TC2's David Rohde on Telecom
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Pending decisions pile up for Verizon as earnings comparisons get tougher
October 26, 2010
You may have noticed that Verizon officials have been very cagey about any upcoming deal with Apple to offer the iPhone. They’ve preferred to let “sources close to Apple” be the ones to appear to leak stories to the press … Continue reading
Adding Optimization to Contract Compliance: Small additional effort, big dividends
October 25, 2010
The following is a guest post by TC2 Senior Consultant Julie Gardner, who leads TC2′s Contract Compliance and Optimization practice. The tales of carrier billing run afoul are legendary among telecom professionals. Indeed, the proliferation of errors and sheer volume … Continue reading
AT&T survives and thrives, not least because of its legacy national business
October 22, 2010
My guess is that you haven’t seen many stories about “The Death of AT&T” recently. It seems odd now, but as recently as six or seven years ago such stories were common. AT&T was a dying brand, went the refrain. … Continue reading
The multidisciplinary world of the corporate telecom professional
October 20, 2010
Are you an economist? A sociologist? Maybe a behavioral psychologist? Sometimes it feels like you need all of these credentials to run telecom in complex business organizations. The way that people communicate is undergoing a transformation, and that can play … Continue reading
Sprint can be SIP-PY too: The prospects for a wireline resurgence
October 19, 2010
For all the movement toward SIP Trunking, almost every prospective SIP provider has a potential stumbling block in attracting large enterprises to its product. AT&T, Verizon and Qwest are huge incumbent local carriers with incentives to discourage customers from swapping … Continue reading
Percentage surcharge leapfrog game enters a new phase
October 14, 2010
One reason why the telecom surcharge problem is so aggravating is that it operates in such an insidious way. Most corporate telecom managers understand that the current universal service surcharge, which is expressed as a percentage of applicable interstate (including … Continue reading
The iPhone in the mix: Verizon, AT&T juggle 2011 market and investment plans
October 7, 2010
Verizon is launching an iPhone offering! Well, not quite yet. That’s the news you may hear around the office today, although it’s actually not what Verizon announced. Instead, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Apple will be mass-producing … Continue reading
Cell phone recordkeeping rules ended, reducing cost and risk of company-subsidized devices
October 1, 2010
The following is a guest post by LB3 partner Kevin DiLallo, whose practice includes a concentration in the negotiation of enterprise wireless service contracts. On Monday President Obama signed into law the Small Business Jobs Act, which incorporates the MOBILE … 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