Excite@Home's fate rests in federal court
If Excite@Home turns off its network, customers would receive new e-mail addresses...Although AT&T is confident that its contingency plan would cause only temporary problems with Internet service, some experts are not convinced. "In the past two years, many Internet service providers nationwide have merged or gone out of business, causing similar hassles to consumers, said Goli Ameri, president of eTinium, a Portland-based telecommunications consulting firm. "This whole consolidation frustrates the customer more than anyone else."
The Oregonian
December 1, 2001

XO Gets More Cash
Competitive carrier XO Communications has received a fiscal shot in the arm from Forstmann Little and Mexican telecommunications carrier Télefonos de México (Telmex), which will allow the service provider to pay off debt and fully fund its business plan. Goli Ameri, founder and president of market analysis firm eTinium, says this most recent investment confirms the long-term viability of XO. "I think it says a lot about XO and its management team and its strategy. XO has always been on a straight line—it was always very focused, and had a specific strategy it followed." Ameri speculates that Telmex’s investment may be prompted by the carrier’s desire to get footing in the U.S. market.
America's Network
November 30, 2001

Enemy at the Gate: Wireless LANs and 3G
The bottom line is that the business case for 3G mobile services is rapidly eroding and the value proposition of the technology is being widely questioned within the industry. Will 3G's promised services and benefits justify the necessary and enormous investment? Will customers even want 3G's services, and will carriers make any money providing those services?
Telephony
Analyst's Corner
November 30, 2001

Extreme Temperatures
Leveraged buyout firms didn't want to be left out in the cold during the telecom rush, but now telecom has left them burned. "Everybody who knew the market knew that ICG didn't have a set plan of action," says Goli Ameri, president of consulting firm eTinium. "It changed company strategy three or four times before declaring bankruptcy. But they still poured in the money."
Americas Network
October 1, 2001

Finding Safety In a Cell
The New York disaster has made people want to buy wireless phones, but their purchase is complicated by options and tricky contracts...[Wireless Phone Carriers] still make their money from their business customers," said Goli Ameri, president of eTinium, a Portland-based telecommunications consulting firm. "They have no incentive to bring down the rates and minutes during the working hours."
The Oregonian
September 15, 2001

Sprint Debuts High-Speed Internet Service
"Smaller companies such as NorthPoint overbuilt their networks without figuring out how to support them in the long term, said Goli Ameri, president of eTinium, a Portland-based telecom market research consulting firm. Sprint's size and array of services makes its approach more stable. "Sprint probably will have challenges, but it has a great deal of experience doing this. One of their corporate strategies is to provide this bundled service to small and mid-sized businesses."
The Oregonian
August 21, 2001

Merrill Lynch says Wireless LAN Technology Poses One of the Most Significant Challenges to 3G.
To find out more about disruptive wireless Internet technologies read eTinium's recently-released study: "Wireless Internet: Alternative Technologies to Cellular/PCS"
CTIA Daily News
May 31, 2001

Broadband Wireless Hunts for a Fix
Winstar, for its part, had already received a commitment of $2 billion in financing, $1 billion of which was to come from Lucent in vendor financing, integration expertise and professional services. "When Lucent failed to come through it basically pulled the plug on them," said Goli Ameri, president of analyst firm [eTinium]. "It's unfortunate, as Winstar was the FBW CLEC that people had the most hope for. It was widely anticipated that [Winstar] would even go positive in March of this year."
EETIMES.COM
May 7, 2001

Just how much fiber-optic cable? Who knows?
"Everyone in the industry wants to know if there's too much capacity, or still not enough," said Goli Ameri, president of eTinium Inc., a marketing research and consulting firm specializing in the telecom and internet markets. "There's always a new use for bandwidth, especially once you resolve the issue of how to deliver bandwidth to the last mile... Clearly, in the view of many telecoms, "Oregon is a good market for testing the value proposition."
The Portland Business Journal
April 6, 2001

Yipes Provides Optical IP Networks to Fuzion Technologies, a Broadband Solutions Provider for Reliable, Scalable Internet Service.
"By leveraging the backhaul services of an optical IP carrier like Yipes, Fuzion can remain independent of ILEC infrastructure and take advantage of the speed, flexibility and low cost of Yipes' network."said Goli Ameri, president of eTinium, a market research consulting company specializing in the converging telecom and Internet markets.
localbusiness.com
March 21, 2001

WAN/LAN Operators
Goli Ameri, eTinium's president, said the report is an attempt at shedding light on alternative technologies for the wireless Internet-technologies that don't receive much attention. "There's really very little out there about wireless Internet technologies," she said. "I think people are really just starting to see the potential of the alternative technologies ... to wirelessly connect to the Internet."
RCR Wireless News
February 5, 2001

Firms work to light a fire under lethargic wireless networks
"Users want wireless access, but they don't want to put up with the slow speed," says Goli Ameri, an analyst with the wireless industry consulting firm Etinium.
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
February 2, 2001

Wireless Internet: Thinking Inside the Box
What the cellular/PCS providers may not be doing, however, is keeping track of the competition that is sneaking in under their radar screens and that will exacerbate their already difficult predicament in the near future. Full wireless Internet access is being offered by a new breed of companies that are building alternative wireless WAN and LAN-based data networks for portable users, including companies such as Metricom, Arraycomm, MobileStar, CAIS Internet, SoftNet Zone, and Aerozone. Wireless LAN systems as well as part of Metricom's network all use the 2.4 GHz ISM (Industrial Scientific and Medical) band.
internetweek.com
allNetDevices
January 30, 2001

Web-Native or Web-enabled?
The traditional software companies claim that web-enabling their products was a logical first step in the evolution toward full-fledged Internet-based applications. What they are really saying is that they were not willing or sufficiently savvy to allocate the necessary human and financial resources to take advantage of this shift early on.
Internet Telephony
January 29, 2001

Motley Fool's Company Information: Metricom
Business users demand increased productivity while on the road and these services are being provided by companies building alternative wireless WAN and LAN-based data networks. eTinium, Inc. refers to these as the "Insurgents" and they include companies like Metricom, MobileStar, CAIS Internet.
Motley Fool
January 17, 2001

eTinium Releases New Study
Alternative wireless service providers will hinder the rapid proliferation of wireless data offerings from cellular/PCS carriers.
CTIA Daily News
January 1, 2001