“All told, cable companies added about 2,300,000 broadband subscribers during the first three quarters of this year, while telcos lost about 130,000 subscribers.” DSLReports

DOCSIS 3.1 is rolling out with a potential for 2Gbps. G.fast can’t happen fast enough for telcos.

Interesting comment from DSLR: “AT&T and Verizon added 305,000 subscribers via U-verse and FiOS during the quarter, but collectively lost 432,000 DSL subscribers during the same period. That’s again because they’re trying to drive these unwanted customers away to focus on more profitable (usage capped) wireless services.”

In rural or non-competitive regions, DSL will work, but in competitive regions, I think it will depend – on the competition, customer service, price/speed ratio, customer type.

“Industry analyst firm Analysys Mason released research revealing that broadband speeds can play an important role in customer retention. While price is important to many, the researchers note that “customers who take higher-speed broadband services are both more satisfied and less likely to churn than those with lower-speed services.” [Alianza’s blog]

So speed is important but I would think they mean, not just speed, but real throughput (i.e., no buffering).

With 2000+ Hosted VoIP providers in the US, you would think a few would specialize. Sure, Masergy, West and ThinkingPhones chase enterprise and global accounts, but that isn’t really specializing. Then is just chasing higher ARPU.

UCStrategies writes, “Weave had secured a $15.5 million Series B round of investment. Here’s why:”

Weave is a provider of integrated communications services tailored specifically to dental and orthodontics practitioners. Weave unifies voice, mail, text, CRM, and Electronic Medical Record applications. The company positions itself as a business communications platform, and has already signed up 2,000 practices in the United States and Canada.

Verticals, like Retail with PCI Compliance issues; financial with security and GLBA regulations; and healthcare with HIPAA/HITECH rules and worries, are ripe for specialists.

Other industries are a good target if you want to take the whole stack. RC buying Glip or ThPh buying Fuze were tocomplete a platform/bundle idea that management had. Taking the whole stack from email, CRM, voice, data, SMS and mobile seems like a no-brainer to me, since Managed IT is about protecting to the device.

I understand why bigger companies don’t do this — because they want all the revenue they can get their hands on – but slow, profitable growth is a good way to go, too.

This is the second in a series of videos I did at Pete Ace’s video studio in Clearwater, FL. This rant is on consolidation in IOT (internet of Things).

Listen in and I hope you like it.

This is the first in a series of videos I did at Pete Ace’s video studio in Clearwater, FL. This rant is on consolidation in telecom and price compression.

Listen in and I hope you like it.

According to this article, “In the Central Florida area centered on Tampa Bay, 23 facilities house 267,000 square feet of servers, air conditioners and generators designed to protect companies’ networks and information from everything from hackers to hurricanes, according to 451 Research, an information technology research and advisory company.”

• Former Qwest Cyber Center leads the pack, but there are others. 
• Peak 10 has 3 facilities in Tampa; 
• Hivelocity just opened a former LSI/Qwest POP near US 301 as a new data center; 
• Hivelocity has a data center in the beer can building;
• Downtown Tampa houses a couple of DCs;
• Colo5 in Lakeland is now Cologix;
• Level3 has a couple of colocation spaces;

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