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Tandberg telepresence now interoperates with Polycom telepresence
Tandberg announced this morning that its telepresence technology is now interoperable with the telepresence technology of its rival Polycom. The interoperability is delivered as a software upgrade to the Tandberg Telepresence Server.
Tandberg's server already enables interoperability with non-telepresence Tandberg video endpoints and with Microsoft Office Communications Server. However, until now, the vast majority of immersive telepresence systems on the market have been extremely proprietary. Telepresence systems are generally unable to maintain the immersive, multi-screen, high-definition experience they are known for when a session is transmitted across vendors. In many cases telepesence systems from different vendors can't communciate with each other at all.
The new interoperability from Tandberg claims to deliver that telepresence quality to sessions between Tandberg and Polycom products. This ineroperability will be especially important to inter-enterprise communications, enabling Tandberg customers to communicate and collaborate with Polycom customers.
There is no word on whether Tandberg will add interoperability with its other major telepresence rival, Cisco, but in this announcement the company said it will "continue to build on its successes by working to develop immersive interoperability with additional telepresence systems – both proprietary and standards-based."
Mitel trying to protect home turf from Cisco
Cisco Systems and Bell Canada thought they had won the bidding for a municipal IP telephony contract with Ottawa worth between $4 million and $7 million. But as I mentioned in a story today about a new fixed-mobile convergence offering, Mitel Networks has – at least temporarily – scuttled the deal.
Mitel is headquartered in Ottawa, and no doubt it blanched at the possibility that Cisco would supply IP telephony to the city it calls home (Currently the city government has about 10,000 phones, 7,000 of which are from Mitel).
After learning that his company was not the winning bidder for the telephony contract, Mitel chairman Terry Matthews tried to sweeten his company's offer. He sent a letter to the city offering to donate $2 million worth of Mitel IP phones (10,000 phones in all) to the city if it agreed to make Mitel its sole communications vendor "for the next several years."
After receiving this last-minute offer, the economic affairs committee of Ottawa's city council voted to suspend negotiations with Cisco and Bell while it explored the legality and feasibility of such an offer.
According to the Ottawa Citizen, Cisco will refrain from commenting on the Ottawa affair until the city completes its procurement process. However, Bell spokeswoman Jacqueline Michelis told the paper, "We're disappointed. We put in a compelling and competitive bid."
As I recall from my days as a newspaper reporter, the bidding process for municipal procurement tends to be very strict. There are lots of legal and ethical issues that could come up. I've seen vendors sue municipalities, claiming a bidding process was unfair, after losing out on a contract. Clearly Mitel executives think this move is worth whatever legal headaches that might arise if it means keeping Cisco out of their home town. Plus, Mitel could use a big customer win in North America, where Cisco, Avaya and Nortel dominate.
Psytechnics Experience Manager demo at VoiceCon
Psytechnics, a company that was spun out of British Telecom, has a cool product called Experience Manager. The product is one of the few I know of that can measure both QoS (quality of service) and QoE (quality of experience) for voice and video applications on the IP network. Many network management vendors are good at detecting jitter, packet loss, etc., for voice and video, but Psytechnics is able to measure how the end user is experiencing these services on an endpoint device.
Here is Tom Casey, a sales engineer with Psychtehnics, demonstrating the operational interface of Experience Manager, recorded last week at VoiceCon Orlando. Sorry for the jittery camera. I drank too much coffee.
The Polycom VVX 1500 business media phone at VoiceCon
I shot this video at VoiceCon Orlando last week. Tim Yankey, director of product marketing for Polycom, is doing a demo of the VWX 1500, which the vendor describes as a "business media phone." At a list price of $1099, this phone is meant to sit on the desks of high level executives. It has high quality video and touchscreen capabilities. And Polycom is touting the openness of the platform, encouraging third-party software developers to build light-weight business apps to run on the phone. Polycom doesn't claim this phone will replace the PC on the desk. Instead it claims the phone will be a compliment to the PC. The phone is certainly slick, but I wonder if it's worth the money. Couldn't you get a lot of the same functionality from a softphone? I guess a CEO might want something like this on his or her desk, but broad deployment of such an expensive phone might be hard to justify.
Please forgive the sideways angle at the beginning of this video. I've been using my iPhone too much. I'm used to a camera that's integrated into an accelerometer.
Nortel employees respond to VoiceCon coverage
Last week I wrote a story about a special VoiceCon session for Nortel customers, entitled "I'm a Nortel Customer. What do I do now?" It was one of the more widely read articles I've written for SearchUnifiedCommunications. Nortel customers are very passionate about the company. They love Nortel's products. But it's clear that many of them are disappointed in the leadership of the company. Now it's clear that some Nortel employees share that disappointment.
I've received emails from several Nortel employees since my story was published last week. Given that they are still working for the company, I've granted them anonymity. Their comments are below.
This first comment is a direct response to the news that Nortel canceled some severance payments to employees who were laid off before the company entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. A customer had asked Joel Hackney, president of Nortel's enterprise division, why customers should trust a company that reneges on such a commitment. Hackney responded by saying that Nortel had to meet its obligations to customers and suppliers before honoring its commitment to former employees. One Nortel employee had this to say:
I am truly perplexed no one asked how Mr. Hackney justified "reneging on its commitment to those former employees" while he, as one of eight executives, set themselves up with a $7.1M Key Executive Retention Package (KERP) while Nortel is in Chapter 11.
Another long-time Nortel employee wrote to me about her general disappointment in the company's leadership. She said her employment with Nortel will end later this year and she fears that her pension and retirement health benefits will be lost. She said she had high hopes for the company when it started mining General Electric's executive suite for new leaders in 2005, such as Hackney, Chief Procurement Officer Don McKenna and Executive Vice President for Corporate Operations Dennis Carey.
For 4 years these guys met short term targets by cutting costs which usually was done at the expense of shrinking the workforce. They persistently cut R&D which has always been the hallmark of Nortel's business philosophy.
