Staying Connected

In a recent Staying Connected podcast, TC2’s Keith Cook and Joe Schmidt highlighted the business impact of T-Mobile’s decision to focus more on wireless services and less on fixed line services provided by legacy Sprint.  What do you do if you have legacy Sprint wireline services?  Should you stay or go, and why or how?

In this 15-minute podcast, LB3 Senior Partners Laura McDonald and Deb Boehling talk with Joe Schmidt about this topic from a legal and contracting perspective.  Laura and Deb also offer advice on what enterprises need to do now in order not to get caught in any financial, operational or liability pinch.

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In a previous podcast, we talked about how The Great Resignation was impacting network life cycle management.  As a result of this mass exodus of key employees, companies are now having to contend with another employee phenomenon … The Great Burnout.

Listen to this 9-minute podcast as TC2’s UK Managing Director Mark Sheard describes for Joe Schmidt how the people left behind are struggling to pick up the pieces to support network life cycle management and what companies can do to help both their employees and themselves.

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Back in 2020, TC2’s Jack Deal and Mark Sheard published an article and recorded a podcast entitled “TDM: It’s Time to Decommission and Move” warning of the risks associated with failing to plan the move away from legacy time division multiplexing (TDM) service.  Companies that failed to heed their advice are now quite literally paying the price for staying with TDM.

Listen to this 9-minute podcast as Jack and Mark talk with TC2’s Joe Schmidt about the TDM landscape and explain why enterprises are experiencing operational and commercial pain by remaining with TDM services.

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Almost everyone knows that T-Mobile acquired Sprint last year, and many industry pundits (including we on Staying Connected) have pontificated on what this means for the U.S. wireless industry.  Notably, as part of that acquisition, T-Mobile also acquired Sprint’s wireline business, once a go-to service for many enterprises.

Listen to this 7-minute podcast as TC2 Directors Keith Cook and Joe Schmidt discuss how legacy Sprint wireline services are being retired and what this means for buyers of ICT services.

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When you work with ICT billing, you deal with credits paid for events like circuit disconnects or the resolution of a billing error.  This sounds like guaranteed money in the bank … but it’s not.

In this 8-minute podcast, TC2 Directors Julie Gardner and Theresa Knutson talk with Joe Schmidt and discuss the billing gold mine of credits and the potential pitfalls, such as it taking years to use credits that were applied to the wrong account – if you’re able to use them at all.  Julie and Theresa provide the tips and tools for helping you tap this untapped credit resource.

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

When an enterprise divests a business unit, much work is needed to ensure that vendor IT contracts will appropriately support the divestiture.  This can be a difficult process because vendors don’t normally let their customers just copy and paste a contract into a brand new “carbon copy” for the divested company.

Listen to this 10-minute podcast as Ben Fox, one of TC2’s Managing Directors, and Marc Lindsey, a Senior Partner at LB3 and President of Avenue4, discuss with Joe Schmidt the two main approaches companies often use when divesting a business unit and how you can put these approaches to use.

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

Payment terms have become a major focus for large enterprises when negotiating ICT contracts.  Fewer companies are accepting the historic standard “due within 30 days of invoice date” and are instead negotiating payment terms ranging from 60 to 90 days.

Listen to this 9-minute podcast as TC2 Directors Theresa Knutson, Julie Gardner, and Joe Schmidt discuss how payment terms can make or break a deal, provide insight into how suppliers struggle to bill for these special arrangements, and what you can do to realize the benefit of your negotiated payment terms.

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

In the second part of this two-part podcast, LB3’s Of Counsel Sara Crifasi and Kevin DiLallo, a Senior Partner, take a closer look with TC2’s Joe Schmidt at how data privacy concerns impact enterprises.

The amount of data collected by ISPs is mind boggling, and in the wrong hands can pose serious harm to an enterprise.  In this podcast, you’ll receive practical tips to prevent unknown operators from collecting and sharing sensitive information about your company and its employees.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our Communications Regulatory Advice & Advocacy and Success Stories webpages.

It may not surprise you that your ISP is collecting large amounts of data about you and selling it to third parties.  However, after listening to this two-part podcast, you’ll probably think twice about blindly accepting the terms of use of that “must have” app.

In this part one, LB3’s Of Counsel Sara Crifasi and Kevin DiLallo, a Senior Partner, talk to TC2’s Joe Schmidt about the findings of a recently released FTC report revealing that ISPs are collecting enormous amounts of data from their customers and turning around and sharing that data with undisclosed third parties.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our Communications Regulatory Advice & Advocacy and Success Stories webpages.

The last couple of years have been challenging for enterprises and their employees; the world has seen dramatic societal changes.  Now, companies are dealing with the Great Resignation, losing some of their most seasoned staff and revealing a huge knowledge vacuum in many areas.

In this 8-minute podcast, TC2 Directors Theresa Knutson and Joe Schmidt look at how network lifecycle management is being impacted and reveal how losing even a single key employee can set a company back, but also explain how TC2 can fill the gap.

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