Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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Google Spurring FTTH Deployment in the Former Valley of the Heart’s Delight
After seemingly bypassing the hometowns of many of its employees last January, Google Fiber reappeared this Fall in the cities of San Jose and Santa Clara. It may not be news they are seriously considering a Silicon Valley deployment (Mountain View, Sunnyvale and Palo Alto are slated for service), but the details of how they are…
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The $50 Million Smart City Challenge
Will the U.S. Department of Transportation Smart City Challenge do for urban mobility what Google did for gigabit broadband? That is the $50M question as the U.S. Department of Transportation recently launched a contest that is challenging cities and counties (with populations of 250 to 850k) to find ways to use technology to improve mobility and…
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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…