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Go Upstream My Friends

By Peter Radizeski, RAD-INFO Here in Atlanta for the start of the six-week fall conference run. Microcorp’s One-on-One, Channel Partners, Round Table, COMPTEL, ISPCON, then VON (throw VoiceCon and INTEROP in there as well). Yep, Atlanta to New Jersey to NOLA to Dallas to San Jose to Boston. Whew! Anyway, here in Atlanta the theme […]

Crafting a Good Channel Manager

By Peter Radizeski, RAD-INFO Many of you received the email to vote for your favorite channel manager. (Way to go Ruth!) It got me thinking what makes a good channel manager? Ruth Morford has been at ACC Business for the entire time I have been in the channel. My BellSouth PBM, Joe Moy, has been […]

Lessons From the U.S. Open

By Peter Radizeski, RAD-INFO The outer courts have some great matches. Cheering crowds. Many languages. Tight competition. These are the hungry competitors. At Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday night, the Williams sisters destroy their opponents quickly. In comparison, the VoIP providers and the CLECs are the competitors (at least some of them). Battling to make […]

Persona Non Grata

By Peter Radizeski, RAD-INFO Apparently, my stats in the last post were inaccurate, according to BellSouth. And management is none too happy with my mentioning of the program or the company. I was even asked what my purpose was in writing? Well, my purpose in writing is to help the agents. If we take a […]

SunRocket Crashes

By Peter Radizeski, RAD-INFO SunRocket closed its doors this week. No notice to customers. This was a pre-paid $199 for a year (or two in some cases) of service. No refunds will likely be issued. SunRocket just hit 200,000 subscribers. It’s Gizmo hardware is not easily compatible with other services according to most notes I […]

COMPTEL: What now?

By Peter Radizeski, RAD-INFO Well, COMPTEL is searching for a new President and CEO. Earl Comstock’s resignation as CEO on May 30 should be marked as the end of the regulatory fight for COMPTEL. As one CLEC legal guy stated, “Millions of dollars and hundreds of lawyers have not worked.” The next phase for COMPTEL […]

Taking a Different View on M&A

By Peter Radizeski, RAD-INFO Lots of M&A and spin offs in the last 18 months – US LEC-PAETEC, Time Warner Telecom-Xspedius, NuVox-FDN, Sprint-Nextel-Embarq, Alltel-Valor-Windstream to name a few. But in all that activity, nothing new or exciting has come out. Understand that many of these events are for financial reasons, not business reasons. It has […]

Teaming Up With Microsoft Might Not be so Bad

By Peter Radizeski, RAD-INFO Over at RAD-INFO, I have started to recap IT blunders. Novell, Lotus and Word Perfect are the first three. All missteps that resulted in Microsoft out-marketing them. I hope Eric Schmidt learned something, because he is CEO of Google and he used to be CEO of Novell during its tangle with […]

The Conference Balancing Act

By Peter Radizeski, RAD-INFO There are so many conferences – VON, NXTcomm, The Cable Show, KillerApp/BB Properties, WCA, Muni, VPF, TMC, ISPCON, and the PHONE+ two. And that doesn’t include shows like GEL, DEMO, O’Reilly or BarCamps. How do people afford both the time and the money to attend even half of them? How many […]

A Small But Representative Voice

By Peter Radizeski, RAD-INFO I tried to survey the telecom agents, but the sampling was small. Many are direct as opposed to using a master agent. To move to a master agent would take a 5 percent commission bump over what they have now. The main reason agents use master agencies is for the back […]

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