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...
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...
About This Thing Called 5G
Greetings from Willard, Missouri! It’s been a busy independence week on the farm mowing with the brush hog, clearing trees left by recent flooding (Jimmy and yours truly in the picture), and installing a Wilson WeBoost 4G amplifier to improve cell phone coverage for...
The FCC’s Set Top Box Kerfuffle
Greetings from Dallas. That’s right - a week without travel- a “Spring Break” of sorts from January and February’s crazy schedule. Rather than talking with many of you from airports or the car, I called from balmy Texas. I was also able to take in the Jesuit...
The Value of a Good Value
Greetings from soggy Atlanta, mild St. Louis, and red-hot Dallas. I took this picture Friday morning to remind us all of the value of entrepreneurship. eTrak, a PAG client, was in the process of readying a multiple hundred-site order, and had to move into the Board...
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...
Video Is the Next Frontier, and Everyone Knows It
Greetings from Washington, D.C. and Dallas where the Cable Show wowed and amazed more than 12,000 attendees. If I had to describe this year’s show with one phrase, it would be executive engagement. You could go on the show floor (or one of the many meeting points)...