Posted on June 10th, 2010 by Bill Coleman
Here’s Coleman’s Corner, a monthly article written for the Blandin Foundation Broadband Initiative…
Coleman’s Corner
Last week, I was lucky to attend the Intelligent Community Conference in New York City. http://tinyurl.com/2u6bhly This conference attracted community leaders from Asia, Europe, Canada and the USA. I co-facilitated a session about the challenges facing rural communities in their efforts to [...]
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Posted on May 24th, 2010 by Bill Coleman
Suwon, South Korea was named the Intelligent Community of the Year last Friday. They won over the other six finalists, including some of my favorites – Dublin, Ohio; Tallinn, Estonia; and Eindhoven, Netherlands. Stockholm, Sweden was the 2009 Intelligent Community of the Year. Suwon is just 15 miles from Seoul. South Korea has now produced [...]
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Posted on April 29th, 2010 by Bill Coleman
Given a chance, what would you say to a top federal policy maker about rural broadband? I had my chance at the Broadband Properties Summit this week in Dallas with USDA Rural Utilities Services Administrator Jonathan Adelstein. I first saw him in the elevator and he asked me what I wanted to hear from him during [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2010 by Bill Coleman
Today the Minnesota Legislature passed the Minnesota Broadband Bill. Here are the highlights:
Universal access and high-speed goal. It is the goal of this state that, no later than 2015, all state residents and businesses have access to broadband that provides download speeds of no less than ten megabits per second and upload speeds of no [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2010 by Bill Coleman
CTAC President Bill Coleman was recently quoted on Minnesota Public Radio for a story on Google’s Network competition. Here is what he said about the benefits of a ultra high speed broadband connection, such as the one Google is proposing…
The network would be 10 times faster than today’s state-of-the-art networks, such as a 100-megabit system [...]
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