Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger to Create Fourth Largest Business Services Player
Today, the Time Warner Cable merger saga came to a tentative conclusion as Comcast agreed to purchase the company in a deal worth $45.2 billion, or $154 a share. There are many implications in this...
Go-to-Market Tune Ups for Small Cell Infrastructure Players
Tower providers, fiber players, integrators and others are focused on capturing business from the next round of U.S. mobile infrastructure expansion – small cells. In my previous analysisThis email...
Small Cell — What’s the Deal (Is it Real?)
Small cells may be one of the hottest topics in the wireless infrastructure space today, but their impact has yet to show in the United States and many are beginning to question their relevancy: Do...
2014 ATLANTIC-ACM Awards for Global Wholesale Service Provider Excellence Delivered
Strategy research consultancy ATLANTIC-ACM today delivered its 2014 ATLANTIC-ACM Awards for Global Wholesale Service Provider Excellence at PTC '14 in Honolulu, Hawaii. This year's awards are...
New Business Models Will Define the Future of Carriers
The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed. William Gibson Recognizing and acting on what is...
Top Telecom Business Trends in 2014
Technologists will be part of every initiative. As CEOs, CMOs, CFOs and other key roles increasingly become integrated with the CIO/CTO role, companies will leverage advancements in big data,...
Network Again Tops Drivers of Purchase for Retail Business Connectivity
Through nearly 20 years of Carrier Report Card research at both the wholesale and retail levels, network and price have tended to duke it out for the top driver of purchase among buyers. Perhaps...
Why Isn’t eBay an MVNO?
At the peak of the mobile virtual network operator fervor we witnessed in the 2005 to 2007 timeframe, common wisdom held that a successful MVNO must have killer content, a highly targeted brand or...
Metro Wholesalers Regain Lost Ground with Large Customers
A renewed focus on growth products and segments is paying off for metro wholesalers. According to data from the 2013 edition of ATLANTIC-ACM's Metro Wholesale Service Provider Report Card, customer...
U.S. Mobile Opportunities Over the Next Five Years
ATLANTIC-ACM just completed "Strategic Services Take the Stage: U.S. Telecom Wired and Wireless Sizing and Share 2013-2018," its annual five-year forecasting analysis of the U.S. telecom market....
Our Digital Health Future Spells Big Data Demand for Telcos
Personally, I have three different electronic health records providers, and that is even without signing up for Google Health (2008-2012 RIP) or Microsoft HealthVault (2007-present). Massachusetts...
ATLANTIC-ACM Delivers 2013 Metro Wholesale Provider Excellence Awards
Strategy research consultancy ATLANTIC-ACM delivered its ATLANTIC-ACM 2013 Metro Wholesale Provider Excellence Awards today at the COMPTEL PLUS Convention and Expo in Orlando, Fla. The awards are...
Long-Haul Carriers Maintain High Satisfaction In Network Performance – With Caveats
In our previous entry, we reported that long-haul carriers have achieved five straight years of improvements in overall operations scores in ATLANTIC-ACM Carrier Report Cards – a significant...
Postpaid Wireless Data Revenues Dominating Telecom Industry Growth, Will Reach $130 Billion by 2018, According to New ATLANTIC-ACM Sizing and Share Study
Strategy research consultancy ATLANTIC-ACM today released Strategic Services Take the Stage: U.S. Telecom Wired and Wireless Sizing and Share 2013-2018, the latest edition of the telecom industry's...
ATLANTIC-ACM Releases 2013 U.S. Long-Haul Carrier Report Card, Finds Network Quality as Top Driver of Purchase
Strategy research firm ATLANTIC-ACM today announced the general availability of its 2013 U.S. Long-Haul Wholesale Carrier Report Card, the telecommunications industry's chief benchmarking study of...
The Shopping Network: What Will DISH Do Now?
Just as I clicked "send" on my last blog, it became immediately irrevelant as DISH launched a new, higher bid for Clearwire, leaving Sprint/Softbank in limbo over the supposedly done deal to acquire...
ATLANTIC-ACM Delivers 2013 North American Business Connectivity Awards
Strategy and research consultancy ATLANTIC-ACM this evening announced the winners of its 2013 North American Business Connectivity Awards. The awards were delivered by ATLANTIC-ACM CEO Dr. Judy Reed...
Visual DATALINE: 2013 Global Wholesale Drivers of Purchase
Visual DATALINE: 2013 Global Wholesale Growth Products
For Wholesalers, Wireless Wins and Losses Becoming a Game of Innovation
New wholesale survey results from ATLANTIC-ACM reveal that approximately 30 percent of customers executing wholesale purchases also offer wireless services to their end users. Further, among the...
Global Wholesale Carrier Product Ratings Down, Reveals ATLANTIC-ACM Study
Overall, customer satisfaction with global wholesale products declines year-over-year, generating opportunities for providers with proactive sales reps to capture share from passive providers...
Shining a Bright Spotlight on Dark Fiber
Traditionally, communications carriers deliver bandwidth, but in some cases, they're willing to offer long-term leases on unused, physical fiber strands in their networks, commonly known as dark...
Satisfaction Slumps for Global Wholesale Carriers
For more than a decade, Atlantic-ACM has been gathering feedback from global wholesale buyers to develop a market-wide service comparison in our annual Global Wholesale Carrier Report Card. Data...
ATLANTIC-ACM Delivers 2013 Awards for U.S. Long Haul Wholesale Carrier Excellence
ATLANTIC-ACM, a leading telecommunications industry research firm, delivered its 2013 Awards for U.S. Long Haul Wholesale Carrier Excellence today at the COMPTEL PLUS Spring 2013 Convention and EXPO...
The Future of the Wholesale Voice Market
Background: Over the last year we have been fielding many questions from U.S. service providers about the future of the U.S. wholesale voice market and what the business models of the future will...
Webinar On Demand: OTT Voice and Messaging – The Future of Telecom
Fierce Telecom's webinar "OTT Voice and Messaging: The Future of Telecom," which aired Feb. 21st, and featured ATLANTIC-ACM VP Aaron Blazar, is now available for replay on demand at:...
Visual DATALINE: Cableco Business Data Services Revenue
ATLANTIC-ACM President to Lead CEO Panel at Metro Connect USA 2013
Leading telecommunications industry research consultancy ATLANTIC-ACM announced today that Fedor Smith, ATLANTIC-ACM's president, will moderate a CEO panel addressing opportunities and threats in...
2013 ATLANTIC-ACM Awards for Global Wholesale Carrier Excellence Delivered
ATLANTIC-ACM, a leading telecommunications industry research consultancy, today delivered its 2013 ATLANTIC-ACM Awards for Global Wholesale Carrier Excellence at PTC ‘13 in Honolulu, Hawaii. This...
Lucky ’13 Stateside Wholesale Forecasts
What a year we experienced in 2012. Mergers, new wireless network builds, new smartphones driving even more data use, the US economy clawing slowly upward (except when jitters over Europe sink the...
Business Wireline Trends in 2013
Migration to new technologies, diversification of products and services, and cable companies capturing market share will color the business wireline landscape this year. The following are some...