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RBE Awardees May Receive Accelerated Disbursement of Funds

September 5, 2014

Our team has prepared a memorandum explaining the “Accelerated Disbursement Option” in the FCC’s Rural Broadband Experiments Program. To promote expedited build-out, the experiments allow for awardees to receive 30 percent of total funding upfront based on certain criteria outlined in the order. In our memorandum, we detail this funding option and describe the eligibility […]

CTC Insight on RBE Application Process

August 29, 2014

CTC has condensed the details of the FCC’s public notice regarding the Rural Broadband Experiments (RBE) application process into a memorandum that reflects our understanding of this procedure. If you have not already done so, we encourage parties who may be interested in participating in the experiments to begin the necessary analysis, build the relevant technical and […]

CTC awarded NAED Phase One Contract

August 15, 2014

CTC Principal Engineer and Analyst Tom Asp will lead CTC’s effort working with the North Attleborough Electric Department (NAED) to develop a communications system strategy. CTC will provide strategic support, as well as a budgetary and feasibility analysis to aid NAED in reaching their goal of global advanced communications. […]

CTC Director of Engineering to Present at MACo Summer Conference

August 14, 2014

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 […]

CTC President to Speak at Broadband Communities Conference

August 4, 2014

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 […]

CTC Named to Top 100 Companies List

July 30, 2014

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. […]

CTC Guidance on FCC Rural Broadband Experiments

July 25, 2014

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 […]

CTC Presents a Full Day of Education Sessions at the UTC Rural Broadband Workshop

July 21, 2014

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 […]

Hats off to UC2B for Fantastic, Innovative Public-Private Partnership

June 20, 2014

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 […]

Holly Springs, NC Lights First Site on New Fiber Network

June 13, 2014

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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