Verizon Unveils Secure Medical Records Sharing System
The promise of electronic medical records (EMRs) management has been a widely discussed yet largely unfilled for a number of years. Politicians and health care providers have long touted the idea that...
View ArticlePew Survey Finds 1 in 4 Teens ‘Cell Mostly’ Internet Users
According to a survey recently conducted by the Pew Research Center, 25%of teenage survey respondents indicated that their cellphone is their primary means of accessing the Internet. Among teen...
View ArticleCISCO Study: Consumers Are Open to Telehealth Sessions
A recent study conducted by technology giant Cisco found that the vast majority (74%) of consumers are comfortable engaging in remote health sessions with their health care providers. This includes...
View ArticleNTCA Survey: Regulatory Uncertainty Impacting Carriers
Three-quarters of respondents to NTCA’s most recent broadband survey cited regulatory uncertainty as an impediment to broadband deployment, second only to deployment cost overall. In spite of the...
View ArticleFCC’s Gigabit Workshop Echoes NTCA’s Smart Rural Community Initiative
The FCC held a workshop last week focused on Gigabit Communities, with the goal of outlining how broadband providers can work with local and state leaders to deploy networks capable of delivering...
View ArticleIP is Not the Internet
In a recently published letter, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office denied Apple’s request to trademark the term “iPad Mini,” ruling that “mini” merely describes small things. It is an interesting...
View ArticleAdvances in Smart Grid May Hold Opportunities For RLECS
A recent article on smart grid technology notes some developments in the field that may bode well for RLECs. Smart grid – using two-way communications technology to make the electrical grid more...
View ArticleSurvey: FTTH Deployment Results in Significant Cost Savings
According to a recent survey conducted by market analyst firm RVA LLC and sponsored by the Fiber to the Home Council, small and medium-sized telephone companies that have deployed fiber to the home...
View ArticleVerizon Estimates 50% of Their Wireless Traffic is Video
Speaking at the National Associations of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, Verizon Communications CEO Lowell McAdam estimated that half of the data carried on Verizon’s wireless network is video,...
View ArticleDetroit Guns its Engines for Smart Grid
While checking the score of the Tigers’ game over the weekend, I came across an announcement of matching federal funds for Detroit Edison’s “Smart Currents” project. The project aims to install nearly...
View ArticleShareholder vs. Sociological Incentives: A Comment on VoIP Numbering
Policy Perspective If you watch rural telecom as a spectator sport, you might have noted two recent issues that are potential game changers – perhaps not in the short-term, but certainly worthy of the...
View ArticleCalifornia City Uses Public WiFi to Transmit Smart Grid Data
In what it claims is the first venture of its kind, Silicon Valley Power (SVP), a municipally-owned utility in the Northern California city of Santa Clara, launched a new program to collect smart meter...
View ArticleUSDA Funding Opportunities for Rural Communities
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued several announcements last week which were welcome news for rural Americans. They also represent opportunities for RLECs to improve their communities...
View ArticleSpeedy Google Hits Potential Provo Speed Bump
The Provo Daily Herald reports that Google’s speedy network may have hit a speed bump. At a city council meeting during which Provo Mayor John Curtis was given the green light to sign an agreement with...
View ArticleCenturyLink to Conduct 1 Gbps Test Project in Omaha
CenturyLink will offer 1 GB broadband service to 48,000 homes in Omaha, Neb., beginning May 6. The company’s goal is to have all targeted customers connected by early October. Residential customers who...
View ArticleMicrosoft Unveils Skype for Outlook.com
Last week, Microsoft introduced a preview edition of Skype for Outlook.com in the UK. The product is scheduled to be rolled out in the United States and Germany in the coming weeks. The new product...
View ArticleALA Finds Broadband Stimulus Benefits Libraries
A recently released study conducted by the American Library Association (ALA) found that more than 20 percent of the nation’s libraries have benefited from broadband stimulus programs. The Broadband...
View ArticleStudy Foreshadows Growth in Tech Support Services
Seventy-eight percent of U.S. broadband households have a home network, according to a study recently conducted by Parks Associates and Support.com, Inc. Parks expects that number to grow to 95% by...
View ArticleNTIA Report: U.S. Broadband Availability Nearly Ubiquitous
According to a newly-released NTIA report, in 2012 98% of all Americans had access to basic broadband availability, defined as service of at least 3 Mbps downstream/768 kbps upstream. The NTIA report,...
View ArticleFairPoint Awarded $32 Million Contract to Build Next Gen 911 System in Maine
The state of Maine has awarded FairPoint Communications a $32 million contract to build its Emergency Services IP network (ESInet) 911 service. The network will serve more than 1.3 million citizens in...
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