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  • Google Fiber’s Slow Rollout & Pole Access Challenges

    Google Fiber’s Slow Rollout & Pole Access Challenges

    Introduction: Google Fiber1 had only 53,390 TV customers as of Dec. 31,2015, according to U.S. Copyright Office data published in a recent MoffettNathanson report. Furthermore, growth in subscribers is slowing. The report said that Google Fiber’s video customer base grew by 79 percent over the previous year. It grew at 136 percent for the last…

  • Viodi View – 12/02/15

    Viodi View – 12/02/15

    Is there another way to fund rural broadband? That question has rattled around in my head for 11 years, which is when I penned an article suggesting a fee on every device with a MAC ID as an alternative way to fund Universal Service. As mentioned in the previous issue of the Viodi View, a combination of…

  • Property Assessed Broadband – A Bottoms Up Way to Build Community & Broadband

    Property Assessed Broadband – A Bottoms Up Way to Build Community & Broadband

    [12/6/19 Update – Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu and Google’s Derek Slater suggested a similar concept to what is suggested below in a 2008 white paper, Homes with Tails. The ironic thing is that I had referenced this paper in a comment I made to an April 2013 article I had written about Google Fiber.…

  • Viodi View – 05/08/15

    Viodi View – 05/08/15

    The Internet of Things is the next step along a path where technology is woven into our every moment and into our very being. Even the simpler things in life, like fishing, are not immune to the invasion of connected sensing and intelligence that we are seeing in formerly mundane devices. Skip to the Korner to read about…

  • Summary of IoT Sessions at 2015 GSA Silicon Summit – Part I

    Summary of IoT Sessions at 2015 GSA Silicon Summit – Part I

    Introduction: This two-part article series summarizes the highlights, key points, and take-aways from the IoT tracks at the excellent GSA Silicon Summit, held April 15, 2015 at the Computer History Museum in Mt View, CA. The Internet of Things (known as “IoT” or for Cisco, Qualcomm and others “IoE”) was the driving theme throughout this…

  • Viodi View – 11/17/14

    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…