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NSP Strategist
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Monday, 23 March 2009 05:04 |
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Sunday's St. Petersburg Times offered an interesting glimpse into the battle between Bright House Networks and Verizon for a greater share of the business and consumer telecom and entertainment market. Both have moved toward offering bundled services that include such services as cable, internet, phone, and fax. In terms of their differences, Verizon also offers wireless services while Bright |
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On Rad's Radar
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Sunday, 22 March 2009 20:11 |
Did you know that as an agent you can broker energy? Paetec is plugging agents into the energy business - after it purchased an energy broker. I know a couple of agents that have been in the energy business for a while. I don't think it can replace its telecom business. In other energy news, the telecom companies are also looking to get into energy management in the way of the smart home. Most homes do not have the equipment necessary installed in their homes to take advantage of this service. Likely, this will change as time goes on. It allows the telecom connection to the home be more productive. At the end of the day, people aren't buying telecom - they are buying a communication device or a platform for productivity or entertainment or knowledge or whatever. That's what telecom companies need to keep in mind.
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Read more... [The Energy Game]
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Paetec Owns Some Wireless |
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On Rad's Radar
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Sunday, 22 March 2009 20:01 |
Telecom Ramblings pointed out that Paetec owns a fixed wireless operations. According to the Paetec 2Q08 earnings transcript: "we acquired MPX Wireless towards the end of 2007. They were a Rochester based company that we had done several private projects with for alternative last mile wireless access. And, one of the things that we have initiated here is a network grooming project, where we are looking at multi- tenant facilities where we have multiple PAETEC customers that have multiple T1s, where we could go in on a cost effective basis. We can provide a wireless last mile alternative to provide our customers with business continuity, disaster recovery and lower cost access into PAETEC. And that's something that we have identified several buildings we will be looking to complete in 2007 as kind of our first beta trial. And if we are able to upsell into those buildings, I think you will see us use that as a more aggressive strategy in 2009." [ from 2Q08 transcript on Seeking Alpha]
Now Paetec is going to expand that service so that they can continue to offer a wireline/wireless business continuity package. PAETEC's Fixed Wireless uses carrier-grade microwave equipment and consultative engineering to build reliable 'last-mile' access loops between a customer network and a local PAETEC point of presence. Wireless local loops can be provisioned at DS-3, OC-3, Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet speeds, and support the complete range of voice and IP services in the PAETEC portfolio. ....The Fixed Wireless Transport solution plays an important role in PAETEC's robust Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity suite of services. By provisioning a wireless local loop, PAETEC can offer a customer complete physical infrastructure diversity within a market including termination to an alternate PAETEC Central Office. [Yahoo]
Paetec might be thinking about expanding fixed wireless because the government is giving away funds for rural broadband solutions.
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Read more... [Paetec Owns Some Wireless]
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My Thoughts on Social Media Use |
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Marketing Idea Guy
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Saturday, 21 March 2009 11:30 |
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Maybe this isn’t you, but I am getting burned out on “social media”.
LinkedIn Answers and Group Discussions used to be useful. Now its many self-promotional crap. One group had to turn off discussion because it was filled with useless posts. It was near impossible to keep up with the message board or to find anything [...] |
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NSP Strategist
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Friday, 20 March 2009 06:11 |
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I took some heat for the two blogs I wrote about VOX - here and at TMC. In the case of Junction, I had the wrong name. I wrote Junction Networks instead of Junction Broadband. (I love that about VoIP companies, such name recognition). In the case of Acredo, they went into re-org, not closed, but that is what my source made it sound like. When you lay everyone off isn't that what it sounds like? |
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Friday, 20 March 2009 05:57 |
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It's such a good question: What Am I Doing Tuesday? I'll actually be at the FISPA Meeting in Orlando moderating 2 sessions.One is CLEC Therapy, where I, Jason Hunt and Kris Twomey are going to pull 2 companies out of the audience and run through their strategy.what they are doing; who they are targeting; what are they selling; how are they selling; is there a marketing plan/calendar;is their a |
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Top 5 Social Media Truisms |
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Marketing Idea Guy
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Thursday, 19 March 2009 10:00 |
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Social Media is a fluid idea. MySpace, LinkedIn, Ning, Facebook, Twitter, blogging, and the other social media applications have a lot of mystery surrounding them.
Number one is that these are all just tools to be used. Used for what? To have a conversation.
Number two is that social media is mainly about being Social. That means [...] |
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