January 6, 2009
With the New Year upon us, bringing it’s wintry cold and the blankets of snow
– for all you global warming enthusiasts – most of us turn to thoughts of the past
Holidays. Whether our joys stem from the religious, commercial or year-ending
celebrations, many of us reflect on the year past with thoughts of appreciation. Most
commonly, we […]
January 2, 2009
This is the second half of the interview with TMC’s Rich Tehrani.
December 30, 2008
Over the summer, I participated in an interview with Rich Tehrani, president of TMC, at the Voice Peering Forum. Here is part one of the interview.
Happy holidays from all of us at AFS. We welcome your comments and questions. Post a message below or email the Straight Shooter. If you’d like, you can see more […]
December 26, 2008
Here’s the continuation of my recent post on xchange magazine’s blog. You can see part one of this post, Looking Ahead to 2009, here.
Given the credit crisis (and my theory that the current situation will weigh on telecom well into 2010), I believe we will start to see a realization by Wall Street and those […]
December 23, 2008
Happy Holidays to you and yours. While we all take time to be with with friends and family, I thought you would enjoy a look into what is in store for CLECs in ‘09. This is an excerpt of my regular series on xchange magazine’s blog.
There’s a question that keeps coming across my email lately, […]
December 19, 2008
I recently received an email question about the skepticism and resistance to Telecom Expense Management (TEM) services, especially software solutions. A reader wrote:
I’m writing to get your input on why TEM (Telecom Expense Management) companies seem, to me any way, to have sort of a “Multi-Level Marketing” feel to them. The reason I ask is […]
December 17, 2008
I just finished reading the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) release in fining Siemens AG $1.5 billion for a string of briberies of government officials totaling $1.1 billion. (Read the press release here.) The release said that Siemens was caught “engaging in a systematic practice of paying bribes to foreign government officials to obtain […]
December 15, 2008
Page A18 of the December 11th issue of the Wall Street Journal, The headline read: “Political Favors at the FCC.” Sub heading: “Kevin Martin orders up another rigged spectrum auction.”
Surprise, surprise, surprise … yet another game of Beltway insiders and money-people playing do as I say, not as I do. We have a two tier […]
December 12, 2008
If you haven’t read or at least skimmed the House report, DECEPTION AND DISTRACTION: THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION UNDER CHAIRMAN KEVIN J. MARTIN, I encourage you to do so. On Wednesday I wrote in the blog post “Hate to say ‘I told you so’” that non-ILECs should stick to focusing time and money on infrastructure.
For […]
December 10, 2008
As Gomer Pyle would say: “Surprise, surprise, surprise …â€
For years at telecom conferences and most recently on this blog, I have heralded the waste of time, money and effort spent on lobbying the FCC or anyone else inside the beltway. I have referred to such expenditures on lawyers and/or lobbyists as money entering a large […]
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