This is what a million feet of fiber optic cable looks like! from Dane, CEO of Sonic
A Million Feet of Fiber
Title II Musings
Here’s why Verizon should be the first to embrace Title II: Forbes. Being a plumber or dumb pipe is what VZ (and most ISPs do, despite fighting it). “But you have a chance right now to lead the way to wireless device agnosticism. Whether you lead or follow, per-device fees are on their way to obsolescence. Hardware is superseding your present device restrictions with the ability to tether devices.” What it really comes down to is: Do you know what business you are in? “You currently sell all those iPhones and Android phones and mobile WiFi hotspots because you know people will use them to purchase and use your data pipelines. You don’t care about the phone sales. You care about the data sales.”
Trade groups will take the lead in suing the FCC over Title II, so that the Big 3 – ATT, VZ, Comcast – don’t have to look like the evil axis that they are.
AT&T is using the Title II rules it hates to get millions in refunds via ARS.
Facebook’s market cap is bigger than VZ!!! Interesting view of the numbers. FB has little debt; VZ has $110.5 billion in long-term debt on $127 billion in annual revenue.
AT&T Has to Pay $40 Million Because 18 lawyers didn’t read the docket [source]
Leadership and Culture
A couple of good reads about leadership and Culture.
5 Lessons Learned at SoundCloud – an article about culture and startups. Culture = values + people + engagement + connection
leadership reminders. Two I liked included: “it helps to see yourself through the eyes of those who have opted to believe in you.” and “Real leaders show people how great they are.”
“Want to fix problem employees? Make sure the ‘problem’ is not their boss.” via @tom_peters
SMS Options
Much discussion today on a couple of lists about SMS enabled DIDs.
Frontier Text-to-Landline Service via Zipwhip.
Business Texter gives an option for SMS for businesses that uses an AI to respond to customers’ questions – without the landline.
Voxox (which I rep) has two way SMS via SMPP or our REST API using long code, shared short code, or dedicated short code. Voxox also have a smartphone and desktop app that does calling, sms, fax, and chat, which is available to operators for re-branding.
Others mentioned:
businesstextbox.com can use your real office phone number to send and receive texts. Makes for neat advertising.
TextGen.com, Twilio, Clickatell, VZ uses TeleMessage and bandwidth.com
Red Oxygen.com sends texts from Outlook
SMS Options
Much discussion today on a couple of lists about SMS enabled DIDs.
Frontier Text-to-Landline Service via Zipwhip.
Business Texter gives an option for SMS for businesses that uses an AI to respond to customers’ questions – without the landline.
Voxox (which I rep) has two way SMS via SMPP or our REST API using long code, shared short code, or dedicated short code. Voxox also have a smartphone and desktop app that does calling, sms, fax, and chat, which is available to operators for re-branding.
Others mentioned:
businesstextbox.com can use your real office phone number to send and receive texts. Makes for neat advertising.
TextGen.com, Twilio, Clickatell, VZ uses TeleMessage and bandwidth.com
Red Oxygen.com sends texts from Outlook




