TC2's David Rohde on Telecom
Tag: MPLS
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
Don’t dismiss Qwest: Buyer CenturyLink has good reason to woo the enterprise
June 17, 2011
Mergers are supposed to foul up carriers. At least that’s how it always seems to work in the telecom business. So is it possible that a carrier could actually be rejuvenated by being acquired? Consider Qwest. It had been fading … Continue reading
Collision of the carrier cliches: How to sort out varying procurement philosophies
January 20, 2011
The following statements about carriers and business users are all true: Users want “one throat to choke.” Users also want diversity and failover. Carriers should provide a broad range of services. Carriers should also provide keen product focus and special … Continue reading
AT&T probes support for SIP over AVPN … but watch the details carefully
December 10, 2010
In any new telecom technology, certain business customers simply will not consider it until it’s absolutely mainstream. The same goes for SIP Trunking. And up until now there’s been one glaring way in which it’s not been mainsteam: AT&T won’t … Continue reading
A new day, a new design: The multiple cost considerations behind SIP Trunking
November 16, 2010
The following is a guest post by TC2 Project Director Pat Gilpatrick, who is based in Baltimore. The appeal behind SIP Trunking is deceptively simple. Enterprises have long been interested in taking voice off the circuit-switched telephone network and onto … 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
Practical issues come to the forefront in SIP Trunking
September 3, 2010
A few years ago one of my old colleagues at Network World got hold of an analyst report on MPLS, and we started discussing it by email. Contrary to almost every market research report up until then, the analyst’s survey … Continue reading
Your carrier, your technology choices, and the Lowest Common Denominator
August 23, 2010
If your principal carrier is the one that starts with either the letter “A” or the letter “V,” then you’ve already been asked to broaden your relationship with them, or you will be asked to do so soon. I guarantee … 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