by admin | Mar 4, 2015 | 2015 Analyses, All, Analyses, Judy Reed Smith
As featured in Capacity Magazine 2015 will be a challenging year for wholesale carriers, as was 2014. Traditional services still supply most revenues but they are shrinking and how those services are sold, and to whom, is shifting. New services are taking hold, but...
by admin | Aug 8, 2014 | 2014 Analyses, All, Analyses, Judy Reed Smith
As I sat down to write this blog on Tuesday afternoon, July 29th, 2014, the US stock market was heading gently downward. However, the most important of industries had virtually all companies – from AT&T and Verizon down to the smallest telco service...
by admin | Jun 17, 2014 | 2014 Analyses, All, Analyses, Judy Reed Smith
As Google unveiled the first images of its self-driving car prototype, I could not help but notice its most prominent feature – the face across the front. This design element has suffered plenty in reviews and commentary, but I get it. People can be...
by admin | May 20, 2014 | 2014 Analyses, All, Analyses, Judy Reed Smith
Although 1973 sounds like a long, long time ago, if we realise that 41 years ago this spring Robert Metcalfe conceived the first conceptual hints of what evolved into Ethernet while at MIT, the interval seems small. After a decade of evolution through various uses and...
by admin | Apr 15, 2014 | 2014 Analyses, All, Analyses, Judy Reed Smith
I bought myself a 2014 present. My newest bracelet is black plastic and can tell me how many steps I’ve walked (2,551 by noon, without having yet made it to the gym), how many miles (1.6), how many flights of stairs I’ve climbed (three, which I would count...
by admin | Apr 4, 2014 | 2014 Analyses, All, Analyses, Judy Reed Smith
The fight for stateside wireless customers shifted from intense to very intense when regulators quashed AT&T’s planned purchase of T-Mobile in late 2011. Break-up fees of $2 billion, plus required AT&T spectrum, helped T-Mobile grow its network and...