I never saw a vision nor any leadership from this group. They came in saying that Nortel played in too many markets and yet never had the courage to cut away or sell business units in order to build upon a fewer number.
They persisted in paying themselves big bonuses and now at this late stage they are still using Nortel resources to ensure themselves a big piece of whatever assets are left via quarterly retention bonuses.
I was proud to work at Nortel. Too bad I didn't have the foresight to see what was coming. I might have been able to protect myself a little better.
VoiceCon 2009: Building success through innovation
The impact of today's global economic crisis has wrenched companies into shaping new business models merely to survive, much less thrive. But top-tier UC vendors at the recent spring VoiceCon 2009 show in Orlando are interpreting the recession (or depression) as a unique opportunity to change the old ways of doing things. The dawn of a new day. A time to rely on and trust in innovation to carry us through these dark days.
Tough times coupled with perpetual, driving need is the catalyst that has historically sparked prodigious ideas. And, as in the past, the tumultuous times we're now experiencing paired with our insatiable thirst for new technology will be the impetus to finding more efficient ways to do what, in otherwise good times, would keep us trekking down the same path, doing things the same way. The way to survive, more over, come out ahead of the competition, is to innovate now.
In every VoiceCon keynote presentation, a single theme threaded its way through — innovation. Kevin Kennedy, president and CEO of Avaya, kicked off the keynote sessions stressing the critical importance of innovation. According to Kennedy, innovation will help us navigate these uncertain times and emerge from these times of turmoil.
Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate VP of unified communications with Microsoft, said in his keynote address that it's the choices companies make now that will determine their viability when we've moved beyond the current recession.
General manager of IBM, Bob Picciano, stated simply, "We can't afford to do things the way we did before."
Cisco's CTO, Padmasree Warrior, went further to say that ideas get stronger when we share them with others and social networks and collaboration are powerful in making connections stronger.
All of the keynote speakers offered sensible, reasonable reasons why companies should invest now in collaborative innovation in some capacity (irrespective of their financial status). Each presented their thoughts on the best ways in which to do so – respective to their agendas, of course.
Whether you innovate through social networking software, collaboration tools, UC technologies, CEBP, otherwise, or all of the above and more, a thoughtful strategy is imperative. Gurdeep Singh Pall rightly said that hope is not a strategy. If you want to keep your company afloat now and gain a healthy degree of competitive dominance in the future, in a sunnier financial climate, heed Pall's simple, but wise, advice:
• Focus on innovation
• Shift away from old models
• Lay down the foundation for the future
VoiceCon Microsoft keynote: Gurdeep Singh Pall throws desk phone in the trash
Microsoft corporate vice president for unified communications Gurdeep Singh Pall essentially threw the contemporary desk phone in the proverbial trashcan today during his VoiceCon keynote, arguing that software-based communications is the way of the future.
Pall compared the desk phone to the Brother word processor that started filling landfills across the country in the 1980s and 1990s. Pall was merciless, saying that too many telecom vendors are stuck in the past, still insisting that their customers need to buy a desk phone for every user. His disdain for the desk phone probably stings the ears of many of these same vendors who have partnered with Microsoft on OCS, but apparently Pall thinks everyone needs to hear his message, whether friend or foe.
"Folks, we cannot afford to do the things you did before," he said.
Pall admitted that some users still need a desk phone, but he said the softphone capabilities available from Microsoft's Office Communications Server and the Office Communicator client promise to make employees more flexible and productive. He said OCS is a single platform and a single infrastructure, not "five infrastructures with copious amount of duct tape around it."
Pall ended his address with a memorable image. He asked attendees to imagine that they've been given a $300-per-user budget to buy a device for the desktop. He held up two options: A typical desk phone, which he said would cost $300. And then a small notebook computer, which he said you could buy at Walmart for $300. Which one would you buy, he asked. Then he said, "It's time to get rid of the Brother word processor," and he tossed the desk phone aside.
VoiceCon keynote: Kraft Foods UC vision includes Avaya and the iPhone
Kraft Foods sounds like a fun place to work. During his keynote, Tom Behnke, manager of network services, global architecture and strategy for Kraft, gave VoiceCon attendees a glimpse of the future for information workers at his company. He offered details of a unified communications pilot program at Kraft's Chicago facility.
Behnke's pilot involves a rethinking of not only communications and collaboration technologies, but also the workspace. Kraft wants to change the collaboration culture among its employees. To do that, it did away with traditional cubicles and office, putting information workers at large work table, where they can sit side by side and face each other.
As far as technology, Behnke brought in Avaya to deliver its voice infrastructure. He also decided to go with a wireless office, so employees could move freely throughout their workspace, building a Cisco wireless LAN infrastructure that was designed by HP/EDS. And he engaged AT&T to come in and build an in-building cellular system so that he could deploy iPhones to every employee.
Behke said his goal was to change the user perception that he was providing them with technology widgets that they had to use. He was trying to create something that would focus on the individual user experience, that would help them the way they do there jobs.
One thing that really jumped out at me. He designed this new environment to be free of MAC addresses. If a user needs to move his work station, he can just get up and walk somewhere else. IT doesn't need to reassign the employee's phone and network profile to a new set of ports.
I've asked Avaya to give me a one-on-one conversation with Behnke is doing at Kraft. If they come through, I'll write more extensively about this project for www.SearchUnifiedCommunications.com.
Microsoft decides it shouldn't be in the video conference phone business
When Microsoft introduced its Roundtable phone 2007, it was pretty clear to me that they had a cool device on their hands. The phone has a ring of video cameras on a small turret. It is meant ti sit in a conference room, where it offers a 360-degree view of meeting participants. The phone uses directional technology to cut in real-time to whoever is speaking in a meeting.
