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Applications Driving the Need for Rural Broadband
“If it’s a covered service, then the insurance company should pay for it, whether it is electronically delivered or a face-to-face delivery,” said attorney Michael Keeling. Keeling was referring to recently passed Arizona legislation (Arizona Senate Bill 1353) that puts telemedicine on a level playing field with health care delivered in person. He points out that…
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Act Together to Generate Supply and Demand
“We are teaching our rural regions to help themselves,” said Galen Updike, past-president of the Rural Telecommunications Congress. He suggests that rural communities need to work together regionally to aggregate demand to attract broadband. He points out that there is no cookie-cutter approach, but one commonality is the feet on the street in the community…
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A Canary in the Pay TV Coal Mine
“They care more about broadband capacity than choice of TV providers,” said Bryan Rader of Bandwidth Consulting. Rader was referring to apartment dwellers who are leading the way in cutting the cord. In a sense, this echoes what happened a few years back when these same customers were among the first to adopt over-the-top, VoIP…
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Real Facts About Broadband Are Needed
Jane Patterson of Jane Patterson and Associates discusses the recently released research report from the NC Broadband’s organized Broadband Research Roundtable. One of the conclusions of this report is that there needs to be: A shared repository of case study-based and other impact evaluation studies would help accelerate the collective understanding of impacts, innovation in…
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3 Tips for Building Community Broadband – Part 2
In part 2 of this two-part interview, Dr. Tim Nulty suggests that those wishing to replicate ecFiber.net‘s rural broadband network build-out should follow these three basic steps: Develop a lean business plan and and a lean network. Organize an institution that can implement the plan and maintain the network. He describes an interesting public-private partnership to…
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Open Access Networks
Allowing open access to the last mile network was one of the requirements placed upon winners of ARRA stimulus funding. In this interview, Andrew Cohill of Design Nine, Inc. talks about the track he helped assemble on the topic of “open access networks” for the 2012 Broadband Communities Summit.
