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All Those in Favor

June 3, 2011

The Benton Foundation notes that there are over 10,000 comments to the FCC about the ATT/T-Mobile merger. Unions and relatives are competing against consumer groups for the robo-comments.

Meanwhile, MetroPCS officially opposed it, but wants to buy all the assets that ATT will have to spin off.

"The New Jersey Division of Rate Counsel says the Federal Communications Commission should deny the application of AT&T to acquire T-Mobile USA's assets and operations from Deutsche Telekom AG because the proposed transaction is not in the public interest," according to Benton.

Posted in FCC, cellular, mergers, politics, spectrum, wireless

So Clearwire is Still Doing Retail

May 6, 2011

Yesterday, I noticed that Clearwire has a corporate store
in the International Mall. It sells just 4G data options - not even Sprint services too. I thought Clearwire was supposed to just stick to wholesale for their investors? And not for nothing but this says it all: "Record Quarterly Net Subscriber Additions of 1.8 Million; 1.6 Million Wholesale, 155,000 Retail" [press release]. Revenue is $242M this quarter, but when you are building out nationwide, buying gear, running a Channel (there are still Clear Authorized Agents), and managing brick-and-mortar retail stores with support operations to boot - there are going to be losses.

Posted in agents, cellular, channel, wireless

A Message for Dan Hesse

April 26, 2011

The merger of AT&T and T-Mobile will likely have extreme anti-competitive effects on the mobile industry. Certainly, the DOJ and the two F-Agencies (FTC and FCC) need to take note that mobile is churning the service economy of America right now and this merger could derail that. That being said, I have this to say to the CEO of Sprint, Dan Hesse:

You have lawyers and lobbyists and SVP's. Let them carry this fight for you.

Posted in FCC, FTC, apps, cableco, cellular, mergers, mpls, spectrum, technology, wi-fi, wireless

5 Reasons I Skipped CTIA

April 1, 2011

The CTIA Show was in Orlando. I was going to go. I had an Expo pass and I was heading to Orlando to speak at the CLEC Summit anyway. But I didn't go.

Posted in cellular, wireless

Lessons from the Keynotes

March 25, 2011

At the Service Provider Summit, there were a number of keynotes. Here are the lessons that I took away.

Corey Potts of VoIP Innovations spoke about Sales Management. It is a challenge to manage salespeople if there are not processes in place.

Posted in CLEC, ISP, broadband, technology, wireless

Marketing Your ISP

March 22, 2011

Here's about 17 minutes of good conversation with a wireless ISP out of the St. Louis area. Nathan Stooke runs WisperISP and took time to talk to me about the business of broadband and marketing an ISP, including about Referral Programs. I look forward to seeing him in Orlando this week at the Service Provider Summit powered by WISPA and FISPA.

Posted in ISP, Marketing, wireless

More Spectrum, More Spectrum

March 22, 2011

At CTIA today for the CEO Panel, AllThingsD quipped, "A lot of carbon dioxide being expended at CTIA talking about how spectrum is the industry’s oxygen." Just so you know, they HAVE spectrum. They horde spectrum. What they don't do is deploy it until they feel like it.

CTIA wants another auction. The FCC's "Genachowski touts benefits of voluntary incentive auction where broadcasters and others get a piece of the revenue generated by auctioning off their spectrum." Have they all forgotten that the radio spectrum is a public asset?

Posted in cellular, spectrum, wimax, wireless

Overheard in Vegas

March 16, 2011

Telesphere hired Andy Abramson's PR firm, Communicano.

AireSpring rolled out Meshed MPLS. What's that? It's how you connect the MPLS networks of four carriers to be able to cost effectively deliver MPLS service to anywhere in the US.

Posted in PR, TCA, agents, ethernet, mpls, security, unified communications, video, wireless, xo

NetWolves and AboveNet Combine with Agent

March 16, 2011

From the Netwolves newsletter comes a story about 2 carriers teaming up and helping an Agent make a big sale.

Customer has multiple locations and wants Ethernet Service in all of their sites. They want the carrier to provide fully managed routers and switches and they want it all on a single invoice. What do you do?

Posted in agents, broadband, cableco, cellular, wireless

ILEC News

February 16, 2011

CenturyLink will be reselling VZW as an authorized agent.

Why AT&T will not be buying Echostar: Echostar has been on a tear buying up bankrupt assets of BDSD and Terrestar; then Move Networks; and now Hughes. It's too big to merge with Ma Bell. And Ma can't afford to wait over a year for that merger to be approved. Much better to strengthen the partnership to market cell/satellite bundles.

Minnesota postponed granting access to CenturyLink/Qwest merger.

National Broadband Map comes out tomorrow (2/17/2011)

Masergy, a network reseller specializing in MPLS, filed its IPO.

early Bird Special! ITEXPO Austin for just $99!

Posted in cellular, mergers, satellite, wireless

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