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Archive for 2009
Its an interesting time in OHANL. We’ve just come out of the most lucrative spectrum auction, just derailed one of the new entrants and finally saw two of the three largest carriers deliver 3G spectrum (five years late).
Continue reading ‘Free As In Beer?’ »
Yesterday we finally got around to reading an interesting report published by Bank of Montreal on the heavy lifting done by small businesses in OHANL. The report is a comprehensive look at the contributions, challenges and future of what they refer to as the small business “Juggernaut”.
Continue reading ‘Small Business Wunderbar’ »
Today the CVCA released its latest report highlighting the state of venture funding in OHANL—the short story is that it stinks! We’ve written about this situation in prior posts and it seems the news will not improve soon. If you are a startup and looking for venture money be prepared for some very hard slogging, numerous dead ends and the brush-off in most meetings. We’re pulling for you.
Continue reading ‘Welcome To 1995’ »
In what might be the weirdest pairing in the mobile industry Tag Heuer and Lamborghini have joined forces and created, wait for it, a mobile phone. Not any mobile phone, but the Meridiist.
Continue reading ‘Fast And On Time’ »
Ma Bell is stooping to a new low. Today in the post I received a new offer from Bell to convert my existing phone to a “Home Phone”
Continue reading ‘Tempting Treat—But No’ »
A recent article by James Bagnall at the Calgary Herald outlines the final days of Nortel and it’s board. The once mighty Nortel, darling of both Canadian pride and growing telecom companies was to be no more. The article covers those last days of the board of directors and their struggle to understand and rationalize the reality.
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We suppose that folks with a little too much time on their hands eventually would get to this—as an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters would eventually produce all of Shakespeare.
Continue reading ‘Sonata For Touchtone’ »
Customers care about the service you provide them. In fact they care so much they will often walk to your competitor if you treat them with disdain or neglect.
Continue reading ‘Customers Care’ »
In our last post we talked about the activities that can assist in developing an operational budget plan. Today we look at the types of plans you may be involved with and the reasons why you need to understand this.
Continue reading ‘Plan, What Plan?’ »
It’s annual budget time again for those of you who budget on the calendar. A typically painful effort for many people, though usually self inflicted. There are ways to make this difficult but necessary effort at least a bit more palatable. We’ve commented before about budget preparation and this contribution is going to focus on some ways to assist you in structuring your budget preparation.
Continue reading ‘Do You Know Where Your Budget Is?’ »
