Stories of Innovation

By Joshua Seidemann on January 09, 2018 CES is spread across several venues in Las Vegas. Deciding what to see and which conference sessions to attend demands a certain level of logistical choreography. Not that I am much of a...

Written by Joshua Seidemann on January 03, 2018 For about seven years, we (the family) went camping every summer. We went to the same campground, frequently had the same cabin, often went the same week in August, and had a...

For as much as I research and talk about technology, I am not an ardent early adopter. It is not that I do not appreciate or believe in the usefulness of various applications; it's more that I am selective about employing technology that will make a meaningful and useful difference in my life.

Soon after landing my first "real" job, I made a habit of visiting Sears each weekend to buy a tool. It started with a small, wood-handle hammer (which remains my favorite), and was followed over time by screwdriver sets, pliers, clamps, and other toolbox basics.

It’s not easy bringing broadband service to the most rural parts of this country: among the inherent challenges are low population densities, rugged terrain, and a smaller customer base over which to spread deployment costs.

Panel conversation hosted by NTCA discuss benefits of rural communities working and using broadband to create opportunities and attract new and returning residents.

Recent articles and studies indicate that U.S. manufacturing jobs are being affected more by technology than cross-border competition. These data underlie a growing need to consider a new “extraction strategy” for rural America.

Although I was raised in Ohio, I have been developing a bit of a relationship with Pennsylvania over the past decade.

Rural Americans face a number of very dramatic health challenges. They tend to be older, less affluent, and subject to higher instances of chronic disease than their urban counterparts.

NTCA members continue to make advances in bringing wireless service to their customers, despite the numerous inherent obstacles, according to the just-released NTCA 2016 Wireless Survey Report.

Ransomware, distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks, phishing campaigns – is your company prepared to address and mitigate current cyber threats?

On September 21, 2015, Rainbow Communications of Everest, Kansas, received the Smart Rural Community Showcase award. In its application, Rainbow Communications highlighted as many as twenty different local organizations and businesses that utilize broadband to enhance growth and innovation.

In 2014, Waitsfield and Champlain Valley Telecom (WCVT) (Waitsfield, Vt.) earned a Showcase Award in the NTCA Smart Rural Community (SRC) program. In 2015, WCVT secured an SRC Collaboration Challenge grant, which matched community funding for a free downtown Wi-Fi network.

ATMC recently demonstrated its continued support of local education by donating 25 computers to the Computers for Kids project, an all-volunteer project that provides refurbished computers to students who do not have a home computer.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler visited McKee, Ky., on February 8 to highlight Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative’s success in creating a high-speed, fiber optic network in one of the most rugged and economically depressed areas of the country.