All of the IXCs, especially fibre carriers, are being hit especially hard now that the perception of business data’s growth has slowed.. Now Level3 is facing difficult questions about whether or not they’ve actually built something that people need. While...
Buried in this otherwise boring (why was I reading it?) press release is a funny quote: “TELUS has now established a strong and liquid financial base from which to continue executing our national growth strategy in the areas of data, IP and wireless”...
BT tried to sustain too many new ventures at the same time, and they overpaid for 3G. They also built some of these ventures to comply with the rules of the old new economy (ie. Dot coms) and their corporate makeover blew up in their faces. Now it’s going to...
Months from now this will be an embarrassment to carriers. Listening to some text-to-speech engine mangle one’s email is not going to be a really effective tool to drive consumption. It’s a gimmick. -Ian.
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
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