The Scansource Event 2023
I drove over to the Scansource event in Orlando yesterday. There was some hope that Scansource would announce a replacement for JD, but no. They may be taking their time …
Telecom
A Special Kind of TSD
First off, why are they called Technology Solutions Distributors? They don’t distribute anything but commission checks. They don’t do logistics, handle inventory or anything like distributors. They are Brokers. Commission …
Cloud Comm Tidbits of the Week (9/6/2023)
A lot of action in the Cloud Comm Provider space recently. Zoom did a Microsoft Teams thing with Zoom IQ. Zoom AI Companion (formerly known as Zoom IQ), the …
Tidbits from Fiber Connect 2023
Fiber Connect 2023 is a happy show right now that is leveraging the forty-plus billion of government dollars going toward fiber deployment and the tens of billions of private equity …
This Week in Cloud Comms
SPIFFs are back bigger than ever – 7x-10x for UCaaS sales. I predicted that things would slow down as at least 3 providers played with reducing commissions. There is more …
The Future of the ISP
With all of the money in residential broadband, most of the M&A in the ISP market will be to scale FTTH. There are many Fiber ISPs and Wireless ISPs (FISP …