Late January greetings from Charlotte, where one of the start-ups I am advising, Lucid Drone Technologies, won two awards this week (pictured are the happy founders David Danielson, Andrew Ashur, and Adrian Mayans). The Charlotte Inno Fire award includes a red blazer...
The Long, Long Run
Greetings from Chicago, Illinois (where the pre-winter winds were tame), and Davidson, NC (where it really feels like winter even though it’s mid-November). This week’s TSB is less about the week’s events and more about strategy fundamentals. Next week’s edition...
Verizon, Comcast and Charter 3Q Earnings Review
Greetings from the Mile High City, the Queen City, and the City of Angels. Attendees of the Mobile World Congress – Americas were greeted with multi-story advertisements on buildings touting original content, a reminder that investment in the TMT (telecom/ media/...
Four Earnings Questions
** Note - I will be at MWC-Americas on Wednesday (all day) and Thursday morning. Please send a note to sundaybrief@gmail.com if you would like to catch up. Thx, Jim ** Greetings from Lake Norman, NC (picture of a recent sunrise is shown). This week, we will discuss...
What Matters in Wireline – Enterprise, Expense Management and Extinction
Greetings from the Queen City, where the IT scene is red hot even though cooler fall temperatures have finally arrived. I was pleased to be the guest of San Mateo-based Aryaka Networks at the 2019 Orbie (CIO of the Year) awards on Friday. It was great to catch up...
Dominate, Divest, Dedicate, Deliver – The Elliott Memo Appendix
Greetings from the Windy City, where yours truly (and the Editor) spent some time sightseeing, working, and enjoying the architecture (the Trump Tower is “huge” - see pic at the end of the TSB). This week, we have space to cover two key events - the September 10...
Deeper – Fiber Always Wins (Until it Doesn’t)
The following articles provide a good overview of the role fiber plays in the telecommunications ecosystem today (there’s some good details on Google Kansas City and Louisville setbacks as well): An RCR Wireless article that details Verizon’s “integrated engineering...
Fiber Always Wins (Until it Doesn’t)
Greetings from Davidson, North Carolina, where the hazy days of summer will soon give way to the bustle of orientation. There’s plenty to cover in this week’s TSB, and our main topic will be on the importance of fiber in the telecom industry. But first, a brief...
The Sunday Brief: Earnings Drivers for the Second Quarter (Part 3)
Greetings from San Diego and Dallas. Hopefully most of you are reading this after your Fourth of July weekend has ended. This has been a busy week in telecom. Late Friday, as we predicted, the FCC unanimously approved the Sprint/ Softbank and Sprint/ Clearwire...