Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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Convergence – More Business than Technical Challenge for Smaller Operators
The challenges that small telcos face regarding the convergence of services onto a single platform was the subject of a panel featuring industry experts at the 2008 TelcoTV Conference. The overarching theme of the panel was the challenges surrounding convergence deal more with the business issues, as opposed to questions of technology. Steve Pastorkovich of…
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Congratulations Palin…….Michael, That Is
Some twenty years ago, there was a movie that assembled players from the Monty Python TV series along with American actors Kevin Kline and Jamie Lee Curtis. A Fish Called Wanda was an entertaining comedy featuring an assortment of odd characters. One of those characters, an animal-loving, people-hating, stutterer named Ken, was played by Michael…
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Desperately Sprinting Ahead
Clever product placement ad for Sprint in tonight’s episode of Desperate Housewives. It may not have been so obvious except that before and after the placement, Sprint had commercials featuring their CEO, Dan Hesse. Hesses’s message was that the network is built, that we are just starting to realize the power of the phones and…
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An Excellent Broadband TV Primer
Parks Associates Web Cast, Broadband Video to the TV and Beyond, is an excellent primer for anyone wanting to get the most out of the upcoming Digital Hollywood and TelcoTV conferences. It is not too late to listen, as Parks Associates has the recording online. Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst, combines extensive primary and…
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Positive Signs and Positive Cashflow from One Telco
Jeff Gardner, President and CEO of Windstream Communications, opened his keynote speech at U.S. Telecom’s Executive Business Forum with a note of appreciation to US Telecom for getting behind what he termed, “credit stabilization legislation.” These opening comments set the theme for his talk, which was primarily about the financial condition of his company. In…