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Will Satellite Phones Replace the Need for Cell Towers in Rural Areas?

Will Satellite Phones Replace the Need for Cell Towers in Rural Areas?

Introduction: The Real Question Behind the Headline “Will satellite phones replace the need for cell towers in rural areas?” Well, let’s start with the basics.  We know that satellites are superb at covering huge, sparsely populated regions (where hosting towers can be costly), while cell towers excel where […]
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Telecom Industry Helps Reform U.S. Prison System

To digress and get off subject a little bit, the United States has one of the largest prison populations in the world. According to the latest statistics, there are well over 2.3 million individuals in prison. This represents almost 1% of the entire U.S. population....

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A Brand New GIS System Takes Place in Ireland

A Brand New GIS System Takes Place in Ireland

In today’s blog posting, we take a trip overseas to examine the state of the GIS market.  In this regard, we travel all the way across the pond to Ireland.  Back in 2012, a business entity known as the Irish Mapping and GIS Solutions (IMGS), along with its partners of...

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Windstream Announces Market Expansion Plans

Windstream Announces Market Expansion Plans

There is no doubt that the United States economy is actually in pretty good shape. For example, unemployment is at record lows and, despite the recent volatility in the financial markets and the looming threat of recession in China, on the whole, companies are...

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TDS Telecom to Expand into Two New Telecom Markets

TDS Telecom to Expand into Two New Telecom Markets

In some of our previous blog postings, we examined a number of key players in the telecom industry. Some of these players have included the likes of Verizon, AT&T, and other telecom giants located on both the East and West Coasts. In today’s article, we take a...

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Introducing the SuperGIS Server

The world of GIS has become a lot more sophisticated and complex than one might think. For example, it is much more than simply taking pictures and snapshots of various landmarks and landscapes. It now involves the use of drone based technology, satellites taking...

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New GIS Services coming to Eurostat

EuroGeographics is one of the largest GIS based business entities in the entire European Union. It was founded back in 2002, as result of the merger between the Comitée Européen des Responsables de la Cartographie Officielle (CERCO) and the Comitée Européen des...

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Telecom Industry Ending Robocalls

One of the facts of everyday life is that we will always receive telephone calls and spam e-mails from companies wanting to sell us their products and services. Of course, there is nothing wrong with that. However, when it becomes an annoyance and happens on repeated...

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How GIS Data can be used to Track Consumer Behavior

How GIS Data can be used to Track Consumer Behavior

With stock and other financial markets reaching new highs and with unemployment at its lowest levels since the global recession of the last decade, the American consumer now has much more disposable income and spending power. One of the best places to spend this extra...

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AT&T and Verizon to Offer New Pricing Models

Whenever a new product or service is released by a new vendor, especially if it comes from a large company like Microsoft, the impact, whether negative or positive, is immediately felt by both new and existing customers. Such is the case in the telecom and cable...

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