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A Map that Saves $100M
Galen Updike describes the Arizona State mapping initiative to correlate the location of State highways, broadband and all the cities of 500 people or more. The idea is to make it easier to use the existing rights-of-ways to expand broadband throughout the state.
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Technology and Broadband Everywhere
Galen Updike talks about the program for the Rural Telecom Congress for the 2012. He relates a personal story of how technology and broadband are everywhere; even in the most remote and rural areas of the Philippines.
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A New Game Plan Is Needed
NTCA’s CEO, Shirley Bloomfield talks about changes to USF, Intercarrier Compensation and how rural operators need to try a different game plan to have their and their customer’s voices heard in Washington D.C. She suggests that the uncertainty needs to be resolved, as it is delaying operators’ plans for rolling out broadband. And this uncertainty…
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Telecom ’96 and Blowout Author Speaks
The United States is still, “A country of opportunity,” said former Senator Byron Dorgan, in his speech to the Minnesota Telecom Association in Minneapolis, today. He suggested that, as a country, we need to find ways to work together. He compared the efforts to bring broadband to rural America with the wagon train of the…
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Cost/Benefit Analysis of Regulations
“Campaigning and politics has become a huge industry and what sounds great during the campaign is different than how you govern,” said Senator Mark Pryor [D-AR]. At the ACA 2012 Summit, he suggested that “We need a new paradigm [in Washington politics].” The problems in Washington are fixable, but politicians must, “Be willing to come…
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Retransmission Consent 101
A government bailout for broadcasters is how retransmission consent was characterized by Matt Polka, president of the ACA, in the panel he moderated at the Independent Show. This article he penned for CED echoes the comments he made during his panel. In this brief interview after the panel, Polka provides a brief overview of retransmission…
