Please share your thoughts prior to the upcoming Vermont legislative session.
Category: telecommunications
#Vermont Official Drives All Over the Map Checking Cellphone Signals
As we look to ensure the safety, education and healthcare needs of all Vermonters, this is an important project undertaken by Vermont's Department of Public Service and Agency of Digital Service. # Valley News - Vermont Official Drives All Over the Map Checking Cellphone Signals Royalton — Can you hear him now?Corey Chase is driving …
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Southern #Vermont Economy & Connectivity events
Please share this information and I hope you will attend any events that can fit into your schedules. Southern Vermont Economy Zone CEDS: Windham and Bennington County are fast approaching the finalization of a plan to grow the economy which over 700 of our fellow Southern Vermonters have contributed to. You can read more about that …
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Rep. Sibilia: Voting, PUC hearings on Consolidated Communications
Good evening/morning, Election day is Tuesday, November 6th. You must be registered to vote in the town you currently reside in. In Vermont you can register the day of the election. Information on Vermont's voting laws is available on the Secretary of State's website. This year, we have contested elections for U.S. Senator, U.S. Congress, Governor, Lieutenant …
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The entire telecommunications industry is suing #Vermont for taking action on #NetNeutrality
The lawsuit follows below. The question is whether or not Vermont's governor and legislature are federally preempted from taking action on issues of connectivity as it relates to the Net Neutrality issue. The House Committee in Energy and Technology on which I serve spent much of the last session working on this legislation. http://www.americancable.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/181018-Complaint-with-Exhibits-1-5-ECF-Stamped.pdf
Rep. Laura Sibilia, Candidate for State Rep. – WDH-BEN (I) | Brattleboro Community TV
Rep. Laura Sibilia, Candidate for State Rep. - WDH-BEN (I) | Brattleboro Community TV — Read on http://www.brattleborotv.org/meet-candidates/rep-laura-sibilia-candidate-state-rep-wdh-ben-i
Readsboro talks!
Many thanks for the enthusiastic conversation and questions on phones and internet, Act 46, Irene recovery (still!), telemarketers and carbon.
More on rural phone service and Readsboro telephone meeting
Many thanks to the Town Clerk's Office, Selectboard, Schoolboard, Codogni Plumbing and Readsboro Broadband Committee member Omar Smith for making themselves available in the middle of the day to talk with the Secretary of Digital Services John Quinn and the Commissioner of Public Services June Tierney. The pair were in Bennington County for Governor Scott's …
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Time to eliminate the Venn of Doom
“By the 1930s nearly 90% of U.S. urban dwellers had electricity, but 90% of rural homes were without power. Investor-owned utilities often denied service to rural areas, citing high development costs and low profit margins. Consequently, even when they could purchase electricity, rural consumers paid far higher prices than urban consumers.” - from the University …
Final update of the 2018 session
The eventful 2018 session has come to an end and my final review of the session follows. Over the summer and fall you can expect to hear more from me on updates to the State's Act 46 plan, telecommunications and CoverageCo, the scheduling of a public forum on healthcare. I did previously announce my intention …
Vermont State Representative Laura Sibilia 