Category: Industry Commentary
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Disconnected: Surviving the Churn
This is part four of this series. What Survives After the People Are Gone At this point in the story, the conclusion feels obvious. Telecom reduced its workforce – not because it failed, but because it succeeded. Revenue decoupled from people. Systems replaced judgment. Automation replaced authority. Consolidation replaced careers. The industry learned how to…
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The Signal Bars Were Never About Signal
I still remember when anything less than full bars was a crisis. I can’t tell you how many customers came to me angry that their phone only showed four bars. Four meant something was wrong. Four meant calls were about to drop. Four meant the network was failing them. What made it worse was that…