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States Need a Say in Broadband
The FCC’s broadband plan is a comprehensive document that addresses, at a high level, all of the segments of the economy that intersect with the Internet. In this video interview, filmed at the 2010 Broadband Properties Summit in Dallas, Galen Updike, Telecommunications Development Manager for the State of Arizona and Director of the RTC, discusses…
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The Chasm Has Been Crossed
With 16% of U.S. households having access to fiber to the premise, the chasm that separates early adopters from the mainstream has been crossed. In this video interview, Joe Savage, President of the FTTH Council, comments on the deployment figures released this week by RVA Market Research and Consulting. He also comments on Verizon’s fiber…
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Funding Unserved Broadband – A Brief Interview with Mr. Adelstein
Federal government interagency cooperation and interaction is one benefit to having a Chief Technology Officer of the United States, according to Jonathan Adelstein, Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service. When we first spoke to Adelstein at the 2008 OPASTCO Summer Convention, when he was still an FCC Commissioner, he suggested that the CTO role would…
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Exciting Time in the Telemedicine/Telehealth Industry
“This is a very exciting next 5 years for the telemedicine/telehealth industry,” says Harry Wang of Parks Associates, in this video interview from the 2010 Broadband Properties Summit. Wang says that a number of factors are in play to help overcome consumer inertia to widespread adoption of telemedicine. Ubiquitous wireline and wireless broadband and devices…
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The Mayor of Broadband
Population growth of 33% over a decade with only one city employee added to the payroll is one of the accomplishments cited by former Fort Wayne mayor, Graham Richard, in his keynote talk at the 2010 Broadband Properties Summit. Richard pointed out that cities face an $83 billion shortfall in the next couple of years…
