Stories of Innovation

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.