It’s a clear warm night here. You can even see the stars. The moon is near full, and low on the horizon which causes the atmosphere to magnify it somewhat. Another opportunity to take a crack at photographing the moon. Out comes the tripod and the 300mm lens. Now, this shot is somewhat artificial. It’s actually an HDR composite of 5 shots at varying exposures, heavily sharpened.
Not nearly as good as my friend Phil’s photo, though.
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Fortune contrasts the failure of SunRocket to the failure of Amp'd Mobile, noting that neither owned their own networks. They simply resold what other operators provided.
Now we're not saying that lack of network control is the sole reason for the demises of SunRocket and Amp'd. (Nor is network ownership a guarantee of success: Companies such as Teligent and Winstar had access to wireless spectrum in the late 1990s but nonetheless crashed.) But there's no question that telecom companies without at least some of their own network assets have a hard time making it.
There's a lot of truth in that simple observation. Margins in communications businesses are slim, and by extension, resale margins even slimmer.
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