---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180903234017.GA19348@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 19:40:17 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88 Billion Online Ad Market By Julie Creswell Verizon doesn't sell its mobile phones or wireless plans over Amazon. Nor does it offer Fios, its high-speed internet service. But Verizon does advertise on Amazon. On Black Friday last year, when millions of online shoppers took to Amazon in search of deals, a Verizon ad for a Google Pixel 2 phone - buy one and get a second one half off - could be seen blazing across Amazon's home page. And on July 16, what Amazon calls Prime Day, an event with special deals for its Prime customers, Verizon again ran a variety of ads and special offers for Amazon shoppers, like a mix-and-match unlimited service plan. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/business/media/amazon-digital-ads.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180903233541.GA19303@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 19:35:41 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Stop T-Mobile, Sprint merger Due to federal regulators' inability to get a clear signal about the dangers to consumers of massive telecommunications mergers, nearly the entire national cellphone market already is served by just four big carriers - Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint. Soon, unless the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice intervene to stop the $26.5 billion merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, 98 percent of the market will be served by just three carriers. https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/stop-t-mobile-sprint-merger-1.2381329 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180903232128.GA19238@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 19:21:28 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: The Future Of Transportation Needs To Look More Like The Internet By Ellis Talton and Remington Tonar Transportation infrastructure and the internet have a lot in common. Both are networks of pathways that ferry things from place to place. For transportation systems, those things are people and goods. For the internet, they're packets of data. Both have to handle multiple types of traffic across multiple mediums. For transportation, there are cars and roadways, planes and runways, trains and railways, boats and waterways. For the internet, there are bits of electromagnetic signals transmitted through fiber, cables and radio waves. Both are experiencing increasing rates of usage that threaten capacity. For transportation, much of that usage is due to growing freight demand from e-commerce. For the internet, it's largely due to growing video consumption. Most important, both serve a critical connective function and are vital to the social and economic welfare of the nation. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellistalton/2018/09/03/the-future-of-transportation-needs-to-look-more-like-the-internet/#5955351d2c35 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180903232754.GA19278@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 19:27:54 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Competitice Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) outlook MarketResearchNest.com adds "Global Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLEC) Market Size, Status and Forecast 2018-2025" new report to its research database. The report spread across 97 pages with multiple tables and figures in it. This report focuses on the global Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLEC) status, future forecast, growth opportunity, key market and key players. The study objectives are to present the Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLEC) development in United States, Europe and China. https://www.newszak.com/2018/09/03/growth-of-competitive-local-exchange-carriers-clec-market-in-global-industry-overview-size-and-share-2018-2025/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Tue, 04 Sep 2018