I recently read an article from the Minnesota Public Radio News on “Dropped long-distance calls irk rural Minnesotans” which highlighted the various commercial and enterprise interests in Minnesota that were suffering from the epidemic of dropped calls in rural America. One of the companies highlighted, Up North Sports, received about 20 percent of its business …
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May 21 2013
Telco HR Professionals Rise to the Leadership Challenge
I had the privilege of spending some time this week with human resource professionals from a number of member telcos from around the country, and I was so impressed by their engagement and their passion for playing a strategic leadership role for their telcos. We were able to have a dialogue on “What Your CEO Wishes HR Knew,” …
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May 16 2013
FCC Addresses Some Significant Rural Carrier Issues
Today, the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau took some positive steps toward addressing a number of issues that NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association has raised about the Universal Service Fund (USF) reporting requirements, as well as the continuing need for the commission to actually create a targeted support mechanism for broadband support for rural areas and consumers served by …
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May 13 2013
Congress Weighs In With the Government Accountability Office
Sixty-three members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a missive today to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting that it conduct a report to monitor and measure the effects of modifications adopted as part of the FCC’s order intended to modernize the high-cost component of the Universal Service Fund (USF) and advance the availability …
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