C Spire, formerly Cellular South, has announced the acquisition of Callis Communications from Mobile Alabama. Callis Comm is a Broadsoft based unified communications provider who recently expanded as a facilities-based CLEC in the greater Mobile … [Continue reading]
Another Cloud Backup Service Closes
Symantec decided last week to end its cloud-based backup and recovery services business. It told partners that the Backup Exec software could still be used for premise based backup though. I am surprised that it closed instead of selling it to any … [Continue reading]
Cloud Companies Call for Surveillance Reform
Many of the Internet giants wrote an open letter to the US Government calling for surveillance reform. It calls for sensible surveillance with checks, balances and oversight. As Fred Wilson states, "When you get a National Security Letter, you have … [Continue reading]
Re-Vamping Telecom
The FCC has already made some moves to revamp telecom. There was USF reform, funding for broadband, elimination of a lot of regulations, pilot test with Vonage on direct DID access and the TDM-to-IP migration. The Broadband money (NTIA, BIP, BTOP) … [Continue reading]
Is Windstream a Fortune 500?
Windstream CEO Jeff Gardner presented at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2013 Leveraged Finance Conference Monday. It's a pitch to sell debt, prove stock value, blah blah. Oh, the things that CEO's of public companies have to do. Dance, you monkey, … [Continue reading]
