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3 Important Tips: Your GIS and Storm Response

By Brad Hine
December 13, 2013
By far, one of the most challenging times for a service provider (SP) is during the hours and days of an extreme storm, tornado, hurricane or any inclement weather.Often with these extreme conditions comes unforeseen service outages, leaving...
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Bravery and Destruction in The Philippines: A First Hand Look

By Tim Clark
November 25, 2013
Tim Clark, ETI’s Director of International Sales, was attending the annual meeting of the FTTH APAC Council in Manila when Typhoon Haiyan struck the island nation. Manila was spared, but other areas were destroyed. We asked Tim, who also serves as ...
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3 Simple Ways GIS Data Can Improve Marketing and Sales

By Brad Hine
November 20, 2013
These days it’s a necessity for any service provider with a physical “service network” to plot it in a GIS-based software to manage it properly, support it efficiently and to plan for future growth and build-outs. But did you realize that the GIS...
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The Top 5 Bad Trade Show Ideas

By Mary Beth Henderson
October 22, 2013
If you are in the telecommunications field, then you know fall is Trade Show Season. As the marketing specialist with ETI, I always look forward to this time of year. It’s a time where we can show off our software, meet and greet our customers,...
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FORM 477...How GIS Data Saves Time

By Brad Hine
October 11, 2013
This week we are featuring guest blogger, Will Aycock, General Manager of Greenlight Community Broadband, City of Wilson, NC. Enjoy! "Since the federal government is on everyone's mind these days (and assuming the FCC will be open for business by...
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5 Facts You Should Know Before Launching New Services

By Mary Beth Henderson
September 12, 2013
Time out! This week we are taking a break from our GIS series to discuss ways to be more successful when getting into Telecom service offerings. I recruited ETI's Vice President of Product Management, Chris Beisner, to share with us tips for...
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How GIS Can Demystify Your FMS

By Brad Hine
September 06, 2013
Pop Quiz: Does H2007, C1R121-5-3, F5, port 101 mean anything to you? If you're an Outside Plant and Design Manager, like Gene Scott at Wilson, NC’s Greenlight Community Broadband, then you know that these numbers are actual fiber records data that...
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Top 3 Things Telecoms Are Probably Not Tracking Through GIS

By Brad Hine
August 29, 2013
When I was a kid, I treasured my US atlas book.I memorized the US capital cities, the mountain ranges, rivers, etc.I liked learning where they were in the US and how far they were from each other. When we had family trips I would measure our...
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What the Heck is Big Data and Why Should Telecoms Care?

By Brad Hine
August 23, 2013
In the last many years the telecom industry term “big data” has been used to represent any and every data set and grouping of data sets known to telecom service providers. We are all familiar with traditional telecom data as it relates selling...
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How Improved Services and Processes Will Grow Your ARPU

By Brad Hine
August 16, 2013
It is no mystery that, for telecom service providers (SPs), diversifying your service offerings to allow for more revenue touch-points between you and your current subscribers is the quickest way to increase the average Amount of Revenue Per User...
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