January, 2009

Sprint employees: Can you hear your jobs drop?

Sprint came out with it on Monday, not that anyone was surprised: 8,000 jobs on the chopping block; suspended 401k matching; salary freezes for the second year in a row. The cuts are supposed to be less drastic in locations where employees deal with actual customers, Sprint said, which is awfully...

Nortel Customers: So what do you want to do?

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"Things are right dead all over" -- Vulture from Disney's The Jungle Book

Cyber-security policy locks down lobbyist job security

President Barack Obama promised...

VZW fires second salvo at home market: The Verizon Hub

Not a day goes by that I don't wish my landlines -- both in office and at home -- could do half as much as my BlackBerry Curve, or even do any of the variety of fantastic tasks that your basic feature phones breeze through. Why do I still have to dial digits to call someone? What is this, the 20th...

Reports: Verizon Wireless launching femtocells later this month

Reports have begun surfacing that Verizon will launch a femtocell service later this month, with units retailing for roughly between $200 and $250. As

Mobile’s “Perfect Storm”: Mandated upgrade vs. the economy

Nortel Bankrupt: Now what?

What would have been unthinkable only a few years ago was, when it came about yesterday, merely "not surprising."

Nortel filed for bankruptcy protection.

The signs were...

Telecom Timeout Weekly Video Update: 1/14/2009

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Proposed FCC head is an FOB

The rumored new head of the FCC is an FOB. That’s “Friend of...

Broadband stimulus: Let’s get it done, not repeat history

I live in the policy belt where there’s no rust in sight and the river of policy statements flows with honey. There’s never a recession in the policy-wonk biz,...