Stories of Innovation

By Josh Seidemann, VP of Policy, NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association I was asked this week whether I could identify any research studies that demonstrate a causal relationship between infrastructure, technology, affordability, adoption, and investment in broadband infrastructure. It took me...

By Joan Engebretson Nearly 20 years ago, Indiana’s Hancock Health saw broadband connectivity as key to providing health care by opening new clinics in small rural towns that lacked a local health care facility. At that time, Hancock Telecom—now NineStar...

By Laura Withers , VP─Strategic Communications Few things are more enlightening for people who don’t live in a rural community than visiting a small town to see what life is like. Staff members from the NTCA Arlington, Va., and Asheville...

By Carolyn Just, NTCA PR Manager Every October, National Cybersecurity Awareness Month raises the profile of cybersecurity as a personal and professional best practice. All month long, participants share tips and tricks to increase cybersecurity and stay cyber safe. But...

By Josh Seidemann, VP of Policy, NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association If you’ve thought that pop-up ads in your email today for items you browsed last week are unsettling, then imagine a browser extension that would warn you when a website’s...

By Carolyn Just, NTCA PR Manager Every October Americans celebrate the joys of Fall: autumn leaves, pumpkin patches, a full month of hockey, baseball, football, and of course National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM). NCSAM was launched by the National Cyber...

By Joan Engebretson A great example of how broadband can help attract companies to rural areas comes from Wapakoneta, Ohio, where high-speed fiber broadband from local service provider TSC helped attract Pratt Industries, a company headquartered in Australia that has...

By Josh Seidemann, VP of Policy, NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association If you would have tossed the term “cybersecurity” at me 20 years ago, I probably would have thought about a showdown between Storm Troopers and the Jedi. And if ten...

By Carolyn Just, PR Manager – NTCA—The Rural Broadband Association Sunny Denver, Colo., welcomed more than 1,400 attendees for the NTCA 2019 Fall Conference this week. It was a jam-packed week filled with entertaining speakers, informative learning sessions, industry insights...

By Josh Seidemann , Vice President of Policy, NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association Don Henley’s 1982 hit Dirty Laundry was a then-updated take on the theme, “Bad news sells papers.” But if Mr. Henley were to look at data from the...

By Josh Seidemann , Vice President of Policy, NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association When I think about driving in rural America, my mind goes to twisting one-lane byways and ribbons of asphalt stretching to the horizon. Unfortunately, I also think about...

By Joshua Seidemann , Vice President of Policy, NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association Kevin Ashton, a British technologist, is credited with having coined the phrase “Internet of Things” at a Proctor & Gamble conference in 1999. Ashton is a co-founder of...

By Joshua Seidemann , Vice President of Policy, NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association “Back to school” in the metro DC area means “back to traffic” as Congress and school children head back to work. Goodbye empty-road morning commutes; hello traffic congestion...

By Adam Jorde, Director of Government Affairs for NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association. On a muggy August morning in Bay Springs, Mississippi, Joey Garner and Lisa Wigington of Telephone Electronics Corporation (TEC) graciously welcomed me to their headquarters. Appearing...

By Joshua Seidemann , Vice President of Policy, NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association If you read popular DC press, you might be concerned about the prospects for rural America. An article published earlier this week notes that rural America suffers from...

By Joshua Seidemann , Vice President of Policy, NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association Des Moines, IA – August 7, 2019 Over the past year, most of my travel for NTCA has taken me everywhere but the Midwest, it seems. So, it...

By Laura Withers, Vice President of Strategic Communications, NTCA - The Rural Broadband Association July 17, 2019 Nearly 30 women managers from NTCA member companies traveled to Washington, D.C. last week to participate in the association’s third annual Women in...

By Joshua Seidemann , Vice President of Policy, NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association July 15, 2019 If you follow the Daily Digest of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), you would have seen a Public Notice last month announcing the formation of...

By Jesse Ward, Director of Industry and Policy Analysis, NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association As you may recall, NTCA recently announced that it is exploring the creation of a new Cyber-Threat Information Sharing Forum for Small Network Operators. A group of...

Rainbow has been busy forming multiple partnerships throughout Kansas during the past two years to expand the reach and impact of its fiber network.