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TC2 Director Joe Schmidt was a featured presenter at 2021’s Enterprise Connect conference this September, where he presented on Re-building the WAN for the Post-Pandemic Office.  You can watch the presentation here. Companies are poised for profound transformation as they reconsider where work gets done. How will this change impact your wide-area bandwidth consumption, and […]

Two weeks ago, AT&T, the oldest and best known telecom carrier in the U.S. and possibly the world, leveraged its considerable regulatory weight to tip the competitive scale for 5G services away from rival T-Mobile (the current leader in 5G) and thus in its own direction.  Obviously frustrated at its slow start out of the […]

In February of this year, the Federal Communications Commission announced the winners of the C-Band spectrum auction: AT&T and Verizon Wireless, who together spent almost $70B on the frequencies plus billions more each on related costs.  The two leading wireless carriers are betting that their huge investments will pay off by jumpstarting their 5G offerings, […]

In this final part of our series on the comprehensive state consumer data privacy acts, we address what a business that is a controller needs to know if it engages a “processor” with whom it shares personal information or data.  Then we discuss what are the enforcement mechanisms for each of the three Acts.  Finally, […]

If after review of your business and the CCPA, CPA, and VCDPA you determine that you are subject, in whole or in part, to the new legislation, what are your obligations?  In this part two of our series on the comprehensive state consumer data protection acts, we look at that question. If you determined the […]

Every company doing business in California, Colorado, and Virginia needs to determine whether the states’ new privacy laws impact their businesses and if so, what steps they need to take to comply with these new laws.  In this part one of our series on the  comprehensive state consumer data protection acts, we walk you through […]

We reported to you last year on the new California Consumer Privacy Act, as updated by the 2020 California Privacy Rights Act (collectively as amended, the CCPA) and foresaw a trend of state legislation in this area.  Sure enough, in early March, Governor Northam of Virginia signed into law the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act […]

PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE:  Session #1 has been rescheduled from July 21, but the time remains the same – 1:00 pm EDT. SD-WAN, which enterprises have aggressively embraced over the last several years, continues to rapidly evolve.  The latest advancement that relies upon SD-WAN capabilities, Secure Access Service Edge (“SASE”), integrates networking and security into […]

THE VIRGINIA CONSUMER DATA PROTECTION ACT AND ITS EFFECTS ON YOUR IT AGREEMENTS.     In early March, Governor Northam of Virginia signed into law the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA).  Effective January 1, 2023, this new Act will require businesses that do significant business in Virginia or produce products or services targeted to Virginia […]

This limited attendance seminar series is for newer members to telecom teams who have responsibility for the planning, procurement and/or management of services and vendors.  Very few areas are as complex and involve an alphabet soup of terms, services, vendors, and regulations that impact what you buy, how you buy it, who you buy it […]