Ron K. Siegel

General Manager/ Network Manager
Allband Communications Cooperative

Ron K. Siegel has over 12 years of telecommunication experience in executive, operational and technological management. He has managed Allband Communications Cooperative, Michigan’s first non-profit fiber to the home (FTTH) telephone cooperative since 2004.  Allband has invested over $17 million in federal funding and placed over 400 miles of fiber optic cable in rural Northeast Michigan.  Ron believes that the investment of fiber optic infrastructure promotes societal and economic opportunity, provides a technological foundation for the next generation and has become an essential utility in our communities such as gas, sewer, water and power.  Ron has taken a lead role in fostering the concept of municipal broadband and the growing idea of public private partnerships (P3) between municipalities, infrastructure facilitators and service providers.