James F. Booth

For more than 25 years, James Booth has provided consulting and legal services to telecommunications carriers and to enterprise companies that manage their own telecommunications networks. Since June of 2009 he has also served as General Counsel of Spread Networks, LLC, which is the industry leader in the construction and operation of low latency high speed networks. Before joining Spread he was General Counsel for OnFiber Communications, a competitive telecommunications provider, and was the sole attorney for Qwest Communications International in support of its construction of an 18,800 mile fiber optic network spanning the United States. Earlier he was lead counsel for U S WEST in its wireless and cable television ventures in the United States, Europe and Hong Kong.

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Apple and the six weeks of iPhone waiting

Apple is an iPhone story, no doubt. And only Apple could sell 26 million iPhones in single business quarter and be considered a disappointment, as happened with Apple’s July 24 fiscal third-quarter report. Many analysts were looking for 28 million iPhones to be sold in the quarter, and said the shortfall was likely due to customers waiting for the iPhone 5 [if that’s what it’s even called] to come out. Apple shares fell more than 4%, the day following its earnings report. 
Granted, Apple hasn’t officially said it is going to hold an event of any kind this fall. But if there are two things anyone knows about Apple, those are that the company doesn’t speak about anything until it is absolutely ready to, and that since 2007, it has updated the iPhone once a year. http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-07-30/industries/32935820_1_apple-shares-iphone-chief-executive-tim-cook 
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