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100 Years of Minnesota Telecommunications
A video from our MTA Convention coverage that was very special to me is my interview with Ron Laqua of Halstad Telephone. Ron chaired the MTA Centennial committee. In this interview, I was struck with how we were part of a living history that in some way might be part of a 200th anniversary. I…
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No New News
If you haven’t seen it, "it’s new to you." That was the approximate tag line that NBC used about a decade ago to promote its summer rerun season. Similarly, what is news to one person may be an old story to another. The demise of the print newspaper is quickly becoming an old news story,…
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Unique Economic Developments
Economic development requires leadership. Spring Grove Communications provide an excellent example of leadership, as they worked with their community to build a new library, 24 hour fitness center and digital cinema/public meeting place that can be used for much more than movies. ViodiTV caught up with Craig Otterness, the General Manager of Spring Grove Communications,…
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Cherishing the Past and Embracing the Future – An Independent Telecom Family
My favorite ViodiTV stories are the ones that deal with people. After all, technology in the telecom industry should be transparent and facilitate the connecting of people. As such, I was extremely excited to find out that one of the sharpest young technologists in the business, Shaun Carlson of Gardonville Cooperative Telephone Association, had a…
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A Stimulating Conversation on the Broadband Stimulus
A hot topic issue at the MTA Convention was the recently passed economic stimulus bill and the impact it will have on broadband deployments. After talking to a number of people at the MTA confab, the consensus about how the broadband stimulus is going to be managed seems to be, to paraphrase the Hollywood screenwriter…
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ViodiTV @ MTA – Give Us Your Feedback
Help us program ViodiTV @ MTA over the next couple of days. Post comments and give us feedback below. After the show, please continue to watch as we add videos online. Here are some picture highlights from the show shot with my G1 phone. Some things we learned and relearned from doing this show (not in any…
