Rick Seemann

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TV Isn't Dead. It's Becoming Easier to Watch.

For years, the broadband industry has been telling the same story: the future is internet, and traditional TV is on its way out. As streaming services exploded onto the scene, it certainly felt that way. Consumers were cutting the cord, downloading...

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The Internet Runs on Relationships: What NANOG Can Teach Every ISP About Building a Better Network

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The Internet Runs on Relationships: What NANOG Can Teach Every ISP About Building a Better Network

One of the best parts of attending industry events is the opportunity to sit down with people who spend their days solving a completely different set...

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AI Isn't Coming. It's Already Here. The Real Question Is: What Are You Going to Do With It?

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AI Isn't Coming. It's Already Here. The Real Question Is: What Are You Going to Do With It?

Artificial intelligence has become impossible to ignore. Whether you're attending industry events, scrolling through LinkedIn, reading trade...

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The Stories We Carry: What the Field Teaches You About Running an ISP

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The Stories We Carry: What the Field Teaches You About Running an ISP

If you have ever worked in support or spent time in the field, you already know this. The stories stay with you. Not the clean installs or the easy...

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Security Is a Moving Target — and ISPs Feel That Every Day

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Security Is a Moving Target — and ISPs Feel That Every Day

Security is never perfect. Anyone who’s operated a network for more than five minutes knows that. It’s a moving target, and the risks that cause the...

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The Digital Divide Is Evolving, and It’s Not Just About Access

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The Digital Divide Is Evolving, and It’s Not Just About Access

Fourteen million households in the United States still don’t have a computer at home. That’s not a decade-old data point. That’s today. On this...

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Why Wireless Still Matters (and Always Will)

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Why Wireless Still Matters (and Always Will) 

The conversation around fiber vs. wireless often gets oversimplified. It’s easy to fall into a binary: fiber is the future, wireless is the past. But...

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“Only Certainty Is Uncertainty”: Live from Broadband Communities 2025

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“Only Certainty Is Uncertainty”: Live from Broadband Communities 2025

The broadband world doesn’t stop for uncertainty, and neither do we. That’s why we took Bandwidth on the road for a special edition episode, recorded...

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What Happens After the Deal Closes: The Messy Middle of M&A in Broadband

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What Happens After the Deal Closes: The Messy Middle of M&A in Broadband

We spend a lot of time in this industry talking about mergers and acquisitions, about multiples, deal structures, and growth strategies. But not...

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Radios, Meth Labs, and Poop Rooms: The Realities of ISP Field Work

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Radios, Meth Labs, and Poop Rooms: The Realities of ISP Field Work

There’s a tendency in this industry to talk about broadband through a sanitized lens -charts, ARPU, acronyms. But if you’ve spent any time in the...

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