Category: Viodi View
-
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;…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Viodi View – 01/16/15
The Chicken & Egg Spectrum Auction Overload; one word to describe everything going on regarding the activity surrounding telecommunications regulation and policy in Washington D.C. Carri Bennet and Jill Canfield, two very knowledgable people on these topics drove home the point of how complicated telecom policy is when they described where the FCC stands with…
-
Paving the Way to an Autonomous Future
Apollo 11 is a distant memory in the rear view mirror of life for those old enough to remember the glory days of America’s space program. It was a privilege then to meet someone who was involved with that historic program. Space, however, was not the final frontier for Dr. Alain Kornhauser, a Princeton Professor of Operations…
-
Viodi View – 01/02/15
The FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rule Making on modifying the definition of MVPD to include certain type of OTT providers wasn’t exactly the top choice for reading over the break, but it was informative. This document does a good job of raising the right questions and looking at the potential implications of a change of the definition of…