Staying Connected

Avaya filed for bankruptcy protection on February 14, its second Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in six years. This is a big deal because Avaya is a big company with lots of enterprise customers.

Listen to this 15-minute podcast as Laura McDonald, a Senior Partner at LB3, and Mark Sheard, TC2's UK Managing Director discuss the implications of Avaya's bankruptcy with Joe Schmidt. Laura and Mark provide background on the situation and offer guidance on what enterprises need to do.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our Strategic Sourcing and Success Stories webpages.

Large scale migrations of network services to cloud-based solutions require a carefully orchestrated sourcing and migration plan to ensure a seamless transition of your company's mission critical services. If you are a large enterprise with a big national or global network footprint, you have to make sure that your internal stakeholders are aligned, your vendor is in synch with your company's expectations, and your migration plan accounts for "unexpected" delays if you want these migrations to go well.

In this 9-minute podcast, Andrew Brown, Managing Partner of LB3 and Chairman of TC2, talks with Joe Schmidt, Director at TechCaliber Consulting (and the usual host of Staying Connected), about the mistakes and missteps that enterprises should avoid when implementing a global cloud solution.

Joe and Andrew's podcast conversation previews an upcoming session that Joe will host at Enterprise Connect in Orlando on March 27, 2023 about global cloud migrations. Visit our website if you are interested in TC2's Technology Consulting & Strategy Development Services or our Success Stories webpage for more information about cloud services.

Many economic pundits believe a global recession in 2023 is likely, and that includes the U.S. While a down economy could impact you personally, what does it mean for buyers and sellers of technology?

In this 10-minute podcast Deb Boehling, a Senior Partner at LB3, and TC2's Joe Schmidt look at how ICT vendor and enterprise expense and revenue interests are diametrically opposed, and why understanding this dynamic will help you weather the impact of a recession, if one lands.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our Information Technology Advisory Services and Success Stories webpages.

When a company permits employees to use personal mobile devices to conduct company business on those devices, they usually have some type of corporate bring your own device, or BYOD, program. Flexibility, employee choice and satisfaction, cost savings … these are all good reasons for allowing BYOD, but is it safe for the enterprise?

In this 8-minute podcast, LB3 attorneys Kevin DiLallo and Sara Crifasi talk to TC2's Joe Schmidt about the draft BYOD document developed by the National Institute for Standards & Technology (NIST) and surmise why this may become the de facto standard of care for enterprise security professionals.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our Spectrum, Wireless & Infrastructure Development and Success Stories webpages.

The introduction of new technologies and lower cost alternatives to legacy telecom has been great for enterprise buyers of ICT, but not so great for the incumbent vendors, because these changes cut into their profits.  To counter the declining revenue stream, vendors have created new, more lucrative sources of revenue by assessing surcharges, sometimes on top of surcharges.

Listen to this 13-minute podcast as LB3 Partner Laura McDonald and TC2 Directors Theresa Knutson and Joe Schmidt take a look at how these fees are assessed and offer some advice to help you plan for these budget busting costs.

 If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our Information Technology Advisory Services and Success Stories webpages.

Fixed Wireless Access, or FWA, has attracted a lot of attention from residential and commercial users recently, and for good reason.  As speeds have increased, latency has reduced, and the service has become more reliable, wireless broadband service is becoming a viable alternative to wired last-mile connections to the Internet. 

Listen to this 8-minute podcast as Kevin DiLallo, a Senior Partner at LB3, and TC2 Director Keith Cook talk to Joe Schmidt about why FWA will make great strides in the year ahead.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our Mobility Services – In-Country, Regional, Global and Success Stories webpages.

If you’ve ever looked closely at your ICT billing, you’d probably agree that it can be pretty complex and sadly, often inaccurate.  That’s one of the reasons that telecom expense management (TEM) has grown as an industry and why enterprises have come to depend on the services TEM companies offer.

In this 11-minute podcast, Theresa Knutson and Julie Gardner, TC2’s Contract Compliance & Optimization practice leads, discuss with Joe Schmidt why 2023 will be the year companies expand their use of TEM services and provide some valuable insight into how to address the many pain points TEM customers experience with their incumbent providers.

If you’d like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our Contract Compliance & Optimization and Success Stories webpages.

Most enterprise telecommunication contracts contain terms that are quite unfriendly to the customer.  That’s because these unfavorable terms are hidden in the carrier’s online terms known as service guides, guides, service publications, and other benign terms.

Listen to this 12-minute podcast as Laura McDonald, a Senior Partner at LB3, and TC2’s Joe Schmidt provide a brief history of how telecom services have moved from tariffs to today’s negotiated deals, how the carriers’ online terms work, and what you can do to mitigate some of the risk the online guides pose to your contract.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our Network Services Transactions and Success Stories webpages.

Personal information generates considerable revenue for companies who collect it.  Google has users’ location information that it offers to advertisers for targeted ad placements, and it delivers massive profits to Google.  The practice, however, has landed Google in some hot water.

Listen to this 8-minute podcast as Kevin DiLallo, an LB3 Senior Partner, and TC2’s Joe Schmidt discuss Google’s recent $400 million settlement with state AGs and highlight how other trusted companies are playing fast and loose with user personal information.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our Mobile Services and Success Stories webpages.

The Citizens Broadband Radio Service, also known as CBRS, has drawn little media attention compared to 5G cellular, but it is starting to get some traction with carriers, ISPs, and enterprise customers.  There are a number of legal and technical issues that a user needs to consider before committing to CBRS, but the benefits of CBRS can be significant.

Listen to this 10-minute podcast as Steve Rosen, a Partner at LB3, TC2’s Technology Director, David Lee, and Joe Schmidt discuss this “other” wireless technology and provide you with what you need to know about CBRS.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our Mobile Services and Success Stories webpages.