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Funding Unserved Broadband – A Brief Interview with Mr. Adelstein
Federal government interagency cooperation and interaction is one benefit to having a Chief Technology Officer of the United States, according to Jonathan Adelstein, Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service. When we first spoke to Adelstein at the 2008 OPASTCO Summer Convention, when he was still an FCC Commissioner, he suggested that the CTO role would…
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Exciting Time in the Telemedicine/Telehealth Industry
“This is a very exciting next 5 years for the telemedicine/telehealth industry,” says Harry Wang of Parks Associates, in this video interview from the 2010 Broadband Properties Summit. Wang says that a number of factors are in play to help overcome consumer inertia to widespread adoption of telemedicine. Ubiquitous wireline and wireless broadband and devices…
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The Mayor of Broadband
Population growth of 33% over a decade with only one city employee added to the payroll is one of the accomplishments cited by former Fort Wayne mayor, Graham Richard, in his keynote talk at the 2010 Broadband Properties Summit. Richard pointed out that cities face an $83 billion shortfall in the next couple of years…
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Bluetooth Helping to Flatten the Medical Profession
At the MTA 2010 Convention, we reported on a Bluetooth enabled stethoscope. This sort of peripheral could be very useful for rural telemedicine applications and would be a natural fit for devices such as tablet computers and smart phones. The two-way nature of it, allows prompting for the health care provider and the digitization of…
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A Secret to the iPad’s Success
It seems like the Newton (remember from the John Sculley-led era of Apple) was just yesterday. Now, some 18 years later, this iPad ancestor is barely a footnote in our march through the progress of technology. The idea was the right one, but there were too many parts of the ecosystem that had yet to…
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Competition Spurs Telecom Choices
A unique partnership between several independent telephone companies and a municipal entity spurred competition in a rural Minnesota burg. In this video interview, filmed at the 2010 MTA Annual Convention, Representative Al Juhnke of Minnesota discusses this success case and how Minnesota’s high-speed infrastructure enables the creation of jobs in rural areas of the state.…
