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Strains on Capital Suggest Need for Effective Use of Assets in Deploying Fiber Networks

September 8, 2020 —The right time to engage in accessing funding is right now, fiber financers said during an ADTRAN webinar on Wednesday. “The market is getting more congested and more difficult to enter,” said Peter Stokes, senior managing director at Macquarie Bank, and “it’s crucial to enter soo

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Claims of Broadband Service by Incumbent Providers Renders Minnesota City Ineligible for FCC’s Rural Funds

June 19, 2020 — There is currently considerable buzz around the prospect of obtaining bids from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, the largest federal initiative to subsidize rural broadband in America to date. However, it is no secret that the rural digital funding will be allotted based off of ma