As I wrote earlier this month, Google has been having a sort of Green Eggs and Ham fit refusing to connect users of it’s new free Google Voice service with certain rural telephone exchanges. Their complaint is some rural telecomm companies are charging a higher fee to connect calls, in particular to adult chat lines and […]
Smart21 Communities Semi-Finalists
Smart21 Communities are Semi-Finalists in coveted Intelligent Community of the Year Awards program (New York City, USA – 16 October 2009) – The Intelligent Community Forum announced this evening its eagerly-awaited list of the Smart21 Communities of 2010. The announcement was made by Co-Founder Louis Zacharilla at an event hosted by the Swedish Consulate General in […]
Google Voice Would Not, Could Not Connect to Rural Users
[v=Zy7J578FLaA] Rural cell phone users are used to mocking the Verizon Wireless ads with the guy who constantly asks, “Can you hear me now?” I would love to meet that guy and say, “NO, not if you live in the country we can’t here you now, yesterday or tomorrow!” It’s like that dang Green Eggs […]
Future of Communities in America's Resurgent Heartland
Blandin webinar with Dr. Delore Zimmerman, Praxis Strategy Group #mnbb09
A Futurist's View of Rural Development, and more
Blandin Webinar Series: Realizing Our Broadband Future Here’s a chance to listen in on some really smart people discuss some important issues for Greater Minnesota and Rural America. I worked with Dr. Delore Zimmerman when I was an Associate at the Center for the New West and executive director at Traill County Economic Development Commission. […]
SRDC Spotlight: Broadband Infrastructure
Broadband internet access is increasingly essential infrastructure for business, agriculture, education and most other aspects of day-to-day life. Communities must have broadband to compete in today’s economy. USDA’s Economic Research Service states the situation in clear terms in a report released last month: In this decade, “rural communities that had greater broadband Internet access had […]
Broadband Means Business in Rural Minnesota
UMN EDA Center broadband study “Rural Businesses and the Internet: The Integration Continues”
STRIB on Cities and Broadband Stimulus Criteria
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune picked up on the NTIA/RUS stimulus broadband workshop, which I wrote about yesterday. Are Minnesota cities shut out by broadband rules? Criteria for seeking stimulus funds require proof that cities are underserved, and Minnesota providers can argue they’re not. By STEVE ALEXANDER, Star Tribune Last update: July 21, 2009 – 12:47 AM […]
Broadband in every pot
Blandin Broadband Policy Seminar, Mankato, Minnesota, 16 July 2009
Can You Hear Me Now? Verizon-Alltel=AT&T Wireless
AT&T purchase of rural markets bring iPhone to the country