The only aspect of the Roundtable phone that troubled me was Microsoft. It's a software company, not a hardware company. It does Windows and lets others build the PCs. It does Windows Mobile and lets others do the smartphone. And when Microsoft does venture into hardware, it tends to do it in the consumer market, and with mixed results (see Zune, XBox). So it wasn't clear to me why Microsoft was trying to get into this business.
Granted, the Roundtable integrates with Office Communications Server, but every phone equipment vendor under the sun is looking to integrate with OCS these days. Walk the exhibitor's hall at this year's VoiceCon and see that for yourself.
Apparently Microsoft agrees that it's not the ideal vendor for a product like Roundtable. It announced at VoiceCon this week that it is transferring the Roundtable phone to Polycom, which will become the sole distributor of the device. Polycom is re-branding Roundtable as the CX5000, which integrates it into Polycom's existing line of conference phone products. Microsoft will continue to manufacture the device, but as far as I can tell, this phone is now going to market as a Polycom product. Microsoft will continue to support customers who bought the device through it, but all subsequent support will be provided by Polycom.
According to Tim Yankey, director of voice product marketing at Polycom, said Microsoft will stop selling Roundtable on April 13 and hand over sales, marketing and distribution to Polycom. The sales price under Polycom will be $4300.
Although Microsoft will continue to manufacture the device, Yankey told me that Polycom has the right to make changes and additions to the phone in the future.
Polycom also announced at VoiceCon that it will begin offering 1080p and 720p resolution in its high definition telepresence systems. This is the broadcast quality video that competitors such as Tandberg and Cisco already offer in their telepresence systems.
VoiceCon Cisco Keynote: Cisco goes vertical
During her keynote this morning, Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior emphasized the importance of collaboration in enterprise communications, with technologies that allow users to work in the way that they want to. In this vein, she talked about the importance of delivering a consistent user experience regardless of the endpoint device.
She also noted that her boss, CEO John Chambers, likes to communicate through video while her preferred modes of communication are microblogging services like Twitter. She said enterprise IT organizations should be prepared to support these multiple working styles by treating the network as a platform for delivering services. She noted said that companies should be focusing on Quality of Experience (QoE) in addition to Quality of Service (QoS).
Warrior and Cisco executive Sean Curtis demonstrated a vertical-market Telepresence system designed for healthcare, with cameras tailored for ear, nose and throat examination, blood pressure monitors, etc. Curtis showed how the technology could allow a doctor in China to treat him for back pain, even providing him with a recorded Telepresence session with instructions on how he should take an herbal remedy.
While this was happening, I noticed that IDC research director Abner Germanow was Twittering about how he is seeing a lot of healthcare applications from vendors on VoiceCon's showroom floor. Clearly vendors have identified healthcare as a vertical that will continue spending on communications technology in this economy.
Meanwhile, Abner's colleague at IDC, Nora Freedman Tweet on Cisco's demo captured perfectly what I was thinking about this healthcare Telepresence demo: "Keynote demo of health telepresence emphasizes need/relevancy of industry specific solutions."


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And it's actually insanely easy to do on yourself.
Uh, you definitely didn't expect this.
And no, they're not just boring, sheer, blahness.
Because every awesome outfit starts with the hair.
Without looking like a drowned rat.
Only have five minutes to get ready? We got you.
All in a day's work.
Weirdly excellent, to be honest.
Does this mean fall is officially here?

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Shares of T-Mobile US (TMUS) are up 88 cents, or 2%, at $46.84, after Wells Fargo's Jennifer Fritzsche this morning raised her rating on the shares to Outperform from Market Perform, writing that the company is reaching an inflection point for its generation of cash.
"We are getting closer to an important 'hockey stick' part of the free cash flow (FCF) generation ramp," writes Fritzsche. "This — more than any other metric — will likely become a key focus for investors as we move into late 2016 and 2017."
Fritzsche's "top pick" remains Sprint (S):
While we know the logical question for many is "What about Sprint?" given we are one of the few bulls on the Street with this name, to be clear, S remains our TOP CARRIER pick and we still can give a longer catalyst list for Sprint. That said, we believe the shares of BOTH S and TMUS stocks are positioned to do well if different metrics are considered. For TMUS – the primary focus we believe should be FCF and in this metric, it should see more growth in 2017 than any other carrier.
The Street has been trying in the last 24 hours to figure out what to make of a bevy of pricing actions this week by three of the Big Four U.S. wireless operators, Sprint (S), T-Mobile (TMUS), AT&T (T).
Sprint and T-Mobile both announced new "unlimited" pricing plans, and CEOs of both went on CNBC yesterday, trading insults, with Sprint's CEO Marcelo Claure accusing T-Mobile CEO John Legere of being something of a con man. AT&T lowered the price of its highest tier of data plans, while raising the price of lower tiers, in a move most perceived as matching a prior pricing action by Verizon Communications (VZ).
All this came against a backdrop of FCC wireless auction, the so-called "broadcast spectrum," which kicked off this week and which is expected to be a major boost in bandwidth for whoever wins the various parcels.
Jennifer Fritzsche with Wells Fargo, who rates Sprint Outperform and T-Mo Market Perform, writes that this is "big news!!!"
Unlimited could be a good way for Sprint to lure customers:
We believe the freedom of unlimited data will resonate with wireless customers. Based on recent porting data, both TMUS and S continue to see share gains at the hands of the two large incumbents. We give TMUS credit for moving first here. Recall in our early June visit to S headquarters we thought some new plan was coming TMUS seemed to get the same memo and moved ahead of it. Now the question becomes which network can best handle this usage and how this could impact the take rate of AT&T's OTT plans coming in Q4. We note S continues to carry more tonnage / sub than the two largest wireless carriers and is using well less than 50% of its total spectrum assets.
J.P. Morgan's Rod Hall today weighs in on an article late yesterday by Bloomberg claiming Apple (AAPL) is having some problems bringing cellular connectivity to future models of its Apple Watch smartwatch.
