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### How To Reduce Communications Costs In The Oil And Gas Industry

![Author Icon](https://www.champautomation.net/hubfs/icon-author.png) Lee Reeves

![Calendar Icon](https://www.champautomation.net/hubfs/icon-calendar.png) 06/27/2016

How complex and costly are your company's communication costs? If your company is part of the oil and gas industry, you likely have a complex of legacy systems mixed in with newer equipment. You are paying a premium to keep older technology running, but need that money to invest in newer technologies.

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### How Oil And Gas Producers Should Deal With The 'Now' Mentality

![Author Icon](https://www.champautomation.net/hubfs/icon-author.png) Lee Reeves

![Calendar Icon](https://www.champautomation.net/hubfs/icon-calendar.png) 12/28/2015

As the oil and gas industry, especially those upstream producers, move into a more immediate, information-driven work environment, you have to think of the "now."

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### What's The Difference Between Ubiquiti And Freewave Radios?

![Author Icon](https://www.champautomation.net/hubfs/icon-author.png) Lee Reeves

![Calendar Icon](https://www.champautomation.net/hubfs/icon-calendar.png) 12/01/2015

The Freewave radio, along with its primary competitor, MDS radios, have been the standard for field automation for some time. The most common being the Freewave FGR-2 and the MDS Transnet.

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