Tag: national broadband plan
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Bridging the Access and Adoption Gaps
Access to and adoption of broadband isn’t an academic issue for Patty Boyers, Chair of ACA Connects. As president and co-founder of Boycom, a Missouri-based Internet Service Provider, broadband, as Boyers says, is personal for her. Given that she is on the front lines trying to connect people to the greater world through broadband, her…
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Hard Questions for ISPs
It isn’t often that a former boss and mentor’s son makes the news. My first professional awareness of André Vrignaud was last September when I read an announcement that he had moved from one Seattle internet giant to another Seattle internet giant. So, it was a bit surprising to see him making headlines for a…
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New Pole Attachment Rules Deserve a Look
[Editor’s Note: Robert Primosch is a Partner with the Washington, D.C.-based, communications law firm Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP] OK, I’ll admit it – the title doesn’t scream “beach reading.” That being said . . . 1. So what’s happening? The FCC recently lowered the rates providers of telecommunications services pay to utilities for pole attachments. It…
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Viodi View – 05/11/2011
With so much good information at conferences, the challenge is to retain a few pearls of wisdom. Last week’s Digital Hollywood Conference was that way, as there was too much great content to absorb. There isn’t enough time now to synthesize all of this great material into articles, so here are some interesting sound bites…
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The National Broadband Plan Was Top of Mind
It is only two years ago that the talk of the MTA’s Annual Convention was the stimulus and last year the buzz was about the broadband plan that was one of the outcomes of the stimulus legislation. This year, talk kept coming back to implementation of the broadband plan. Bill Hegmann, Chairman of NECA, provided an…
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Viodi View – 11/24/10
IPTV Takes Off at Internet Speed To date, the “I” in Internet Protocol Television has been about the protocol. If the 2010 TelcoTV Conference is an indication, IPTV may have caught up with the rapid pace of change associated with the Internet. Based on the demonstrations on the TelcoTV tradeshow floor, 2010 may be the…
