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Good News from CenturyLink Channel
Sat in on the CenturyLink Channel Alliance - Get back in the Game Roadshow in Tampa this morning. It was nice to see Stacy Conrad from Microcorp; Josh Anderson and his co-workers from Telephony Partners; Dale Tucker from CCA;...
Savvis Changes Comp Plan
I just received confirmation that channel compensation for hosting under CenturyLink will no longer be residual. Savvis, which is owned by CenturyLink, took over management of the Qwest Cyber Centers.At a time when cloud providers want agents selling, data center...
DISH Bought a CLEC
Per an FCC filing (WC Docket No. 10-231) DISH Media is acquiring Liberty-Bell Telecom, a Colorado limited liability company, which provides competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) and long distance services in Colorado and has limited operations in New Mexico and...
Mergers Only Mask the Truth
I have a firm belief that most mergers are just ways to make the books look better by clouding the numbers. Take this headline from the Morning Journal, "CenturyLink has profitable second quarter, primarily due to acquisition". I agree with...
TCA Adds MegaPath and Star2Star
The Technology Channel Association (TCA) announced the addition of two new carrier members in July: MegaPath Inc. and Star2Star Communications LLC. TCA was launched in August 2008 as a non-profit trade association for channel organizations selling any technology solutions.TCA membership...
Qwest Loses Forbearance
Qwest had a forbearance petition in at the FCC for the Phoenix metro area. It was denied by the FCC last week. It was denied in 2008 by Martin's commission as well. Qwest claims that cable, VoIP and cellular are...
Can Copper Turn to Gold?
People ask me about the CenturyLink-Qwest merger. I'm still trying to get over the CTEL-Embarq merger. And wrapping my head around bigger is better when that has been proven to be a hoax recently (Too Big to Fail?) is causing...
Qwest Merging with CenturyLink
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...
Why Can't DC See What We See
I'm not the brightest guy in the world. Yet over and over I see politicians and regulators make decisions that the other 99% of the US knows will be bad news. One such decision: approving the sale of Verizon's New...
Qwest LD For Sale
Qwest has started the process to sell its LD network. Asking price is just $3B. Suitors include Level3, Verizon, Ma Bell and tw telecom. From Forbes.com....
Compare the RBOC Profit
There are only 3 RBOC's left: AT&T, Verizon and Qwest. In the new Fortune 500 listing, telecom has 21 companies listed. The top 2: Ma and Pa Bell. AT&T has revenue of $124B. VZ is $97B. Profit for AT&T is...
Are You Still an ILEC Agent?
This from Telephony online and the Convergence Consulting Group: The latest in an annual study of the bundled services market shows US telecom service providers are losing wireline voice customers at a faster pace and being transformed in the process...
Merger Rumors Abound
Well, it is conference month with the industry gathering at CTIA and VoiceCon (and other shows). And when we get together we tend to gossip. The latest rumors (some thanks to Telecom Ramblings) involve XO, TWTC, and Qwest. Apparently, Qwest...
On a Qwest for Less Comp
Qwest decreased the compensation to its channel program by about 10%, which one master agent said was "bad, but it could have been a lot worse." The big kicker is the provision that agents can no longer get paid for...
Qwest Referral Changes in 2009
QWEST REFERRAL DESK - Effective January 1, 2009 there will be significant changes to the Referral Desk Program. Qwest will no longer be paying up fronts for any sales. Also Agents can sign up new customers to Qwest and only re-term their own existing customers. ...
