Happy holidays from Pine Belt! We hope our customers and communities take extra precautions this season by getting their booster shots once able. Here’s our President John Nettles getting his this morning! 💉

We’re hiring! Do you know someone who would fit the following roles? 📊Staff Accountant 🛠 Communications Service Technicians Tell them to apply to join our team that’s just beginning some exciting new projects in rural Alabama! pinebelt.net/current-openin…

Our President John Nettles has joined in calling on Congress to fully fund the Secure and Trusted Communications Reimbursement Program. Full statement from RWA: mailchi.mp/ruralwireless.…

Lots of excitement - and rightly so! - about broadband grants and closing the digital divide for millions of customers. But let's talk and plan ahead re a few things that will have impacts beyond the rules that get developed for the grant programs - 1/

New All Day Digital podcast: CoBank’s Jeff Johnston visits with Carri Bennett, a communications policy expert and partner at RWA and John Nettles, president of Pine Belt Communications to discuss the ongoing challenges of the “rip and replace” program. bit.ly/3NXCr84

The Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act reimbursement program is causing all sorts of headaches for rural operators. Listen to the new episode of All Day Digital with Jeff Johnston and guests from RWA and Pine Belt Communications for insights: bit.ly/3xb6nHW

RWA members featured in "China Tech’s Grip Persists in US Long After Orders to Rip It Out" Pine Belt Communications United Wireless bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The network security challenges rural carriers face are daunting, but with the right amount of funding, achievable. #CongressFundRip&Replace bloom.bg/3L32OH1

📢 ATTN: Dallas Co / Selma residents looking for a way to help, join us for a quick training that will introduce you to Red Cross damage assessment skills. ⛑ 📍 Selma High School ⏰ Thurs. 1/19 @ 10 a.m. - tomorrow

Great story by Cecilia Kang in the The New York Times about the challenges some small rural carriers face on #RipAndReplace, quoting Pine Belt Communications/John Nettles, United Wireless, Blair Levin, Geoffrey Starks, Senator Deb Fischer. nytimes.com/2023/05/09/tec…

Pine Belt, a small carrier in rural Alabama, is one of those caught in the middle of the rip & replace funding shortfall tinyurl.com/2ccejwah Pine Belt Communications Competitive Carriers Association FCC

CCA thanks Senator Deb Fischer for entering CCA’s letter to Congress on the perils of U.S. connectivity if #RipAndReplace is not funded. We agree with her — “Congress cannot simply watch as networks go dark.” Senate Commerce Republicans ccamobile.org/statement-by-c…

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