Home > Uncategorized > Interview with Brian McConnell of Radio Handi

Interview with Brian McConnell of Radio Handi

“Radio Handi”:http://www.radiohandi.com is a group communication service that enables people to create online groups based on any subject or peer group, and to communicate with each other via any combination of conference calls, group email and web/text messaging. Our business communication service also enables companies to do flat-rate teleconferencing (no per minute fees) in over 40 countries worldwide.

A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Brian studied electrical engineering and finance at Virginia Tech, and has been designing telecommunications systems and services since college. Open Communication Systems is his third California company. Brian is also the creator of the “Worldwide Lexicon project”:http://www.worldwidelexicon.org.

How did the idea for Radio Handi evolve out of Open Communication Systems?

Open Communication Systems was founded to build communication services that are inexpensive, easy to use and based upon open standards. Radio Handi, our group communication and conferencing platform, is our first commercial product.

How do you think this technological evolution will affect global information transfer?

Radio Handi makes it easy and inexpensive for small and large
companies to communicate with widely dispersed workgroups. Like other next generation telecom services, it makes location and distance irrelevant, and enables even the smallest company to communicate in ways that were once only accessible to the largest corporations.

What has been the single biggest up and the biggest down in
getting this project off of the ground?

Dealing with Silicon Valley finance people. Regrettably, a
disproportionate percentage of them are assholes.

Bonus: What is your vision for the greatest possible use of this technology?

See above.

Copyright © 2007 by Sonia Aggarwal

Categories: Uncategorized Tags:
  1. No comments yet.
  1. No trackbacks yet.
You must be logged in to post a comment.