Meet Chris Gavriles – WOW!’s most successful sales representative with over 500 new customer ‘installed’ sales for each of the past three years: 2007, 2008, 2009. Chris joined WOW! in late 2005, having spent a year selling for ‘the dark side’ as we call one of our major competitors. He took 2006 to hit his stride and learn what it means to sell broadband services the WOW! Way and he’s led sales production ever since. Chris credits his success in large part to being able to sell products and services that he believes in, as well as being supported by a ... » Read more
Can you imagine…?
After reading Rex's articles about past technologies that were ahead of their time, it got me thinking. Entertainment is a huge part of our lives and technology through the years has allowed it to become more and more important. Let's go back 35 years ago. Betamax was introduced by Sony. For those of you who don't know what Betamax aka Beta's are, do a search for it. It was a smaller version of VHS tape, slightly different technology but similar. As we know, they lost the war to VHS which became a standard in most homes in the 80's and 90's. There was a lot of buzz about ... » Read more
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WOW! Phone and Power Outages
So a big snow storm is scheduled to roll through, it's getting dark out, and you hope for the best. As you well know, mother nature can be brutal and sometimes you find yourself, in the dark, without power. Losing power is scary and causes you and your family to be a bit restless. Here's one less thing to worry about while clicking on those flashlights and pulling out those candles.
- In the event of a power outage, your WOW! Phone service (including access to 911) will continue to work as expected so long as your broadband connection is unaffected. Thankfully, WOW! modems include a back-up battery pack
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How Programming Decisions Are Made
One of the most challenging things we do at WOW! is to decide what channels to offer customers. Often we receive requests to add certain channels and questions as to why others aren’t available or have been dropped or put into a different package. There are a number of factors we take into consideration – what physical capacity is available; which channels have the greatest overall customer demand; how much the programmer or network is demanding in license fees. We know our choices won’t always be popular. But we hope you understand that we strive to make decisions that we ... » Read more
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Winning Computer Technologies, or How To Determine What is Best for You (pt.2)
Last week I addressed the best way to determine what is going to be the best computer technology for your individual needs. This week we are going to take a look at those “winning” computer technologies of the past that, for whatever reason, have either evolved way beyond what we remember or have disappeared altogether. So just for fun, let’s take a stroll down computer memory lane to reminisce on “winning” technologies of the not-too-distant past… For starters how about the relentless pursuit of disk storage space in the mid 1990’s and what that brought us? If you guessed Zip drives you would ... » Read more
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