Well, I've been back at Level 3 for two weeks, and I have to say I am really enjoying working with the great people at the company, many of whom I had the pleasure to work with before. In my last blog post, I promised that I would keep you posted on whether I could continue blogging about telecom, and that I'd have to see how the new job went first.
Unfortunately, given my role in corporate strategy, it has become clear to me that not only would it not be appropriate for me to blog about Level 3, but it really wouldn't be appropriate for me to blog about telecom in general. If I were to blog about telecom, then some of my readers would undoubtedly be wondering if my blog posts were somehow influenced by what I am working on at Level 3, and would be trying to read between the lines to see what they could glean about what is going on inside of Level 3. And of course, even if I thought I could segregate my thinking and only blog about stuff that I'm not working on at Level 3, I couldn't be sure if I could really pull that trick off. Sadly, that means I am going to have to put this blog on a telecom hiatus...so no telecom posting from here on out, unless and until something materially changes in my employment situation.
I want to thank all of my readers...the give and take was really fun and I learned a lot from you. I still hope to meet many of you face to face at some point.
I'll leave the blog archives up at least until my TypePad subscription runs out in a couple of months...I can't promise it will continue after that.
All the best,
Ike
Electronic Wholesale
Posted by: CECT | January 14, 2009 at 07:12 PM
Come Back!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Come Back | November 13, 2008 at 09:47 PM
sad to see you go..........but , with the world as it is today, NOTHING you type could or will bring that balance sheet/stock price into alignment!
Posted by: skibare | October 11, 2008 at 07:55 PM
What about confining the blog to video service quality issues like your April 2008 blog on overly compressed HD streams?
You could ( and perhaps should ) be our watchdog as far as what the MSOs and satellite providers are doing to the video quality of their HD content.
Posted by: Dan K. | September 26, 2008 at 10:24 AM
A great loss for the Telecom Bloging world. Offset by a wonderful improvement to level 3.
Sad to see this great content go, but happy to pay the price.
-Brent Fontana
Posted by: Brent Fontana | September 25, 2008 at 12:00 PM