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M&A: 3 UC Deals and a Cable
Well, it was quiet, but now M&A is heating up with the weather. "Private equity firm GTCR has acquired NewWave Communications from Pamlico Capital." NewWave is a cable company in the Midwest with 90,000 subs. Iotum acquired FreeConference.com when it...
The VoIP Market Right Now
"The market for VoIP services has moved well beyond the early adopter stage to mainstream status in many developed countries. SIP trunking and hosted UC continue to heat things up, fueling growth," reports Diane Myers, principal analyst for VoIP, UC,...
Big Changes at Broadvox
Just over a year ago, big changes happened at Broadvox. Bruce Chatterley, who was CEO of Speakeasy until MegaPath absorbed Speakeasy and Covad, became President and CEO at Broadvox. As is often the case in telecom, top executives bring in...
Is the Channel Too Lazy to Sell Cloud?
Talking with channel managers lately in the Hosted UC space, well, has been depressing to be honest. No one is having fun - or knocking it out of the park. Yes, there are pockets of success - mostly from verticals...
The UC Space Right Now
I was chatting with another industry blogger recently. We were discussing how there are a lot of VoIP Providers out there. I estimate it at over a thousand. However, I don't see the Hosted PBX space making huge strides. Before...
What Did I Miss?
After making the news for supposedly canceling tele-working (which they only did for 200 distracted employees), Yahoo is not acquiring. First, Y! bought Jybe, a social recommendation site. Now, "Yahoo announced it is snagging the mobile news reader Summly, created...
The Cloud Communications Alliance in Clearwater
The Cloud Communications Alliance is meeting in Clearwater, FL. < br/> Larry Lisser from EMBRASE presenting at the CCA meeting in Clearwater FL. Joe Marion, President of the CCA, welcoming everyone this morning....
It's About Stats and Studies
Here is a collection of some stats and studies for your reading pleasure.(1) Mary Meeker's 2012 Presentation On The State Of The Web is a good read despite being heavily mobile. She spends quite a few slides pointing out how...
Microsoft Lync in my Opinion
Have you been hearing buzz about Microsoft Lync? Microsoft is spending millions on marketing it - and I hear that the Fortune 100 have deployed it but in limited roles. My brother works for a Microsoft integrator who has 135K...
Moves and Changes This Week
Cisco announced plans to acquire Meraki, a managed Wi-Fi company, for about $1.2B.Broadsoft announced UC One and now Rich Communications Services (RCS) to be added to its BroadCloud SAAS platform. [UCStrategies]After Softbank put $20B into Sprint, Sprint turns around and...
Three Big Jumps This Weekend
The biggest jump over the weekend was Red Bull Stratos: "Felix Baumgartner captured the attention of the web on Sunday when he jumped from a capsule 128,000 feet above Earth and landed safely on the ground in New Mexico." [via...
Mobile Apps Are Not News
Received yet another handful of press releases centered around mobility. Mainly it was about a new Android or iPhone app for UC. This is NOT news! Seriously. The desk phone is being replaced by mobile devices for knowledge workers and...
Strategic Thinking Necessary for SPs
Strategic Thinking is needed for service providers to get through the upheaval of the next couple of years. The last couple of years have been all belt tightening and cost cutting -- to the point that service delivery, sales and...
Selling VoIP and UC via Channel Partners
One of my ITEXPO panels is on 2 PM on Thursday about Selling VoIP and UC via Channel Partners with Chad Krantz from Broadvox; Joel Maloff from Phone.com; and Joe Schurman from Evangelyze Communications.VoIP services are clearly in the process...
Offices Are Moving to the Cloud
On the TCA agent member webinar today, premiere vendors M5/Shoretel and Alteva presented on Hosted UC.Both companies expressed that Hosted UC is ultimately about simplicity for the user, especially the salespeople. Guy Yasika of Alteva mentioned that worlers don't want...
Sprint Resells Cloud
I don't know if you saw the announcement this morning from Sprint, but Sprint is using Parallels for cloud services - for Sprint's Carefree Cloud service and IT Helpdesk offerings."Bringing Office 365 to market quickly required close collaboration with Parallels...
TCA Moves
The TCA, the only non-profit trade association for the channel partners (VAR's, agents, inter-connects, YOU), has a lot going on in the next two months. Heading into CPExpo in Orlando, the TCA will hold its fifth Channel Chief Summit....
Masergy Buys Broadcore
I knew Broadcore was in play, just like many of the Cloud Communications Alliance members. Masergy has a strategy to be more than an MPLS reseller. Picking up Broadcore gives Masergy "Demand for business-class cloud communications is growing at a rapid...
A Moment About Phones
Tom Keating wrote a review of Panasonic's Android IP phone, model KX-UT670. It has HD Voice, speaker phone and integration with IP cameras. Tom reminds me that it's the "major IP phone vendors like Aastra, Cisco, Polycom, ShoreTel, snom, and...
Eat Your Own Dog Food
On yet another call from a service provider yammering about its features - in pure marketing spin. How about who exactly is buying your stuff and why? A Buyer Profile perhaps.Why are we using GoToMeeting for this call if you...
My Favorite CRM Gets J2'ed
There is a CRM system that comes with dial-in help (as the Optional VIP Sales Assistant Support of the Gold package). That's right! Salespeople can call in to an assistant that will type in the info and ask for whatever...
Easier to Use
"Collaboration, mobility and social networking are hot topics for enterprises, but the complexity of unified communications technology is contributing to low adoption rates, according to CompTIA's second annual Unified Communications and Collaboration Market Trends study." [source] The whole idea of...
So Much Stuff I Can't Get To
So many things to write about but just not enough time. Leap Wireless gets the iPhone 4S under its Cricket brand to sell without subsidy for $500! Let's see how that works. It does come with No Contract though....
Big Mac versus Hamburger
When selling Hosted PBX and other unified communications, it's a lot like giving someone a Big Mac. Extra sauce, more calories, cheese and an extra patty for your customer, but all he wanted when he hit the drive-thru was a...
What is the Value Prop of VoIP?
"It is happening and no one seems interested in stopping it - that hosted voice services are rapidly becoming a commodity service," Dave Michels"According to the Telecommunications Industry Association, wireless has become the preferred voice-services option. Wireless revenue in 2012...
