The Independent: November 2007
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Bookmarks and bookends
This final issue of the year opens and closes with stories about WiMAX wireless bookends if you will...
UPFRONT
Broadband at low frequencies
CTC is using former TV spectrum for broadband and VoIP, and more could follow its lead next year...
SureWest's road to perfection goes through IneoQuest
SureWest Communications is in a high-definition race for customers in Northern California and says it's winning. However, it's not just the number of HD channels that matters, it's the quality of the content...
Bluegrass Cellular first up to the mic
The Kentucky carrier is the first to roll out karaoke-themed ringtones...
Independents pioneer PBT
Leave it to the Independent rural carriers once again to blaze the trail of a new technology...
Defending rural wireless
The NTCA's Kelly Bond speaks up for rural carriers in the 700 MHz auction...
Dossier: Curt Stamp, ITTA
In order to get their voices heard in Washington, a very select group of mid-sized Independent telephone companies came together in 1994 to form the Independent Telephone and Telecommunications Alliance...
FEATURES
Upgrading in Appalachia
Even in a town with a population that would not begin to fill the stands at Churchill Downs, Mountain Telephone's Allen Gillum wants his customers to know there's nothing you can do in metropolitan America that you can't do in eastern Kentucky...
Wireless still an option for rural broadband
Wi-Fi loses favor in some big cities as the business case implodes...
COMMENTARY
What is IPTV?
Given the relatively high profile of IPTV in the telecommunications industry, it may seem strange to ask such a fundamental question...
