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Wireless Symposium – A Training Boot Camp for CES
With its massive size, International CES 2015 can be overwhelming for independent operators. In the above video, Steve Pastorkovich, VP of Training and Development for NTCA and Tanya Sullivan, CEO of RWA, explain that the Wireless Symposium, co-produced by their organizations, is a great way to ease into CES. With topics that span the gamut from marketing…
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A Pioneer For Its Customers
“It was a long-term solution,” said Catherine Moyer, General Manager of Pioneer Communications, a Communications Service Provider (CSP) serving rural Western Kansas. Moyer was referring to their decision to offer its customers the Google platform for email and associated applications via the Google Apps Partners Edition™ program. They chose the platform both because of its…
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Stepping Into the GigaZone – A Commitment to Local Economic Development
Helping with economic development for the communities they serve is part of Paul Bunyan Communications’ mission statement. Economic development is one of the motivations for PBC’s restructuring of its offering to one that is centered around an all-fiber, broadband vision. Paul Bunyan’s GigaZone, announced last Thursday, made a big splash in the news (featured on the…
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A Quantitative Cultural Transformation
Translating mission statements and vision statements into to transform corporate culture is what Albert Bodamer of Bodamer Consulting, LLC discusses in the above interview filmed at NTCA’s 2014 Finance and Accounting Meeting in San Jose. Bodamer talks about how his clients have used a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) to quantify their high-level goals. The Balanced Scorecard converts the…
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Wireless Needs Fiber, Not Pixie Dust
“It’s very difficult for policy makers to keep up with what the industry is actually doing,” said Shirley Bloomfield, CEO of NTCA. The implication is that it is unclear how rules will change due to slow reaction of policy makers to fast-moving innovation. As a result, operators face uncertainty, which, to some extent, holds back…
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Comments on a Conversation with an FCC Commissioner
FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn made a virtual appearance at the 2013 MTA Annual Convention. In this interview, NTCA president and CEO Shirley Bloomfield recaps the conversation that she and MTA president/CEO, Brent Christensen, had with Commissioner Clyburn. Regulatory uncertainty caused by the FCC order, naked DSL, call completion, the importance of fiber to making wireless work, small…
