Now that we are well into the new year, and the dust has settled on the annual predictions from all of the popular industry experts, I would like to add my own observations to the mix. When I think about the telephone industry the old Rodney Dangerfield line about respect

The Telecom Industry Evolves: From “Old” and “New”, to App-Focused Telcos Over the past 20 years the telecommunications industry has undergone two fundamental transitions: first, from “old telco” to “new telco” and now, to application-focused telcos. As Martin Fransman, Professor of Economics at the University of Edinburgh wrote: “The demise

As a result of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the number of CLECs providing telephone services exploded. A CLEC (competitive exchange carrier) provides telephone services by leasing local loops (phone lines) and interconnecting those local loops to their own or sub-contracted long distance services. For most of the past 23