Category: Viodi View
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Viodi View – 12/19/14
Even though 2014 has almost two weeks to go, it feels like 2015 is here as multiple conferences return in full force the first full week in January with International CES, and its associated conferences associated with CES, including NTCA’s Wireless Symposium & WiExpo, Team Lightbulb’s Broadband event and Parks Associates’ CONNECTIONS™ Summit at CES. ViodiTV will be at CES looking for new technologies…
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Viodi View – 12/01/14
Gigabit in the Cowboy State Reinvesting in their community is what differentiates independent operators from their competition. Silver Star Communications, which serves northwestern Wyoming and eastern Idaho, exemplifies the difference a local operator can make. It was an honor to spend the day with Silver Star Communications as they launched the first Gigabit communities in…
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Viodi View – 11/17/14
“The past is to learn from, not to live in.” – Everett Christensen, author of 73 Magic Management Words +2, as well as owner of the Independent broadband provider, Christensen Communications. The past couple of weeks there have been ample opportunities for me to look at the past. It’s easy to only see the positive in the past…