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No Tell-ing on Alltel


CrunchGear picked up a rumor via mobile mag which I find hard to digest. Supposedly Verizon Wireless is looking at purchasing Alltel wireless, the nations largest tier 2 wireless provider, a title earned after their acquisition of Midwest Wireless last year, who pretty much fills in those undesirable areas the tier 1s miss. Today they […]

Pipes for Telecom


No, this is not some reference to the internet being made of tube. Instead I’d like to expound on an absolutely amazing new web 2.0 application getting a lot of attention - Yahoo Pipes.
I can’t remember who said it first, however, I have to agree that code is the next major content. Personally I have […]

Begone Clogger


I have recently been spurred to resurrect my blog with a few events. First, John Roese has started a blog from the bowels of a truly bellhead company. Next, one of my favorite blogs, Chaotica, has recently been reinvigorated by analyst James Enck. And the overt act, well this wonderful cartoon from my cubical neighbor […]

FMC: Mixing the Right Blend of What?


I was flipping through my latest copy of America Telecommunications when I almost overlooked yet another article on Fixed Mobile Convergence - the hype is starting to bore me. I stopped only because the call out quote seemed too cynical for traditional marketing spin. Don’t get to excited, not despite his tries, the author was […]

Broadband Blues


I came home this afternoon to find a bag on my front porch containing at least an acre of forest processed into yellow paper. Yes, it’s that time of year where we get our new directories and the recycle center overflows with last years copies. I guess I’m a bit nostalgic here, but I still […]

Red carpet to my kernel


Now that I have been listed as a blog to watch by the mega “A” list telecom blogger Martin Geddes of Telepocalypse, I feel obligated to produce some profound essay that will alter the landscape. Seems that I have shown up with only a simple hand spade, so let me plant some seeds and see […]

I can’t find you- My context was off


I was trying to enjoy the last remnants of Canadian fall in the urban forest of Kanata across from my hotel, when my one click VPN set up was rudely interrupted and required my full attention - so much for window gazing. After a little debugging (I read the label on the ethernet cable), I […]

Voice 2.0 Success


I have to tip my hat off to Ross MacLeod for coordinating a wonderful conference. The Voice2.0 panels were quite insightful, at times bringing tension between the participants and even with some in the audience. A little less attended were the break out sessions with the exception of keynote speaker Martin Geddes session of which […]

Voice2.0-My Kickoff


Here I am sitting in a hotel in Ottawa on the eve of the Voice2.0 conference contemplating on how to start my blog whose inspiration really comes from those who are behind the conference itself. I really hope to bring a new perspective to the conversation that has been raging about VoIP and its implications […]