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Looking for a Level Playing Field
Robert Eddy, an industry icon and chairman of NECA and, at the time of this video interview chairman of MTA, suggests the importance of a level regulatory playing field. Randy Young of MTA discusses some of the legislative and regulatory issues that rural telecoms face. Eddy makes no predictions about the upcoming FCC broadband plan,…
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Electric Grid Powering Broadband
Talking about and understanding needs of utilities will be critical in order for telecom companies to be able to serve utilities in developing the so-called smart-grid. In this video interview, Randy Young, the Minnesota Telecom Alliance president, suggests that it is incumbent on telephone companies and their associations to proactively open discussions with electric utilities…
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The Connected Home – Remote Healthcare & Smart Grid
In this ViodiTV at MTA interview. Steve Klein of Allied Telesis, discusses emerging broadband applications around telemedicine and remote healthcare and the value they can provide to rural households and communities. He points out how the telco's broadband network can power smart grid opportunities. ViodiTV at the MTA 2010 annual convention was sponsored by the…
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MTA 2010 Conference Coverage
ViodiTV event coverage from Minnesota Telecom Alliance (MTA) 2010 Annual Convention. From Batter to Cliff to Video World we cover the MTA Associate Member's baseball theme with Cliff Albertson to Planning for an All Video World. In the middle are video copyright issues, similar in difference with ACA, Gadgets, Torches, Electric Grids, MoCA, political friends,…
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Batter Up at MTA
The MTA Associate Committee hit a homerun by selecting baseball as the theme for its 2010 exhibits. In this brief video, Cliff Albertson explains some of the clever things the MTA Associate Committee devised to draw people to the show floor. This approach worked as seen in this brief video. One of the other things…
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What Do a Telephone Tech and a Deputy Sheriff Have in Common?
Brent Christensen, Vice President of the Minnesota Telecom Alliance, brings a fresh perspective to telecommunications. Although born of a telecom family, he followed his father’s footsteps in that his first career was outside of telecom. Starting at the birth of the 1996 deregulation, Brent started as a technician and progressed to the role of general…
