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Inside Broadband: Will Workman
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Will Workman is a former editor of telco industry publications. He is now working on his PhD in mass communications. He can be reached care of TV Technology.
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Auction Opens Mobile Broadband Horizons
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4.14.2008
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Will Workman is a former editor of telco industry publications Cable World and MediaView. He is now working on his PhD in mass communications. He can be reached care of TV Technology.
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Wi-Fi, WiMax Efforts Walloped
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by Will Workman, 4.02.2008
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EarthLink announced in February that it is putting its city Wi-Fi business up for sale.
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Comcast Caught in a Free-Speech Firestorm
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by Will Workman, 11.21.2007
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It employs technology that detects when you’ve been using the phone a ton. Then, masquerading as your phone, it sends a busy signal to those calling you. You wouldn’t like that very much, would you?
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Will WiMAX End Wi-Fi, Cellular Woes?
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by Will Workman, 9.19.2007
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As clichés go, huge has become hugely overused in recent years. But as telecommunications markets go, they don’t get any more huge than the New York metropolitan area.
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Cable Operators Finally Face FCC Mandate
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by Will Workman, 7.25.2007
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The Telecommunications Act of 1996 may now seem like ancient history, but its reverberations are still being felt.
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Broadband Benefits From TV Ad Dollars
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by Will Workman, 6.27.2007
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It’s only a mere $9 billion. Based on various news reports, that’s the roughly what advertisers will spend on broadcast TV in the upcoming season beginning this fall, with no increase over the current season.
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Telcos Fiber Plans Finally Start Paying Off
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by Will Workman, 5.30.2007
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Here they come, finally. After so much hoopla during the past decade about how they can present a valid IPTV competitor to cable and satellite, ye olde telephone companies are at last entering the fray.
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Broadband Video Succumbs to YouTube
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by Will Workman, 4.16.2007
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It's a real treat to teach bright undergrads at one of the nation's finest public universities.
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Will Venice P2P Streaming Site Surge in 2007?
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by Will Workman, 2.21.2007
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Why stop at a 10-minute online video when you can produce and distribute your own channel?
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Me, Too! Programmers Dive Into Broadband
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by Will Workman, 10.18.2006
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The radio star lasted more than a half century until, according to the Buggles, video killed it. But the video star is looking mighty old at 25.
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Senate Looks to Rewrite Telecommunications Act
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by Will Workman, 5.31.2006
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Suddenly noticing that the United States ranks 16th internationally in broadband adoption, federal lawmakers are finally taking a serious step toward updating the creaky Telecommunications Act of 1996.
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Build It, Own It? Network Neutrality Looms as Divisive Issue
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by Will Workman, 4.24.2006
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Everyone has fuzzy feelings about "Field of Dreams." Kevin Costner in a bucolic Iowa cornfield hears a voice, builds a ballpark, and "he," Shoeless Joe Jackson, comes.
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Who's in Control? Hint: You Aren't
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by Will Workman, 2.22.2006
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In my epic struggle towards a Ph.D. in mass communications, one of the more intriguing subjects I've had the opportunity to study has been the history of technology.
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Digital Devices Duel for Supremacy
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by Will Workman, 11.23.2005
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A whole decade ago, in a galaxy that now seems light years away, I was a neophyte tech reporter covering a TCI press conference.
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Evolution Revolution: EV-DO Set to Wack Wi-Fi?
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by Will Workman, 10.19.2005
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Broadband news in recent months has been abuzz with this latest challenger to Wi-Fi. EV-DO (Evolution Data Only, or Evolution Data Optimized) is a wireless radio broadband data protocol that CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) mobile phone providers are deploying across the globe in countries such as Canada, Australia, Japan, Korea, Brazil and the United States.
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Municipalities Become Broadband Battleground
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by Will Workman, 9.21.2005
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You could see this one coming years away. Wi-Fi began its steady proliferation. Equipment costs plummeted while larger and larger hot spots began popping up in airports, coffee shops and campuses. It was only a matter of time before the notion of scaling up to a citywide service built credibility.
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Internet Video for And by The People
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by Will Workman, 7.20.2005
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Pieces--big pieces--have been falling into place that will dramatically increase the production and use of broadband video, creating the next evolutionary stage of the Internet as a converged platform allowing people to produce, distribute, seek and watch video.
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Are You Versed in U-Verse?
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by Will Workman, 6.22.2005
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They claim it's the largest private infrastructure investment in history: $65 billion. That's the amount the cable industry says it spent on plant upgrades between 1996 and 2002.
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Why WiMax Has Maxed Out
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by Will Workman, 3.28.2005
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It's time to fess up--this tech is nowhere near ready for primetime consumer solutions. Its business applications are limited and its long-term ability to provide mobility is questionable.
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A New Year's Broadband Agenda
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by Will Workman, 2.16.2005
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"Every corner" of the United States will be high-speed wired. And that's supposed to happen by 2007, just two years away.
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