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In this podcast series, our hosts Curtis Dean, Todd Kielkopf, and Jon Anne Willow sit down with experts and discuss issues being tackled by community broadband providers and advocates, from policy to the commercial landscape. Together we will explore the challenges facing the adoption and accessibility of fast, reliable, affordable, and universally available broadband, as well as the ways in which it impacts the lives of those who live in underserved or untapped communities.
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How to Build Your Knowledge Base
CBAN discusses the ways that communities can build a knowledge base about broadband through networking, online resources, organization membership, and attending conferences and workshops.
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Jun 21, 2022
Community Spotlight: Cedar Falls, IA
CBAN member Cedar Falls Utilities in Iowa has a great story to tell. They've long been a leader among municipal broadband providers in Iowa and the nation. We'll talk about how CFU is expanding outside of its city limits to bring better broadband to rural residents, leveraging the Iowa Broadband Grant program and design choices that reduce overall cost.
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Jun 14, 2022
What's Going On with the BEAD Program?
CBAN's Curtis Dean and Todd Kielkopf sit down and discuss that latest and greatest from NTIA as they take next steps towards administrating the BEAD program? What is it? What is going on?
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Jun 7, 2022
Community Spotlight: Shrewsbury, MA
For this week, co-host Curtis Dean sits down with SELCO in Shrewsbury, MA to discuss their amazing program. Located in central Massachusetts with 38,000 residents, they have one of the first municipal communication utilities in the Northeastern United States.
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May 31, 2022
Community Spotlight: Indianola, IA
CBAN's Curtis Dean visits Indianola Municipal Utilities and discusses the progress of the municipal fiber utility with Telecommunications Superintendent Kurt Ripperger.
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May 17, 2022
Faster Isn't Always Better
This week we week we welcome back Christopher Ali and his book "Farm Fresh Broadband” as we continue to discuss national broadband policy and it’s impact on rural America. Ali's book features an analysis of the failure of U.S. broadband policy to solve the rural-urban digital divide and offers proposals for a new national rural broadband plan. We look forward to visiting with Christopher and sharing his perspectives of how to bring better broadband to more Americans!
Christopher Ali can be found @Ali_Christopher on Twitter.
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May 10, 2022
Mountain Connect
This week we are joined by with Jeff Gavilinksi with Mountain Connect, a regional broadband conference coming up on May 22, 2022. Join us as we talk about what to expect with this conference!
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May 3, 2022
Rural Broadband Policy in the United States
CBAN team hosts a lively discussion with Christopher Ali, author of the book "Farm Fresh Broadband - The Politics of Rural Connectivity".
Ali's book features an analysis of the failure of U.S. broadband policy to solve the rural-urban digital divide and offers proposals for a new national rural broadband plan. We look forward to visiting with Christopher and sharing his perspectives of how to bring better broadband to more Americans!
Christopher Ali can be found @Ali_Christopher on Twitter.
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Apr 12, 2022
The Power of Anti-Municipal Broadband Lobbyists at National and State Level
This week, we welcome back our guests as we continue to talk about anti-municipal broadband lobbyists at the state and national levels as opposed to focusing just on individual communitites. How do these groups lobby for their interests? In what way does it change from the state level to the national level? We talk about all that in more in this exciting episode.
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Apr 5, 2022
Anti-Municipal Broadband Groups vs Community Referendums
In this week’s episode, we discuss anti-municipal broadband groups and how they try to stop community referendums for local broadband solutions with our guests Christopher Mitchel and Doug Dawson. Who are these groups? How can you tell legitimate concerns as opposed to propaganda designed to impact your vote? What are the arguments and techniques they use?
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Mar 30, 2022
State Broadband Offices
This week, we get to share our perspectives and opinions on State Broadband Offices. Why do they exist? Does your state have them in one form or another? What counts as a state broadband office and what is there just for show? Our guests this week are Joanne Galloway and Eric Frederick.
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Mar 22, 2022
What Do We Think About Low-Orbit Satellites Providing Broadband?
This week, we have left the United States and Earth in general as we talk about outer space. Particularly, satellites. What are the environmental implications of low-orbit satellites that help connect people to broadband services? Could they all be destroyed overnight? Learn about some of our thoughts regarding Starlink satellites, and others that provide their service, as well as some of the fears that keep our hosts up at night.
To see some of the videos we discussed during this episode, check out our social media @BroadbandAction
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Mar 22, 2022
Supply Chain Issues Impacting Broadband Industry
Who's ready for an economics lesson? In this week's episode, we talk about how supply chain issues are impacting the broadband industry. Are your prices going to go up? How is it impacting suppliers? Can we expect this to have a long-term impact? We have a feeling that this is not the first episode we will be referring to the supply chain. If you have any thoughts or comments on the things we did talk about or things we didn't mention at all, feel free to let us know!
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Mar 15, 2022
The Affordable Connectivity Program
This week, we will also be talking about the Affordable Connectivity Program and what community-based broadband providers need to do to begin offering this $30 monthly internet subsidy to qualifying households. Our guest this week is Renee Knoop with Consortia Consulting, who will walk us through the ACP signup process from the provider's perspective.
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Mar 8, 2022
Libraries and Our Communities
In this episode, we are joined with Larra Clark, Deputy Director of the Public Library Association; Natalie Caula-Hauff, Deputy Director of Innovation at the Charleston County, South Carolina Library; and Joan Grothoff, Director of the Eldora, Iowa Public Library where we discussed how libraries played an important role in keeping American’s connected during the pandemic.
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Mar 8, 2022
Community Broadband Action Network
For our very first episode of our podcast, we thought we would quickly introduce ourselves to our listeners. Who are we? What do we do? For more information about CBAN, you can go to our website www.broadbandaction.com or follow us @BroadbandAction on Twitter or Facebook.
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Feb 10, 2022
What is Broadband Action?
What is Broadband Action? Join us as we discuss broadband policy and how it impacts your lives.
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