CTC Technology & Energy Director of Engineering Andrew Afflerbach will speak at the Maryland Association of Counties (MACo) Summer Conference. His presentation Innovative Internet Deployment in Underserved Rural Areas: County-Initiated Wireless Broadband in Garrett County will be part of the Going the Distance – Building the “Last Mile” of Broadband Infrastructure session. The session, which is in […]
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CTC Technology & Energy President Joanne Hovis will speak at the Broadband Communities Conference in Springfield, MA. Hovis will be the leader and speaker at By the Numbers: Documenting Broadband’s Contribution to Economic Development in addition to presenting for the workshop A Community Fiber Toolkit Developing Fiber Projects. The Broadband Fiber Networks Conference is part of the Economic […]
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Broadband Communities Magazine has named CTC Technology and Energy to its annual Fiber-To-The-Home Top 100 List of companies. The list commends various types of companies within the broadband community for being “leaders and innovators in the fiber-to-the-home arena”. This is CTC’s fifth time on this list. […]
Our team has prepared a memorandum outlining our analysis of the FCC’s newly-created Rural Broadband Experiments program. These experiments will provide valuable data to the FCC, including potentially shaping future support for rural broadband. Applications are due 90 days from the release of the order (July 14). We believe that anyone interested in applying should […]
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As educational partner to the Rural Broadband Council of the Utilities Telecom Council, CTC Technology & Energy today presented a full day of educational sessions regarding the new Rural Broadband Experiments program recently created by the FCC. At a seminar in Indianapolis presented to more than 100 representatives of rural electric cooperatives and other interested […]
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My hat goes off to my clients at the Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband (UC2B) consortium on the announcement of its innovative public-private partnership. I think the fantastic UC2B team has accomplished something singular—a unique partnership that illustrates the benefits that can arise when local government works with the private sector to find Internet solutions. I am […]
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Following a year-long planning and construction process, the first site on the Town of Holly Springs, North Carolina’s 19-mile municipal fiber network came online today—and the immediate spike in network traffic patterns ratified the Town’s vision of freeing itself from bandwidth constraints. The first live site on the network is a community center, which offers […]
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Today, the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute and CTC Technology & Energy released a new report on local broadband networks, “The Art of the Possible: An Overview of Public Broadband Options.” The report is intended to serve as a primer for local government and community leaders on different approaches to public broadband networks. The […]
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Public Knowledge, the New America Foundation, and the Benton Foundation have filed CTC’s analysis of AT&T’s proposal for wire center trials in the Federal Communications Commission’s IP transition proceeding. This filing—“Response to AT&T’s Proposal for Wire Center Trials in the IP Transition Proceeding”—follows up on an earlier report we prepared on behalf of Public Knowledge […]
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CTC Technology & Energy has launched a project with the City of Raleigh, North Carolina to develop a roadmap for meeting the city’s future networking needs. CTC engineers will perform a technical assessment of the city’s current network plans, develop a strategy for fiber construction, and provide detailed guidance on middle-mile network operations. Our business […]
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