No donations, you pay a decent membership fee. They provide lobbying for ILECs as well as a nice 401K system. Valuable organization. And the majority of their members are rural telcos providing FTTH.
From: Jan-GAMs Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2021 10:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: NTCA: Why have I never heard of these people before? Looks like another "self-help" group. they help themselves to donations and call themselves a non-profit. the one thing that would help a rural community is a WISP and they don't have that topic on their website On 2/27/21 8:04 AM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote: They also used to negotiate with content providers to allow members to deploy CATV. I still have an account with them but there is no money in it. From: Eric Muehleisen Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2021 8:34 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: NTCA: Why have I never heard of these people before? Yes. Many rural LEC’s use NTCA for retirement/savings and 401k for their employees. Basically a large advocacy organization, kinda like WISPA. On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 9:10 AM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: I was reading my old home town news and heard about a presentation being given to a local economic group by Shirley Bloomfield, the CEO of "NTCA - The Rural Broadband Association". They say they've been around since 1969, so I assume that the T in NTCA stands for telecom, but nothing on their web site actually spells out what NTCA actually represents. What I'm wondering is why I've never heard of them before? https://www.ntca.org -- bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>-- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- Sent via mobile ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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