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In this brief video, John Rose discusses the importance of broadband to the members of OPASTCO and their customers.  In his comments at the OPASTCO conference, Rose suggested that there probably would not be much near-term movement on USF and Inter-carrier Compensation policy.  He emphasized the need for educating Congress on the importance of broadband to rural America. 

He stressed that an often-overlooked aspect of broadband is that it is a moving target.  That is, although OPASTCO members have done a yeoman job of bringing broadband to north of 90% of their customers, the bandwidth needs are rapidly changing.  As a result, the operators’ investment in the network is never ending. 

The investment in networks and back offices are huge and OPASTCO is forming strategic relationships with companies, such as Microsoft, that can help its members reduce costs and add value-added features to add value to the broadband pipe.  He pointed out that OPASTCO’s customers are competing with companies in India and China.  He talked about the important role that OPASTCO has in helping rural communities remain competitive. 


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OCAP from an investor’s perspective is given in this ViodiTV interview with Gary Lauder at CableNEXT. Lauder Partners, LLC is a long-time investor in the cable industry and has some good words of wisdom in terms of what the cable industry needs to do to make OCAP a success.

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