July 2010 - Leadership Blog

  • CSPs Part the Clouds for New Business Opportunities

    By now, the terms "commodity players," "bit pipe" and "dumb pipe" with reference to traditional communications service providers (CSPs) have become tired and overused. CSPs know full well that the writing is on the wall – and has been for years – and if they don't continuously reinvent themselves, they will get left behind as new upstart players start to fill their role. Nowhere is this more evident than with cloud services, a phenomenon that's much more than...
  • The War of the Roses 2010: The AT&T-Verizon Saga

    The War of the Roses is a 1989 movie about a couple that, when their marriage begins to fall apart, begin an intense divorce battle about their material possessions. In the U.S., it feels as if we are experiencing an intense war of the roses between AT&T and Verizon Wireless... and the winner is... Is there a winner? Let's back up for a minute. We began 2010 with some breaking news about a drop in prices. The first target of the announced new pricing strategy was for unlimited mobile phone...
  • Emerging Markets: The Future is Cloudy, but That's a Good Thing

    Everybody is talking about the "cloud," so let's do it too! Almost every year, our industry comes up with a new "next big thing." Some technologies indeed become a big deal; others don't. Cloud computing is the new buzzword for 2010, but in this instance I do believe that the "cloud" could change more than just a few things – it will become a global transformational power. I'm not focused on the many concerns being pointed out about the "cloud,"...

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