The piece, by Mark Gurman, Alex Webb, and Scott Moritz, states that Apple "has hit roadblocks in making major changes that would connect its Watch to cellular networks," citing multiple unnamed sources. The authors claim Apple is running up against the battery-consumption limits of current battery technology, and that it is looking gat "lower-power cellular data chips."
Hall takes exception not with the issue of battery life, but the implication Apple has slipped behind earlier plans:
We believe this report is, for lack of a better word, bunk. We doubt Apple was ever on a schedule to deliver cellular capabilities this year. The company didn't include GPS because of battery life concerns, in our opinion. A cellular modem is a far worse battery hog than GPS. We believe the new version probably adds GPS and possibly a new health sensor but otherwise remains similar to the first version.
Apple shares today are up 25 cents at $109.33.
CLSA's Chris Caso this morning raises his rating on shares of wireless chip vendor Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), a prominent supplier to Apple (AAPL), to Outperform from Underperform, and raises his price target to $77 from $73, after concluding the company's outlook for the rest of the year makes sense assuming the company takes greater share of chips in Apple's next iPhone, presumably the rumored "iPhone 7."
Caso takes as his cue Skyworks's fiscal Q3 report back on July 22nd, which left some on the Street puzzled, with outlook for this year not matching what investors might have expected for iPhone gains.
Looking at the numbers for potential iPhone "content gains," Caso thinks the stock is reflecting a perhaps overly "conservative" view of what the company can accomplish:
Shares of Nokia (NOK) are down 22 cents, or 4%, at $5.47, after the company this morning missed with its Q2 revenue result, and reported profit in line with consensus, and said it now expects to save more money on its integration of Alcatel in two years' time than it had originally.
Sales in the three months ended in June declined by 11%, year over year, to €5.68 billion, including the historical results of Alcatel, which Nokia acquired earlier this year, yielding EPS of 3 Euro cents.
The Street had ben modeling €5.8 billion and 3 cents.
Nokia's CEO, Rajeev Suri, said that the results were "largely as expected and reflect solid execution in the midst of a challenging market and the ongoing integration of Alcatel-Lucent."
He said sales and profit reflected in part "a meaningful negative impact from one of our major customers in Latin America."
Suri lauded the company's cost-reduction efforts, and also a patent settlement reached with Samsung Electronics (005930KS), which is expected to push Nokia's licensing revenue to €950 million annually by the end of this year:
During the quarter we continued to make excellent progress in many areas. We moved rapidly forward with our integration and cost savings efforts; saw robust growth in our Fixed Networks business; announced the acquisition of Gainspeed in order to accelerate our progress with cable operators; closed the acquisition of Withings; reached a licensing deal that will see the Nokia brand return to smartphones and tablets; and more. I was particularly pleased that the work done in the second quarter to reach an agreement with Samsung on an expanded intellectual property licensing deal came to fruition. After the arbitration results were announced in February, we said that there was still more to come from Samsung and have now delivered on that, with the related financial impact starting in the third quarter.
For this year, the company raised the level of savings it expects as it integrates with Alcatel. Nokia sees "total annual cost savings" by 2018 of €1.2 billion, up from a prior estimate for "above €900 million."
Among early Street responses, Wells Fargo's Maynard Um, who has a market perform rating on the stock, notes the Latin American customer dragged down profit margin for the networks business, but also revenue from the company's licensing business was lower than expected:
Network margins were 6.0% and below our/Street's 7.0%/6.7% as NOK noted the segment was impacted by a customer in Latin America undergoing judicial recovery. Excluding the customer, operating margins would have been nearly 7% and closer to our/Street's expectations. Technologies revenues were EUR 194MM and below our/Street's EUR 200MM/214MM estimate.
Shares of wireless chip maker Qorvo (QRVO) are down $6.88, or 11%, at $54.57, after the company yesterday afternoon easily beat fiscal Q1 estimates and topped with its revenue outlook as well, but warned that the mix of parts it is selling is bringing in less gross profit than might have been expected.
Shares of competitor Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) are down 42 cents, or 0.7%, at $65.62.
Qualcomm (QCOM) is down 30 cents, or half a percent, at $60.90.
The fact that Qorvo is a big supplier to Apple (AAPL), and is perceived to be a big participant in the next iPhone, presumably and "iPhone 7" coming out next month, adds intrigue to the whole matter.
Zeroing in on the Apple implications, Maynard Um with Wells Fargo, who has an Outperform rating on Apple stock, thinks Qorvo may be pointing to a one week of iPhone availability earlier than might have been thought:
Shares of wireless chip vendor Qorvo (QRVO) are down $2.94, or 5%, at $58.51, in late trading, despite the company this afternoon reporting fiscal Q1 revenue that easily topped analysts' expectations, and forecasting much higher revenue this quarter as well.
Revenue int he three months ended in June rose almost 4%, year over year, to $698.5 million, yielding EPS of $1.08.
Analysts had been modeling $650 million and $1.05 per share.
The only possible blemish in all this, at first blush, is the gross profit margin, which was down 2.2 points, at 48.2%, as a result of what the company says was a shift to lower-margin product.
CEO Bob Bruggeworth boasted of the company's market share:
Qorvo today is the number-one or number-two player in the majority of our growth markets, and we are investing to extend our leadership. We are building a technology moat to maintain leadership where we are number one, and where we are number two, we are investing to advance from a challenger to the leader. In the June quarter, Qorvo saw customer order activity accelerate as the quarter progressed, and the entire Qorvo Team ran hard to satisfy demand. In the September quarter, we continue to see strong demand in support of this year's most popular devices, and we're rapidly expanding our capabilities to develop new highly integrated solutions for large customer opportunities launching in 2017 and 2018.
For the current quarter, the company sees revenue of $820 million to $850 million, and EPS of $1.35 to $1.45. That is above consensus for $714 million and $1.28 per share.
