefs

February 16, 2024

The Best Availability Is Affordability

February 9, 2024

God Save Us From People Who Mean Well

February 2, 2024

I Get Email

January 26, 2024

The King of Copper

January 19, 2024

Playing Politics with the Poor: The Affordable Connectivity Program

January 12, 2024

What Every Reader of These Posts Knows

January 5, 2024

Happy Birthday, Conexon!

August 11, 2023

AT&T's Fixed Wireless Play

August 4, 2023

Know Your Numbers

July 14, 2023

Don't be a Goldfish

July 7, 2023

Where Did The Money Go?

June 16, 2023

The New National Broadband Map

June 9, 2023

I Get Email

June 2, 2023

Privilege

May 26, 2023

This Is What Leadership Looks Like

May 19, 2023

As We Anticipate New Broadband Maps

May 12, 2023

The Newest Face of Community Broadband Owership

May 5, 2023

AT&T Should Change Its Name to UST&T (The Urban Suburban Telephone & Telegraph Company)

April 28, 2023

Selling Belief, Not Broadband

April 21, 2023

In Memory of My Wife, Dana Joy Hyde

March 17, 2023

Fiber to Every Rural Home Requires Innovation

March 3, 2023

A Simple Questions 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 Network

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 5, 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

How Should BEAD Programs Take Consumer Preference into Account?

December 8, 2022

The Map Has Problems (But It’s Good Enough for the BEAD Allocation)

December 2, 2022

Happy Broadband Map Day!

November 18, 2022

Top Takeaways from Conexon Co-ops Connect 2022

November 10, 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

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 25, 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 7, 2022

How to Prevent Being Duped, Bamboozled, Hoodwinked, Hornswoggled or Pettifogged

April 1, 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 17, 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 2, 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 14, 2022

Broadband billions are at stake

January 7, 2022