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From Wired to Wireless – One Operator’s Story
“We didn’t even have towers. We had no idea how to get into the wireless business,” said Lee Chambers, CEO of Sandhill Telephone Cooperative. In the above interview, he explains how this incumbent local exchange carrier built a wireless network within an 18 month period. This LTE data-centric network has allowed Sandhill to reach out…
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The Chicken & Egg Spectrum Auction
Replace the term chicken with “reverse auction” and egg with “forward auction” and the result would be a classic conundrum updated to 21st century FCC-speak. Throw in the term “repacking“, as in moving the broadcasters who relinquish their spectrum into common broadcast channels outside the 600 MHz band, and, suddenly, it is a next generation…
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Gigabit Broadband – Better than Indoor Plumbing
“We were asked whether we had indoor plumbing,” said Wyoming State Representative Marti Halverson in the above video. She was reflecting on a conversation she had with a reporter at the 2004 Republican Convention. As she points out, not only did they have indoor plumbing, they had high-speed broadband, which was more than the reporter could…
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Wireless Symposium – A Training Boot Camp for CES
With its massive size, International CES 2015 can be overwhelming for independent operators. In the above video, Steve Pastorkovich, VP of Training and Development for NTCA and Tanya Sullivan, CEO of RWA, explain that the Wireless Symposium, co-produced by their organizations, is a great way to ease into CES. With topics that span the gamut from marketing…
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Make Your Own Cloud #CES21014
Business failure, policy changes and security breaches are some of the dark sides of the cloud. At the same time, having one’s data backed up at off-site locations can be convenient and provides the physical diversity that protects data from single points of failure (e.g. hard-drive crash, theft, fire, etc.). Connected Data‘s approach to solving…
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The Internet-Connected Sump Pump – #CES2014
One of the worst surprises for a homeowner is to discover water in her basement. Pentair aims to solve that problem by adding connectivity to the sump pump. Combining battery back-up, an Internet connection and the obligatory app, Pentair’s Brian Alexander explains that the sump pump, shown in the above video, will send messages to its owners, such as…
