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Contracting with Sprint in the SoftBank Era

CCMI Special Report Justin Castillo Introduction The buzz around the $20B Sprint-SoftBank deal has died down, but substantial uncertainty remains about Sprint’s strategic vision, especially its wireline operations, and much centers on the role, if any, enterprise customers play in Sprint’s plans. More details about the transaction may emerge as […]

Recent DDoS Attack a Wake-up Call for Carriers and Customers Alike

Enterprises must demand information and accountability about how the carriers manage risk in their network. www.nojitter.com Justin Castillo Security experts have been warning recently that telecom carriers are becoming an emerging target for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which attempt to take down a service by flooding it with […]

How Do You Know What Your TEM Doesn’t Know?

Relying on telecom expense management without any kind of backstop could result in missed savings and optimization opportunities. www.nojitter.com Justin Castillo An employee of a large enterprise customer recently explained that his company no longer audits its telecom agreement because they have telecom expense management (“TEM”) software/services, and TEM “catches […]

AT&T Bites the Hands that Feed It … Again!

No Jitter (www.nojitter.com) Hank Levine Some of you may have read that on a recent call discussing its latest financials AT&T’s CFO proudly reported that business service revenues experienced their “best growth rate in 4 years, down only 0.3% compared to a decline of 4.4% in the year-ago quarter. And […]