Strategy

Introduction If you run an ILEC, you’re living in two worlds at once. In one world, voice is still “the phone company”: customers expect dial tone reliability, regulators still care deeply about bad actors, and interconnect partners still behave like they’re one paperwork revision away from 1998. In the other world, your strategic oxygen is… Continue Reading

Nearly a month has ticked by since Alianza decided to shake up the telecom world, scooping up Metaswitch assets from Microsoft’s tech treasure chest, and in this article I’d like to dig deeper into this acquisition and what it’s likely to mean for service providers who use Metaswitch in their voice networks today. Who is… Continue Reading

I’d like to start by wishing all our clients and all our readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. It has been a pleasure to serve you this past year… and wow, what a year it has been. In this final message of 2024 I’d like to share a few reflections on some… Continue Reading

Recently, a court ruling by the Fifth Circuit declared the Universal Service Fund (USF) unconstitutional, causing quite a stir in the telecom world. This decision follows a series of failed lawsuits by Consumers Research in other circuits but finally hit the jackpot in the Fifth Circuit. The court’s beef? Two main issues: too many private… Continue Reading

Thanks to everyone who attended our webinar, “The Restaurant at the end of Metaswitch” last week. We ended up with 300 live attendees and 30 minutes of questions, plus the headline article on Light Reading the next day. I don’t want to recap the whole webinar in this article, but as I’ve been reflecting on recent events,… Continue Reading

Those of you reading the business press may have seen that Microsoft has laid off a lot of people in the Azure for Operators group on Monday (June 3rd, 2024) – Lightreading has a good summary. I don’t want to break any confidences from private conversations, but based on activity on LinkedIn, it’s pretty clear that… Continue Reading