The Independent: April 2007
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Finding common cause
The nation is divided. Red and blue. Blue and red. Sometimes I think it's significant that the only place you really see those two colors together is on the nation's flag--or on a clown...
UPFRONT
Unions go for a block on FairPoint acquisition
Jobs, pension and economic development top union concerns about FairPoint Communcations' intentions in New England. Are they justified?...
Amber Alert opened to smaller wireless carriers
Cell phone-based notification program aims to help recover missing children...
New CALEA rules cast long shadow
With the May 14 deadline for compliance of broadband networks with CALEA little more than one month away, most rural operators already have plans in place...
Anatomy of Nex-Tech Wireless
In and out of the wireless business over the last 17 years, Nex-Tech says this time it's for sure...
MediaFLO in a town near you
Paul Jacobs, Qualcomm CEO, was scheduled to speak at the Rural Cellular Association Annual Convention in Las Vegas this week about the magic of MediaFLO...
Stuck in the middle for triple play
Mid-tier telcos are torn over fiber-based video strategies...
Chibardun: Loneliest company in WiMAX
You might think many rural providers would be using WiMAX to bring wireless broadband to their hard-to-reach areas. You might be wrong...
Cincy Bell rethinks voicemail
Cincinnati Bell may be feeling the pressure from Time Warner Cable's quad-play strategy, but it believes it has an effective counterattack...
Dossier: Pat Riordan, Nsight Teleservices
Talk about hats. As CEO of Nsight Telservices, Pat Riordan oversees operations of the Northeast Telephone Co.; Cellcom, the wireless business founded in 1987 that now accounts for 80% of the company's revenue...
FEATURES
Ensuring survival with a wiggle and a giggle
Rugged individualism may have built and sustained much of rural America over the past few centuries, but as the Dust Bowl days proved, sometimes even the most rugged individualists must turn to their brothers and sisters for help...
In the interest of health care
With all the best intentions, the FCC is encouraging rural health care providers to connect with other providers nationwide and bring telemedicine into the 21st century. And if their intentions are pure, rural service providers can help...
COMMENTARY
FCC program gets it right for rural
Kudos to the FCC for its new Pilot Program for Enhanced Access to Advanced Telecommunications and Information Services: A Rural Health Care Support Program aimed at creating a nationwide broadband network dedicated to health care. Why? ...
