Archive for February, 2005
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Friday, February 18th, 2005As a My Yahoo user, I got hit today with a splash page for a new and improved service. After clicking on the appropriate icon, I got the following message:
“You are currently using Internet Explorer 5.1. For the best experience using Yahoo!, we recommend that you upgrade to the latest version of Safari or Mozilla”.
Sorry, [...]
CEOs Expects M&A
Friday, February 18th, 2005It appears that telecom equipment executives are either regular readers of my stories in the National Post or we're like-minded people when it comes to consolidation in the telecom equipment market.
During the recent 3GSM conference in Cannes, executives from Ericsson, Alcatel and Nortel all talked about the inevitability of industry consolidation as the number of [...]
And on slide 53….
Friday, February 18th, 2005Hey, I'm all for corporate transparency but after listening to a conference call this morning during which Telus Corp. executives spent 44 minutes going through the company's Q4 results and expectations for 2005, I may have to
re-think my position. I had to laugh when they launched the Q&A by telling analysts they were limited to [...]
Firefox Picking Up Steam
Friday, February 18th, 2005Okay, IE still has more than 90% of the browser market but you have to be excited that there have been more than 25 million downloads of Firefox 1.0 in the past 100 days. I wonder how many of those downloads have happened since Bill Gates promised earlier this week that IE7 would be so [...]
Nortel's Secret Weapon?
Friday, February 18th, 2005I haven't seen the story yet but apparently Canadian Business magazine has a cover story on how Nortel CEO Bill Owens is under-rated and playing a key role in reviving the embattled telecom equipment maker's fortunes. My initial reaction is: what? From the analysts I have spoken with Owens comes across as a solid, well-intentioned [...]
CRTC: To Regulate VOIP or Not
Friday, February 18th, 2005Mark Goldberg,who organizes a must-attend telecom conference in Toronto, and I have slightly different views on whether Internet telephony should be regulated. Goldberg believes the CRTC should stay out of the way of new technology such as VOIP. He believes consumers will benefit from competition, and all players - ILECs, cablecos, et al - should [...]
NHL…Bah, Humbug
Thursday, February 17th, 2005Totally off topic but I feel compelled to offer my 2¢ to the end of the NHL season. To be perfectly honest, I'd be far more upset if the employees who work at hockey arenas in Toronto went on strike. That will really affect my world as opposed to a bunch of millionaires who aren't [...]
Cablevision Drops Prices
Thursday, February 17th, 2005You wonder what the competition is thinking about after Cablevision dropped the prices of its triple-play bundle, which include cable-TV, telephony and high-speed Internet access, to US$115 from US$140. The company has already enjoyed tremendous success in telephony, and lower prices could stimulate even more demand. In the third-quarter, Cablevision's telephony business climbed to 189,000 [...]
Virgin Canada's Marketing Machine
Thursday, February 17th, 2005You have to love how Virgin Canada is starting to get all kinds of free advertising/publicity as it apparently prepares to launches a new wireless service in Canada. Today's Globe and Mail has yet a story about Virgin Canada and how they are going to disrupt the market with a hip, cool approach to marketing. [...]
Another Take on Mobile Music
Thursday, February 17th, 2005Mark Lowenstein, who runs Mobile Ecosystem, has some interesting thoughts on the Motorola-Apple/Nokia-Microsoft announcements this week.
“The next phase of wireless data is playing in the music arena in one shape or form - driven by rings tones in the mobile space and the success and legitimaztion of online music. Carriers are salivating over it as [...]