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Telecommunications Consulting: Love is a Many Splendored Thing
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009. Love is a Many Splendored Thing. Did you know it’s great to be in love? According to a recent article in Broadcasting and Cable ( http:/ tiny.cc/TE8MC. Rick Boucher (D-VA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, was feeling the love at the Cable Show 2009. And he was putting out plenty of love in return. The article says he. Can you feel it? Boucher went on to promise that conditions. Meanwhile, just as the petting party is heating up, Veri...
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Telecommunications Consulting: 03/01/2009 - 03/08/2009
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Sunday, March 01, 2009. Oh Maryland, My Maryland! The other story I heard was Hixson looked at what the staffer had wrought and said to herself “I know what I’ll do, I’ll introduce this at the last possible hour on the last day that bills can be introduced and I won’t bother to pick up the phone and find out what Montgomery County, the county that I represent, thinks about this.” Good job Hixson! I’m sure it made the County Executive proud to know ya. Badda Bing, Badda Boom! Unfortunately, what Delegate ...
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Telecommunications Consulting: Roll Me Over...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014. He even brought up the “fast lane” stuff. I guess the guy reads. David Cohen, Comcast’s Real Repairman. According to the New York Times, was cited in various publications, that Comcast had plans to roll out. Usage caps. And they’ve been rolling them out. In test markets already, just to see if they actually work. The idea is that in about five years, Comcast will have a usage-based billing model rolled. Across it footprint, according to Cohen. The data caps story didn’t tak...
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Telecommunications Consulting: Lipstick on a Pig
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Monday, August 11, 2014. Lipstick on a Pig. Last week, I received a talking points sheet on “Local Choice.” Everybody likes “choice” right? The fact sheet talks about how there will be no more hidden retransmission costs on their subscribers bills and offers them more opportunity to control the cost of their cable bill. It also guarantees that religious stations, PBS stations and PEG access station programming will be carried like they are today. Which cracks me up all the more reading the fact sheet, th...
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Telecommunications Consulting: 04/19/2009 - 04/26/2009
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009. When my kids were little they were quite adept at reading my facial expressions. Especially that expression that communicated to them that I was not pleased. Today they call it the “look” as in “remember when mom would give you the look? Since I believe myself to be a master of the “look” I feel it is my duty to give the “look” to some cable and telecommunications companies. Isn’t that just like Time Warner? Always looking out for the little guy. 8220;clear from the public resp...
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Telecommunications Consulting: The "Look"
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009. When my kids were little they were quite adept at reading my facial expressions. Especially that expression that communicated to them that I was not pleased. Today they call it the “look” as in “remember when mom would give you the look? Since I believe myself to be a master of the “look” I feel it is my duty to give the “look” to some cable and telecommunications companies. Isn’t that just like Time Warner? Always looking out for the little guy. 8220;clear from the public resp...
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Telecommunications Consulting: 03/15/2009 - 03/22/2009
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009. Where is the Bathroom, Please? It is no surprise that the National Cable Telecommunications Association (NCTA) produced a white paper on broadband deployment that read like Greek to me. The “. Moving the Needle on Broadband: Stimulus Strategies to Spur Adoption and Extend Access Across America. That 4% is a blip, a speck, a fly in the ointment, if you will. It’s in the report. 8220;First, the grants should be used to increase broadband adoption and use;. In other words, accordi...
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Telecommunications Consulting: Fiber Recommended
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Thursday, May 28, 2009. I thought my head was going to explode. And it was only last week that I listened to a presentation by Terry Huval of the Lafayette Utilities System on how Lafayette took things into their own hands and built their fiber ring because they knew if they waited for Cox or any other provider to do it right they might as well wait for pigs to fly. I hate those people in Lafayette. Laissez les Bon Temps Roulette! Meanwhile the Federal Communications Commission just released a report cal...
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