UBS's Steve Millunovich today reiterates a Buy rating on shares of Cisco Systems (CSCO), and a $32 price target, arguing that the company has a "significant head start" over competitors in WiFi networking equipment thanks to 2012, $1.2 billion purchase of Meraki, as WiFi moves to the cloud.
"Meraki bookings have grown from $100mn in 2012 to $1bn, and Cisco is expanding Meraki to manage switches, routers, and firewalls through the cloud," notes Milunovich. "That success could to be attracting competitive offerings."
He notes competition is coming, for example, from Ruckus Wireless, bought by Brocade Communications (BRCD):
Raymond James's Simon Leopold today expresses some hope for shares of Ericsson (ERIC), whose contract win with Sprint (S) this week was overshadowed by the announcement that its CEO Hans Vestberg, will step down.
Leopold, who has a Market Perform rating on the shares, cites the announcement Wednesday by Ericsson that it signed a deal with Sprint to renew parts of a 2009 contract to supply Sprint with "managed services," and that "going forward, Ericsson will continue to be a key business partner for Sprint."
Sprint's CTO, Dr. John Saw, remarked that "Ericsson remains a valued strategic partner in supporting the Sprint network," adding "as with any long-term managed services agreement, it is crucial that the relationship is regularly reviewed and adjustments made when necessary so that business strategies remain aligned."
The announcement was somewhat lost in the shuffle this week, coming just two days after Ericsson said it would replace Vestberg on an interim basis with CFO Jan Frykhammer as it searches for new blood to direct the "next phase" of its "strategy execution" in "the current environment."
Leopold sees the Sprint announcement as "a positive," though it's not clear how much it may add up to for Ericsson:
Ericsson lost its infrastructure position in Sprint's last round of infrastructure awards that went to Samsung [Electronics (005930KS) and Alcatel-Lucent (now Nokia (NOK)) but maintained a position as a provider of managed services. The original contract that was announced seven years ago, and at the time was valued at $4.5-5 billion. In 2009, Sprint had fewer subscribers at 48 million (Sprint 32 million, Nextel 12 million, Wholesale 4 million), vs. 59 million now (Sprint 45 million, Wholesale 14 million), which makes us hopeful that the value is meaningful, but we suspect the scope has changed, making estimation difficult. Ericsson's Managed Service revenue has grown from SEK 24.5 billion/$2.9 billion in 2011 to SEK 31.8 billion/$3.7 billion in 2015 and our model shows it declining to SEK 29 billion/$3.5 billion in 2016 but recovering to SEK 30.9 billion/$3.6 billion in 2017 (at today's SEK/USD 8.54 exchange rate).
Ericsson shares today rose 3 cents to $7.47.
Correction: An earlier version of this post cited the wrong stock rating from Leopold for Ericsson. He has a Market Perform rating on the shares. My apologies for any confusion caused by the error.
Qualcomm (QCOM) chief executive Steve Mollenkopf was in town this week, along with chief financial officer George Davis, and was kind enough to stop by Barron's offices after several meetings with investors following last week's Q3 report.
In addition to saying hi to Barron's, the two gentlemen also met with The Wall Street Journal's Don Clark, and you can read Don's write-up here.
"What a difference a year makes," said Mollenkopf with a smile, when reflecting on the week's discussions, noting investors seemed more relaxed about what's going on with the company than they had been for a while.
The past year saw a $1.4 billion restructuring, including cutting 15% of staff, following meddling by hedge fund Jana Partners.
"We did what we said we would do," he said of the restructuring and consequent improvement in profit, and the chasing down of license evaders in Chinese that had held off paying the company royalties.
"We've dealt with a lot of change in the industry, and I've been very proud of the team for that, a lot of credit goes to the team."
And now, "The tone of investors, it's more the opportunistic questions we're getting," he said, things such as the potential payoff of non-phone areas like the Internet of Things. Those questions are a lot more fun for Mollenkopf, it sounds like.
Enough restructuring?
Asked if the restructuring was deep enough, Davis indicated there is nothing significant expected on top of the $1.4 billion plan, saying, "going forward, if there's anything outside of that, it would to be part of the normal course of business," such as shifting resources out of one product area into another. Davis pointed out that while the company has been lately showing growth in revenue that's merely "modest," it has delivered "significant" growth in EPS, a benefit of the carrying out of the restructuring.
Rounding up licensees
Of the licensing deals, Qualcomm has till now mostly proceeded with getting licenses in place, and now comes a second stage of enforcing compliance, said Davis. Davis said the $7.4 billion, at the low end, forecast for the company's licensing division, QTL, could meet the hight end, another $400 million, "if we really run the table" on negotiations, though he's not promising that will happen.
Sticking with the licensing issue, I noted that the company's outlook for its Q4 suggests a royalty rate of 2.7% to 2.8%, according to some analysts. Some think that's low. Davis replied that "with these catch-up payments, you can you get fluctuations in the rate, but as we look out over time, beyond 2016, more like 2.9% is the right way to think about it."
Added Davis, there is "nothing structural that's happening" to make for lower royalties. "What happens is that you get previously sold units in one quarter, and they can have different rates than what happens going forward, and in particular, there's a different rate for tri-mode phones, for example, versus the All-Mode phones."
Brighter prospects for chipsets?
Asked if the chipset division would benefit from new sales, as a result of having closed loopholes in licensing, Mollenkopf avoided saying so directly, instead replying, "If everyone is compliant, then there is a more level playing field" in the chip market, implying better chances of selling parts.
That's important because sales into China in the most recent quarter offset some sales in other regions that have been "spotty," said Mollenkopf. China is benefitting Qualcomm as more people trade from entry-level smartphones to LTE models, he said.
Mollenkopf also indicated there's opportunities for selling more "content" in devices, including more integrated functions "on-chip" or in the package, that can boost the overall price of chips.
