It has been a while since I last posted. Much has happened. (If you followed me on twitter @radinfo you would have a good idea.)
5G is all the rage. Technically, it isn’t much different from 4G but it will improve urban coverage. In rural, it will be a way for unlicensed spectrum to be used by cellcos.
Is 5G a threat to cable? Only in that many people hate cable companies and will want mobile unlimited data with low latency which is what the cellcos are hopeful their 5G network will deliver. Right now the cellular pie is flat. It is all take-away business.
Endpoint management is becoming the new normal. Phonism leads the way but Polycom, Edgewater and others are realizing the importance of remote management of phones. BTW, Edgewater Networks was acquired by Ribbon for $110M, which is the name of the merger between GENBAND and SONUS.
Atlassian Corp. is acquiring OpsGenie for $295 million. Slack acquired Hipchat and Stride. On a side note, Slack closed $427M Series H at a $7B-plus post-valuation; claims more than 8M daily active users and 70k paying teams; raised more than $1.2B.
Coredial rolled out CoreNexa Contact Center, a CCaaS. They have 300K+ seats. They offer white label Broadsoft and Asterisk. No idea what platform was used for CC.
Asterisk/Digium concedes it is too hard to be in the HPBX space. They sell to Sangoma for just $28M. Sangoma already owns FreePBX. Digium had $30M in revenue in 2017 but a net loss of $4M.
Powernet (aka PNG) and managed IT services provider Maxis360 are merging.
The M&A is off the charts especially in the
PE firm buys SugarCRM. M&A – App Developers & Digital Marketing: ONGO Framework, which offers custom app development services, has acquired Hockystick Media, a digital media agency.