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Re: Another former Qwest executive leaving CenturyLink

David — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:38:24 -0000

The purge is almost complete..

Re: BlogMutt lands funding from two technology veterans

Jason Lewis — Sat, 12 May 2012 14:01:42 -0000

Congrats Scott!!!

Re: Dish adds commercial-free viewing to Hopper set-top box

Nosgoth Smith — Sat, 12 May 2012 10:47:52 -0000

All I can say is: I really liked the PrimeTime Anytime
feature before; now, I love it! Most of the shows I watch, I watch through PrimeTime
Anytime a day or so after the show airs anyway, and now I can watch those shows
commercial free without wearing out the Skip Forward button on my remote. I’m
happy that a coworker of mine at Dish talked me into getting a Hopper when it
was released. It’s getting better and better with each software update.

Re: Another former Qwest executive leaving CenturyLink

Musserjunkmail — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:24:16 -0000

She's a Thief, part of the whole corrupt Joseph Nacchio extortion group. Hopefully she can't find work for a loooooong time.

Re: Dish adds commercial-free viewing to Hopper set-top box

Chandran Jayaraman — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:04:53 -0000

Time for ad-free TV; Ads are a waste of national resources. They must be by demand only not in-your-face. I surveyed 50 people at random and all said yes! where do we sign-up. At $1 a day, there is enough money to bradcast TV. Mostly reruns and junk. Perhaps 10% is new with 30% commercials? Ads have to go.

Re: Facebook IPO roadshow will hit Denver

Andy Vuong — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:22:49 -0000

Thanks for the insight. There appears to be quite a bit of leakage about the Facebook roadshow. More details just came out. We'll have it in tomorrow's paper.

Re: Facebook IPO roadshow will hit Denver

Moshe_man — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:42:52 -0000

Caveat to my perspective is that I've been out of the investment banking biz a while, so it may be that the number of roadshows in denver has declined in recent years. But I can tell you that all of the schedules were pretty much the same when I was doing this. BTW, it was unusual for the schedules to be released/leaked for security of the management team and in case a meeting was cancelled. The market could assign the wrong intent to a cancelled meeting.

Re: Facebook IPO roadshow will hit Denver

Moshe_man — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:34:29 -0000

There are a couple of large institutional investors based in Denver. Domestic roadshows will typically spend two days in NY, 2 in CA, 1-2 on Boston and a mix and match in Twin Cities, KC, Denver, etc. based on the funds that have expressed interest to the sales teams. The smaller cities may only get 1/2 day to cover only one or two meetings, but the NY days could be 8 meetings per day (exhausting).

Re: Facebook IPO roadshow will hit Denver

Andy Vuong — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:44:33 -0000

Why is that?

Re: Facebook IPO roadshow will hit Denver

William Mosher — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:49:11 -0000

Andy, did Mr Sweet also mention that pretty much every major IPO comes to Denver?

Re: AT&T to reduce speeds for heavy data users

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Re: Dish Network’s most likely wireless partners

Andy Vuong — Tue, 08 May 2012 11:31:27 -0000

Growth has slowed in pay-TV, and Ergen acknowledges the business will no longer be attractive a decade from now. He believes subscribers will increasingly view video on the go. He wants to be the first nationwide pay-TV company that can also offer its own mobile broadband service, which subscribers can use to access Dish's satellite-TV content.

Re: Dish Network’s most likely wireless partners

Harold — Mon, 07 May 2012 23:05:21 -0000

Why does Dish want to get into wireless?

Re: Former Qwest CFO and admitted felon Robin Szeliga is now COO of a nonprofit

BobDeCarlo — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:03:40 -0000

Glad to see she got her second chance. If you live in America it is highly likely you know a convicted felon. After all in this Country we have 1.3 million people in prisons now. The USA is the Country with the most incarcerated people and most certainly the most on parole and probation. The government like to indict and lock up...it s all about money, not usually about the right thing. Just like war...incarceration generates money for all levels of government.

Support Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM)...get the facts, stop the Judicial abuse....

