Category: Viodi View
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Viodi View – 04/11/15
It is easy to be awestruck when visiting the Washington D.C. area. One can sense the energy when stepping off the airplane and into this center of power. The region is overflowing with smart people, powerful organizations and more history of this great republic than anywhere else. It is understandable how the servant leaders who work in the “beltway”,…
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Viodi View – 03/27/15
The Minnesota telecom industry is a family, stated Brent Christensen in his opening comments at the MTA’s annual meeting this week in Minneapolis. Extending his analogy, the annual Convention and Tradeshow is a family reunion of sorts. And it was sad news to hear the passing of family member, Gene South. As many readers of the…
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Viodi View – 03/13/15
There aren’t many places you can go and have an impromptu lunch with leaders of the telecom industry and get their perspective on the issues that affect their businesses as well as the industry at large. It is this peer-to-peer networking that may be the most valuable aspect to an event like this week’s NTCA’s…
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Viodi View – 02/27/15
Root Canal and FCC Open Commission Meeting It seems fitting that this author listened to the FCC Open Commission Meeting yesterday, while undergoing an unplanned root canal. The irony is that I couldn’t get the thought out of my head about how much of my monthly wireless data allotment that the FCC’s streaming video feed was consuming;…
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Viodi View – 02/16/15
Value Added Business Services Drive New Revenue “An all-star line-up of speakers that was assembled,” said Jeff Leslie, CEO of ITS Fiber. He was referring to this week’s event, Beyond Fiber and Into the Data Center and he was right, as all the speakers delivered great insight. As we discovered, what ITS Fiber is doing…
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Viodi View – 1/30/15
FCC AWS-3 Auction Ends; Raises Record $44.9 Billion! by Alan Weissberger The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has just closed its auction of AWS-3 wireless spectrum licenses, raising a record $44.9 billion in the process. The Wall Street Journal reports that this is the largest amount of money the FCC has ever collected from a spectrum auction, and is more…