If you haven't watched it already, be sure to check out last week's edition of Broadband Action, the CBAN podcast featuring CBAN provider member Open Broadband. And stay tuned - a new episode will be dropping soon!

We can't wait!

We're working on our content calendar for 2025 episodes of Broadband Action, the CBAN podcast? What topics would you like to see us discuss? What guests do you want us to land? Drop us an email with your suggestions to hello@broadbandaction.com!

Our final edition of Broadband Action drops on Friday 12/27. So while you're driving around returning all those unwanted gifts, listen in to next Friday's episode, "Covering the Broadband Beat" with guest Brad Randal of https://t.co/SEB4Ayj6aG.

Our newest edition of Broadband Action is now available on the CBAN YouTube channel or wherever you listed to podcasts! Doug Dawson takes a look into his crystal ball with his 2025 broadband predictions! Check it out! https://t.co/3x9m7pH4Id

CBAN and GRM Networks held our Tech Tune-Up and Fair in Leon, Iowa on Thursday. It was a great event! We helped out about a dozen people with old and unusable computers get the tech they need to participate in our digital economy!

This is a great resource to share around to try to fix the PREDICTABLE DISMAL FAILURE of FCC maps.

NEWS: We're joining with @FCC to announce the timeline for the delivery of major #InternetForAll investments in 2023. Read more here: https://t.co/5pOSQja8Hr

Join us as we talk with David Miller @AlloFiber on out Broadband Action podcast.

There's a growing movement of community networks, municipal internet providers & social enterprises around the world stepping up to connect underserved communities. We need to fund them. Here's how. https://t.co/a5DRLtV1HN

As part of our digital inclusion efforts, we want to help more community providers join the Affordable Connectivity Program. Keep an eye on our social media, listen to our podcast, or watch our Lunch and Learn series to learn more about your community could benefit.

In case you missed the news: we were just named a @netinclusion National Digital Navigator Corps grantee! Can’t wait to bring #digitalinclusion to our community!

NTCA has joined 10 other leading broadband industry associations in launching a series of monthly educational webinars on the BEAD program. The first will be held on supply chain mitigation strategies TOMORROW at 1 p.m. ET. Register here:

Join us to learn more about the Waterloo, Iowa's upcoming bond referendum to partially fund a municipal fiber network!

To bridge the digital divide, we need to support different kinds of internet providers with different incentives than the incumbents that have left so many communities without the fast, reliable, affordable internet access they need and deserve. https://t.co/Ou58b4GTT5

Read more about @BroadbandAction's federal grant and @Growers_Edge new partnership with Valley Agronomics:

These 18 orgs & Tribes will launch the new National Digital Navigator Corps! https://t.co/fvW3ttNFPR @NativeFed @NativeCayuse @CherokeeNation @BroadbandAction @CSPWAL1 @ComputerReach @eastersealshou @GilaRiverTV @hapcap @HoopaTribe @digitalequityct @PottsboroLib @WSUPullman

We are so excited to announce that thanks to a grant from @netinclusion we are excited to announce that we launching a new program to provide digital equity education and resources to communities in rural Iowa! Be on the look out this fall about this exciting new program!

This summer, we launched our Community Spotlight episodes, where we sit down and talk with CBAN members about the amazing steps being taken in their community towards tackling the digital divide. Can't wait to continue this fall.

Odd that this story doesn't note that the city of Pella just built its own muni fiber network - https://t.co/poVQXgfVls A company is spending $30 million to get people to move to a small town in Iowa. One step: Start a restaurant.