Tag: mta

  • Viodi View – 12/08/10

    Viodi View – 12/08/10

    The holiday season is upon us and, fortunately, things will soon start to slow down for the rest of the year. That is, unless you are the FCC, Comcast, Level 3 or just about anyone else involved in the telecom business. With a vote slated for December 21st, the result of the FCC's meeting on…

  • Wild Rice and Fall Snow

    Wild Rice and Fall Snow

    It was chilly and snowy outside, but there were many hot ideas on how to attract customers at the Minnesota Telecom Alliance’s Video Peer Group at the Grand View Lodge in Nisswa, MN. Viodi produced a mini-version of our local content workshop as a prelude to this event. This was an opportunity for us to…

  • Viodi View – 05/26/10

    Looking back to look forward; I have been searching through old Viodi and Viodi View archives over the past couple of days. As I re-read them, I kept thinking about the saying that suggests technology adoption always takes longer than generally anticipated and when it does finally hit critical mass, what was new feels like…

  • Viodi View – 03/17/10

    Broadband is everywhere; at least the talk of broadband is everywhere with the long-anticipated release of the FCC’s broadband plan. Ahead of schedule by a day and 367 pages in length, it will take awhile to consume this telecom best seller. It is definitely comprehensive, spanning different disciplines including the smart grid to economic development…

  • Viodi View – 03/03/10

    The sunshine, bright blue sky and relative warmth that greeted attendees of the 101st Annual Minnesota Telecom Alliance Convention is hopefully a metaphor for a fresh beginning. The weather over the previous couple of MTA Conventions mirrored the economy with gray skies and biting temperatures. This year, there are signs of rebirth everywhere, as I…

  • You Might Not See This, If You Answered No

    I like the look of the Minnesota Telecom Alliance's revamped web site (I know, the renovation took place months ago).  One of the things that caught my eye today was a real-time poll they had asking the simple question, "Do you use Twitter?"  Presumably, the people taking the poll are primarily people who work for…