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So HP Buys Palm

April 28, 2010

So we know wireless is essential for technology companies going into the future. And obviously HP thinks so because HP just announced that the acquisition of struggling Palm company for $1.2B!

I know many folks that used the Treo as a PDA smart phone. But Palm just couldn't follow that up for some reason. I wonder if HP is buying Palm for the pipeline and contracts or for the intellectual property. Either way it seems like HP paid a lot for a couple of handsets.

Posted in cellular, mergers, wireless

SalesForce.com Buys Jigsaw

April 22, 2010

SalesForce.com is approaching a $3B year. They took a small part of that to buy Jigsaw for $143M. Why?

Steve Cadley is a SalesForce.com partner who helps businesses with sales performance via implementation of Miller Heiman process and SalesForce.com CRM system.

Posted in mergers, sales and selling

Qwest Merging with CenturyLink

April 22, 2010

News reports this morning from NYTimes, BusinesWeek and MarketWatch have CenturyLink merging with Qwest in an all stock deal. Huh?!

"The firms say the deal values Qwest at $22.4 billion, including $11.8 billion of assumed debt." [MW]

"The combination creates a national, 173,000-mile fiber network, the firms said.

Posted in FCC, mergers, telco, wireline

Mergers & Rumors

April 7, 2010

A compilation of mergers, news and rumors:

Rumor: VZ and Vodafone deal

IPO: Broadsoft and Telx both for $100M IPO's; meanwhile, Calix already raised $80m in an IPO this year.

WSJ says that Palm is in trouble.

Posted in FCC, mergers

Covad Acquiring MegaPath

March 31, 2010

Covad announced a merger with MegaPath today. That combines 2 of the 3 independent DSL transport players in the Industry. (The third would be EarthLink's New Edge Networks). Interestingly, MegaPath is a Covad customer.

Posted in CLEC, broadband, mergers, wireline

Ill. Judge Only Smart One

March 12, 2010

Only a single judge in Illinois has the common sense to see that the Frontier-Verizon deal is very similar to the Fairpoint-Verizon deal that resulted in a bankruptcy within 18 months while screwing consumers in three states.

The Herald-Review has a report about "An administrative law judge ruled that the planned sale of Verizon's land-line service to Frontier Communications should not be approved by state regulators.... In her ruling, Administrative Law Judge Lisa M. Tapia says evidence presented in the case in front of the Illinois Commerce Commission doesn't support the sale, primarily because the transaction would leave Frontier too laden with debt to be able to properly manage the lines and other infrastructure."

This was exactly the deal with Fairpoint.

Posted in Internet, broadband, fiber, mergers, spectrum, telco, wireline

Is it the Regulatory Environment?

February 9, 2010

In a twitter exchange with Erik Cecil, former regulatory counsel at Level3, we were dialoging about the Fairpoint bankruptcy. (FairPoint aims to cut debt by two-thirds).

My reply stated, "Just 2 years after the deal w/VZ to create an unstable Fairpoint despite opposition, Fairpoint screws everyone." By everyone, I mean the customers, the economy, the state, the PUC who approved the deal despite being against it (And Erik, you think there is regulation?), the workers, the Union, shareholders and the debt holders. I actually don't care about the last two, because both should have known it was going to go POOF!

Posted in FCC, Internet, broadband, cableco, cellular, economy, mergers, politics, telco, wireless, wireline

Comcast Buys NGT

February 3, 2010

Comcast goes deep into trunking and Hosted VoIP with the purchase of New Global Telecom (NGT). NGT has had a few business models. It started out as a wholesaler, providing the back-end softswitch for companies like AT&T and New Zealand Telecom. It then started selling partitions on the Broadsoft.

Posted in CLEC, broadsoft, cableco, mergers, sip trunking, voip

Shouldn't It Be Profitable

January 25, 2010

During my interview with PAETEC's COO, E.J. Butler, at ITEXPO East last week, some of what we talked about was the Profitability Proforma. The Profitability Proforma is a toolkit for the PAETEC sales force to use to provide a price quote to the prospective customer while still being a profitable circuit sale for the carrier.

Most telecom sales people sell on price - agents too.

Posted in CLEC, agents, mergers, wireline

Mzima and PacketExchange Merge

January 18, 2010

The press release this morning about PacketExchange acquiring Mzima seems to be late because the Mzima website already has PacketExchange's logo on it.

Mzima is a Force10 shop that resells other transit and transport networks with a managed services spin on it in a tightly targeted niche. This acquisition helps Mzima go global.

Posted in bandwidth, mergers

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