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Andrew Cohill @DesignNine

Design Nine builds the world's best Gigabit multi-service open access broadband networks, and we've been at this longer than anyone else in the world. designnine.com/news/ Blacksburg, Virginia, USA Joined February 2009
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Andrew Cohill @DesignNine

10 months ago

High performance affordable broadband can be life changing for rural communities dailyyonder.com/report-broadba…

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Andrew Cohill @DesignNine

11 months ago

Open access network operator RFI technologyfutures.info/content/coreco…

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U.S. Telecom Infrastructure Crisis @EldoTelecom

2 years ago

Good thing the U.S. didn’t do highway infrastructure like advanced telecom. Otherwise, Americans would be driving toll beltways around select cities and asphalt 2/4 lane roads elsewhere. Gravel and dirt would be main highways in rural areas.

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Andrew Cohill @DesignNine

2 years ago

Open access, after nearly twenty years, is finally being recognized as an important alternative to monopoly telecom.

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U.S. Telecom Infrastructure Crisis @EldoTelecom

2 years ago

How open access model disrupts, offers potential to more rapidly scale FTTP infrastructure. eldotelecom.blogspot.com/2023/09/how-op…

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Christopher Mitchell @communitynets

2 years ago

RDOF Defaults Estimate: Over $2.8B- What Happens to That Money? FTA: “Many high-quality, community-based providers lost out in the auction due to low bids by competitors who ultimately defaulted.” This was Pai's design. This result was predicted. telecompetitor.com/rdof-defaults-…

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U.S. Telecom Infrastructure Crisis @EldoTelecom

3 years ago

Advanced telecom infrastructure deficits often painfully apparent in these areas seeing in migration of knowledge workers. wsj.com/articles/home-…

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Roberto Gallardo @robertoge

3 years ago

I hate to say it but: "I told you so." It is simply physics. There is only so much data a radio wave can carry. pcmag.com/news/starlink-…

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Bruce Mehlman @bpmehlman

3 years ago

Internet may be a passing fad.

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U.S. Telecom Infrastructure Crisis @EldoTelecom

4 years ago

From the report: "The issue, then, is not so much that the investment is too high but rather that the wrong market players have been expected to invest." eff.org/press/releases… via @EFF

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Lou Zacharilla @LouICF

4 years ago

"Nobody took connectivity seriously until COVID." youtu.be/CRmKWjmsRLY My conversation w/The News Forum #canada & @TonyclementCPC @Newcommunities The advantage of the smaller city. @DublinOhio @JohnGJung1 @WinnipegNews

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Christopher Mitchell @communitynets

5 years ago

Lots of #CommunityNets in this opinion piece about how the best ISPs in North America tend to be locally owned fiber networks. pcmag.com/opinions/when-…

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Andrew Cohill @DesignNine

5 years ago

"Beyond Speed" Here is my latest article in Broadband Communities magazine. bbcmag.com/broadband-appl…

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BroadbandCommunities @bbcmag

5 years ago

Check out the Broadband 101 mini-conference given by the Blandin Foundation. Starts Monday. It's free, online and has a terrific speaker lineup. bit.ly/30O9Efw

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Andrew Cohill @DesignNine

5 years ago

Excited to have construction start on our privately financed open access network expansion in Blacksburg. We are expanding our current network, in operation since 2017. roanoke.com/news/local/bla…

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Andrew Cohill @DesignNine

5 years ago

Alex, I'll take "Things I never thought I would write about" for $500. A network security researcher has successfully hacked a coffee machine. technologyfutures.info

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U.S. Telecom Infrastructure Crisis @EldoTelecom

5 years ago

It's code for Anything But Fiber to the Prem #FTTP.

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Ernesto Falcon @ErnestoOFalcon

5 years ago

It's code for Anything But Fiber to the Prem #FTTP.

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Andrew Cohill @DesignNine

5 years ago

I could not agree more. Why we continue to pour billions of Federal funds into propping up copper-based networks is a shame.

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Andrew Cohill @DesignNine

6 years ago

Open access is rapidly becoming the preferred way to get better, faster, more affordable broadband at less cost.

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Free UTOPIA! @FreeUTOPIA

6 years ago

Open access is rapidly becoming the preferred way to get better, faster, more affordable broadband at less cost.

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