{"id":3904,"date":"2005-11-07T18:43:15","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T18:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/aswath-on-sbc.html"},"modified":"2005-11-07T18:43:15","modified_gmt":"2005-11-07T18:43:15","slug":"aswath-on-sbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/aswath-on-sbc.html","title":{"rendered":"Aswath on SBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mocaedu.com\/mt\/archives\/000195.html\">Aswath\u2019s comments<\/a> on the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/news.tmcnet.com\/news\/-sbc-voip-iptv-powell-fiorina-brand-x-google-\/2005\/oct\/1198829.htm\">SBC\/Ed Whitacre debacle<\/a>. If you understand cricket you will enjoy this post immensely. If not you may learn a thing or two about cricket.<\/p>\n<p>It is my sincere hope that regulators are reading what the bloggers are saying about Whitacre\u2019s comments. Still SBC has to make money in this brave new world and I can understand the frustration in watching competition poaching your customers on lines you supply.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Mr. Whitacre reads this post and also looks at today\u2019s earlier post on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/baypackets-does-ringbacks.html\">ringback tones<\/a>. Now is the time to start coming up with new revenue sources as it may be difficult to control the market if there is competition out there. Let\u2019s just hope there is.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are Aswath\u2019s comments on the whole SBC\/Ed Whitacre debacle. If you understand cricket you will enjoy this post immensely. If not you may learn a thing or two about cricket. It is my sincere hope that regulators are reading what the bloggers are saying about Whitacre\u2019s comments. Still SBC has to make money in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,172,218,189,118,191,219,175],"tags":[239,240,241,242,243,244,245,246,247,17],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}