GLG News by CMTS/EMTA Equipment Experts from Cable MSOs

Not only are the MSO's competing well for fixed traditional POTS services, most are upgrading their edge QAMs and physical plant to support circuit emulation services (T1-PRI) over Ethernet and greater IP speeds (20 meg+ and symmetrical services) to address the profitable enterprise PBX and...

If you are going to market to tech savvy teens and 20-somethings you need their help in designing the content, marketing and sales.   I don't see a single young person listed on Blyk's rather lame and amateurish website.   This generation is fickle and quick to move when products...

The iPhone is going to put a serious dent in Sprint's consumer base if AT&T doesn't drop the ball on network performance and meets their projection of 10 million units in the next 18 months.  The one problem no one talks about is that 7-10% of every carrier's customers are "problems," either...

Nokia will have two publicly accountable segments: Devices & Services, and Nokia Siemens Networks.   By creating one division to handle development of products and services, they are attempting to ride the Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) wave, where the handsets become another intelligent...

AT&T/Cingular's projection of moving 10 million iPhones through their retail outlets by 2009 is a huge market initiative.  Shutting big-box stores out of this new 'killer app' phone is a marketing stroke of genius designed to drive traffic to AT&T retail outlets.   However, the...

I agree that Ciena's prospects are good, especially as carriers worldwide roll out higher demand broadband services to customers and businesses.  The majority of Ciena's growth is not from the outstanding longhaul optical switch, Core Director, but for access edge products such as the Metro Ethernet,...

Both voluntarily and involuntarily, many top level managers and project leaders are hitting the streets at BellSouth.  They see the writing on the wall and understand they have little political clout in the merged AT&T.  The IP-TV design and build teams have already been mostly furloughed...

No matter how much AT&T spends to reinforce its brand and integrate their acquisitions, their monolithic 'business as usual' mentality shows through.   Ed Whitacre's retirement is a prime opportunity for new CEO Randall Stephenson to show the world a hipper, kinder,...

It's easy to get caught up in the hype that Wal-Mart's acceptance of a product is an instant guarantee of consumer mindshare and success. Perhaps if you're selling bubble gum or T-shirts, but how many of you reading this shop for computer equipment at Wal-Mart? As a longtime Skype user,...

Scott Ford did a masterful job pitching Alltel for $27.5 B to private equity led by Goldman Sach and Texas Group.  REFERENCE: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/21/business/21merge.html?hp but the real story is the failure of Sprint and Verizon to pounce on a complimentary opportunity. ...