Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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Viodi View – 12/02/15
Is there another way to fund rural broadband? That question has rattled around in my head for 11 years, which is when I penned an article suggesting a fee on every device with a MAC ID as an alternative way to fund Universal Service. As mentioned in the previous issue of the Viodi View, a combination of…
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Property Assessed Broadband – A Bottoms Up Way to Build Community & Broadband
[12/6/19 Update – Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu and Google’s Derek Slater suggested a similar concept to what is suggested below in a 2008 white paper, Homes with Tails. The ironic thing is that I had referenced this paper in a comment I made to an April 2013 article I had written about Google Fiber.…
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Viodi View – 11/06/15
It was a simple question from a Viodi View reader, “What are you going to write about the conference?” I had been so busy filming videos for others that I hadn’t given much thought to all the buzz I had heard. I figured I better get a couple of interviews, which I could play on ViodiTV. Still,…
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Viodi View – 10/24/15
It’s always a treat when a global organization brings their annual confab to my hometown, the capital of Silicon Valley. The ironic thing is that I spent more time looking for parking, than I did commuting to the recent WBA Global Congress. Parking is one of the issues that the Wireless Broadband Alliance hopes to address as…
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Viodi View – 10/10/15
The Silicon Valley start-up scene is dynamic; meaning that more start-ups fail than achieve commercial success. Unlike its early roots, Silicon Valley companies that do succeed are typically angel or venture-backed and, as a result, the focus is often on “the exit”. Rare is the Silicon Valley company that manages to grow into an international…
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Viodi View – 09/26/15
Until I begin using robotic telepresence, like the women who used it outside the Apple store this week, it won’t be possible to be in two places at once. A robotic telepresence would have been useful this week, as that would have allowed me to attend NTCA’s Fall Conference. Fortunately, we caught up with an industry…