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Jonathan Chambers
Rural electric cooperatives are providing new hope for bridging the rural broadband divide. Formed during the 1930s to get electricity into the hands of rural residents and businesses, such co-ops are building out fiber-based broadband across several U.S. communities. One company driving that movement is Conexon. In February, Conexon and members of its Rural Electric Cooperative Consortium (RECC) were awarded more than $1.1 billion through the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase I auction to provide gigabit broadband services. Consortium members will use the money to launch and operate fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks in more than 600,000 rural areas across 22 states. One champion of the electric co-op movement is Jonathan Chambers, a partner at Conexon. Broadband Communities caught up wit
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Mark Duggan
One look at Colorado’s official broadband map and Bernadette Cuthair of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe will tell you it’s wrong.
This story was originally published in the Colorado Sun
As the tribe s director of planning & development, Cuthair has been working to help her community access faster internet service. But the current broadband map makes it seem like the southwestern town of Towaoc, the base for the tribe, doesn t need help. The map shows most of the town already has federally adequate speeds of 25 megabits or faster.
Not quite, she said. We have a very slow speed, Cuthair said. In many cases, the provider s actually providing 3-megabits (download) and 500 kilobits (upload) for services according to their own website. . The southwest Colorado region could benefit from more redundancy of services and options.