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FCC is Busy!

February 7, 2012

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The FCC is really busy!

The FCC is still working on Inter-Carrier Compensation. It ordered Rural Call Completion.

It approved TWC's $3B bid for Insight. "Time Warner Cable last August agreed to buy Insight for $3 billion in cash. The nation's No.

Posted in CLEC, FCC, broadband, cableco, compliance, politics, spectrum
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A Fun Chat with VAR Dynamics

February 1, 2012

It started out coincidentally as VAR Dynamics CEO, Tony Francisco, was on my plane this morning. And he just recently moved from Silicon Valley to Tampa Bay, where I live. He is working with Gazelle Labs and spoke at BarCamp Tampa Bay, which is an un-conference I co-organize for the last 4 years. I had to go to Miami Beach to talk to him though.

Posted in VAR, agents, apps, backup, channel, cloud computing, compliance, msp, saas

Data Centers Make the Big Time

September 27, 2011

When USA Today starts talking about data centers, the sector has hit the big time. The USA today ran a piece about the secret rooms that run the Internet. You'd think they were talking about the NSA rooms that read every single piece of email.

QTS Atlanta Metro Data Center is the second largest data center in the world with 990,000 square feet of total space (of which 300k sf is raised floor space) and its own on-site Georgia Power substation.

There is a lot of talk about green when it comes to data centers. (See this article about dirty data centers in InfoTech mag.) As data center space grows, so too does power consumption.

Posted in cloud computing, colocation, compliance, data center, security

VZW and the Open Spectrum

June 7, 2011

In the 700 MHz FCC spectrum auction 73, Google 's involvement insured that the spectrum would be Open Access. ATT ducked out of that auction to buy 700 MHz spectrum from Aloha Networks instead. VZW won $9B worth of Googlized spectrum. That is, that the spectrum was supposed to be used for open access.

Posted in FCC, cellular, compliance, spectrum, wimax, wireless
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VoIP Security Best Practices

April 21, 2011

There has been much talk lately about VoIP security.

The FCC has a page to warn consumers and businesses alike about Voicemail hacks. (The FCC calls it Voice Mail Fraud but it's really about hacking the voicemail system to enable toll fraud.) This actually happened to me a few weeks ago. I never go into my vmail system because I get all my vmail as email. Remind your users.

Posted in PBX, compliance, security, training, voip

A Little Anti-Trust Rant

March 30, 2011

A CLEC filed suit against VZ for anti-trust this week. For those of you unfamiliar with operating a CLEC, ISP or OTT VoIP company, let me explain what I have seen over 11 years of servicing this industry.

Ma Bell has long standing promotions to compete against any quote from TWT. So long standing that by now they should be tariff rates.

Tariff is what the employees of the ILEC's consistently blame everything on. Tariffs are written by the ILEC and can be changed at will.
Posted in CLEC, ISP, agents, cableco, compliance, duopoly, politics, wireline

Local CLEC Sues Verizon for Anti-Trust

March 30, 2011

AstroTel, a local CLEC in Sarasota, FL, filed the complaint in federal court in the Middle District of Florida against Verizon Communications, Inc. and Verizon Florida, LLC for repeated violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, the Lanham Act, and the RICO Act.  The complaint was filed in the context of AstroTel’s Chapter 11 Reorganization which began four months earlier.  The reorganization itself is the result of ongoing contract disputes between AstroTel and Verizon Florida, LLC.

As I understand it, VZ repeatedly used CPNI information that by Federal law they are required to protect to market to AstroTel customers. The Duopoly as a whole does it. One MSO laughs about it and says, "If you don't like it build your own network." That may be good advice, except for Federal law and the reputation you get for being like that.

Posted in CLEC, compliance, duopoly, politics, telco, wireline

8 Questions for Cloud Providers

November 22, 2010

I've done a couple of webinars lately for VAR's and Agents about the Cloud. I think that between SAAS and Cloud, vendors are forgetting that they are selling applications.

I think the disconnect right now is that Agents aren't comfortable selling apps. They aren't comfortable with many of the SAAS Providers.

Here's the scenario: Agents sell telecom services for licensed companies, most of whom are public. And all agents have heard or know someone who was burned on commissions from companies they know.

Posted in Web 2.0, agents, apps, backup, cloud computing, compliance, data center, disaster recovery, saas, sales and selling, technology

3 Ways VARs Can Profit From Cloud

October 11, 2010

I was speaking to an IT shop owner this morning who will be attending SMB Nation in Vegas in a couple of weeks. His worry is How Do I Make Money From The Cloud?

Agents have a similar worry. One reason agents worry is because selling Managed Services in Consultative Selling is very different than selling a PRI or T1. Very Different!

It's transition time - time to take some sales training (Call RAD-INFO!)

For value-added resellers who sell IT services, the Cloud is still an opportunity.

Posted in TEM, VAR, agents, apps, backup, bandwidth, cellular, channel, cloud computing, compliance, mpls, saas, technology

CPNI Training

July 21, 2010

CPNI Training is an FCC requirement. AT&T stuffs this training down the throats of its agents annually. And when their is a computer glitch, twice a year.

While it is strictly applied to agents, internally CPNI is a joke for an ILEC. How else can they know that a customer has DSL with a wholesale ISP? Or that a contract with a wholesale client will expire soon? These are just some of the examples of CPNI infringement over the last couple of years.

I can't tell you how many times this has happened:

ILEC tech is at the customer premise to repair a CLEC or ISP transport service (DSL, frame, T1, Metro E) and tells the customer that they wouldn't have this problem if they went with the ILEC directly! Hello?! That's in violation -- and it almost admits that the ILEC messes with its wholesale customers.

Posted in CLEC, FCC, compliance
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