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Quick Jump Menu to this Month’s Articles January Overview Independent Telco Video Content Conf News Churn – We Aren’t Talking Butter Movielink to the Bedroom? <\/p>\n
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Operators’ Viewpoint, ACE Supports Conference, Early-Bird Pricing Extended:<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n by Ken Pyle<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0 <\/p>\n The Operators’ Viewpoint Session Added to Independent Telco Video Content Conference<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n ACE Supports Independent Telco Video Content Conference<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Early Bird Conference Pricing Extended to January 20th<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The Operators’ Viewpoint Session Added to Independent Telco Video Content Conference<\/em><\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n Hear from service providers that have successfully deployed video and other interactive services against incumbent cable operators in a session that has been added to the Independent Telco Video Content Conference<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. This session will highlight the challenges of building a video service business from scratch<\/strong>. <\/p>\n Hope Neiman<\/strong>, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, of Altrio<\/em> will discuss how the creative implementation of interactive television applications, including Video-on-Demand, subscription Video-on-Demand and political content on demand, have helped differentiate this broadband service provider against some formidable phone and cable competitors. <\/p>\n Brian Strunk<\/strong>, Director of Marketing for CT Communications<\/strong>, an independent telephone company in Urbana, Ohio, will explain how the typical independent telephone company can turn those Plain Old Telephone Subscribers into Exciting New Interactive Television Customers.<\/p>\n Back to Top<\/a><\/p>\n ACE Supports Independent Telco Video Content Conference:<\/strong><\/p>\n ACE, the Association of Communications Engineers, announced its support of the Independent Telco Video Content Conference. “It is important that the independent telephone industry is not ignored by the purveyors of video content,” said Butch Hastad<\/strong>, Secretary-Treasurer of ACE. <\/p>\n He continued, “this conference is a chance to not only learn the latest perspectives regarding Video on Demand and other cutting-edge, interactive television applications, but it is the industry’s chance to show the significance of the market served by independent telcos.” <\/p>\n ACE is spreading the word among its membership of this unique conference. ACE is a nonprofit organization of registered, professional consulting engineering firms committed to supporting the Consulting Engineer working in the field of telecommunications.<\/p>\n Back to Top<\/a><\/p>\n Early Bird Conference Pricing Extended to January 20th:<\/strong><\/p>\n The early-bird pricing of $125 for the Independent Telco Video Content Conference has been extended to January 20th. This deeply discounted pricing is available only to personnel of independent telephone companies and the consulting engineering firms associated with independent telephone companies (i.e. ACE members). <\/p>\n Next Article <\/a><\/p>\n