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July 2, 2009
Dateline:Â June 25, 2009.
Headline:Â Michael Jackson is Dead
Dateline:Â June 25, 2009
Headline: The Web Collapses Under The Weight Of Michael Jackson’s Death
Wake up America … if something really big happens (Think Crazy Man with nukes in North Korea), you can’t count on the web.
The government infrastructure programs and future Policy need to require minimum bandwidth delivery [...]
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June 30, 2009
For those of you reading this blog with Enterprise interests, I apologize. I need to once again address the senseless efforts by non-ILEC carriers via the FCC when it relates to Forbearance filings.
I wrote about Forbearance Petitions extensively in the latter half of 2008–please visit the Telecom Straight Shooter Blog Archives for a refresher.
Today I [...]
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June 25, 2009
Just a passing thought on CEO’s and CFO’s in the telecom business since the Communications Act of 1996 with Wall Street and Investment Bankers as a constant backdrop.
If you owned a restaurant, and the Chef burned it down once, would you hire that Chef again?
How about if the Chef burned your restaurant down twice?
I still [...]
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June 23, 2009
I wrote a blog a while back about an experience I had meeting with a person who could speak for an hour and say virtually nothing. Nothing of value or substance, that is–just lots of words, grandeur and noise.
And now I see a video clip from the Beltway–talk about saying and or knowing nothing. [...]
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June 18, 2009
Though I try to steer away from politics in general (not that I don’t have a thought or two), when former AT&T Chairman & CEO monopolist Ed Whitacre’s name pops up as the next Chairman of GM, I have to say something.
This whole car thing…Ed’s appointment, including the Car Czar Rattner, is getting more and [...]
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June 16, 2009
Some day, I plan on sharing with you a few thoughts on what makes a sales person a professional sales person–and not just a self-proclaimed professional sales person. Next month, I’ll give a few questions you can ask any salesperson to determine the kind of professional they are.
That said, the sales process is a two [...]
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June 11, 2009
I ran across an interesting article while traveling recently. It has to do with service firms that operate based upon retainers or billable hours. In my world, I affectionately refer to such arrangements as the Vortex*.
What I read is not new to us smaller firms…but a giant company has taken the lead to compensate service [...]
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June 9, 2009
I really dislike beating a dead horse when it comes to US Telecom competitiveness globally in bandwidth speed (not to be confused with access, which is a nice warm, feel-good, placating number.)
As I have written previously, I mentioned how a host of carriers and other sorts have filed opinions with the NTIA on how to [...]
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June 4, 2009
Here I go again … Wake up America!
The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has issued its latest report on global broadband.
The Report covers the following topics with all sorts of data points and excel spreadsheets:
Actual Penetration
Actual Usage
Coverage and Geography
Prices
Services and Speeds (My personal favorite)
Let me give you my Executive Summary:Â The United States [...]
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June 2, 2009
I hate to beat a dead horse. However, those living in the Doris Day Land of milk and honey where everything is nice– while recommending to the Federal Government (NTIA/RUS) that 1.5 megabits of broadband service in America is perfectly acceptable and only those below 1.5 megabits should be considered “under-served”–need a reality check.
This little [...]
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