Blackberry Encryption Has Been Broken – Stay Paranoid
Infoworld is reporting a Russian passcode-breaker firm has figured out a way to break RIM’s industrial grade security for Blackberry server backups. According to the article, CEO Vladimir Katalov: All data transmitted between a BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry smartphones is encrypted with a highly secure AES or Triple DES algorithm. Unique private encryption keys [...]
More Confusion Come, Verizon Prepared To Introduce New Data Plans
We regularly talk with clients that find their telecom bills to be frustrating to decipher and understand. Our clients simply don’t have the time or feel that it is worth their effort to spend 10 – 20 plus hours reviewing their bills. Understandably, after diligent review and scrutinizing – most businesses throw their hands in [...]
You Love Your Phone – And That’s Going To Cost You Because Of It.
We have a love affair with our phones. Seriously. Think about what your phone used to be and what is today. Yesterday, we thought about our phones simply as being cool because we had a way to communicate while we were away from our offices and homes. The mere thought of being able to talk [...]
Fees and Other Charges on Your Telecom Bill – What’s Legit?
Ask anybody who pays a telecom bill, be it an individual paying for one Plain Ole’ Telephone line or if you manage thousands of phone bills, the bits and pieces of the bill that can drive anybody crazy are those “other” fees. Usage fees (what?), government taxes (don’t like them but okay), Misc fees abound. [...]
The Big Reminder – aka A Slap Across the Face
One of the things my wife likes to remind me about is that sometimes I’m a little hard-headed. As a guy, I get a little “proud” of my abilities and sometimes I forget the bigger picture. Some of you guys out there are nodding your head in agreement, I know. Take for example my latest [...]
What Do You Guys Do?
I was a party not too long ago and of course one of the questions we get asked from time-to-time is, “..so what do you do for a living?” If you’re outside of the corporate environment, it can take a minute to explain what our business is but usually we get the job done. In [...]
How Much Money Is Your Telecom Bill Leaking?
We hear many accolades for what we from our clients. The idea of being able to reduce costs, streamline and organize telecom services at ZERO COST is admittedly a pretty attractive offer and once we’re able to show them how easy it is because it requires almost no time involvement from our clients. More often [...]
Sprint’s WiMAX Moving Forward Before 4G
It looks as though the carrier wars to get their next mobile high-speed offerings out there is heating up. WiMAX, the wireless technology providing up to 10Mbps of transfer speed is starting to pick up steam ala Sprint. The pressure of rival carriers starting to roll out their 4G networks is giving each company the [...]
The Tale of Blind Vendor Allegiance
A number of years ago when I was a young sales rep fresh in the world of telecom, I was determined to get into “that” account. You know, the prize account all sales reps dream of landing. The company that has the name on the outside of the building, the one that is in the [...]
The So-Called Telecom Luxury
Think for a moment about some of the luxuries you can spoil yourself with in your daily life. A night on the town with your husband or wife? Some upscale restaurant? How about a nice vacation? Luxuries like this are meant to spoil you because you deserve the occasional treat and escape from the every [...]
Benny Carreon is the President and CEO of GrayBear Resources Group. GBR is a next-generation telecommunications consulting firm. We aren't a telephone company's vendor disguising itself as a consultant. We don't sell carrier products that would conflict with out mission - our goal is to work for our clients by reducing costs, streamlining services, eliminating waste and fraud while providing the least disruption to your business.
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