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A Service Provider of Last Resort
The key to bringing broadband to rural areas, particularly where it is difficult to justify on an economic basis, is local leadership. The necessary leadership includes multiple people from organizations that include telecommunications, financial and the governing entities. In the above interview, filmed at NTCA’s 2015 RTIME and originally aired the 2015 MTA Convention and…
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Jim Baller on Economic Development at 2012 Broadband Communities Summit
Jim Baller of the Baller Herbst law firm discusses economic development and the track that focuses on that topic at the 2012 Broadband Communities Summit. As he explains, there isn’t a cookie cutter approach to economic development. He suggests broadband is still in the early stages and is in in a similar place to what…
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Broadband Perseverance Part 1
Joey Durel, Lafayette, LA City/Parish President, provides an update on their Fiber to the Home project in this video interview filmed at the 2012 Broadband Communities Summit. He sheds light on some of the applications that have grown out of having 1 Gigabit connections to schools and businesses, as we well as the 100 Mb/s…
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Broadband Perseverance Part 2
In part 2 of this two-part, Joey Durel talks about the politics and economics of the Lafayette, LA municipal FTTH deployment. Part 1 is at this link, http://www.viodi.tv/2012/05/07/broadband-perserverance-part-1/.
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The Doctors of Broadband
Gary Evans and Milda Hedblom explain some of the challenges they have seen with broadband projects and suggest some approaches that work to get them moving in the right direction.