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The Next Generation Community Event

Video Summary An Audience that Reflects PBC’s Membership In the above interview filmed at NTCA’s SRC Live, Gary Johnson, CEO/General Manager for Paul Bunyan Communications, describes their most recent GigaZone TechXpo. He observes that it attracted an audience that reflects PBC’s membership. This extended community event, which drew over 4,000 attendees from the greater Bemidji […]

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Viodi View – 02/18/23

“Alain has amazing energy. If we can hook a generator to him, energy crisis solved.” Dr. Stephen E. Still Professor of Practice, University of Buffalo, Stephen Still Institute for Sustainable Transportation and Logistics. It is a two-way street, as his students (Still is one of those former students) seem to energize and inspire Princeton Professor […]

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Gaming Technology

From GigaZone to GigaTechXpo

[Note: this post was updated on 2/9/23 with the following description.] Fully leveraging Paul Bunyan Communications’ fiber network is what keeps Gary Johnson awake at night. In the above interview, Johnson, CEO/GM of PBC, indicates that this is a fun time as it opens up so many possibilities to improve the quality of life for […]

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Viodi View – 03/03/21

Halfway through a semester is what it feels like in covering Princeton’s ongoing Smart Driving Car Summit. In many ways, it seems like there are more questions than answers and, as has been said before on these virtual pages, the autonomous driving space feels like broadband did 20-years ago. In the meantime, broadband has matured […]

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People on the Move

MTA Public Service Award Winner – Gary Johnson

One of the best things about the MTA conference is seeing friends, old and new. One person I did not catch up with is Gary Johnson of Paul Bunyan Telephone. .He should have been there to accept his MTA Public Service Award. The irony is that the reason he was not there was the reason he […]