TC2's David Rohde on Telecom
Tag: Global
Vodafone clears hurdle to pick up Cable & Wireless
June 18, 2012
It took a while, but it looks like Cable & Wireless Worldwide is going to settle into the arms of Vodafone after all. London investment firm Orbis, which owns 19% of C&W Worldwide and wanted a higher price than the … Continue reading
VoIP and SIP are great! Now make sure it’s legal
May 24, 2012
Recently I’ve drawn a number of analogies between the migration to SIP Trunking and past migrations of enterprise network services. But there’s one way in which this movement is very different than changes from private line to frame relay to … Continue reading
Vodafone does want Cable & Wireless (but shareholders want them to want it more)
April 23, 2012
It’s Monday and Vodafone has indeed put in its bid at the deadline for Cable & Wireless Worldwide, at just over £1 billion, or about $1.7 billion. The only problem is that if that price looks low for such a venerable telecom … Continue reading
Cable & Wireless bidders: And then there was one
April 19, 2012
The following is a guest post by TC2 managing director Ben Fox. As of today there’s one bidder left at the table for Cable & Wireless Worldwide – Vodafone. India’s Tata Communications has formally withdrawn from the C&WW bid talks, … Continue reading
Vodafone’s enterprise ambitions fuelled by another likely move into fixed line
February 21, 2012
The following is a guest post by TC2 managing director Ben Fox. Swapping contraction in worldwide mobile for expansion of its ambitions for fixed line, Vodafone has confirmed that it is contemplating launching a takeover bid for Cable & Wireless … Continue reading
Deutsche Telekom, stuck with the U.S., may make a U.K. retreat
February 17, 2012
The following is a guest post by TC2′s Mark Sheard, who is based in London. Deutsche Telekom had important plans for the funds it was expecting to receive from the sale of T-Mobile USA to AT&T, and ripples from the … Continue reading
Deutsche Telekom: Was AT&T’s offer for T-Mobile USA too good to be true?
September 16, 2011
The following is a guest post by TC2 managing director Ben Fox, who is based in London. The court fight over the AT&T/T-Mobile merger not only scrambles the US wireless market regardless of its outcome, it also deeply affects a … Continue reading
Verizon squirrels away cash to prepare for its next move
September 13, 2011
Could Verizon, of all people, take some spectrum or other assets out of T-Mobile in order to help AT&T get its deal done? Could Verizon buy one of the secondary or regional U.S. wireless carriers to bulk up its subscriber … 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