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Jul
08
We got the Rohn Tower up at our office this past week.
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Jul
14
Steve Fortmann met with the Royston City Council to lay out his plans for Paladin Wireless.
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Jul
20
We have begun running tests on all the equipment, from radios and antennas to customer equipment.
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Aug
12
Last month Steve Fortmann met with Royston’s City Council to discuss his proposal to use the Water Tower in town for Paladin’s high speed internet service.
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Aug
20
Ben Garland of Paladin Wireless met with City Council members to discuss the use of their two water towers.
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Nov
04
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Nov
13
Paladin Wireless turns up the Royston Water Tower.
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Feb
19
Steve and Prize Fortmann met with Brendan Belair, the Chief of Staff for Congressman Doug Collins to discuss what Paladin Wireless is doing in providing a choice and competition for broadband in the region.
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Mar
01
Paladin Wireless will add the city of Franklin Springs to it's expanding coverage area.
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Apr
01
Paladin Wireless expands to Canon Georgia.
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Aug
26
Paladin Wireless is conducting a survey to gauge the level of interest residents of Jefferson have in another provider coming to town.
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Sep
16
Paladin Wireless attended the Joint High- Speed Broadband Communications Access for All Georgians study committee in Toccoa yesterday.
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Feb
10
Steve Fortmann from Paladin Wireless presents to the Board of Commissioners in Dawson County.
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Jul
28
Paladin Wireless announces plans to deploy 100Mbps service network wide.
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Oct
06
ExteNet to bring enhanced broadband wireless connectivity to Paladin customers across northeastern Georgia
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Nov
21
WSBTV Channel 2 News - Steve Fortmann weighs in on the rural broadband issue in this report by Justin Gray which aired November 10, 2017.
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Jan
09
Georgia lawmakers in Atlanta and Washington just found a powerful ally in their push to bring faster internet to rural areas of the state: President Donald Trump.
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May
23
Steve Fortmann, President and CEO of Paladin Wireless, joins in on a panel discussion about the business case for CBRS in rural areas at the Connectivity Expo in Charlotte North Carolina.
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Mar
09
District 4 Monroe County commissioner George Emami revealed on Tuesday, Feb. 20 that he had a promising meeting earlier this month with a Royston-based internet service provider who expressed interest in expanding into Monroe County.
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Mar
20
Rural broadband projects across the nation are getting another infusion of federal cash, this time through the United States Department of Agriculture.
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Oct
16
Remote communities depend on reliable wireless broadband to participate in rural telehealth programs.
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Jan
13
Rural broadband is a multibillion-dollar problem, and not a new one for the federal government.
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Oct
30
CBRS looks different. We’re investigating five different potential business models, and at least three of them are likely to be big winners. Altogether, the odds of a strong growth market are very high for CBRS, because there’s a rich mixture of mobile operators, cable operators, neutral hosts and enterprises that all have ideas for mobile LTE. In addition, a few companies like Paladin Wireless and Cal.net are already moving forward with fixed-wireless deployments.
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Aug
17
Paladin Wireless presents a plan to offer service to Danielsville
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Jun
11
Two weeks ago, I was in Dahlonega, Georgia, and I met a company that runs the Paladin Wireless in small-town Royston, Georgia. He told me himself that these regulations had made it, forced him to spend over a $8,000 on compliance, and that’s a number of different households in a place, small-town Georgia.
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May
25
Progress is being made, and more is coming, on rural broadband issues, Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said while attending a forum in Dahlonega on Friday. Pai and U.S. Rep. Doug Collins, R-Gainesville, talked to a packed room of telecommunications industry leaders and local and state elected officials at the University of North Georgia’s new Convocation Center in Dahlonega.
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Jun
05
U.S. Representative Doug Collins says a recent town hall meeting with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on the need for better broadband and Internet service in Northeast Georgia was encouraging.
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Oct
22
COVINGTON — Newton County will explore the possibility of leasing ultra high frequencies licensed to the county to a wireless Internet provider in order to increase access to broadband for residents in rural areas.
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Mar
20
Newton County enters into a 30 year lease that allows Paladin Wireless to use their EBS/BRS spectrum to provide high speed wireless internet service in Newton County and surrounding areas.
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Jul
11
FCC Chairman gives remarks on EBS spectrum and mentions Paladin Wireless.
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Oct
24
He said the rules hit smaller carriers especially hard. He pointed to Paladin Wireless in Royston, Georgia, which he said spent $8,000 in compliance under the previous rules. While that might be a small amount of money for a big company like AT&T or Verizon, he said, $8,000 to a small wireless company "could have gone a long way in terms of connecting people."
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Sep
24
A public-private partnership of this kind hasn’t exactly been done. Similar projects, sure, but those partnerships tend to set up the government as an ISP. A local government operating the system works great when a structure exists to make it possible, like centralized billing or an IT department. That’s not us. We want the internet for our citizens but we didn’t want to create the bureaucracy to manage it.
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