ViodiTV Videos About Broadband, Technology, & More
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Back In – Safety First
“Atta boy,” is a quote from Chris Trembley that I will remember for a long time. Trembley and Dan Berg are safety experts from the Minnesota Telecom Association who train operator employees within Minnesota as well as other states, such as Iowa. In the above video interview, they emphasize the importance of creating a culture…
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Noticeably Better
This video tells the story of how one rural independent operator reviewed their strategic assets and created a data center and fiber to the building offering that increased its available market opportunity by 40x. Viodi originally produced the base video for one of ITS’s vendors. Subsequently, ITS Fiber commissioned Viodi to shoot additional b-roll and…
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Opportunities Amidst Uncertainty
The above video captures slices of last week’s Indy Show with soundbites from several of the speakers. Outdated rules, regulatory uncertainty and the burdens of regulations were on the minds of many of the speakers and attendees, as reflected by comments from Ross Lieberman of ACA, Shirley Bloomfield of NTCA and Matt Polka of ACA.…
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Advertising Partnership Drives New Revenue for Existing Networks
Many years ago, a wise marketer suggested that the value from cross-promoting different parts of his triple play would, by itself, justify ad insertion in his channel line-up. His challenge was that there were higher priorities for his company’s staff and ad insertion was way down the list of priorities for his IPTV network. Fast-forward…
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Be Careful What You Ask For
Retransmission consent reform was a hot topic at this week’s Indy Show. In this interview, Mike Grebb, Executive Editor of CableFAX provides an overview of some of the discussions heard on this topic, including thoughts on the retransmission consent flare-up between CBS and Time-Warner, comments from Insight founder Michael Wilner on being careful what you…
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The LTE Alternative to DSL
One of Verizon’s suppliers, Wistron, had a display at CES that demonstrated Verizon’s fixed LTE solution that serves as an alternative to DSL and satellite infrastructure for rural areas. With advertised speeds of 12 Mb/s downstream (and reportedly higher in real world conditions, according to one user), Verizon with its LTE offering will compete against…