Virgin and Geist on Wireless Number Portability

September 15, 2005

Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Mobile has taken out a full page ad in the Globe (the same Globe that has so far steadfastly ignored this story – even the story of the full page ad) chastizing the industry for dragging its feet on wireless number portability – calling it “an absolute disgrace and completely […]

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Why Be a Founder?

September 14, 2005

David Beisel has a great post on the rewards of being a founder (The post is a follow-up and counterpoint to his recent post of the seven founding sins.): Creation Evangelizing Variety Upside Control Passion People Details in the post.

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Negotiation – Rules of Engagement

September 14, 2005

Ben Neumann recently had a terrific post on negotiation – 17 rules of engagement for negotiation. This is a solid list of principles to aid you in planning your negotiations and developing your personal style and approach to negotiation. The first three: 1. Always remember that everything is negotiable! Don’t narrow a negotiation down to […]

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Still More on Wireless Number Portability

September 14, 2005

Tyler Hamilton covers the slow timetable for wireless number portability in the Star: But John Lawford, a research analyst at the Ottawa-based Public Interest Advocacy Centre in Ottawa, which has accused the wireless industry of settling into a comfortable oligopoly, said there’s no reason it should take two years to bring number portability to wireless […]

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Wireless Number Portability to Take Just Less Than Forever

September 13, 2005

The Globe reports that the telcos have announced a two year timetable for introducing wireless number portability. Inexplicably, the Globe article neglects to report on any of the context of the story, quite a lot of which has been blogged here and elsewhere, and mostly just parrots the industry line (once again). Wireless customers will […]

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Solar, Pedal-Powered Wi-Fi Phones

September 13, 2005

Tyler Hamilton has the details on “how a handful of villages in western Uganda, which have never had phones before, are now being equipped with Wi-Fi-based wireless VoIP phone systems that are powered by a combination of solar panels and stationary bicycle peddling.” Amazing.

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Satellite Radio Gets the Green Light

September 12, 2005

Cabinet has approved the CRTC decision on satellite radio it so controversially reviewed over the last couple of weeks. Cabinet has upheld a CRTC decision to issue two satellite radio licences after the applicants agreed to increase Canadian content and French-language service. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission now will hold hearings to get public […]

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SEC Nixes Unique Cisco Stock Option

September 11, 2005

The SEC has nixed the new Cisco employee stock option I blogged back in May. Cisco would have used institutional sales of the security as a method of determining a value for it, thereby reducing the cost of the option for purposes of the new SEC rule requiring companies to expense the value of options […]

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Broadband Over Powerlines

September 11, 2005

Attention in the U.S. on this technology seems to be steadily growing. From the L.A. Business Journal: The California Public Utilities Commission is getting ready for the day in the not-too-distant future when Internet connections will be available over electrical lines – just by plugging into the wall – instead of through phone lines, which […]

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On Plastic Bumpers

September 11, 2005

This is one way to make an impression.

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In Every Town, A Mardi Gras?

September 10, 2005

My wife had this idea: in every town, a Mardi Gras this spring, to celebrate the eventual reconstruction and restoration of New Orleans, and to raise funds to aid in that effort. In every town – from the smallest, to New York, Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles – perhaps even across North America and further […]

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The Canadian Perspective on VoIP

September 9, 2005

Jon Arnold posts on the state of VoIP in Canada, and the Canadian side of the Pulver 100.

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