Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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Broadband Built Block-by-Block by Blockchain – Part 1 – Helium & LoRaWAN
If broadband adds thousands of dollars to a home’s value, then why not unlock that value to help pay for the last-mile network? A form of this question was first posed in this Viodi View article, Property Assessed Broadband – A Bottoms Up Way to Build Community & Broadband. As shown in that article, this…
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Bridging the Access and Adoption Gaps
Access to and adoption of broadband isn’t an academic issue for Patty Boyers, Chair of ACA Connects. As president and co-founder of Boycom, a Missouri-based Internet Service Provider, broadband, as Boyers says, is personal for her. Given that she is on the front lines trying to connect people to the greater world through broadband, her…
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NASA RAM Report – The Foundation for a Rural Air Revival
As with so many of the developments in telecom and broadband, rural areas may provide the proving ground for the next generation of air travel. This is one of the important implications of NASA’s recently issued report, Regional Air Mobility (RAM). Investors, community leaders, policymakers, industry, and the general public are the target audience for…
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Distributed Electric Aviation – a New Model of Intercommunity Connection
Electric aviation is more than just cleaner and quieter skies. It has the potential to be a catalyst for both the revitalization of rural towns and outmigration from urban areas. These are a couple of the implications of the recent report, Distributed Aviation – A New Economic Model for Electric Aviation, from the United Kingdom-based, Advanced…
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06/11/21 – Viodi View
There is nothing like a shutdown to make one appreciate travel, particularly travel by airplane. By entering a portal of sorts, it is possible, in a few short hours, to come out the other side in a completely new environment. And seeing something in person or meeting an old friend face-to-face cannot compare to a…
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Dallas’ Floating Oasis Above a Concrete Desert
Like a floating oasis rising above a concrete desert, the Klyde Warren Park stands firmly above the congested Woodall Rodgers Freeway in the heart of Dallas. From the vantage point of a car, it is unremarkable and looks like any other short tunnel one would encounter on a typical highway. At street level, however, it…