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  • Redl Highlights Rural Broadband in First Address as NTIA Chief at Telecoms Symposium

    Redl Highlights Rural Broadband in First Address as NTIA Chief at Telecoms Symposium

    “Creative Destruction” and Net Neutrality covered by panels of economists, lawyers David Redl, the newly-minted Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), put rural broadband front and center while making his first public remarks since being sworn into his new office. His keynote address…

  • Viodi View – 04/24/15

    Viodi View – 04/24/15

    Maybe it was the look of confusion as I stumbled across him while fumbling for my smart phone to find the just-in-time directions for my next move. Having earlier struck up a brief conversation about only one airline serving the regional airport, it was probably obvious to this stranger that I didn’t have a clue…

  • Viodi View – 03/13/15

    Viodi View – 03/13/15

    There aren’t many places you can go and have an impromptu lunch with leaders of the telecom industry and get their perspective on the issues that affect their businesses as well as the industry at large. It is this peer-to-peer networking that may be the most valuable aspect to an event like this week’s NTCA’s…

  • Viodi View – 02/27/15

    Viodi View – 02/27/15

    Root Canal and FCC Open Commission Meeting It seems fitting that this author listened to the FCC Open Commission Meeting yesterday, while undergoing an unplanned root canal. The irony is that I couldn’t get the thought out of my head about how much of my monthly wireless data allotment that the FCC’s streaming video feed was consuming;…

  • Viodi View – 06/23/14

    Viodi View – 06/23/14

    My aha moment from last week’s SMPTE ETIA Conference was triggered by the FCC’s Matthew DelNero’s excellent presentation on the history and status of Net Neutrality. That is, and it’s something that has been said for years by many experts, the entire telecom legal and regulatory morass needs to be simplified and flattened in a…

  • Viodi View – 06/09/14

    Viodi View – 06/09/14

    Wayne Gretzky’s quote of, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been,” has become an oft-used metaphor in presentations in the telecom world. An important point, not mentioned in his quote, is to be aware of the external factors that could the alter the path of that puck (e.g.…