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Run e-NC – Getting Broadband to Every Last Corner of North Carolina
The second largest rural population in the country is one factor that makes the implementation of broadband in North Carolina a challenge, so says Jane Patterson the Executive Director of e-NC. We caught up with Patterson at the 2010 Broadband Properties Summit, where she talked about the work the e-NC Authority is doing to help…
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States Need a Say in Broadband
The FCC’s broadband plan is a comprehensive document that addresses, at a high level, all of the segments of the economy that intersect with the Internet. In this video interview, filmed at the 2010 Broadband Properties Summit in Dallas, Galen Updike, Telecommunications Development Manager for the State of Arizona and Director of the RTC, discusses…
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Funding Unserved Broadband – A Brief Interview with Mr. Adelstein
Federal government interagency cooperation and interaction is one benefit to having a Chief Technology Officer of the United States, according to Jonathan Adelstein, Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service. When we first spoke to Adelstein at the 2008 OPASTCO Summer Convention, when he was still an FCC Commissioner, he suggested that the CTO role would…
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The Mayor of Broadband
Population growth of 33% over a decade with only one city employee added to the payroll is one of the accomplishments cited by former Fort Wayne mayor, Graham Richard, in his keynote talk at the 2010 Broadband Properties Summit. Richard pointed out that cities face an $83 billion shortfall in the next couple of years…
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Electric Grid Powering Broadband
Talking about and understanding needs of utilities will be critical in order for telecom companies to be able to serve utilities in developing the so-called smart-grid. In this video interview, Randy Young, the Minnesota Telecom Alliance president, suggests that it is incumbent on telephone companies and their associations to proactively open discussions with electric utilities…
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The Transition to Broadband – The More Things Change…..
“Consumers are going to drive what applications are successful,” said Doug Wenzlaff of Solarus, in this video interview with Roger Bindl. Wenzlaff points out that one of the big changes in the telecom industry is that providers have had to shift from a culture of “build it and they will come” to one where the…
