TC2's David Rohde on Telecom
Tag: Demand Set Modeling
Getting a grasp on your telecom inventory – is it possible?
April 15, 2013
The following is a guest post by TC2 Project Director Theresa Knutson, who is based in Sioux City, Iowa. One of the most challenging aspects of telecommunications management is developing an accurate inventory. The complexity of carrier services and siloed billing … Continue reading
Transformation projects require their own timeline and approach
March 1, 2013
The following is a guest post by TC2 Project Director Larry York, who is based in Minneapolis. How common is this? An enterprise puts out an RFP 9-12 months before its current carrier contract expires, asking for new rates against … Continue reading
Reverse Auctions – an extra weapon for your negotiation toolkit
February 5, 2013
The following is a guest post by TC2 managing director Ben Fox. Reverse auctions are not only for buying stationary and raw commodities, but can also be a useful tool when purchasing IT and telecom products. However, it is a … Continue reading
In-region or out-of-region: What difference does it make where an access circuit is located?
April 18, 2012
It’s intuitively obvious that if AT&T or Verizon is going to sell you a dedicated access line to a national voice or data service, the price of the access circuit depends on whether AT&T or Verizon is also the local … Continue reading
Wireless unlimited data? You don’t want it anyway
June 23, 2011
The following is a guest post by TC2’s Mark Sheard, who is based in London. There was a time when unlimited monthly data was the plan to have. If you can get “all you can eat” for a low fixed … 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
Madison Avenue loves the telecom industry … and especially the iPhone
January 11, 2011
AT&T and Verizon. Verizon and AT&T. If these brand names aren’t burned into the consciousness of American consumers as direct rivals nationally available to everyone, they will be after today’s announcement of the availability of the iPhone from Verizon. And … Continue reading
Dreaded surcharge goes to 15.5% … or is it 22.1%? Depends how you look at it
December 17, 2010
Halfway through December, in the teeth of the holiday season, we always get the news about the USF surcharge for the first three months of the new year. This year it turns out that the reprieve users got with a … 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