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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.

3 Rivers Communications offering free community Wi-Fi in Choteau and Fairfield, Montana

Connecting to the 3 Rivers Wi-Fi signal will not require a password. It will show up as “3 Rivers Free WiFi” in the available networks on your cellphone or other mobile device when in range.

Colorado Passes New Broadband Laws, Takes Aim At Landlord Monopolies

Colorado has been a key player in the municipal broadband space, and is home to several major municipal broadband deployments (from Longmont’s Nextlight to Fort Collins’ Connexion) that have been proven inspirational to municipalities across the country.

New Report: Neighborly Networks – Vermont’s Approach to Community Broadband

In partnership with the Benton Institute for Broadband and Society, today ILSR releases a new report examining how the state of Vermont is supercharging its telecommunications infrastructure efforts to reach the unconnected by puttings its weight behind community broadband-driven efforts.

Minnesota Strikes Down Preemption Laws Blocking Municipal Broadband

The new legislation, signed into law yesterday by Gov. Tim Walz, took aim at two statutes that sought to protect large monopoly telecommunications providers from competition.

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