TC2's David Rohde on Telecom
News and Analysis From the Enterprise User Viewpoint
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Clearwire, Sprint, and the limitations of the ‘home run’ strategy
June 19, 2009
Can mobile wireless technologies be so fast that they compete effectively with fixed, wired broadband? That’s part of the premise of WiMax, the technology employed by Clearwire, which has had a longstanding affiliation with Sprint and is now 51% owned … Continue reading
Buyer, meet seller: Price match eludes Qwest in LD sale attempt
June 9, 2009
Like a house that sits on the market because the seller’s expectations exceed buyers’ willingness to pay, the Qwest long distance business has come off the sale block due to the lack of a price match. Qwest announced yesterday that … Continue reading
Don’t let currency risk problems be an international deal-killer
June 3, 2009
As I write this, it takes $1.43 to buy 1 Euro, or put another way, the dollar is worth 0.69 euros. So tell me: Will the value of the dollar strengthen later this year, or weaken further? That’s okay, I … Continue reading
- Apparently feeling left out, Verizon adds an Administrative Expense Fee
- Data pooling plans gain momentum as data usage accelerates
- Softbank’s fight with Dish for Sprint runs far afield from the enterprise
- Getting a grasp on your telecom inventory – is it possible?
- Declining account support and the rise of the vendor “Program Management Office”
- Machine-to-machine: A whole new wireless pricing ballgame
- Transformation projects require their own timeline and approach
- CenturyLink cuts shareholder dividend as necessary transition accelerates
- Data sharing plans already add usage … and devices
- Nextel subscriber run-off hits hard as Sprint struggles to remake itself
4G Wireless
Auditing
Bidder Lists
Billing and Reporting
Broadband mass market
BYOD
Call Centers
Cloud Computing
Consumerization
Contract Compliance
Contract Compliance/Optimization
Demand Set Modeling
Disaster Recovery
Equipment
Global
Legacy Services
Leverage
Managed Services
Management
Mergers and Acquisitions
Metro Fiber
Mobile Device Management
MPLS
Price Benchmarking
Push-To-Talk
Regulation
Security
Service Level Agreements
SIP Trunking
Smartphones
Surcharges
Tablets
Telecom Expense Management
Telecom Industry
Terms and Conditions
Unified Communications
VoIP
Wireless
Wireless Data
Wireless Spectrum