Re: Able Planet delays release of sound amplifier

Andy Vuong — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:05:01 -0000

Here's what was emailed to me today from Able Planet's spokesman: We have a limited quantity in stock but not for sale yet. The product should be up for sale by the end of the month directly through Ableplanet.com and then through a membership only warehouse retailer (for example: Sam’s Club, BJ’s, Costco, etc.)

Re: Dish Network’s most likely wireless partners

Curtis — Mon, 07 May 2012 18:05:34 -0000

Andy , T-Mobile announced several months ago that they would use the spectrum it received from the failed AT&T bid for an LTE network to be launched during the first quarter of 2013. T-Mobile also announced that they would refarm some of their PCS spectrum currently in use for older 2G feature phones, and apply this refarmed spectrum to their upcoming LTE network as well.Just an FYI. ;-)

Re: Former Qwest CFO and admitted felon Robin Szeliga is now COO of a nonprofit

Bob Block — Mon, 07 May 2012 01:32:52 -0000

She made her mistake, paid for it and it is appropriate to take the yoke off her neck. She clearly has a good depth of experience and should be a good team member at the new organization.

Re: Able Planet delays release of sound amplifier

Homsh2 — Sun, 06 May 2012 18:03:30 -0000

its may wheres the hearing aide

Re: Former Qwest CFO and admitted felon Robin Szeliga is now COO of a nonprofit

terbes57 — Sat, 05 May 2012 14:30:17 -0000

You are spot-on, Ms. Szeliga helped bring the problems to light. Her skills and work ethic are exceptional. Non-profits pay exceptionally poorly, and BBBS could never afford to hire someone with her abilities. She paid back her <small> profits and then some. I say, good for BBBS for letting her proceed with her career in a way that benefits so many in our community.</small>

Re: Colorado telecom reform bill shelved indefinitely

Jake — Sat, 05 May 2012 02:42:33 -0000

Sourced to http://stopthecap.com/2012/04/...

Re: Colorado telecom reform bill shelved indefinitely

Jake — Sat, 05 May 2012 02:40:51 -0000

The bill also allows phone companies to charge whatever they like for traditional phone service, and only requires one day’s notice of pricing changes. The bill would also strip away the right of regulators to demand justification for the inevitable rate increases and takes away their right to reject, modify or suspend rate hikes they deem unacceptably unfair.

That could force CenturyLink prices way up in rural Colorado, perhaps to a level that makes AT&T cell phone pricing not that bad after all.

That suits AT&T’s Colorado president William Soards just fine, as AT&T is willing to sell rural Colorado lots of wireless phones.

“There’s plenty of competition out there that will be very excited to take their business, and AT&T will be one of them,” Soards told the Denver Post.

Re: Former Qwest CFO and admitted felon Robin Szeliga is now COO of a nonprofit

Johnson — Fri, 04 May 2012 22:28:16 -0000

Doesn't matter she was an executive and a CPA and held to higher standards. She decided to dump shares with insider info so someone lost money. Whenever someone sells a stock, someone is always on the other side of the transaction. Doing so knowing info they don't know is wrong and stealing. She shouldn't be working as an executive for anyone, anywhere at anytime. At least the Colorado state board of accountancy made her surrender her license. Someone at least upheld their ethical obligation to the public.

Re: Former Qwest CFO and admitted felon Robin Szeliga is now COO of a nonprofit

Guest — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:36:14 -0000

You have got to be kidding. What's your point? From everything I've read, Ms. Szeliga was forced to plead to some trumped-up charge so the government could make its case against the true criminal (Mr. Naccio). So as a result, now she should be barred (after already paying significant fines, being forced to exit corporate america, etc) from taking her skills, knowlege and obvious passion to a deserving organization? Get a grip, find something real to rail about. And if you want a suggestion, spend the time and read the history and follow the money (there's a # of high ranking folks that got off w/ nothing more than a fine but were able to keep their 10's of millions of $$), that's where your wrath should be directed.

Re: Colorado telecom reform bill shelved indefinitely

mckillio — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:13:05 -0000

Seems like a good place to save money. It's a shame.

Re: Former Qwest CFO and admitted felon Robin Szeliga is now COO of a nonprofit

Geirge — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:05:43 -0000

She is only working in non profit now because she is blacklisted from corporate america Shame on BBBS for hiring this thief.