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Rural Broadband in 2020
Viodi’s Ken Pyle interviews Bernie Arnason after an April 2011 panel at IP Possibilities on what Broadband will look like in 2020. Telcos are transitioning to Broadband companies and looking at the market in many different ways with customer needs, applications, and delivery platforms.
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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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Insight on the NBP
The National Broadband Plan was the topic of a panel led by Carol Wilson at TelcoTV 2010. Catherine Moyer, OPASTCO Chairperson, contributed insightful comments to that panel on the regulatory and financial impacts of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan. In case you missed her at last week’s event, watch this interview with Moyer from OPASTCO's…
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Cloud Hosted Software
Note, FiberCloud is a ViodiTV sponsor and was the executive producer of this video. In the above video, George Henny, co-CEO of FiberCloud, explains how FiberCloud helps independent telcos leverage their existing infrastructure and existing customer relationships to add new revenue streams to their service offering. FiberCloud provides cloud-hosted software for small businesses and is…
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8 Points to Consider Regarding Rural Broadband
Douglas Meredith of JSI outlines eight concerns he has with the National Broadband Plan in this video interview filmed at the OPASTCO 2010 Conference. Citing FTTH Council figures, he suggests that the cost figures for getting to the “unserved” may not be as big investment as indicated in the plan. He recommends that the FCC…
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Associations Working Together
One outcome of the FCC's National Broadband Plan has been the uniting of the national associations in Washington that represent independent telcos. In this brief interview with Derrick Owens, Director of Government Affairs for the Western Telecom Alliance, discusses the importance of having a unified front as far as representing the viewpoints of the carriers…
