Telecom Pragmatics

Specializing in Telecommunications Markets and Technologies

Telecom Hardball


June 27, 2010 / What Market Recovery?
June 12, 2010 / Infinera's Choice
June 4, 2010 / Intel $ Directly Tied to Clearwire City Turn-Ups?
May 30, 2010 / Follow FiOS Map for Bulk of VZ LTE Cities
May 22, 2010 / Apple's iPhone Remaining Exclusive to AT&T?
May 15, 2010 /
Shift to 3G EVDO Rev B by Verizon Wireless

April 29, 2010 / CenturyTel Blindsided Frontier Communications on Qwest?
April 29, 2010 /
What Could Jumpstart Verizon's FiOS?
April 29, 2010 /
Verizon's FiOS Likely Cutting Back to 16M Homes Passed
April 29, 2010 /
Calix Gets Its Tier 1 Customer with CenturyTel/Qwest Merger
April 29, 2010 /
Verizon Wireless Hurting Big Time Now?
March 28, 2010 / Ciena's "What's Next is Now" Campaign is Pathetic
March 28, 2010 /
Amateur Hour at the FCC
March 28, 2010 /
Calix's Successful IPO
March 28, 2010 /
Ciena's New "Whipping Boy"?

March 22, 2010 / CAPEX Budget Update
March 19, 2010 /
My Personal Outage with Verizon
March 18, 2010 /
AT&T's Domain Vendors
March 18, 2010 /
Verizon Never Really Had Small-Town FiOS Plans
March 15, 2010 /
Ciena Desperate for Customers Again?
March 14, 2010 /
Recent Court Decision Unlikely to Derail VZ/FTR Deal

February 26, 2010 / Possible CATV Move from High-Cost CMTS to Control Plane
February 26, 2010 /
Alcatel-Lucent Continues to Shine with GPON

February 25, 2010 / Cisco's Stealth Pickup of a Second DPI Vendor
February 25, 2010 /
Can Level 3 "Step Up" Its Financial Position?
February 24, 2010 /
CLWR Doesn't Have Stuff to Compete Against Anyone
February 23, 2010 /
Quarter of AT&T's IPTV Subs in 2 TX Cities Revealing

February 21, 2010 / Other Possibilities for Verizon's CEO Quiet Period
February 20, 2010 /
Why is Verizon's CEO Being Kept Under Wraps?
February 19, 2010 /
Should We Believe AT&T on Wireless CAPEX This Time?

February 17, 2010 / Time for Alcatel-Lucent to Pack Up Bags in States?
January 22, 2010 /
For the Last Time — Google Doesn't Want to be a Telco

January 15, 2010 / VZ's New Pricing Focus on Just LTE Types of Subs
January 13, 2010 /
Apple's 3G iPhone Expected at VZ Starting as Early as June

January 8, 2010 / Never a Better Time to Negotiate with VZ on Equipment?
January 7, 2010 / Don't Underrate Value of Qwest's LD to Independents
January 5, 2010 /
Would NSN Need to Make Mr. Smith its CEO to Get a Deal Done?

January 4, 2010 / Is AT&T Forcing the Filing of an Antitrust Case by the Feds?
January 3, 2010 / Expect Google's Nexus One More Competitive with Apple's iPhone
January 2, 2010 /
Calix IPO: Supplier's 4thQ Should be Impressive

January 1, 2010 / Calix IPO Could Achieve New Access Paradigm with Cyan
December 22, 2009 / Calix's IPO to Bolster Access Play?
December 19, 2009 /
Case for Telstra's Open Network Being Advantageous
December 15, 2009 /
PR Spin of Verizon's Restricted FiOS in Greater Boston Area

December 14, 2009 /
Backhaul Opportunity for Hybrid Fiber/Microwave Limited
December 13, 2009 /
Market Stranglehold Removed from Canadian Wireless Incumbents
December 12, 2009 /
Voice Staying off LTE for Long Time Very Shortsighted

December 11, 2009 /
Apple's Tablet -- Verizon's First 4G Device?
December 10, 2009 /
Insanity of MSOs Providing Backhaul to New LTE Towers
December 8, 2009 /
CableCARD Proves Gov't Shouldn't be Creating Retail Markets
December 2, 2009 /
iDEN is Now PTT "Gold Standard" Network at Sprint?
November 23, 2009 /
Verizon will not be Impressed by Ciena's Big Risk
November 22, 2009 /
AT&T Keeps Spinning its Wheels
November 21, 2009 /
Calix's IPO in Order to Buy Cyan?

November 20, 2009 / NSN Likely for NT's Optical Assets — Infinera Entry?
November 19, 2009 /
Kiss of Death for Clearwire?

November 18, 2009 /
One Last Kick in Pants from WV to VZ before Parting
November 17, 2009 /
AT&T's Version of Keystone Cops
November 16, 2009 /
Infinera Lobs Up Some More Softballs
November 15, 2009 /
Ciena Should Avoid Manufacture-Discontinuing CoreDirector I
November 14, 2009 /
Potential Ciena Counter-bid — Bridge Too Far
October 29, 2009 /
At Last, AT&T's U-verse as We Know It Will Start Going Away

October 28, 2009 / Chattanooga's EPB Municipal Building Expensive Optic Network
October 27, 2009 /
Meaning of Verizon Wireless' "Nationwide" LTE Network Unclear
October 26, 2009 /
Verizon's Pittsburgh Assets Evidently Untouchable
October 24, 2009 /
The Case for Verizon Doing Nothing to Save FairPoint
October 22, 2009 /
100G & Mesh Takeoff in Lower Manhattan
October 22, 2009 /
Wake-up Call for Large Independent Telcos
October 22, 2009 /
Cisco & Verizon -- Times They are a Changin'
October 16, 2009 /
Ciena Takes Wind Out of New Switching Systems' Sails
October 15, 2009 /
Is Verizon Behind Windstream's Interest in FairPoint?

September 30, 2009 /
Chance for DirecTV Purchase by Verizon Better, Still Longshot
September 29, 2009 /
Commercially Available LTE Handsets Likely by YE2009
September 28, 2009 /
Impressive Announcement by Ciena
September 26, 2009 /
The Term "Cable TV Apps" is an Oxymoron
September 24, 2009 /
Ciena Buying Nortel Assets Would be Mistake
September 17, 2009 /
Incredible Spin Continues out of Infinera
September 4, 2009 / From PTT to "Push to Protection" in the Blackberry
September 3, 2009 /
Cultural Legacy of Verizon's FiOS Could Last Decades
September 2, 2009 /
Could AT&T Become a Giant Qwest?
September 1, 2009 /
Two Faces of Infinera









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