Tag: rural
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Silicon Valley – Recipient of Mobility Fund Phase 1 Support?
Silicon Valley, the hot bed of technology innovation that helps drive broadband and mobile innovation, is under-served,when it comes to having high-speed wireless access to every one of its nook and crannies, according to the FCC. The FCC’s newly released interactive map shows several areas in the eastern half of Santa Clara County (home to…
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Economic Gardening Instead of Big Business Hunting
50 billion dollars; that is how much communities and states spend each year wooing businesses from outside their area, according to Dr. Glenda Humiston, USDA Rural Development State Director for California. Speaking at last week’s Western Telecom Alliance Convention, Humiston likened this jockeying for out-of-town businesses as a zero-sum game that has limited benefit in…
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Viodi View – 09/01/10
Connections, the television series from the late 1970s tied together seemingly disparate historical events and inventions and showed how history isn’t the linear progression it would seem; sort of a story of unintended consequences. As I traveled about since the previous issue of the Viodi View, I kept thinking about the unintended consequences that the…
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Viodi View – 08/04/10
Change was in the air at last week’s OPASTCO Summer 2010 Convention. From the changing technology, that is moving things to an all-broadband pipe, to the disintermediation of legacy services to the FCC’s National Broadband Plan, change was an underlying theme of the four-day event. The FCC’s National Broadband Plan was the source of much…
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Rural FTTH Clarity through RFOG
The year was 1995 and, after poring over real world maps and comparing architectures, I discovered that fiber to the home (FTTH) was less expensive than hybrid fiber coax for delivering video to extremely rural areas. The problem was that, although it was cheaper, it was still too expensive to justify; and, it did not…
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USF Overview
[12/02/15 – Note: this article was published on August 18th, 2004. The original HTML page no longer appears in a Chrome browser, so it has been reposted here] [Editor’s Note: Many thanks to Mr. David Irwin, Managing Partner, Irwin, Campbell & Tannenwald, PC and Director of the Institute for Communications Law Studies at the Catholic University Law…