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Driving the Demand Side of Broadband
“Once you have it, what do you do with it,” said Michael Curri of Strategic Networks Group. He was referring to the demand side of broadband in this interview filmed at the 2012 Broadband Communities Summit. He explains how his company identifies gaps in broadband utilization and actions providers and communities can take to drive demand.…
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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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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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Smart Meters – Old School for This Electric Coop
Smart Meters are a center of controversy in California, but in the rural Missouri region served by Co-Mo Electric Cooperative, smart meters were introduced a decade ago and embraced by Co-Mo’s members. Kenneth Johnson, CEO/GM of Co-Mo, explains how their first generation smart meters helped their customers in ways that wouldn’t be obvious to someone…
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Sneak Peek of the Internet Peering Book
The technical and economic aspects surrounding Internet peering are central to a just published book by Bill Norton, also known as “Dr. Peering”. In this interview, filmed at Parks Associates’ Connections™ conference, we catch up with this former member of the founding team of Equinix and former chairman of NANOG and find out his motivation…
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Championing Economic Development
Jim Baller of the Baller Herbst Law Group points out that economic development is the key motivation for the creation of broadband networks. At the 2011 Broadband Properties Summit, Baller led a track on economic development as it relates to broadband. He also discusses the role of a champion in making broadband successful in a…