The Intel question
Asked about Intel's (INTC) expected shipment of baseband modems in the forthcoming Apple (AAPL) iPhone, something the company has conceded will happen, Mollenkopf first replied with what seems the company's stock response, a matter-of-fact dismissal: "It's not unexpected to see people go to a multi-sourcing strategy, we do that to with suppliers," he said. "We never assume we have 100% of an account." Asked what amount of the current quarter's forecast assumes share loss at Apple, Davis indicated there is some share loss baked into his outlook, but he declined with a laugh to offer Barron's an exclusive when pressed on how much that amount comes to.
Mollenkopf added that "we are confident in our roadmap" for the company's modems and chipsets in the face of competition. When asked what aspects he has greatest confidence in, he rattled off a list: "we tend to have more geographical coverage, covering more bands in more regions, which is important to carriers; we tend to have higher performance, and better convergence of WiFi and of multiple bands; and we know these things are meaningful because we see how system makers, our customers, respond to them."
I remark that Intel CFO Stacy Smith, during prior conversations with Barron's, has predicted that "There will be just two suppliers at the end of the day" in mobile, by which he implied Intel and Qualcomm. Mollenkopf in response to this laughed and said, "well, we know Qualcomm will be one of them!" Then he added, "we have dealt with the Who's Who of competition for years, and in baseband we have been through many generations of technology." With regard to Intel's prowess in semiconductor process technology, something I raised, Mollenkopf countered, "Our baseband chips are at a further node than anyone else's in the industry, certainly ahead of, well…" his voice trailed off as we both understood he was referring to Intel's modem production being outside its own factories, in the hands of someone else.
When will they buy something big?
I asked about M&A, the question from investors being whether Qualcomm needs to "do something big." Mollenkopf and Davis both nodded to the still hot M&A market, with analog giant Analog Devices (ADI) just this week saying it will spend $14.8 billion in cash and stock to buy Linear Technology (LLTC).
"It's interesting, people see our strong balance sheet, and they wonder what we're going to do with it," Mollenkopf reflected. "We have the luxury of having coming through a year where we have done some good things for the company, and certainly we have a good balance sheet." Yes, and? I prompted. "We know there's this interest out there in consolidation, and there's a lot of that happening, and there will be more of it, and people are very interested," said Davis. So, what about it? "We have done M&A in past, to diversify, and we have positioned the company, and from a balance sheet perspective, to be able to do things as needed," said Mollenkopf.
But still, when I offer that maybe investors would like to see Qualcomm consolidate parts of its industry, such as buying MediaTek (2454TW), Mollenkopf paused for a moment, smiling, unwilling to even indulge such a ridiculous suggestion, before both he and Davis roared with laughter.
Bottom line, then, no implication the company sees a need to do a large chip deal, despite the vogue for it. Qualcomm is also, said Davis, still integrating its $2.5 billion buy of CSR Plc., and it has its hands full with the joint venture with Japan's TDK (TTDKY), RF360, to develop more RF chips.
If not a large M&A deal, what will the company do for capital returns, I asked Davis. Is the company contemplating a bigger lift to the dividend or the buyback? No, he said, "We have a good dividend payment, and we've been growing that ahead of earnings growth, and I think we have been good on the matter of capital returns."
ARM's buyout, IoT accounting
I asked about the news, two weeks ago, that ARM Holdings (ARMH), which licenses key chip technology to Qualcomm and almost everyone else aside from Intel, will be bought by SoftBank (SFTBY). Any concerns over the future of core chip technology? "I think it caught a lot of people by surprise, but when you think about it, for us, a stronger partner together with a smart outfit like SoftBank, is not a bad thing." I asked if he'd had any talks with ARM CEO Simon Segars about it. Without answering directly, Mollenkopf said, "I think Simon and the ARM team, and Masa San and the SoftBank team, have been very good in how they've dealt with partners, and we expect to continue to work with them well."
I asked Davis when Qualcomm may start to break out reporting in its quarterly results of non-smartphone things, such as Internet of Things. "Yes, there's actually a whole category of adjacencies, and that totaled $1.7 billion in revenue last year, and is heading toward $2.5 billion this year. That includes IoT, but also other things. And we realize that as it gets to a size that's meaningful, then it makes sense to break that out in the P&L, and we realize it is approaching that size, so, we're prepared for that."
IoT's prospects
But what of the IoT? Does any of it add up to anything? Mollenkopf, who sports an Apple Watch (Space Grey aluminum, with a midnight blue sport band), is upbeat on the prospects.
"We love Pokemon Go!" said Mollenkopf, beaming. "Here's something where, people have been saying innovation is dead in the smartphone world, but this has got people doing this new thing, all over the world, that they'd never done before."
What he likes, more precisely, is that augmented reality, of which Pokemon is an example, and virtual reality, such as the Samsung Electronics (005930KS) Samsung Gear adaptor, are "really about leveraging mobile into VR," meaning more ways to push Qualcomm intellectual property and chips.
"The cool thing about VR is, it's one of the few devices that my daughters, and my in-laws, will fight over. My daughters will get excited about something but not the adults. But then I brought home some VR things, and showed it, and it's like, everyone is fighting over who's going to use it. Something as simple as Google Cardboard," the cheap VR viewer.
"And when people start authoring content for it, and some already are, and there's some stuff that is pretty good…" But, I offer, if nerds like Mollenkopf are proselytizing the technology to their children, that's not exactly a groundswell. "I think it will happen," he says, "It will break through. We saw this with smartphones in the early days, we use to go to Korea, and we would bring these phones back from Korea, that were diverse, and people here would marvel at the kinds of features they had. And then, three years later, those features were showing up on phones here. So, it can happen with VR."
But how long will it take for the technology to really mature, given needs for greater screen resolution, refresh rates, etc. Three years to five years? I venture. "Oh, no, much sooner than that," says Mollenkopf. "There are people who are using the 820," Qualcomm's chip from last year, "and they're very happy with it for things like VR on a phone." VR will also push the need for shorter-range wireless point-to-point technologies, such as the 60-gigahertz spectrum that Qualcomm has been helping to develop. Even though cellular LTE speeds can now reach a rate of 1 gigabit per second, he anticipates much if not most of VR content may be distributed within homes and events through such short-range technology.
