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Why do business owners hire IT people when they're not in the IT business? Because they think it's hard to keep computers, IT, phone systems, data networks and internet access working for their employees and harder still to understand how to do it.

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If you're a business end-user trying to make a decision about some sort of ICT (information & communications technology) decision you are defiantly in the right place.

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Equipment free deployment option may gain government and large enterprise customers seeking to keep their Blackberry, iOS and Android devices secure though an easy cloud-based web portal. 

Read what independent mobility software sales partners think about this in our comments section below...

(VIDEO) Many telecom companies fear becoming a "dumb pipe" with all transport costs while Facebook & Google reap all profits.  Facebook & Google argue that gaining access to their apps is the only reason new internet users subscribe to telco service.

Click here to watch an interesting WSJ video that reports on the ever growing tension between telecom companies that are spending billions of dollars to allow more people mobile internet access only to then lose text and phone calling revenue to Facebook and Google apps that allow mobile internet users to bypass the telecom carrier's text and phone calling apps. Click here to watch WSJ video...

LAKE ELSINORE, CA – February 24, 2015 – XRoads Networks, a seasoned unified bandwidth management provider won the distinction as the best bandwidth optimization provider in the industry as determined by validated 2014 reviews from the 3,800 members of Telecom Association, a professional membership organization of telecom and technology consultants, agents, brokers and sales partners founded in 1996.

Selection as a “Partner’s Choice” Award winner showcases XRoads Networks’ long term commitment to technology solutions that work in the unified bandwidth management category as well as customer service excellence.

(VIDEO) The WSJ video below shows how an administration that botched the healthcare website roll-out has mastered broadcast group text alerts.  Can your business text all your employees or customers when required?

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VIDEO: Click the following link to see a short video about how Wholesale Carrier Services ("WCS") can bill over 300 voice and data providers over different network backbone topologies on a single invoice.

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Federal Communications Commission officials warned that the agency will prosecute businesses that block people from using personal Wi-Fi networks. Click here to read more...

“Partner’s Choice” Award Showcases Intelisys’ Ongoing Industry Leadership

LAKE ELSINORE, CA – February 2, 2015 – Intelisys, a seasoned technology services distributor, won the distinction as the Best Overall Master Agency/Technology Services Distributor in the industry as determined by validated 2014 reviews from the 3,800 members of Telecom Association, a professional membership organization of telecom and technology consultants, agents, brokers and sales partners founded in 1996.

Selection as a “Partner’s Choice” Award winner showcases Intelisys’ 20 year commitment to supporting their Sales Partners in growing their businesses and achieving their goals.

“Our association members are heavily experienced technology industry consultants and channel sales partners that have compared all the 

I gotta admit, it's nice to hear that there's still room for a human employee in a high-tech company.  WSJ reports that the CEO of Twitter believes "We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform and we’ve sucked at it for years.”

Apparently high-tech can't yet write software or hire enough off-shore help to properly screen out comments from people with nothing else to do but be rude on a keyboard. I know from personal experience...

WSJ reports that Windstream, a patchwork "national carrier" hired Lewis Langston as its new CIO to replace Cindy Nash who is leaving.

Normally customers and consultants could care less about who a carrier's CIO is but in Windstream's case this could be a good thing if it helps improve a perception that Windstream is a great carrier - but only for customers that survive their installation. I've heard from more than on of my peers that ...

WSJ announced that Frontier is acquiring Verizon's land line customers in Florida, Texas & California for $10.5 billion. The move will double Frontier's current size. This action follows a similar "triple-size" deal conducted by Frontier in 2010.

This move is both good and bad for customers and consultants because...

In this WSJ MoneyBeat video, Lauren Weber shares how many U.S. technology firms are missing sales targets because they can't hire enough young people interested in a $75,000 per year sales job due to "Salesman baggage" and what high-tech firms will have to do about it. Watch the video...

Google is expanding its fiber-optic high-speed internet service to Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, N.C., and Nashville.  While the following video shows city leaders suggesting it will be a boon to business, Google states that the service is initially for residential customers and home offices only. Businesses get it last. Watch video here...

Two writers from The Verge explain how the FCC's vision for net neutrality actually is a good split decision making net neutrality advocates happy without putting the ISPs out of business as evidenced by their stock rising after the announcements. Watch the "explainer video" here...

US feds want to regulate the internet like a utility to ensure equal treatment of all traffic without dictating prices. This WSJ video interviews Chris Reilly, Mozilla public policy head about how this will affect internet customers and service providers.

New devices provide faster speeds, easier setups, better security and they look good, too as you can see from this WSJ video...

An NPR story from 2/3/15 that discusses how classifying Internet access as a utility would help or harm Internet users and/or internet service providers. Listen to the audio...

WSJ.com video suggests that Google wireless service will choose best current connection (WiFi, Sprint or T-mobile) for each wireless call request...

AWS to link WorkMail (email & calendar) to WorkSpaces (virtual desktop) and WorkDocs (file storage and sharing) ...