Speaking at Iowa Telecom Association’s Video Conference last week, Tom Wacker, Director of Government Affairs for NTCA, said the hot topics in Washington are the deficit, ethics and international issues. As a result, communications is not a top leadership priority. He spoke of a meeting NTCA had last week with House Speaker Pelosi, Congressman Rangel…

Click to Learn More Justyn Miller of Kalona Telephone provided a show and tell of new services and technologies in his excellent presentation at the Iowa Telephone Association’s Video Conference. Miller of Kalona Telephone encouraged independent telcos to, “Become the local authority on technology.” He encouraged telcos to embrace new technology by introducing it to…

Maybe the IPTV industry is starting to mature, as some of the telcos are starting to cycle through their first generation of equipment for new and improved offerings from suppliers. This echoed comments made by Frank Gini of ETI Software a few weeks back at the IPTV 2007 show. This thought was triggered by a…

Jeff Pulver has reason to be concerned about the “sleeping giants”, if the recent action by AT&T/Cingular, Sprint and Qwest to block certain phone numbers of certain conference call providers is indicative of what they might do to Internet applications. These incumbents justify their actions by suggesting the conference call providers are essentially committing fraud…