But it's distracting, and makes you look like an idiot, I point out of current interfaces such as Gear. In response, Mollenkopf notes that many automakers actually believe wearing VR headsets could be better than the traditional dashboard "heads up" display of a car. "This headset that lets you look through the various cameras of the car could actually be safer."
Taylor and Kanye and Kim
We ended our chat on a lighthearted note: Mollenkopf is by his own admission an avid consumer of junk news, of the People magazine and Us variety. I asked him what he makes of the recent feud between Taylor Swift and Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
Mollenkopf laughed and rolled his eyes, and seemed reluctant to pronounce too much on the topic, then offered, "Having two daughters, I would be upset if I were Taylor's father."
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In response to changing threats in the region and new opportunities created by advances in missile defense technology, in September 2009 the President announced a new policy for missile defense of Europe, called the European Phased Adaptive Approach, or EPAA. DOD has emphasized the benefits of a policy of regional phased adaptive approaches, stating that it does not require a globally integrated missile defense architecture and that it relies on proven solutions. According to DOD, because EPAA is a policy, not a separate missile defense acquisition program, DOD intends to use the department's existing processes for managing missile defense acquisitions and the existing BMDS element-based acquisition approach for missile defense system elements---not one specific to EPAA--to approve system acquisitions. However, we found that DOD has not fully implemented a management process that synchronizes EPAA acquisition activities and ensures transparency and accountability. DOD has made progress in acquisition planning for technology development and systems engineering and testing and partial progress in defining requirements and identifying stakeholders but has not yet developed an EPAA acquisition decision schedule or an overall EPAA investment cost. The limited visibility into the costs and schedule for EPAA and the lack of some key acquisition management processes we found reflect the oversight challenges with the acquisition of missile defense capabilities that we have previously reported. The consequences of these issues have included: (1) limited means of independently assessing progress and a limited basis for oversight and (2) going into production before fully demonstrating system performance, leading to rework, cost increases, delays, and uncertainties about delivered capabilities. The flexibility desired by DOD is not incompatible with appropriate visibility into key aspects of acquisition management. As DOD proceeds with the EPAA acquisition activities, it is important for Congress and the President to have assurance that the EPAA policy is working as intended and that acquisition activities are cost-effective.
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Europe´s largest and most innovative facilities for fresh fish and seafood opens today (25.03.14) at Kalbakken in Oslo. With the Sjømathuset seafood production facility, Lerøy and NorgesGruppen will provide more, better and fresher fish and seafood for Meny´s fish departments and a wider range of pre-packed seafood to all of Norway's grocery stores.
Europe´s largest and most innovative facilities for fresh fish and seafood opens today (25.03.14) at Kalbakken in Oslo. With the Sjømathuset seafood production facility, Lerøy and NorgesGruppen will provide more, better and fresher fish and seafood for Meny´s fish departments and a wider range of pre-packed seafood to all of Norway's grocery stores.
Sjømathuset breaks new ground by grouping production of pre-packed fish, loose weight and sushi under the same roof, in the most modern and efficient facilities for distribution of fresh seafood. Never before have such large volumes of fresh seafood been processed, packaged and distributed from one single plant in Norway. The goal is clear from both partners; Increase consumption of seafood in the Norwegian population .
- I'm proud that NorgesGruppen now takes a position on fresh fish in cooperation with Lerøy. Sjømathuset is a unique facility for NorgesGruppen stores. It will help create competitiveness in Meny´s well stocked fish counters, and also help us get a broader and fresher product range for all our customers through packaged fish and seafood, says NorgesGruppen´s CEO , Tommy Korneliussen .
Lerøy´s CEO Henning Beltestad highlights the many and significant steps taken in the value chain to improve the quality, assortment and availability.
- Lerøy is so much more than salmon! Sjømathuset is a result of the cooperation we have had with NorgesGruppen since 2006. We are now making fresh seafood of the highest quality available in grocery stores across the whole country. Everything from skreiloins and salmon, portions of lobster and crab claws are packaged in the fresh fish counter. Never before has so much quality seafood been so accessible to the Norwegian retail customer, says Beltestad.
Meny alone account for almost 30 percent of all fresh fish sales in Norway. For them Sjømathuset will be an important tool towards the goal of providing Norway's fresh fish counters with top quality seafood all year round.
- Meny´s customers are very concerned about fresh fish and seafood, both in terms of quality, price and availability. With Sjømathuset, we are better equipped to satisfy customer demands, and simultaneously reach our goal of at least 15 percent increase in seafood sales every year going forward. Last year we sold fish for 813 millions NOK. Next year we aim to pass one billion, says CEO of Meny, Vegard Kjuus .
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What developer doesn't want absolute control over their coding editor? Perhaps you prefer a dark background and neon blue text for your code. When you configure your own fonts and color options, it's one way to indulge your inner artist. Let me start by showing you how to increase the font size in your code. I'm inside a project in Visual Studio called FontAndColor. I'm going to open these two code files down here: Book.cs--double-click on that one--and I'm going to open Program.cs. I'm going to move over to Book.cs, and then I'm going to use a feature of the mouse scroll wheel in Visual Studio to enlarge this font size.
Before I do that though, let me close this error list on here in the bottom of the screen, and this output window. There you go. I'm going to hold down the Control key, and then I'm going to use my mouse wheel, and I'm going to zoom in to make the text larger. Obviously, you would do this if you're having trouble reading the code. If I switch over to Program.cs, and notice that it only affects the one file. The font size here is the same size as it was originally. If I switch back to Book.cs, you'll see that it is the large size.
Now if I scroll the opposite direction, what you think will happen? Ah, you figured it out; the text gets smaller. If you want more control over the individual words inside your document, then you need to go to the Tools > Options menu. Let's go there. Tools > Options. And then you're going to click on the Environment node, and go to the Fonts and Colors section. The first thing I will look at is the basic font, Consolas. This affects the entire code window; any text that is in the code window will use the Consolas font.
