CES Tours Salina Area Technical College Technical education is perhaps one of the shortest routes to meeting the workforce needs of rural communities. Recently, I was invited to tour the campus of Salina Area Technical College (SATC), located in Salina, Kansas. It was...
Nex-Tech CES Engages with State Legislators in Hays I was recently at the Legislative Coffee organized by the Hays Chamber of Commerce, where I engaged with state legislators representing the Hays area. Hays is a city of over 20,000 residents where Nex-Tech offers...
Why Nex-Tech Connected 100% of Cooperative Communities to 100% Fiber We recently connected all towns within our cooperative footprint to fiber technology. Indeed, we have come a long way since 1996 when we deployed the first fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network in Hill...
4 Rural Reflections from Phoenix and Tampa Recently, I attended two national engagements: the Economic Leadership Conference in Phoenix, AZ; and the NTCA Rural Telecom Industry Meeting & EXPO (RTIME) in Tampa, FL. Both engagements revealed new insights into the...
Why Nex-Tech is Invested in the Kansas Legislative Process Our team was at the Legislative Day of the Kansas Economic Developers Alliance (KEDA) held at the Kansas Legislature in Topeka recently. This is the second engagement we have had in Topeka this year (recall...
