ViodiTV Videos About Broadband, Technology, & More
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Day One With Zach – The Mayor of Wisconsin Rapids
Roger Bindl and Ken Pyle meet Zach Vrumink – the 2012 mayor of Wisconsin Rapids – on his inauguration day and first day in office. This was a highlight of our week of broadband documonials in rural America. Say what you may, but small companies do what large companies say (or claim)… small telcos are…
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Reporting on Reporting
What are the characteristics of rural broadband customers? That is a question that Geoff Burke of Calix addresses in this exclusive interview filmed at the 2012 IP Possibilities Conference and Expo in Indianapolis. Calix has been gathering anonymous last-mile access data from over 45 rural broadband operators and 70,000 end-points through its Compass Flow Analyzer and…
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Partnering for Scale & New Opportunities
“On the video side, we have some challenges,” said Rich Fickle, president of NCTC. Speaking at the ACA 2012 Summit, Fickle spoke of the need to work together with the American Cable Association and its members to control programming costs. He suggested closer ties between NCTC and ACA to overcome these challenges. He also spoke…
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A New Game Plan Is Needed
NTCA’s CEO, Shirley Bloomfield talks about changes to USF, Intercarrier Compensation and how rural operators need to try a different game plan to have their and their customer’s voices heard in Washington D.C. She suggests that the uncertainty needs to be resolved, as it is delaying operators’ plans for rolling out broadband. And this uncertainty…
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Strong, Faster Than Before – The Video
About two months ago, an impromptu video I shot at CES 2012 went somewhat viral. The reason for its relative popularity was because Popular Science selected it to be part of their YouTube channel. Why it was picked up by Popular Science remains a mystery. Still, based on the number of YouTube “likes” versus “dislikes”, the message…
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Not Going to Disrupt Our Customers
“We don’t want to disrupt our customers,” said Colleen Abdoulah, CEO/President of Wide Open West!, at the 2012 ACA Summit. She explains that costs for retransmission of broadcast signals doubled and tripled the previous agreements. She was speaking of the challenges her company, as well other ACA member companies, face in terms of retransmission consent…