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Archive for October, 2004

Local Competition According to the ILECs

Any time you write about local competition in Canada, there is a tendency to cite the 95% or so of the market share controlled by incumbent carriers such as Bell or Telus. In an apples to apples world, this makes complete sense if you want to compare competition within the traditional wireline world. The wireline [...]

Local Competition in Canada

So how do you gauge the success of Call-Net Enterprises Inc. in the local telephony market? The company added about 34,000 new customers in the third-quarter, which brings its subscriber base to about 370,000. It's not a bad number but barely registers when you consider there are about 12 million residential households in Canada. One [...]

Wireless Porn

Looks like the telecom carriers in their search for new revenue sources are looking to jump on the porn bandwagon. In a new report, the Yankee Group suggests that revenue from “adult content” will climb to US$90-million in the U.S. and US$1-billion globally by 2008. In the U.S., the carriers will have to [...]

Wireless TV

I'm into new technology as the next guy and willing to concede there are all kinds of tech toys destined to be popular that I would never find useful. One of these items may be a wireless phone that can received high-definition TV signals. Texas Instruments Inc. has apparenetly come up with a new chip, [...]

Is Telecom Doomed?

This may be an extreme position but a fundamental part of the telecommunications industry appears to be doomed.
The culprit is Internet-based technology, otherwise known as IP, used to send bits of information along high-speed networks.
While IP technology will provide new and innovative services to residential and business customers, it will also increase competition dramatically and [...]

Motorola: Good News, Bad News

Motorola Inc. may have taken the air out of the telecom equipment industry's recovery hopes when it talked about slower growth in the fourth-quarter - after posting slightly better-than-expected third-quarter profits and a 26% sales increase. The company said it expects to boost its share of the wireless phone market with the introduction of 17 [...]

Rogers Discount Telephony Pricing

Rogers unveiled a new long-distance service that provides consumers with 5 cents/minute prices if you subscribe to at least two other services. The interesting part of the discount LD offer is the stuff in the background. First, it talks to how Rogers will approach telephony pricing when (if?) it launches a cable telephony service in [...]

More Trouble for Telcos

If telecom carriers didn't have enough problems, the Federal Communications Commission adopted rules earlier this week that will let eletrical utilities provide high-speed Internet access services. This is very troubling news for carriers - and cable companies, for that matter - because high-speed access has been one of the few high-growth/revenue generating markets. If electrical [...]

Cisco vs. The Nuns

At a time when corporate governance is in the spotlight, you have to love the efforts of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, who want Cisco Systems' to reviews its executive compensation policy. The Sisters, who own 10,000 Cisco shares and had their proposal turned down last year, want Cisco to [...]

Vonage Wants Street Cred

In an attempt to drive deeper into the consumer market, Vonage is holding a press conference tomorrow with Intrado and the State of Rhode Island to talk about E911 service. Now, I'm not sure how much clout Intrado and Rhode Island sport in the world of telecom, but you can't blame Vonage for trying to [...]

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