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Marketing Essentials Toolkit
Custom-built marketing and CX are great, but sometimes you need materials at a moment’s notice. That’s why NRTC provides a marketing essentials toolkit for all premium customers.
Your handy toolkit includes:
- Marketing Collateral: Access hundreds of ready-made marketing materials. Quickly customize for your brand and have professional materials in minutes.
- Educational Content: Empower your customers with educational materials, including whiteboard videos and handouts. You’ll reduce support calls and increase customer satisfaction.Email Marketing Software: Reach your target audience with a professional email marketing platform. Get access to email templates, analytics, A/B testing, and more. Plus—your NRTC Customer Advocate will provide software training.
- Social Media Support: Amplify your social media presence and solidify your expert status. We’ll supply you with regular social media content and educational tech blog posts.
Insights
NRTC Adds Pivot Proficiencies to Build Rural Connections
NRTC members building broadband businesses using NRTC’s many services now have access to the nearly 20 years of marketing and consulting services that Pivot has provided to rural telecommunications organizations.
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The Latest Marketing News
Title II Regulation of the Internet Returns … Litigation Likely to Follow
The FCC yesterday, as expected, adopted an order reclassifying internet service as a Title II telecommunications, making ISPs responsible for following a long list of new regulatory obligations. The Order passed by a partisan 3-2 vote. However, opponents of the order likely will file an appeal and many observers believe the order will be vulnerable to the “major-questions doctrine.” NRTC-member ISPs could be affected by Title II changes involving universal service, rate regulation and others.
Nex-Tech Questions BDC Bulk Mobile Challenge Process
In a letter to the FCC, NRTC member Nex-Tech Wireless shared the results of road trials of 5G connectivity in rural Kansas in response to the FCC’s investigation of the Broadband Data Collection (BDC) bulk challenge process. It found in a large majority of areas where national carriers claim to provide 5G service, connections fall below 7/1 Mbps speeds. However, bulk challenges to carrier claims have not resulted in changes to the Commission’s National Broadband Map. Other organizations made similar claims in comments to the FCC earlier this year.
Commission Splits Over “Reasonable and Timely” Portion of Section 706 Report
During its monthly agenda meeting, the FCC ruled that broadband services are not reaching Americans in “a reasonable and timely fashion,” in its first Section 706 progress report in three years. It was a partisan 3-2 vote. In the same document, the FCC also raised the broadband benchmark to 100 Mpbs downstream/20 Mbps upstream to match the requirements of federal broadband funding programs.