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  • Surprising Findings from the American Customer Satisfaction Index Survey

    Introduction: The latest annual American Customer Satisfaction Index (ASCI) report covering wireline broadband Internet & Pay TV, Video Streaming services and WiFi usage has just been released. Wireline Broadband Internet and Pay TV Services: Verizon Fios and AT&T U-verse (1.) tied for the top ranking for telecom service as both network providers improved on their…

  • Viodi View – 06/09/20

    Viodi View – 06/09/20

    Although published in 2015, the message of Turing Robots: Income Inequality and Social mobility is as relevant as ever. Written in 2015 by two Rice Faculty Scholars at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, the paper discusses the value of work, the importance of social mobility and suggests possible solutions to adjust…

  • Robots work to fight COVID 19; SK Telecom’s 5G Robot

    Robots are being used on a large scale to combat COVID-19 and that may continue for quite some time.  Automation solutions that were unthinkable twenty years ago have matured and are now very practicable, thanks to the convergence of technologies like machine vision, machine learning & AI, open-source robotic operating systems, and mobile components and…

  • Viodi View – 05/19/20

    Viodi View – 05/19/20

    It was about a year ago at the SmartDrivingCar Summit when it hit me that Tesla could be considered a vehicle, energy, insurance, and communications company centered around mobility as a service. Then, at CES 2020, it became apparent that extending low-cost Internet to flying vehicles is going to be a necessity when advanced air…

  • The Future of the Public Roadways in Tweets

    The Future of the Public Roadways in Tweets

    Does public transit have a future and, if so, what is in the post-Covid-19 world? Those were a couple of the questions debated at the 2nd Zoom-Tank zoominar on May 18th, 2020. Like episode one, the questions and side dialogue both within the Zoom channel and the YouTube livestream provided interesting insight and questions to…

  • A Multi-Dimensional Broadband Network or Is This Just Pie in the-Sky?

    A Multi-Dimensional Broadband Network or Is This Just Pie in the-Sky?

    [Added 5/17/20: The above video was modified from the original to include an additional animation of satellite-to-satellite communications via lasers, as described below.] Could Starlink’s launch later this year signal the creation of a new Internet?¹ But, before we get there, the limiting factor for Starlink and its competitors might be the cost of the…