Holiday greetings from sunny and mild Lake Norman, North Carolina (sunrise shown – unaltered photo). There are a lot of follow-ups to cover, and, if reports are true, there may even be a settlement between the Attorneys General and T-Mobile/ Deutsche Telekom/ Sprint/...
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...
iPhone Availability Update (Nov 10)
As we indicated in yesterday's TSB, here's the last iPhone availability update we will be publishing. All data is taken from the carrier websites as of Nov 10. If there is a range given for a ship date, we chose the latest date. Here are the takeaways from the...
iPhone Availability Update (Nov 3)
We continue to monitor iPhone availability (backorder by model, memory size, and color) in conjunction with our partnership with Wave7 Research. A link to the PDF can be found at the end of the document As most of you will recall, we had significant shortages of...
AT&T’s Big Week
Greetings from our nation’s capital (now home to the World Series champion Washington Nationals) and Lake Norman, NC. This was a very busy week for earnings with Apple, AT&T and T-Mobile all announcing earnings. We are going to start with AT&T given their...
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/...
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...
Third Quarter Earnings – What Could Dislodge Wireless?
Greetings from Charlotte, North Carolina (picture is, from left, Frank Cairon, formerly of Verizon Wireless and Ryan Barker, currently with Verizon Wireless enjoying some good Mexican food on Friday in the Queen City with yours truly). This week’s TSB examines the...
Deeper: CBRS – Share and Share Alike
The following articles provide a good overview of CBRS. There are a lot of things changing with CBRS each day, and we will be sure to keep the list updated as new developments occur. One of the best government sites is the NTIA CBRS page here. Included in this is the...