Next Generation Broadband in Montana

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Boulder, Colorado Strikes $9 Million Community Broadband Deal With ALLO

ALLO will provide broadband service to 80 percent of the city by 2028 and 97 percent of the city by 2030.

Connectivity Comes Through Streetlights for Small Maine Town

Streetlamps in Rumford, Maine, shine with 5G wireless connectivity, strengthening the community’s communications system. A public-private partnership has enabled officials to use the lights as wireless communication nodes.

Montanans will soon be connected to high-speed internet – Video

The $5.5 million reconnect loan will help almost 600 rural residents.

Montana’s Data-Driven Broadband Affordability Plans

In Montana, over 63,400 Broadband Serviceable Locations (BSLs) remain unserved and nearly 24,000 remain underserved.

2024 MEDA Fall Conference – 9/24-26 – Havre, Montana

Exciting agenda to inform, engage and ignite your creative ideas to improve your community and state.

Elon Musk Proposes to Offer Free Starlink for People ‘Stranded in the Wilderness’

The SpaceX CEO also wants Starlink to provide emergency alerts for mobile users in dead zones, whether they sign up for the service or not.

Sen. Jon Tester

Thanks to Tester’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, High Speed Internet Expansion One Step Closer to Montana Communities

Montana can soon access $629 million in high-speed internet funding that Tester secured for the state last year

Last week’s CrowdStrike outage was bad. The sun has something worse planned.

Experts say the chaos that ensued from a botched CrowdStrike software update was just a fraction of what could happen as a result of natural disasters or cyberattacks.

Montana Ranks 45th in the US for this Attractive Job Option? I’m calling bunk on this study.

Based on internet speed and the number of available remote jobs per 10,000 people, Montana doesn’t look great from the outside. But I feel like this study doesn’t accurately portray the reality of the work-from-home model in Montana.

Forget Zoom, Meet, and FaceTime: This video-chat app beats them all

Yep is free and works on any device, anywhere—no downloads, sign-ins, or data-sharing required.

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