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FCC’s Order – Delay and Uncertainty Abound
The industry has been, “shaken upside down”, because of the FCC’s order on USF and Intercarrier Compensation, so says Brent Christensen, president of MTA. He explains that his organization and members are still trying to determine the impact of this order and how much it will cost end consumers. The FCC order is causing uncertainty,…
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Exploring Broadband at MTA 2012 Annual Convention
Above is a ViodiTV playlist of video interviews from the MTA 2012 Annual Convention… Brent Christensen, Byron Dorgan, Tom Revnew, John Schultz, Kevin Beyer, and Dave Bickett.
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Help Wanted: A National Clearinghouse for Smart Energy
A clearinghouse that brings third parties and the 2,000+ electric utilities together to create a national market for Demand Response (DR) is needed, according to Roy Perry of Alarm.com. Perry, formerly of Cable Labs, has been a thought-leader in looking at how to achieve energy efficiency goals in cost-effective ways (see this interview from the…
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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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Cloud-Based Local Content
Using the cloud to deliver local, linear and on-demand content is what Jesse Lerman of TelVue demonstrates in this brief video interview at the 2012 OTTCON (Over the Top Conference) in Santa Clara, CA. TelVue has taken their base product, which is deployed in hundreds of headends and local access channel origination stations, and moved…
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Promoting & Paving the Way to Greater Energy Efficiency
Helping utilities and their customers improve energy efficiency is what Rory Jones of yoUtilBill describes of their outreach and the tool that they have. He explains that their software helps customers prioritize energy investments. This can lead to thousands of dollars in savings for those customers in the top 20% of electricity users. [ViodiTV coverage…
