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WEBINAR: Stop Overpaying for Network Services in 2012
Wednesday June 6, 2012 1:00 PM CT (2:00 PM ET)
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Over the past decade, network services spend has become a top business expense and cause for concern.
Network services (including voice, data, internet, wireless, local, access, international and managed services), typically account for three to six percent of overhead and have a significant impact on your business operations.
While network is viewed as a commodity, it's a high value commodity with thousands of different rate elements. With network services pricing continuing to decline year over year, have you considered your sourcing and benchmarking strategy to ensure you are not currently overpaying?
Attendees of this eSeminar will learn how to:
- Leverage price trends for contracts set to expire within the next 12-18 months
- Take advantage of integrating wireline and wireless services together
- Get market competitive terms from their carriers
- Determine whether your users are on the optimal wireless plan
- Review the pros and cons of consolidating contracts and vendors
- Determine what route to take with network convergence
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May 29, 2012
Cable in the Clouds - MSOs Providing More Cloud-based Content, Apps and Services
By Colleen Lynch, TMCnet Contributor
Multiple System Operators (MSOs) are doing away with tradition and embracing cloud computing. Comcast and
Verizon (News  - Alert)
Wireless are just two of many companies moving toward the cloud, which “allows you to innovate at a faster pace,” according to Comcast Cable president and CEO Neil Smit. This industry-wide shift is set to deliver an increasing amount of content, applications and services to customers much faster by using cloud technology. Instead of one specific service only available on one specific piece of operator-supplied hardware, cloud computing allows any network-delivered service to travel from device to device.
Video services can be distributed by MSOs to “virtual” set-tops such as tablets, laptops or televisions, and customers can alter their plans more quickly this way, compared to traditional set-top-based guides... Read More
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