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National Broadband Plan & Blocked Calls
In this video interview, Michael Romano, Senior Vice President of Policy for NTCA, discusses the broadband plan and the importance for independent communications service providers to make their voices heard in front of the FCC and Congress. He also explains the issue his members have been seeing and that NTCA is trying to document; incomplete…
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John Rose at IP Possibilities 2011
As a prelude to the general session panel he moderated at IP Possibilities 2011, John Rose of OPASTCO discusses what he believes makes for better broadband.
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MTA 2011 Annual Convention Highlights
Highlights from the MTA 2011 Annual Convention include discussion of the broadband plan with Bill Hegmann of NECA, as well as suggestions from Mike Romano of NTCA and Randy Tyree of OPASTCO, as to what operators should be doing in Washington D.C to influence the implementation of the plan. . Brent Christensen, President of the MTA…
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ViodiTV at MTA 2011
The videos above are from ViodiTV coverage at the 2011 MTA Annual Convention… we're working on the summary video and uploading more over the next few days. Stay tuned for more. In the meantime, click here for a summary of this event.
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Driving Demand for Broadband
You have got it; Fiber to the Home that is, now what do you do with it? In this video interview, recorded at the MTA 2011 Annual Convention, Bernadine Joselyn of the Blandin Foundation and Kevin Beyer, who wears two hats as General Manager of Federated Telephone Cooperative and Farmers Mutual Telephone Company in West…
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PCs for the People – One Way a Local Telco Is Helping Their Community
Kevin Larson of CTC discusses the program his company implemented that recycles PCs, while helping people who couldn’t otherwise afford computers. He points to the importance of getting devices to people who otherwise wouldn’t have access to the power that broadband would provide. This program targets families of grade-school children. Serving as the catalyst for…
