Tag: broadband
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Broadband Grants – the Link to Tobacco
Unlike the federal broadband stimulus, which may remind some of the Carly Simon song Anticipation, a grant program funded by the Virginia Tobacco Commission just awarded $1,514,143 to members of the Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative (MBC). These 50/50 matching grants are helping to expand broadband to over 15k residential and business customers who previously only had…
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Viodi View – 9/25/09
Summer is now a memory and the fall 2009, trade show season is in full swing. From net neutrality to the stimulus, Washington is providing pretty of fodder for the conference agendas. Alan Weissberger provides a very timely article on a topic that is at the center of many of these conversations. Weissberger caught up…
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Making Broadband Access Available and Affordable for all in the U.S.
Abstract Professor Allen Hammond, Director of the Broadband Institute of California, offers a perspective on the importance of broadband access and a prescription for making it available and affordable for all U.S. residents. Recommendations for Digital Inclusion, U.S. Broadband Policy, a national wireless network, funding and measurement tools are also included in this interview. Introduction…
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3G Networks at the Breaking Point- and it can only get worse!
iPhones Overload AT&T 3G Network, NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/technology/companies/03att.html?_r=2&hp Apple’s iPhone is a data guzzler. Owners use them like minicomputers, which they are, and use them a lot. Not only do iPhone owners download applications, stream music and videos and browse the Web at higher rates than the average smartphone user, but the average iPhone owner can…
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Will Outsourcing of Managed Services and Network Maintenance Make Telecoms More Competitive?
Introduction: Managed services and outsourcing of wireless and wireline network operations has become an emerging trend in the global telecom industry. Here are a few examples: Last year, Embarq outsourced its Network Operation Centers (NOCs) to Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN). In a blockbuster deal announced a few months ago, Sprint announced it will pay Ericsson…
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Viodi View – 08/14/09
Yesterday’s announcement of the week extension for submitting applications the first NOFA for the broadband stimulus must feel like high school when the teacher gives you another week to finish a project. For the good students, it must be a bit frustrating, as you stayed on task, worked long hours and completed your project on…