Suzanne Bowen : Monetizing IP Communications
Suzanne Bowen
37 yrs in telecom, teaching, blog & grant writing, biz development, marketing, & PR. Favorite moments in life involve time w/ family & friends, networking, IP communications industry verticals & horizontals, running, traveling, foreign languages
| 1. "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition..." Barack Obama ..... 2. "One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain." By Thomas Sowell

October 2010

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Verizon Stops Fee to Customers Paying for Service with Credit Cards

October 19, 2010

Bravo, Verizon!

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) apparently realized that if it wants to attract more FiOS subscribers, not to mention keeping its current subscribers happy, it should not charge users $3.50 to pay their bill on line with a credit card.

On its Twitter account, Verizon spokesman Bill Kula says the company is going to "evaluate" the fee.

More at FierceTelecom...

I hope consumers and organizations see more of this from their service providers and vendors. It has always made me cringe when I knew that our company or any other company considers charging its customers for paying them money. I mean ... think about it.







Exercise Ball as Office Chair and DID Testing

October 12, 2010

I was discussing with a friend about different In-Country DID testing services. He recommends Global Telecom Testing.

I remember visiting this industry friend at their HQ about one mile from the Los Angeles airport and was intrigued by his exercise ball as his office chair. I have an exercise ball as my chair that I use sometimes in my office and do a few crunches here and there.

You, the VIP, Meet Up at ITEXPO on Peering

October 3, 2010

What serves as the basis of the lightning speed shift to Internet protocol in communications? Which elements, technologies, practices, and standards of providers are a part of this change? What behaviors and needs of users are the drivers? 

Find out at the VIPeering Conference on October 5, 2010 at the Los Angeles, Convention Center during ITEXPO West.

Peering helps us all (providers, smbs, other organizations, and individuals) to stay more effectively in touch and in business with our VIP (very important people.)



Meet with vendors and providers who want to hear your goals and share ways to accomplish them.

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