If you want to change this font, click on this dropdown. Since programmers tend to like to use monospaced fonts, this dialog shows you all the fonts in your system, but it points out the ones that are monospaced by putting them in bold. Personally, I like the Consolas font, so I'm going to leave it at the default. Next, I'm going to start changing some of the items in my code. For instance, maybe I want to change my comments. I'll press C, which moves me down to the C section. Click on Comment, and you can see that the normal comment is a white background with a nice dark green colored font.
I'm going to change my background to a slightly yellow color. I'll click here. And now these colors make me happy, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on the custom button and choose a light yellow color. I am thinking that looks pretty good right there. I'll click OK, and then I'll click OK again. And you can see that all my comments now have green text with a light yellow background. I like that. Next, I want to talk about these curly braces and these parentheses. Those are called matching braces, so I can color those as well.
Go up to Tools > Options, find the Brace Matching, and I can choose the brace matching rectangle. And right now this kind of this light gray color. That's boring. I'm thinking the some sort of--I had yellow earlier. I'm thinking maybe some sort of green now for this. How about that color right there? Looks good to me. Click OK and then click OK. Now watch what happens if I move my cursor next to the parenthesis.
The matching parenthesis is highlighted in this green color. If I move down here, the same thing happens. And if I move to this curly brace, it shows the matching curly brace further down the page. It shows me that this one on line 28 is the match for this one on line 22. Very handy for seeing where your beginning and ending sections of your code are. There are a lot of other changes you can make. I can change the colors of the line numbers down the side. I can change the colors of the string; for instance, over here, the color of the items that are between beginning and ending double quotes can be changed.
This list is endless, as you can see. So let me show you just one other one though that I like to use a lot, and that's to differentiate the difference between a value type and a reference type. So I'm going to scroll down to the User Type section, right here, and I'm going to pick user types, which would be a class. And I'm going to change the background of this to light blue. I'll pick Custom. I'll pick a nice light blue color and then click OK.
And then for the value types--things like enumerations or structures would be a better example, because there are separate ones for Enums here-- for a structure type, I'll pick a light pink background, like this one. Click OK and then click OK. And now let's look what happens in my code. Everywhere where I declare an insistence of a class, it uses the blue background. Everywhere where I declare a structure type, it uses the pink background. When I write code to instantiate those types, it does the same colors.
Here, I'm saying a new book. Here, I'm saying new file information. So I find this very handy to keep my mind clear which is a reference type and which is a value type. Couple of more settings. You can go to the Tools, Options and by clicking on this dropdown up here, you can change all their parts of Visual Studio: the toolbars, the different windows that are docked to the side, you can change the fonts that are used for printing output. Let me show you just one another one in here, the Statement Completion. This affects the dropdown windows for the IntelliSense.
So if I go right now and choose to change this to a 16-point font, like so, and then click OK, and go to my code and type in "fi", the dropdown and the tooltip that are popping up at this moment are now using my 16-point font, whereas before they were using the 9-point font. I am just about done. I would like to reset my environment so that for future movies it uses the default settings, so I'm going to go back in to Tools.
Of course, you don't have to do this on your computer; you can keep your own settings. But for these movies, I'm going to set it back to the defaults. I'll click on Options, and then I am going to use Use Defaults, and then I'll go to the Text Editor and click on Use Defaults. And now my beautiful color comments and all the other configuration changes I made have disappeared. It's a sad day. Now, you can spend an hour experimenting all the font settings in this dialog, and before long, you'll have your own custom code editor that will be the envy of your peers.
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Flying ARN-LHR a couple of days back, on approach after the usual announcements were out the way, one of the FAs started some weird rant about what the weather might be like, and how 'what will be, will be' before then breaking into a rull-on rendition of 'Que Sera' sang over the PA system. I suppose it was quite pleasant, but a little strange to be honest. I felt mildly embarrassed for her, as she went on and on, but nobody joined in. We of course all gave her a polite round of applause at the end though.
So, a couple of questions:
What are your experiences of flight crews performing such ad hoc 'entertainment'? I know there are lots of videos about of various things, raps, songs or whatever. What do you make of this? Do you really want this at the end of a long day when you long simply for peace and quiet? Do you think it's unprofessional at all? Is it encouraged or discouraged in any way by particular companies?
I was pretty neutral towards it really. It did have one benefit in that it drowned out the noise of a particularly badly-behaved brat who had irritated the hell out of half the cabin with its unruly behaviour, and whose mother did literally nothing to get it to sit down and shut up.


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H.R.1123 - Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act113th Congress (2013-2014)
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At the July 11, 2016 General MPTA Meeting the following persons were elected to three newly-created positions (under the amended MPTA Constitution dated November 9, 2015). The are:
They join the current Executive Committee Members and will serve with them until the next annual election of officers to be held in December 2016.
President: Douglas Leland (3rd term)
Vice President: Jean Tait (2nd term)
Faye Argentine Treasurer (1st term/2 prior as Secretary)
Aleta LaFarge Secretary
Julie Ridge Assistant Secretary
At the December 15 MPTA meeting, Barbara S. Davis, Chief Operating Officer and Tamar Shapiro, Director of Social Services of The Actors Fund briefed MP tenants and answered questions about The Actors Fund assuming management of the Rodney Kirk Center here at Manhattan Plaza. Their plan is to enhance the social services already in place and add new ones such as the recent Medicare seminars. In 2016 the MPTA will work with The Actors Fund and the Center to inform tenants about the new programs and services. Watch this website, the lobby bulletin boards and the MPTA Newsletters for more information.
The Rodney Kirk Center is located on the first floor of the 400 Building and is open Mon-Fri, 9 am to 5 pm. Telephone: (212) 971-0660. Services are available to ALL MP tenants.
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