The Independent: July 2008
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
An Insights debriefing
Telephony's recent Insights conference provided plenty of opportunities to talk informally with the Tier 2 and Tier 3 providers that are the target readership...
UPFRONT
Bargain-Hunters
When Independent telcos get sold today, they generally don't fetch the prices they would have a few years ago. But there are still exceptions to the rule....
One fresh idea
Independent Telcos tend to serve a higher percentage of residential customers than business customers, so when they pursue an edge-out strategy, they tend to pursue a primarily residential strategy, too....
Mid-band Ethernet finds small-business market
Ethernet-over-copper technology is rapidly accelerating the market for selling Ethernet services to small businesses...
Exploring 700 MHz options
At an Insights for Next-Generation ILECs panel in Las Vegas, Vanu Bose declared: “If anyone owns 700 MHz spectrum and is thinking of doing something other than [long-term evolution], with all due respect, I think you're nuts."...
Finding the Next Fairpoint
To Verizon, closing the deal to sell its access lines in three New England states to Fairpoint Communications in April was the spring following a long, hard winter ...
FEATURES
Multiplay Contrarian
Talk to many telco strategists today and their line of reasoning will go something like this: Traditional voice service is dying; the only way to survive is to invest in wireless and advanced video services such as IPTV....
Yukon gold
When one thinks of Alaska, it often brings to mind drifting snow, ice floes, oil rigs and polar bears. But Liane Pelletier, president and CEO of Alaska Communications Systems, is quick to point out that the areas her company services are a bit off from what folks in the Lower 48 might envision....
INDY DOSSIER
Dossier: Canby Telcom's Brandon Zupancic
YEAR FOUNDED: 1904 (originally known as the Macksburg Mutual Telephone Association)...
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