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Fiber to the Island(s)
The FCC's announcement last week of the Office of Native Affairs and Policy points to the increasing importance of ensuring that broadband networks are available to native homelands. In this video interview from the OPASTCO 2010 Summer Convention, Al Pedersen discusses fiber network that Sandwich Isles Communications created to serve the Hawaiian Home Lands. In…
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Is 4 Mbs a Dead End Rural Road?
A 25:1 ratio is what John Rose, president of OPASTCO, points out is the difference between what the National Broadband Plan calls for between urban and rural areas. The objective for 2020 is to have at least 100 million homes at 100 Mb/s. Rose points out that the other 15 to 30 million rural homes…
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Importance of Rural Broadband – An Interview with the FCC’s Genachowski
A highlight of the OPASTCO 2010 Summer Convention was the keynote speech of FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. ViodiTV caught up with Chairman Genachowski after his speech and he elaborated on the importance of a robust broadband infrastructure to creating a vibrant rural economy, which in turn benefits the urban economy. We also briefly discussed the…
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Broadband to the Unserved
The relentless banging noise of a Step by Step switch in a small, rural central office pounds away in my head some 13 years later. The irony that I was in this central office to terminate an advanced state-of-the-art, video fiber network was not lost on me. This central office was a reflection of the overall…
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Hybrid Fiber Wireless Broadband
In this interview, Irshad Ansari, President/CEO, NI Solutions, Inc., discusses the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority’s project that will require the buildout of 550 miles of gigabit fiber backbone and a total of 59 towers, resulting in one of the earliest wide-scale LTE deployments in the United States. The ARRA funding is accelerating the completion of…
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From the Idiot Box to Works of Art
Scott Birnbaum, vice president of the LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) Business at Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., discusses the state of television displays and some of the near and longer-term developments that will make them more useful and ubiquitous. Birnbaum suggests that almost 1/3 of the homes in U.S. are expected to have 3D in their homes…
