TC2's David Rohde on Telecom
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Supplier half-truths and your top executives: Meeting the management challenge
April 28, 2011
The following is a guest post by TC2 Project Director Larry York, who is based in Minnesota and works with clients nationally and internationally. Big procurements present big challenges, and not all of them involve complex rate schedules or confusing … Continue reading
Giving enterprise-ready competitive carriers a chance to succeed
April 25, 2011
The following is a guest post by TC2 Project Director Keith Cook, who is based in the Atlanta area. We’re seeing a resurgence of a second tier carrier market. Several long-standing telecom names whose attention to enterprises had been spotty … Continue reading
The carriers probably won’t be TEMs, but IBM and Accenture might be
April 22, 2011
Telecom expense management – boring, right? But you have to have it one way or another. Simple billing errors still occur, even if telecom prices have declined and the payback for “wrong arithmetic” kind of errors is less than it … Continue reading
The real estate market is booming! (Or so it seems from AT&T surcharges)
April 13, 2011
Exciting news: I come to you today to declare the end of economic doom and gloom. Incontrovertible evidence of a huge economic recovery is provided by the latest in AT&T surcharges. According to an advance notice on the AT&T Business … Continue reading
Level 3 and Global Crossing: A deal that might as well happen
April 11, 2011
Do you remember when telecom industry leaders used to boast that there were “hundreds of carriers”? The point, often made in the first few years after enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, was supposed to be that telecom had … Continue reading
- Of credits, surcharges, and the need to focus on unit rates
- SIP over MPLS? Check. Packaged LD pricing? Check. Concurrent call pooling? Well …
- 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