TC2's David Rohde on Telecom
Monthly Archives: November 2011
SIP Trunking is about competing all your voice business, not converging onto an existing data carrier
November 29, 2011
The nation’s biggest carriers – okay, AT&T more than Verizon – have been following a distinct pattern when it comes to SIP Trunking. In the first phase, the carrier heartily endorses the new service in public but can’t believe that … Continue reading
AT&T will need to put a genie back in the bottle to salvage T-Mobile deal
November 27, 2011
Any glance at the business news over the Thanksgiving weekend would give you the idea that the AT&T/T-Mobile merger is dead. Once the FCC scheduled a type of trial-like hearing on the merger that forces a new, months-long review of … Continue reading
AT&T merger logic sinks under the weight of FCC skepticism
November 23, 2011
I don’t know if the FCC’s move yesterday to derail the AT&T/T-Mobile merger spells the end of the troubled deal. I do know it should be the end of AT&T’s tiresome claim that the merger will “create” 96,000 jobs. At the … Continue reading
What’s good for the enterprise is good for Level 3
November 22, 2011
With “duopoly” replacing “Big 3” as the usual way of describing the first tier of enterprise wireline carriers, you’d think it would be easier for a new carrier to break into the top tier. Surely enterprises are hungry for an … 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