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Community Phone Cures Cable Chaos By George Leposky - Probing with a spade along the edge of a Hollywood alley, a workman for a major telecom company was trying to locate a customer’s cable. As he probed, he cut the cable of a competitor’s customer. Replacing the victim’s cable and restoring his service took three days. Then the victim’s grass couldn’t be mowed for two more weeks while the cable sat exposed in the back yard, wait-
ing for another crew to come and bury it. That couldn’t happen to customers of Community Phone, a three-year-old alternative phone company that already has hundreds of customers in south Florida and thousands nationwide. They aren’t connected to a cable. Instead, they receive a landline base – a box measuring about six inches by six inches that fits on a countertop or win-
dow sill and plugs into an electrical outlet. Then landline phones plug into the base. “It’s like a modem, but it doesn’t use the internet or WiFi,” explains James Graham, Community Phone’s founder and chief executive officer. “It connects you to a cell phone tower, with a stronger and more stable connection, and it’s not tied to any specific location. You can unplug it from one outlet and use
it somewhere else. You can even take it with you on vacation and use it anywhere our system connects with a tower.” That includes south Florida, where the company has extensive coverage. Community Phone is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), which means it doesn’t have a physical network. Instead, Graham says, “We have a wholesale agreement with all of the
carriers everybody is using. We commit with major companies to buy massive quantities of data. We get them at much lower rates, so we can pass some of the savings on to our customers and still make a profit.” Unlike the Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) technology that the major telecom companies use, the Community Phone techCommunity Phone, Page 6A
The Ultimate Summer Theater Camp Experience The Broward Center for the Performing Arts and The Performance Project School of the Arts are pleased to announce the return of in-person Summer Theater Camp at the Rose Miniaci Arts Education Center at the Broward Center, the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center in MiamiDade and at the Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center at Nova Southeastern University. Enrollment is now open. Under the direction of The Performance Project School of the Arts’ Executive Director Nina Felice, campers gain hands-on experience in musical theater, acting, dance, voice and technical production and will enjoy theater games, arts & crafts and other activities. Each camp session, regardless of location, will culminate in a live performance on a professional stage in the
Enrollment is now open for the ultimate summer camp at the Broward Center, the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center and the Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center at Nova Southeastern University
Amaturo Theater at the Broward Center. Every camper will perform in a show and experiences the joy of performing on stage.
Throughout the camp session, children and teens will gain selfconfidence, develop critical thinking skills and learn the importance of teamwork in an
encouraging environment. Rose Miniaci Arts Education Center at the Broward Center Offered in three age-appropriate camp groups, sessions will
be held June 14-July 2, July 5July 23 and July 26- August 13. Acting Up Camp, for children between ages 7 to 9, offers classes in acting, singing, dance and arts and crafts. First and third session campers will perform Frozen KIDS and second session campers will perform Aristocats KIDS. Broadway Bound Camp, designed for kids ages 10 to 13, features intermediate classes in acting, singing, dance and technical production with first and third session campers performing Matilda JR. and second session campers performing Children of Eden JR. Company Group Camp, for teens ages 13 to 18 with a moderate amount of theater training, explores voice and diction, charExperience, Page 5A
Fox Vein And Laser Experts Are Expanding Are your legs bothering you, are you interested in a skincare treatment? Then 2021 is the year to go an see Dr. Susan B. Fox,
Dr. Susan B. Fox, D.O., RPVI, FSVM D.O., RPVI, FSVM, she and her team are experts in Vein and Vascular diagnosis and treatment, as well as non-invasive
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of veins. At University Hospitals of Cleveland, she started their first vein treatment and vascular medicine center. She has been on the cutting edge of vein treatments for decades. She was one of the first 20 physicians in the United States to perform the ClariVein procedure and the first in Broward County, Florida. Dr. Susan Fox is a Diplomate of the American College of Phlebology and a Fellow of the Society of Vascular Medicine. In 2005, she was certified in Hyperbaric Medicine and worked at the Memorial Hospital Wound Care Center for years. Prior to starting Fox Vein & Laser Experts, she worked at Soffer Vein Experts and previously was a Partner with Cardiovascular Consultants of South Florida for the past ten years. There, she served as the Director of the
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Vascular Lab and the Director of the Vein and Vascular Diagnostic and Treatment Center. At Fox Vein & Laser Experts, they specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of venous disease including varicose veins, leg pain and swelling, ulcer care, venous insufficiency, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism and blood clotting disorders. They have a highly skilled vascular lab with a registered physician vascular interpreter. Their medical team has decades of experience treating venous disease and Dr. Susan Fox and her team have successfully performed tens of thousands of vein procedures. They have developed their own vein procedures and techniques and are recognized vein experts. Dr. Susan Fox has been featured on American and Latin American television programs as a vein
expert and she has written many articles and lectured nationally on the treatment of veins. Fox Vein & Laser Experts offers the newest and best minimally invasive vein procedures including; Endovenous laser ablation, ClariVein, Ambulatory phlebectomies and ultrasound guided, foam and traditional Sclerotherapy. Dr. Susan Fox was the first physician in Cleveland to perform Endovenous laser ablation and one of the first, nationally. She has performed thousands of successful Endovenous laser ablations for over a decade. Dr. Susan Fox and her staff have decades of experience and tens of thousands of happy patients. Find out the full story of what Fox Vein & Laser has to offer for the new year. Fox Vein & Laser, Page 8A
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