wiredinUSA August 2014

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FTTH awards FTTH Council’s 2014 conference and expo celebrated the contributions of several individuals and organizations who have advanced the fiber-to-the-home industry. This year’s recipient of the Star Award is the Federal Communications Commission in recognition of its rural broadband experiments, designed to examine how technology transitions are impacting the telecommunications market. The Photon Award has been presented to J Michael Hill, CEO and president of On Trac. Mike has worked tirelessly on behalf of the FTTH Council for over ten years, serving on the board for over eight years. The Chairman’s Award, given at the discretion of the chairman of the FTTH council board of directors, identifies an individual or company that has shown tremendous effort to promote, educate or accelerate fiber-to-the-home. This year’s recipient is Google Fiber, a previous FTTH Council award winner, for the powerful impact it has had on the fiber-to-the-home industry. Google is also recognized for creating a novel and working business model that has inspiredother network operators and scores of municipalities to consider FTTH either on their own or in these types of public/private partnerships. “This year, our recipients have continued to demonstrate their ability to accelerate the deployment and adoption of high-speed broadband technology here in North America,” said FTTH Council president Heather Burnett Gold. “We’re excited to be able to recognize them among the gather of the top peers in their industry.”

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