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Strong Broadband Results, Tough Market
SureWest Communications turned in a strong “broadband” performance in its most recent quarter. And showed in the process how tough it is to make money selling broadband products. In the second quarter of 2007 consolidated revenues increased...
Will Landline Voice Die a Fast Death?
“Voice traffic in Western Europe continued to migrate rapidly from fixed to mobile services in 2006, and it won’t be long before half of all voice minutes originate on mobile phones,” says Dr. Alastair Brydon, Analysys Associate. In fact...
U.S. VCs Think Globally, Act Locally
Although we live in a global economy and hear lots about booming business prospects in faraway places such as China, India and parts of the Middle East, venture capitalist in the United States are not broadly embracing global investment opportunities, sug...
Broadband Train Wreck
"The broadband value chain is headed for a train wreck," many within the industry might argue. The reason is simply that incentives for network operators to support many of the bandwidth-intensive innovations planned by upstream industries and users are n...
ENUM's Alternate Route
In the communications business, almost everything is always about the money. Sometimes that isn’t such a good thing. But it’s a pretty good rule to follow, at least from the standpoint of trying to understand why things move the way they do....
AT&T, Verizon Defy Gravity, Again
For companies in an industry that wants to tug its contestants back to earth, AT&T and Verizon continue to defy gravity. “A year ago in New York…we said we were at the beginning of a positive turn in the industry,” says CEO Ed Whitacre....
The Commodity Question
One of the most common complaints in the telecom business is the perception of minutes of use and bandwidth as “commodities.” What typically is meant is that minutes and bandwidth are undifferentiated goods that cannot be altered to provide mo...
Paradise Lost, Rediscovered or Found?
Is voice “paradise lost” or “paradise rediscovered,” as Pacific Telecommunications Council 2007 conference chairman Ken Zita quipped recently at that group’s annual meeting? So far, it appears more likely to be “lost&rd...
Wireline Video Competition Works; Satellite Not So Much
Retail prices are 17 percent lower when a cable TV operator has wireline competition to contend with, says the Federal Communications Commission. Significantly, the FCC finds that DBS(direct broadcast satellite) competition “does not appear to const...
Telcos Face Troubled Times
Western European telecom service provider revenue growth has dipped below growth of gross domestic product, forcing operators to look outside their traditional areas of operation for continued growth, say analysts at Arthur D. Little. Matters arguably are...
