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  • More Than IP – People Do Business With People

    More Than IP – People Do Business With People

    “People do business with People” was the common sense wisdom that Nancy White provided at the 2016 IP Vision Conference and Expo. In this single sentence, White, who is president CEO of rural TN broadband provider North Central Telephone Cooperative (NCTC), summed up one of the major threads of this multi-day event. That is, collaboration…

  • Viodi View – 03/08/16

    Viodi View – 03/08/16

    Should smaller broadband operators even offer video, given all the marketplace and regulatory challenges? That’s a question I am looking forward to posing at a panel at next week’s NTCA TEF conference. This session should be interesting, given this week’s proposal to the FCC by INCOMPAS (PDF) that, as a condition for approval of the Charter/Time-Warner merger, a…

  • 2015 RTIME Round-Up – Cautious Optimism

    2015 RTIME Round-Up – Cautious Optimism

    “Economic development is at the heart of what we do,” said Dave Osborne of VTX, a rural broadband operator serving a large swath of south Texas. Osborne was part of a panel at NTCA’s 2015 RTIME that focused on how operators are using their broadband networks as a basis for new applications that are helping…

  • Building a Bigger Box

    Building a Bigger Box

    Managed Broadband TV a Hot Topic Growth was definitely the vibe of this week’s NTCA’s Southeast Regional meeting in Savannah. Operators and vendors provided examples and ideas for how to generate new revenue through the introduction of new products and services that complement the broadband infrastructure. Although one of the panels referenced the idea of…

  • Viodi View – 04/20/12

    Viodi View – 04/20/12

    FUD – the old Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt phrase that normally describes the unsavory and morally questionable tactics used by a companies whose offering is inferior to the competition.  Using these tactics sometimes buys time for the inferior competitor to introduce a better product or buy their way out of their weak position. There is…

  • Video Opportunities With ViodiTV

    Have you gone beyond broadband to leverage your network with video content and seen the Possibilities of IP? ViodiTV at events like IP Possibilities is a great opportunity for generating video content for vendors and telco's to use in demonstrating, promoting, and reaching out to your TV and on-line audience. Roger and Ken bring these…