{"id":6843,"date":"2008-05-01T13:12:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T13:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/net-has-record-quarter.html"},"modified":"2008-05-01T13:12:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T13:12:26","slug":"net-has-record-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/net-has-record-quarter.html","title":{"rendered":"NET has Record Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good news in the communications space from from NET who announced <\/a>their highest level of profitability in 10 years. According to the company, total revenue in the fourth quarter was $33.4 million, a 15 percent increase from $29 million in the third quarter, and a 34 percent increase from $25 million in the fourth quarter of the prior fiscal year.<\/p>\n

I have written about NET before — specifically their military systems<\/a> and unified communications<\/a> solutions.<\/p>\n

More recently, Quintum was purchased<\/a> by the company allowing NET to have a more balanced product line including smaller gateways.<\/p>\n

It is worth pointing out once again that many companies in the communications space are doing better than last year — even in a slowing economy.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I wrote about<\/a> how rising gas prices could boost UC spending and the day before it was record results from Interactive Intelligence<\/a>. Sure there was negative Shoretel news<\/a> as well but there could be other problems at the company besides the economy.<\/p>\n

Heading into Q2 it seems most communications companies are optimistic and as I have said before the companies who have consistent branding and marketing are doing better than those who do less.<\/p>\n

Consistent press releases, media outreach and messaging is what needs to be done in a slowing economy. Communications products and services can help companies greatly if we are indeed in the "dreaded R word". I met with Simon Gwatkin and Joe Ward of Mitel yesterday and they told me how they will upgrade a company’s equipment, write them a check and switch them over from a purchasing customer to a managed services one.<\/p>\n

So customers become more productive and get cash back — and who doesn’t want to do that? Very smart move on Mitel’s parts and it shows they are rapidly integrating the best parts of Inter-Tel into their North American operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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