Speaking at Iowa Telecom Association’s Video Conference last week, Tom Wacker, Director of Government Affairs for NTCA, said the hot topics in Washington are the deficit, ethics and international issues. As a result, communications is not a top leadership priority. He spoke of a meeting NTCA had last week with House Speaker Pelosi, Congressman Rangel…

David Lepak, Vice President of Telechannel, provided a soup to nuts overview of the programming business and the challenges independent telcos face when adding cable television to their service offering. He talked of the trade-offs between being using an aggregator, a consultant or one’s own staff to acquire content. He suggested that the rights to…

Click to Learn More Justyn Miller of Kalona Telephone provided a show and tell of new services and technologies in his excellent presentation at the Iowa Telephone Association’s Video Conference. Miller of Kalona Telephone encouraged independent telcos to, “Become the local authority on technology.” He encouraged telcos to embrace new technology by introducing it to…

Click to Learn More At the Iowa Telephone Association’s Video Workshop in Des Moines, Roger Musick of Innovative Systems proclaimed that IPTV has been, “over promised and under delivered”. He suggested that there have been too many vendors in the IPTV chain, which has complicated the rollout and maintenance of IPTV networks. Echoing what many…

Maybe the IPTV industry is starting to mature, as some of the telcos are starting to cycle through their first generation of equipment for new and improved offerings from suppliers. This echoed comments made by Frank Gini of ETI Software a few weeks back at the IPTV 2007 show. This thought was triggered by a…