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The Modern Housecall
Bringing the doctor to the home via communications and connected medical devices is the theme of this brief interview with Rob Scheschareg of MedConcierge, LLC. Scheschareg believes that demand for this type of service will increase if current health care trends continue. He thinks there are opportunities for Communications Service Providers to bundle remote health…
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Benefits of the Smart Grid
Bill Ablondi of Parks Associates discusses his panel regarding the Smart Grid at the 2010 Broadband Properties Summit. In this brief video, Ablondi talks about the Smart Grid as a way of running more efficient businesses and governments. A sort of primordial soup is how he characterizes the current state of the Smart Grid with…
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Run e-NC – Getting Broadband to Every Last Corner of North Carolina
The second largest rural population in the country is one factor that makes the implementation of broadband in North Carolina a challenge, so says Jane Patterson the Executive Director of e-NC. We caught up with Patterson at the 2010 Broadband Properties Summit, where she talked about the work the e-NC Authority is doing to help…
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States Need a Say in Broadband
The FCC’s broadband plan is a comprehensive document that addresses, at a high level, all of the segments of the economy that intersect with the Internet. In this video interview, filmed at the 2010 Broadband Properties Summit in Dallas, Galen Updike, Telecommunications Development Manager for the State of Arizona and Director of the RTC, discusses…
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The Chasm Has Been Crossed
With 16% of U.S. households having access to fiber to the premise, the chasm that separates early adopters from the mainstream has been crossed. In this video interview, Joe Savage, President of the FTTH Council, comments on the deployment figures released this week by RVA Market Research and Consulting. He also comments on Verizon’s fiber…
