Betting big on sin?
On the occasion of Fat Tuesday, a day to celebrate gluttony and clogging of the arteries, it seems only appropriate that today's topic focuses on another of the deadly sins...
The 'S' word
The echoes of Ed Whitacre and Dave Dorman were still in the air and already the buzzword of years past had made its reappearance--synergies...
The perils of impairment
It is a sad commentary that AT&T and MCI have found that writing down the value of assets was one sure way to improve profitability...
The convergence comeback
The concept of "convergence," a term once so hackneyed and tied to anticipated trends that didn't materialize on time that it became almost taboo, appears to be coming back into fashion these days...
Lessons from Cerritos
One of the emerging themes is the importance of the customer premises equipment in the telco/cable fight over who can better bundle services...
SBC opens door to home invasion
In chaos is opportunity. As some axiom about business goes. If you believe in that kind of stuff, there's plenty of opportunity awaiting telcos and vendors...
Access vendors have stake in living room battle
For the past several years, the consumer electronics industry and service providers (that includes telcos, cable operators and to a lesser extent ISPs)...
No big Bell surprise
It shouldn't come as any surprise that the three Bell companies which have announced a broadband access strategy--BellSouth, SBC Communications and Verizon--have...
USF swan song?
The ugly process of rule making has been on full display over the past few weeks in Washington. For those outside the Beltway, the procedures and reactions...
Context TV
At the risk of appearing wishy-washy, last week's news that Qualcomm will build an $800 million national wireless media network over the next four or...
